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The Exeter Times, 1886-8-26, Page 2ggprohenstourn; and alertly afterward, t"04013,0"ologk hav -paid, Ufa re' a as 1 ��� Stile � ��� ��� � t t fa � � age tired, 'The Explanation of BurglaryM. 117,ywife'ti dressng:roam chep off mine, �' a and while she Wee' disrobing, the thong In the year 186--I wee a member, and am a member Atilt, though not only as special partner, of the firm of Down &` Co., jewellers and silversmiths, not far from the corner of Oxford and _ Regent iatreets, London, Oar house was an old and well established one, having been eababliehed since the latter pare of the last century. It was a bleak November afternoon, at a little past 2 o'clock, that the Earl of N --, one of our most respected oaato. mere, entered the shop and asked to be shown some diamond necklaces, We did not, of coarse, keep a large assortment i espurchasers of such expensive articles, gen- erally preferring to have the diamonds they selected eat according to their own taste or fancy; bub at that time we had two in stock, which the earl, after examin- ing, requestedto have sent to his house In R-- square, for his wife, the ooun- tese, to examine and perhaps select from. He added that it would be a favor if they could be sent to her that afternoon, as she was at home and disengaged. articles—they In vit evalneof.t e n view ofh h Y amounted to In the neighborhood of three thousand pounds—I felt unwilling to trust them to the care of an employe; so as soon as some other necessary mattere had been attended to, I hailed a cab. and with the jewels in my possession, neck- laces having been placed for convenience in one case, I ordered the cabman to drive me to the earl's residence. I remember it was half -past three when I arrived, and that I was obliged to wait nearly half an hour before the countess was at leisure to receive ale, owing, she graciously said, apologizingly, to an unex- peoted hatter of importance that had de- tained her. The examination of the jew- ole, conversation as to resetting and other ;matters connected with the purchase con- sumed the time till nearly five o'clock, so that when I left the house it was quite dark ; and after getting into my cab and ,being driven rapidly to our place of busi- ness, I found my partn er and the clerks had departed for the night, and the safe locked, only the book.keeper and tbe watchman being left behind. I was about to open the safe and deposit the jewels in it, when it soddenly flashed across my mind that in my haste to catch a train that morning, I had acci- dentally left my keys at home. I was living with my wife at that time in R—. a few miles across the river, out of the city, in a rented villa, having been lately married and not as vet decided upon a permanent residence. The villa was lo- cated in what is now a thickly settled neighborhood, with water, gas, police and the various city conveniences ; but at that time, nearly twenty years ago, it was rather sparsely settled, and was what might be called a retired neighborhood. Here was a dilemma.It was already past the time at which I usually left buei- nese to walk to my train, the only one which would take me direct to my home for an hour and a half. I knew that my wife, who is at times rather nervous, would be anxious if I did not arrive by the neual' train ; I dared not leave the jewels without locking them in the safe, -and my partners resided at quite a dis- tance in the opposite, direotlen from mine •' besides I might not find them at home if I went in search of their keys. What would I do 11 must decide quick- ly ; so, after rapidly running over the case in my mind I determined to take the jewels home with me, thinking the risk for one night would not be great. Hailing then another cab, I was hurried off to Victoria station, just arriving in time for my train, and duly arrived home to meet with a glad greeting from my wife, and to find a bright sea coal fire and a good dinner awaiting me. During dinner my wife recounted to me her day's experiences. She had been in the city shopping, and the conversation ran in a light vein on various sn''jects, till the aervant waiting upon ns, a matt whom I had lately engaged, having brought coffee and placed cigarettes and a taple before me—my wife always liked when we were alone to sit at table with me, over a cup of coffee, while I smoked an after-dinner cigarette—left us ; when, knowing the feminine fondness for din- morda, I produced from an inside pocket the jewel -case ; and while my wife was admiring the necklace, with brighb eyes and many an exclamation at their beauty, I recounted to her the events of the afternoon, in explanation of my bringing the diamonds home with me. She had just clasped one of the circletsaronnd her neck, and was standing before the pier - glass in a full blaze of light, to enjoy the effect, when a slight rap at the door near her, immediately followed by the en- trance of our servant -man, caused her to start, put her hand to her neck and utter a nervous exclamation, which might well =rave attracted attention to the necklace, aside from the brilliant effect naturally produced by the jewels themselves. The man had only come to ask leave of absence for an hour or two ; and though I felt annoyed myself at this unexpected entrance, yeti certainly could see teething in his action to complain of, nor any thing startling in the affair, and laughed at my wife's very apparent nervonaneee. 