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ture. He had left me a hundred or
two dollars in ready money. which I
also left In the local bank to Mrs Bart
lett's credit. My diamond earrings my
husbands present to me u short time
before. on my birthday. took straight
into New York to the great jewel house
from which knew he had purchased
them. l explained the circumstances
and received for them in cash $400. He
had paid $500; but l was delighted
with the bargain had made. l made a
few hasty purchases. bought a ticket
to Genoa and hurried home to my baby.
The next day hut one 1 was to sail.
The night l slept but little. All the
next day--it was Friday, June 13-
Fanny spent with me. She had no chill
dren of her own, and her husband was
away from home weeks at a time on
business, My house was to be shut up
and my baby's nurse was to go to
Fanny's with baby
Saturday morning. the 18th, kissed
my brave little laddy, my blue-eyed
baby, good-by and hurried to the train.
In an agony of tears. Fanny petted me
and cheered me all she could. and held
him up so that could see him almost
all the way to the station. He smiled
and cooed'
Mrs. Peckham's voice choked and,
on looking up, I perceived that her
head was resting on her husbands
shoulder and that tears were stream
ing down his cheeks There. thought
l. Is a second marriage whose happi-
ness may yet make up for the misery
of the first.
Il made quick voyage" Mrs. Peck
ham went on, by and by, land reached
Milan without misadventure. l drove
straight to the American consuls and
was most kindly received. After watch
Ing for many hours at the bedside of
his dying mother, my husband had
himself expired suddenly ON the day of
the funeral. They ha been buried in
one tomb. The mother having been a
resident Of Milan for so many years,
her friends, in the confusion attendant
on the double fatality, lost sight en-
tirely of the home and the loved ones
the son had left in foreign land.No-
body knew. so nobody thought any
thing about me and little Henry. When
learned that my husband was dead, I
idiHteu. lHe CONSUL Hdu not seen or
heard of him.
1t was long time before I was able
to talk of my troubles. The consul
was very kind. He didn't know any
thing about my baby boy at home, and
! couldn't tell him. I was for weeks in
a weary dream of unconsciouSness, ly-
|ing motionless, speechless, on the hos
pital cot, waking now and then to the
reality of my woe and again lapsing
into feverish visions and black depths
Of nothingness. Brain fever, the doc
tors CALLED it, in those days. When 7
could sit up in my cot and brush my
hair before q hand-mirror 1 didn't
know myself. = ..
"You poor thing, you poor, emacated
sufferer thought, you are indeed to
be pitied. The angels must weep for
you, here alone, .friendless and help
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then washed of with a soft cloth and

