Bloomington Progress, Volume 26, Number 20, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 July 1892 — Page 4

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CHAPTER XIV. "SOHrTHIXO tp!" Kalph Prescotr awaiW the effect of his worda with eager triumph. He counted on frightening his enemy by betraying a knowledge of his affairs by threatening to employ that knowledge to cause him serious trouble He had miscalculated his man, however. Paul Dalton, tho farm superintendent, had been a problem to him in the past Paul Dalton, the heartless seoker after wealth, was no less an enigma. He had started slightly at Presootfs revelation, but that was the only evidence of Internal emotion that he betrayed. A eool, derisive smile on hia sneering lips, he laughed jarringly. "Oh! you've found thai; out, have you?" "I have," retorted Presoott, angrily, nettled at bis failure to abash his foe. "And that would be your first move?" "Tea, it would." "Bigamy, I believe you said?" "Yes, and an ugly word it is in the country courts, I can tell you. It ain't like your olty divorce courts, and bribed juries, and corrupt judges it's the untaught, indignant verdict of honest men." "Like you and I eh, Preacott? " jeered the ottter. "No!" fairly choked the plctter, driven to the verge of uncontrollable rage by the tantalizing audacity of his companion, "farmers and millers." "So," purred Dalton. "Very good. Quite a joke, Presoott, "and he placed his hand familiarly on Prescott's shoulder, while the latter started as if stung by a serpent. "Well, that will be move one, eh?" "Yes, it will. " "Bigamy?" "I said it." "It won't work." "Won't it?" "No. I see move one', and checkmate it." . "Do you?" "Yes. I silence all that babble with a letter I have in my pocket." "From who?" "Never mind that, but it shows that .Isabel, first wife of Paul Dalton, died exactly two months before Paul Dalton married wile numoer two. tome on, Presoott." With mock friendly familiarity, as if they had been brothers, comrades, all their lives, Paul Dalton locked arms with his companion. The latter was a smoldering volcano ot passion. Chagrin, disappointment, rage seemed to consume his soul like the blast of a red-hot furnace. The stony-hearted man at his side little dreamt of his peril. Had Ealph Prescott been armed he would have struck his victorious foe his death-blow then and there, made half frantio by the stinging taunts that fate seemed to award him at every new move he made. Oh, it was maddening! This man was a demon, a trickster in magic. He escaped scot-free from nets that would enmesh and destroy an average man. He let others plot, bided his time, and appeared at a critical moment to put out hlB hand and pluck the rich fruit before him, while the schemer gnashed his teeth In impotent rage. Bather dragged along than led, Ealph Prescott was forced to accompany the man who seemed to be the master of his fate. As in a dream, he found himself, ten minutes later, seated in the library of Lawyer Drew's house, with Paul Dal ton opposite him, smiling blandly. Thought 1 might want a witness. spoke the latter. "It's no use, Pres cott; 1 won t light with you. Lawyer Drew, prim, severe and keenoyed, entered the room a minute later. "Good evening, Mr. Prescott; good evening, Mr.?" "Dalton." The lawyer started, and stared sharply at the last speaker through his goldrimmed eye-glasses. Ah!, yes, he said slowly and dubious ly; "Mr. Dalton Mr. Paul Dalton. I see I see. The legatee of my client, .Mr. Geoffrey Porsjthe. I believe I have seen you at Maple Leaf farm?" "Once or twice, assented ljalton, carelessly. I would not have known you. " "I have changed, I suppose." "Bemarkably." "Well, beggary makes a man wear a mask of humility sometimes," was tho bare-faced admission of audacity. "You know my business, Mr. Drew?" i can surmise it. "I come about the Forsythe legacy. I believe the old gentleman left me quite a sum." "Yes, In cash and securities, it aggregates some $50,000." "I want It" The lawyer looked grave. Ho did not like this young man with his flippant eyes and aggressive ways. "I presume you are aware that a transaction of this importance and magnitude cannot be consummated in an hour?" he remarked. "I don't see why not," interrupted Dalton impatiently. "It was left to me, wasn't it? "Yes, to Paul Dalton." "Aad I am Paul Dalton." "I won't deny that. I can remember your face well enough for that, and Mr. Prescott, of course, knows you, and Mr. Elliott" "Certainly, sir. So, If I am the heir I expeet the money." "Very well; I will consider this a formal demand and expedite matters