1 should ray here that the cane, holding the other necklace, rested upon the din- ing -table, but happened to be closed. During the evening, after replaoing the jewels in the case and aafelyreturning w the same to my pocket, we read and con - vented awhile in the library ; and at about 11 o'clock rose to retire. Jnatbeforeaseending town apartments, P artments , however, atm wife suggestion and In her company, Ia went about the lower p an y, stories of the home, inapeoting the doors and windows to see that all were secure, though usually 1 had left the duty to a servant. Everything seemed /securely fastened except one window, whioh, open. Ing to the floor from a small room, called for convenience the conservatory—though displaying rather a meagre a/saortment of fiowere-gave exit to a email garden with a low wall enclosing it. The catch, as it indow Was defective Is called, upon this w , and by a slight ht jarring easily became loos. g es ened so l secured the window, I thouht byinsertin a nail in the fasten- ing. My wife thought,did not seem to think le secure even then, but I laughed at her occurred to me that perhaps our man•ccr- venb-T have said he was new In my Fier, vice --might be tempted by the glittering jewels he had seen in the dining -room. He had been spending the evening out ; what might he not have told about these jewels 1 What, too, if acme, one in the city had watched my movements and had followed me hore 1 I remembered weer - al aervanta pasting to and from the room while 1 was at Lord N --'s. Reflecting in this vein, it suddenly ozcurred to me that 1 had 'seen in the bur- eau, in a corner of the room I occupied, a case of cheap brilliants, that my wife had worn nob long since in some tableaux given in aid of a charity. She appeared as one of the maids in waiting to an Indian princess, or porno such role. What if I should put the necklace belonging to that set into the jewel -case and conceal the real dlamonde between the mattresses ; of my bed i . A good idea, thought 1, and I immedi- ately acted upon It. I then planed the jewel -cage with its comparatively worth - tees contents beneath my pillow, and look - into myroom 1n from. Ing the door leading the hall, retired almost immediately, and without again seeing my wife, fell asleep. Bather earlier than usual 1 wart awaken- ed next morning by feeling a cold draught of air upon meand at once leaped from the bed on discovering that the door which I had fastened on retiring waa of en. Calling loudly to my wife, I pulled from my bed the pillow beneath which I had placed the jewel -nee. It was gone. With trembling hands 1 next dashed apart the mattreeaes ; and there, ail I had placed them on retiring, were the real Jewels, sa safe and as brilliant tie on the night before. My wife was by this time beside me, half byeterical, and my first duty was to calm her agitation, which in a measure I succeeded in doing, and having made a hasty toilet, and securing the luckless jewels about my person, descended to ascertain how the burglar had entered or escaped. I found everything as I had left it till I came to the window of which I had previously spoken as having a brok. en fastening. The window was open. It waa still early, and I at once repair- ed to the servants' rooms. They were all apparently sleeping, including the man who had entered the dining room on the previous evening. I said nothing about the loss, making some excuse about l;,eing obliged to be in the city that morning before the urinal time and desiring an early breakfast,* a reason for awakening them. I was boon on my way to the city, and sought a well- known and shrewd detective, who bad at one time done some work for our firm, and stated to him t'ae entire circum- stances, retaining his aervicea in the mate ter ; for though the loss was trifling I did not wish the culprit to escape if he could be secured. At the same time I realized, as the de- tective suggested, that ib might be a more 'difficult case than !b otherwise proved, from the fact that the thief, whoever he might be, would at once by daylight de- tect the worthlessness of his plunder, and would never attempt to dispose of it. And the detective never did find a clew to the matter. During that forenoon he went to my house, inspected the premises and ascertained that the window could be opened from the ontsi'le with little trouble, in apite of the manner in which