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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-04-17, Page 2PS PGI•If,tlEn. 'Every Wedrescie.y MUrrIng --•-1 �T1T tiAR,\.ks S (\ oJ►�t, AT THElit POWER PRESS PRINTING HOUSE, Ontario Street, Clinton. •1.50j a Year—V.26 in Advance. The proprietorsof TUE GODnuIOH NEWS, having purchased the business and plant of THE HURON RECORD, will in future publish the agralgnuuated papers in Clinton, under the title of "Tau HURON NEws• REooaD." Clinton is the most prosperous town in Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable manufacturing, and the centre of the finest agricultural section in Ontario. The combined circulation of Tun NR b• - Recent) exceeds that of any paper 1 iehed in the • county of Huron. It is, therefore, 'unsurpassed 'as an advertising . medium. • ES -Rates of advertising liberal, and furnished on application. terParties making contracts for a speci- fied time, who discontinue their advertise- ment, before the expiry of tie same, will • be charged full rates. • - Advertisements, without instruct:ons as to space and time; will be lelf to the judg- ment of:the compositor in the pisplay, in- serted until forbidden, measured by a scale of wee and solidnonpareil 10 cent2lines saline for fiat insertion and 3 cents a line for each sub- sequent insertion. Orders to discontinue 'Advertisements must he in writine. iter Notices set as READING MATTER, (measured by a scale of solid Nonpariol, 12 tines to the inch) charged at the rate of 10 cents a line for each insertion. JOB WORK. We have one of the boat appointed Job Offices west of Toronto. Our facilities in this department enable us to do all kinds of work -from a calling card to a mammoth poster, in the best styie known to the raft, and at the lowest possible rates Orders by mail promptly attended to. • Address The News -Record, Clinton. Ont The Huron News -Record $1.60 s Year—$1.25 in Advance. Wednesday. Apr" Mb. 1889, DEVILISH DOINGS G. T. R. Brakeman John Deavries, of Toronto tried to drop off the one o'clock tra'}tl west at Bathurst street. Ho tripped and fell and both legs were cut 'off. • Dr. -Riordan dressed his wounds and he was taken to the hospital. —John McNeil, .a farmer,. was killed by a freight train about a mile west of Duttuu. The body was badly mangled. He leaves a wife and three small children. He is supposed to have been walking on the track, and did not hear the train 'coming: —S. A. Riee, a farmer of Rich - .land, Man., was kicked over the heart by a horse by was trying to catch, and was killed almost instant- ly. Two ribs were broken. Deceas- ed was au unmarried Englishman and had his Life insured in favor of his sister. He rad no relatives in this country. —A mug nuts Spence, arrested on Saturday night for t:osulnittiug au indecent assault upon a 16 -yeah• old girl named Alice Pearce, waa arraigned at the Police Court, Ilamllton. Miss Pearce testified that prisoner had gona,,out walking with her several times previous to Saturday evening. • On that occa- sion, while they were walking on Victoria avenue south, he made in- decent proposals to her, which she resented, and refused to accompany him any further. Then the prison- er dragged her along the street until her screams ate acted the attention of Constables Tuck and Steward. who ran to the young girl's assistauce and arrested Spence. The girl was submitted to a severe cross-examination, but her evidence was not shaken. When Speuce was dragging her along the street she caught hold of a fence, but was not strong enough .to resist, him, The magistrate fined Spence $20 or two months in jail. FRESH FACTS FOR FARM- ERS. Feed no coru to stock at the be- giuing of warm weather. It will not pay. Spring winds do more harm to stock than the cold of January. It improves bran to scald it before footling it to stock. One cause of trouble with churn- ing (provided the temperature of the cream is right) is too much milk with the cream. For vermin on sheep use snuff or very fine tobacco. Dipping sheep is cruel, and should never be prac- tised except when all other modes fail. -Pere, fresh water for stock must be the first essestial from uow on. 1trinking from mud puddles and other filthy places will' cause dis- ease. Thin spots in the pasture may bo seeded. Use plenty of seed, rake the ground over, if it can be done, iu order to cover the seed, and do not turn stock on until the grass has'covered the bare places. Ceder rails make the beat and most lasting fences of wood, but wire is cheaper and more easily made into a fence. No animal will attempt to pass a barbed-wire fence. recent oxperimente