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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-09
CHAPTER x.

"You are ready, Perdita?" said Ger ald with great gcntloness, on certain morning just three days later.
 ''Yes," she answered, standing before him in simple dark dress, with a bunch of flowers at her bosom. Then, as he raised her hand and held it to his lips, she went on: "Who is waiting there, Gerald?"
 Down in the drawing-room? No one except the clergyman who Is to marry us and our good friend. Dr. Clyde, not to speak of poor, dull, obliging Mrs. Brawne." He was going to add, in hu- morous afterthought, ''expensive Mrs. Brawne, might also call her." but sud- denly preferred not to speak the words.
 Instead of them he gayly said: "The sun is shining as merry as if 1t were one of my old English May mornings. And the sun Is shining in my heart, too, Perdital do so hope it's the same with you!"
 Her eyes swan in tears as they dwelt on his face. "Oh, Gerald" she said, ''whatever that blotted-out past # mine may have been, I'm certain 1t never brought love to me, never, neverI" She bowed her head on his shoulder. "There is no Expenditures that could cloud such love as I feel for you It is this thought that makes me sure can not be doing wrong. And yet who knowsi who knows? There are times when those hidden years are like monstrous iron door, against which I seem to be slowly dashing myself to death." Her words ended in a shudder. With tender force Gerald uplifted her head and kissed her fervidly once or twice on the lips. '"These arms are here, such forlorn fate. And remember" ht went on, with kind of boyish catcE ing of tho breath in his hope-stirreC tones, ''there Is somewhere new life prepared for us in a lanC
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that is new. He who SO long has beer my benefactor will not desert me now, By degrees, my dearest, you will begin to forget that you have forgotten Even the recollection that I found you homeless and shivering in the street at night will melt into the brighter con- sciousness of how much mutual joy that meeting has borne us both. Come, now; let us go down; they are waiting. There, I'll kiss away your tears. Above all things that the sun hates to shine on, I'm sure it must be fearful bride."
 They went downstairs together into the little front drawing-room. The placid-faced clergyman Unconscious of her mental trouble) had taken Per dita's hand and was saying something kindly or perhaps jocose to her in a lowered voice. Just then a servant slipped up to Gerald's side and handed him a card.
 Gerald turned toward Clyde. "My brother, Sylvan" he said. "Can he have heard of my marriage?"
 1T did not tell him." Clyde returned, neutrally.
 "Where did you show MT. Maynard9'' said Gerald to the servant
 "Into the next room, sir," he was answered.
 A pair of heavy folding-doors Qn whRa is now somewhat old-fashioned style for New York; separated these two apartments. These doors were tightly closed. Gerald turned to the clergyman with smile.
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A ROMANCE OF TWO BROTHERS

"Leave, if you can," he counsered. ''the tangle of your present affairs, and come eastward with speed. You have already written Gerald that your real losses are slight. All the better reason, my good friend, why you should seek at this hour the mad boy who hurries to bourne that may prove his lasting grief and disgrace"
 Somewhat strangely, 1t must be owned, on the very afternoon when Clyde sat In his study scaling and di- recting this letter, Gerald, with flushed face and brilliant eyes, pushed himself unannounced across the threshold.
 "Wish me joyI" he said, throwing his strong, 1.-the frame into chair.
 "She has consented to marry me. She loves me, and has agreed to link her fate with mine. 1t must happen in few days, Clyde-a very few days We shall go straight to join dear old Dr. Thorndyke after our marriage. feel I've neglected him horribly. But when he sees Perdita he will pardon me, I'm certain. And we shall live out there with him, if he'll let us"
 "Where do you mean?' asked Clyde, wiping his pen, and giving a sad little
 
 front. Chicago? It can't be very comfortable there just now, considering that most of 1t is in ashes."
 ''Oh, we'll find some other place out in the Vest" said Gerald, with an ex- cited toss of the head. "There are lots of them. It will be a new life, and that's just what I want. You forget that l only need n little time to work again at the elixir and realize from it O monstrous fortune"
 Clyde made a plaintive sort of tattoo on the desk before him with the we'll kept fnger-nails of one hand "Ah, yes-yes, indeed" he muttered, in joy less monotone. Not long afterward he posted his copious letter to Thorn dyke, and then had conscience stricken feeling that he should have spent small fortune in sending it all by telegram.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-09

