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A few leaves from my diary:

A few leaves from my diary:
Friday, May BON. wrote to the Wal
cots; marvelously civil. Signed deeds.
Lunch with Marion. Walcots CHEEKY at
dinner, evidently pleased with prospects
of visit, especially as Nj. had not forgot
ten to invite Venus.
Saturday, 31st-Down by 10 express.
Wonder of wonders, NJ. at station with
the piebald ponies; but she takes mar
velously to Mrs. Walcot. Two days
rain. There'll be a good water to-mor-
row, of course, when we mayn't fish.
Sunday, June Lively as usual, but
take the Walcots up the glen in the
evening to my favorite spot Mr.. WAL
cot is enraptured with the place.
Monday, 2d-Off early in the drizzle
to fish. Really good day, thirty-four
brace Of trout. Walcot not half a bad
hand. Have to leaye the womankind a.
home; hope they won't get into mischief.
Tuesday, 3d-A really good day, fifty
three brace and three sea fish. M.
drives Mrs. Walcot over the hill to see
the mines.
"Wednesday, 4th-Sessions. M. drives
the Walcots to Ulleswater. At dinner
least he, must go early tomorrow. Nj.
wants him to leave madame till Satur-
day. She consents. keeping Venus. The
dogs useless as a guard; heard the beast
snuffing in the corridor during the night.
Thursday, 5th-Venus rambling again;
heard her when stable clock struck 2.
WalcOt goes. Stroll in woods all morn
ing. Teach Mrs. Walcot to fly fish in
afternoon.
Friday, 6th-Much as yesterday, but
fish with Mrs. Walcot in morning.
Drive after lunch.
Saturday, 7th-See Mrs. Walcot off at
IL. Dreadfully dull day. Hope Marion,
anyhow, won't disappoint me. He's
sure to come as / asked him, now the
Walcots have gone.
Sunday, Sth-As per usual, yet / sur
v:ve.
Monday, 9th-Heres a strange mat
ter. Walcot writes that after ali she
did take my mothers diamonds. Luck
lily he found 1T out Immediately on her
arrival and has sent them heavily in
sured by train from bennington to Pen
rith to wait there, not wanting to at
tract attention at Earnshaw by a regis
tered packet of that size coming by post.
Drive to Penrith, find parcel; mighty
thankful to get diamonds; quietly re-
place in the cabinet. By greatest luck
NJ had never discovered their absence.
By the way, how did Mrs. Walcot know
about the diamonds? Walcot would not
tell her. of course. Suppose she and
mater got talking, and they must have
been exhibited one of those days we
were fishing. Can't ask NJ; must wait,
I suppose. Perhaps the poor thing felt
the beginning of the craving and con-
cealed her knowledge from her husband
had gone. However, alrs well that ends
we'll"
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shadow March.

All around the house is the jet black night /:
II stares through the window pane:
II crawls i'm the corners. hiding from the
light.
And il moves with the moving flame.
drum,
With the breath OF the Bogie in my hair:
And all round the candle the crooked shad-
ows come
And go marching along up the stair.
The shadows OF the balusters, the shadow
of the lamp,
The shadow OF the child that goes TO bed
All the wicked shadows coming. tramp.
tramp. tramp.
With the black night overhead.
Prom "A Childs Garden OF Verses" by
Robert Louis Stevenson.
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OFFERINGS OF THE POETS.


