The Exeter Advocate, 1892-9-29, Page 2"Not nest, but Bone Before,"
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What matter how tho night believed!
What matter how elie north wind, rave
Blow h, blow low, riot all its sneer
Could, quench our hottrtialiren ready glow.
0 Time and Ohauge—with hale es ierai
et.e woe toy sire, teat winter day,
1 -Tow strange it seems with so welch gene
Of life and love to stilt live on
.Ala, brother 1 only 1 mai thou
Are left of all that oirole DOW, -
The dear home faces whereupon
• That fitful drelight paled and shone,
Ileuceforward, lieteu as we will,
The 70iees of that hearth ere ;
Look where we may, the wide VirOrla O'or,
Those lighted, faces smile no more.
We tread the paths their feet nave worn,
We sit beneath their orohard trees,
We hoar, like them, tlie hum of Wes
And rustle ot the bladed corn ;
We emu the pages thab they read,
Their written worde we linger o'er,
But in the sun they omit no shade,
NO Voice is ne,arrl, no sign is mode,
No step is on the conseious floor
Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust,
(Since lie who knows our need isrust
Viet somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars thine throngh his cypress trees
Who, hopeless, lays his 'lead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
eacrese themournful marbles play!
Who eath not learned, in hours of faith,
The irnth to flash and sense unknown,
That 'Me is ever lord of Death,
And e.ove can never lose its own!
A OSTIA COVESSIO
1a. was one bitter December night that
for some few hours I did duty for the
o 'gilt inspeotor of the Maynard Street
Police Station.
This police station is built in an old
stable yard, the rooms or offices I have
mentioned openiog from the wide
etched passage way that led from
Mayn rd street into the yard itself ; the
inspector's office was the first door on the
left as your turned under the archway, the
other door was on ,the right a few feet
farther down. An inner door of the first
office led to the entrance passage and other
rooms of the building.
What a bitter night it was, pitilessly
dreary and dark ; tlae ghostlike flakes fall-
ing fast and silent, whiteuing housetops
and window ledges and roofs alike, and
glistening into dazzliug whiteness where
the gaslight shone upon it, Sounds were
muffled as only snow can muffle, and there
was not a soul in sight. Who would be
out such a night and at nearly 1 o'clock
unless coinpelled ?-yet the next moment
some one did come along, plodding his
way, a gentleman in a furred ulster a
rather handsome, but forbidding looking
man, I thought. He mid as he passed,
" Detestable night isn't it? no cobs for
love or money. Good -night."
" Good -night, sir " I answered, and
watched the retreating form, wondering
vaguely who he was, whence he name,
and if he were homeward bound. I no-
ticed that as he walked each footstep was
instantly obliterated by the falling snow,
and then I went back to the charge -room
and the fire. About half -past one two of
the usual kind of night charges were
brought in -a bedizened woman as drunk
as could be and a ruffian caught) with burg-
ling tools on him, hiding by a jewelers
shop ; both were locked up. And afterthat all
was quiet again, even, toward 3 o'clock, I
may say terribly still, and oh, how bitterly
cold. So deadly still as to be awesome in
the sense of that silent white world outside
-so intensely, strange cold, that she even
sat reading by the fire I felt as if an icy
chill were striking into my very flesh and
blood -and then that curious, indescribable
sensation crept slowly over me which some
of us have felt, of not being alone, of being
watched by eyes that followed. every move-
ment, every breath drawn. With a shiver,
I rose up and forced myself to tUrD toward
the door, and look over the high raileddesk
table which rose like a counter half -way be-
tween fireplace aud entrance. I turned, then,
and was so startled that for a moment I
stood absolutely still as if frozen.
I was not alone. I had heard neither
opening nor closing of that door, but I was
not alone and the door was still shut. On
the other side of the official desk stood a
young and handsome Wm n q a vo I sq, rd. in a
costly fur cloak, with wie 'need pertielly
drawn over her head ; she stooel motion-
less, her white hands clinched on her
breast,looking at me -through me -I felt
as if piercing to ray inmost soul, with such
unutterable horror in her burning eyes and
ghastly face as God send I may never see
again. Who was she? What was she?
There was a wedding ring; on her finger, but
that was not' jog ; there was not a flake of
white on her sables either. Had it ceased
snowing, then, or had she come in a
carriage or cab ? She must, such a night.