then washed of with soft cloth and
little sweet oil.
A good way to peel ripe tomatoes is to
put them into frying basket and
plunge the basket for a second into boil
ing water to loosen the skins. This
is particularly the best way when one Is
preparing q quantity OF tomatoes and
wishes to keep them all firm and hard.
If the boiling water is poured over them
In a pan the tomatoes at the bottom are
quite sure to become soft before they
are peeled.
fretwork are in favor: they are used
either in the natural light color or fin
ished to resemble olive wood, cherry,
ash or mahogany.
Slumber rolls of down, also rolls stuff
ed with curled hair and covered with
good ticking are offered ready made for
covering. They are easily covered and
make a rich accessory in furnishing by
any clever housewife.
Picturesque trifles in furnishing often
give a touch of refinement; for instance
there are the lovely little porcelain cam
dlesticks, in the form of full blown
pink rose, resting on a spray Of green
leaves in fine porcelain.
Very decorative screens, threefold, In
scarlet silk embroideries with long trail
ing branches of blossoms and with trop-
ical birds, all in fine silk. are attracting
enthusiastic admiration. They are es-
pecially handsome in large parlors
where they light up sOmbre corners
most effectively.
Where windows are built low, as in
very old fashioned houses, leaving con-
siderable space between their tops and
the ceiling, pretty rallied shelves make
a pretty furnishing. They may be eb-
onized, mahoganized or decorated to
match the woodwork of the room.
The newest iron bedsteads which are
rative, and not unreasonable. in price,
Besides the brass finish these bedsteads
are finished in enamel effect and all the
delicate colors used in enameling fur
niture. and this finish is associated with
ornamentation in BRASS knobs, balls
bars and spindles.
Much more pleasing than the ordinary
cheap frame for pictures Is a frame
made of nicely marked pine, stained by
rubbing into it with a WOODEN rag
bronze-gree oil paint. thinned with
turpentine. This paint. thus applied,
brings out all the beauty of the veinage
of the wood, giving pleasing effect.
The frame should be finished by mar
row FURNISHED gilt beading or molding
may be purchased by the foot at rea-
sonable price.
To prevent a bruise from discoloring
apply Immediately hot water, or. of that
is not at hand, moisten some dry starch
with cold water and cover the bruised
place.
When baking cake, on removing it
from the oven place the tin containing
the cake on damp towel for moment
and the cake may readily be taken from
the tin without sticking.
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me, except the consul: he didn't know
anything about my wee lad so far
away or how one little bit of news from
him might have healed up the poor
stricken mothers heart and soothed
the throbbing of her brain He was
gentleness and kindness itself. all that
a manly, courteous gentleman should
be: and I'll never. never cease to be
grateful to him for it,
Here she patted her husbands shoul-
der as he leaned over her chair and
held her hand in his. looking down all
the while in her beautiful, melancholy
eyes of gray. So you were the consul,
my fine fellow, thought.
1.-The doctors quite gave me up this
time, and when 1 did regain consci-
BUSINESS, they say l had forgotten all
about baby and home and husband. /
could only sit on the long portico and
look out through the stone pilasters to
the smiling bay.
ut was October before was strong
| enough to be moved, and when l start
ed for Havre, the consul and his good
patient sister, whom I had learned to
love, went with me. 1t was they, too.
Slt, WIZ louShl iiiS piSh iiSiC W
safe home again. But not to baby-I
have never seen my boy since the Sat-
urday morning when Fanny Bartlett
held him up, in her arms, laughing and
growing, twenty years ago.
Mrs. Peckham's voice broke into a
sob, and, indeed. I too was much af-
fected. Her husband. who 1 now un-
derstood, had resigned the consul
ship at Milan to accompany her back
to the United States, took up the story
here for her.
1--WE found, SIR" said he, slowly and
distinctly. that the Bartletts had gone
to San Francisco to live. Not hearing
from the child's mother, they had at
first marveled and fretted, and finally
made what may have seemed to them
proper disposition of the child. My
wife had no near relatives living and
no other close friend here, for now, you
see. we have chosen our home not far
away from where she and the Bartletts
then lived. They had not written to
her about the boy because they had
never heard from her. They could not
know that she was i'll among strang-
ers, unable to write. borken down
mentally and physically under intense
sufferings. So they placed the child
in the Children's Industrial home.
highly respectable private institution.
as you know, and it is to find out
what became of him that this suit you
are now preparing for has peen
brought. For when we reached here,
the boy also had disappeared.
For eighteen years we have sought
him i'm vain. We followed the Bartletts
to California and thence to the Sand
wich Islands. and would have followed
them to the bottom of the sea if the
gale which wrecked their steamer had
not spared ours. We advertised and
we hired detectives and employed law
yers. ] had no children, and | longed
to welcome the lost darling of my dear
wife. 1t was not until last year that
we found that he had been placed by
the Bartletts in the Childrens Indus
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this score of years. He did all that any
man could do and would have carried
any jury irresistably. But the judge
was imperturable.
Young Carter pleaded for the future
of the boy whose legal adoption had
given others a right to his love and
obedience, who had learned to regard
his present protectors as his parents.
and whose life had been ordained by
Providence, in accordance with the laws
governing the Children's Industrial
home, amid new scenes and faces. Il
do not KNOW" he said, in conclusion.
'where or who that lad may be. or into
whose kindly hands he has fallen. am
assured by the president of the insti-
tuition, the venerable man you see here
before you. that the babe has fulfilled
the fondest wishes of his adopted par
ents and that he is ignorant that others
ever had a claim on him. God In His
infinite wisdom has seen lit to separate
his path from that of his fond mother
who bore him. We may wonder, but we
may not repine-"
AT this point the extraordinary CHAR
acter of the scene around him disturbed
tne speaker III Ills dIucht eloluchSS'
Everybody else had been watching 1t
with growing amazement. The Judges $
eyes We're fixed on Mr.. Carter, ST. The
latter's face was convulsed with emo
tion, his eyes seemed starting from their
sockets with anguished intensity he
gazed at the sobbing figure of this
mother, who for twenty years had
mourned her son, dead only to her.
With violent effort, hoarse cry, the
president of the children's home arose
to his feet and fairly shrieking: Mad
am, there is your son." pointed to the
impassioned orator who at that mo-
ment paused, turned as white as this
paper on which am writing, and with
a look of unutterable regret, of piteous
entreaty, fell insensible over the table.
And to him, sobbing: II knew it, I
knew it, flew his mother indeed.
For a few minutes there was re-
Taxation of tense nerves and a general
unbending of brows and drying of eyes.
1t rarely falls to the lot of any man to
see such spectacle. Court was in
stantly adjourned and an entry made
on the minutes of discontinance by mu-
tual consent. And to the now smiling
mother. the light of happiness tenderly
glowing in her fair face, the wretched
old man explained how he had himself
adopted the boy, not long after Mrs.
Bartlett had placed him in the home
and had grown to love him as his Own
until he had been unable even after her
suit was brought to confess and surren-
der. And that's the way Mrs. Peck
hams case was won for her unWitting-
ly, by her own son.
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less, widow in a strange land! You
thought to find him here, your protec-
tor, your husband. and you found him
dead! Your only welcome was the
grave.
Nov, as sat SO, commiserating my
self, could see in the mirror q fright
ened look steal into my own eyes and
I grew cold and trembled. What else
was there? What other. fiercer. sharp
er grief was this, that had been gnaw-
ing at my heart-strings these long
weeks of oblivion? What was it that
thrilled me now with terrible anguish.
"All Of sudden the hand glass
dropped to the tiled floor and broke in
to a dozen pieces, and l shrieked with
allmy strength: my baby! Oh, God!
my baby boy! and fell back once more
into merciful oblivion"
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PAIN CURED In AN INSTANT.

