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The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-09-21

JOANNA SHOOK HANDS WITH HIM FRANKLY.
The lady dropped her knife and fork
with clatter. How hoTridl A pota-
to, Mr.. Wibberley2 What do you mean2'
'.What say" he answered simply.
"You see my plate? It is a picture,
Mrs. Galantine. You have there the
manly beef and the feminine peas, so
young, so tenderl And the potatol The
potato is the confidant. It is insipid.
Do you not agree with me?H
Bravo, Mr.. WiDberley! But am to
apply your parallel. she asked sharply.
glancing across the table with her fork
uplifted and pea upon it. '.Am to be
the potato9s
1.-The choice is with you,n he replied
CALAMITY. "Shall it be the potato or the
peas?"
Mrs. Burton Smith, seeing him so alb
sorbed in his companion, grew puzzled.
Look as often as she might at Joanna,
she saw no sign Of jealousy or self con-
sciousness in the girls face Joanna
seemed to be getting on perfectly with
her partner; to be enjoying herself to
the full, and to be as much interested as
any one at table Mrs Burton Smith
sighed, if the truth be known. She had
the instinct of match making. And she
saw clearly now that there was nothing
between the two; that if there had been
any philandering at Temple Rothley
neither Of the young people had put out
a hand-or heart-beyond recovery.
But this success of Wibberley's with
Mrs. Galantine had its consequences.
After the ladies had withdrawn he grew
just trife presumptuous. BY i'll luck,
too, the Hon. Vereker May had reached
that period Of the evening when India
as seen through the glasses of his mem
ory-was accustomed to put on the rosiest
tints, and the two, facing one another,
fell to debating on asubject of which the
returned civilian had seen much and
thought little, and the private secretary
had read more and thought not at all.
They were, therefore, about on a par as
to information, and what the younger
man lacked of obstinacy he made up by
readiness. It was in vain that naboh
clustered, asserted, contradicted- finally
grew su1lky, silent, stertorious Wib-
berley pushed his little triumph, and
soon, as we shall see, paid dearly for it.
It happened that he was the last to
enter the drawing room. The evening
was chilly. The ladies had grouped
themselves about the fire, protected from
assault, SO to speak, by couple of gypsy
tables bearing shaded lamps The in
corners, one by one, passed through these
outworlzs-all but Wibberley. He cast
a glance of comic despair at Joanna, who
was by the fireplace in the heart of the
citidel; and then, resigning himself to
separation, he took low chair by one
of the tables, and began indolently to
turn over the books which lay ON the
latter. There were but half a dozen.
He scanned them all. and then his eyes
fell on bracelet lying by them on the
olive green plush--a sketchy gold brace
let with one big boss-Joannas.
He looked up at the party-hinlself
sitting little aside, as we have said
with stealthy glance. There were none
Of them facing his way. They were dis
cussing photograph on the over nantel,
q photograph of children by Mendels-
sohn. He sfreteh"d his hand out softly
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mrs. Michael Curtin, Piainfield H., makes the
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mat no medicine could cure her Her druggist
suggestea Dr. Kings New Discovery for Con
sumption; she bought o bottle and to her de-
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Sne continued its use, and after taking ten bot
Sies' round herself sound and WELL and now toes
ner own housework and is as well as she ever
was = free trial bottles of this Great Discovery
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THIS IS NOT THE BRACELET" he SAID.
At the end Of the minute Wibberley
turned. Forthe first time he confronted
his visitor. His eyes were strangely
bright, his face very pale, but his month
was set strong and firm. II never said
it VAST he answered grimly.
''Was whatg
81 never said it was Lady Linacre's.
It was you who said that, he continued,
his head high, a singular change evident
in his demeanor, an incisiveness almost
harsh in his tone. 1T was you-you
who suspected mel could not show you
my arm because had that bracelet on it. I"
'sAnd whose bracelet is it," Burton
Smith 1nurmured doubtfully, shaken as
much by the sudden change in the mans
de1neanor as by his denial.
ut Is your Cousins Miss Burton's
We are engaged replied Wibberley
sternly-so entirely had the two changed
places s'She intended to tell you to-
morrow. saw it on the table and Sc
GREETED it when / thought no one was
looking. 1t was foolish thing to do"
''And it was Joannas bracelet that
vereker May saw you talze?'
