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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-12
Chapter Seven

~ OPHY'S enemies were at work. > and Sophy was careless. Such D is the history of the next twelve
 months. Mantis was installed medium now, and the revelations came But they came slow, vague, fitful, tan talizing. Something was wrong. Pha- ros confessed ruefully, what could it be, for surely Lady Meg by her faith (and, it may be added, her liberality) deserved well of the unseen powers? He hinted at the evil eye. but without express accusation. Under 'the infu- ence" Mantis would speak of ''the ma- lign one," but Mantis when awake thought Mile. de Gruche charming young lady! It was odd and mysteri- ous. Pharos could make nothing of it. He, too, thought Mile. Sophie-he ad- vanced to that pleasant informality of description-quite lavishly and entirely devoted to Lady Meg, only unhappily so irresponsive to the unseen, a trife unsympathetic 1t might be. But what would you? The young had no need to think of death or the dead. Was 1t to be expected, then, that Mile. Sophie would be good subject or take much interest in the work, great and wonder full though it might be?
 The pair of rogues did their work well and quietly. so quietly that noth- ing of it would be known were 1t not that they quarreled later on over the spells of this and other transactions, and Mime. Mantis in the witness box at Lille used her memory and her tongue freely. The plan now was to get rid of the young lady" she said plainly. "Pharos feared her power over my lady and that my lady might leave her all the money. Phares hated the young lady because she would have nothing to say to him and told him plainly that she thought him charlatan. She had courage. yes! But if she would have joined in with him-why, then. into the streets with me! knew that we'll enough. and Pharos knew I knew 1t. So I hated her. too, fearing that some day she and he would make up their differences, and I-that for me. Yes, that was how. we were. NJ, le
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 were the tenets vhich reigned in the Rue de Grsneile and Ia the houses of Lady Meg's rUyalist allies.
 So on one side of Lady Meg are the n0bIes and their noble ladies. suTkinz and scbeui1g. and Oa the other. a bi- zsne contrast. her witch and her wiz ard. Nine. Mantis and Pharos. Where the carcass Is. there will the vultures be Should fbe carcass get up and walk presumably ths vuItures would wing an eXpectant way after t. Nine. Mantis. the woman of the pruphecy about -sonethfng bright had follow ed Lady Neg t0 Paris. sce1tinz fresh prsy. But a more inse1ious and pov- erfal scou1dreI came ca the scene In
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Ou OuC cheek, almost like a pale pink wafer, was, in old Megs mad mind, anyhow, mixed up with the prophecies as me alum or subject or inspiration or some thing of that kind. I don't understand that nonsense and don't want to. But when I looked skeptical and old Pin dar chuckled. or it may have been his teeth chattering with the cold, Meg nodded her head at the girl and said Shell tell you a different tale some day. If you meet her in five years time perhaps don't know what the old lady meant I suppose the girl did, but she looked absolutely indif- ferent and, indeed, bored. One can't help being amused; but, seriously, it's rather sad for a man who was brought up in the reverence of Lord Dunstan- bury to see his only daughter, a clever woman, too, naturally, devoting her self to such childish stuff"
 Such is the passage. It is fair to add that most of the captains book is of more general interest. As he implies, be had had a long acquaintance with the Dunstanbury family and took a particular interest in anything that re- lated to it. Nevertheless what he says has its place here. It fits in with and explains Lady Meg's excited and mys. dcal exclamation to Mir. Pindar at Morpingham, 'They may speak through herF' Apparently they had spoken, to what effect we cannot even conjec- ture unless an explanation be found in letter of the Kravonisn period in which Sophy says to Julia. You re- member that saying of Mantis' when we were fin London-the one about how she saw something hanging in the afr over my head - something bright" That is all she says. and something bright leaves the matter very vague. A sword. a crown. the nimbus of a saint-imagination might play untrammeled. Still some prophecy was made Lady Meg built on 1t. anG sophy. for all her apparent indifference. remembered it and in after days thought it worthy of recall That is as far as we can %. and with that passing glimpse SOphy Grouch-of course the mention of the wafer-lTke mark puts her Identity beyond questiOn-passes put of sight for a time Indeed. as So- phy Crouch. in the position in which we have seen her and in the name un- der which we have known her. she passes out of sight forever
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poihAAhb b hAAh out as he drove in the streets. But Lady Meg was rabid against the em- pire. Her Lord help him"-the habit ual expression of contempt on her lips was never lacking for the emperor. .er political associates were the ladies of the Faubourg St. Germain, and there are vague indications that Lady Meg was very busy among them and conceived herself to be engaged in in- .trigues of vital importance. The cracks fn the imposing imperial structure were visible enough by now, and every hostile party was on the lookout for it's chance
 As we all know. perhaps no chance. certainly no power to use a chance. was given to Lady Meg's friends. and we need not repine that ignorance spares us the trouble of dealing with
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M Yl1H that scene III the avenue
 XX/ of elm trees at Morpingham
 WV there comes falling of the
 veil. Letters passed between Sophy and Julia Robins but they have not been preserved. The diary was not yet begun. Basil Williamson did not move in the same world with Lady Meg and her entourage. Dunstanbury was in Ireland, where his. regiment was then stationed. For the next twelve months there is only one glimpse of Sophy-that a passing and accidental one, although not without its signifi- canoe as throwing light on Lady Meg's adoption of Sophy-while it lasted it amounted to that-and on the strange use to which she hoped to be able to turn her protege. The reference is, however, tantalizingly vague just where explicitness would have been of curious interest, though hardly of any real importance to sensible mind.
 The reference occurs in privately printed volume of reminiscences by the late Captain Hans Fleming, R. N, sailor of some distinction, but better known as naturalist. Writing in the winter of 1S65-6 (he gives no precise date), he describes in a letter a meet ing with Lady Meg, whom, it will be noticed, he calls "old Lady Meg" al- though at that time she was but forty nine. She had so early in life taken up an attitude of resolute spinsterhood that there was a tendency to exaggerate her years:
 'Today in the park I met old Lady Meg Duddington. It was piercing cold, but the carriage was drawn up under the trees. The poor spaniels on the opposite seat were shivering. She stop ped me and was, for her, very gracious. She only Lord helped me twice in the whole conversation. She was full of her ghosts and spirits, her seers and witches. She has got hold of an entire
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DAILY FASHION TALKS
A DAINTY GIRLISH BROCK.
BY MAY MANToN