She did not look insane either. And how
had she entered so silently 1 All this
flashed through my mind in a second, and.
then I said kindly, for I pitied her :
"Will you take that seat, madam, and
tell me what you want. I am the inspector
in charge."
It seemed as if my speaking broke some
spell ; perhaps it gave her courage. She
moved a step forward, but neither sat down
nor for one second dropped that weirdly
horror-struck gene ; whether I lowered
mine or looked at her I felt her gaze eat
the eame watching me as mod people do
sometimes.
"1 want," she said, "to make a confes-
sion of blackest guilt and give myself up
to joStice."
It was not the mere statement or words
that went through me with an absolute
shook -we often hear such "statements,"
especially after any great crime -it was the 1.
manner and voice. I siw the bloodless t
lips moving and every line on the quiver, t
yet the voice souuded ae if it came from s
a distance, strangely muffled and afar off- a
low, deliberate, painfidly level in intone- 8
tiou, as if under intense suppression, and
for all its level tone, instinct, with a passion
and terror that vibrated in each word. Oat- p
wardly I did not start; or ;nave, a muscle, but d
internally I felt a stove horror creeping over f
my whole being • there Was something in- i
expressibly awfitl. about this woman and her 0
grim errand, here in mole an hour and t
night. •
a
Instead of opening the proper book I took e
a large sheet of paper upon whirsh to take i
down her statement -why I never could
quite have told. a
" Yeo," I said quietly, ina matter -of -
course, official manner, as if nothing in the i
World could startle the coolnees of an ex- I
perienced police oflieer—I am sure nothing h
ought, all things coasiclered, if any expert.- t
mace can quite melte a elm* out of a mon. n
"1 am all attentiore, madam. • What is t
your crime ? • .,-9 t
She =Meted in exacbly the sante atrange h
voice and way : f
" Murder. I killed hien six hoere ago t
and then went; back home before) I wee
missed by the pervants, and tny Ituriband a
woe but at his chits I knew." She pureed a
ite if •waitang to be questioted, or too torn
with herror and remorse to go on without a
Borne aid. 4,
J
" Who is it yeti have murdered, then ?"
I asked, fully expootirtg the reply I get. a
" My lover. HO grow tirord of is nerd
intriguemalty joaloas of iny husband., aud t
Wore at heel., that unlees /' fled with lush he t
Wottld betrey my guilt, I ktieve he weal(' e
de it, tem and an X hilted, the wealth and h
watch& poeitioa for whieh I had -mottled a ,
thousendfold Mere theme any Leman aeing,
• it wite only a cineetiou of which of AS S1101114
felle-whicli strike the blow, aratilt1 not
Perish', tio he •meet. And he bas," the
said, her bends clutelting et tbe
fur, But ray • pity was gaae the
Women wee A heartless devil, There was
little of sheltie we remorse in tide coming to
ghee hereelf up -es she was rioting under
the fx•ightful, kali-mad exeitement of horror
following the deed. She wont on herself:
•" /nought e long knife -pistols make a
,raoiee. I feigned to yield, and bade him
meet me oae evening Mare old renclezvoua,"
" Where Was that?" I said os she paused
agehs.
" Where we lived. We shut up the
house in winter and the gardens are let to
runwilcl. 11:now about the old, unused
icehouse hidden by evergreens; is deep in
the side of a dell. I found ib out, but no one
else knows it -no one; so the body will
never be found. I took care of that."
"And you made your lover meet you near
this place, then ?'' 1 said, looking ateaclily
at her, awl Ghe shuddered.
" Yes," mite those fer-off repressed tones
that were geteing almost urebeara.bly ter-
rible to hear. "-I mule him. kneel as in
jeat to kiss my lefb heard, and then, as he
bent hie head, I stabbed him downward -
downward, to the heert, I dragged the
body tote t he ice, house whoa I had made
sure he wa.a quite dead, and threw in the
knife, shut the door, re -arranged thebushes,
and went back home, getting in with my
secret latch key. I felt only the relief
from danger at first, but when it grew later
-later-and I was alone in my room, it
came upou me -seized me in its throes -
the horror of the bloody deed I had done.
My God 1 Tho hideous gilt and terror,"
she said, wringing her hands. " But he
forced me to du it Lta drove me to it
The fool, to think I cared for him more
pthr:insegso.!;1, and position, and the world's
" Complete your steteinent, madam," I
said abruptly. " Who was the murdered
mant"
The WOMao. answered in the oddest way,
as if suddenly oblivious of her own hor-
rible confession and the feet that I
should. of course on that detain her for
inquiries.