I had supposed it to have been made fast ; he also informed me that the key of my room—the lock being of a simple pattern—could easily have been turned from the outside by a burglar without in- jury or noise. He also rigidly examined the servants, especially the waiting -man, but could find no grounds of auapeoting any of them. There had been a sharp rainfall, the latter part of the previous night, and any footsprinta which might have been made in the garden were to- tally obliterated. So he was obliged to confess that he had found no clew to the matter, and could only tell me that he would keep a sharp lookout for any evi- dence bearing upon the case. • 1, however, shortly afterward discharg- ed the waiting -man, as his very presence seemed to disturb my wife, whose nerves appeared to have undergone a shock, from which they did not readily recover. My wife being in this state, I thought that a change of air and scene would prob- ablyrestore her completely. It was near Christmas, a very busy time for us in the city, bat I made a short trip to the conti- nent with her, and was rejoiced to see that In a week or two her natural health and spirits' had apparently returned ; so having been absent as long as my business would permit, we returned home, arriv- ing at dusk one evening in the new year. Itore•thene to their normal state; so quiet- ly o 1y end hEiatilr at FP g n some eight clothing, and seizing a cloak with which to envelop her in cape of her awakening, T cautiously followed, the brilliant moon making the home sufficiently light for me to dlstingufah her. Descending the "stairs she advanced straight wrote the hall, and through the library to the conservatory window ; opened it, crossed the piazza, stepped into the garden, and just as I was con sidering whether the risk of sudden awak- ening would be so great asthat of expo- sure to the cold night air, hurridly grossed a email plot of ground, and lifting the cover of a disused pump•box—it had been built around one of those garden. pumpa—peered into it, safely closed it and started to retrace her steps to the veranda. I had barely time to escape to my room Blip off the clothing I had so hastily don- ned but a few on-nedbubafew minutes before and cover myself with the bed•olothee, when she entered, and retiring, seemed almost in a moment to be eleeping,gdietly. I felt little doubt now as to what had become of the jewel -box. My wife, ner- vous at the entrance of the servant into the dining room on the night when she had been trying on the jewels, had al- lowed amorbid fear Invest her so completely that oho in her sleep had undertaken to conceal the jewels, as she thought, in some more secure spot than beneath my pillow, from which she had probably seen the corner of the case protruding. The defective fastening on that particular window in the conserva- tory must have in some inexplicable way suggested to her an exit there ; for the rest, indeed the whole matter, the reader can judge as well as myself. • I have since related these facts to several medical men, without receiving from them any satisfactory solution, farther than that in all times of strong excitement persons of nervous tempera- ment are naturally more strongly and lasting affected than others ; and that, in my wife's case, a predisposition to some nambulism, though latent of late years—I learned from my wife that she had oc- casionally walked in her sleep when young but had long since been supposed com- pletely cured, the family supposing the disorder to have passed away with child- hood,—might have tended to the result I have narrated. With regard to the oc- currences of the night ; and when togeth- er that morning we visited the scene of her wanderings, and took from the pump -box the jewel -case, considerably the worse for nearly two months' exposure, no one could have been more surprised than her- self. A Christian Merchant. It Is net money whioh Is the root of all kinds of evil, but the love ef it. A man may be an energetic money-maker, and yet love it net for its own sake, but for the geed he may do by it. Such a man was John Thorn- ton, a famous London merchant of the last century, He was sharp -sighted In business, vigilant In watching opportunities, and quick to see where a good bargain might be made. One morning, while visiting Ireland to recruit his health, he was walking about the wharves of Cork. A number ef vessels laden with tallow had j oat come in. Mr, Thornton, by a few questions pat to the persons in charge, learned the state of the tallow market, and then bought eaoh cargo. The adventure, consummated in a few moments, cleared him a handsome profit. That was one side of his character, An- other is brought out by an Incident whioh happened the same morning. From the wharves he strolled along until he came to a nursery -garden, and began a conversation with its proprietor. The latter was a hardworking man, honest and Intel- ligent, but