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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-29, Page 2Tau SNELL MURDER. OrdWay'e Sensetienel tory Of the Celebrated SAYS TASOO'IT IS DE.A.D, A Baltimore despatch says Mrs. Sophie Elimbeth Ordway, the widow of Albert K. Ordway, a clothing cutter from Chicago, who committed suicide at his home en Har- ford. avenue on March 10th last, wbile being conveyed to the 13ay View _Asylum yesterday told a startling story ot the .inurder of Millionaire Amos J. Snell in Chicago. She claims filet her late husband was the companion of Wm. Tascott, thernan who is supposed to have murdered Mr. Snell. From her and her aged mother, Mrs, Mary Ann Watts, the following narrative was obtained: Mrs. Ordway had been living in Chicago since 1870, having gone there from Balti- more as the bride of Major Beachman, a wealthy merchant. The great fire thereone year later completely destroyed her hus- band's business place and handsome resi- dence leaving the couple almest penniless. lier husband was taken ill a few years later •and died from the effect of a wound in his shoulder, received in the late war at Cedar Mountain. She remained in Chicago and accepted a position in a store, earning her self a fair living. Everything seemed bright for her, and she continued in a happy state until she married Albert K. Ordway in 1881, having become segetaintecl with hien a year previously. Her husband was in business with his father, Ira K. Ordway, as a clothing cutter, with an establishment on West Madison street, and made money. Young, Ordway took to drink soon after his misusage and began to associate with disreputable people. Things gradually grew worse and no money was coming into the household, when one night Albert stood before the mirror with a mask on his face and firmly declared that he was going to have some money from old man Snell, a xlch man, that very night or kill him. She pleaded with him to renounce his wicked intentions. He, however, was resolved to ant, and left the house in a hurry. That night she says he did not return, but the next morning he returned to the house without any shoes and with a bloody handkerchief. This handkerchief he tried to wash at a saloon before returning home. When questioned by her he said that he had lent his shoes to Tascott, who had been injured by being shot, and was lying in the rear of a saloon. on West Madison street. Tamed at that time rented and occupied a room on the corner of Elizabeth and Madi- son streets, and Mrs. Ordway and her hus- band lived on Morgan street, between Monroe and Adams. One of the most important statements in the woman's story is that she declared that Taseott is dead. She says she knows he was strangled to death and his body made away with by his pals. In that connection she frequently mentioned the names of several men. • Ordway was acquainted with Millionaire Snell, as he made a great many clothes for hilt' ancl had borrowed money from him at times: One day Albert introduced her to Mr. Snell while walking along one of the streets in Chicago. Subsequent to the murder of Millionausa Snell, she says, her husband was continually nervous, and always seemed anxious to leave the city. After a good deal of persuasion she agreed to accompany him to Baltimore. Mrs. Mary Ann Watts •sent money to her daughter for the trip. After they arrived in Baltimore she told him she intended to • expose his crime. This madehim grow despondent, and he took to drink. He always had Money, but did not work. She soMetimes spoke to her mother about his • connection with the crime, but was always silenced by Albert reminding her that she had frequently declared that she would die for hien. This usually had the desired effect. CONSPIRATORS CAUGHT. A Foul Plot To Blight The Life Of An Innocent Man. A St. Louis despatch says: james Brock, formerly of St. Louis, but now a resident of El Paso, Tex., is the hero in a most sensational occurrence in criminal annals. For over fourteen years Mr. Brock has been under suspicion of being the murderer of his cousin, Frank Woolsey, having been twice indicted for the crime by the grand jury of Shstkelford county, Tex. But he now stands before the world an innocent man, having after an incessant search located his missing relative in Benton, Ark. On the 22nd of May, 1877, Frank Woolsey disappeared, and Brock was suspected of having murdered him. Brock alleges that he was persecuted for years afterwards. He felt confident -that Woolsey was not dead, but that it was a conspiracy among the Woolseys to rob him of his ranch. tie spent a large sum of money to locate Woolsey, and offered a $1,000 reward for his discovery. About three months ago a •detective located Woolsey in Benton Ark. Brock claims to have positive evidence that will convict the VVoolseys of conspiracy and says he will institute legal proceedings immediately. TO CHECK RUSSIA. Vhina and England Will Ascertain the Czar's Intentions. A London cable says: The