as much as possible. There arc certain forms to obey, certain papers to execute. Come again in a week. Meantime, if your necessities are pressing " "They are," bluntly admitted Dalton. "I will advance you some money. How much fifty a hundred?" "Two hnndred will do." The lawyer took out his cheek book. "In a week, then?" said Dalton, as he folded up thu bit of paper. "Yes, we shall be ready for you then." All these proceeding! Kalph Prescott watched with lowering brows. He saw money that he had expected to handle given freely to another; he saw an almost utter stranger to Geoffrey Forsythe as claimant of his fortune. Oh, it was maddening, hate-inspiring. The decrees of fate were cruel, unjust! "Say, Prescott, I want to cash this check," said Dalton, as they left the lawyer's house together. "Cash it, thon," growled Prescott. "Come, don't bo wrathy. I may throw a few hundreds in your way yet. I bear you no ill-will. " "Shouldn't thin It you would, seeing that you've got all tho plums in sight. Dalton smilod complacently. "That" s my good luck," he remarked. "Come; get the ;heok cashed for me. I've pot a frienr I'm to meet at the hotel to-night, ami I need ready funds. Keep out a tenuer for your trouble, "

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"Mt.lfa.fa. UMVbn It suddenly dawned on Presoott that ho could gain nothing by sullen animosity; much, perhaps, by playing she sycophant. He led the way to his old friend, tie tavern-keeper, explained the situation, and got the money, for Lawyer Drew's chock was as current as gold coin in Bidgeton. He watched Dalton indorse it with a I'mirUh, and then, his glance falling to the name, his eyes bulged. "Hello!" he ejaculated forcibly. Dalton handed him the promised ten dollars, but Prescott was strongly lost In reverie. "I'll see you again, Prescott," he said "Suppose I'll have to call around on Buth soon. Pretty busy for a week or so, though, so if she gets better toll her I came, but was called away again. I've a friend to meet. Sec you again." He passed from the tavern as he spoke. Jaunty, self-possessed, the sleek, successful knave, if there ever was one, voted Balph Prescott. The latter scratched his head thoughtfully. He stood for somo moments like a man ii a dream. He was thinking of Lawyer Drew's check for two hundred dollars, and Paul Dalton's indorsement on it, "What does it mean?" ho muttered, as he too left tho tavern. "Something's up! What? Why, Paul Dalton has even changed his handwriting!" CHATTER XV. UNMA8KKD! Something's up! Balph Presoott described the situation in that terse expression. There was something up, to a certainty. Something dark, mystical, suspicious. But what? He had made a new discovery that even the handwriting of Paul Dalton had changed; but what of that? A1 man acting a part for two years might, upon resuming his original identity, have changed his appearance, manner and handwriting back to the real from the false, and emerge as different into his new existence as a butterfly from a chrysalis. He was always "discovering" some thing, and every additional discovery generally resulted in disaster for himself. He had set out to sweep his enemy from the field by a simple plot, and had only succeeded in precipitating a climax that had richly benefited that foe and impoverished himself. Still, plotting was like drinking fascinating, cumulative. Once In the swim, to put it tritely, the victim plunged deeper and deeper into the labyrinths of crime. Besides all this, things looked queer. He eould not imagine Paul Dalton so eminently heartless and insensible to the rare beauty of Buth Elliott as to utterly ignore her and prefer wealth to her love, when he might have both. "I'll keep him in view a bit, if only for curiosity," soliloquized Prescott. "He said he was going to meet a friend at t ie hotel. I may learn something by watching them." - To the hotel, therefore, Prescott took hie way. He passed by the open doors and glanced in, but caught no sight of the man he sought. Through the window of the smokingroom, however, opened to admit the freeh air upon the tobacco-smoke tainted atmosphere of the apartment, ho made out Paul Dalton and a stranger. They ocoupiod the room alone, and, tilted back in chairs, sat conversing animatedly. Prescott had become quite an export shadowor of late, and ho was soon lurking near the window. Distinctly on his hearing sounded the conversation of Paul Dalton and the black-bearded man who was his companion. "So you could not make it, Paul?" the the latter was asking, in a disappointed tone of voice. "Not all of it; but