Pain CURED In AN INSTANT.
:. Let Railways Ready Relief be used on the
threatened with Disease or Sickness, the Cure
will be made before the family doctor would
ordinarily reach the house.
CURES THE WORST PAINS in from
one to twenty minutes. Not one hour after
SUFFER WITH PAIN.
ACHES AND PAINS.
toothache, neuralgia, rheumatism, lumba. .
go. pains and weakness in the back, spine
or kidneys, pains around the liver, pleuri-
sy, swelling. of the joints and pains Of
all kinds, the application of Railways
Ready Relief will afford immediate ease
and its continued use for a few days eff
feet permanent cure.
CIIRE EOR ALL
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as she sat on my little vine-covered
piazza. comforting me, and cried outi
oh, Fanny, will you keep little Henry
If l go to Milan? If I don't do some
thing, shall die! 1 can't sit here
and just wait any longer Then I re-
member l burst into tears and sobbed
on Fanny Bartlett's, shoulder until she
soothed me with a speedy acquiescencs
in my prayer. My little boy, she said,
should be as dear to her as though he
were her own. And. God forgive me,
l believed her! -.,.-
with no less haste than for my hus-
bands i prepared for my own depar-
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ter had been a widower for many years.
The dignity of the law soon reasserted
itself In the court room, however, and
the case proceeded. When 1t came to
his closing speech in behalf of the home
and the beneficient statutes which had
created and sustained it, and the benev-
olent men who directed it, young Car
ter's tact was mastery. Mr.. Patter-
son on our side had appealed for the
broken-hearted mother. her lifetime of
anguish, her heart hunger still unsat-
istied, her affections still clinging to
the babe she had prayed and wept for
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PART III.

"All throgh the racking pangs and
frenzies of the yet more dreadful fever
which now preyed upon me-" continued
Mrs. Peckham, "I talked and sobbed
and prayed and shrieked Of just my
baby boy.
"There was nobody there that knew
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ACHES AND PAINS.
Summer Complaints,
0ysentery, Dianhea,
ChOlOr0 MOrbus

