The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-03-03

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able. He wants me toimaTry some dis
tingushed parsonage. He has always
been sensitive Sabout ourlfamlly name
and would lile} me to change it for a
better one
Brown is better thantSkrable"
"EIe Doesn't think sa Mrs. Peter
Brown would foe but litthdmprovement
on Miss Allce,Skrable."
The>oyer wentiawaytsorrowful.
One day Browns cyetfell on a para
graph hn newspaper ,that set him
thinking He thought all day and
most ofNthe night When he awoke in
| the morning his thoughts went right
on like pn automobiles in which the
stopping apparatus has tbecome unman-
ageable. He thought AZ whole week, at
the end of which he brought his fist
down,on table and exclaimed
'IIlSdo it-'
| From .thatttime Browns law partner
noticed that,hc was paying very little
attention TO business. He seemed to
be spending all his time searching for
some thing. 1t was not legal matter,
for noSlegally drawn papers appeared
to be ia ssng through his hands. He
receivedea great manyfletters, but new
or spokeAof the contents of any one Of
them. Indeed. Whatever was his pur-
pose he kept it a profound secret
Then suddenly Brown announced
that he was golngI abroad. His part
ner. astoDis2od andldissatistied, threat
ened to dis solye the, firm, complaining
that Brown would leave him to do all
the work-it was NOT onerots sand was
keeping important matters from him
Brown told him Just enough to satisfy
him, then sudt lenly disappeared
Six months passed, The Skrable
family. Alice excepted, had forgotten
Mr. Brown andy were greatly pleased
to have an opportunity to forget him.
His intimate friends wondered where
he was and how Inc obtained the means
to spend so muct time away from
home Some one said that an uncle. his
mothers brother. was furnishing him
with money. This was true The uncle
supplied him with barely enough for
his purpose Browns partner sat in
his office waiting foN clients who did
not come and SwIshedNfor Brown, who
was Il pushing felowA and had many
ingenious methods ofSseculfng bust
ness. Have yout heardsfrom Brown"
everybody asked of everybody, and
everybody replied: NO. Have you?"
NO | wonder where ,heSs and what
he's up to- oh he's got some wild
scheme on hand. But. mo ,mHtter how
wild Brawns schemes. he has a way
Of carrying them out. He's probably
getting a contract for repEs cling the
street cars in some foregntcity with
American flying machines. But he'll
do it. You bet, he'lh work Through"
There was goodtdea offsuch talk, |
and the uncle who,was grub stalking" |
Brown looked OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
approached on the subject but said |
nothing All this increased the curl
osity OF Browns friendssand acquaint-
ances.
One day Il steamer arrived. and in
the passenger list published was the
name of Sir Peter Brown The name.
in the minds of Browns friends. had
no connection with him whatever,
Some of them saw il, but vrnt on with
their daily avOcations just the same.
II occasioned not the slightest ruhlc
among them, but The next morning
in a newspaper LET out the
secret of Browns absenceAand none of
his friends did anything during the
lay except visit one another and gos-
sip with mouth and eyes wide open
upon this exploit This was the para
graph referred to,
Our fellow citizen, Peter Brown, has
lust returned from trip to England. |
where he has established his right to the
,aronetcy granted in 1862 to Hugh Brown.
lfter the restoration Of Charles H.. for
oyaltv TO the house Of Stuart dormant
ince 1888.
These few lines were quite enough to
itir every one who had ever heard Of
Peter Brown For week nothing else
vas talked Of. and every one wondered
hat Brown had never been heard to !
lain any relationship whatever With
my haronet Meanwhile invitations J
we're shovered upon Sir Peter. and I
ards cnmo from the Sirabe family
or a musicale. Sir Peter accepted, and q
Turing the evening he and the smiling G
Alice vanished into a corner by them :
elves
Come. tell me all about H." she ask
d. How did you ever do it, y
zone morning ! read Il paragraph in :
newspaper stating that as the law Of d
England now stands any man can as q
ume with impunity some presumably y
xtinct or dormant baronetcy prior TO .
7S3 recent work. called Extinct
nj Dormant Baronetcies.' says that a
lousand Of these titles have lapsed he
ween the original creation and the
resent day. or these the majority he ID
anne extinct or dormant before 1TS3. 81
rmed with ne much information -
bout my family as could collect. I I'd
'ent 70 England 10 find 2 dormant g
rowu haronetcv. ] lighted on the one ~
ranted Hugh Brown ! proved that @