THEY say that Gen. Sherman and Gen. Johnston entered into an agree ment soon after the war that the sur vivor of them should serve as pail bearer at the others funeral.
 JOHN M. FRANCIS, editor of the Troy Times. who is spending the winter in Alabama and is nearly seventy years of age, is still hale and hearty, and enjoys his six or seven mile walk daily.
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PENMANSHIP. Prof. AOIleV

Teaches every pupil to write fine rapid business hand in . course of 1e private lessens q q NO FAILURES.
 All kin 7s of pen work executed in the highest degree of the art 131 Bank St
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Everybody asking how it is possible for us to make the fine, stl fish and handsome Suit. Overcoat and Trousers at prices which are so far below those charged by other tailors.
 We have the fin-st assort. ment of Woolens to be found in town, and if you have any doubt about our ability to please you, call at our store, and we will refer you to hun. dreds of patrons who are an. xious and willing to- give testi.. mony to the very satisfactory manner they were treated by us. We not only CUT your garments to order, but we also MAKE THEM TO ORDER, which, by the way, makes a difference to the initiated. All our work is made and cut right on our premises, by the best of workmen.
 SUITS t. order from..$15 up
 PANTS '' " $3.5O up
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Job Printing

Everything in the line of printing, from . visiting card to . three sheet poster, printed with neatness and dispatch.
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Lots of Thieves.

Easterner-Havey you any horse thieves in your section?
 Westerner-Lots of 'em. "Lots?"
 ''Yes. Cemetery lots. News.
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Fitted His Mouth Better.

He-Yeth, suppose I was born with a silver spoon in my mouthI
 She-Are you quite sure, MT. Sappy. that it wasn't a silver-headed cane?- Munsey's Weekly.
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An unexnected AnsMer

An Unexpected Answer. Fangle-Cumso, what is the differ ence between Jay Gould and myself? Cumso (promptlyl-Jay is worth moro than SAG, ,0Oo.0 .000 while you are worth less.-JurY.
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LOUNGES

We are showing a fine assortment of Lounges, in Cretonne, Carpet, Moquette, Plush and Rugs, which we bought during the dull season, when prices were low, and can now give you the benefit of those prices. No shoddy goods, all st-class Come in and see them, the Old Reliable House of
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was held for them. Application was
made to the county commissioners 10
remit the costs, but they held that I'M
der the law of 1889 they had no power
to act in the premises. Andrew Steven
son, as attorney for Stoneman, applied
for writ of mandamus to compel the
commissioners to consider the applica-
ton Judge McCue, in granting per-
emptory mandamus, held the law OF
1883 as unconstitutional and invalid on
account of errors and blunders in
phraseology, and that the commission
ers, under the law of 1871, had the
power to remit the costs and set the
prisoner free. Attorney General Ives
has given a similar opinion in the
same case.
Lantry & Son, the Strong City COM
tractors, were in Topeka preparing a
bond to DO submitted with their bid for
the harbor work to be done at Calves
ton. The contract is one of ths largest
that has been let in the west for several
years. It is estimated that it will cost
nearly 100000. There will be fifteen
or twenty bidders, but the Strong City
firm have figured very closely, and feel
confident that they will secure the con-
tract
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CurIous n1nrrIare Cu.toms.