A half to a teaspoonfu Of Ready Relief
in half tumbler' Of water repeated as
often as the discharges continue, and a
flannel saturated with Ready Relief placed
immediate relief and soon effect q cure,
Internally-A half to a teaspoonful in a
half tumbler Of water will in few min
utes cure cramps. spasms, sour stomach,
nausea. vomiting, heartburn. nervousness,
sleeplessness, sick headache, flatuleucy
and internal pains.
rlaisria In Its various forms cured and Pre-.
vented.
There a not a remedial agent. in the
world that will cure Fever and Ague and
all other Malarious, Bilious and other fe.
vers, aided by RADWAY'S PILLS, so
quick as RAILWAYS READY RELIEF,
Travellers should always carry q bottle
Of Railways Ready Relief with them. A
few drops an water will prevent sickness or
pains from change Of water. 1t Is better
than French brandy or bitters as stimu-
liant. 81.
Miners and lumbermen should always be
Price 60 cents q bottle. Sold by all drug.
81Dts. fs'h '-''' . Ser
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-10

Vixen the stomach ard bowels arc wrong
what seems mere trife, blocks the
whole system Every part of the body
feels the effects OF little constipation.
The head aches, the mouth tastes bad;
tho stomach is distressed, the liver is con-
rested and torpid; you feel sluggish and
miserable and Gown-hearted; the energies
are completely paralyzed-all for want of
a little help 10 regulate the stomach and
bowels. What you want is DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. They will make you
regular and YOU keep so; they act in a
comfortable natural way, not violently but
surely. They give the intestines power
to move naturally; and also tone the
stomach ard liver. You don't become a
slave to their use, they cure you so YOU
STAY cured. If druggist makes more
money on some violent purging pill he
may try TO sell it to you. Don't let him.
You will be hclpai to thorough understand
ing of Your own body in every stage OF health
ard disease by Dr. Picrccs Common Sense Med
ical Adviser. This is great 1908 page book, III
pain English and rcplctc with illustrations
The first edition OF $4,000 copies was sold .oI
:! 90 each The profits were devoted to publish
ING the present edition OF halt-a-milion tree cop
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oHiy Address Worlds DiSpensary Medical AS
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AUCTION SALES.
By o'Neal s. Lunt, Auctioneefs

BY U Neal g Lunt, AuctlOneeIS
GALE OF THE PLANT FORMERLY BE-
- LONGING TO THE WELLINGTON
BRICK & lille Co.-By virtue of deed of
trust executed by Samson Short, dated Feb
ruary LIST, 1895, and recorded in Liber S. No.
s. folio 4S4. one of the land records for Fair
fax county, Virginia, and by the requirement
of the party holding two of the notes thereby
secured, l will sell on the premises at public
auction, on
FRIDAY, MARCH Doth, 1896,
at $50 o'clock p. m. the following property,
to wit:
ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF
GROUND in Mt. Vernon District, Fairfax
county, Virginia, bounded according to 8 sur
vey made by II. C. Graves, February, 1898,
as follows, viz; Beginning at stake at high
water mark on the Potomac river, and rum
ming thence down the river with the windings
thereof, sonth 23o 26 east 1006.61 feet to a
stake distant south 23o 90 east SO feet from
the old dock; thence south So 43' west
1861 feet to stone by a private road
thence with the said road north lO0 w
west 1257.79 feet to a stone; thence north
660 81 east Si5.95 feet to the beginning,
containing % acres, together with all the
buildings, Improvements, machinery, boilers,
engines, kilns, tools, implements and personal
property now on the premises hereinbefore
described. used and employed in the manu-
facture and handling of bricks, and also the
right of way over said private road from the
southwest corner of the piece of ground here
inbefore described to the county road; the
same being the plant of what was known as
the Wellington Brick and Tile Company.
Terms of Sale-One half of the purchase
money in cash and the residue in one year,
the deferred payment to be evidenced by the
note of the purchaser which is to bear interest
at six per centum, payable semi-annually, and
to be secured by deed of trust upon the prop
erty. A deposit of $500 will be required as
soon ss the property is struck off, and if the
same is not forthwith paid, the property will
be Immediately re exposed for sale, and if the
terms of sale are not complied with in ten
days the property will be resold at the risk
and expense of the purchaser. All convey
ancing at the cost of the purchaser.
Parties wishing 10 attend sale can take car
of Washington, Alexandria and Mt Vernon
Electric Railway Company. leaving Alexandria
at 81 10 p. IN. and get off at Belmont Station.
A. w. ARMSTRONG,
marc IDS Trustee.
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Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnelton,
West Va, has been subject to attacks
of collie about once year, and would
have to call a doctor and then suffer
for about twelve hours as much as some
do when they die. He was taken re.
Gently just the same as at other times,
and concluded to try Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
He says 81 took one dose of it and it
gave me relief in five minutes. That is
more than any thing else has ever done
for me-" For sale by L. Stabler & Co..
druggists.
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EOR RENT.
REAL ESTATE, &c.
M. B. HARLOW & CO.,
Real Estate Loan & Insurance Brokers,
NO. 1O7 S. ROYAL STREET.
REAL ESTATE. &c.
HOMES FOR SALE.