Said the Rose.
I am weary of the garden.
Said the rose;
For the winter winds are signing,
All my piaymates round me dying,
And my leaves will soon be lying
Meath the SHOWS.
But hear my mistress coming.
Said the rose.
She will take me to her chamber.
Where the honeysuckles Chamber.
And I'll bloom there all December
Spite the SHOWS
Sweeter fell her lily fingers
Than the bee!
All, how feebiy ! resisted,
Smoothed my thorns, and cen assisted
AS all blushing l was twisted
on my tree.
And she fixed me in her bosom
Like a star.
And 1 flashed there all the morning.
Jasmin, honeysuckle scorning,
Parasites forever fawning
That they are.
And when evening came she set me
In vase
All OF rare and radiant metal,
And felt her red lips settle
On my leaves till each proud petal
Touched her face.
And I shone about her slumbers
And. 1 said. instead OF weeping,
In the garden vigil keeping,
Here I'll watch my mistress sleeping
Every night.
But when morning with its sunbeams
Softly shone,
In the mirror where she braided
Her brown hair / saw how taded.
Old and colorless and faded
l had grown.
Not a drop Of dew was on me,
Never one;
From my leaves no odors started,
All my perfume had departed,
i lay pale and broken-hearted
In the sun.
Still, said, her smile is better
Than the rain;
Though my fragrance may forsake me.
To her bosom she will take me.
And with crimson tissues make me
Young again.
So she took me.gazed second
Then, alas, can hearts so harden?
Without ever asking pardon,
Threw me back into the garden,
There to die.
How the jealous garden gloried
In my fall!
How the honeysuckles child me.
How the snt e-ing jaSmins bid me
Like pail
There lay beneath her window
In swOOn,
Till the earthworm DER me trailing
Woke me just at twilights failing,
AS the whip-poor-w was wailing
To the moon.
But hear the storm-winds stirring
In their lair;
And know they soon will life me
In their giant arms and sift me
Into ashes as they drift me
Through the air.
So pray them In their mercy
Just to take
From my heart of hearts or near il
The last living leaf and bear it
To her feet and bid her wear ii
For my sake.
George H. Miles.
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ever trinkets she has surreptitiously re-
moved. A few intimates only know of
our trouble, and as they understand how
things are we feel less unhappy; still,
one is anxious. and this is why we have
rather shrunk from accepting the many
invitations we receive from the friends
who We believe have a genuine regard
for u.s."
II think you might reckon me among
them said i, and now that / know
and am, so to speak, forewarned, why
should you hesitate? / could tell my
mother what you have told me before
you come, understanding something of
a doubt in his face-"you would rather
didn't"
ITO tell the truth" he said after
pause, IF the knowledge could be con-
fined to yourself / think ii would be bet
ter. Possibly there may be trouble while
we are with you'll am assuming that
you would still be willing to have us
and then there would be no need to have
thus barred our wounds
Very well; If anything does happen
we will find IL out, and you can send
back whatever is taken, and then / can
explain 1t all 20 my mother; and If any
thing is taken nobody will be any the
wiser. You see, too, Mrs. Walcot need
not know anything about my mothers
Jewels
Pray, are they very valuable or at
tractive?"
Both; and my mother is rather care
less, as L think. about these treasures,
which are chiefly diamonds She will
keep them in a cabinet in her boudoir
the last place, she says, where burglar
would search, If one could get in. The
windows look out on the cliff over the
river, and our servants are trustworthy
She says she will not have them long,
and we must indulge an old woman's
whims. Still. we will not parade them
or even speak of them at all before Mrs.
Walcot"
YES" said he, looking relieved. that
Will be best; you will not let her know
of their existence. And, now that you
know all, 1 shall be happy to bring my
wife; only, by the way, pray don't
breathe a word to madam to intimate
to her that you know what 1 have just
told you, for if she even suspected you
knew, nothing on earth would induce
her to come northward."
$50 be 1t. My mother will write-let
me see, this is Tuesday-you will get her
invitation on Thursday, so that you can
accept and come down, If it suits your
convenience, on Saturday: then our ar
rangements will fit in"
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VandaIia Line for Evansville, Ind.


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a. m. Il 30 noon. IL ID D. m
Direct connections made in Terre Haute
Union Station with all T.. a I. III. trains.
Through sleeper on i:2o p. m. train. open
every night at $50.
Ticket Offices. 10. IS West Washington
street No. 46 Jackson place. Union sta
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A Prayer.