in Engla..d show that whole wheat at the rate of three-quarters of a pound for each 'sheep, is not only a safe cereal food but one of the best, and at current prices for wheat one of the cheapest. Nearly all poultry diseases are caused by cold, wet, want of cleanli- ness or bad feediug ; in other words by neglect somewhere. Et is easier to guard against than to cure birds when they are ill, which is almost always a very unsatisfactory e.e planation. • Bedding for Bowe and pigs elle; id I ever -be made of coarse ...ifqt Leaves are best, but if they cannot be had use' cut straw or any other fine material. Unless the pigs can have an opportunity to move about withot't difficulty the sow may crush them. —Charles A. WI. e3:., druggist, from Beaverton, was in Toronto on Monday, ostensibly making purchas- es for his business, Iu the evening he tent to the house ol' some friends on alteet.e. street, where his wife was staying, and making some pre- text to get rid of them, he corn. mitted suicide bp takiug poison. —A few days ago a warrant was issued against a man uamed Mc- Leary, resident ou the Caradoc re- serve, on a charge of contenting au indecent assault on his own daugh• ter. He was airought before a tnag. istrate and allowed to go on his own recognizances of $200, bot when the date of trial. cause on he failed to put in an appearance, hav- ing disappeared. Where the mar, is now is a mystery'. —The man who poisoned sixty horses in an Illinois town during a political meeting, by injecting sul- phuric acid under the skin with a hypodermic syringe, turned out to be a " horse doctor," whose motive was to make employment for him- self in curing the animals. Twenty-eight cases were fully prov- ed upon hint ; then he confessed, and the court gave him a year in prison for each case; 28 years' in- carceration for n few minutes' cruel work. —The sheriff of Titus county, Arkansas, has arrested Frank Shulze on a charge of murder. On the night of Dec. 10, the house of J. R. King, a well -to do farmer of Titus county, was burned and the charred remains of King, his wife and six nhild"en were found in the ashes. The skulls of all the family had been crushed in with an axe. A cousin of Frank Shulze had run away with King's daughter and forged an older for a marriage license. The fear of being prosecut- ed for the forgery iu'cited him to murder King and hie family. He had made threats, atgl has coufessed to a friend that he killed King and his wife and that Frr.nk killed the six children and then fired the house. The children were from `wo to fourteen years of age. Frank Shulze camp there in .lams: re. He claine-'le cnu prov•' ''n alibi. C•U-C,•ti. ( , 'er M. ,P. 4 tr••u 4'a; s) 1'u' taugit p•1-o•u g•h Shall be pron ince "p'ow," "Zat's easy we.) you l.now," I say, •'elelon eu„'sis 1" get througt, ' It y teacher say z.it in eat eese O -u -g -h ie "oo," And :;n 1 larger and say to him, "Zees A•'gh ry mat o we cough." He say, "Not coo, but in at 'u ' O -u -g -h is'Or Oh, sace bleu I such va•'ed sovuds Of words me' e the hiecoe• 1 He say, "Again, taoe .. ierd eee w.onc eau -g -h is 'up' in hiccough." Zen I cry, "No more, You ma'.e my throw 'sel,ough." "Non 1 non !" be cry, "your c e not right— O-u-g-h is 'nt1:' " I say, "I try to speak your words, I ca•i't 1• unoua thorn though 1" "In time you'll tea n, but row you',e • wrong,. 0 -u -g -h is 'o.. e,' " "I' 1 try no mors. 1sai1 go mad, I'll drown me in zo lough 1" "But ere you drown yourself," sand ho, "O•u•g-h 'v 'ock,' He taught no more t I held him last And Lilted hits FOR OUR ,TOR "-READERS. In making a hotbed dig out fully two feet deep and save a consider- able part of the subsoil to bank up the sides; then fill in with plenty of course, fresh manure. It may be necessary to have heat sometime, and sufficient manure should be used to supply it. As the warm weather approaches vermin will begin to multiply. No kind of stock is free front lice, and especially if in poor condition. If herded tou close),- or not given au opportunity of wallowing in dry dirt, lice will attack the stock. Use the dry food liberally now, as grass will soon be ready. Cut it fine, and make, it as palatable as possible. Nearly all kinds of dry food will be relished if cut and scalded, and a small quantity of salt sprinkled 011 it. A handful of linseed Geal, occasionally added, will improv,e the quality of the mess. Be careful in handling the work- ing stock when the busy season opens. Galls, sores, lameness and other difficulties will result if the animals have been kept too closely confined ;tad given but little exer &se. When the horses begin work for he a --eon they aho'rld be ex• ant' ed t ry day in Leder to avaid cliai:ng fern the collars and har- ness. 