Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-11

conveyed to her, nut awakenet little or
no hope or interest. TIL time elapse WAS
too long now tn almit Of that Just then
the sun was tipping the hills in crimson
glory as he descen led Ia hi, rest. and his
influence seemed to ditfuse itself over the
girl rs she iuvoluntarI!y stood stlil in her
doorway to gaze towards him. Figures In
her line of vision seemed to mimglc them.
selves in mirage, or growing nearer amO
larger, to disappear like the phantoms If
IA speCtruSCupe. Her thoughts were else
where, and she was but dimly conscious
Of what she saw Unobserved, a figure.
outlined against the sunset, was adyanC-
Ing across the fields and gr yinL rapI fly
upon her vision, till, with start, she
found her attention unCOuSCiuusly caught
and arrested by it The figure, that Of a
stalwHrt young man, was by this time
ascending the incline towards the village
The nearer he came tho more intense
grew the interest OF the watcher ill her
breath seemed to stand still with sus
pense. A futtrrIny OF handkerchief, and
in an instant she was flying towards him,
and the meeting between husband and
wife is such "a might be suppose after
one week Of welded happiness, and when
he had returned, as it were, from the
dead-a meeting which IS best left 10 the
Imagination Of the reader.
1t seemed the boat had been forced to
drive before the storm, and had been
swept round by the Pentland firth with
its boiling tide till she got into the lee
shore off the west coast of Scotland, and
had then managed to get safely into one
of the ports Of Sutherlandshire- at time
when there were no telegraphS or rail
ways in that region. Thence the bearer
OF the tidings had AT once set Off on foot to
relieve the terrible anxiety Of his young
wife and Of the other families, while the
rest of the crew remained with the boat to
bring her round as soon as the wind
favored There were feastIng and re
JuiCiug that night in the village over the
safety of the lost Ones and the metamor
phosis of the seeming ill-Omen that had
brought so much added grief for a time
into an unexpected wIndfall Of good
fortune in the shape of large profits from
the oil and walebOne embodied in the
lcviathan. ;" in London Society.
How Good Cigars Are spoiled.
Four men out of five smoke" said a
cigar dealer, land about three out of the
four smoke cigars OF one kind or another
But not one man i'll twenty knows any
thing about cigars. The nineteen couldn't
tell IA good cigar from poor one. Even
the people who pay pretty good prices for
their cigars do SO because they are proud.
They judge cigars 10y their cost. Not many
smokers know that cigar worth 10 cents
one day may not be worth a nickel the
next day. Taking care OF cigars is an art
1t is impossible to buy a good cigar in a
drug store or other shop where the goods
are displayed In a show case, with the lids
OF the boxes open. Good cigars spoil
quickly if exposed to dry air. They should
always b. kept in close, slightly moist,
zinc boxes. \ man will buy box of
cigars and pay g, -. SO, or perhaps 81
a hundred for them.
He takes his box home puts it up on a
shelf In his bed room, or in a hot, dry
closet which is next to a chimney As
like as not he leaves the lid of the box off
or imperfectly closed Next morning his
box of cigars is worth about 3. The
flavor is gone They are dry and burn
hot and fast. II the mans pride in his
own judgment as a buyer of cigars, and
that confidence in and admiration for his
own, which every man feels, do not de-
strOy his taste he comes back anl makes
a big kick and swearS that we have
palmed off on him al article much in
feriUr TO the one he has been smoking and
which he liked 50 we'll There is another
thing which smokers of good imported
cigars would do well TO remember. 4
cigar carried in a mans vest pocket two
or three hours is absolutely spoiled, so far
rs flavor Is concerned | would rather
smoke common nickel cigar than a l5-
cents imported which q man has carried
in his vest pocket from the time he left
home il the morning until after dinner
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