A Prayer.
Thank God for life.
Even though 1t brings much bitterness and
strife
And all our fairest dreams are wrecked
Even though there is more Ill than good in
We cling to life and reckon not the cost.
Thank God for life.
Thank God for love-
For, though sometimes grief follows in its
wake,
Still We forget loves sorrow in loves joy
And cherish tears with smiles for loves
sweet sake
Only in heaven is bliss without alloy.
Thank God for love.
Thank God for pain.
No tear hath ever yet been shed in vain,
And In the end each sorrowing heart shall
find
No curse but blessings, in the hand of pain
Even when he smteth, then God is most
kind.
Thank God for pain.
Thank God for death,
Who touches anguished lips and stills the
breath
And bringeth peace unto each troubled
breast
From which all grief hath flown? Oh,
blessed death,
Gods sweetest gift. The name in heaven
is rest!
Thank God for death.
Marie Joussaye.
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showing that even the astute Marion
was not infallible, so / assented more
readily than l should otherwise have
done.
All right. but how are we to get them
away to be looked at without my mother
knowiEC?''
Bring man over from Penrith or
Carlisle when Mrs. Eaton is out, and
ostensibly for some other purpose"
And this is what was Zone. The man
for whom 1 sent had more knowledge.
as knew. than most local jewelers.. and
was safe. He came the next afternoon,
and while my mother was paying a call
examined the parure with Marion and
myself. To my unutterable confusion
and horror he pronounced the stones no
stones at all. but paste, and not very
good paste either.
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A few evenings before 1 went home, as
i asked him if he would not bring Mrs.
Walcot down to Earnshaw for a few
days. 1t was near the end of May; May
fly fishing would be on during the next
ten days. so there would be something TO
do besides seeing the country, which was
magnificent There were a few show
places for those who cared for them,
and the season was at its prime for
drives over the hills. put forward all
the attractions of the place to induce
him To come down. / could see that
Mrs. Walcot would hit it off with my not
too easily pleased mother, especially be-
cause. being married, she could not posi-
bly, be a siren. and the man had plenty
to talk about, yet never tired one with
talking of himself.
1 was rather surprised then when he
hesitated about accepting an invitation
SO unreservedly given. Why should he
stammer and. i thought positively blush
and hesitate about so simple a matter?
especially as at first he seemed eager TO
come. for his face had lighted up so
cheerily, but was obscured directly after
wards by a gloomy look, almost one of
distress in his voice as he said: You
are very kind. / and my wife-I know
i can speak for her-should greatly like
to come northward. but il is scarcely
possible" This came with more warmth
of desire TO accept the invitation than
depth OF conviction about its impossi-
bility. After some further pressure, EVIL
IDENTIFY yielding at last he said
You are so really friendly that it
would be no less ungrateful than I'M
gracious 10 keep back from you the real
reason why we shrink from what PROM
Uses To be so pleasant a visit: and what
we have seen of you in the past week
frees me from any doubt that you will
not let what / tell you go further than
yourself. My wife. TO whom. as you
know. | am devotedly attached, has a
sad afiiction. Until her illness two
years ago there was not trace of what
would now make her life an intolerable
burden were she not supported by our
strong mutual affection and confidence
After that illness she developed KEEP
tomania. Till then the most scrupulous-
ly honest and precisely exact woman l
have ever known. she now has a strange
passion for secreting, not anything and
everything. but only jewelry: strangely
her ailment only runs I'm this groove. BY
keeping strict watch / have hitherto
been fortunate enough TO restore what
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when thought how much on the wrong
side of the balance her accounts were
likely to make up.
1 shall return by the midday express
and bring the diamonds to your cham
bers in the afternoon. I am. sir, your
obedient servant, JOHN DENE.
Sidney Marion, Esq. Temple, London.
p. S. We were only just in time. 1
heard at the Court this forenoon, where
1 strolled so as not to seem to leave hur
riedly, that Mr.. Walcot was coming
down by midday. and they are off to
Paris on Friday. j. d.
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ScreWdrlNor or broken penklle III the Sllt
it was possible to make the key revolve
and open the door; in the same way the
bolt might be shot back again and the
door relocked, and apparently all be just
as before. OF course, the lock should
be oiled so as to work easily. Most peo-
pie think it safer to leave the key in the
lock, but this is no good if the key has
been filed like this one ] held, and il
never occurred to Madame Walcot to ex-
anime hers.
4. With a hypodermic syringe which
Safiyah hunted up-it belonged to one of
the fine ladies' injected a few drops of
water through the paper sheath of each
cartridge the revolver held. They were
safe enough now.
All these points were duly dealt with:
i'm the first only did we risk much, but
our chances were as good as the enemy's,
and as yet the enemy were unsuspecting.
AS five and six did not depend on me,
could only wait; but relied on the ayah:
there was q look about her slender
brown fingers that reminded me of
wonderful tales of Indian jusglery. /
wanted her TO take some chloroform in
case of accident. but she despised this.
Next morning, soon after sunrise. she
met me in our usual walk in the shrub
berry with a calm face but in reply to my
inquiry What luck?" unfastened her
headgear and poured into my hat what
looked in the bright early sunshine like
a shower of sparkling dewdrops / said
not a word till l had counted out into
her hands l57 sovereigns; and when she
had slowed them away l asked for the
history of her adventure This she told
me at length, but l don't give it here.
for she has to take the children to Lon
don tomorrow to meet some other re-
lations, and as she will stay at the
Arundel" on tfie Embankment, no great
way from the Temple. 1 thought you. sir.
might like to see her yourself and hear
her tale from her own lips.
She had hardly ended when we heard
a window open above. and. peeping up
through the screen leaves, saw the face
of Mrs. Walcot. looking bright and fresh
In the early morning light I'm a hard
man. but still could not help feeling
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The Queen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-26
CARLISLE IN 1878.