what's the odds?" "A week's tho odds!" returned the other; "and a wee!c sometimes changes tho destinies of' nations. " "It won't change mine," asserted Dalton, confidently. "You don't know that?" "Oh, yes, I do. Here's tho plain facts of the case: Paul Dalton falls heir to a fortune. Paul Dalton appears and claims It" "Proceed." "He is aoceptcd as heir, rightfully and uucieputed. Very good." " But the side entanglements?" "The girl?" "Yes." "She's sick. May die. Sick enough anyway, to bo out of the way for a we.3k." "That's good." "By that time fortune and Paul Daltoi will have disappeared." "But her father?" "Won't even look at me if he saw me, an I this simpleton of a Presoott I canwind about my finger." Can you?" ground out tho enraged, listener. "Well, everything looks all right," re--mr.rked the bearded man. "Of course it's all right," spoke Dalton with convincing emphasis. "We get the fortunp,-leave and enjoy it." "And after we're gone?" "Let these people figure out the cost of being too sure of a man at their own leisure. " 'It wili be a surprising awakening to reality," smiled tho other grimly. "Paul, about him " "You mean r" "S st. No namos. Htm. What of him?" "Ho's safe and sound, isn't he?" "Portho present." "For a week, surely?" "Yes; but afterwords'!'" "Unlock the door, say 'Go!' We'll be safe and far away by the tlmo he comes here." "All right. Ah! thank you. A hundred? I need it. No instruction?" "Yes, get back to Black Rock, and stay there. Watch him close. If he escaped " "Don't fear, he won't." "It would mean ruin to our plans." "I realize that as well as you. I guess I'll go." "Very good. I'll lake a look at tho rich girl, just for policy's sake. Then I'll try and devise a way to kill time until the lawyer's ready to pay me my fortune." "What does it mean?" Over and over again the marvelling lialph Prescott asked himself the question. Here was a plot, beyond tho poradventure of a doubt here was mystery. 110 wastno ucarciea man; a reuowconsplrator? In what? A plot. A plot for what? The fortune. But why? The acknowledged, proven and accepted heir to the legacy, why should Paul Dalton plot to securo that which was already his? Above all, who was the man so mysteriously and covertly alluded to? "I can't make it out!" muttered the dazed Prescott. "I'll find a way!" ho asserted stubbornly, a few minutes later. "Black Hock! At that place this aocomplioe of Paul Dalton makes his headquarters, Mid a gruesome, desolate place it is. There he has him. I'll drive there tonight, arfti take a look around. No, I won't. Dalton spoke of going to see Buth. Out of shoer curiosity I'd like to see how he octHwhen hedoi-s me t her." Prescott left his place of espionage

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and hurried baok to the ftNjer home oi Geoffrey Porsythe. He met the woman In charge. of Buth at the door, "How le she?" he asked, coneevaedly. "Wandering delirious at times, then rational. She sits up every now and then, looks arouud her confusedly, and then with a wild shriek, covers her face with her hands, and orles out wildly that her heart is broken that her husband is false! false! false!" "A man will call here ill a few moments," spoke Prescott; "show him in when he comes. It is her husband, Paul Dalton." The woman looked startled. "And leave him with ber alone for a few moments," wont on Prescott. "If she recognizes him, he may be able to quiet her." "All right, Mr. Prescott." Presoot t proceeded to the apartment adjoining that in which ltuth lay. Ho placed its door slightly ajar, so he could look into the sick-room; and see and hear all that was going on. There was a ring at the door bell, and a parley a few minutes later. The woman ushered Paul Dalton into the sick-room and left him there. Curiously tho watcher in the next apartment regarded him. He was surprised to note a timidity, a frightened look on the face ot his rival. The latter advanced to tho couch and glanoed down at Buth. Then he started back quickly. "Paul!" Springing up suddenly, Buth Elliott with staring eyes transfixed the intruder. Fascinated by the weird manner of the invalid, he seemed utterly overcome. "Paul!" gaspod the tortured girl, "you have come back, and changod! Fault Paul! I know all. You deceived me. You were wedded to another." Her visitor seemed nervously anxious to leave the room, but ho managed to articulate confusedly: "No, it is not true. I was wedded once, but she, my wife, died, and " A shriek interrupted him ringing echoing, appalling. As he spoke, Buth Elliott had started. Not upon his words did her interest hang, but . upon that strange, changed tone. Viewing him as if she would read him through and through, she cried wildly: "He 1b not false. Oh! I see it all, Paul Dalton! The mystery, the seoret he spoke of. Stay! 1 command you to remain where you are." The man absolutely cowered. Amazed at his oraven fear, the watching Balph Prescott could only stare and marvel. "He is true, my loyal love," wont on Buth, excitedly. "I know it now; I divine tho mystery now. Ralph Prescott was only mistaken, but you, impostor I read your oraven soul!" White as death, tbe intruder recoiled, for Buth, leaning toward him, projected the thrilling words: "Speak, ere I call for help to unmask you! I know what you are, not what you seem. Speak, impostor, coward, perhaps murderer! What, have you done with my husband the real Paul Dalton?" T0 E CONTINUED. 1 Shark! in a Ladlea' Bath. The last Australian mail brings a thriliing shark story from Melbourne. A Mrs. Ffrench and a Mrs. Macraeikao were bathing with several ladies and children in the Melbourne SeaBaths, when Mrs. Ffreoch's little boy, who was not bathing, noticed a large shark rapidly approaching the party, and immediately told Mrs. Durant. The boy then called out to Mrs. Maomiekan that there was a shark in the water. She glanced round and with horror saw a shark turning over within a foot of her. She kicked and splashed and nearly fainted away. The shark made for the children, going between the rope and the shore. Mrs. Macmeikan speedily recovered ber presence of mind, and darted to the rescue of the children. Quickly securing Roy, this brave lady placed the child in about one foot of water. Then she turned to secure Mrs. Ffrench's child. She was just in time to effect the rescue. As she grasped the little one, and was making for the shore, the shark, with a Oig companion, made a dash. The undaunted woman succeeded in frightening the monsters away, and safely bore the children from all danger. Mrs. Macmeikan was much exhausted after her adventure. The battle between life and death was most exciting, and two ladies fainted. The sharks were fine specimens, the largest one being about twelve feet in length, and the other about six feet. The pair had effected an entrance into the baths through some broken pickets. Some men were subsequently called in, and -succeeded in killing the smaller shark. The big one man aged to get into the open sea. The men stuck a bout-hook into him six times, The shark darted through the hole and nearly smashed the boat, the jerk precipitating one of the harpooners into the water. Pall Mall Gazette. The Cunnlnc Gnu. An example of the cunning of gulls was observed at Taconia wheu several alighted on a bunch of logs that h:il been in the water for a long time, with the submerged sides thick with barnacles. One was a big. gray fels ,w, who seemed to be the captain. He walked to a particular log, stood on one side o"f it close to the water, and then uttered peculiar cries. The other gulls came and perched on the same side of the log, which, under their combined weight, rolled over leveral inches. The gulls, step by step, kept the logs rolling until the barnacles showed above the water. The bird picked eagerly at t his food, and the log was not abandoned until every barnacle had been picked. The mantle of J nines Itusscll Lowell, as the sole honorary vicepresident of the Kgvpi, Exploration Fund, now falls upon George William Curtis. At the same time Chicago comes to the front, inasmuch as t lie annual meeting of that society, held in London, elected as a vice-president Hon. Edward O. Mason, who la the well-known president of the Chicago Historical Society and University Club. Dr. Winslow, is gratified to be associated with these men officially, in his important and fascinating, although arduous, labors In lie half of exploration in Egypt. The United States has now three vice-presidents, as has England, of the fund. France has Maspero to represent it. Ik liurrowc ever teases Tom Ochiltree into a duel somebody is very liable to get shot plump through the shirt bosom instead of the coat-tail. This need cause no anxiety among the friends of the llorid-haircu romancer from Texas, for it is tho other fellow's linen that is in danger. It is now the custom to fumigate or disinfect London theaters after each performance. It might be a still further advance in comfort and sanitary improvement to fumigate those assembly rooms bntweer every act of a play. The heavens, with their everlastintr faithfulness, look down on mil sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern In their prayers. Extheme self-lovers will mt n man's iuniBo on fire, though it were but to roast their eggs

