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lovely a day to shut ones selfup il
the hoilse!n
And the two cousins set off for {
walk on the fashionable thorough
far.
| As luck, or rather Cupid, would
have it, almost the first person they
met was Mr.. Paul Persimmon him
self, sauntering gracefully along, ia
his pearl-colored suit and his ebony
cane, one arm passed through that
Of gentleman-not, however, Major
Milfoil, this time.
Laura's face brightened-she hall
paused-bnt Mr.. Persimmon, avert
ing his eonntenance, hurried on, and
she could hear him say in a qniei
and audible voice:
A mere musicteacher! / never
was so astonished in all my life
Why, supposed"
And distance swallowed up the re-
mainder of the speech.
Laura st. Osborne's cheek flushed
scarlet with Indignation her heart
throbbed high.
Estellem she said, "you are
right.
He is fool, and a shallow one at
that
Miss st. Osborne met him at a
party that self.same evening, but
neither sought the companionship Of
the other. The subtle chains had
been snapped asunder-the electric
charm dissolved!
A month afterward Mr.. Perslm.
mon met a friend on the street, OF
rather an acquaintance, one Mr..
Howard Boynton.
my dear fellow" he cried, seiz-
ing him by a button of the coat, sis
this true that I.hear about you ~
sis what truen Mr.. Boynton de-
manded, composedly.
"That You are engaged to Miss st.
OSBORNE
"Quite true!D
"Miss Laura st. Osborne %
"Yes.n
s'But-she is a music teacherin
THAT would make not a hairs
difference in my estimate of her,
even were 1T true,n Mr.. Boynton
haughtily observed. "But it hap
pens that you are completely mis-.
taken. Miss Estelle st. Osborne
gives lessons in music, thereby eleva.
ting herselfin my estimation through
her high-souled independence; but
her cousin, Miss Laura, is heiress to
a fortune, in her own right, of over
one hundred thousand dollars p'
And Mr.. Boynton, extricating him.
self from the grasp of the perfumed
little dandy, walked quietly on, leav,
ing the latter gentleman transfixed
with establishment and dismay.
He had let the heiress slip through
his fingers after all! Aud a hundred
Thousand dollars! Paul Persimmon
grew pale as he thought oft!
Its all Milfoil's fault!' he cried
querulously to himself. "But I new
er will believe what people say a.
gain"
What a pity it was that our dapper
little hero's good resolutions had
come too late.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-23

An Elmira woman stopped for .
lady friend to accompany her to the
roller skating rink. Nothing loath,
the lady, who was cooking some
sauer kraut, told her visitor to wait
until she put on some pigs feet and
then she would go with her. She
rushed about in hurry and packed
mp, as she supposed, her skates, but
when she reached the rink she found
herself in charge ofthe pigs feet and
on hurrying home found the skates
il the saner krant.
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SELECTIONS.
LOVES STORY.