" Only au obscure gentleman, with no
friends who even knew where he was ; he
will never be missed or a.sked after and
never be found. I am s Ile from even
suspicion,"
Was she, after all, some half -mad crea-
ture under a fearful hallucination? Some-
how that idea would not hold me—the grim
reality of her confession did—despite the
strange, even weird, unreality about her
appearance here and characteristics. I
said, quietly, keeping a sespmwes eye to
her movements, though escape from pursuit
was impossible :
"Answer me three questions, pleas.e,
madam. Where is the scene of the murder?
what was the victim's name? and what is
your name and address ?"
She gave such a violent start that alto
quite staggered back a step and flung out
her hands.
"My God 1" she said in a hoarse whisper,
"what an awful dream 1"
With that last word I strode round the
desk to prevent her leaving, and in that
second, reeled back against the wall with a,
smothered cry -there was nothing there !
The woman, the form, was gone as sud-
denly, as mysteriously as ib had come. I
wrenched open the door and sprang to the
arch going on the street so swiftly that
nothing of flesh and blood could possibly
have been many paces in either direction,
but nothing was in sight ; it had /eft off
snowing, hut there was not a footprint any-
where in the snow, nor track of a wheel in
the roadway.
I turned back to the room and sat down.
I was staggered. and thoroughly shaken, I
confess, aud ib was some minutes before
I could pull myaelf togetner. Then I read
again the confession I had taken down,
word for word, and folded it carefully
away in my pocketbook, thankful I had
not written it in the useful book. For I
resolved at once to fathom the mystery, if
possible, and uneatth the crime so strangely
revealed to me, by, I had not the least
doubt, the murderess herself, not in the
betty, but whether spirit fame beyond the
grave, or " I care little just now
to think: That a frightful murder had bean
this night committed hy the real self of the
unreal visitant I had spoken with I felt
as certain as of my own existence, but
how to find that actual personality, that
handsome women who, false to her hus•
bend, • assuasin of her plasm -tour, lived
in the world yet, and passed, doubtless, as
one honored, atirnired, praised of men. I
felt I must diecover and unmask her, but
where was the clue to find her? Nothing
was possible save the hope of seeing her
somewhere. I would hunt all thorough-
fares and public resorts when off duty, I
thought at lersgth,
We " tees," like other folks in their lines,
often get our blood up over a difficult piece
of work that puts a fellow on his mettle,
and I did in my, at present self-imposed
task. My only confidante was my wife, for
Rose would keep her pretty mouth as close
as the grave and besides I wouldn't for the
world have bad her feel neglected by my
constant absence off' duty, after eix menthe'
absence, too. So I told Iter all.
A week paesed. without any result from
my peregrinations after the unknown mur-
deress, but then she miebt not even live in
London. I wondered if we ever met --both
in bodily form, whether her :Tide that had
seen me would recall my face whether she
would thea fear that her "awful dream "-
aleopmg her real self had been -was more
han a dream, and that she had in the per.
urbed spirit; actually betrayed the hideous
ecret of her double guilt to, of ail people, a
etective. I thought ehe would, if occult
indents were right.
One evening I was passing along Portman
equare when ahead of me a carriage and pair
ulled up, perhao, s to te.ke its owners to a
inner party or theatre. It was still a bitter
rostebut rather curious to see who came cast,
paused. In a fetv moments the hall door
pened emitting a flood of gaslight acrese
he dry white pavement, and a gentleman
rid lady came out and crossed to the car-
iage. I saw both plainly and caught my
ereath. The man was the very gentleman '
who had passed at the /splice station a week
go end exchanged a word. And the lady
my atrange visitant, bub her reel self, here
n ell the glow of life and beauty. 1 saw
ler face plainly under the garish light, no
orror in it now, no passion of terror about
te lines or smiling lips, and yet -.I felt a
ositive thrill of meet triumphant gladnese
hat I had found her, awl with her the clue
o bring her to justice. I could heve pitied
sr, wished to spare her if she had ginned '
rom the oft -told lose henious motive --but
his 1 -it wan devilish, arid I war mercileas.
I carektsly asked a postman who e.e.nie by
iJ the oarriage swept off, "ho that hand-
ome couple from 99 were ?"