THE early summef is certain
 to bring the demand
 for pretty and attract i've froeks for young girls. There Is commencement day to De considered, there arc all sorts of ietes likely to De planned and for one and for all somethlng pretty and attractive will De headed. Here is q dress that is mad: of white lawn w.th trimming of lace insertion and friils and worn with q euimpe of fall-overembroidery andvhleh fs ab olutsly simple and eirlhh yet sufficiently drsssy for almost any occasion that may arise. The blouse is trimmed to give the effect of kimono sleeves while the skirt is made with q straight upper roftion and ilounoe, consequently t suits ilouacfns and bordered materials admirably wsn. and there are 70 many of these this season that the suzvestion is worth needing. White frocks are aiways pretty and always dainty. but color is to be much ussd during the summer and the dress made from bor5ertd Iaun cr basts:e with the border used t3 trim the bl-use wouid te cx5eedinsy ,charming vhde the effect vcuid he cute difEersnt from the one Hlustrated-
 For a girl of sirfsen vears of age the cver vaist vfif rc- ousrr 25< yards of matrrial 2t, f1S yards g. or 4l inches uide with 3 yn5s of ban5inEg fos the Fuinpe ] z yards g inches Eide vifh 1 a yards ot alLovsf enbros5srTs for the skirt Sk yards zl. A. ysrds g or } yards ~ snches wIdes or. 55t yards of hord<red materiaf 74 inches ws5e. Beth the b'ouss pattern. No. 5666 and tksskst pattern, No. 5s7e. are est h ss-es sor sxis cf e and t6 ysars, and vii he n,zHed to any a5dress by the Fashaon De ] Eor e.-h. Q fn hsSts s<nd a , vhsrh f9zrss nors pro@pt
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be f ore he's ready to 'estab- fish communi- cation and perhaps tn ey won't tell, after all. b ut h @ t h n k S they will! Now 1 come into the game! Me be- ing very sym pathetic. they're to talk through me (italics again are Sophy' 's1. Did you ever hear of such nonsense? Itold Master Pharos that I didn't know whether h is g h o S t s W ould talk through me, but l didn't need
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carried her had she cared to go.
 She could have shown S op b y the emperor of the French at close quarters instead of con tenting herself with a literal fulfillment of her promise by
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their unfruitful hopes and dis a p p in ed schemes. Still, the intrigues. the gossip and the royalist at- mOsphere were 10 Sophy ia some sort an introduction to political in- terests and no doubt had an influence on her mind So far as she ever &C., quired political principles the existence of such in her mind is. itmust be confessed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-12
Chapter Five