ished his evening toilet.
He was a handsome young man Of
some sixand-twenty verdant springs
with a yellow mustache and hair to
correspond, pink complexion, like
an overgrown masculine doll, and
big blue eyes which were pronounc
ed "sweet" by all the young ladies
OF his acquaintance and as he stood
there, in the glories of a pearl color.
ed suit, with lavender kid gloves.
cameo shirt studs and an intangible
odor of eau de patchouly about his
initiated northumberland; one
could but think of the wax young
gentlemen in the " diapers and tail
Ors " windows OH Broadway.
Mr.. Persimmon was very hand.
some, spoke with a slight lisp
and waltzed like a Parisian-a and
Mr.. Persimmon was on the lookout
for matrimonial promotion!
Paul must marry rich," said all
his friends. "He could no more
buffet with the waves of adverse for.
tune than a gold fish could swim
among Arctic icebergs. Poor, dear
Paul he must certainly have wife
with moneyw
And SO Mr.. Persimmon himself
thought. He had never been edn.
Gated to do anything except quote
poetry and look handsome, but these
things he certainly accomplished to
perfection. And he was justissuing
from his apartment in Mrs. Gusta.
brooks frst-class boarding house
when Major Milfoil met him face to
face.
"Hello 7" cried Mr.. Persimmon,
cordially, extending one trim, little
gloved hand.
"Hallo, old fellow" responded
Major Milfoil, cavaherly. 81 was
just coming up to talk over last
nights party with you. But You
are going out-well, I'll walk with
you a part of the way"
And he passed his arm through
that of Mr.. Persimmon, adding:
"Charming evening, wasn't 1t %
Delightful" drawled the equisite,
swinging his tiny ebony cane back
and forth as he walked. "But Miss
Ellery does always give such tip-top
entertainments
You, at least, appeared to enjoy
it," said his friend, good-humoredly.
Il saw you flirting desperately with
some girl or otherw
Mr.. Persimmon smiled, and pulled
his faxen mustache.
"Ye-es!n he observed, conscious.
". "Pve pretty much made up my
mind in that quarterr'
GA foregone conclusion, eh s' said
Major Milfoil. "Well, at all events.
she is very pretty in the bright
sparkling style of feminine loneliness,
and she dresses well, too. May
venture to ask her name, and what
may be her local habitation7n
"Oh, Of course,n asserted AIR
Persimmon. ~ was going to call
there this morning as soon as I'd
been round by the club house. aud
stopped in at the Montmartere Ho
tel for few minutes. She is STAY
ing at No. - Meridon street, and
her name is Miss st. Osborne p
Miss st. Osborne p
"Yes-what is there SO peculiar
about the names It's rather mus
al to be sure, bht-,
And No. Meridon street 90
"Exacty So" was the somcwha.
puzzled answer. .Now will you be
good enough to tell me what son are
opening your eyes so wide fors1
Nothing Major Milfoil answered
with slight sllrug OF his shoulders
aexcept that the Miss st. Osborne
who boards with Mrs. Parker 81
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-23
THE VOICE.

The most beautiful and touching
instruments which man has received
from the hand OF his Maker is the
voice. Through words he can lmpart
life and significance to his melodies
he can tell forth the most secret feel
ings of theheart, awaken every pas.
sion into living reality, and power.
fully vibrate all the chords of the soul
What joyful sensation can not the
simple song of the shepherdess ofthe
Alps inspires If such be the case,
how much greater must be the effort
produced by the cultivated singer, if
his song be enliyened by art and
regulated by fancy-we say, regula-
ted by fancy-fcr how often do
singers, betrayed by vanity and affec.
tation, overstep the limits marked
out by nature.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-23
NO. 81.
THE CRADLE.

How steadfastly she'd worked at it !
How lovingly had drest
With all her would.be mother swif
That little rosy nest
How longingly she'd hung on it
1t sometimes seemed, she said,
There lay beneath its coverlet
A little sleeping head. avs
He came at last, the tiny guest,
Ere bleak December fed;
That rosy nest he never prest-
The coffin was his bed.
BY AatstiM Dobsoa.
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Wall Papers,
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Oil cloths,
Blinds, &c.

In thinking over your pur-
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for your money will most likely
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shall make this our chief aim in
the future as it has been in the
past, and we cordially invite all
to cali upon us and compare our
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Rntels.
NOTICE TO TAKE DISPOSITIONS,

VIM. Avis, Assignee, &C., In Circuit
VS.. SCOurt Berke-
Annie A. Colbert & others J ley Co. w Va
To Susan j. Colbert, Rebecca Cover,
Samuel Cover her husband, Ellen S.
Colbert widow of Geo. Colbert, decd !;
Emma j. Colbert, Henry c. Colbert,
Geo. f. Colbert, VIM. Avis, Assignee of
NJ. j. Colbert and Henry G. Colbert, and
Mary E. Avis his wife:
Take notice that the dispositions of
sundry witnesses will be taken at the
office of John B. Martin, Esq, on the
northeast corner of Imbrie Square, in the
town of Coyington, County of Fountain,
State of Indiana, on the 25th day of May,
A. D. 1885, between the hours of nine a.
m. and 6 p. M, to be read in evidence in
behalf of Annie A. Phebus, on her petit
ton filed in the above entitled cause. If
from any cause. the taking of the same
shall not be commenced, or being COM
menced, shall not be completed on that
day, the taking of the same will be ad-
journed from time to time until they are
completed.
ANNIE A. PHEBUS and
GEO. K. PHEBUS,
2my4t By COUNSEL.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
A Novel Capture or Deer.