'l'lre enrly plants and grasses largely abound in water, and con twin but a small pronortiou of nutrition. They assist in regulat- ing the system, and promote better digestion of the dry food, All ohangos from dry to green food should be made gradually, in order to avoid bowel trouble, Cowe that counterpart of the one that had provide milk for infants should be gone before, save iu this, tho goner - fed very carefully at this season. al having no papers to look over hold forth as generals will, and Zut searched for a hedge -hug in vain, That night for the first time, Trin- e 'ed entered fully into the feelings of'Tantalus and those of Sisyphus too, He was dumbly exasperated, the more so perhaps in that to ono elevor•er thee he no obstacle would exist. If a woman has an ear. and as a rule women have, there is always a way to get at it. Un- fortunately for Tattered, the way in thin ease was by no means clear, And as ho reused he remembered A TRANSIENT GUEST. A ierORY )N FIVE 03APTEIt9. CONTINUED FROM LAT WEEK. IV. The al'terno,n slipped by like a chapter iu a fairy talo. It promised but it did not fulfil, and at dinner the champagne sparkled, but the couversatiuu was flat. When the cloth was removed, the General manifested a desire to look over sortie papers and Tancred and the ladies res.,ate,l to the pavilion be- yun,l. Yet even there the wheels of talk were clogged. Mrs. Lyeth indeed discoursed amiably enough on the subject of nothing at all, and now and then Liance inter- jected au apposite sally; but Tan- cred was taciturn. He dividid his time between biting his moustache and bidding Zut be still. And when at last through some channel of thought Mrs. Lyeth anchored herself in the shallows of Anglo- Saxon verso, for ' a moment the young plan fancied that the girl was about to go. Liauce made a move- ment, but whether serne signal from 1 -or future step -mother detained her or whether of her own accord she reconsidered her purpose, Tattered was unable to decide. The girl - resumed her seat, and oue arm ex- tended on the wood -work, the other pendant at her aido,her feet crossed, ler head thrown 'hack, she sat .ring at the stars iu that abstrac-' ed attitude which powder and shot are alone qualified to disturb. nod wrlat helped t t fou him was the fact that he tins impatient. to find it at once, no, but there and Hien, and without delay. Aud as iu his exasperation he dashed his head against the pillow, he told himself that he had been abrupt, that he had unmasked hie batteries too soon, that he had frightened where he meant to charm. Of Linnet) ho gave no thonght whatever, except to decide that she was a nuisance. And such is the selfishness of plan, that he wished she would topple over again „and sprain a joint: in short, that every- thing might happen which would keep her to her room and out of the way of Mrs. Lyeth. The idea ,{int Dega)d 4aute, n New Yorlr'er bike bittliselfe finding hitrffelsf in similar Wait had, under the very uose of a dueena, deliberately ab- stracted a handkerchief !loin his iratuorata's peckish and wrapping a letter up in it, handed it back with the oivilest inquiry as to whether she had not just let the hapkkerchief fall. That was n remarkably ueat trick. Taucred told himself, but somehow it seemed to demand a degree of assurance of which be felt unpossessed. Besides it we, a trick, and as such distaste- ful to him. And as he twirled his moustache, vaguely perplexed, undecided iu what way to act. determining that it were bane that the general's bride -elect aright perhaps to leave it all to chauce, he be keeping her purposely at her ;aught a glimpse of Mrs. Lyeth side, was one that never occurred euteriug the pavilion alone. She to hint. She is a nuisance, he decided, and dismissed her from his thoughts. • Before he fell asleep his mind was clear as t� One thing; t0 wit, that ie a small household it is stoat difficult to be alone with oue parti- cgtar person than in a household tvbere there are many. Whether he was correct or not, is a matter of the smallest possible importance. Tho next morning when Atcheh appeared with cotfee and fruit, he was aware that he had wandered through an assortment of dreams in which the rafflesen and the general were confusedly connected;sat one moment the general had changed into that unhallowed flower, at another the ratllesea had bristled with the moustache of his host. And as he rose -front these fancies to his cotfeo,he encountered a scheme which he detained and ex - emitted. It was not particularly shrewd, yet at the' moment