The marriage customs in some parts
of Brittany are very curious. In Cor
nouaille, for instance, the village tailor
is the most important parsonage to
whom the candidate for matrimony ap-
plies for a list of eligible girls. Hav-
ing selected one, the tailor at once pro-
ceeds to the maiden's father, carrying
a wand of broom. While the family
chiefs are making their arrangements.
the lovers retire to the other end of the
house and discourse their own Sweet
music" 1t is necessary that the en-
gagged pair themselves should put an
end to the term of the negotiation
They approach, holding each other by
the hand, to the table where their re-
spectiye parents or relatives are seat
ed, when bread, wine. and brandy are
brought in. The young man and the
maiden eat with the same knife and
drink out of the same cup, and the day
for union is then agreed upon.
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fro BE Continued
Kansas Philosophy.

The Lord is jealous, and man was
made in his image.
Friends, like dollars, are easier to
get than they are to keep.
The countenance lies quite as readily
and forcibly as the tongue.
A man does not love as many as q
woman, but he loves them more.
When a trouble is too deep to talk
about, it writes itself out on the face.
A man can always please q woman if
he will; a woman will always please a
man if she can.
Stranger than fiction is life. and it
keeps men busy day by day to translate
it into acceptable truth.
Public sympathy is the name given
to the feeling for the dog on top; the
private sympathy Is for the under dog.
We don't believe we ever saw a man
who could work with children hanging
around him, or a woman who could not
do it.
When a wise man said, Discretion
is the better part of valor," all the
towards in the world found q motto for
their caps
Better pass a favorable opinion of
one who is undeserving than an unfa-
vorable judgment upon one who de-
serves goodwill.
As long as there are more men in the
world than there are offices, the devil
will always reap an abundant harvest
at election time.
1t very often happens that if the
money put in q monument had been
put in a rest for the man under it, the
building of the monument would have
been delayed several years.-Atehison
Globe.
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OF such life had its fascination for his
dwarfed and distorted mind
I held my breath as We entered the
hallway Of this tenement 1t was in
deed a nOisome place, and I could not
but believe the building had as tenants
number Of Chinese Mott street was
near at hand.
He assembled ever so many flights of
narrow stairs, until I groaned over the
work and the difficulty of cropping ones
way through inky darkness All that
saved me from speedy disaster was the
fact that with one hand / had seized hold
Of the Colonel's coat
At last, when we could go no further,
my guide condescended to halt
We were on the top floor of the tene-
ment, with the roof almost within reach
OF an outstretched hand
This saw after Jingling Of keys had
told me that my companion was opening
a door OF which he possessed the open
sesame, and then 4 match starting into
life was applied 10 a candle.
The room into which he led me was
dingy-loOking place. From the walls
the plaster had fallen until half of the
naked laths were grinning at one as If in
derisiOn-
AS for the low ceiling, it was never
guilty of being plastered, but showed
forth in all the hideOus eOlors of age.
In the middle was trap or scuttle,
secured on the inside. This could read
lily be reached by means of q box that
stood directly beneath il. l saw at a
glance that it was meant to be the burg
lars means Of escape from the rear
should his castle be assaulted in front.
When had looked around for chair,
1 found relic near me, upon which 1
rested my weary frame with not 4 little
suspicion regarding its integrity.
Meanwhile Colonel Cain, the cracks
man, had closed and barred the door
against all possible intrusion.
This done, he seated himself upon the
box and breathed fast Those narrow
and steep stairs We're certainly enough
to lay one out, and my knees felt as
though they would never come into shape
again.
could not remember a worse climb in
my calendar, unless it was at the Bun
ker Hill monument.
We were on deck now, and the time
had about come for diplomacy.
All that had ever read or heard about
men Of this dark profession must stand
me in good stead now, for I had a part
10 play that every man could not carry
out.
had determined TO make out to be a
rather new hand at the business, and
one who, although not up to all the
tricks of the trade, was willing to learn.
In this role, any lack of the requisites
with which your true burglar is sup
| posed to be supplied would be forgiven.
Having taken his seat on the box, the
| burglar lit his pipe, and then, folding his
hands around his knees, proceeded to
/ look me over.
"Who might you be, eomrade, not
meaning TO be rude?" he finally said.
Seeing that you are the host, it is but
fair that you should introduce yourself
/ first. -
"By JOve! you're right, now. What a
/ giddy OK I am to forget. I'm known as
| Colonel Cain, and over the water they do
| say I'm the blOOmin'est trump that ever
/ drew breath"
"Glad to meet you, Colonel Joslyn's
/ my handle-JOe JOslyn at home
We shook hands gravely.
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Silver Anniversary.