ON THE FOURTH. J

'-IN the birthaay of tne uution, ! While the flaunting I banners tautfht I What C 1 a m b 1 u's I Declaration Of her Tndepend- j ence brought, i ) fir from all tho din I und riot, Anil the cannon's murine mouth, ; Thro igh ibo shady byways quiet, Where tho soft liroeze from the south, j In Muriu'a full' lock was playing, ! fiha ,,,,, 1 1 wo ulnne Dnward aimlessly vieti straying Over meadow, moiis und stone. And the thought of all my longing Canio in swift, on-u l.lng train, Through my very bt In !, thronging Fervid heart and thiobbliiR brain. Then Maria, as If she l.new mo. With those lingers w'litc and small Plucked a wild rose gave It to me And I took It, band und all. And the birthday ot the nation Was a Joyous day fcr mo, Wbon I made my Di-cl n ation Of Dependence to Maris! TRUE BLUE! AH G! boom! clang! ' the crack of a j ruety rillo, the ; doep bass roar of j lh old fleld-pieco i on the common, i rfllfA. JWii;' iwnvo musical EiWr? utrokes from the 'IKjmini tra-hsll boll.and .Vourth of July had ome to kakevllle! " Villi a sigh, pret- 1 ty Eunice Alden j turned from her i window. There was new-born ex-j citement in tho air, ' sw ect night sounds ind moonlight glamour, and there wis happy reverie in her heurt, but fnsh strength, blooming cheeks, and bonny eyes come with restful slumber, and she needed all for the grave celebration and gay fostlvjties of the nation's natal day. "Go, seek him, gertl s winds so free, and kiss his smiling eyjs for mo!" she murmured softly, wita i. last glance over the trees toward the heme of handsome Percy Grey, her escort from the evening concert, her prime favorite among the beaux of Lakevillo. Not that Percy was Ithor an avowed or accepted lover. No; popular gossip awarded Ransom Clurl:e precedence in the rnco for the love and fortune of the village belle. With a memory of Percy's gentle adieu at tho garden gate, however, of her accept an co of his company for tho Fourth, of his fond plea for the bit of blue rlbuoi at her bonny throat, the fair younir irl blushed hotly a she wafted a kiss to'rard his home. Swish Hare boon! About to turn from tho window, Eunice gazed skyward. A silver streak of sparks cut tho air like a knife. A roeiot! Another a third four five f ix in succession! i The number of letters In her name! tha rockets Bred surely from the flroy grounds by his hard--and, wonder of! wonders! each and a l reaching their zenith, burst into a bewildering dazzle : of bright blue light! Oh, had it come to this had her tell- . tale face told Percy that she would be ; sitting alone at mi Inlght thinking of him? Blue! Why, i hi t was her "favor- ( 1 . color" tho hue of the bright bit of i ribbon the gallajit Percy wore on his j lapel, a souvenir, a guerdon, blue as 1 er winsome eyes, tiue as his loyal heartl She loved, wes loved in turn! j With a sob of half sh ime, half delight, I Kunice Alden burled her happy faco in j her snowy pillow Kid dreamed of tho ' love that was bon., nurtured, and , bloomed on that joyous eye of the! Fourth of July. j Noon at the grove high noon, and j litate Senator Joshua Neweomb deep in ; the spread-eagle peroration ou patriot- j Ism that was "the elort of his life;" good-natured, applauding auditors on ; every side; Selectman Smith, big, pom- ; pous and perspiring, ii tho chairman's' meat; free lemonade, bunting galore, i merriment, pop and peanuts, and every- j body bubbling over with love oi country : and happiness exoopt Eunice. Poor Eunice! Tho day had dawned ; with her heart beati ig rapidly, and here, i half gone, all the gl in our, joy and hope of lovo seemed das'icd out cruelly from ' her sunny life. Truo-blue had turned . to perfidious black, ind, as the hours "A Hlt.VKR 8TI1EAK O S1AKK.8 Cl'T TUB AIB. went, by, anxiety g iv place to humilia tion, mid this to donpi.ir. Her chosen escort had not called at the house, os proinlf ('.l. She proceeded to tho grovo, llo wtin not there. What did It menu' An affront? Her heart heal painfully, l'rld j roused her from apathy. Jealous oyon should never f eo ' her secret! She li.nl but to choose her j company, and mlddny found her on the arm of a man she secretly despised, ; with all his wealth and assumption KanHom Clarke pay, to all outward seeming, as tho gay .at, yet at soul a canker preyed. "I have not socsi Mr. (iruy hero to- . day," Kho ventured to remark, finally. ! The keen-eyed, s oek-facod man at j her hldo gazed at her with a sinister ': glance. I tii, ho replied, l'orcy evidently prefers the