Chinese Minister to Germany has arrived at St. Petersburg from Berlin in consequence of sudden and urgent orders from Pekin re- garding the Russian encroachments upon Pamir, the extensive table land of Central Asia. The Chinese Government became alarmed over the advices that the Russians bad penetrated far beyond the frontier of this district, and the Minister was en- trusted to proceed to St. Petersburg and obtain positive assurance with regard to the intention of the expedition. China and England are acting in concert in the matter owing to the receipt of trustworthy infor- mation to the effect that the Territory of Afghanistan has also been violated. Sir R. 33. Moder, the British ambassador to Rus - ilia, and De Stall,the Russian ambassador to England, are now both inLondonancl to -day had a long conference. The Rainy DayClub, which the women of Tacoma organized recently with the object of encouraging the wearing of ankle - high dress ee in wet weather, in the interests of comfort and cleanliness, is finding imita- tors in various cities. Mormons are being colonized in large numbers in the State of Chihuahua, in Mex- ico, where John M, Young, a Mormon leader, has purchased 6,000,000 acres. Alexander Sutherland of Denver, makes claim to the honor of being the "Bugler of Balsklava"—the trumpeter who seal:tided the charge that, led the Light Brigade up to the mouths of the murderous cannon. Suther- land is an erect and well-preserved man of SI Herr Di. Cold, a German specialist, en- nounces an opihiort which many Amerman parents will eattotly correberate when he eel's that uhtil 'a child is 12 years old it needs ten or elevet hours �f sleep, and that, until one is 21 at least nine holing of deep are necessary • • FLIV-Wietieet, iiteitere, ULHai One, iniureag MAIO' 4tPkft 1lk."4* 1114 a pending. A Manchester, N. IL, despatch says : The fly -wheel of No. 7 mill burst this morn- ing, tearing through the floor of the first and second stories. Two persons are believed to have been killed outright and a dozen badly wounded, The excitement about the mill gates is very great. Eleven girls were employed in the drawingeroom over the steam pumpieg- room adjoining the engine -house, When the wheel burst they were carried to the base- ment in the debrie. Some of them were caught in the heavy Utilisers and iron beams; seven were taken out of the ruins and car- ried to another part of the mill. Three of the seven were perfectly helpless and their injuries were terrible, there being great cuts on their head e and faces, and legs, arms and ribs being broken. The body of Engineer Samuel Bunker was taken out of the wheel pit with the head smashed. His assistant, Thomas Dalton came out of the wreckage with only slight injuries. Emile Duane, a boy employed in No. 5 mill, was taken from the wreck in a terrible condition. Before the work of resetting the injured from the wreck could be begun the steam had to be shut off, and No. 7 mill was filled with escaping steam, so that the employees had to be taken out through the opposite side of the mills by means of ladders. The fly -wheel was sixty feet in diameter and nine feet wide. The engine is a Corliss of 2,000 horses -power and was working about 1,900. It behaved badly when it was started up this morning, and efforts were being made to improve its working when the wheel broke. Mamie Keine, aged 21, has since died, making the third victim ol the accident. A large gang of workmen are at work clearing the ruins. Susie Brookings and Mary Richardson will probably die. The loss to the Amoskeag corporation amounts to several thousand dollars. MURDER IN DENVER. A Mau Bound, Gagged and Hurled from a Window. A Denver despatch says: Whiskey and jealousy were the causes of a tragedy yes- terday morning which cost one life and will probably land two men in the penitentiary for a Ion* term. • The notorious Jim Con- nors and Mike Ryan were drinking in a saloon after midnight, and Connors being goaded and teased by his friends over the fact that his mistress, a Mrs. Dalcoff, had deserted him for C. J. Fennicum, became so enneged that he took Ryan and, going to Mrs. Daleoff's rooms, broke open the door and found her in bed with Fennieurn. to whom she was engaged to be married. Fen - Mount was ordered to dress, after which he was knocked down, tied hand and foot, a gag placed over his mouth, and then carried to the window and thrown into the alley. On the way to the ground three stories below his head struck a projecting stone, leaving a portion of the skull When picked up it was found that the jaw was broken, both his eyes out and the skull torn open until the brains were exposed. He was taken te the hospital, where he died this afternoon. He leaves a wife and two children in Centre Oak Pa. SWALLOWED THE WHISTLE. A. Boy With a Rubber Toy in His Trachx. A St. John, N. B., despatch hays Twenty-seven days ago John Taylor, 10 years old, was playing with a toy balloon. The balloon was filled with air through a