The Exeter Times, 1888-12-20, Page 2"THROUGH GOOD AND1LLA
OLIVER SRANDQNS STORY.
By NOXA LATYCWER,
„
Mar bre v Parma BY Sonnows
Whom,' When ode would he creel,
Do they fpger A etare ? Where
Plane thortm, eet p like a jewel?
Ah, net in the fie , not there 1
The racket of eerth and the rods
• Are weak as foam on the sands,
In the heart is the Key for the lode
,
Who oruoify hearts, nee hands."
ThatChristmas Day when the church bells
were ringing merrily aoroes the nowI, was
conveyed to the gaol at MontreaL
Soon after ney arrival I was marched,
and to ray horror and daily:ay an Indian °leap
set with diamonds- of immenite value was
found "ognelared in the inner lining cif my
et book and atria's% I recognized.' " be"
girig to my Uncle Brandon. Again and
again i protested- that I omnd nets Imagine
hew it came intoany possession which only
met with a derisive. smile.
How did the Indian clasp become seareted
iiarearpossesision? Alas, how helpless I wart
ito unravel the diabolical mystery I
The jestice TOOM Was crowded the morn-
ing of my examination, for my position ea a
Canadian artist and being so well known
when a boy in Montrealexcited an extraor-
dinary and painful interest.. I felt calm and
oolleoted Mame, but later on 1 wso com-
pletely • dumbfounded when I saw the de-
tective Day downean opal ring 'which he
stated had also been found in my possessions--
secretedin my small valise—and which I
instantly recognised as a ring my Uncle fre-
quently wore.
• There stood, Gervase Lerhue, lsis thin
cadaverous face turned towards me, his
hands folded placidly. Being sworn upon
ids oath, he teetified ateto the loud quarrel be-
tween bit; master and myself anddeclared the
Indian clasp and the opal ring to.have ,been
the property of his late master Mr. Mums -
duke Brandon. A smothered groan indicate
bag the sort° w and ind ignatim he felt escapea
from Jetta 'twine. Ire, with Clifford Fair-
fax had keenly watched thee production of
the stolen peoperty and breathlessly li, tined
to Lerhue's damnableevidence against me
I. knew full well whatever came they woul'd
not believe me guilty.
All appearances eivere, however, against me;
whatever I said had no power to move the
bench. The magistrates agreed that sea-
oient:evidence had been adduced against' me
to fullyawarrant them in committing me for
With the vile brand of murder uteri me I
was removed to the celL -
The bitter black months that an atilt, -
cent man, stiffered in the ,gaol at a/entreat
'dragged along drearily. ,Not hopelessly,
however; for Gladys Weald 001310 asfre-
quently as she couldto cheer, me generally
akcompanied by her mother or sister who
for the time had taken up their abode at
lationtavaL ' My greatest grief was to see the
sorrowful look creeping into Gledyie beauti-
ful face, the mournful o'ershadowing of
.r
. u eoronto, again
and again re -visiting my landlady, Mrs.
Gibson. Mr. Haynies was a clever, clear
eighted man who never let the grass grow
under his feee and he was working his
hardest in my behalf. john. Irvine had
offered ten thousand dollars reward for the
capture of the guilty person hapersons, bat
no notice whatever had been taken of it,
Ilthough the detective., and police officers
were doing their utmost, yet in my heart I
knew they all believed me guilty. I felt
that not one man outside my own friends—
except one of the wesdere a man named
Brown who -ofben spoke kindly to nie—but
what believed me to be the perpetrator of
that dastardly and cruel deed. ,
Semetimes for hours I would console my-
self that surety in this land of justice they
could not bring me in guilty. Irvine an
Fairfax did not suppose for one moment that
they would do so.
They knew me to be innocent. But alas 1
to others the strong proof of my guilt 'seem-
ed too overwhelming to ado& of dispute.
Otten in my solitude it was most pleasant
o me to recall as I last saw it the glori-
ous scenery around Fergus and to in -
agitate once more the majestic rushing of the
waters in the beautiful ravine below Elora.
Often did I think of the dear old Irvineside
homestead and reoall some of the golden
hours' spent there. There was something
particularly refreshing and grateful in these
recollections, for thoughts and associations
were time called forth ele rating and tran-
quillising in their character—which, God
knows I sorely needed.
At Other times, in the night most of all,
some devil would rise up in my heart filling
it full of evil, and in those hours of darkness
I felt hardly answerable for what I did. At
such times I would walk round and round
irry prison room, far mors. resembling same
frantic caged wild beset, than a sane he.
man being: I would listen to the clock
slowly etatkieg • the dreggiag hours until,
thoroughly wearied with pacing up and
dewy, I would fall down upon my mattrass
and aleep the merciful sleep of forgetful.
nese. •It was generally in the dead of night
that this kind of feelings came over Me.