"Oh, that's Gageoigne," he Paid, " he's
banker, I Inlievnia; and ain't the mime
ust good, alwaye gives us a sov. for
Chrietnras boxe I've heord she's wonder/al
heritable."
He bueried Cui and 1 wont illy way. So
hot was her pane, Wag it -.ono of her vault.
lea ; she pened at a dame ()heritable them „
elpineet, friend to the friendless I • tore ratf wits tenoned,' InterPeeed ,ear.
s Welt as wont= Of medial Oates, fond 1, reilsulnew /Beer°, ex aihni, though) winn.
Vow enema X ERA nest (dentine* to amen Gaacrognis, sternlyi "Who was this Hare -
to find out all abotit the Ocaleoignee, mane
o, few days hed artoortitined thel; Claude
GasooSgne, ebeeping partner in a eertain
large banking how, had been merried five
year, wifees ineiden Demo was Ward
beenty, but poor, He was emelt
attached to hen end indulged her every
wieh that gold could gratify, She wee
fond of him (1 know netter than that 1) ana
bore exactly the ;wont° the postman had
Raid. She was held in highest esteem and
liked by every one, riots and poor -always
attended her parish °howls regularly, and
so on. She forgot no part of the mask,
clearly. '
They had a oottage ornee Highgete, in
a lovely hilly spot !somewhat ',mart, the
garden large and, to please madame left
rather wild and rural, In the suiruner'they
often went there, bat in the winter it was
shut up with only ego old caretaker, You
mey integbae my next steps. 1 visited the
piece one day, outside, took the bearings
aod part of the paling where I could best
effect entrance to the deserted grounds be-
fore dawn lie perdu till daylight enough to
ine, and Mien aearoh for the ice -house -the
tomb of the mardered man,
A grim enough &parch it, was too, I tell
you, in the cold gray of the first streaks of
the winter daw:a, but I found the dell'
-and after careful getsach I found the right
bushes among the meaty that grew,
found the hidden door which wen bolted
as the murderess had left it, and I feared
might melee noiee-being rusted in by the
ten days' damp -so I did not attempt to
open it. Indeed, from this point, both duty
and caution required a responsible witness.
Besides, in truth, I was trespassing; we
should, strictly speaking, require a warrant
to search the premises. I returned, there-
fore, to Scotland Yard, went to my superin-
tendent tie soon as I could, and told him the
whole extraordinary story,
As I had expected, he absolutely stored
and demanded " Were you dreaming,
Overbury ?-ghosts-similitude-what both !
it's absurd. And Mrs. Gaeceigne tool"
Dat I stood uumovea-steadily persistent
in my story and facts which were posing.
Ho was staggered, I stood so high as a man
of probity, capability and. superior educe -
tiers. I clinched his wavering by my corn.
mon sense-" Let us quietly get the mem-
rant, eir, take the surgeon and go to -night
to tiearcir that ice -house. If a murcleted
corpse is not there 1,11 admit that Charles
Overbury is a dreaming fool -and leave the
force. If it is there -well, we get a war-
rant to arrest the woman on suspicion.
You can hold me to my wordie sir."
" By love you've beaten me, Overbury
he exclaime'd. " Year earnestness forces
itself on me, strange though your belief
seems. You shall do as ,you wish -we'll go,
but I don't know how such a queer story
will sound in a matter. of -fact hew court.
Well, that night we three went, the
superintendent, the surgeon and myself,
absolute aecrecy being necessary at present
lest the least vvhisper should reach Mre.
Gascoigne. She was the very woman to
take poison if she could. not escape.
I got that door of the old icehouse open
and stepped in first, holding high the
lantern.
There it lay at our feet--vvith the loath-
some creeping things of the horrible vault
above, below, on the walls -the rigid, half -
frozen body of a murdered man !
* * * * * * *
"Is Mrs. Gascoigne at home ?"
At 3 o'clock tho next day I asked that
question of the footman, who answered my
ring at 99 Portman square.
He looked curiously at me and my com-
Panion-then across to my cab. I was well
dressed, like any ordinary gentleman ; my
eubordinate wore a rougher cloth and, had
no pretence to pass for gentility.
" Y -es, sir, she is at home, but she a,nd
Mr. Gescomne are still at the luncheon
table."
I stepped into the hall, however, my man
folloiving at once.
" Give your mistress this card," I said
quietly, "and say I wish to see her on
bueine ss."