hollow mouthpiece. Taylor blew too hard and the balloon burst. He was startled by the sound, and his gasp of surprise drew the mouthpiece, together with a piece of the rubber, into his windpipe. His desperate efforts to obtain breath forced the obstruc- tion down to the bronchial tubes, at the entrance to which it became lodged. At tire public Hospital Drs. Ma.clearen and White decided upon tracheotomy as afford- ing the only chance to save Taylor's life. the incision was inade, but the whistle could not be reached. The physicians mid then that Taylor's death was a question of only a few hours. To -day the boy was sent home, as nothing more could be done for him. The whistle had become lodged in the left bron- chial tube, and the patient breathes through it with comparative ease. It is though the rubber attachment must have been absorbed, as no whistle has been heard since a day or two after the accident. The boy still breathes through the incision in his throat, but it is rapidly healing. ' A BOY MURDERER. Betrayed a Weak -Minded Girl and Then • Brained Her. A Milwaukee despatch says : Annie liodatz, a 15 -year old girl, weak-minded, was murdered on October 71h by Albert Kohls, a 16 -year-old, who worked on her father's farm just outside the city. The body of the murdered girl was discovered last night under the stable floor, and to-clity Kohls confessed he killed the girl by hitting her on the head with a hammer. Kohls had been intimate with the girl, and she was soon to become a mother, and he killed her, he says, for this reason. On the day of the murder Kohls also tried to poison the Kodatz family by putting pads green in SOMID soup. A. Type.Setting Machine Test. A Chicago despatch says : The private test of type -setting machines, held here under the auspices of a committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Associa- tion, closed last evening. The test has been very satisfactory in many respects, and the report of the committee will give newspaper publishers a definite idea as to the work which can be done by the various machines. For three hours during the forenoon the machines wereavorked by members of the Typographical 'Union who hid never before seen them, to show the capacity of begin- ners who are practical printers, and for three hours in the afternoon they were worked also by girls familiar with the Rem- ington typewriter keyboard, to ascertain what could be done on the snachives by those who are suddenly called upon to operate them. All next week the machines w111 be on exhibition to newspaper publish- ers and the public. ' Saved by a 'Dog. A Covington., Ky., despatch Mere : Mrs Emma Smith's grocery ancl ' residence on Bullock street was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Mrs. Smith and her four children had a narrow escape from death. The lady arose at 4.30 o'clock, made a fire anceristired again. Half an hour later die was awakened by her Newfound- land dog tugging at the bedelothing and barking ferociously. She was nearly smoth- ered by smoke, but groped her way to the bedroom of her children. The roorn Was filled with smoke but ithe got them out of the burning buildirig just in time. Baroness de Steers wife of the Belgian Minister at Paris who is suing for a divorce in a South Dakota court, is a niece of John Jacob Aston Her tale is one of cruelty. It I is said that Mme. de Steure has aspirations for a Career on the stage. She Might melte a hie by, going on the platform to tell Amer- $ kali gide the folly of Marrying for a title, iCE and Whites Engage in Deadly Con. ilia at CID Loa Forge, A Clifton Forge, Vo,despatch says ; A savage fight oecurred etween five negroes and Clifton Forge officers in the mountain pass one and a half miles froni here, near the iron gate, yesterday afternoon, result- ing in the death of a white man and, a negro. The negroes came to Clifton Forge yester- day morning from the Big Hill smnes with the avowed purpose of creating a dis- turbance. Aided. by whithey they became boisterous and defied arrest, finally leaving in the direction in which they came. They were called to a halt at the 1?oint, when a fight ensued, in which P. A. Bowling, of the Posse, was killed, and Fred Wilkinson was shot in the abdomen and knee. Wilkinson will reeover, it is thought. Both were brakesmen on the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail- road and had been summoned by the offi- cials. News of the shooting spread rapidly, and in a short time fifty men were scouring the mountains, where the negrom took refuge, hunting them down. They were all captured after several hours' search, and a battle took place in the mountains between the policemen and the negroes. One of the negroes is supposed to be dead frorn his wounds. The other four are in jail here, three of them having been shot before they were captured. A mob of 300 men took three et the negroes from jail last night and hanged and then shot them full of bullets. TO FistOSECIIIISE IIOEY. The Adams