it seemed luminous to hire.. It was to theetfect thin if he were inhibited from private speech with Mrs. Lyeth, there was no reason in the world why he should not write. And as he mused, from the porch beyond ruse the sound of her voice. He was too far away to hear what she was saying. and parenthetically, had he been nearer he woald not have listened. But now the inton- ation fed,'d as irritation ever does; he found some paper,and as to the accompaniment of her voice, he pre- pared to write oue of those letters in which punctuation is disregarded and sequence of idea forgot, he heard her waving inflection cut by a harsher note. It was the general he knew. Fur the moment he wondered why he had not already gone to the consulate, but_,preseutly the noise of hoofs, the creak of wheels, a Phrill cry, and the hiss of a whip seemed to announce that the 'conveyance which took ,the consul each morning to Siak was at the There is much in an opportunity that might be and is not. Iu recol- lection .•it ramie: more. fecund in ssih , other oppor- • 1. and later Ws, w -.en "►'aacreld, without having had the opportunity to exchange in Priv ei so emelt ureal with Mrs. Lyeth,found himself iu hie room, he raveuod at fate and at his own ill -luck. Nothing could he imagine would have been sweeter to him than to have sat the evening through alorie with that human flower. There would have been no need of speech; the languors of the night, the caress of the stars, the etlent of palms and of orchids, the accent of the waves beyond, these things would have spoken for hire more subtly that wurds could do. Through their silence the breeze •wo•ild have whispered, and who does not know what a breeze can say? Though they sat apart, the stars that the old gods used as go• hetweens wore there to join their hands. They might bo timid, but is not the surge of the sea a call that stirs the pulse? And the palms had their secrets to tell,_ and they woald have told them, too; nay, the very fireflies would have ex - spired together and made the night more dark. And instead of a conn- muuiex such as that, there had been an aimless chit-chat, an awk- wardness that was sentiment, and an euisarrasament terminated only by a chill Goodnight. Truly Zut, who had treed a hedge -hog, was to be envied. His evening at least had not been spiandercd and mis- spent. The morning differed from the day preceeding merely iu this, that not for one ,Institut during it did Tancred have an opportunity of seeing either Mrs. Lyeth or Lianco alone. After tifliu they were in- seperete. And 'Tattered, who had made plans for the afternoon, then made plans for the evening. Butthe hope which buoyed him was idle. The evening which followed was a —•In studying character, do not be blind to the •• short- comings of a warns friend or the virtues of .hitter enemy. -'3trh are extending to the chu.zhes In a church in Edin- berg, the other Sunday, the choir wont on strike, "their complaint being the inconvenient and draugh- ty seats allotted to them." Some 'trenchers have good reason to shrike, because of the absence of drafts. .2 door. Tancted's window did not give on the road, but on the coppice and the pavilion, yet when again• he caught the creak of the wheels it demanded little imagination on his part to picture the general sitting bold upright iu a gharry, driving to the titin -smitten town beyond. And as the clatter of hoofs faiuted in_ the distance, Tancred took up the pen again. The letter which he then succeeded in producieg was one similar to what we have all of us written and all of us re- ceived— a clear call of love, in which the words are less jotted than shaken from the end of the pen. Its transcription here is need- less. A love letter which can pleasure any one save the recipient, proceeds not from the heart but the head. Mor8over, wheu Taucred began it he had not the faintest idea what he intended to say, and when it was tiuished he did not remember what he had written. Oh, sweethearts and swains! Mind ye of this; when a love letter differs from that, it emanates front as poet or a fraud. Tattered was' neither. He was simply a young plan sadduuly en- thralled by the charts of a woman older then himself. He intended no wrong, and if you or I or any other in placable moralist had was in white from head to foot, alluring as spring, and doubtless every whit as fragrant; she Moved easily;her body erect and unswayee, and as Tancred caught sight of her he would have:taken his chances then and there, but almost simul- taneously he saw Liance following behiud. In the annoyance he filliped forefinger and thumb to- gether, and tried to