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The Huron News-Record, 1891-08-26, Page 3Efflu1sou OR Cod Liver Oil THIR • Rypophosphites of Lime and Soda. No other Emulsion is so easy to take. It does not separate nor spoil. It is always sweet as cream. The most sensitive stomach can retain it. CURES Scrofulous and Wasting Diseases. Chronic Cough. Loss cf"Appetite. Mental and Nervous Prostration. General Debility, &c. Beware of all imitations. Ask for "t'le 71. LSC L." ills" -:an, and ref su PRICE SOC. AND1 PER BOTTLE. The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance -WVeduesday, August 26th, 1$9t. 'THE STORY OF MARY 1VORS. She was a dressmaker, nut a fashionable dressmaker, not a West End dressmaker, not au employer of other dressmakers ; she was not called Mine. I"elicie or Mine. Sybille, or anything but plain ;Mary Ivors. She went out for so much a day—hell a crown, I think, with -dinner and tea. The dinners placed before her were for the most pert what are called plain—a cut of cold beef and a waxy potato. The best part of dome' to a daily dress. smelter is the rest ; her tea was taken among the needles:and thread and the remnants, without rest to speak -of. Yet she preferred tea to din• ner; the latter is a strengthener, but the former a hea'teuer, as all women .know, and many men. She lived 4 by herself in a respectable family, with whom she had breakfast and supper ; her room was ou the ground -floor, back, which looked out on somebody else's garden wall—you -could see a Virginia creeper on the top for four months in the year. .Sometimes a branch hung over and tanned crimson in the Autumn. The place where site lived was in a back street leading out of a side :street in the Mile End load,. Mary was a country girl allured -to town by the prospects of good work and good pay and by the per- suasions of an aunt. She was as neat and comely a girl to look at as -one may expect to find anywhere : she stood five feet eight in herstock- ings, she was big limbed, strong and .active, a girl who was by no moans afraid of anything within reason, that called itself a man ; a girl .greatly respected by all who knew her. Partly by the introduction of her aunt, who was in the same pro- fession, and partly by resson of the aunt's untimely decease, which left :a gap or vacancy in dreesmakery, Mary was getting on very well. Her clientele lay mostly in and about the region north of Tower Hill, which is not very far from the 'Mile End Road. A penny fare morning and evening covers most sof the way. To students of London -this corner of the city is interesting in many ways, as, for instance, that it is the only part of the city pro- per where there is a population. 'Courts, holes and corners there are here and there in other parte, but ,there the people live over their _. shops_in_thaniain-.t.haro.ugh.fares-anad tin the private houses in the streets 'leading fiotn them. Have they not America Square all their own ? It was, in fact, in America Square that Mary had her most useful friends. Especially she was in de- mand at Nickel's, where, had she wished, she might have been em- ployed, I believe, the whole year iround, because Frau Nickel, who ran this establishment for purposes -of profit as a select hoarding -house or private hotel for German gentle- men connected with commerce, *round the girl everything that she .8eeired, trustworthy, no shirker of .work, respectful, clever, neat, and full of professional ideas. The Frau was always ready, over ready, perhaps, to take one of her own sex to her heart ; she was equally ready to cast off this bosom friend on a •suspicion of falsehood, treachery, -or lese-amitie of any kind. Friend- ships rapidly formed are like riches ,quickly amassed. That is to say, they are to melt away as rapidly and, like them, as easily to vanish into thin air, and as happens some- times to the really warm heated, Mrs. Nickel was too apt to lend Toady belief to anything that was told her. - ''Biwa—Mary' wart -young; -'sad--vitt good work, and comely to gaze upon, it is net neceesa>;,y to explain that she had a young than. He waa a very nice young wan, older than herself by six or seven years, which made up for his being shorter than herself by four inches. He was neat in his dress, and he had aoleen face, innocent of beard ; pale cheeks, black hair ; black eyes, rather long, of the almond pattern, soft, dark, expressive eyes, such as used to be dreamed about in the days of im- agination end Don Juan ; a neat figure neatly dressed, and oft hands, which seemed never to have done a day's