Express Company After the Dismissed President. A Trenton, N. j. despatch says : A bill WO4S filed in the UnAcd States Circuit C tut by Henry Sanford, President of the Adams Express Company, against John Hoey, of Long Branch. It demands an accounting by limy for $750,000 taken by him which belongs to the Adams Express Company. It is set forth that nearly all or part of this amount was spent to furnish'build and equip the property known as Hollywood. The property is in the name of Mrs. Hoey, but the company claims it was built with its money, and it had a right to follow it. There is a mortgage of $100,000, which was executed by Josephine Hoey to the Guaran- tee Trust Company of Philadelphia. It was paid off bye, cheque of the Adams Express Company. This is alleged to be a breach of trust on the part of Hoey, while president of the company. The petition mks the court to establish by decree how far the Adams Express Company is entitled to 'fol- low the money taken by Hoey and put into Hollveood, and asks for a lien on the prop- ene,. HOW THEY DID IT ON THE STAGE. Peculiar Death of a 164-ear.Old Amateur • Contortionist in St. John. A St. John, N. B., despatch says : James • McCarthy, a boy of 16, son of Joseph Mc. Carthy, coachman, died at 2 o'clock this morning under peculiarly sad circumstances. Early in the evening he went out to attend a rehearsal, at the house of a friend, of a play in which a number were to take part While there he stood upon a chair and bent backwards to show some of his companions how they did on the stage. He returned to his home about 10 o'clock, and after retiring his mother heard him breathing, heavily and went to his bedside. Dr. D. E. Berryman was summoned and attempts made to save the little fellow's life, but they were of no avail and he died in a few hours. It is sup- posed that his death was cansecl by the straining of a vein near his heart POLICE GUARD JOHN DILLON. • , Friends Believe" He Will Be Ascassinkted -Unless Protected. A Dmain cable says: Mr. John Dillon, as well as Mr. Healy, is under police pro- tection. Their friends believe they will be assassinated unless every precaution be taken to prevent it. When Mr. Dillon arrived at Waterford from Dublin he was met at the platform by Distaict Inspector Seymour and a force of 20 police constables, all armed. Mr. Dillon walked down the platform to an omnibus. After a few min- utes, as no one else entered the convey- ance, the driver asked him to take an out- side car. This he did and drove away by himself, followed to the terminus of the Waterford & Dungarvan Railway, a mile distant, by Inspector Seymour and the police. A MOTHER'S VENGEANCE. • A 'Woman Throws Vitriol in the lrace Of Her Daughter's Seducer. A Gallatin, Tenn., despatch says : Yes- terday Mrs. Archie Overton threw the contents of a large bottle of vitriol in the face of Samuel R. Elliott, a popular young man here. Mrs. Overton claims that Elliott ruined her daughter Minvie eighteen months ago. The liquid struck Elliott square between the eyes and spread all over his face. In ten minutes his left eye was entirely destroyed, and it is thought his other eye will be lost. His face was horribly burned. • A warrant for 1VIrs. Overton's arrest has been issued. The affair has created a great sensation, as all the parties connected in it are prominent. • Scotch News Notes. It is proposed to raise a Masonic Temple in Glasgow at a cost of 820,000. In the High Court of Justiciary in Edin- burgh on the 25th ult., Wm. Grant, lately manager of the City of Glasgow Loan Bank Company, Candleriggs, Glasgow, for em- bezzlement of the com.pany's funds, was sent twelve months to prison. Mr. Charles Home Drummond Moray of Abercairney and Blair -Drummond died at Blair -Drummond, Perthshire, on the 241h ult. He was the youngest son of the sixth Henry Home Drummond of Blair -Drum- . mond, and was born in 1816. The last annual report of the Fishery Board shows that the sea fisheries of Scot- land during 1890 yielded white and shell fish valued. at £1,691,959, an increase of £174,853 as compared with the previous year. The number of fishing boats engaged was 14,352, the capital invested beihg esti- mated at £1,590,636." The fishermen and boys employed numbered 47,150, while work was afforded other 62,122 persons (hir- ing the summer herrieg fishing. On the 1st inst Mr. Gladstone lead the corner -stone of a new wing to Trinity Col- lege, Glenahnoncl, Perthshire. When fifty years ago he laid the foundation tone of that institution, for the training of shiclents for the Episcopal Church, be was the, great hope of the Tory party, and the seemed C!dition of his celebrated book on "Church and State" had just been issued. The Improvements Committee of the Aberdeen Town Cour cil on the 251h ult. resolved to recommend to the Council ap- proval of the scheme for the extension of Marisehal College at a probable cost crt £60,000, the Council to contribute £10,000 to the extension fund, and also to contribute 85,000 for the erection of a new church to replace Greyfriars' Church, which stands in the college quadrangle. An ehterprideg dentiet in an Ohio town has in the window Of his office the sign : "Your teeth ptilled While you wait." COMMIIN SENSE. I is the Moat LarlitelttahlY ItiocOnftuolik " Common seise is the UP* PeinfullY uncommon thing in, the world t" The epeakei delivered herself with a wean. " Methiuks your remarks • lack the charm of novelty," observed the hearer, gently. 