hampered by narrow means. He learned all this in the course of the conver- sation. Mr. Thornton left him and inquired into his oharoter. That morning the nurseryman was set rquare with the world by a check from the man who was more anxious to do good than he was to make money, Another anecdote also illustrates his read• Imes to assist those who are doing their beat to help themselves. Meeting one day on ' Change a young menuhent whose honesty and intelligence were cramped by his email capital, Mr. Thornton said to him, In his off -hand way,— "John, I've thought much of you and your circumstances lately, If you had a larger capital oouldn't you do a better busi- ness!" "Yes, sir, I certainly oould," answered the merchant. " Well, then, there are ten thousand pounds at your service. If you prosper, you will repay me ; if you don't, you shall never hear, of the debt." - ".I. thank you, sir, for your generous of- fer," replied the merchant, astonished, " But will you let it stand for a few days, while I think it over !" "Take as leng as yen please, John, but remember that the money is yours, the mo- ment you'll o•mentyou'll accept it." Mr. Thornton waited several days, then calling on the merchant, asked him as to hie decision. "I've thought over your kind offer, sir," answered the young man ; " but I must de cline it. If I lost your money, I should be very unhappy. Through the blessing et God I am now doing a fair business; so I had better remain as 1 am:", The decision met Mr, Thernton'e approve al. Mr. Thornton left a son, Henry Thornton, a great banker, and the author of a book, " Family Prayers," whioh has had an enor- mous sale in England. That son's spirit and practice were kindred to his father's. Tho principle which ruled their lives is brought oat in a letter the don once wrote to Hannah More, We commend it to our young read- ers, who are beginning life. "..My wife and I," wrote Mr, Henry Thornton, "have lately observed how much happier and better entitled to comfort are they who, towards the close of life, have to look back en scenes of Christian activity, than they who have been merely talking and feeling religiously all their days." Activity few God is true living, " Wor• ship Is a life," says Charles Kingsley, The true worshipper is he "that doeth." Miss Phoebe Hall is attracting attention -n Baltimore as an evangelist, She was formerly it prosperous milliner. HOU SE ROLI.T hen into, �it0 Keep large stnares of thick pasteboard linos convenient to slip under pots, kettles, stow dishes, and spiders, wherever yen set them down. Don't flirt dirt from oneiece of furniture to' another and oall it dusting, but take it up carefully refll in a dieting cloth and shake it from the window. To clean bottles, put into the bottleo. some kernels of Dorn, a tablespoonful of aehea ; pour it half full of water, and after. o vigorous shaking and rinsing you will find the bottle as good as new. A teaspoonful of borax put in the last water in which clothes are riueed will whiten them wonderfully. Pound the bor- ax so it will dlsalve easily. This is especial- ly good to remove the yellow that time gives to white garments that have been laid way two or tree yore, How to take grease apoto out of silk : For any color that water will not injure take wheat flower and mix with water to a thin batter, spread en the grease spots, and dry in the atm or by the fire until phis dry and orirp, so that yen San oruah it like dry leaves ; then brush it off with a brush ; de not use an iron. This is much better than any chemical preparation and does not leave any spat to show where the grease apt was, write!, Sufferer „ Have: suffered ; °° great�y from cornu, and having obtained ioomplete relief, at once, from the following simple treatment, I send it to you for the benefit of your readers, Pare the cera and put around the toe a strip of what druggists oall surgeons' adhesive plaster, The strip must be wide enough to oempletely cover the corn, and long enough to encircle the toe er it may not stay in place. Warm the plaster well before putting it en. Renew when worn out, paring the cern each time, Five cents' worth of this piaster will supply two corns six months." I noticed that my wife on entering the house showed /signs of returning nervous - nese ; and when she insisted that I should examine the fastenings of the doors and windows before 'retiring, she seemed especially concerned about the window through which the thief had en- tered. For myself t thought nothing of the matter, In fact had long ago got over the excitement of the burglary, and had often laughed to myself at the dissap- polntment the thief must have undergone as well as congratulated myself on my happy thought in exehanging the jewels. Nevertheless, that nigbt, whether it was from the novelty of being ab home again, or for whatever reason, I elope lightly , and was audde sly awakened by hearing a noise in the room, and at the same instant seeing a figure clothed in white which I at once—lb was bright moonlight -recognized as my wife, going out of the door into the hail. ome instantaneous reasoning, By a g, or was it intuition, I know not, it flashed across me that she was walking in her sleep, a somnambnlitt, though such a thing had never, nob to my knowledge, occurred to her before ; and that to .cry out and awaken her anddenly might came her to fall down the atafrway, which was directly opposite my door, or it might) have Some other injurious. effect. 