work. A handsome man, perhaps, by those who like the type. He was a commercial traveller, and was generally away upon his busi• ness. What it was that he repre vented Mary never inquired. Hie relations, he said, were all in America ; he was alone—and here he sighed. He was a poetical young man, and would read her verses which he said he had written for her. He loved sentimental songs; he would weep when he heard the 'Lost Chord" sung at the music hall. He also liked those stories iu which the girl is hunted down by the villain, sinking from one misery to another, until at length she leaps into the dark, cold river, after mur- muring from the bridge the sweetest things into the depths below. He could also play upon the flute very movingl y. Harold Vere—he had such a beautiful name !--was so much in love with Mary that he wanted to hear all about herbusiness affairs; the houses she went to, the people who employed her, their means and their possessions. Most of the peoplo were tolerably well•to do shop- keol'ers. The young man after a time ceased to ask about them, but he showed a strange and pertinac- ious curiosity about Mrs. Nickel and her private hotel. The house seemed to interest him—was it always full of Germans ? \Vero there many rooms? '►'hey were, perhaps, out all day? The hostess interested him. Did she sit with Mary while the work was going on I Did she talk about Money ? Did she seem rich ? Had she shown Mary any of her fine things? Mary told him all she knew. Mrs. Nickel bristled in and out of the room all day, except between 2 and 3, when she went to sleep for au hour ; it was the sleepy time of the day. All the guests were out ; the hall -porter dozed ; the house was very quiet at that time. Mrs. Nickel was not very rich, Mary supposed; she did not know; no one could tell. Mrs. Nickel had some beautiful rings and chains, which she kept in her cupboard in a little tin box with her cash; she had once shown her these treasures. Mary worked in the room where this cupboard stood. Other things her young man asked her ; other things Mary replied. On Saturdays Mary, like the rest of the working world, had a half - holiday. She knocked off at 2 or thereabouts. At other houses on that day she had no dinner. Prut at the private hotel, where there was always abundance of food, and that of the best, she took dinner with the Frau Nickel as usual. CHAPTER Ii. It was a Saturday in September; the day was bright and the air warm. Mary was happier than usual ; Harold was coming back. They were going out together some- where—by tram and train—into the country; they would have tea in some quiet place. They would come home in the evening hand in hand, happy Harold murmuring soft things. She told Mrs. Nickel at dinner about her lover. The good lady was truly sympathetic ; a love story moved her deeply ; she had been young herself; she inquired if he was steady and respectable ; what trade he followed ; if he drank ; if he had a good temper; if he was in good health. To all these questions Mary replied satisfactorily. 'My dear,' said Mrs. -Nickel—she pro- nounced ronounced it 'my Tear,' but never mind, and she took Mary's hands in her own soft, plump hands—`you are going to be a happy woman. Nothing, my dear, makes a woman happier than a good husband and a house full of children. And when shall you marry, my dear ?' 'I don't know. Harold says he thinks he can marry now in a very few months.' After dinner Mrs. Nickel sat for a few minutes talking over the glowing prospect stretching fair and far before her young friend and protege. Then site grew sleepy, and rising slowly, for she was an adipose person, she went upstairs anti lay down upon her bed, and dreaming that she was buying a wedding present fell asleep. Two o'clock struck. Mary collect- ed her work, and put it carefully away on the side table ready for Monday, when she was to return for it. Then she put on her hat and jacket and left the room. She remembered afterwards that the cup- board door was standing open with the cash box in full sight. The house was quiet ; the Ger- man commercial gentlemen were away in the city or elsewhere pro- mrotine-tho-great•'cortnnerciat inter-. este of their country ; the Service having recently taken, in, atoka$e were resting or alu'lnbering ;the hall porter slumbered on bis chair. Mary passed out noiselessly. Now, as she went down the steps into the Square, she might have observed, had she looked to the left, a face that was furtively •watching the door of the private hotel Prow a corner where the Square is connected with - the