4‘ Don'ts le -flippant but hearken ! It is a deficieecir over which 1 grieve afresh every day of my life, Each year snake e it more apparent. The light of nature must amount to a very feeble glimmer. People are stupid. If there is a wrong way for them to put a dress together, or to place chairs around a room, or to arrange their time, or to conduct their affairs, or to do any of the things, big or little, which have to be done every day of their iives, that's the way they take. They don't see straight. They are not clear- headed. "Now, if a woman whose thoughts are occupied with a sublimer work confesses she can't drive a picture-eall, and another that she can't tie e bow, and still another that ehe can't sew on a button without leaving a loop of thread coming out of the top, I can understand that. it is because they can't keep their thoughts long enough on such trifles. They get somebody else to do them. It's cheaper too. I know that much myself. But it is strange to me that ordinary mortals mortals with hands and brains are not able to do these things if they take the time and trouble. Nothing is needed but common sense ! Why can't they—why ?"—Harper's Baum A Feminine Weakne,ss. Fully half the virtues for which their owners are praised are of spontaneous growth, and really reflect little credit epon those who practice them. Let us take a case in point—that of a woman who has a pet extravagance. It is teacups. She loves pretty clothes, but she can gaze at the latest fabrics in the win dosvs of dry goods shops without being tempted to purchase, and can even survey unshaken, invoices of Parisian millinery, gowns and gloves. She has a sweet tooth, but when occasion requires she can steer O steady course between Purssell's and Arnaud's, or Iluyler's and Deane's with. 011b swerving to the right or to the left. But when she nears a china ahop, her steps falter. Strange to say, the verybigh-priced shops do not most beguile her. Her attraction is towaeds those fascinating little establish- ments that display cards bearing the legends, Special Sale! Great Reduction!! Marked Down! ! ! Like a moth to a candle, is she drawn towards that place of temptation. All china is dear to her heart, but she can resist plates, teapots, and even cream -jugs, of which every housekeeper known one can never have too many. But wben she be- holds a cup and saucer ticketed Only 24 cents, she is sureto succumb. She can hold out a trifle longer if she reads 39 cents, and twice she has been known to walk on, with an air of dignity, as fat as the corner, be- fore she could melee up her mind to go in and buy the cup and saucer billed, For to- day only, 50 cent. Don't think she is reckless in her selection. She always pre- fers pretty china, and generally shows ex- cellent taste, but she wilt buy a plain cup sooner than refuse a bargain. Now this woman is known as a good wife and mother. She ispraised for her house- keeping, which she likes, for her devotion to her husband and children whom she adores, for her pleaaant, cordial' manner, which is entirely natural, and for her phil- anthropy and benevolence, which are innate. But should she tell of the times when she scores a veritable moral victory by croseing -the steeet to keep awayfrom a china shop or recites poetry to herself to aid her in forgetting an advertisement of a Closing -out Sale, Cups and Saucers of fine Doulton, Copeland and Limoges at only 63 cents apiece, every one would laugh, and no one would think it worth while to account her resistance of temptation as a long step in the path of self-control and self-denial. Which goes to prove the force of the sen- tence that preludes this truthful narrative. —Harper'a Bazar. Women's Rights. New Yorg Herald : The Rev. William Gorman spoke a good word for women in the Methodist Convention at Washington. Her influence is needed in the Church, he said, and it is always a good influence. There is no reason why the graces and apti- tudes which adorn the home should be in- terdicted within the circle of our religious life. , She can teach' her sons to preach, and she has been known to assist her husband in the preparation of a sermon. We welcome her voice everywhere else, and why not in the pulpit? The wield is jogging along in that direc- tion, Doctor. You are only a few short years ahead of the times, that's all. And, by the way, the women are well equipped for the fight and are achieving some brave successes. Slowly but surelythey are encroaching on the various employments heretofore • monopolized by men, and it wouldn't be surprising if by and bye men should be forced to organize for self-protec- tion. Women's rights are pretty fully established and the grave question of the future will be. How many or how few are to be the rights which women will allow men to enjoy? words or wisdoms. No woman is really beautiful until she is old. Most women are ambitious; they want to be men. Sweethearts and wives are entirely dif- ferent women. , Women are apt to criticise women with undue severity. A woman is seldom prosaic until she is some man's mother-in-law. To keep your own secret is wisdom ; to expect others to keep it is folly. A flirtation is a smile to -day, a cry to- morrow and a blush every day thereafter. A Careless Organist. Wiggsy---There'll be some fun when New - splice meets Johnson, the organist, who played at his wedding. Biggsy—Why ? Wiggey—As the bridal party was going down the aisle he played 'S 'VVill you all be with me when the set ap begins V' A very simple and strong cement zesty be made for glees and earthenware by diluting the White of an egg with its bulk of water. Beat up thoroughly, then bring to the con- eistency of thin paste with poWdered quick- lime. It tenet be used inanediately or it will lose ite virtee. " VVhy the deep° don't rex give Me the right number e" was the question asked in emphatic tones of the girl at Central yester- day afternoon: "You ere no gentleman," respendeci the telephone girl angrily. "You bet I ain't," said this; typewriter girl, who is adopting het eiripioyei if mode of Apeeeh.— Biefato EXpress. Mies Mary teicketts, the novelist's favorite daughter, livehi a pleasa,et little suburb of Leedom She is a woman past middle age, bet preserves is eiviscity Of manner that make e her appear much more youthful. ItAB 011EBTERFIELD'8 FOLIY, The Story Of Wife's firtaitieli and What Caine of It, Poor little Mrs. Chesterfield ! She ha been married only six hOat months and already her husband was waning in his devotion. Twice lest month Ile bad spout his evenings at his club. To -night he was at O pepper given him by his bachelox• friends, and when she had somewhat remonstrated with him he had said: • "You know I would rather be with you, dear, but I could hardly refuse Hal when he got the thing up for me. Run over to your mother's, like a brave little woman. One of the boys will bring you home. I won't stay late, I promise you." Then with is good-bye kiss he was gone. Six months ago could such a plea have drawn him from her eide ? Ah, how happy had 'she been I How proud on her bridal day of her splendid lover ! How timidly she had looked into Isis handsome face, and for the first time called him husband, won- dering if every wife was as gloriously con- tent as she ! Then followed these weeks of radiant hap- piness when they two forgot the world and all else save that each existed for the other, till the time approached for the home -com- ing, and she found awaiting her the prettiest house Will could find, furnished throughout in exquisite taste by her indulgent father. When she had kissed and thanked him, did the dream beneath its roof ever to shed one tear or think one unhappy thought? Yet even now the blue eyes are wet, the lashes are heavy with moisture and her lip trembles, when a knock at the door dis- turbs the uupleasant tenor of her thoughts? A servant enters bearing a card with the name "Hale Raymond." Her first impulse is to be excused on plea of illness ; then a bright thought rushes into her brain. " Tell the gentleman, James, I will be with him presently. She has heard somewhere that husbands are apt to grow weary of their homes 13,nd seek elsewhere tlae excitement not obtain- abliein that pure atmosphere, but that if the wives absent themselves and iudulge in a little quiet recreation it soon arouses their liege lords to a sense of their duty. Well she knows Will does not admire Hale Ray -- mond --in fact, treats him with polite cool- ness, which he is too thorough a men of the world not to see, but which he choses to ignore. However, Will certainly cannot object to an evening call, and if he is not there to share his attentions the is not re- sponsible. Sotily rising and standing before the large cheval mirror in her dressing -room, she took from a bouquet beside her a tea -rose and put it in her hair. Certainly the glass reflected a vision which any man might be proud to call his OW11. Of medium height, with violet eyes shaded by dark, long lashes, hair of that rare auburn tint which turns to gold in the sun's bright light, a mouth and teeth of exquisite perfection, a figure beautifully moulded, draped in black velvet, with a light tissue overdress --what wonder that, as she entered the parlor and Hale Raymon rose to greet her, the regrets with which he snet her excuses for her husband's absence were mere lip service? But he notes as she speaks the feverith sparkle in her eye, the quick flush upon her cheek, and resolves accordingly upon the plans