possess Isis soul with patience. It was not impossible that in that moment the girl might go, and then his time would come. Meanwhile it bo- hooved him to be careful and to remain unseen. But no, Liance must have seated herself at the other aide of the pavilion, for he could bear Mrs. Lyeth addressing her and the murmurs of the girl's re plies. Presumably they would remain together until tiffln, and if before tiffin the note was not de- livered, ayuother aftornodn, the evening, too, perhaps, would be wasted and lost. "And whew ie the missive frtaurV" be asked, "I heard the gbarry's wheels au hour ago. Will you pay' we if I wager and I wint Will you pay me? I wager it is from— —h'm—tet ere 400. .1 wager it is from that coffee planter's wife your met at Siegapor.e." A ad M s". Lyeth, with her gravest smile, auewet•ed: "You hare lost," "From whore ie it then? These is no Eu'opean mail io-day." Ile eyed her, laughing stilt. "From wheal is id" he repeated. And as he spoke, he bent again and looked dove at the letter which lay open in her hand.' "Tainted Enneverl" he e-lclaimed. "Why, what has he to write io you about?" " Don't ask me," she answered, airily, and then, presumably, she must have uuderatood the ueelee: nese of further parry, fpr she added, carelessly enough, " It is to Liance, and not to use." And as he thought of this, be- hind him he divined rather than hoard Atcheh's noiseless tread. He turned at once. Another idea had come to him, oue on which he determined to act at once. The "boy" was already retreating. a tray in his hand. "Dja keno," Tainted called, Ou shipboard he had not boeu altogether idle. The Malay tongue is as easy to speak badly as Italian, and 'Tancred had found slight diffi- culty in acquiring enough mouth- fuls for ordinary needs. "Dja keno —come here. The sultry savage wheeled and obeyed. Ba gnio inorg— take this to ,t,,, lady." Aud as 5 mored spoke 1'e pointed through the lattice to M's. Lyeth. i'he Malay tock the note and bowed. "Bee tuan," he auettered. "Year lordship it is well." In a moment the,man had goner and in another momnt Tancred saw bin approach Mrs. ,Lyeth and place the letter in her hand He, could see that she was eying it, wonderingly no doubt, fog now she 'urned her head, but already the Malay had disappeared. And as she still looked about her, holding the letter unopened before her, Tancred felt as though something were clutching at his throat. From out of the coppice, not a dozen yards distant, the- general bad suddenly emerged, In a state a'milar to that mental paralysis which visits us i.e dreams, '!'ancred marked h'a ad:•ancee. It seemed perfectly n..tural that he s•ieald be there • ' al elf • t he ;mailed the f . ., „ • ttou albeit until now, yet still the unaccount- able fact that it was Sunday; and presently, as the general halted, Isis Olin figure erect, a bamboo switch in his hand, his calvaly moustache more bristling than ever, and pro• prietor fashion surveyed the grounds it was to Tancred as though he had been there for all of time. i hen at once the cerebral swoon departed, in a confusion of visions, with that thing still clutching at his throat and hie heart beating like mad, he saw ,on one side blrs, Lyeth open the letter, and on the other the general decapitate a poppy with happened that way and told him, his switch. as would have been our duty,that ho Already, -Mrs. Lyotls had turned was betraying the sacredestof trusts, the initial page; she had read the the the coufidence of a host,he'would second and was beginning at the have exhibited the surprise of a last, when the general, to whose child frowned at for innocent presence behind her she was ob prattle. Bear with him then; of vio',sly oblivious, advanced on wrong he intended none. It is the tiptoe to where she sat. Tancred essence of crime that it be commit- saw him raise a warning finger to ted with malice aforethought, that iris lips, beneath the moustache he the intention to commit it bo clear. divined a smile, invisible to him, In the present case tyre intention apparent, doubtless, to, Liance; at was wholly lacking. 