city glare and the city belles to homo attractions. Ho went there with a party from the tavern early this morning." "How do you kBOT'?" sharp, pained, torturing tho query. "1. saw him. They won- o debratina as I pussod tho tavern. They kept the landlord and Mb win and daughter busy opening tho bottled o' wine. Why! they even ton Bled the girl in merry song.nnd Poroy pinned a blue ribbon to her shoulder ami proclaimed her queen "f love and bealy. A fasciiia Jng fellow, Eunice, but wild wild us can bo. Why, neo! , thoro is the landlord's daughter now." In a mist of anguish, poor Eunice 1 looked. Unzzllng hi g;tudy array, oustentatlous, loud-voiced,, the girl In quos- 1 tiou passed them juet then, and on her shoulder was the sell -samo bit of blue ribbou Eunice had f ivon the man she loved. It was three miles to the town from tho grovo. A storm drove the celebrants homo by train at dust. As they stepped aboard the cars, n gloating smile overspread ltansom Clarke's sinister ft.et . He had played hin cards well; he had prossod the golden opportunit y. Piqued at Peroy Grey's seeming perlidy, reckless of all save prida and humiliation, beurt-brolion Eunlcij Alden had promised to b Uiu wile of Hansom Clarkel

Triumphant was his plorful heart black was that evil heart, too, for, at that very momcrt, the rival bo had Cheated was in mortal peril of his Hie, The storm ha.l panod, but fitful gUSU wlud and spat ters of ruin swept the car windows its first mile licmeward bound. Eunice Alden shrank from the gloat-ing-ftieed, familiar companion whom she had accepted in a moment of foolish pique. Suddenly there whs a (.harp shriek oi the whistle of the locomotive, the wheels ground over a thunderous trestle-work, a great blue I aro ot light Hushed up, flashed down and, with a terrific jar, tho train cam 3 to a stop. Men were hurled from their seats, women Bhrieked and fainted, peopl" crowdei to the platforms. "What has happened?" "An accidi tit- a collision!" The throng pale and perturbed, hastened to the front of the train. A shudder permeate.! every heart as they saw in tho glare of the headlight two freight ears, ono closed, one gondola loaded loaded with heavy rails, and standing directly across the tracks. "A narrow escape," chattered the conductor. "A sorry Fourth of July if the locomotive had ever struck those cars." "Hut how came thoy across tha switch?" queried an agitated voice. "Dun no, only whoever signaled danger at tho trastlo saved all your lives," sang out the 11 re man from the cab. "les," ohlrued in tho engineer, "I saw a bright bluo flare, a wild figure, and I'm ufeord we ran tiui down." uXo!" cried the conductor, as trainhands approached with lanterns "see! they've got someone with them." "Hurrah!" cried one of the newoom ers. "Here he is the hero who signaled us. lie dropped to the creek as the engine went by. "Him!" gasped Eansom Clarke, turning deathly white. "Come, Eunice, we wo will not remain here " "Yes, I shall! Oh! what does this mean?" What, indeed; for, pale, with disordered apparel, grimed, wild-eyed, the hero of the trestle was her recreant lover. "Percy Percy Grey!" cried a score

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Somhu fTeather Signs. If sparrows are busy about thoir nosts OT fly In flock, the weather will be oletvr and fair. If b wans fly southward quite lain in the Mason, say at tbe end ot (September, the fall will be long and -prolonged. M swallows fly near tbe groutid, there will be rainy or windy weather. If chicks leek shelter, the weather will be wet. If chickens and other fowls pick their feathers, there will be cloudy and damp

weather. If, during severe frosts, roosters crow very early, the weather will become moderate or even warm. When ducks bathe and quack there surely will be rain, and when they are qniet there will be a thunderstorm. If geese bathe it will rain. If a cat searches for a warm place there will be cold weather, li a cat scratches a door, table, or other object with its claws, there will be windy and snowy weather. If dogs roll in the winter there will be snow; if m the summer there will I-o rain. If mice make their nests above the ground in ricks the fall will be rainy and prolonged. If they make their nests under rioks upon the ground the sprint; will be fair. If they make their nest before the crop is reaped rainy weather will begin in August and the fall will be bed. Fiah appear on the surface cf water before rain, and go to the bottom before a strong wind. Lobsters orewl upon the boni s before rainy weather. If oak lands grow plentiful the following winter will