a substantially built building at Del Ray
six rooms good locality. Price $3.50. Rents
for SIG per month.
Two very fine Two-story Brick Houses on
Columbus street, near northeast corner OF
Oronoco street, with all modern improve
ments water, gas, bath, ETC., will be sold at q
low figure.
Two.story Brick House, Ills King street ;
$4,000 each.
Nos. 30S and 80 south st. Asaph street
eight rooms each lot 14x90; bath, gas, etc.
Price $4,000
fine Ten-room Brick House, 1011 CAM
eron street; lot 2Sx140. Price 81 500.
A Six-room House, almost new. with water
lot 3SxS0; corner Columbus and Madison
streets very nice home and can be bought
at low figure.
Northeast corner Henry and Oronoco
streets; Nine-room House; lot 43 feet inches
by 120 feet. Price 81, 800.
House, four rooms lot 17x1O0 to ten
feet alley; 4O3 north Henry street; very
cheap. Price S675.
FARMS.
Will exchange for House with nine or ten
rooms, or two small houses in good location
in Alexandria, Farm Of 473. acres in Fair.
fax equity, Frame House of nine rooms and
barn and stable, good orchard, and all neces-
sary buildings.
We have for sale Farm Of 81 acres in
Fairfax county, adjoining Edge Hill, and
near New Alexandria. Price 500 per acre
A Farm of nine acres, one mile from Clifton
station, new House of nine rooms stable
barn, good spring and good orchard. Price
| 81, ,260-a bargain.
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By o'Neal & Lunt, Auctioneers.

by " Neal ~ LuDL, AucllcueeTS.
DY VIRTUE OF DEED OF TRUST
D from JohE Perry and wife, dated No.
vember 4th, 1890, and recorded in deed
hook No. %, page $50, the undersigned
trustees, by direction of the Mount Vernon
Cooperative Building Association, No. 2, of
Alexandria, Va, will sell at public auction on
SATURDAY, March 81, 1896,
at ID o'clock noon, in front of the Royal street
entrance to the Market Building, in the city
of Alexandria, Va, the following property,
to wit:
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND WITH
THE IMPROVEMENTS thereon in the city
of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded as follows
viz: Beginning upon Lee formerly Water)
street, on the west side thereof, forty-two feet
one inch to the southwark Of Franklin street
and running southerly with Lee street thir-
teen feet seven inches, more or less, to the
middle of the alley to be kept open and free
for the use of this lot and the lot conveyed TO
John L. Gray, two feet four inches wide and
thirty-fve feet deep then west through said
alley and parallel to Franklin street one hun
dred feet then northerly parallel to Lee
street the length of the first line; then by a
straight line to the beginning, with all appur-
tenances to the same belonging.
Terms of Sale Cash. All conveyancing
at the cost of the purchaser.
CHAMP WALKER,
Z. +. PRICE, Trustees.
HUBERT SNOWDEN,
marc I'd
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For Over Fifty Years

An OLD AND WELL-TRIED REIEDY-Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for
over fifty years y millions of mothers for
their children while teething, with perfect
success, 1t soothes the child, softens the gums,
ailays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the
best eInedy for Diarrhea. Is pleasant to the
taste. Sold by Druggists in every part of the
world. Twenty-Five cents bottle. Its value
is incalcuable. Bes and ask for Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup and take no other kind
jan17 60 od&W1yr
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Use it in Time.

Catarrh Starts in the nasal passages, affect
ing the eyes, ears and throat, and is in fact,
the great enemy of the mucous membrane
Neglected colds in the head almost invari-
ably precede catarrh, causing an excessive
flow of mucous, and if the mucous discharge
becomes interrupted the disagreeable results
Of catarrh will follow, such as bad breath, Sc
we're pain across forehead and about the eyes,
roaring and buzzing sound in the ears and
oftentimes very offensive discharge. Ely's
Cream Salm is the acknowledged cure fol-
these troubles