Minories by a little street. But she did not turn to the left at all ; she tdtrned to the right and walked rapidly away. Then this face be, came, a figure, none other thap the figure of Harold Vere, Mary's young Wan. Harold made straight for the private hotel ; he walked up the steps ; he pushed open the door of Mrs. Niutkel's private room ; he looked round and he went in. He carne out immediately after- wards, and noiselessly stepped out of the house. Mrs. Nickel, upstairs, slumbered. In the kitchen the cook anti the housemaids nodded ; in the hall the hall porter droned and grunted. A peaceful, slumberous private hotel it was. And Mary sat iu the tram going home, where Harold was to meet her. An hour afterwards he came; Mary knew his knoc k, and ran to let him iii. He was smiling, happy, joyful ; she had never known him to welcome low with so much joy in words and manner ; it overcame her to think that this man, so clever, so beautiful, should love her so much. `Well, I ant quite ready, clear,' she said, 'So am I; let us lose no time, then. September will soon be over, and Winter comes, But you know, dear, there is no Winter where love rules the heart—can there he ?' Mary went out first, awl IIarolri was just closing the door. 'Stop !' he said, 'I've forgotten my stick.' He did close the door by rtecideltt as he ran into the house again, but came out a moment afterwards. 'There?' he said, 'that's done with.' He turned very red for sortie reason. 'Mary, toy dear, I believe that in six months' time we shall be able to marry, Only six months to wait." CHAPTER 111. At 3 o'clock Mrs. Nickel came downstairs awake and rather cross. At the sound of her heavy step the hall porter sat up opened his eyes, stood up and went to the docr, looking about the Square watchfully, as a hall porter should. At the sound of her heavy step the Service in tine kitchen woke up and, began to bustle around. She went into her own room. Mary Ivors was gone ; that she expected; she got out her accounts and began to add up and to examine. Presently it became necessary to count her cash. She got qp and looked in the cupboard for the cash box. It was not on the lowest shelf ; she looked on the second, but it was not there ; and on the third, the highest, it was not there. With a itttie anxiety she returned to the lowest shelf, and worked her way back again with the same result. Than she began with feverish haste to pull everythine. out of the cup- board in order to find the cash -box. When the contents lay scatter about the sofa and the table she realized that the cash box was not there. It might be in her bed roon ; she often took it upstairs with her. She hurried up to look, the cash box was not there. She returned ; she rang the bell with violence. When the whole house had been searched, and all the boxes of the servants, and the trembling women of the house were reduced to misery and to tears, and her own rage had brought her almost to sinking—she would have sunk but for a half wine -glass of Kirschen Schnapps — she bethought her of the hall port- er. :Tell me,' she cried, 'you have -been -as-lee-p, you -have -let -a -thief into the house.' No. He assured her that he had not only been stand ing ou the doorstep. No one had passed out except Miss Ivors, time dressmaker ; no one had come in at all. Then an iuspirat-ion came to Mre. Nickel. 'Mary Ivors !' she cried, gasping, 'Oh, Mary Ivors ! I've loaded her with kindness, and she repays me— Oh !—she repays me—by stealing cry cash box.' Mary and her lover had tea at II ford when the sun wentdown. They came back by train ; they reached the house at 8 o'clock. They part- ed on the door step—that is, they were parting—when the door was thrown open. In the narrow pass- age stood a policeman and Mrs. Nickel. 'Mary Ivors ! Mary Ivors !' cried Mrs. Nickel, bursting into tears —`I made you my friend—I loved you—and now you steal my cash- box !' `Steal your cash box?' criJd Mary. 'Steal ? My girl steal?' cried Harold, stepping to the front, 'who dares to say that my girl is a thief ?' 'Ltrcly let -bin' -bolt,' quid'-th'e policeman. 