1 re- called having read that In such cases it is beet to leave the person undisturbed, merely watching them to gee if they run into no danger, and leaving nature to re Choice Recipes. PLUM JELLY,—Bail the fruit with suffi- cient water until it le cooked, Strain through a thick cloth ; to every oup of fruit add a oup of sugar, and let it remain until next day. Then melt all together, and then take small quantities at a time and bell it until it jollies, whioh yon oan tell by trying a little at a time. Do net stir during the Met boiling. PEACH BATTER PeJDDINQ.—Twelve ripe peaohes, pared but not stoned ; one quart of milk, about ten tablespoons of prepared flour, five beaten eggs, 0110 tablespoonful of melted butter, ene ealtspeonful of salt. Set the peaohes closely together in a battered pudding dish. stew with sugar, and pour over them a batter of the ingredients above named. BAKED] HUCKLEBERRY 'PUDDING,—One pint of milk, two eggs, one quart of flour, (sifted), ene gill yeast, one saltspodnful ef salt, ene teaspoonful of boiling water, near- ly a quart of berries dredged with Hoar. Make batter with these ingredients—leav- ing out the berries—and set in a warm plane to rise for about four hours. If light pour in the dredged berries, pour into a buttered cake mold, and bake one hour in a moder- ate oven. Tarn and eat with hard sauce. BLACKBERRY ROLY-POLY.—One quart of prepared flour, ene heaping tablespoonful lard and the same of butter tubbed with a little salt into the flour, enough milk— about two oups—to make soft dough. Roll out into a beet a quarter ef an inch thiok. Stew leaving a narrow margin at the sides, with sound blackberries sprinkled with sugar, Rall tightly. Sew up with a "felled seam, in a cloth leaving ream for swelling. Pat into a pot of boiling water and keep at the boil for an hour and a quar- ter. Dip the cloth in cold water to loosen it, and turn eut, Eat oeld with hard lance, PEACH LEOHE•CREMA, — Twelve rips peaches, pared, stoned, and out in halves ; three eggs and the whites of two mere, one- half Sup of powdered sugar, two tablespoon- fuls ef corn-staroh wet in cold milk, one table:poonfn). melted butter, one pint of milk. Scald the milk, stir in the corn- starch, and when it begins to thicken take from the fire and put in the butter. When lukewarm whip in the beaten yolks until all are very light. Put a think substratum of peaohes into a dish, stew with sugar, and pour the creamy compound ever them. Bake in a quick oven ten minutes and spread with a meringue made of five whites whip - ed stiff with a little powderd sugar. shut the even door until this is firm, Eat cold with Dream, Poverty progreaaed arithmotioalle, When a. man meets with reverses, he advertised hie house "2 Let," When he hi utterlyruined, he advertised it."4 Sale." A o shooked hia teacher, Sunday /school boy , who asked what he bad learned during the week, by the answer that he "learned not t� trump his partnor's floe." A BTRANGF, DOUBLE .MURDER. Thoe b4gaK oetiofFfsrmetr;�fhite andrife qir sweetkeert, A weird dory.- involving tbe orlmiral romance of an old resident of Fairport, N, Y,, hie murder, and tho murder of a 'ingot sod winsome Western girl, le j aet toe an traoting ettentionin Southwestern Missouri, About the middle of May, 1885, there or. rived in Pierce City, in southwestern M s aourl, a middle-aged,, well•dressed man of good addresa and pleasant manners, With him waa a woman modestly but richly dressed. She wag a small woman, falr•oem- plexloned and attractive. They were reg• istered at the Dooatur House as J. J. White and wife of New York, Mr, White told the few with whom he became acquainted. that he Dame West to be a farmer, and In a few weeks he bought William Murphy's farm in Barrie county, six miles south of other. that Me, White and Elle had changed their minds And, gone off to. Springfield to be married, and threatened Dehorney and young leaner with death if they over spoke of th.