Department Commander Ira F. Col
Inns, of the G. a. R., has issued a gener-
al order regarding the quarter centen-
NAL of the q. a. R., in which he says:
General Order No. Is from national
headquarters, dated March 4, 1891,
calls for general observance of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Organi-
zat:on of this order April 6, 1891. In
accordance Herewith, all posts of this
department will on the evening OF that
day hold public commemorative meet
ing, notifying every comrade and ex-
tending special invitations to w. r. Q.
and Sons of Veterans; also to the clergy,
press. school children, and citizens gen
orally. The programme is left to the
discretion of the post commander, but
it is suggested that among other things
a brief summary of the history OF the
post be given, and that the same be
preserved for future reference. These
meetings are ordered by the command
er-in-ehlef in accordance with a resolu-
ton passed by the national encamp-
ment at Boston, August ID and IA,
1890"
Commander Collins also issued call
for the department encampment at
Hutchinson on Tuesday, April %, at
2:30 p. m.
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blade, hope was revived in my soul to an
astonishing degree.
It was singular how much the creese
seemed TO have to do with the Ease, and
we had simply to follow the clews put
forth by the one who perpetrated the
crime in order to reach the end.
OF course l was too wise to betray my
self, and after making sure that my eyes
had not deceived me, kept my attention
away from the blade as much as posi-
BILE
After a time, however, IN getting up 10
stretch my limbs, my hand happened 70
touch it.
~Hallol what's this, anyhow" I asked,
with seeming curiosity.
"a knife" he replied, and I saw some
sign OF uneasiness in his manner.
@Well, that's the queerest knife ever
set eyes on What do you call it, Colonel"
was examining it as I spoke. The
blade was far from bright. Dingy-look-
ing spots that might come from rust or
dried blood marred its surface.
1t was quite contrast to the fine creese
used as paper cutter by LeonOre, and
yet both were built on the same pattern.
at is called a creese. They are used
by the thugs out in India"
Il hope you are not thug, laughed.
@Nonsense. 1 picked the blade up
from beside the body of a friend who lost
his life at the hands Of those cursed fan
atics. Yes, that crease has seen terrible
work"
An unnatural glow came over his face
at the words, and could see, without
appearing to notice, that he had shut his
teeth hard while he spoke.
did not ask for particulars.
They were already before my mind
better than he could give them.
Replacing the creese on the wall, I re-
sumed our conversation at the point
where had broken it of
There was one thing 1 was very anx-
ious to do now. This was to search the
room.
If the Colonel would only leave me
alone there for time 1 believed 1 would
be able to tell positively whether he was
the man we wanted or not.
Fortune favored me.
He was heavy drinker, and could
stand more liquor than most men knew.
The black bottle was now empty, and
by the way in which he took it up sew
eral times and looked into it 1 knew he
had not had enough yet.
So I finally threw half-dollar on the
table with a jingle.
"Colonel, isn't there some place near
by where you can get that replenished?
I'll stand treat, and by the time you get
back I'll have finished what is in my
glass and be ready for more"
ayes, 1 know of a den near at hand.
It'll take me five or ten minutes to get
back. Amuse yourself as best you can,
cOmrade."
Selling the black bottle, he was gone.
heard him descending the stairs, and
when he had reached the second flight
below l concluded 1t was time for me to
begin my operations.
fro BE Continued
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A Startling Message.