'Found under the prig - ogee lied• up ift iter own hand. kerghaef be empty, QU4PT R IV. Mary had no defense. She did not know who put the box under her bed. Site had nothing whatever to say -nothing. And there was the case, simple and dead against her. Nobody had been in her room except herself—nobody could have been there—and there was the box, tied up in her own pocket handker- chief—the box with Mre. Nickle's name upon it—and empty. There- fore, in. the eyes of the Court, and of everybody, she had not only stolen the cash box, but she had made away with the contents. ' Where had she placed them ? On Monday she stood in the dock —the shameful dock—white faced, with quivering eyelids arid trembling lips ; the whole scene seemed a play, one of her young man's favorite melodramas—in which,sontehow,she was not in her usual place—the front row of the pit. Now and then she clutched the front of the dock. She had a s elicitor, engaged for her by Harold, and this fond and true lover stood below her and held her hand ; but she had nothing to say to the solicitor which might help hint. She knew nothing ; she had no sus. picion. Mrs. Nickel gave her evidence iu the manner common to warmheart- ed and einotiorial people, with many sobs and chokiugs, which did honor to her warmth of heart. The policeman proved finding the box under the bad. The thing was quite clear. The magistrate said he would neat the case summarily. He sentenced the girl to six 'tootle hard Iabors Mrs. Nickel made her way out of the court weeping loudly. Harold seized Mary's hand as she was led off, whispering "My de. r, my dear, I belieye in you ; I believe in you always, Wait patiently, and you'll find toe true.' So they bundled her away, and the girl who was so proud and happy the day before was now a prisoner for six months. The time was noth ing. Sooner or later sire would be out again, and a convict --always for the rest of her days— a convict ! She had one little drop of comfort— all the time that she remained in prison she thought over the brave words of her lover—the truest, noblest lover the girl had found. As for this young nobleman, he left the court with streaming eyes ; the situation was indeed fall of tra• gedy. A hundred yards from the court he cheered up and began to laugh gently. 'Poor dear Mary !' he said. 'She's the best of the lot, end the most useful. I told her we should get married in six months. They always get six months." lie spent the evening at a moving melodrama, where Ile wept his handkerchief into a dripping rag, with a young lady of considerable personal attractions, but not of Mary's style. In such matters Iiar- old's taste wan catholic. CHAPTER V. On the morning that Mary came out her lover met her at the gates. 'Don't cry my dear,' he whispered, taking both her hands and kissing them. 'I've made it all right. We shall be married when you've had some breakfast, at the registrar's, and at breakfast we'll talk over our piens. Oh ! who—who could have done this thing ? I've advertised ; I've been to Mrs. Nickel and got a description of the contents of the box, and I've advertised for rings and watches and things. But be was a crafty thief ! A villain- ous, cruel thief ? It was nota man ; it was one of the women of the hotel, my dear. That is certain. Never mind. Come let us forget the past. Yon look thin, dear. Of course. We shall soon make you strong again. Yon shall forget the past. You shall live in a little nest, all love and happiness. Come.' Two veers later Mary Vere— Ivors no longer --sett, on a Saturday afternoon, in her house.,at Kentish Town. On the blind, which was down, I,ecause it was Saturday after pooh, was written.her name—"Mary Vere, Dress -'raker." She carried on her trade in that suburb, which is a long way from the Mile End Road. Nobody knew anything of her past troubles ; site had a nice little busi- ness ; she had a good husband ; she had the most lovely baby seen—like herself, big strong and hearty. Ex- cept for the doleful memory of that trial, and sentence, and imprison- ment, she was perfectly happy. All day long she worked among her girls, while the baby slept in the era die, or sprawled about the floor, or lay in her lap. In the evening she sat and thought about her husband, who was for the most part away, travelling for the commercial good of hie country. The house was one of those six - roomed houses common in the poor- er suburbs. Two rooms in the base• nlent ; two on the ground floor, reined about Rix feet,and two above ; a little garden behind. The base- ment contained the kitchen and a workroom ; the ground floor, a Heideb4etilir'" in frbiif and the parlor behind ; above, a large bedroom and small bedfavt! t.ut the "sparer regiw, The last was occupied by some stores. of aswplea--Mary knew not what —belonging to the husband, who kept the door looked and carried the key about with him always. It was a Blue Beard's Chamber but the wife never thought of it or was tempted to look into it until this un, lucky afternoon, when, alone in the house, her baby asleep, she was putting things to rights in her own room. Never once till this after- noon, when she was tempted, and fell, like Eve. ' What does he kr ep in the room I whispered the 'Tempter, 'Something valuable ; something that lie wishes to surprise you with. Would you lake to see it?' The Tempter went on whispering for a long time. Fora long time Mary took no notice of hits. Then he changed his talk. 