Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 September 1896 — Page 8
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WAS 8 O'CLOCK and the drug store next the opera house was as radiant with the costumes whose richness was of ilio parquet- circle typo as was the foyer u. the great hall near by. It was the usnal before-the-opera
?rowd, composed of representatives of class of people who are well-to-do yei not such strict adherents to the canons af society as to be prohibited from attending to a few trifling matters that had been put off till the last minute. Ladies under the protection of their escorts braced themselves for the coming performance with various soft drinks that were served rapidly by the skillful attendants ladies who had tucked their safety under the shadow of their own wing and had discarded masculine supervision altogether, haggled over the price of boxes of bonbons and scowled at the clerk, who insisted upon receiving the regulation price for all such dainties, and ladies whose escorts were yet to appear leaned wearily against the heavy showtases and impatiently watclfed the avenue entrance through which they wore every moment expecting the other hall of the combine to put in an appearance.
The latter class was not without a plentiful sprinkling of men. The one who of all the waiting, pushing, passing crowd was first to arrive was a gentleman. He came in at 7:30 and took up his station at the corner of the cigar stand near the door, a position from which he could get a fair view of every newcomer, and there he stood, a good-looking, dark-mustached, fash-ionably-attired moiyiment of patience, till the minute-hand on the clock opposite, pointed to S o'clock. Thee he shifted his position a little. At five minutes past S he shifted again, At ten minutes past 8 he got desperate, and leaving the counter, which for the last forty minutes had served for a pedestal for his weariness, he cut a wide swath through the then decreasing crowd and made his way toward the far end of the. store.
There were but five ladies left in the public trysting place at that time. One tvas middle-aged and had two little girls wjth her three of them were accompanied hv gentlemen the only one for whom he could possibly be looking was the tall blonde in the rear of the room. He stopped and studied her furtively again before addressing her. She was very pretty. Iler hair was thai rich, beautiful brown that shines in the light her eyes were large, long-lashei! nnd white-lidded, and her complexion was touched with that exquisite tint that reaches its rarest perfection when brought in contrast with somber colors. The lady undoubtedly realized the possibilities of her face and the rich black of her costume was relieved only by the ermine lining of her wrap.
The gentleman hesitated a moment' "She doesn't tally exactly with the description given," he decided, comparing the pretty picture before him with a photograph which he evidently carried in a convenient pocket in his mind. "The fact is, she. is decidedly prettier, but perhaps a desire to avoid all show of egotism prompted her to go a little slow on the enumeration of her many charms. A woman as good looking as she is can afford to speak faintly in her own praise. It must be she. I'll risk it, anyway."
A relieved look passed over the lady's face and she arose as lie came nearer. Pardon me," he said, "but I am looking for a lady I have never seen. Have I made a mistake, or is this Miss Gilbert?"
A perceptible shade of disappointment flashed in her blue eyes and she
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IS THIS MISS GILBERT?
fccsltatert an instant. She glanced at the clock. It was 8:15, and the opera had already commenced. "Yes," she replied, quickly, "and you?"
He put his own construction on her hesitancy, and smiled in his own conceit. "Robert Lang, of course," be. returned. "What a fool I was to let you wait here from 7the lime when you came in, until now. P.ut I was fearful of making a mistake. You are so much prettier than you gave me any idea of." "You are very kind." she laughed, "but let's hurry. The music is now well under way."
The drug-store door closed heavily behind them and the clerks settled down to a brief season of comparative quiet. Half an hour ticked itself monotonously away and the clock above the refreshment counter registered 8:35. A man who looked eiuugh like the puzzled hero of the early part of tho evening to be hia twin brother hurried across the avenue with a reckless disregard of murderous cabs and cable cars and rushed into the universal club-room. The '*ily people present v"i" attfi:i£.j\ts an- two gentle
men buying cigars. It was obvlou# that the late arrival was on the lookout for none of these, for ho sat down gingerly on a seat near the door and glared around with unconcealed disgust. He waited five minutes, then as no one else came who appeared to be more pleasing to his fancy lie pulled his collar tightly around his ears and started out. He had stepped one toot on the sidewalk and was still holding the knob of the half-open door, when he noticed a woman who turned the nearest corner and came rapidly toward him. She brushed past him and went into the drug store. Involuntarily he turned and went in after her. She h«d brown hair, blue eyes and a good complexion moreover, she was dressed in black and wore a wrap with ermine lining.