Capt. Boyd, private secretary of Governor Eaton,
has received letter from his friend, James s. Scott
OF Egeria Park, telling OF very novel capture made
by HIM and his two sons. Mr.. Scott lives upon q
ranch In Egera Park, which is In ROutt County, and
abundance Of game. That mart of uoloraIo ia The
hunters paradise Great herds Of deer ana droves
OF elk wander through the spruce forests aud over
the open patcans. one day few weeks ago Mr..
Scott got up In the morning and found that during
the night hard crust had formed over the surface
of the snow, which covered the ground for miles
around his ranch The crust was so thick and
strong that II would easily bear the weight Of man.
u was Just the day ON which 10 hunt elk or deer for
the hunter could run rapidly over the frozen snow,
while the elk would have, even where they did not
break through the crust to travel gngorly and care
fully 10 keep from falling down. Mr. Scott and his
boys determined to take advantage OF the Oppurii-
nliy anu start on q hunt.
They had gone but short distance from the house
when they saw standing among some spruce trees y
short distance away i've magnificent blue elk and
four big buck deer They could easily have shot one
or more OF them, for, though usually very hard To
approach, the animals In this not disposed
70 run away. lucky thought suggested itself to
Mr. scott, ana that was to capture AL OF them alive
II possible. The only way IN which he could d0 this
was TO drive them into some enclosure, and foriu-
naiely he had large corral near his house which
elk could not leap Telling one OF his boys TO run
hack and open the corral gate, Mr. scott, with tho
ting on the other side OF the game. The rlrsi boy
soon had the corral gate open aud then followed III
the tracks of his father aud brother.
Mr. scott and the two boys then posted themselves
no as 20 drive the elk ana deer toward the corral
when they came near them. The snow crust was
slippery and the game could make but slow progress
Slowly and carefully the herders approached the ek
aud deer, which also moved gradually nearer the
corral. II was novel and very careful work, for II
| the game had taken alarm II would have been i'm
possible TO have secured them alive soon, however
Their Efforts were rewarded by success, for they sue
ceedcd In driving all the i've eks aud four deer init
| the corral. II took them hut u few moments &c
fasien the gate aud uen their PRISONERS We're seoure
| The animals are now all doing well and are feed
ing as contentedly as II they had never known tn,
free life OF the forest. II will not be long until the,
heCome tame, and Mr. Scott will then probably brinI
| them 10 some geological garden IN The East.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
California Hospitality.
tChicago Times. ]


California hospitality is more remarkable than that
OF Germany. have experienced 1t In the following
Impressive and peculiar manner. Anyhow, the
peculiarly Is so noticeable that the newcomer is al
ways surprised by It, The other day called
leading business man and was engaged with him
until noon and affairs were not yet settled when
he invited me out to lunch with him As she is man
whose business runs away up into the millions an
nualy, supposed he would go TO some neat restau-
rant and enjoy civilized lunch, and the belief was
made stronger when he led the way toward the res.
taurant of the Palace Hotel, the finest place of the
human expectations he turned to the left and en-
tered the bar-room. Walking up to the bar he said
to the attendant:
"Give us the bones.r
The barkeeper at once handed him a little round
box containing five dice lie took the box, ratified
barkeeper drew aside two of the dice put the other
three BACK ~ me box; and my friend spilled them
In the box and passed it over to me- with the remark,
"Shake." shook and spilled the dice, and my
frlenu said" you M orthrow again =! Thought
meant When had spilled the dice again he only
remarked, It's ontoyou; whisky in mine" have
the drinks, which were twenty cents each Then
my friends turned around to the free-lunch counter
afraid you viii destroy your appetite for lunch?r
That's lust what am trying to do, or wouldn't
at bars where you come frOm?n he asked
Usually cloves or burned coffee" answered, for
Then my friend informed me that this was tie lunch
that he had invited me to, and that as 1t was n
classes
Later In the day was sitting in the office Of
another leading merchant when a peddler came in
with his basket full of truck on his arm.
"Want anything today" he asked.
nfes, give me shake" said the merchant.
The peddler at once drew dlce.box from his
pocket and they proceeded to shake, and knew
the merchant was ahead, because the fruit dealer
remarked son, h-l,pick em out" The merchant
took two large apples from the basket and, handing
| me one, remarked as the peddler passed out:
~ don't pay for half the fruit eat; In fact, |
nearly always come out ahead of those fellows"
Upon inquiry learned that this practice OF gam
bling is quite general, and that sober business
men who are active and liberal In church and Sun
day-school affairs do not regard II as all Improper.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
Picturesque Paris No Longer.
[Paris Letter in Boston Journal