Precisely"
Burton Smith said word about the
civilian which we need not repeat. Then
he added: But why on earth, old fell
low, did you not explain?'
Firstly" Wibberley replied with force,
because should have had to proclaim
my engagement to all those fools, and
had not Joanna's permission to do that.
And, secondly-well, did not wish to
confess to being such an idiot as I was. /"
"Umph!' said Burton Smith, slowly,
an odd light in his eyes. 81 think you
were fool. butt suppose you will
shake hands,"
Certainly, old man" And they did
SO, warmly.
"Now them" continued the barrister,
his face becoming serious again. ssthe
question is, where is Lady Linacre's
bracelet
THAT is hardly my business" Wibber-
ley answered. II am sure you will ex-
cuse me saying so. have had trouble
enough with It'll know that-and, if
you don't mind, Lam off to bed"
But, though his friend left him on the
instant, Wibberley did not 60 to bed at
once. Burton Smith, hurrying home
ward, to find when he reached Onslow
mansions that Lacy Linacre's bracelet
had been discovered in fiounce of her
dress, would have been surprised, very
much surprised indeed, could he have
looked into the chambers minute later
Ia minute after his own departure. He
would have seen his friend cast down ON
his knees before great chair, his face
hidden, his form shaken by wild hysteri-
cal sobbing. For Wibberley was moved
for once to the inmost depths of his ma
ture. It is not given to all men to awake
and find their doom a dream. Only in
dreams indeed does the cripple get his
strength again and the murderer his old
place among his fellow men. Wibber-
ley was fortunate.
And the lesson-did he take it to
heart? Well, lessons and morals are ont
Of fashion. Or stay-ask Joanna. She
should know
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- 49, D1OIIEU bOMEIHlNG.
To this day Ernest Wibberley wonders
when he first made the disagreeable dis
covery of what he had done-that he had
taken the wrong bracelet It was not
early. 1t was not until the aggrieyed
owner had twice proclaimed her loss that
he felt himself redden, and awoke to the
consciousness that the bracelet was on
his own arm. Even then, if he had had
instant presence Of mind, he might have
extrieated himself He might have said
at once, "By Jove! think I slipped it
on my wrist in pure absence Of mind, :"
or made some other excuse for his pos
session of it which would have passed
muster, though one or two might have
thought him odd. But time was every
thing, such excuses to avail must be
made at once, and he hesitated. He
hated to seem odd, even to one or two,
and he thought that presently he might
find some chance of restoring the brace
iot without being detected. So he hest
tated, peering at the carpet, and the
golden opportunity passed him by. Then
each moment made the ayowal more DIFF
ficult and less possible, until, when his
host appealed to him, ssIf you have hid
den it for joke. old fellow, out with
it," he had no choice--or it seemed to his
uneasy conscience that he had no choice
but to answer as he did.
He looked up indeed with admirably
acted surprise and said his II? Certainly
not!" somewhat peremptorily.
Half a dozen Of the guests were peer
ing stupidity about, as If they expected to
Gnd the lost article in a flower yass or
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have had such scene as has been des-
cIibed at your house, but it is worse, if
a man be man, to face fellow crea-
ture in his time Of shame. At any rate
Burton Smith felt it so. "Look here,
Wibberley," he said at length, as much
embarrassed as if he had been the thief;
''look here; it will be better to hush this
up. Give me this COMPOUNDED bracelet
to hand back to Lady Linacre and the
thing shall go no further"
His tone was curiously suggestive both
Of old friendship and present contempt
and pity. But when he had to repeat
his question, when Wibberley gave him
no answer, his voice grew harsher.
Even then the man with the hidden face
did not speak but pointed with an inn
patient gesture to the maEtel shelf
Burton Smith stepped brislrly to the
place indicated and looked. He was
anxious to spare the culprit as far as pos
sible. Yes, there was the bracelet. He
seized it, anxious, II the truth be known,
to escape BON the place with all speed
But he laid it down the next inasant %
quickly as he had taken it up, and his
brows came together as he turned sternly
upon his companion.
This Is not the bracelet he said.