'If it were quite easy for y oil to open time door and to look ia,would• n't you do it ? Just try the key of your own room.' She !latrine(' ; she turned red ; she turned pale Sire took the key of her own room uud tried the lock. It fitted ; it turned. She opened the door, looking round guiltily. She went in. There stood in the middle of the room a large box bound with iron. Nothing else was in the room at all. And in the lock was a key, and that key belonged to a bunch of keys which her husband always carried, lIe nrnst have I• -ft them there when he was last in town. Maly lifted the lid of the box Within were bundles of papers and packets tied up neatly. She took up one of the bundles of papers They were neatly folded, tied to- gether and indorsed. On the out- side was written 'Clara Jenkins, [louse. of Correction, Chester, six mot.tlrs h tad, Julie, 1b6G,' M sty oper,e I the. euudle' I.t, was a packet of letters, ill•wri'•ten, ill spr-lied, from Clara. The letters ran from 1887 to 1891. They begun soune- tu.o 'Dearest Harold' and some. times 'Dearest Ilushand.' Mary put them back with a sickening heart. She took up another indorsed 'Matilda Palm! r, suuuuari y dealt, six mouths hard, Liverpool, 1888.' This, too, ao'taimed I.-tters up to date, all addressed to her dearest Harold or her dearest husband, Then another and another and an- other. There were twenty of them. Her husband had twenty.oue wives, then, and every one had served a terra of six months hard. Mary laid down the bundles, her cheeks aflame. Site tried to think what was best to be done. She could think of nothing. Then she mechanically opened one of the packets tied tip in brown paper. It contained rings. Among them she saw the two rings which had been it Mrs.Nickel'n cash- box. She opener/ another packet. These were brooches, among them Nre. Nickel's brooch. She opened a third. Bracelets, among them Mrs. Nickel's bracelet. And then a fourth. Watches, among them Mre Nickel's watch. And a fifth. Chains, amot:g them Mrs. Nickel's chain. She made no more delay. She put the papers in her reticule, tied u(, the rings and things, gathered up her baby and took a cab—actual- ly took a cal—to America square. Here there was presently sbch weeping and lamentations as night have been heard on Tower Hill. On Sunday morning her husband Came hours. He returned smiling, happy, pleaseI to be under his own roof once more. His wife, however, stool in the doorway, a hug stick in her hand. 'Oh ! viilian !' she crie 1. He recoiled. She was so big and so strong, and she looked so terrible that he recoiled. '[ know all,' she went on.' 'You have twenty .wives besides me. You have caused them all to be in prison, and you live upon their gratitude. You go from house to house, and you live upon the wife who works for you. And in this house you have stored the things you have stolen. Wretch ! but you come here no more. If you dare to cross this threshold I will break every bone in your body. Go ! your box and all the jewels, arid the letters and all—are in the hands of time police, and they will take you up as soon as they have read the letters. Go—get out of their way if you can—and remember; not one farthing shell you ever get from me if you were to lie starving befo• a tr e on the cold kerb.' The man turned and fled I think he will never come back, and what the police have done, and what the other women involved in the ruin which wrought for them have done, I know not. —Samuel Boyer, church organist, of Berks county, Pa., puts in a claim to the championship. He says he has listened to over 9,000 sermons and never fell asleep over one of them. He deserves a medal as big as a door mat. Some people are constantly troubled with boils no sooner does one heal than another makes its appearance. A thorough course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the .,kepi . 