of the siege. "Though I am sorry not to see Mr. Chesterfield, I cannot but anticipate with pleasure an hour's quiet chat alonewith you. But how comes it that I am in such rare luck? What imperative business has called your husband from your side ? "1 do not know if we may call a dinner imperative business, but such is the cause of Mr. Chesterfield's absence. It was given him by one of his oldest friends, and he, of course, could not refuse." "1 suppose not, as husband. As a lover one manages to escape such bores ; but then we are not sure of the prize, and with the race all untried before us we do not dare rest for a moment upon our oars. I presume when the goal is reached the reaction sets in; but unfortunately I cannot speak from experience." "1 imagine you are entirely to blame for so lamentable a condition of affairs." "Nob perhaps so entirely as you believe me to be. When one watches in the midst of, a garden of exotics one Queen Rose, fairer, more beautiful than any of its sisters —sees it ripen day by day into more perfect sweetness, such loveliness that one's own unworthiness teaches him hesitation in approaching it until he wakens from his dream of hope to find that he has waited too long—other fingers, rasher, bolder, have plucked the flower from the stem—then there isleft only a faint fragrance perfuming the air, filling him with the torture of the might have been.' But it is growing late. Think of my story, Mrs. Chesterfield. Perhaps you can give me its sequel. Good night." And bowing low he left her wondering at his meaning. Could he have been so bold as to have her understand literally his words? How charming he was! Not to be compared to Will, however. The little wife's heart beat high with pride and love for her gallant husband, even though he had that one evening neglected "What, little wife ! All alone ? • Not sit- ting up for me, I hope? Did I not keep my promise to come home early? The fellows thought me woefully shabby, but I know in their _hearts they all envied nee." "I did not know it was late. I have had a very pleasant evening. My Raymond called." "What—Hale Raymond? I am sorry was not at home; not that I missed any- thing, but becanse Ise is not the sort of man aIcan,, care to have my wife receive le " Indeed? I thought him charming I" throwing an unusual emphasis into the words, its she noted the flush she supposed jealousy originated dye Will Chesterfield's facen Aanswer was upon his lips, but he checked it as unworthy of him ; and re- counting the evening's sayings and doings to the little wife he so fondly loved, aud of whose displeasere he little deemed himself the subject, he soon forgot the irritation of the moment. Two months glided by and scarcely was Mee. Chestetfield alone ere she was joined by Hale Raymond. Did she walk, he seemed to spring from the ground ; did she drive, his horse would come careering beside her carriage, and he would find time and opportunity to have with her a few mo- istents' quiet converse. Ever apptoaching forbidden themes, he never transgressed openly, bee slowly, surely fought' his way, as he hoped, into the heart of the citadd. "Will;" mid Mrs. Chesterfield one day to her husband, "there is to be a masked ball at the Academy next week. Will you take me "1 am sorry, my darling, but I shall be out of town on that night; and, even were / here, 11 18 not this pion() where I would 1ke to seeyou.e With a pout the young wife Welled away and the SlIbleCt Was dropped. "It is nothing to him now to refuse my wishes," she thought. " *Dace he wetild have postponed an engagement to gratify The day of the hall came. With a loving Ides in the early morning Will Cbeeterfield bade his wife good-bye. Scarcely had the deer closed upon hint than Mr. Raymond was amiounced, " 1 have come to oak you and Mr. Ches- terfield to join our perth for the masquerade to -night. Of course he will coesent if yen but ask him." Mr. Chesterfield is unfortunately absent, so that 1 must decline," " Indeed -1" feigning the utmost sur- prise. " But surely you will stet spend the evening alone ? Mrs. Irving is going to chaperoue the party. We ellen have a box and be perfectly to ourselves. No one will recognize you. Do say you will come And so he pleaded until, remembering her husband had not absolutely forbidden her going, and knowing she could readily assuage his displeasure, she gave a some- what reluctant consent, and with his heart beating high with hopes of what ehe little dreamed, Hale Reymond left her, But all that evening, surrounded by mirth toad fun, music and lights, uproar and dancing, she wiehed herself a thousand times back to her own ("Met home. Be- tween her and the revellers came the vision of her husband's haudsome face. What would he say? Yet, could he blame her? Had he not left her alone ? • At last she could bear 18 550 longer, and whispering a few words to her escort, he arose, aosistechher in her hasty adieus, and went with her forth from the chin and glare.' into the