At first, being acenetomed to an active life
could not get aufficiently tired to eleep at
In the morning I would listen to the
numerous bells calling people to matins
and prayer. I could hear too, the twitter-
ing of sparrows shove irly casement through
which this pale sunshine would eometitnee
out 1ttle rays upon the floor. / eoula hear,
too, the distant sound of the sleigh -bells along
the road, sometimes --and oh, hew eagerly I
listhned---the merry happy laugh of the
poet -floral little children mingling with the
Loud bark of theft pet dog, he was a collie, I
had leen him °DCA; one day I heard them
calling him what sounded to my OSTS like
"Ehinoneethe name of Gladyts' dog—Ah!
what feelinge did thatmeme bring to me, the
rernenabrance of one lovely Winter eaenta.
g.
Oh, God, how long ago it seemed, when the
very wintre wind wm laden with love end
happintea And I telt then that I would
give all T Ocisemed in the maid; yea; / would
even barter lieeilen itself for but one boat's
freedom to be out in the bright, keen air
With Gladys inittecid of being immured in
that living ptison-septilchre.
Generally claritig the day them I felt cheer-
fitl emit would read or write for boom, for I
eould bot heliete, toy, I Would not believe
a theft should have to Natalie there tonah
\ longer.
Attgas atolroyd With true friendship spent
is 'Niel holiday; at Montreal endeeoadur_
g to cheer nib 05 meek as poesible. Felt. •
tee, took up Ilia abode se.the WhicittOr ly tale'
taalliblierMIANIMIlliirtifeei9
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1 phial and peering a feS'Y drePs a datk GerVese farina@ was dying and lied oon-
liquid into hie hand t which he rubbed feeeed to the murder of his old !neater, lied
well over my foo, neat Bad band% Eitaieing mede a depositielt to the effect that he hint.,
them the complexion of bie OPAL T11011 put- eelf,disgunied like hiemaster, had journeyed
ting on a falee brown beard lee had in from Montreal to Toronto from where he
readiness he la the dim light reeembled had takea my pistol with which he devilishly
Olivet- Brandon in no 00141 degree,. planned to lay a fearful crime opon me,
"Now go," said he, warmly shaking my Further oonfessing to heving hidden the
herid, then hastily istaffieg the tin Ten and Inaiau ,lap in the liaing of my pocket book
serape of hair into my pockets, "for la her and to having placed the opal ring in bo.
the jaoler coming, I must throw Myself tweet' the leathern oover of my valise while
face downwards upon the bed, for he will I lay asleep at my Cattle's house at Mont.
mot likely have a lamp with him. Wha en .
ever you do, Brandon, don't run. You will The happy Christmes bells were ringing
, find .Teatic Wetting, for you in a aleigh not their ;marl blessing of, "Peace on earth,"
very fir from the vvestkorner of the jaol." frora many a ' ohurch tower as Jack and I
He flung himself d,owh npon the hard thet evening drove item , Guelph through
maftraes. Oh. little did I think that X, beautiful fordantio Elora to Irvineside. The
tammace and maple truce -ritiaa hakily out
in the bright -moonlight as we named home:
The dear old Irvinesicle homeitead, deer
myaong„and wretched abserce, looked ,most
divinely lovely to me in its peaceful winter
enow-deess. The ioioles hung in lengthy
fringes from the quaintly carvedand gabled
porch, where Gladys, regardlees of the cold,
run, but I walked fast over 'the still snow- notth wind was waiting to welcome me. As
oavered ground and found 'look Irvine I 'obeyed her close, came to my happy throb -
awaiting me in a sleigh on, the road.bing heart, I asked, "My darling, you bellev-
,
. "Jump up, Brandon, said he excitedly,
"Creat Scott! I feared it was Clifford come,
back. You are as alike as two peas. ' Hue•
ry up, I must drive like the very devil or We
shall miss the train and ,all will be lost."
It was dusk, but not
Jack drove et a tariff° iiptleol, the harsto.
fairly flew over the Mow.
We were only juet in time to board the
train for New York. What an eternita' [THE MTD]
seemedahat journey to both of us.
We hastened to elle of the largest hote 9
on Broadway, where Jack unpaoked it sm
valise he had brought' ,With him containing
,sacomplete dismdse forme, consisting of a
'snit of clothes for an elderly :gentleman
a grey Wig,beard and thoustach.e and huge
•pair of foreign-aooking speote,elea. T Array-
ed myself' with them, standing up a veil
-
table (webby reeking, professor -like old
end almost every day would amid me a
plentiful supply of newspapere and litera-
ture. '
The twentieth of March, the day of the
trial, came at lest. I must as over the
crowded court, theasea of facers looking so
pitiably at me. , I must not, etay to give
the damnable evidence of Gerease Lerhue,
rendered, with a saint.like hypocritical ex-
pression of hi 's oadavexous featoree, nor the
corresponding evidence of his deaf old wife,
Annette 1
, Poor Mre. Gibson, afraid a e should say
anything to 1111CM Me maintain d an elmose
'obstinate silence. They could t little froni
her except that upon a aertai date an old
gentleman purporting to hitjourneyed
from Montreal, called at her h ee on ja.vis
c;
btreet,""rcironto, and that eh believed he
18,0010...MC. Oliver Brandon's p tol to sheet
• himself with.