4f- blood-.par_i&ers, °eff eel airly puts an end to the annoyance, We re- commend a trial. =GINNING GMT T]X— PElIM NT. New York World : The Irish land purchase bill passed the House of Commons on June 15. The first ut' the large estates to come under its operation are throes of Lord Lar - gat), situted in the counties of Arm- agh and Down. The bill provided for the issue of $175,000,000 of bonds, bearing in• terest at 2 per cent. to be devoted to buying out landlords who want to sell and assisting tenants who want to buy. The valuation of a farts is fixed at sixteen years of its present rental, so that a farm pay- ing a rent of $200 a year could be bought for $3,200. The landlord is paid hie $3,200 in 2i per cent stock, the annual interest on which is $88. The tenant gets for the first live years, alter assuming the burden of repaying the government for its purchase, a reduction of 20 per cent. un his rent. That is, his annual payments are limited to the sum of $160. This amounts to 5 per cent on the purchase money, and one-titth of it, or $32 a year, goes to form au insuratioa fund. At the end of five years the government takes fur forty -years annual payments of $128 being 4 per cent on the purr chase price, and • then the former tenant, all the titne paying the equi- valent of a greatly reduced rental, owns the farm. It would appear Irmo the terms of purchase of the Lurgau estates that they represented a rental of neatly $80,000 a year. The owner will find his income reduced to a little over $35,000 a year, but he will have no trouble collecting it, and can readily convert his 2i psi cent stuck into cash and reinvest the, proceeds If the number of tenants is correctly stated the aver- age holding must be very small. The first saving iu rental will ag- gregate to them over $16,000 a year. POOR YEA11 FOR FRUIT-G1?OWs Er. New York 7'ribuae: .1s the Tri. beer predicted some time ago would be the case, New Yorkers are delug ed with fruits of every variety, from almost everywhere, at almost their own price, this summer, This may possibly be news to the housewife who purchases of the uptown grocers, who charge 5 cents apiece for Bart- lett pears; or about 200 per cent pro- fit, but to the thrifty shopper fruit is luxury so far as price is concerned. The prophet who said the Dela- ware peach crop was a failure this year was for once wrong. and trains are arriving In Jersey City at 2 a. m. daily bringing luscious peaches pick- ed the previous day, which are speed- ily transferred by trucks to New York and thence to the various re.. tail markets. Arrivals have been as high as 40,000 half.bushel baskets daily and these are likely to contin- ue till October. New Jersey, too, swells the receipts by 5,000 to 10,000 baskets, and a good quality of peach- es can be boug„t for 75o. The season will not be a pecuniary success to the growers, as large quan- tities of peaches have been sold at from 25 to 50 cents per basket, which does not pay expenses. From New York State, particularly from the Iludson River district, immense quan- tities of apples, peare,berries, and oth- er fruits arrive every morning, which are selling at very low prices. One dollar for a barrel of apples or a bus- hel of Barlett pears should be cheap enough for anybody. It isa signifi- cant fact that in the vicinity of Ro- chester some fine apricots are being produced, equal in quality to the California product. California shippers suffer severely also, and are much discouraged over the exceptionally low prices that have ruled during the past month. Up to the present the prices are ful- ly 75 per cent less than they were last year, while the quality is equal to last season's. The present range of prices, as compared with the sim- ilar period of last year, is as hollows : 1890. 1891. Bartlett pears, in boxes of one bushel $3.00 $2.00 Crawford peaches, in boxes of one peck 1.75 75 Plums of every variety, in boxes of one peck 2.00 76 Prunes of every variety, in boxes of one peck 2.00 76 This year's results mean heavy loss- es to the speculator and shipper, but in spite of this about ten car -load daily, each containing about 800 pack- ages of all these varieties, are sold on the Star Union Dock, at Vestry street, at auction by E. L. Goodsell. —'I'le Rev. W. J. Flanders, of Sylvania, Ga., has created some- thing of a sensation among his Methodist brethren by preaching a sermon in defence of Judas Iscariot. He said he bad always felt sorry for Judas, and he believed that he was a good man and highly trusted by his associates—for they had made him their treasurer. In regard to time betrayal, he thought that Judas, seeing how poor they all were, and fearing that they might soon he in greater need, offered to betray his master in order to get more money in the treasury, thinking that when they came to take him Christ would Y'els —th vie with -telt -- power. a • 2,44.1