There was no smack Of old affection in
his tone now; it was wholly hostile.
His patience was exhausted. Lady
Linacre's was diamond bracelet Of
great value, as you know. This is q
plain gold thing, worth go or CO. For
heavens sake, man. he added with sud
den vehemence--'for your own sake, do
not play the fool now. Where is the
| hranaletY'
No doubt despair had partially be.
numbed Wibherley's mind. for still he
did not speak, and Burton Smith had ia
| put his question more than once before
| he got an answer. When Wibberley did
at last look up it was with dazed face,
"What is itSH be muttexed, avoiding the
| others eyes.
This Is Npt Lady hnacre's bracelet
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JOANNA'S BRACELET.
It Was the Missing Link in a Curious
Comedy Of Errors.

her nose too small, and her lips too full.
For her eyes were bright and her COM
plexion perfect, and her face told Of wit,
and good temper, and freshness. She had
beautiful arms, too, for chit Of 10.
Mrs. Galantine said nothing about the
arms NOT out Of modesty, but because
her own did not form one of her strong
points. Wibberley, however, was think
ing Of them, and whether a certain
bracelet he had by him would fit them.
He saw Joanna wore bracelet--a
sketchy gold thing. He wondered wheth-
er he should beg it for pattern or
whether it might not be more pleasant
to measure the wrist for himself.
But Mrs. Galantine returned to the
charge. "She is a cousin, is she notg'
she said, speaking SO loudly that Joanna
looked across and smiled. 81 have never
met her. Tell me all about her.
Tell her all about herl Wibberley
gasped He saw a difficulty in telling
her all about her, the more as the gen
eral conversation at the moment was not
brisk and Joanna could hear every word.
For an instant indeed his presence of
mind failed him, and he cast an appalled,
glance round the table. But then he
bent to his task. Mrs. Galantine," be
mulmured sweetly, co1identially. pray
pray beware of becoming a potatoF'
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Money and Clothes for dead Relative

SUsoUEHANA, Pa, Feb. I8.-Sus-
quehanna county is greatly excited
over very queer lawsuit, Philander
Brown and his wife, of Lathorp town
ship, were last week arrested and
brought before Esquire COPYRIGHT
in Montrose charged by Paul Hill,
of Lathorp, with fleeing him out of
$2,700. Hill says that Brown and
his wife claimed to be spiritualists
that they represented to him that
Jesus Christ was in need of a large
sum of money, and that he Child
must supply it. Brown also claimed
that he had received letters asking
for money and signed "Jesus Christ"
and that he had also received letters,
purporting to have come from a de-
ceased relative, stating that she was
very much in need of money and
clothes. After one of the most ex-
citing trials ever held in this county
Brown and his wife were held to bail,
in default of which they were sent to
Jail. Brown now brings suit against
Hill and A. Ii. McCollum, his attor-
ney, for damages amounting to $780,
900, and also against Constable Or
lando Watrous and Esquire Court
right for $4,000 each, for false i'm
prisonment. Mr.. McCollum is a
brother of Justice McCollum, of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
What the final result of this strange
case will be is hard at this time to
predict.
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JUDGE KelIY's Successor.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. ia
local election for Receiver Of Taxes,
City Solicitor, Councilmen and TWEEN
ty-one Police Magistrates was held
in this city-day. At the same time
a special election for the unexpired
term for the late Judge Kelly was
held in the Fourth Congressman Dis.
trict, which comprises the northern
section of the city. On account of
the length of the ticket and the
amount of cutting INDUCED in by the
adherents of rival magistrates, only
the most meagre returns have been
received up to midnight. The indi-
cations are, however, that John f..
Reyburn Republican, Will be Judge
Kelly's successor in Congress by a
slightly reduced majority. Captain
John Taylor Republican, was elect
ed Receiver ofTaxes, and Charles f.
Warick (Republican) was elected
Citizen Solicitor by about the usual
majorities.
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The Worlds Fair.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l8.-There was
a good deal of interest shown in the
House to-day over the result of the
compromise reached in New York
concerning the Worlds Fair. The
bill will come up for consideration
in the House on Thursday, and ac-
cording to the present canvass made
by members interested in the ques-
ton New York has 100 votes, Chi
cago so, st. Louis SIS, Washington
35 and doubtful 33. The 100 votes
for New York are divided pretty
equally among Republicans and
Democrats. The 80 votes of Chi
cago are largely Republican.