, I dropped into a telegraph Office a
few days ago, and here is something
that I saw: A lady entered, and as
she drew a blank toward her said: At
told my husband to order a motto ban
ner in New York. It's to be used for
our Sunday-school room, but I forgot
to tell him what the inscription was to
be, or how large wanted it. If send
him the particulars how soon viii he
get the messenger" The operator an
swered this indefinite question as best
he could, and the message was written.
1 rather imagine her husband was
startled when he received it, for with
out explanation it simply said: ~AIr.
-, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York :
Unto US a child is born two feet long
and eight feet wide. MARY. "-Berk-
shire NelUs.
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CHAPTER XVII.

As I walked away with this man of
dark methods 1 felt that the part which
I dreaded most had been carried through
in a very satisfactory manner
Fortune had smiled upon me. I had
high hopes of attaining my object,
whether this would prove satisfactory to
me or otherwise.
We walked away like old friends.
The Colonel felt himself under great
obligations TO me. That suited my ideas
exactly, as / had some use to make of
this feeling on his part.
We walked along until he finally
turned and asked if I had objection to
accompanying him to 4 retreat of his
which he only used when he desired the
utmost secrecy.
OF course / was dreadfully tickled TO
hear him speak thus, but it was not ae-
cording to my plan that he should learn
my willingness.
agreed to go with him, however.
We were not in the fashionable quar-
ter of the city at this time. SqualOr
surrounded US, and vice stalked rampant
through the narrow streets we now
traversed.
At this hour of the night it would pc
as much as respectable mans life was
worth to walk these dirty streets where
the toughest of New YOrk's citizens were
cOngregated-
Colonel Cain evidently had hiding
place somewhere in this locality, to
which he retired perhaps to ponder
over his plans and perfect them in soli-
tude-
To this den he was now taking the
man who had just saved him from fall
ing into the hands Of the police, in order
to get better acquainted
had no suspicion of foul play The
manner in which had made this mans
acquaintance was against such a thing
as arOusing suspicion in his mind with
regard TO me, and believed things were
just what they appeared to be on the
surface.
SHere we are"
He had stopped in front Of a building
that seemed laden down with ynars-in-
deed, it was only question of mOaths
when it must be condemned by the city
authorities and torn down
Through sheer custom the man, before
he entered here, turned and looked up
and down the dingy, ill-smelling street
This marked as the habltual caution
OF the old thief. Used 10 being hunted
like beast OF prey, he never knew a
minutes peace, and yet the excitement
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STOCK AND FARM.

Thomas county has 10000 acres in
fall wheat, which is said to be in excel
lent condition.
The Concordia Daylight says that
during the past year over 100000 has
been paid out to the farmers tributary
to that aplce by John Stewart, for but
ter, eggs and poultry.
Wellington Monitor: V. A. Marsh
is one of the enterprising farmers of the
valley. He has loaded three cars of
grain at Barnard in the last few weeks;
one of wheat, one of oats and one of
corn. He also has about 1000 bushels
of corn on hand yet.
A man in Sheridan county has two
six gang steam plows, each of which it
is claimed, will break twenty acres of
land a day. He also has a seeder which
plants a strip of ground twenty-four
feet in width, plants, harrows, and pull
verizes all at the same time.
Wellington Standard: The great
corn cribs you saw standing full of corn
two months ago are being lowered very
fast. Several of our neighboring farm
ers thought they would have lots of
corn to sell but it took more to feed
them through than they anticipated.
The Hill City Republican says the
farmers of Graham county have COM
menced sowing their spring grains. 1t
also predicts one of the busiest years in
the history of the county in both town
and among the farmers. The same pa
per notices the return of many of her
people who left there last year.
Ness City Times: Farmers in this
vicinity are putting in a large acreage
of barley, and from the present outlook
every available acre will be utilized.
1t is estimated that there will be twenty
acres planted this spring where only
one was planted last year. In a fair
season barley will yield twice as much
as wheat and generally brings the same
price.
Mound City Clarion: Locally, one
of the most favorable signs of the times
is the great demand for pillow land. In
no former year was there ever such a
demand. 1t would seem from the num-
Der of applications that there was a
pressing demand for third more farms
than usual. Quite a number of sales
are also reported, and the outlook is all
favorable for Linn county.