NV TITH that scene in the avenue
 X of elm trees at Morpingham
 " there comes a falling of the
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ly new prophet ess, a certain W o ID a n who calls h CT S e If NJ me. Mantis and knows all the secrets of the future, both this side the grave and the other. Beside Lady Meg sat a remarka ply striking girl, to whom she in- troduced me, but I didn't catch the name. I gathered that
 this girl, who had an odd
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association wlth Mantis. probably very close and not creditable association, is Pharos, alias Jean Coulin. In after days. under the republic. this person age got himself into trouble and was tried at Lille for obtaining no less a sum than 10000 francs from rich old royalist lady who lived in the neighborhood of the town. The rogue got his money under cover of vatlci- nation that MacMahon would restore the monarchy, a nearer approach to the real than he reached in his dealings with Lady Meg. but not probably on that account any the more favorably viewed by his judges.
 The presidents interrogation of the prisoner, ranging over his whole life, tells us the bulk of what we know of him. but the earliest sketch comes from Sophy herself in one of the rare letters of this period which have survived "A dirty, scrubby fellow, with greasy hair and squint in his eye" she tells Julia Robins. He wears black cloak down to his heels and gimcrack thing around his neck that he calls his peri apt-charm, suppose he means. Says he can work spells with it, and his pre- cious partner Mantis kisses tt dtalics are Sophy's) whenever she meets him. Phew! I'd like to give them both a dusting! What do you think? Pharos, as he calls himself, tells Lady Meg he can make the dead speak to her, and she says that isn't it possible that, since they've died themselves and know all about it. they may be able to tell her how not to! Seeing how this suits his book, it isn't Pharos who's go- ing to say No though he tells her to make will in case anything happens
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President" Her lucid exposition elicit ed polite compliment from NJ. le Pres ident, and'we also are obliged to her.
 But Sophy was needless. She showed afterward that she could fight well for what she loved we'll and that with her an eager heart made strong hand. Her heart was not in this fight. The revelation of mad Lady Meg's true motive for taking her up may well have danped a gratitude otherwise be- coming in Sophy Crouch transmitted to Sophie de Gruche. Yet the gratitude remained. She fought for Lady Meg for her sanity and some return of san ity in her proceedings. In so fighting she fought against herself, for Lady Meg was very pad now. For herself she did not fight. Her heart and her thoughts were elsewhere. The schemes in the Rue de Grenelle occupied her hardly more than the clash of prin- ciples the efforts of a falling dynasty, the struggles of rising freedom, the stir
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-12-12

Should Permit Contributions Which
are in the interest Of the Public
Urges Legislation to Safeguard
Wage Workers-Dwells on Need Of
o~otartfn. <nr rarao+e
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-12-12
Pure Food.

The pure food legislation has already
worked benefit difficult to overesti-
mate
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-12-12

Real progress toward self govern
ment is being made In the Philippine
Islands. The gathering of Philippine
legislative body and Philippine assem-
bly, marks a process absolutely new In
Asia, not only as regards Aslatic colo
MES OF European powers. but as re-
CARDS Asiatic possessions of other Ash
attic powers. and indeed. always ex-
cepting the striking and wonderful ex-
ample afforded by the great empire of
Japan. 1t opens an entirely new de-
parture when compared with anything
which has happened among Asiatic
powers which are their own masters.
We have given the Filipinos constitu-
tional government, government based
upon justice, and we have shown that
we have governed them for their good
and not for our ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
At the present time, as during the
past ten years. the inexorable logic OF
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
APPOINTS NEW OFFICERS.