be severe and tha summer fruitful. If smoke sinks to the ground when there is no wind, in winter it w ill snow and in summer it will rain. If smoke rises even daring bad weather fair weather will follow. If at sunset thare are no oloada the next day will be fair; if tha son. sets in clouds the next day will be oloudv and perhaps rainy. If the setting: son is red, the next day there will be a strong wind. If the horns of the new moon are long and sharp, then in winter the whole month will be cold, and in summer fair. If the moon looks pale it will rain; if clear and bright there will be fair weather. . If fog lies on the ground there will be fair weather; ii it rises in the evening the next day will be warm. If the first thunder be hoard from the south, daring the coming sumtaer there will be many thunder-storms. If it thunders in winter there will be a strong wind. If there are red clouds, bei'oru sunrise the day will bo very windy. If a peraon lets the new moon shine on his or her pocket-bouk, hs or she will not have a single penny d uring the whole month. All Aboard I Hake haste. Your baggage Is all right, bnt fcave you got . supply of Ho8 :etter's Btomach Bitters? Nol Then you have made a etd omission, and it you are troubled witi at om&chlo qualm en route If yon are nea alrk, my dear sir, or madam, you will hav,s dessned your fate. How dreadfully the waves or the jarring ot the engine or screws shake yo'i up! Now there is a mute bnt awful call to the ship's side. Now, if you had the Bitters along with you this wouldn't happen. Travelers ind tcmrlata, take our advice, and before you start on your yachting or ocean voyage, your coastwise crip or Inland outing, obtain the Bitters, and thus fortify yourselves agslnst stomachic difficulties, malaria, dyspcpslu, and the etf ecta of exposure in rouaii wenthiir or t ac. diet or water. Take it, too, tor blltoiu&tKfc, kidney trouble, and rheumatism. Syrians In Gothjim. The recent signs of acti vity u mong the Syrian residents of New York City, who number about 1,000 are Interesting;. Thoy now have a weekly paper of their own, printed here In Arabic, and they also have formed an organ tzatl an known as the Syrian Society cf New York, wlm h will huvo a free rending-room and school for the benefit of tjioso who need them. Tho Syrians live in extreme squalor and poverty near tbe Battery: yet one of ther leaders, Ameer Haddad, who is a doctor and a scholar. ?ays that a gcod many more Immigrants from Syria will land this year. Quite Apropos. "So you havo met Miss Smlthers?" "Yes. I was Introduced at a social." "She is a woman of groat erudition, I understand." ''Yes, a rogular nobody.'' Detroit Free Press. 8. K. COBURN, Mgr., Ctarle Scott, mitei: I find Hall's Catarrh Cure a -mhuvbai remedy." Piuggists sell It, ISo. Patohe for Kid Gloveii. "Kid gloves will rip despite our best efforts to keep tnoni In good condition," said an exquisite young man at the Southern last night, "Hut ivo have at last learned how to mend thorn. Instead of sewiiiK up tho rent, as formerly, wo now take a small piece of coma plaster or surgeon's plaster (the latter Is tho bettor), turn the glovo wroiif: side out and neatly apply the plaster ovor the rent or rip, lirst having drawn the rent part of the elove nicely together." St Louis Globe-Democrat. Sick Headache, lasstturte, woi.kness and loss of appetito, caused by malaria, can be immediately cured by Bcccham's l'ills. A tittle He:try. finks I hear tbey are putt! rig an elevator behind Dr. Fourthly's pulpit. I should think he'd be able to walk up those few stuns. Fllklns Oh, bnt you must remember ha has to carry his sermon. Louisville Commercial. Aorons, v,x-auts. Pcnr.10 SrKis ers recommend Bilb's Honey oy Hoi.ehound and Tab. Pike's Toutuachc Uuops Cur in 'in Minute. If some men knew as much as thoy talked there would not be aus sale for. tho encyclopedias. Whenever I seo HoocTh BirsaptrllU I want 1 1 bow ar d &y 'Thank You. Iwui tmdly affected with Ktciwraa and Scrotal So; e, covnrUu almost th whole ot one sictoof my face, nearly to tho top of my head. Runniuir sores discharK dfPOial)thears. My eyes wtrs vsrr bad. For Alt . fAiniey. flf arly a year I Man d?af . I took HOOK'S SARSAPAKIIXA and tbe mm oa my oyes tcft in my jam healed. I can now hear and see a veil as ever." MWI.AMASiDAl1AIHLET.l70Lai)tlrSrSt..K!WbUrgh,NX HOOD'S PILLS rur all Uver XI s, janndio, iok hcadaclo. biliousness, so ir stoma h. nausea. aVAHTaCnf MKN TO THAVfcX. Wa tay ftfio 1QO a month iinl exDetiMita. 6 TONE Jfc WELLINGTON, MjkSsoh. WU

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