The servant took it with a dubious look
and went into the dining -room. My con-
stable sat down on the hall chair.
I heard her voice -could I ever forget it?
though now it sounded natural, near, not
level or full of repressed horror -only in
easy surprise, so secure was the woman of
her safety.
"Mr. Charles Overbury. I don't know
such a name; what is Ise like, Josephs ?"
"Very gentlemanlike, ma'am ; tall, fine-
looking, I should say, ma'am, and maybe
about 40."
" Does he look like an imposter?" said
the master's voice, with an amused tone.
" My dear Olivia, your charities draw suca
folk."
"No, sir, he is nothing of that sort, I'm
sure," returned Josephs.
" Well, show him in here."
I was shown in a handsome dining -
room, but as I entered I saw Mrs. Gas-
coigue, who was seated by the hearth,
change color, and I am certain elle held
her breath ; bat ia the look she gave me
there was puzzlement as well as a flesh of
apprehension -or fear.
I merely bowed and then turned to Mr.
Gamoigne, who looked hard at me, evidently
not quite sure of recognition, as I said.
"May I ask, sir, to speak to,Mre. Goo -
coigne a few worde alone -first."
Poor mac! if he had only been out, to be
spared the shock so suddenly.
"Pardon me, Mr. Overbury," he an-
swered me stiffly, "my wife has no busi-
nese she minds my hearing. By the bye, I
think, yes, I am sure now, that I have seen
you before -the night of the snowstorm, If pea are troubled with hawking and
ten or twelve days ago 1 You were stand- spitting, dull besedeches, losing seese of
Mg outside the Maynard Street Police taste or smell, you are afflicted with
Station." catarrh, and to prevent its development
I saw his wife start slighly, but I replied into consemption, Nasal Balm should be
deliberately to him. nsed promptly. There is not caee of catarrh
"Yes, sir ; I am a detective inspector." • whichit willnotoure, and for cold in the head
I paused; a very painful duty was made it gives immediate relief. Try it. All
doubly hard by his presence. Why would dealera.
he not be spared. the revelation of her double
guilt and hia dialionor before the face of a
stranger.
"Well," he said, impatiently, "end what
is your bueiness here, then, with my
wife ? "
" This, sir," said -and walking straight
to his wife, lightly touched her shoulder.
"You are my prisoner, Mrs. Gascoigne,
charged with the murder of Ambrose Hart-
land."
With such a cry ae might break from a
stricken wild animal more than human lips,
she fell baok in a chair, and her husband
gripped my left amin,
What the devil do you mean ?" he said,
fiercely ; " whet, monstrous mistake are you
under in identity, man?"
"For your take sir, I wish to heaven I
had made a mistaltee" 't said, gently releas-
ing my arm, a,nd fell back a stop, gazing
almost Wildly from Inc to hie wife deathly
face, as the now slowly lifted herself, remove
metes somewhat in Very desperation perhape
-audacione after that first shock.
" It is some abserd mistake, of couree,"
she mad, rnoietening her dry, livid bipc
"Show your warrant, pleeeo 7" -
X produced in. read ad vaarried her to
take care of What she said.
I have Milling to fear or say, except Hopper -Did InfidOley really die of heart
that kileva nothing," • failure ? Priddy- es, he proposed to
Miss Gailey, end ac the failed to Sem,
"Oh, thio as to audden 1 the fhook killed
hint
land paid to be murdered on the dtle Of this
Month My Wife lenelne no attelt persore,
and if she lied why ehould eho mud "—
• les stopped.
"1.3eceuse, uhappily, eir, on yeur wife'e
own confession to me About) 3 in the morn.
ing of the Oth, at Maynard street etation,
that man was her lover, and threatenea to
tell yeti aides& "--_
"y heaven ! yoe dare to face me with
mush a 144 lie as that !" he oried, lifting
his clenched band, but I caught it. I was a
powerful man and held him easily.
"Gently, sir, and read this. 4 don't want
to call my man in."
His hand droppod-he wee aohen pale,
but he never moved as lie took the fetal
coufession, herself in the spirit truly had
made. As he read I coolly toek the knives
off the table, and put them away from her
reaoh. I had seen her look and read in
Then I came near her again.
When Mr. Gascoigne gave am back the
paper and turned to his wife, I think I
never sew so terrible a change in any man;
he might have grown years older in those
minutes.