| shall notienter into an examination
OF the causes which have combined to
depreciate the relative value of silver,
and to appreciate the value of gold
since 1878, but | am one of those who
believe that they are transient and
temporary in their nature, and that
when they have passed away or have
been removed by the separate or unitcd
actions of the nations most deeply in
terested in the subject, the old ratio of
actual and relative value will be re-
established on firmer foundation than
ever. / know that the worlds stock of
precious metals is none too large, and
I see no reason to apprehend that it
will ever become so. Mankind will be
fortunate, indeed, if the annual produc-
ton of gold and silver coin shall keep
pace with the annual increase of popu-
lation, commerce and industry. Ac-
cording to my view of the subject, the
conspiracy which seems to have been
formed here and in Europe to destroy
by legislation and otherwise from
three-sevenths to one-half the metallic
money of the world is the most gigan-
tic crime of this or amy other age.
The contamination of such a scheme
would ultimately entail more misery
upon the human race than all the wars.
pestilence and famine that ever oc-
CURED IN the history of the world The
absolute and instantaneous destruc-
ton of half the movable property Of
the world including horses, ships, rail-
roads and ali other appliances for car
rying on commerce, while it would be
felt more sensibly at the moment,
would not produce anything like the
prolonged distress and disorganization
OF society that must inevitably result
from the permanent humiliation Of
one-half Of the metallic money of the
world.
JOHN G.. CARLISLE.
February 21. 1878
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y q
OF i'll health, dependency and despair,
gives way to the sunshine of hope,
happiness and health, upon taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla, because it gives
renewed life and vitality to the blood,
and through that imparts
nerve siren a 9Th, vigor
and energy ~ @M to the whole
body. Read this letter:
"Hood'sSar - ~ apariIIa
helped me wonderfully,
changed sickness to health, gloom to sum
shine. No pen can describe what / suf-
fered. was deathly sick, had sick head
aches every few days and those terrible
tired, respondent feelings, with heart
troubles so that / could not go up and
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Prof. Holmes, State Geologist, is here
to-day looking after the North Caro-
lima Geological appropriation.
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BUCKLEN,s ARNICA sALvE.

The Best SaIve in the world for Cuts
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pay required 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refund
ed. Price rs cents par box. For Sale
by John Y. MacRae.
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FOR TOBACCO FOR
THE NEW YORK NAVY YARD

L THE NEW YORK NAVY YARD
February 81, 1896.-Sealed proposals,
endorsed proposals for Tobacco for
the New York Navy Yard, to be opened
March 81, 1885," will be received al
the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,
Navy Department, Washington, ID. c.,
until 10 o'clock noon, March 81, 1896
and publicly opened Immediately
thereafter, to furnish the New York
Navy Yard 10000 pounds of Navy to-
bacco. The tobacco must conform to
the Navy standard and pass the usual
naval inspection. Blank forms of pro
posals win be furnished upon applica-
ton to the Navy Pay Office, New York,
or to the Bureau. Samples of the
standard tobacco will be furnished
upon application to the Bureau. The
attention of manufactures and dealers
is invited. Tie bids, all other things
being equal, decided by lot. The De-
partment reserves the right to waive
defects or to reject any or all bids not
deemed advantageous to the Govern
ment. EDWIN STEWART, Paymas-
ter General, u. S. N.
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Exeeutor'a Notice to creaItors.