calm, peaceful, moonlight night. " Will you walk or drive ?" "Oh, let us walls," she answered, and gathering up her rich ball dress and slipping off her mask, she drank in, with a sense of inexpressible relief, heaven's pure air. At last her home was reached. Turning, as her servant opened the door, to say good- rbeytieuteosth:er companion, she was startled by the It ie early yet. May I not come in? I have soinethieg I want particularly to say to you." She could scarcely refuse so trifling a re- quest so preceded him into the drawing- r°°TnIel. eroom was in shadow, but as she turned to ask his meaning she started at the unusual pallor of his face. • "Are you ill ? " she questioned. " Ill ? Would to God I were ! Would that torture of the body rnig,ht teach forget- fulness of the mind's anguish ! Have you not seen all these weeks how I have loved you—how I would dare all things for some response ? You must have kuown it all ; why, then, do you give me that white face of untold horror ?" " Hush—no more 1 Yet I deserve it all. You came to me with your flattery at a .time when I thought my husband wavering in his • devotion—when I felt foolishly grieved and injured, and meant thus to show him an indifference equal to his own, though never for one moment did I feel it. The glittering colors of the snake. fascinated me, and I was all ignorant of the deadly sting they coneectlecf Leave' me, sir, and our paths henceforth diverge." A glance at the cold, proud face warned him of her meaning, and, with a bitter smile of irony, he bowed hitneelf out of her, presence and her life. " Will ! Will !" she sobbed, when alone. Then, as in answer to her cry, out from the shadow came he whom she had called, and, taking herelose into his strong arms, said as. he held her : It has • all been a, mistake h darling—a. sad, sad horror for Its both. 1 clidnot think it best to disclose my presence. "1 had forgotten my little wife was but a child, and she has forgotten that some; • times a husband must leave his home, base that he leaves as its guard its most price- less possession, a jewel which the longer he - wears grows more priceless in his sight. From to -night we will start afresh. The• • serpent has gone front our Eden. My poor child? How you must have suffered But in all her husband's teederness Mrs. Chesterfield only feels the deeper her re- morse for her folly, and when, with her head buried on his breast, she sobs out her plea, for forgiveness she knows already it is hers ; but never, while she lives, will she be tempted to indulge in another flirtation. The Traffic in Germany. The Emperor William is doing his besti. to discourage drunkenness in Germany. In spite of all that bas been said about the use of malt liquors as preventing that of dis- tilled liquors, the use of the more fiery beverages has increased alarmingly in Ger- many, and drunkenness is growing so• prevalent as to have awakened the anxieties. of German statesmen. A proposed new law for the restriction of the sale of spiritous liquors has just been made public in Berlin. The principal features of it are these : Licenses are to be granted only in cases where it is shown there is need for a liquor store or saloon, and not near churches or schools, nor in places of immoral resort, nor to persons suspected of using the liquor business as a cover for debauchery, gambling, etc. The retail liquor business must not be connected with any other kind of trade, and druggists may sell liquor only in sealed and labelled bottles. Inn and . saloonkeepers must supply eatables for their guests, and are held in strict ac- countability for good order in their places. The police may forbid the sale of liquors before 8 a. m. Sales to minors under sixteen are forbidden except when accom- panied with grown persons. Selling to per- sons who have been convicted of common. drunkenness within three years is forbidden, and a saloon -keeper is not allowed to expel, a drunken person from his premises, exeent by sending him home or to a par e, station. Common •drunkards and thoee who neglect their families may be placed under legal guardianship, thus. - becoming legal minors. Severe fines and imprisonments are imposed upon per- sons who become intoxicated while engaged in the saving of life or the prevention of fire, and upon physicians, nurses and others. engaged in caring for the health of others. Within eight years the cases of chronic alcoholism and delirium tremens treated in public institutions 'in Germany increased from 4,272 to 10,360. the latter figure in- cluding 673 women. The evil is still rapidly increasing, and nothing but drastic, measures are likely to stay the tide. -- Toronto Globe. 4 Edward Davis, a member of the British', House of Commons, is travelling in the Notthwest with Dr. David Lloyd donee, an, eminent Welds clergyman, and it is repotted that he is over here to escape thereetrictions of the famous deem sed wife's eieter's bill. 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