The ides, of sitioide wasnot entertains
by the medical witnemes and , re. Gilison'a
evidence was treated with ever sign of un.
hellaia as though it was morel concocted
to eiefte iny release.
Clifford Fairfax's facie grew ery grave,
and soon I missed hi.n from th court.,
Hour by hbur as the day ypro on I fel
there was no chance for me. he,very faot
of the pistol being mine an the Indian
clasp and opal ring being fountl in my pore
Boston damned mentterly.
' Jack Irvine's Massive figure owered nigh
above the others, I saw that he contd. hardly
control himself as Gerrase Lerhue gave his
lying evidence. And I, clod alone DHOWS
what I endured, but it was for Gladys' sake
that I, to outward appeerance sat as calm.
as any ordinary speoteitora could have
My counsellor pleaded long and earnestly
fer me as few can plead, but never who guilt
brought home to an innocent Menlo cilearly
and conclusively. ,
The jury, after retiring about twenty
minutes, which. seemed to naelike aa many
hours, found me guilty of wilier murder.
As if in a dream lneard the ledge speak,
heard women Bab convulsively, and heard
men evhieper words of compassion.
Olie list thought of gladye, then a rush-
ing aa of water come to my ears and a
film passed before my eyes. Jack Irvine
regardless of police iaterference, aptang to
wards me and I remember no more.
I suppose that I had fainted, for I found
myself lying upon my mattress in the cell
where Irvine and the warder had carried
me. The man more, fancier -hearted than
most warders, was 'catiite t,onched by the
look on poor Tick's and facebent down and
• whispered fo me "you must try and 'keep
• lap your spirita, sir, don't give,way like this.",
About hall an hour afterwards I WWI still
lying in the same position in a kind Of leth-
argy, too weak ,or too miserable to move',
when I heard yokes outside the door Which
I:immediately recognised math° gaoler's and
Clifford. Fairfamea.
should never again clasp the kind haled,
never again look into the true' dad nobla.
fuse of Clifford Fairfax.
"Time is up, Dr. Fairfax, I guess I will
get blamed for letting you stay so longaa
said,* jaoler, hurrying me oub o the cell
and enross the prieou yard.
I remembered Fairfax's advice not to
ed and trusted in rae always! ; tit auppose
,you had thought me guilty of that awful
deed. You would have left me then, my
Gladys?"
And 103 she needed in my arma she whis-
pered " Oliver, my dearest, I have never
doubted y,on foveae° moment, to do so,would
have broken my heart for I should still have
loved you the same through good and ill."
• Wilful Oupid. '
Caroline, the eldettb and perhaps the most
beautiful of the daughters of the Duke
Maximilian in Bavaria, was, while still a
child, selected au a fitting bride for the heir
of tiae Austrian crown, and although there
Was no formal betrothal her father Was in-
fOrmed that she must be -educated in such
a way as would. fit her for her future grand -
Irvin°, after giving a few inartlatiee mire This was more easily said than 'done,
pulbs and touohes, buret out laughing. foiuhe dowel palace';
"Well, upon my word, Oliver, Ciladas but moneyethewweoar ar
esaPigga:, erotineae 'duke eine:
herself would not 'know you from Abate self to the youngest child, seem to have
ham, But who the deuce Mall you
call yourself), and where snail you go ?” thrOwn themselves con amore into the work,
and to have cheerfiily economized for the
• " Iguese I had better make for Angus
Holroyd's on Weller 21st Street ; he will ad. sake of the forteinate Caroline. She had
Teofeesois and teachers of the best, and she
vim me whet. to do. 1 scarcely imagine it
wdl be safe for me to be &thole." well repaid all the care that was lavished
• Irvine left me as I rang the bell of Hol- upon her, tor at 19, clever, accomplished,
reyd,e anew. The door was opened to me and regally beautiful, she was the very ideal
by bin detor idiaieent, a foie, gentle of whet a qaeen should be.
girl, and an artist herself of no m,ean When the time for the marriage drewnear
ability. '' ,... the young Emperor Joseph came on a visit
May I see Mr. Honiroya," I ask4hl is to the Duke in Bavaria (the family title is
crabbed, shaky voioe. " inaanot "of,"( that he •might make the
"My brother's name is Holroyd, sir, not aegarldotorree ef him future wife. Re gazed
a
Homroyd," she explained, "will you walk at the tatelycreature who had been so
into the studio ?' , .., , carefully trained for him with retspeotful
„eyes, 1 hope be wee% keep me wait_ admiration, but he fell violently in love
ing long," I said disagreeably as she lefb with her =doily younger dater Ellzab'eth,
the room. When alone I fell back an the who, regarded in the family as a mere child,
'old familiararm chair and laughed immoder- and one, too, fer whom no high destiny
ately .to 'think that Millie Holroyd did was in dare' had been allowed to pass her
• not recogniseme. • days on horsebook scouring the country side.