'Tancred was whom the warning gesture must carried along by ono of those un- hay' beeit made, and then, bending reasonable inpulsos which the pay- over his fta,ncee'8 shoulder, he etiologist recognizes and cannot peered at the letter which she held. explain. And that impulse, after Yet before he could hive deciphered throwing him at Mrs. Lyeth'e,feat so mochas a line of it, Mrs. I.yeth and dictating a letter to her, left his started, as we all do when taken concience unruffled and at peace, unaware. • In an instant, however, His pulse however still was she recovered her self-possession. stirred. And the letter completed, She turned to the general, her he was not in a greater hurry to do mouth compressed into a pout. anything else than get it safely in "Do you know"' she said from her hand. The manner in which the tips of hat lips, "you are as bad this was to bo accomplished was as Atcheh. A cat would make another matter. Ho might offer it more noise." to her in porspn, or he might leave At this reproof the general it in her room. Ho might even' laughed aloud, and, as toh ugh in watch his opportunity and slip it cheer exeees of glee, heat his leo into her hand; but for that he with "the switch. Tancred could immediately reflected ho would see it was, indeed, a merry jest to have to wait the opportunity—a him. tedious operation at heat—and ' "My bonny Kate!" he gurgled. moreover, was ho not in haste? "I frightened her did I not?" And again he beat his leg and laughed Froin the window 'Tancred could see the, general turn to wh,.'e his; daughter sat. And as he watched; he 71 t girl issue from the shadow, take the letter from Mrs. Lyeth, and escaped with it to the heater. She had been a witness, not an actor, and now melte-crossed the lawn, the letter rumpled in her hold, there wan au alertness in her step and such expectance iu her face that you would have thought her hastening to a rendezvous. It was evident that she, too, h ,d taken the fib for truth. Tancred moved back. When he again peered out, the general and his bride -elect had disappeared. V. Over the luncheon to which Tan- cred was presently summoned' a foreboding hovered, ambient .in .he air. Mrs. Lyeth was not pros - rent, confined by a headache, Liance e_:plained, to her ruorn. ' The girl herself preserved her everyday at titude, and 'Tancred did his bust to engage her in speech ; but she did not second his endeavors. When he addressed her she answered, if at all, with her eyes, and in them she put something that resembled a monition. Save for the reference 1- her i • 'ere stop -mother, she broke bread in silence. As for the general, Cruikshank would have taken .him to his heart ; he was both jocose and irritable; he feigned a glutton in- terest in his plate ; he loaded the soft Malay tongue -vith curio' oaths, which he e_:ploded at the servant ;:Ise ali,ern:.tey praised and reviled the food, .ted from beneath his hubby -eyebrows he glanced in 'The kindliest fashion now at bis daughter and now at his guest. And so well did he succeed. in heightening the enervation of the letter, that it was not until the acrid caramels were passed that Tancred even pretended to eat. Then, re- membering that it was Liance that. made them, he ventured to conipli- e eut the girl, and,ae she answered. %nothing,. ackuowledgingjthe tribute only by an iuciination of the head, he saw iu expression of her face that she was even more emotionaliz- ed than he. Presently a burning coal and some cigars were brought. Liance rose from the table, and Tancred, rising too, accompanied it .; to the door. There, it may be, she had some message to impart ; her lips moved, yet before Tancred could grasp its import, the general called him, and he was obliged to Writ. The girl wandered out on the veranda, and Tancred•resumed his seat. "Will you smoke?" the general asked His tone was so• friendly that Tancred felt more miserable then before. "Take one," he con- tinued. "Sumatran tobacco ranks nearly with the Havanese." For a fraction of time Which • seemed immeasurable the two men smoked iu silence. But in a mo- ment the general gave a poke at the coal, and looked up at leis guest. "Mrs. Lyeth tells me that you_ have done us the honor to ask for my daughter's hand." Tancred glanced at the point of Iris cigar, and discovered that it was out• "flay I trouble you 1" he mur- mured. ' The general shoved the brasier toward him, and watched the relight- ing with evident solicitude. "It's the dampness," he announ. ed. "H'm, Am I orrec.sy ie - formed ?" Tancred gave a puff or two; and then, withdrawing the weed, he held it contemplatively between forefingers and thumb ; but he aeswered not a word. The general knocked the ashe3 from his own cigar and eyed the burning coal. "II'rn, let me ask you, did you write to my daughter this morn- ing?" And Tancred, with loneedrawn breath we take when we prepare for tho worst, answered shortly : • To this avowal the Lenora' nod- ded encouragingly. 'i' ncre' ho' - ever, seemed avcrso to 'tattier cot • Helices ; he kept looking at his cigar as though it were some strange and uncanny thing. "II'm, well—er—did you, did you begin the letter with a term of enrtr-,1mont."