"That was the very hour," he said,
slowly, "that you woke upwith a start that
aroueed me too, a.nd cried out those very
words-' My God ! what an awful dream!'
-but would not tell me what you dreamed.
Woo it this, Olivia ! Speak, in heaven's
name! I will know the truth, for your
silence is terrible. Have you been faithless
or true to me? Answer."
She aprang to her feet like a tiger at
bav.
z' It is all false," she cried fiercely; "that
paper is a forgery. I was sleeping at your
eide ! How could I be at that man's police
station? I was at home all that evening.
I never know auy Ambrose Ilertleral"
Stay, madam," I interposed. "The
body was fouud in the ice house lest night,
the knife by it. On the body identified
to -day by his late lendlarly, we found papers
and letters of yours, and tho last arranging
that fatal meeting "—
She suddenly eprang at me and tried to
grip my throat -maddened, I verily believe
-but I caught her hands and bore her back
to the chair in almost convulsions.
* * * * *
I scarcely remember a greater serteation
than that trial of Olivia Gascoigne mado in
the world, the more that a few whispers
got about of something uncanny at the bot-
tom ef its discovery. Link by link the evi-
dence was put together, and she was con-
demned. That night elle died. She had
managed to choke the windpipe with her
own fingers. Mr. Gascoigne went abroad.
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'Maybe Wished to Marry.
The old fellow hustled up to the desk of
the marriage license clerk, and without any
formality or preliminaries he began:
"Give me a marriage license," he said,
"and give it to me quick."
" Who for ?" asked the ungrammatical
cloak.
"For myself, of course."
The clerk gave a long whistle of surprise.
"How old are you ?" he inquired, open-
ing up his book.
"Seventy-five."
" Ever been married before ?"
"No ; this is my first offence."
"Whet the mischief does a man of your
age want to marry for ?"
"Because he can."
"It ien't such a difficult thing to marry,
is it?"
"May be not for some folks," said the
aged applicant, hurriedly, "bat it seems so
for me. I made my firer, attemt when I was
20, and for fifty-five years rye kept steady
at it, but I never could get a woman to say
yes ' until last night, and I'll be awizzled
if I know how this one happened to, and I
don't care. It's enough if she did, rind now
I want to get that license and have her
clinched before she backs out. I've got her
outside in my waggon, with a policeman
watching her, and I want you to hustle with
the license. The preacher's waiting, and if
there's no preventing Providence, youbet
tat not fill a bachelor's grave. Here's your
money. Good -by," and the happy man
grabbed his license u.nd ran for the waggon.
-Detroit Free Press.
F11111—.A.11
as stopped free by Dir. 18..0.1s3.4
Great illseve Resthoritr. No rite Meer Mat
day's iii 'Marvellous cures. Vcatise mud L,
trial tvArble free to Fit cases. Seed to Dr.
a.rcit St., Philadolvida. Pa.
Did us Me }Pleased.
Kicksvood (to his old classmate, whom he
has met by chance) -Conte right into the
house, old "man. Here's the bottle. lle.ve
is drink.
Bunker -Does your wife lee you drink ?
Kickwood-Why, ef course 1 :Flave a
cigar, won't you?
Bunker -Thanks. Does your wife (puff)
allow you to smoke (puff, puff) in the
house?
Inickwood-Cerbaialy We'll have din-
ner., and then we'll go around to the club
and meet sorne of the boys.
Bunker -Does your wife bet you go to ehe
club?
Kickwood-Why, of course!
Bunker -Um -where is your wife?
Kickwood-She is visiting relatives in the
country.
Wm Agreed With/Min.
A young Man with a broad -brimmed
straw hat on the back of his head and a look
of forgiveness for everybody on his face
entered a suburban car at a South Side
depot yesterday afternoon, scanned the few
passengers who had gone aboard, and took
his eeat by the eide of a pretty black-eyed
young woman half -way down the Aisle,
according to the Chicago Tribune.
"I beg your pardoe," he said, with an
engeging emile. " The car isn't full yet,
WIG it seen Will be, and I think Interims less
riek of getting an undesirable Fseat-mate if
ode makes the selection ousts eat. Don't
you. think so? "
" Yes, sir, I do," elm replied, rising tip at
once and taking a seat by ehe side of a
white-haired old lady on the other aide of
the car.
