The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04

| interest except to the dead whose
hands had penned or whose eyes had
| read them IN youth and middle life and
old age-men and women now long
since dust and ashes, to SO remain UNI
til this mortal shall have put~on i'm
mortality. The old letters ,as they were
read and destroyed, brought many rem
iniscences to the lips OF Miss Matty. and
she told, among other things. the story
of her brother Peter-a subject to
which she had never alluded before.
| As boy Peter had been wild and
frolicsome, and his father had been
stern with him. One day, after receiy-
| ing q severe chastisemept. the boy had
run away and gone to sea. He had
| shipped In a man-of-war, that much
they knew, and was supposed to have
died long ago and to be lying in some
| neglected grave far or in the East In
dies.
"Put out the candle. dear: / can talk
/ better in the dark" said Miss Marty
| and she wept silently In the gloom as
she told of the broken-hearted mother
and the remorse-stricken father, who
| was never quite the same after the oe-
parture of his son.
II was only at rare intervals that
era Milford was privileged to behold
within its borders any sort of pub
lis exhibition. So when 'Signor Bru-
noni, the Celebrated Magician" gave
u
sembly rooms. his performance was
wei, attended by both gentle and sim
pie.
supernatural stateliness and prim-
ness after the rest of the people mao
assembled. The two front rows OF
seats had been left vacant. Miss Pole
asked of an attendant II "any OF the
country families were expected and
having received negative answer.
swept into the front row. followed BY
the rest of society.
1t was a most wonderful PERFORM
ance and the Signor Brunoni did things
which Miss Matty thought were hard
w suitable for Christians to look at
| such as taking a live rabbit out OF
hat that he borrowed from a man IN
the audience, making an omelet In tne
hat, crushing the headgear into
shapeless mass and then. with rev
passes of his magic wand, restoring ~
| to its former state and sending II pack
| TO its owner with a courtly bow.
At first she thought of leaving the
Mace. but being informed that the rec
| tor was present and that the church
was smiling approval upon all these
weird things, she consented to stay.
A few days after the wonderful per-
| Torrance of the Signor bruhohi lhere
| were rumors OF robberies and mousse
| breakings in Crawford. Not that any
| bodv was really robbed or that house
was actually broken into. but the
| nrints of strange footsteps were seen
one manning in the flower beds OF MRS
| JamieSn Miss Pole was sure that
a strange woman who called on ner
| and demanded charity was a male ROD
| her in disguise, and Mr.. Hoggins nao
| missed leg of mutton from box In
| the back yard where he kept such
| things. He said a cat had carried II
| off but the ladies all agreed that That
was lust like a man." The ladies of
! Crawford, of course decided that the
robberies and the housebreakings were
somehow connected with that Weird
| foreigner, the Signor Brunioni.
| But Miss Smith and Lady Glenmire
walking out one day and stopping at
a little wayside inn to inquire the way
| TO the house of certain old woman
noted for her skill in knitting wooden
stockings, found there q man who had
suddenly been taken i'll on his way
to a neighboring town. His wife and
child were with him.
The sick man was Samuel Brown.
| alias the SigRor Brunoni, time-expir-
ed soldier who had taken to oonJurins
after his discharge in order to make
scanty living. He was penniless and
| in want At once the ladies' OF Gran
ford forgot about the robberies in
which thew had so revelled and, be-
| coming all kindness and sympathy.
| found lodgings for Brown and his
family in the village and put him on
his feet again.
His wife, in conhding the story of
her life to Miss Smith. told OF her
troubles and tribulations while in In
dia with her husband, and spoke of
contain Aga Jenkyns" who had help
ed her in her need. The name struck
Miss Smith ana she resolved to write to
the Aga. In her heart she believed
him to be the long lost Peter. But
then there were other Jenkynses in
the world. and SO she put of her in
tended letter.
Mr.. Holbrook returned from Paris in
a poor state of health. and soon after
died. Miss Matty never saw him from
the time he came to bid her goodby be
fore his journey until he was laid in
his CONN. After the funeral Miss Mat
ty told the milliner, Make my caps
hereafter something like those worn
by Mrs. Jameson"
widows caps. ma'amr
"Oh no! not Widows caps, certainly
but make them something like MIRA
Jamieson's"
Soon afterward two real sensations
stirred Crawford to its depths. The
first was the marriage of Lady Glen