Carnival brings no especial Joy to Paris. Gavarni
niva and that he had invented the whole institution
at fifty francs lithograph. Certainly his carlca-
lures, 30 numerOusly and so perslstebly followed
up, led the world to believe that the Partisan car
niyal far more generally observed than 1t really
is The masked balls this year are dreary affairs.
The only objects of interest at them are the cele-
brated composers, who feel II their duty to 20 be-
cause their music IL performed AT these festivities
Perhaps they go merely TO look after their authors
rights. AT the Eden Theatre there are masked balls
which are conducted with something Of the license
manifested under the Second Empire. But the
maskers ana the streets grow more and more I'M
common yearly. Paris has lost lis picturesque fea-
lures. Fifteen years ago there were more costumes
OF peasants visible In the capital than now. demOc-
raCy IN doing its accustomed leyellng. The Grand
Opera has been reformed. This will be pleasing TO
the thousands of Americans who, coming here
yearly, have been treated To mediocre performances
In the finest musical palace In the world. The new
directors, Gailhard and Ri, have naugurated q
policy which bids fair 10 he brilliant. They believe
in short and moderately paid engagements for
prominent singers, and are dsmissing all the old
corps of the overpaid. Gabrielle krauss, undoubt-
eddy a singer OF genius, has been receiving immense
sums nj the Opera FOR u long time; she nnds her
salary cut down e-half-and departs Seller, the
tenor, whom Edmond About discovered In a wine
shop, must 20 also, as lie viii not accept reduc-
ton. New operas are 10 he produced In rapid sue
Cession, and the old and foolish routine II 10 he
broken down. Nine. Fides- neyrics, one OF the
greatest singers In the world had been engaged for
100000 francs to appear at intervals, singing sixty
four times in all for that sum. Maurice Strakosch
will snperintend this lady's appearance In the United
States. where she Is expected 10 make an enormous
sensation.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
Chicago Weather.

al arrived ut Chicago at q O'clock l.. NJ one day in
June, lssi. The day had been terribly hot and the
railroad ride from Detroit foreiastc OF rurgatory.
The Western Metropolis was an oven Everybody
pune d and perspired. Lake Michigan lay still and
brealhlcss as the Atlantic just before a cyclone
sleep was hopeless There was no nervous force
leitinthetown. Eyenthc hotel clerks stood unblush-
ing IN thelr shir-sleeyes Mercury 9a degrees
plus. Now listen. Twenty-iour hours later fires
were lighted for warmth everywhere, aud doors
touch OF winter swept the city from the stock Yards
TO Llnoolh farh. Correspondence Eastern jour
nat
Is Il strange that lung aud chest diseases figure 10
largely III le vital statistics OF the Occidental Me-
trnrOlls' Here IL something to The point:
CnlCAGO, sept. rs, 1854.
Messrs Seabury \ Johnsou; An Who are familiar
with ms city arc aware that Il has a very trying
climate. People with weak or diseased lungs run a
great lsk III living here. AZ least such Is my own
experience. Physicians tell me nave cavity In
my right lung, and, Judging from what have suf-
fered thlnk they are right TMoy earsago began
the use OF Bensons Capclne Pastors ana since
then ain almost wholly free from pam In the chest,
/ am satisfied that had II not been FOR Benson's
plaster should have gwen out long ago And stopped
working. As 1t is-by The soothing, healing, and
protective influence OF the plaster lose little or no
time rom my business | deem IL duty. as II
ceralny ~ pleasure, 10 say ths, Tor the ntorma-
ton OF tue people of this city who have any trouble
similar 10 nine | am connected with the Chicago
Telephone Company, and shat he glad 10 relate my
experience 10 ANY one who may call upon me
Yours w. u. HANNA, ol1 wabash ayenue.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
Perfumes and Disiufeetion.