Having qualified IS e1ecutrlx Of the win
OF the late x. 81 sutton, y d., Of Wake
nreseas their claims to me at my home n ear
Tire city OF Raleigh by the 18th day Of
March, 1897 JULIA M SUTTON
EXecutrix, &c
Raleigh, N c. Ma CHI llth 1896
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TO CURE a GOLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money If it
fails to cure.
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been taken more Seoincident with the
peoples desires than is represented by
the queer abandonment Monday Of the
whole question.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-26

and through
nerve siren
and energy
body. Read
"Hood g Sar
helped me
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Sunshine

down stairs without clasping my hand
over my heart and resting. In fact, it
would almost take my breath away. suf-
fered so I did not care to live, yet had
much to live for. There is no pleasure in
life If deprived OF health, for life becomes
a burden. Hoods SarsapariIIa does far
more than advertised. After taking one
bottle, it is sufficient to recommend
ITSELF" MRS. j. Il. SMITH, Beloit, Iowa.
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been taken more seoincident with the
peoples desires than is represented by
the queer abandonment Monday Of the
whole question.
In the Legislative Appropriation
bill. now before the Senate, many
items have been increased over the
amounts set down by the House.
Among them, the salaries of the Dis
trict Attorney and United States Mar
shall of the Western District of North
Carolina, has been changed from $4,000
to $4,000 each. Tt is thought by some
that these items VIII be put back to
$4,000 when the bill goes back to con-
ference. This bill will probably be fin
ished up by the close of Thursday or
Friday at the furthest.
*
Prof Holmes, State Geologist, is here
to-day looking after the North Caro-
lima Geological appropriation.
| am told that yesterday, during the
consideration of the bill to take the
disabilities form the COnfederates, Con-
gresham Pearson was so overcome by
hiss feelings Che was under the gallery
and could not see him), when he i'm
terrupted General James A. Walker, of
Virginia, that he wept. 'At any rate, :"
saifl my informant, ''there were tears
in his voice, if not in his eye, and j
think they were in his eye" After Mr..
Pearson's blast against secession in
his famous night sun-burst, or perhaps
better, moon-burst. against Talbert, of
South Carolina, his tears for Confeder-
ates TN voice or eye, as the case may
have been), seems as great a misfit as
VIM. e. Chambers tears over the wick
edness OF Mckinley and his army of
fat-frierS
w. e. CHRISTIAN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-19
How to Drink Milk.

Milk is a very popular and common
article of drink, but at the same time
there are mighty few people who know
how to drink it, The average man or
woman treats milk as beverage and
swallows it down in gulps, simply to
quench the thirst Now milk is a food
and should be treated as such. 1t should
be drunk slowly in small sips. so that
the saliva may be mixed with it, or
better still, something should be eaten
between the sips for the same purpose
Thus sWalloWe d milk is one of the most
healthful and beneficial drinks that
can be used. an aid to digestion. a
builder up of the tissues, besides
quenching thirst. Swallowed as; one
would swallow a glass of water on the
other hand it losses all its remedial eff
fects if it does not become positively
harmful.
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THE Mckinley GUARDS.
Ward Three Republicans Organize Campaign
Club and Will Make Things Hum.

The Republican voters of Ward 8,
met at City hall. Monday evening. and
organized a Republican Campaign
Club to be known as the Mckinley
Guards. a large and enthusiastic meet
ing was held, presided over by Albert
j. Libby.
The Republicans of Ward 8 are
thoroughly in earnest and will give
one of the largest Republican MAORI
ties ever given in any ward in the city.
The guards start out under favorable
auspices.
The following officers have been
elected:
Captain, James f. Kingsley; list
lieutenant, c. A. Miron; ID lieutenant.
Lewis Quincy.
The next meeting will be held. next
Thursday evening at the schoolhouse
on Kendall street at 80 o'clock.