"1 wish to look at some paintings, Mr. Ministers and courtiers stood aghast, but
be
HoMeoyd," I asked as .Anglis entered the argument and persuasion were alike wasd
stud'ib, "now, what do you ask for this on the Emperor, who refused toare that a
little w ter -color. Canadian, hs it not?" look of elocomplishme.nte was a blemish in
It is the Rosedale Ravine, near the one wheal he laved,' :and a fay' 'maths
a• but unfortunately it fa- not for sale. later Elizabeth, thorough child as she was,
knowing no more of tie° etiquette of courts
than the veriest little gamin, entered Vienna
4a-151aafir in slate weaEmpresis of Austria and Qeeen of
gari."'" -
• wno sick, professionally:Orme-9
open the door and let me in."
The gaoler knew that the young army
doctor WAS a friend, of the governor's, and,
moreover, believing whathe finally,thre w
open the door but not without some little
grumbling.
"Oh I never fear, Sutton, its all right,
I shall be here about half an hour. Now,
don't alarm yourself, the governor is aware
I am going to stay so long." ,
Sutton's fake brightened, for he knew the
governor was engaged in entertaining friends
at his house.
" Then, while you are here, Doctor Fair.
fax, I'll just run off and speak to my wife I
have'nt lied time to speak to her all day."
" Dr. Fairer is all right, I guess," he mule
tered to himself as he looked the heavy cell
door behind Clifford.
CHAPTER VL—Dreecre Domust.
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LATEST BY CABLQE.
Lord Salisbury's Ernfortunate
Exoited.—The Suakin 'Trouble A Dip-
lomatic Victory,
It will not be surprising if the most Me
portant event in the week'a history proves
bo bathe stray, half -hamorous, and i p ad vier ten
remark in Lord Salisbury's speeoh at Min.
burgh. He was speaking of the recent
bornhy-eleetion, and contemptuously referred
to the Liberal candidate in that division • in
1886 as A t black man.' Ib happens that
the gentlernau referred be, the Hon, Dm%
fatal Na,oroji , is a wealthy and learned
Paegeee, who has green prominent in Indict
polities and public life for a, long time. He
was president of the reoent Indian National
Congress and is the most distinguished and
cultivated of all the native gentlemen who
have Yet 003ne tO Eoglan4 to reside. This
foolish reference has created great excite-
ment throughout India, and even the Gov-
erne:tent organs .ameng the anglo-Indian
press are driven to characterize it as an
'inexplicable and inoredible blunder. Many
cabled demands -for =explanation and a con-
eradietion hearealreAdy come from Borabay.
The.Yast Indian Empire waweauvulsed with
a terrible war only thirty yearsago over A
Men question involving greased cartridges.
Bince that titbit there have been eduoetional ad-
vancements in India not equaled in any other
part of the globe, and of late the existence
of If. large class of astute and devoted native
politicians, who adopt a critioel attitude. to-
ward the &tell& rule, has made the prob-
lem of governing India increasingly diffieult
and delioete. Lord Salialmetas gibe will .do
!nom mischief throughout India than Lord
-Lansdowne will be able to -repair during his
whole term as Viceroy, and those here who
kitOiv the °Pantry hest say it is the most un-
fortunate thing thab has happened to Bug.
landLin a generation.
• Everybody: is talking about the coming
battle outside of Suakin. Apperently it is
certain to be fought very soon anl equally
certain that it will be a hot and desperate
fight, with heavy losses and an entirely
problematical result. In either event the
next session of Parliament will have to face
the neceinfity of a Soudan expedition unless
it is prepared to abandon the Red Sea lit-
toral altogether, for this approaching con-
flict oan be decisive of nothing. If the gar-
rison are defeated and badly handled in
their sortie, of mules Eugland will be com-
mitted to immediate operations. If, on the
other hand, Osman Digma is driven out of
his trenches he will simply retire to the
Ipothille, where the enemy cannot folio*
him, and gather his energies for a renewal of
the siege at his leisure.