The bill now before the House
appropriates 81 100000 for Govern
ment exhibit, and if no larger appro-
priation than that is asked for it
may be that Worlds Fair will be
held. 1t is the general belief of
those best acquainted with the stu
alton that no larger appropriation
can be got from Congress, which
means that there will be q World 3
Fair in New York or else none at
all. 1t is undeniable that the wrang-
lie in New York has largely injured
the chances Of that city.
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A Prayer With " Meat" In II.

On the day that Judge Fleming
was inaugurated February s, as Gov
ernor, Rev. A. Becks, oolored, de-
livered the following striking prayer
in the House of Delegates, which has
not hitherto been published but is
worth reading;
20, Lord, we present ourselves in
this House to transact business TO
Thy glory and honor and to the good
OF man. We are thankful this NOR
ming that we are here in health and
all; further we are thankful that no
deadly diseases have reached the
members of this House as happened
to the Legislators of Ohio and some
OF our leaders of Washington City.
Bless each and all. Bless their faml-
lies while they are here. May they
work for the glory of God and to the
people. o, Lord, as this question of
the Governorship has been settled in
this House they are any wrong in it,
it is upon this House and not upon
him who shall be inaugurated to-day.
Therefore may he live thro' the three
years, and rule with such impartiali-
ty and kindness that all may be pleas
ed with him. o, Lord, help us all to
march with him in one body to make
this State Grand. Lord bless the
Speaker, and may he rule with an
impartial heart. Guide him right.
Bless our city and may it prosper,
and o, Lord, if that grand man who
was elected has been wronged out of
his seat, hasten the day and time in
which he shall come forth to victory
over the enemy, even as right will
correct wrong. Bless and bring us
together, after our march through
this world of trouble is ended to a
land of rest. Amen.
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Beware of Ointm ents for
Catarrh that contain
Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from repu-
table physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, o.,
contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. In buying Halls Ca
tarrh Cure be sure you get the genu-
inc. 1t is taken internally, and
made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. j.
Cheney & Co.
~ Sold by Druggists, price IS
cents.
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PIcKARDsvILLE, No., Feb. IT,
The temperance crusade in this Sec
ton of the State is spreading. 1t
reached here early last week, and the
temperance forces have been ferment-
ing eyer since. Last Thursday a
number of women met and resolved
to close up a club house run by Dury
Davis in defiance of the liquor laws.
The ladies met at o'clock Friday
evening to carry out their design.
Armed with rocks, hatchets and axes,
they proceeded to the saloon, accom-
panied by the usual complement of
small boys and curious men.
With the rocks the women smashed
in all the windows, and with the axes
chopped down the door. Having
gained entrance to the saloon, the
women possessed themselves of the
bottles and kegs of beer and barrels
of whisky, and carrying them into
the streets their contents were
emptied into the gutter. Returning
to the saloon, the fixtures were de-
molished, and the crusaders work
was done. Hamilton Brady, the
owner of the building, says he will
prosecute the women for destroying
his property. Dury Davis, who run
the saloon, has nothing to say.
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Extreme Destitution.

PETERSBURG, VA, Feb. l7.--George
p. Barham, judge of the county
court of Greenville, is authority for
the statement that the condition of
the farmers of Greenville county is
even worse that it has been repre-
scented. The restitution is not con-
fined to the poorer classes, but chief
ly to the farmers who have hereto
fore had good crops and plenty of
supplies. Through the failure of
crops for the past three or four years
the farmers have been forced to raise
money by deeds of trust on fheir
farms and bills of sale for their per-
sonal property.
To-day many of the farmers have
not enough to feed their families or
teams a week longer. The appeal
made to the people of the country
has been responded to, and pro-
visions have been sent from Maine
to Florida. On Saturday 22nd the
distribution will be made at Hicks
ford.
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Whipped by White Caps.