A great matm who try to ant the prodigal
soli find too late that they acted the calf
instead. •
,Bobby -There are no flies on yott, any-
way i Mr, Koller, Kaller-What do you
meam Bobby 1 Bobby -The adhesive paper
you are sitting on haerdt been in the chair
long enough te oatele any.
ixs
• voans, etAxa.s, soltu stiouTomps, ,SoltiimoRES. 00 an/
oultzoz 9;1xicorr.4:,SE`. Or 0,01.2rTr...e3E'd quI011P.4* Ileerhad.
eleseedy Vitro OtinitANallialED, Wen Boo 1iXAS naler-andtainalialia,
Aentby Zd.nton receipt of anima 25 Vents, By 0. L SPOSWOleleteL,
TOItONTO, VAN. AGENTS Weented Vointraiwhores '122'11.4.40241A144"
„ ,r.,•-••••ar
• MCSIIINESS
Girls Should be Taught Them Frani Early
roars.
Whether a woman is poor or rich it be-
hooves her to acquire methodical business
habite, keepingher little accounts accur-
ately and keowing to a cent just what she
deem with, her money, whether she has 10
cents or $10 to spud. on Iter own little per-
sonal wants, An allowance is the first step
towards this end, if at the same time it is
impressed upon her that every eurn spent
should be get down with unfailing regu-
larity, In black and white one notes how
muOli more easily the money on be epent,
how quickly it goes and just what foolish
little nothings have lured it from our pock-
ets. Without setting down each item, it is
ten chances to one that you will conclude
you must have lost some money when you
cannot see how that $10 bill went when you
only bought such a very few thing.s. The neat
little figures are a genuine restraint, besides
instilling a habit and mystera that will be of
great value if ever fortune miles and a
great; estate comes to yoar hands, and still
greeter if economy is a necessity Ewa the
dollar has to be forced into doing duty for
two. Unless the accounts are kept ac-
curately and the cash made to balance every
evening you ha d better not attempt any
bookkeeping at all, for slipshod methods
are worse than none and only Confuse every-
thing rather then help meteors. If any-
thing is worth doing et all it is worth doing
well; aud there is nothing so produotive of
future good as the habit of looking care-
fully out for the pennies when school days
are the only triaas and the allowance of 50
cents ti week goal for ctudy atid pickles. If
this plan is once established in childhoud,
the girl will grow to womanhood with a
clear knowledge of where her money goon
and what she has to show for it. _
phia Times.
rUal 114 CUM'S.
A light eigar is not always a light one -
that is to say, light, color does not invariably
indieate light flexor. There is an impression
to the contrary anioug smokers ; and It is
the invariable habit of nor-smokera to refer
to a dark -Ahmed (lig:vas strong, malignant
nod diebolic. Auld -tobacconists have been
known to conceatrate their eneigy of dis-
like ia the short, sharp dissyllable-
" stinker." But all this is injustiee,
rauk injustice, to tobeaco, which i8
not rank by any means. We now
have it on the high authority of
the Cigar and Tobacco World that the
notion that a light-colored cigar is mild is
fellacious. The popularity of light wrep-
pers is a mere fad, it seems. The fashimi
of smoking only blonde cigars is a
craze for which there is tio
more justification than for bleaching
raven hair. It is tho outgrowth ole belier
that Havana is the only city which should
set the styles ia tobacco -a belief which
manufacturers' isaveliors and retail dealers
have encourage(' by industriously spread-
ing the notion that a light cigar means a
minimum of nicotine. A tobacconist might
as well commit suicide as admit tbat he is
" out of light eigers." But the fact is that
s. dark-skiened Aar is often a mild one,
and it is hiah time ihet the brueettes had
a chance. Front America comes the news
tiler, the light-colored leaf suitable for light
wrappers is getting scarce, and the supply
is by no means in excess of the demand.
" Whitechapelers" would laugh—if cigars
could langh—to learn that the foreign -
made article and its base imitation of
Eoglish manufactare can no louger keep
them altogether out of the field of arioto•
cratio patronage. The public may take it
that the medium or dark cigar is about to
come to the front, and to fume like a young
Veauvins.—London Post
Simony a netainer.
"I'm a trifle late this evening, Dorothy,"
maid the ‘lawyer, when he reached hie, sub-
urban home," but I fell in with a highway-
man ancl that detained me."
"Oh, John, dear," exclaimed the wife in
alarm," did he treat you roughly?"
"Yes, I rather think he did. He only
had $8.35 en him ; but I'll get more out of
him yet."