England has just scored a diplomatic
victory, which (Menges .elie complexion of
r notaing Would tempt ha in:tka a hongh this Appeared mtre an sat y
for it was not pis own work but om
the pencil of a beautiful Toronto girl, w Oak Years ago she has not yet learned to sub"'t
with patience to the lira* - . nu
me lista toat hedge
"Igtiess nothing upon earth would tempt
he hoped to make his wife. , in the lives Of sovereigns, and the Viennese,
• spite of their love for their' b a . f '
e nti ul Em.
me to part with that littleaketoh, sir. / am press, openly mourn that the Em
peror
very sorry to diea oi t ." •80Uld have chosek one who regards a court
"Well, look here, say $1000 for it." ball as a penance ancl w state ceremony as a
“Nothing yen cdeld Offer me would in- thing scarcely to Le lived through. From
duce me to part with it, sir," said he °oldie,. the day of her marriage it seems to he
. "Then young man," saicI, severely peer. beeni a constant endeavour to shake off tire
ing ea um, through my, emus, st 1 ,gliebs pfeiestbetrahooufrhseorfehtaetirolifne," anaredgorseharhitheh hap.
youNew Yorkers must have more money
ile
than sense," and throwing off my hat, wig tollowmg the hounds of Englarad, pr glinting
and spectaoles I burst into a fit of laughter the ohamois in her native land, she is able
at Angus" Horroyd's astonishment and de. to forget that she is EmPree9 Queen' For
light. , • her age the Empress Elizebeth is the Holroydyoung-
w op is little weak vein; est looking woman in Europe. When one
cape over-tmued a Venus aud a Niche off her slight,. graceful form, eyea brilliant
their pedestals, embraced me like a French- Iwial life mud vigour, and complexion that
meat or A schoolboy, overturning ahnost finebee with Paea einntinna' i° Einem°
everything in the studio • ia• • 'sura h
a y a m
escape, until his sister 'fearing, he, was d
eaj
ing. with a lunatic by the commotion= We oc-
pawned burst into theroom.
It was arranged that for the present I
should live in a small Mom at the top of the
house, lighted by a skylight in the centre of
As the gaoler looked the messive door be. the roof and having no -entrance except
through the studio, whioh entrance Angus
cleverly barred by a large picture.
In mi. few' days time We learnt of Clittird
Fairfax's escape. Ile had heavily bribed' one .
of the French warders, thereby escaping to The,Game•Dinner...
Egypt, 'where his regiment wars then station-
ed. - The annual game dinner at the 'Grand
Nine long, weary111011 the weal a prisoner in Pacific) Hotel, given by Drake, Parker & Co.,
thelittleatticroom, never'going out, never see- the proprietors, to their friends is one Of the
• ing any one but Holroyd and his sister. . Only events for Novembee in Chicago. Great
hearing tidings c f Gla'dys or Jack through the prettrations are made and the thirty-third
yersonal column of the daily papers. Lea. of i s series, which took Place lest Saturday
tem were out of the queetion, for detectives, preceding one.
evening, was equal, if nob superior, to any
were • continually on the alert and. jarge
cent and Angus Holroydewho.tendedrie un- year he has endeavored to furnish new
Hous, gas ineoe Ddineoane4rlorininr.S111,h5annaBd"ehDaoui'hua iksdue loge e eraevu led ui nhul agt
rewards were offered for my appreheneltaa.
I ,oan never "forget the kindness of 'Milli-
seasingly. Often I was capricious anol un-, 0T, he last one c t • ,ly as
an
'thairkf tre growing woar5, of thy ins bto i n h erefenadao(d4iae by. of -lei
• I, 3 .0 4 !ti 0 fn lia ce ri Irb let' 2 83:: ea o' ';ht ?weal:ion!
.1netino% snmmer days plumed drearila dn' and anrt Smnuel W. Parker were
winter oarne round again. The glistening the heats and the provision made' was most
snow loy thickly upon my attic oct How elaborate and ample. ' The variety of game
I longel for a sight of Gladys and this dear will be , noticed from the menu as follows:
old Italmaide homestead. I was becinining Leg of m9untak sheep, deer tongue, beck
to wish .for death 'rather' than this, barrIsh- taildiar' mountain sheep, saddle of antelope,
rnent, perhaps a whole 'life -time of.orrial
prisonment and wrong. . • i!)1' blaine1411?eVaerlilaW2t 1;01 Ct0f Sat .1)1t1),Iesrilatilne uruulk
It
was 'the day before Chriatmail Eva riladdagi:°I.ellsP emeaadliardduokd,u.cskiigOV'Irhgiaea,ja brPaarertt,
Never in my whole life did I feel so despond- woad' duck, jeck rabbit, iquire?1, butter.,
Stop, Fahfax, for Heaven's sake desist, brought mo the sad news of Clifford' Fair-
ing and ' wretched. The della, pa.pere hid walda?uerkiireitvia,341.!perkipan,41euaes,az,n,gepdlotev:rit,
not, X will net let you de it. " fax's death upon the battle plain, cruelly near, k "einem eteak, fox ecadirred,i Weak
he, rapidly going on shavingtny face^.