On account of n number OF the
boys going AWAY and leaving their
races vacant the fire chief found II
rcccssnry to make some new appoint
monts. Al the last meeting oi the
firc department he appointed the fol.
towing officers,
l.. NJ. oihus, first assistant chief
Thomas Carroll. second assistant
chief: Jo5 Lee. captain hose No. I
company: C. e. oihusc, captain Of
hose company No, 2; Ray poff, cap
tain OF hook and ladder company
aud Chas, Brcdosen. captain OF chem
ionl,
We believe these are all goo6 ap-
pointments and that the boys VIII
si,o u good account OF themicl elves
when the occasion comes. by the
way, We understand that the skating
rink will give a benefit for the fire
boys next Tuesday evening. II they
io IL would be the nice thing for our
people to turn out enmasse aud do
tho handsome by the boys,
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
ECZEMA NOW CURABI.E
All Itching Skin Diseases Which
Are Not Hereditary Instantly
Relieved by Oil Of
Wintcrgreen.
Can Eczema be curedl

Can Eczema be curedI
Some physicians say "Yes.
Some say "No."
The real question Is. what is
meant bv EczemaG II you mean
those scaly eruptions, those dis
eases which make their first APP
pearance, not at birth, but years
afterward, and perhaps not until
middle age, then there can no
longer be any question but that
these forms Of Eczema are durable.
Simple vegetable oil Of winter
green. mixed with other vegetable
ingredients. will kill the germs that
iniest the skin. Apply this pre-
scrip,ion to the skin, and instantly
that awful itch is gone. The very
moment the liquid is applied tina,
ogonizing, tantalizing itch disap-
pears, and continued applications
Of this external remedy soon cure
the disease.
We carry in stock this oil OF
Wintergreen properly compounded
into ID. ID. ID. Prescription. While
we are not sure that IL will cure all
those cases of skin trouble which
are inherited, we positively know
that this ID. ID. ID. Prescription,
whenever rightly used, will cure
every las, case OF genuine Eczema
or other skin trouble, which did
not exist at birth.
We know this. Anyway you,
yourself, will know that ID. ID. ID.
Prescription instantly takes away
the itch the moment il is applied to
the skin. Stop that itch today
instantly. Just call at our store
and try this refreshing and soothing
liquid; also ask about ID. ID. ID.
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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
UNIVERSITY PARK.

Miss Minnie Buchanan went out
In the country Saturday to stay over
Sunday. but Sunday morning had the
to sprain her ankle.
Mrs. Blockson died Tuesday even
ing nj her home on McKenna avenue.
Monte Deland is very i'll at his home
ON Jordan street.
MIR. and Mrs. Godfrey, who lately
removed from the Park, have returned
and intend to stay this time.
Mrs. d. y. Meyers and small son
and daughter of Athena, Oregon, are
mere visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Young.
MIR. and Mrs. Martin Baird are
here from Hood River visiting their
children and friends.
MIR. and Mrs. Dale Young and Miss
Ruel Shear and Mr.. Burnett of Port
land spent Sunday with MIR. s. Young
Mrs. Davis new house near Goddar'
station is almost completed.
Mrs. Florence Hall and daughter
visited Mr.. l.. G. Reynolds and family
On Saturday.
Jesse Collamore has his old position
ngaln as driver for the meat market
at Portsmouth.
Or. Webster and wife have returned
from their two weeks vacation spent
in the mountains oregon FERN
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31