The anxious, searching glance with which she regarded the occupants of the room finally rested on him and she started back with a little cry of alarm, He laid his hand on her arm and led her to a seat near the side entrance. "Now," he said, sitting down beside her, "what are you doing here?" "I came to meet some one," she faitered, meekly, "and he isn't here. What are you doing?" "I came here to meet some one, too," he retorted, sharply, "and she isn'f here, either." "I'm late," she hazarded, for want of something better to say. "Yes," he returned, "so am I."
They sat there for a few moments, each maintaining an obdurate silence. Presently one neatly gloved hand stole out from under her ermine-lined wrap and rested lightly against his sleeve. "Frank," she said, twisting herself around so he could get a half-view of her pretty face, "I've been awfully foolish, and I want to confess." There were, tears in her eyes, but they did not lead him to the stool of repentance. "After we had our quarrel last week and decided to separate, 1 was so miserable— I can't tell you how miserable. You will have to try to imagine. I have tried to bear it as though it were really a matter of small import, and to keep people from learning just how much I have grieved I have avoided them as much as possible. It sets me wild to hear them jest and make merry when my heart is literally breaking. In Sunday's paper I read the advertisement of a young man, a stranger in the city, who wanted some one to accompany him to the opera two evenings this week, answered and we made an engagement to meet here to-night at 7:30. I couldn't get away from home on time and I sup pose he has left long ago. I should not have come at all, Frank, but. judging by the description he gave of himself.
I concluded he must look like you. His name is Robert Lang. Oh, Frank, was so foolish and reckless. Pray for give me."
The tears brimmed over then and formed a little rivulet down eithe cheek. The fingers on his coat sleeVt perceptibly tightened their grip and he laid his own right h£.nd protectingly over tliem. "I thought there must he something like that in ti.\: wind," he said. "The fact of th» matter is, Nellie, I was on just such a chase myself. A lady, alsi a stranger ii the city, advertised in Sunday's pape»* for an escort for one evening this week, and I offered to lend her my services. We agreed upon tonight at 7:30 as the time and place of meeting. I couldn't get here any earlier. Upon my word, I don't think I should have come at all, only I was convinced she must look like you, and if I couldn't have the original 1 thought I would try to content myself with a passable substitute. Her name is Katherine Sutton. I wonder what became of her?" "Why should you care?" was the pouting comment, "when you have me?" "That's so," he replied, "why should 1?"
Six months later Mrs. Fii'nk Kennan looked up from the morning paper, choice paragraphs from which she was sandwiching into her nimble mind between the bites of buttered ioast. and looked at her husband curiously. "Frank," she asked, "what was the name of the lady you cre to meet at the drug store that night?" "Miss Sutton," he answered, carelessly "Katherine Sutton. Why, what made you think of her?" "Oh, nothing. I learn by the morning paper that a marriage license has been issued to Robert Lang and Katherine Sutton, that's all. You know, Lang was the name of the gentleman I should have seen. 1 was just wondering if they didn't console themselves with each other and go to the opera together. It's strange we never thought of that before. Such a thing is possible. you know." "Oh, yes," he said, "it's possible." ,..
*Jur«» for UhcumuiiBiii.
In Australia they have a whale cu.e for rheumatism, which is said to be effective, tliogh duisagreeable. It was discovered by a drunken man, who was stagggering along the beach near the ".'haling station at Twofold bay, and who, seeing a dead whale cut open, took a header into the decomposed blubber. It took two hours for him to work his way out, but he was then not only sober, but cured of his rheumatism. Now a hotel has been built in the neighboring town of Eden, where rheumatic patients wait for the arrival of a whale in order to take blubber baths.
lotf At«» the Votes.
"Chewed up by a bulldog" was tb« remarkable entry set opposite the first sixty-four ballots in an election on Staton Island, N. Y., last week. The ballots had been locked up and the in telligent. beast, had swallowed sixty four of t.^em by morning.
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Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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"SCRAPS'"
Dr. Jameson's trial cost tho government 8250,00.
A horse jumped aboard a cable car in Now York ou Tuesday. A prisoner in New York got eleven years in prison the other day for stealing $2.
Amorlgage for §2,000,000 wos recently placed on a single building in New York.