on't bother me or I'll cue your throat la shot down by the enemy, whilst miehiteting o'irde , „dim reed iih.ds,, red.wing; starling,
to the dying around him. Ah! Egyptiaet ,,,a,,i4 med. togliefe. bare, Oreamenea
Plitt the milk *meld' he fearful for yoti, sod moo yeo.covered a braver, nobler heart Disks& —Pyramid, of gain() en Bellevtte, estlio
' d. NO,' / 'Cannot let, you." than that of (Weed Faiths*, '
Nonsense, . yen Will' have to, now -we
got so far arid martinet hurry up, too," than I that morning. At mid-dey ,Holroya
No human being ever felt more. w_retelled of nilrdd's,iplialat rer,YpalfuPinaatgtie°, of
di-itvveinr;usrtaartrintZ
s and cloturing theta hinuelf. " Theta
e quickly, stripping off my °abet ger,' aelaiinweittitoh'olymyiestiroo,inn. eIhaareandoinnehdifitoiaCttuthniiite htahaup9.nbeat:rheaLekTrildee?aeceidal, thInhi`un:rentrsi,, Mt'
risk, I tell you. I ant not quite eutee that the hemag, blood -hounds were aged the
son of a on sa to aulamit to be , right track atlase and ma capture might to!3
edinatead of you. Thiry wilt find, otit at any Moment. '• lab] a healthy.Sion of the: times that the
t of their reach "
Vitale in the morning vfhon yon, will ' Daft alotle mY very Habges 00ettled to fir.cliv' *opllig,Inttt1114824pieltn!eurot;,Poermaoru°8 et°. 112- 1
chapati imbibed awakening afterwards to- a *le ea
Lit I am thinking of your rviracur, • gm:my wiTost bordering upon *Aeneas. „ gosed uponfig, them to, maintain ".tuhtlArr aeliAntinterindg.
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' I heard lond voloee, then footatepe Mr- oats that have been gatherea r together
D.In't fear, r ' shall marine all right.
ang the tegintens" aid e half, laugh. conding the starta to my room, ' My brew „en , der ttle Pr ode of P eeronig the Peace.
Seented7upon fire, I felt that 1 vide tepidly The mindertuntbion of the triple' alliance by
Brandon,'" reticle he, eeeing that a was losing my reason, "They shall never telt; ithe, Weakinginen of Milan may be taken we
ng deem agein, "for Glady's sake you Me alive," gr
0 this tiniest Yon, Wish to break het` oh,obward thit°1111Wiaciesinee-IniapYrmarrigdzrerleaseithe there will be a general and cow:Wilted revolt
d_. ein inclioation that in the net , remote fu hire
for she hotself suggested' this way of time 'bureau. a.- , Co
for you. Yon have' no alternetive, it
„It re her' keen Wit you have to thanh, ' 'Teem and modelled uP a Mast lying upon Ilutittbill'erjrag,°afilit!ihtcthweowrI•laisntge,,,°0.1fa9rab°0,a°: olde
' One more seeond all woeld have been over. °ma eY ltPau Milder?' PrePeratoeno ' for mg'.
er eboape new Or death' like a clog." but , the razor was dashed from my. bend If th° Ew'°Pean Pvertliheete °ea be ferded
d bleier her and you, You aro a Not, however, by the deteative: %thorn RI
ellow) Vaitfaxr) El 4 gra4pIng , hi, lt°'°rngLhas,..til.°,,,n fir „Elr.theacilnb„,°,,h4c1,11',i'thihnti bra,,;Iti,,- ment'of clieptftee, a very impqtatit step' will
A A. of international arbiteatien tor the eettle.
to dieband their isrmieti and agree to a hYstom
n t stay let thanke," hald he huttied- eued by the ot
-vv—e ---e-Gace-earea ea—where-4 ae-c-t. eh-0—ft; heve been taken towa,rde the brpaging about
,
eg bona hid• stab pocket a small mediate perdon of Oliver Breeden of th ° r°1-11enufrla4
ed Fairfax he quickly crossed the oell to
, whispering " be quick, jump ripe Brau-
n, am corne to get you out of this infer -
1 hole 1"
"What do you want, Fairfaxr I asked
echanically. "No I am innocent, noth-
th would induce me to fly like a
OD ear
urinal."
"Brandon, don't for Heaven's sake talk
e a fool. Hurry up, man, think," said he
ring me a hard shake "Think, you are
demned to death—to be hanged,like a our,
bi crime you know nothing of. Think of
le Gladys, it would kill her. For God's
e 8,nd her's be a mac; there is no time to
e in foolish arguments." '
Then you Mill believe ht my ihnocenoe,
fforci, "1 faltered, •
'How yOU ask snob a thing? Yon know
t de and I have come to prove it,' Watt
hastily taking some packages from hie
lots.
But what—," I broke down altogether
se.w what he had brought with Jahn, a
•of minors, 0 razor, some soap and a tin
of hob water, with which he commenced
pineeoff nay heard and shaving my face
ly, leaving but the tnoustache like his
Then and not until then did le dawn
me what the noble fellOw Was going•,ro
, e ou d be the grandmother
of big boys And girl's.
Caroline, the forsaken one, seeme to have
met her fate with true rival equanimity.
Perhaps she thought that, as her sistergain-
ed what she lost it did not really matter.