°,killing..,:.. , , About a week later Dehorney Said he wok olok.and got consent from Clam to go to, Pierce City to see a doctor. There he maw Marshal Chappell, told him of the murder.,: and C.aappel went down to White's pleas and arrested. Olune He is now in rlgmn in Oaesville, the county seat of Barry coup. ty. His trial will takeplane in Septemper. Glum denies emphatically that ho killed White and Dia, and obarges Dehorney with the crime, flaying that Dehorney's motive was revenge for fancied wrongs. l3OMEBODY S FOOT. A Ghastly Discovery near the Terminal city et 'Yoneenver. Faeroe City. It was a comfortable place, One afternoon reoently,.an extraordinary and Mr. White and hie . n oompanlcn w ere ape bisacvex was made byM Woo d, wh o i o ParetlY yor happy.Mr.Wh tc aPPaxed employed at Lame saw l acroarFalse to have plenty of money, He hired the Creek, near Vanoeaver, B. - While walk- ing up the hill, seine 300 et from, the thore of the oresk,•longside a rivulet whioh is quite shallow, he noticed a boot lying on the bank. Perceiving that the boot looked quite new and thinking it strange that it should be in ouch a location, stopped and examined It, It proved to be a miner's boot, siva No. S, Mr. Wood continued hie investigation. took Dumont that his name was S. J. Kelsey, up the boot, and notioing something pro - and that he lived in Fairport, N. Y. He 1 -eating out the top, out into the leather, a to Mr. Whites farm, Hediscovered asked the w and to his ear ti v and horror y P e r � was directed, and went there. In a few that in the boat waa days Mr. White appeared in Pierce City I A NUBIAN voow With the stranger on his arise, and they went Jan advanood stage of d000mpoeltion. He Widow Veneer to do the housework for his wife and her thirteen -year-old eon, Buddy Vassar, to do the shores. A. colored man, Willis Dahomey, was hired to work on the farm. In July a strange: with a G, A, R. medal en his coat arrived in Pierce City en a train from the Emit. He told Watchman J. F. the nitride, Mr. Wbiteintrodncing hie oom- panlon as Edward F. Clem, a brother of Mrs. White. Kelsey, or Clum, visited the Whites six weeks, and then returned to New York State. He came back to Pieroe City acme months afterward and soon it be- came generally known that Ed Clues was going to work the farm in company with trio brother-in-law. Very often Mrs, White had occasion to come to town, and she was iregnently a000mpanied by Clues. One evening in December they called on Dr, E. P. Hansard, and Mrs, White said that her brother waa sink with • chills, He was to leave for the Lot that night, and the Doe ter gave him some medicine. Clem started for the train, and Mrs. White pre- pared to drive to her home in Barrie county, It was after 7 o'clock, very dark, and very wild, and the six miles of road between Pierce City and the White plane was as rough a piece of road as any in the State, Mra, White, however, declined the Dooter's offer or an escort, and pluckily grasped the reins to begin her journey. At that mo- ment Clum appeared with his satchel, and Mrs. White manifested ne surprise when he said he bad changed hie mind about going East. He climbed into the buggy and they started off. A week later Cram name to Pierce City alone and took the Vain East. Dr. Hansard remembered the little Inci- dent of that osld December night, two month a after Mrs. White had died from a oanceroue sore on her knee and over indulgence in opium eating, which waa enly known te the Doctor, Mr. White, and sweet-faced Ella Bowe, the seventeen -year-old daughter of a neighboring farmer. Ella had consented to become a companion to Mrs, White in her sickness, and she remained in the house with the WidowVassar after Mrs. White's death. Mr. White had become attached to her, and Ed Clum notified this when he came back to the White place about a month later. Ella was pleasant with Clum, but she had taken an unaccountable aversion to him. She lik- ed Mr. White, and when, a few months lat- ter, Mr. White asked her to became hie wife, she said that she loved him, and would mar- ry him If her father would give his oensent. Mr, White was 42 years old, and Ella's father thought that eke should marry a 1 o.inger man, but finally offered no objec- tion to Ella's choice. So they were engaged. Her father, in speaking of the conversation be had with Ella at the time says : Ella told me of White's goodness to Mrs. White during her illness and at the same time told me of Clum's advances to her and her aversion for him. I thought this some- what strange, as I had conceived tho idea that she favored Clum, she waa considerably younger, and although I had seen him only twice I thought him the ene Ella would be more likely te fancy. She told me that only a short time previous he had asked her,to show him where Lottie (meaning Mra. White) was buried. She went te the ceme- tery with him, and was ooneiderably aston- ished at his actions, He Dried, and stand- ing over the grave called her " darling Lot- tie," and said ether affectionate things. She, however, remembered the dead woman was his sister. Ella returned to her father's hone, and it was arranged that the marriage between her and Mr. White should take place en Aug 1. in St. John's Church, Pierce City, On July 6 White oalled at Mr. Bowe's house, and asked Ella to come over to his plane and superintend the panning ef some fruit. Mr. Bowe