WHEELING, W. VA, Feb. l6.-The
red men and white caps spirit seems
to be coming to the front again in
certain sections of the State. At
Rockport, Wood county, Charles
Smith and his wife were both taken
from their homes and numerically
beaten on the bare back with hickory
withes, and compelled to leave the
county and the State. The family
passed through Parkersburg yester-
day, and told a horrible story of
their sufferings and treatment. The
wife says that after whipping her
husband the mob caught her as she
was trying to escape from the house
with the children, and tied her to a
tree. She was then beaten until the
blood came Mrs. Smith says the
sole cause for the outrage was her
resistance to the improper solicita-
ton of citizen other neighborhood.
At Clay Courthouse a woman was
also driven away by a mob, who Wis
tied her house, firing guns and re-
volvers, and tied a a note Of warning
and a bunch of hickories to her door.
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PistoIed by White Caps.

FREDERICK, MD, Feb. IA party
of masked men, numbering about
thirty and posing as White Caps,
surrounded the house of Dennis
Davis, colored, at Brook Hill, a
small village, six miles from this
city, at $50 o'clock last night, and
calling for Mrs. Rebecca Bruchey,
a white woman 40 years old, who
was inside they accused her of undue
intimacy with Davis and threatened
to kill her.
She opened the door little way
when Colts revolver was exploded
by some one in the crowd and the
bullet struck the woman in the left
breast below the heart, coming out
under the right arm. She was seri-
ously and, perhaps, fatally wounded.
None of the parties to the shooting
have been identified, nor have the
authorities taken any action. She
laid all night without the care of a
physician and until this morning,
when DR.. Haffner, of this city, was
summoned.
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whose style and title is "Foltz," con-
sequently the mail will be received
here soon.
Many fine large fish were caught in
the Potomac and 0pequon on last
Saturday.
Mrs. Tabler of Rabbitsburg moved
to your city last Tuesday, where she
expects to make her future home.
She is a good neighbor.
In the Herald of the 9Th inst, we
noticed few lines over the signature
of lone of his scholars whose lam
guage is not much above mediocrity,
referring to a remark that we made
few weeks ago in referring to teach
ers teaching songs in the churches
to singing classes. What we wrote
was pro bonopubl5co, and hadno more
reference to Prof. Renner than to
any other teacher who teaches songs.
BUTT made the "gauled jade vince. +"
If the scholar would learn to APP
preciate and hold with tenacious
grasp that precious jewel called
truth, then his Tor her) writing
would be less liable to criticism.
The weaker sex might possibly be
Jealous of Prof. r. but neuer such
men as &C" and "Arcturus. 1T is
said that "butter to butter is no
sauce"
Rev. Mcdaniel, pastor of Mt. Wes-
ley church, will preach his valedic-
tory on tomorrow at the usual hour.
Mars is the ruling planet this year,
consequently, we are to have, accord
ing to the century almanac, a dry
cold spring with occasional frosts
until May, with very hot summer
days and oppressive sultry nights.
Fall will also be dry, with a cold
October and November generally
warm. Winter will be very cold,
dry and -changeable-so it was a
hundred years ago when Mars ruled.
The spelling bees at this place and
at Scrabble seem to be interesting to
the young.
Butter is worth lie, Eggs 1Oc,
Hams 13c, Hens Gle, and Wheat 73c.
XoR.
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Shot Down a Minister.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. lS.-News
was received at Frankfort to-day that
a young man named Booth, 10 years
old, waylaid minister, Rev. Mike
Whisman, near Compton, KY, and
fatally cut him with knife. Whis-
man lived two hours after receiving
his wounds, and made statement
about the attack.
Booth was accompanied by a man
named Sparks. Whisman had once
punished Booth while the latter was
a schoolboy, and Booth had threaten
ed then to be revenged and never
forgot his fancied wrongs.
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A Peculiar Accident.

STEUBENvILLE, o., Feb. 1S.-A pc
culiar accident, causing death, hap
pened on Sunday to Robert, the sew
erteen-year old son ofJohn Latimer,
living in West Virginia, opposite
here. He was playing "catcher"
with several small children, and ran
against the house with such force as,
from either the results OF the concus-
sion or some internal injury, to suf-
fer death this morning. There were
no signs of external injury upon his
body.