If one may judge by her face, her life nas
not been a happy one. Whain Ethe was
about 2.4 she was married to the ,Prinoe of
Thurm and Taxis, who died some nine years
ater.
hand,
ee
Henry Drummond Wolff, er rose mission ,o
Persia was bitterly attaoked by the Libere la
as a sinecure and a partisan job, has succeed-
ed in getting Persie to ;give a lot of valuable
trading privileges to the English and to corn.
mercially boycott the Russians. The impor-
tance'of this will be recognized when it is
reinembered that Pereia is the real gamo at
whioh the Russians havebeen aiming through
all their feints on the Afghan frontier. l'he
Russian papers have gone into a freezg of
• rage at this' untoward developtnent, d ars
talking more excitedly against Eogland than
they have done before skate the Penjdeh
incident. Official dispatches from Bt.
Petersburg to -day recognize that the old
Anglo Russian difficulty is reopened in a
new and threatening direotionaand deplore
the fact in language which is taken to mean
that Germany will seize the opportnnity to
disarm France and make herself znaster of
Euro
• May Women Propose?
Bill Nye writes the following letter on t
subject :—
g• r do not see why woman should n
propose if shoe° elect, arid then suffer t
bitter, bitter consequence. Many men w
now live on unloved and in a hand -to -mon
manner might be, oh", so happy 111 the on
of popping did not weigh them down like
large three -cornered incubus.
" I am a,c'euainted with several husband
who have been thus acquired, and I a
happy to say. thay are turning out wel
Several of them who were not self-suppor
ing to start with have matried well, havin
been wooed and won by girla of means
Yours truly, Bret, NYE,
"P, S.—I am provided for myself.
P' 8. Again—Mr. James White=
Riley, who, as I write, is brushing his hair
with a dummy 'brush which I carry with
me, says he trusts that the day will speeclily
come when woman will propose, and he
hopes he will be away usv
p toards the
geateraldelivery wiadow when the office
Opens. Some good 'woman mold flake sr
Riley very, very happy. Anyi ettera eat to
him Ali my care will be cheerfully easel `and
forwarded to him. • B. V."
If Mr. Nye's letiter does nob encourage
some girl who thinks "-bitter, bitter conse-
quence" ie not any bitterer because of her
doing the proposing to utilise her very abort
time to VeiceiVet an engagement ring for a
Christmas present,•1 can't see what will.
Mr. Nye's marriage oertificate amine to
hover arbund his first "P.. S."' like bumble-
bees aroand clover, lent there is a chande
for some good woman with Mr. Riley. For
those who have not seen him I coat vouch
for him. He is is handsome and a genial
geetionan.—Nara,zn BLY, in N. Y. World.
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A DESPERADO DOGGED.
and winalay captured by two Taming
'Wescott Yes.
A despatch from West Virginia to the
New York Herald gives the following account
of the eepture of another member of the no-
torious Hatfield gang of murderers.
Another of the murderous Hatfield gang
has been dragged in manacles from the rough
mountains, where the desperadoes have so
long defied the law and slaughtered as they
ohoae_
The bloody border wer Met has etrewn
the shores of the Tug River with graves is
tieing rapidly brought to a close by the
iron nerved detectives who wee „prowling
through the great wildernese t,o& which law
has so long been a etranger.
It takes is man with a lion'e heart to go
into the 'strongholds of the Hatfield@ 110W.
Beery trail twer the taounteine or along the
creeks leading to the Hatfield settletteent is
pioketed by ambushed tuurdererssivint would
kill without mercy any man they suspeoted,
Theee detectivesare going through experi-
ences en& as one reads of in dime novae.
It seems hard for a man who heara their
tales to believe that such things Oan be in a
oiviliz ad land, •
Ellison Hatfield, alias gel:tuts, the brute
who was captured after a desperate strutorle
In the mountains With Detectives, Gibson
and Cunningham about three weeks ago,
made a full confession., He imPlioated
Alexander Plessey as one of the elayers of
the McCoy Ina's, who' were shot to death
in Attgast five years ago by a metoiless tri -
beam of the woods heeded by "Devil Anoe"
Hatfield.
Messer is known as •one of the Mast des-
perate ruffians on the border and was a con-
spicmotts fighre in Breathitt °entity trouble
in Kentucky a, few y011TO age. It is said
that he killed five or six men in that ootinty
and boasted that he had killed twenttaisix
men since the War. •,
So frightful were the deeds of this man
that he was feared even by the Matilda, to
whom the shedding of blood is common-
place. Governor Buckner, of Kentucky,
offered a reward of $850 for Messees body,
and Gibion and Cunningham have been on
his traok night and day smoe they captured
Ellison Hatfield. As he had left the Hatfield
settlement soon after the murder of the Mc-
Coy boys, fearing the vengearme that Ken-
tucky would wreakethe two detectives found
it hard to locate him. It is worth a metre
life to ask too many questions or to pry
around too much in the region where they
had to go.