She (letting him clown easy)—I'm sure,
Mr. Hardlei:h, that you can find plenty of
girls right hero who can make you much
happier than I could. He (rionrrifully)—
Yes, but you see, that's jtut the point. I've
asked 'em all. Yon are my only chance.
Ho—I had a strange dream last night. I
dreamt you and I were ',Talking together in
beautiful park when you suddenly threw
your arms around my neck and kissed me.
She -1 hope nobody saw 119.
. _
aintiat noose. A rar, NOT a Par,
gative Medi.
dna. They are
Itoop Butr,nsn,
1.1 eta Tomo and REcon.,
EMU:P=011,M' they
;el supply in a condensed
‘te".„.q.,Vorin the substances
actually needed to ets„
deb the Blood, curing
all diseases coining
from Peon and Wier -
MIX &more or from
VITIATED ntIMOUS 115
bho Demon, and also
invigorate and Brute's
us the Br,OOD and
SZsTI:11, when broken
1' down by overwork,
mental worry, disease,
ex0OSSoff and indiscrit
tions. They have s
Spnonwo Aorrost oe
the SExuer, SYSTEM OA
}•.P bObll men and woreete,
„5 restoring tiosw tame
- lend correcting eat
lannolminimIESS and
sugganssioss.
his physical powers Ragging, should take these
EVERY MANultics dull or failing, or
Pmts. They will restore his lost energies, both
physical and mental.
ruFay tvr:9$1P should take them
prestigious and irregularitieti, which inevitab
' , ttt, S., They cure all stir
entail sickness when neglected.
youlii MEM Mould take theft Bto.14
l'r
.len They will. mire the re
sults 'of youthful bad habits, and strengthen the
system.
yoN g rag a up -1 E °Ma t,t.dte them.
11:5121101 N & Tlieee Mane %TWO
Make them regular,
ror gale by ell druggists, or Will be sent npt88
tomeipt of price esee, per brim, by addressing
?7Li Z42, wzrzzig.'12 s, .r2,
'Or
WissTroveac e
,.TAL00,0Ei
nlfife Vel Pei
412031hOrMaMili sr.
ene
neeett
'sr
Al rEN-. 13a).N-, ,,,,t„„tou are
;if YOU i
oil an agent but Would like be be OM); le gon
re Mill of week; If you have a few Untie be S.
pare each, day; if yOet want to rilitkg Money •
ond nit pour name teed titiatees end ore evil
end nett vat illuetteted list free of eclat.
VvILLIU.1iRTGCS,
• an Tene/bItoratthe serec4 Ofeironta.
55
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ISSUE NO 39. 1892„
ROM
•regnyerew to may ea went,
aelvereftenseenta eletattw mention ttlie PAO*
OIVID nATIClare
Both the method and results when:
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste,and acts'
gently yet promptly on theKidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tea) effectially, dispels colds, head-
aches and fevers and cures habitnat
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the.
only remedy of its kind ever prof
d uced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its actior, and truly berieficial in its
@fleets, prepared only from the most
het:dilly and agreeable substances'its
many excellent -qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in `;50
bottles by all leading druggists.
Any reliable druggist who may not
havo it on hand will procure it
promptly for any one who wishes
to try it. Manufactured only by the
CAUFOR11111 FIG SYRUP CO.,
SAN FRANCISCO, OAT..
"14..".3eertantaire,. AIN' .‘XoP
ToINTR DOUCE Skul'9,,weigalt
&c., for CO days we will sena this
fine, heavy gold.pleted fling to any,
address on receipt of 16 cents hr
postage stamps; and will also send
free one mammoth Catalogue GE
"%Vetches, Zewelry, ,te., with special
terms and inducements to agents, This Ring is of very Ilnel
quality, warranted to wear for years, and to stand acid test.
and is only offered at 16 cents for 60 days to introduce out
goods. Order immediately, and got a 5140 Ring for35 man&
B. MOWRY AND CO.; TORONTO. CAW
" .1E7leie .1 INT If Ca
YEAR'S SUI3SCRIPTIO "T TO A. PAPER
.ta. that pleases all for poly 25 ceats. The,
first hundred replies from this ad rethisemenk
will receive a colored photograph of either..
Presidential eau lidate. Agants wanted.
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Boston, Blass.
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made in uanacta to -day.
30,000
Send for a Circular and Price Li a FREE;
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