The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-06-06
The Fate OF nr. Leatherby.

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For IN sGhat LONGER than = month. the
foilewin0 advert;sment has been standing
in tvo of tho lead;no Chicago and st.
Ton;a nanera.
Nvsterious disappearance-$5OO re-
ward. On the evening of tho Sd of De-
cember. Mr., Jerome r. Leatherby left his
home on North Fifth street, Burlington,
for fho nurnose. a. he stated of visiting
friends n tha, civ. He has never since
been seen. and nothing heard of him, the
miaalp9 man IL forty years of aye, i've
feet and seven inches high, with blue
eyes and light hair, a Close cut beard:
Wa verv particular in his dress: speaks
verv deliberately, and IN deem voice: il
short sighted and wears eyeglasses. and
has . deep scar on the back Of the :rieht
hand. $500 will be paid By his relatives
at Burlington for anv information that
win lead to his recovery. if living. or the
recovery Of his BODY, if dead. Here fol-
;lowe the address of the adviser. :
AT frnt We Maid yerv littly attention
10 thia naraoranh. prcsuminp that it was
enc Of thoee Ordinary cases Of disappearance
in which the disapneared will reappear
of his own accord. il his friends vii: only
have patience and wait until he has spent.
ali his m6oev. But a.. time passed ON
and the absent Mr.. Leatherby did not
turn mn. we becnme interested. examined
the description of the missing man more
carefully. and. after making q few in
on;r;ea took the i;l,ertv If wr;t;no to the
iournals to which reference has been
made. ana ordering the discontinuancc
Of the advertisement without consulting
the interested parties. confident that we
could throw flood of LIGHT upon the
mystery. and knowing that the ADVERTISE
ncat was hereafter useless.
On the evening of December sd, the
date of, Mr.. Leatherby's. sudden and
mysterious disappearance. for it is to
be remsrked. Is pa,sins. that ali mys.
ferrous disapuearances are sudden: no
one ever heard or read an article about
a "pradual and MYSTERIOUS disappear
ance" of ANYBODY; on the night of the
I'd Of December. we were sitting in tho
sanctum of the Huck- Eve when knock
at the door announced visitor, whom
We somewhat angrily called unon to
:come in" It always anuoys An editor
10 hear a knock at the sanctum door.
The only pcople who knock arc pcoplc
who have charity subscriptions, ball
tickets for sale, favors to ask, original
poetry to publish, on advice to give
away We must confess that our anger
not only passed away, but that we felt
somewhat ashamed Of it when the visitor
entered. As we recall his gentIemanly
address. his respectable appearance. the
mild blue eves. the vell-kent beard. the
deliberate. impressive utterance Of our
visitor, We can see the very man de-
scr;hed ~ m;nutelv in the advertisement
which rs herein placed. before our
readers. Our interview with the stranger
was not a long one. hat ther. are cir
c,,m.t.ncca co1norted with = uh;rh in
S" ,, oo1aH""" WV"
oenDAy stampeo tue image ol us princllai
actor in our memory, and lend an abid-
ing interest to what otherwise might,
and indeed would, have been bat a tire
some, ordinary, everyday incideng OF a
newspaper office.
After few moments conversation on
general topics, the stranger drew from a
vest pocket small scrap, which appeared
to be q Newspaper clipping. II have
here" he remarked, with the slightest
trace of hesitation, which was lost iu the
air Of eseerness and interest which at
once took possession of his manner. II
have here probably one of the most inter-
esting and remarkable little literary waits
that has ever come to nv notice. It is
very old, and its well-authcnticated anti
putty dating back as far IS 1859, and
the remarkable prophecies which it makes,
and most ofwhich have in our own time
been so infinitely fulfilled, lend it an
air of interest that nothing else in Eng
lish literature can claim It is called
Mother Symptoms Prophecy and reads
as follows:
I'm twice two-huudred years the Bear
The Crescent shall assail;
T Tno Ra inc a EoTK n anu nr nui h''
But look: in twice ten Years.
Save by ourselves tho Office was desert
ed. the hour was lAias, IN provocat;on
was maddeninp: the Temptation irresist-
ible. Il is NOT for ma to nrv into myster
les of that awful 3D. .of December. W.
can only saw it is useless to advertise 70,
the missing Mr.. Leatherby. We can only
sav that NO one can ever come forward tc
claim the reward, under either OF the con.
is our firm belief that Jerome X: Leather
er SYMPTOMS Prophecy" 1t IS our can