Finally they struck the desperado'a trail
and learned that he was living in a log hut,
on Ugly Creek, in Linooln county. CM last
Wednesday they met a man in Chapman's
store in that neighborhood who impwered to
Messer's description. • Fearing telt make a
mistake, the detectives manoeuvred. After a
short talk with them the man invited them
to his cabin. The detectives acoompanied
him, and when in his home he mentioned
his name. Gibson at ones whipped out his
revolver and covered thiaassasain. In an.
other moment Mealier was handcuffed.. HID
fury was beyond description.
The captured murderer was' t to this
oity and taken from here to
Ky., where he is now in jaU. e is about
fifry-one year's old and has a wife and eix
children. He was formerly a deputy sheriff
in .Perry county, Ky., Messer declares that
he would never have stugendered and old
not have been captured only that the de
tive.s got between him and hisgrip.
ed z the etfie
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ine of the murder of the MciJoy boys,
ue denies that he killed either of them.
e is the seventh of the Hatfield -McCoy
urderersarreated by the detective.
Gibson, who made the arrest, hi the young.
t member of the force, but one of the most
arises detectives in the United States,
ngle-handed he went into the McCoy ecu.
anent and captured two of the Macey
ng, brought them to this State and racism -
the reward offered for them. In corn-
ny with other detectives about two weeks
o he made a raid on the Hatfields, oapetur-
one and shooting the forefinger off Tom
ambers' hand, also shooting hita through
side. On that trip Gibson lay in the
oda three days without any, thing to eat
ept what chestnuts he could find among
leaves.
• Oheesine.—A Yankee Produot.
A new name has been ooined for an
AttiOriOCH1 substance which has been for a
long time on the American and /frith/ mar-
kets and which is alleged to be eatable. It
is now called "oheesine," indicating that it
ia first cousin to those disreputable count-
orfeite, "butterine" and oleomargarine."
"Cheesine" is doubtless cheese made from
milk the natural fat of which has been ex-
tracted at the butter faototy. To the skim
milk cheese any very oheap animal fat is
added. The produot is sometimes called
"lard oheeee." The combination of words
ia quite as insulting to the hog as it fa to
the cow. Of course anybody who Wants to
eat a combination of skim milk and the fat
from "died'animals is at liberty to do so,
but Legislatures everywhere should step in
and compel all such commodities to he sold
under their correct descriptions. In Can-
ada we have not yet arrived at "chessinan
end in the interest of our immenee dab y ex-
port busi'neas lb is desirable that the Domin-
ion Government should prohibfb the mann-
faottire of the stuff tuile,sie it 0A/1 be aim-
Intely prevented fromgoing upon the mar-
ket under a false dame.
A uandid Confession.
,4:v,WeerralgloaarcLmert hove are th, e crops 2"
•"Yon don'b kiok about anything thee t"
No.o
•
about t
Then what are yeti looking so blue
"Because I don't know of anything that
T can complain OE"
Railroad engineers are subject to a
peouliar nervous disease brought about by
continuotts shooks.
A western oiediurri lirse interviewed Adam
ae., , ,
on the gitestion, "Is: marriage e &Hum ?"
, „
,
"1 derat exactly say that marrioge is a fail-
ure..P remarked the materialised firet man,
'aif he Mit /tiOain on is inaterlairacd log just
mitside,0 fie Garden of Eden, and loeked
hiregrily ,a the fruit. ott he othet Ale of
• the Wall. ' •ut it 1 had remained single this
• wouldn't ha
happened."
A Modern Hercules.
Charles H. Sampson, a New York strong
man, engaged to slay a sbeer Wit,h hire fiste
The feat was performed. with a eingle blow
in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm and
Emperor Francis Joseph. Ito wears a
hendsome detention cembeetneilit re' that
liti
event. Tido feat of akill and stren. uh was
repeated at Ems, Gerniany, SC Pete 'hurt,
and Paris, Mr. Simpson striking but a
single blow iipo,n each of the odeasione ex-
cept the last. In this ease the Steer was
running, and his aita was not, true, but the
firet blow knocked the animal down and a
eeoond druebed its skull. During his pro-
fessional experience alibi Herrn:des leas
suffered broken arms no less than ileventeen
timea, tie deect not atetibete his great
strength to any freak 'of nature, but says fi
is the r(sult of careful ta'aining and exercise.
,
.All Skipped.
'Senior partner (to offiee VOltit
akee the (ambler so late this morning ?"
4" Efe's taken all the cash and gone to
matted, sir."
Where's' the clerk ?"
Hee 'skipped. to Spelt with all this
erwate air:"
"We11 ,whiShar'e my partner 1"
"Gone to gurope with all the gold
etched, hit." .
"Good, Iffeettene 1 Wohl, see hero 1 as
ng as all the mat have gob°, I'll take the
atriends and. visits 8outh Altorica and, by-
e way, you can take that basket) there, flit
witui nickel watoh�s and °road, ever te)
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