Arriving at that city after the
most delightful weeks travel in
their lives, John Doe and wife look
ed over the famous valley Of Hood
and pronounced it good; then re-
membering that the temperature at
White Salmon is 4 degrees lower,
they took the ferry for White Sal
mon.
There is little more to be said, as
the experience of building happy
home here is common knowledge to
US. John Doe and his sweet wife,
Maggie, are now permanent resi-
dents. The first week they spent
their time roaming over the beauti-
ful mountains that surround the
valley, through wooded canons,
over valleys filled with meadows
and orchards. The only regrets
they felt were found in disturbing
the beautiful squirrels and humming
birds in this paradise they had dis
covered. Such ecstasy they enjoy
ed in looking upon those great we'd
ding cakes of snow (Mts. Adams
and Hood). And eat and sleep! II
was something wonderful.
And they did something they
were not in the habit of doing back
East-they went to church; and did
so to thank their Creator for their
timely deliveranee and for the priv.
ilege of at last dwelling in the
promised land. No flies. no CHG
gers, no great heat; the sweet noun.
tain breezes, scenery that would
bribe a king, abundance Of deli
cious fruit fit for feast Of the gods
and sleep like that of angel.
And there Is one treasure kept
with tender care within the family
jewel box, and It is this A column
and a half clipping from The Kan
sas City Star with marked para
graph that reads as follows: HOOD
River 65, White Salmon 6I."
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
A GREAT GAME.

An exciting game OF ball was
p,ayed on the Jersey street grounds
Wednesday evening by the clubs rep
t,senting the Evangelical and Meth
odist churches. The Methodist breth
ion we're shifting their religious op'
ronents hip end thigh until the ram
ous poff battery was placed In posi-
ton aud Ray poff brought al his
athletic collegian experience to bear
Ia throwing rings around the oppos'
hatsmen. Il was all up with the NJ,
Fs'. then. Parson Gates. who held
lpwn first base and managed and
sroomcd his colts, put up a game that
would make an old Lacquer blush
The best player In the lot, however
was Gordon Parker. the Liliputian
v wonder, who played short for the fol-
lowers OF John Wesley. lie gobbled
everything that came In his territory
or anybody elso's for that matter.
Tho uniforms worn by the players
were unique to say the least. The
oolors and shades OF Josephs coat OF
old was fully represented. The To-
male element OF both denominations
was present and made the wolklh
ring with their enthusiasm, aud long
after the game had been concluded
aud the triumphant procession had
wcndcd Its way up Jersey street
the night nl- was made mclodlous
with the Improyiscd yclls OF the lady
chorus.
The score was to 4 Ia favor OF
Dominic Gates blooded team.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31

assigns shall fail, neglect or refuse TO be-
gin lowering said pipes, mains or later
ais within period OF twenty-four hours,
or IL after said lowering has been com
menced by said water. company they
shall abandon said work for period OF
twenty-four hours, or shall fail to pro-
ceed with such work as speedily as pos
siblc, the contractor for such street inn
provements is hereby authorized to lower
such pipes, laterals or water mains and
the cost thereof shall be charged to and
become lien upon the said water works
plant, which said lien shall be docketed
in the lien docket by the city recorder
for such improvement at cost not to ex-
ceed ten (Io) cents per lineal foot for the
pipe so changed. :,
Section g. The city engineer shall
have full supervision over all pipes,
whether mains or laterals or service
pipes, leading from the cofnpany's pipes
or mains; and shall enforce all ordinances
pertaining TO the same; and the said city
engineer shall require all consumers to
| lay water pipes not less than twenty-four
| (zl) inches below the surface OF the
ground.
Section a. That where said water
company, its successors or assigns lay
new pipe, such pipe must hereafter b,
placed at least two (2) feet below the
grade OF the street, which said grade
shall be given to said water company b,
the city engineer. That by reason o
certain street improvement now being
DELAYED on account of said water com
pany refusing and neglecting to lowe
pipes within the city of St. Johns, which
were not laid in accordance to Ordinance
Number 10 of said city, an emergency |
declared TO exist and this ordinance TAX
effect and be operative upon the approx
al of the mayor.
That Ordinance No. 100 Of the city o
st. Johns, passed by the council Apr
9TH, 1905, and approved by the mayo
April the 9TH, 1908, be and the same
hereby repealed.
Passed by the common council Jul
as, 1908.
Approved by the mayor July 7S, 1905
II. W. BRICE, Mayor.
Attest: A. NJ. ESSON,
City Recorder.
Published IN the St. Johns Review Jul
Al, 1908.