never saw her alive again. Ella and White were murdered en July 8, and Willis Deborney and Buddy Tamar swear that Ed Olum killed them. Dehorney swears that he and the Vassar boy were en a wagon in White's hay field, and White and Ella were sitting behind a knoll a short distance item where they wore working. A clump of brush hid the lovers. Ed Clum came along with a double-barrelled shot gun over hie shoulder, and, seeing De- horney, ordered him to drive' up. Dehorney says His Reasonfor Quitting. "I am going to quit smoking cigarettes," said a young man who has led more than one german in St. Paul. f/ What's the mat- ter t" I asked. " Well," he responded, " tt isn't because We a vile habit that is go- ing to carry me down to an early grave, or anything of that cort, Oce placed me, or rather a young lady, In a very embarrassing position. There is a pertain charming young lady on St. Anthony Hill whom I should' like very much to make my wife, and I knew she feels as I do. But I am not yet able to support a wife, so I have never said a word to the young lady's parents. Well, the other evening she and I took a stroll. It was about 9:30 when we returned to the house, so I did not go in. We stood chat- ting a few minutes and I lighted a cigarette. When she went into the house I, of course, kissed her good -night. Well, without giv- ing it a thought she went in, bade her me- ther good night, and kiased her also. The old lady immediately detected the odor of the oigarette on her daughter's lips, and questioned her about it. The poor girl either had to acknowledge that I killed her or that ehe smoked a cigarette. When the young lady told me about it I had not the courage to ask her what course she chose. Now you know why cigarettes` and I will be strangers in the future." Chapels for the Queen.' The Queen has recently fitted up a private chapel at Osborne, for use when it is inoon- venient to attend - service at Whippingham o$uroii, and above the altar three new pic- tures by Sir Noel Paton, whioh he painted by Her M. jesty'a command, are to be planed. The centre fa to be filled by a work entitled VIgilate et Orate, which depicts Christ in the garden finding the three disulples asleep, side aro to hang the Good Shep- herdon each g p herd and the Men of Sorrows, these ewe be - Ing replioaa of larger pictures by the same distinguished artist. Her Majesty is about to build a small private chapel at Balmoral, but as lt is to be arranged only for Presby. terian " worshi ," the interior will be per- fectly lain, Workmen have been foreeme time oeon led at Glengeldor quarries in hew- ing stone for this structure, the erection of whtdh hal been contemplated for more than twenty yearn pant. When It is finished Cathie Church will emelt to be the great Seatre of attraction on 'Sabbath to the touriste at Braemar, am' the royalties will then perform their devotion in the comfor- table privaoy of Balmoral, oarrfed the boot into Lamoy'e oamp, where a number of men are engaged In putting up at new naw mill, The spot where the beet was di.00vered is oloae to the trail whioh leads to English Bay. The boot with its ghastly remains was shown to a re- porter by the Chief ef police, On pushing amide the leather, the foot, which has been severed from the leg just below the ankle, is plainly apparent, its shape being perfootly natural, A portion of the leg is attached to it, On examining the boot carefully, market of wild animals' teeth eau be seen, the crea- ture having evidently fastened its teeth in the leabherand attempted to draw out the romaine. The boot, however, proved too muoh for the animal, the leather being toe new and sound for its teeth to get through. The Cnief spent several hours the ether afternoon and evening in the locality where the boot was tenni, hoping that same light might be thrown upen the mystery, which at present bafis all explanation. Whether a diabolical murder has been committed Is not known. The man may have been camp- ing out in the woods at night time and been attacked by a wild beast while asleep. The neighborhood around where the discovery was made is very lonely, and the ones of =yes= being murdered or attacked would not roach the ears of human beings. Cou- gars and bears are quite common In the lo- cality of the disoevery, and within the past month AN IMMENSE COUGAR was ebeerved by some, loggers reaming around. From the sippeat'i,noe of the loather and the decayed condition of the flash, the Chief is of the opinion that the boot has been exposed to the air for about two or three months, though it is very diffi- cult to form any very decided opinion on the anbjaot, Tho Chief will continue his investigations to -day, and will make every effort to rift the matter, so that some feed- bie theory of the strange diaoovery may be formed. The neighborhood is a very terri- ble one 'evidently, as within the present month two dead bodies have been picked up near the locality