Professor Mantegaszi found that nearly all the es.
sences used in perfumery. ana many others not APP
propriaei by the perfumcr, when exposed to air and
light, develop ozone He says that "the oxidation
of these essences IL one OF the most means
OF producing ozonc, since, even when In very minute
quantity, they eau ozonise large quantity OF oxy-
gen, while their action Is very PERSISTENT that In the
greater number of cases the essences, in order To
develop ozone, require the direct rays OF the sun ;
In u small number Of cases they effect the change
with dinused light; In few or none In darkness"
Even vessel that has been periumei with an es-
sence and afterwards washed and dried still de-
yeops ozone, provided slight odor remains. The
most effective essences are those OF cherry, laurel
palma rosa, cloves, lavender, mint, juniper,
lemon, iehnel, aud nergalnont; the less effective
are anlse, nutmeg, cajepnt, and thyme. Maniegazzi
adds that "camphor, as an ozonogepc agent Ia in
ferior TO any OF the aOoyc-named essences These
facts should he better known than they are. our
grandmothefs used perfumes as disinfectanis aud
ozone being the most effective OF oNldlzing dsil-
fectants, II appears that they were right. In The
Fast, where there IL much need for atmospheric
pnrhrallo Tue old faith Ia perfumes stu remains
with us L. now generally supposed that suci per
fumes merely hide the maodor aud deceive us but
II Manegazz aud Dir. Andrews are right his mt ern
notion Is fallaCy.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
LOVE HIDING.

Love was playing hide and seek,
And we deemed that he was gone.
Tears were on my withered cheek
For the setting OF the sun;
Dark II was, around, above,
Bat he came again, my love!
Chill and drear in wan November,
We recall the happy spring,
While bewildered we remember
When the woods began to sing,
All alive with leaf and wing;
Leaiess lay the silent grove,
But he came again, my love,
And our melancholy frost
Woke to radiance in his rays
Who wore the look OF one we lost
In the far-away, dim days;
No prayer, we sighed, the dead may move;
Yet he came again, my love!
Love went to sleep, but not forever,
And we deemed that he was dead
Nay, shall aught avail to sever
Hearts who once, indeed, were we'd?
Gaflsnds for his grave we wove,
Yet he came again, my love!
The drddentU. RODEN NOEL,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
THE MODERN SHAKESPEARE.
Henrieo and Andromeda Discuss the Fate OF the
Spring Poet.


tyonkers Gazete.l
"Hennco, love It's said that smiling wealth
doth once again give promise to the land"
go to, Andromeda! go more than 10, II thou dosl
INK such doings unto wealth. These pTomiss0ry
things, Ingenious girl, bespeak not wealth, an do
know myself"
81 But here il the symptoms for thee, doubling
doge. This morn saw VncezZO Fazio with vest
ments new as Is the season young and had the goods
but garnshed him with smiles the dolt no more vain
glorious could be-"
"Ah! Poor vincezzo. TITS with him the annual
epoch Of reluited pride, His winter gabardine no
more IN use, he doth with Count simpson, make eX-
change, and these he andayits OF the same"
Z" Hut look thee, sire! whence come these rich ap.
parelings that yester morn saw haunting from the
pew OF Breejig Maloni? No iropic-pheasant ever
smoie with gaud the ambient air as namingy as she,
AMI YET they say she hath pebean BIRTH
"And such Is truth indeed, Andromeda But wist
We not that these he rnslng times, when cleanliness
doth have lis annual Mood and artisans TO soap and
water wed are 'toxlcaie with Crmsns revenue?"
$50 no! That likens reason, good me lord! hut
wherefore can II he that Senior Srissori who doth In
eloquent OF years, doth now In golden chariot wing
the plaza through and chucklcs meath his velvet
drapery?"
"'Fie ON thee for folly nirt indeed, an thou
know'st not that Senior Scissor dOtn own the Semi
Weehip Mdccdroon an that there now TO him doth
culminate waste-hasket revenue surprising rich !?
It's now the yernal poet doth discharge healthy
but predesnated pus, and not a sanctum In the
printers world but has fuel for the ragman's
NAV than all humanity doth else produce. his with
this merchandise he doth at times make good pre-
tense TO riches, thou sees an yet there be those
In the land. sweet child, will tell thee poetry doth
bear no fruit