of this latest" find" whioh is thought by many to be the poet extraor- dinary in the annals ef tha.eefr. The boot was hung up in the tent on Water street and no one, judging from its euteide appearance, could have the least idea that its interior contained the only remnants known to exist of a terrible murder or a terrible death, I drove up within fifty feet of the knoll, when I turned, just in time to see Ed Clum as he stepped probably two atop' down a little pats toward the couple. As he slipped toward them he threw up his gun, and at the same time I heard the click 1 click 1 that said plainly that he 000ked both barrels. As the gun name down to a level he fired both barrels. I was sitting on top the wag. en load of straw. I had stopped the team and eat paralyzed with horror,, as 'I saw the gun was pointed directly at Mr. White and Mies Ella. He brought the gun this way (imitating the act) "broke" it, put in two fresh cartridges, again threw it up, and again fired both barrels, Again he " broke" the gun adid reloaded it, at the same time wheeling Equate round so that he faced me. Again bringing the gun to his shoulder he severed me and shouted, net very loud, but to a voice that sounded like a terrible sem- mand to me, " Willie, drive ' that wagon here," I had to mind him, I couldn't have helped it if I'd known he was going to kill me. As I drove up he said : "Right down the bank here." and as he gave orders I obeyed him until I had the wagon down on a little level, and the two bodies lay right by the front wheel, The lady waa lying face downward, all doubled up, and 'White was on his bank atretohed out. I could see a great batch of blood that looked like the upper part,of Mr. White's head was thot off, I ease all this in a minute, and the thought flashed through my head that the lady must have been shot in the book, and Mr, White must have jttnzped up and wheeled around, .1t midnight, according to Dohorney'b story, Clum compelled nim to rapist in bury- ing the mutilated bodies in a ditch in the farm. Clum told the Widow Vassar and PIOUS SMILES. " Oh 1 if my creditors were only like, my sine," exclaimed Mr. Brown to his wife. "Because my creditors oall and oat= me every day, but my eine always find me eat," A Massachusetts camper has seen the ilea serpent,` and says that he watched it for a long time " glean in band." Undoubtedly ; this le about the only way a sight of the sea serpent can be enjoyed. " Now, little boy, what the meaning of the word hypocrisy 2" asked a Sunday school teacher of her favorite pupil. " I can't explain what it is, but I know it all the same," " Give me an example of by- pooriey." "When a fellow says he loves his Sunday-aohool teaoher, That's hypos- risy." Young Man—What is your charge, Mr. Payson, for tying the knot ! Minister—Oh, we'll call it $10. Young Man—I oan get better figures from Mr. Byron. Minis- ter—Well, it's against my principles to en- ter into competition with any brother of the cloth, but en this occasion I'll do it at Bro- ther Byron's figures. But let it be a cash transaotien. Fm tired of doing this kind of thing en time. A little girl who had been told that when it was thundering it was God talking was out en the lawn one day playing with her dolls. Her mother, seeing a storm coming up, called to little Aliso to hurry and oeme in. She began picking up her playtbinga, but before she got them all it thundered, when she exolabneda "Oh, Dori, don't raise such a fuse and aoold se. I'm hurry- ing fns' as I oan." A Scriptural Panorama—The defilar leoturer to the anorama beingill, to as- sistant behind the scenes, a Hibernian, offi• slated in that capacity one night. Lectur- er . This mein' some, gintlemen and la- dies, represints Daniel in the lions' don. This is Daniel betwixt the liens." Auditor: "Be them wild liens or circus lions !" Leo - tares, : "I pity the ignorance of the likes of yez, sox. This was 3, C,—before oirouses." A mite of less than five summers, who was playing in the yard and observing tho works of nature, surprised her father the other day with the following questions and original oonolaalons "Papa, does God make the <worms Y" " Yes, daughter." "Pa, deep God make the hopper toad to oat the worms up 1' "1 'spots° so." " Well I should like to know what; He bothered Hid head with the worms for if He had to make the hopper toad to eat ^ them 1"' Her father did not attempt to unravel this juv- enile puzzle. At a baby's funeral the family gathered about the little open grave, and eaoh ono dropped into it a sweet, fragrant snowy bloaaem, the last souvenir of earthly of love, All but one. When it name to the youngest, a little girl of a few aummars, to Part with her precious flower she held it tightly in her bleeped hands, as if ;defying anyone to take it from her. "Give is with the rest," urged her father gently, " Mamma had toive uphers," "Oh but mamma gave het Powr to {slob " lisped the child istantly.:.' ' P