Of G91 tramps relieved at the Winches ter work-house, England, in eight successive weeks, 1(53 were discharged soldiers.
The curfew boll will hereafter ring at 10 o'clock instead of 9 at Canyon City, Colo., on Saturday nights, extending the time an hour for young folka to be out.
The Czarina of Russia is an expert swimmer, and recently had a magnificent swimming tankj ,crccti the Winter Palace, covering an area of 1,400 square feet.
The commonest form of gambling in East India 16 betting on rain. Mr. Penheiro, of the ^Victoria printing-works has just issued book culled "Guide to Rain-Betting."
At present the United States follows Russia and the Argentine Republic in the values of wheat exports to Germany but American flour is more expensive than any other there.
DeathB from cobra bites have become vary common in Calcutta lately. A shop keepei in that city was recently awakened by a sharp pain inj his elbow. It proved to be a cobra bite, from which he died.
The various countries of the world now use 13,400 different kinds of postage stamps.
A flowering plant during itB lifo is said to abstract from the soil 200 times its own weight of water.
Web to the length of two and onequarter mile6 has been drawn from the body of a single spider.
On most voyages of a iir6t olass ocean steamer about 3,000 pieces ofj glassware and crockery are broken.
GENERAL STATL NEWS.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
The Muncle flint glass-workB 1 as made a partial,'start,. The First Congregational g, church building of Kokotno has been recon-. structed and enlarged.
Edward Schrichte of Rushville. has returned after many months' residence ic the Transvaal.
The mayor of the city of Anderson has proclamated turning over the city to the labor unions on? .Labor JDay.:
A valuable horse belonging to M. T. Shaw, of Waynesburg kicked over a hive of bees and was stung to death.
The Rev. P. S. Colviti has accepted tho position of teacher of biblical subjects in tho college at^Noith Manche ter.
Tho little daughter of Wolf Erhardt of South Bend sucked a saudj,burr into her windpipe, dying almost instantly.
Tho bicycle tubing works at Albany is expected to be ready fur turning out.
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John Landers,
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a brawl some da\s ago,lis 'lying, and A. IKM, oi am Board
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phrenologist, is under arrest, at De
Joseph Finney,JJcighty-one yearB old, a wealthy farmerjof Wayne county, is crazed with the delusion that his wife and daughter have a secret cellar under the house.
Lewis Dawson, of Richmond, who
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wears his hair long and his beard heavy and goes about preaching, pretending that ho is the Messiah, has been committed for thirty days for wife whipping.
Tho unknown man killed by a Big Four train near Shelbyville has been identified as William Doggett, who, twecty-fivo yearB ago, gave the secret service much trouble becauso of alleged counterfeiting. He was sixty-eight years old.
FoNter'n I''ori-ciiMt.
The second disturbance of Soptember will reach tho Pacific coast about 7th, cross tho west of Rockies country by closo of 8th, the great Central Valley 9th to 11th, Extern States 12th.
Warm wave will cross tho west of Rockies country about 7th, great Central Valloys 9th, Eastern States 11th. Cool wave will cross tho west of Rockies country about tho 10th, great Central Valleys 12th, eastern States 11th.
These two disturbances will constitute tho severe storm period of September. In bulletin of August 1st the following was published: "A series of storm waves on land and sea will run through tho remainder of 189G. The worst of these will occur not far from August, 12th, Septomber 9th, October 8tb. November 1st or 8th and December fth and 29th.
Tho severe storms that crosses the continent from 11th to l.'Uh of August) in which many lives were lost, fully sustained the forecast.
September !5tl to 9th will be the return of the same disturbing forces and I expe.-t the storniB to he moro sever© than those of August.
Killing frosts may bo expected in northern latitudes] following this disturbance in Rocky mountain country about 10th and great central valloys about 12tb.
Vandalia Line Low RatesHome Seekers Excursions south and west, Sept. 1st and loth, one fare, plusS2.o() for rcturn--good to western points 21days, Southern points, 31 days.
To Eagle Lake and return, $-.1.05 for 10 days, 85.20 to return to Oct. 31st. To Clevoland S'.-pt. 9th. one fare round trip.
To Darlington, Ind.. and return, Sept. 21, good to return Sept. 25,35cts round trip, account Knights of Pythias.
To Indianapolis and return,Sept. 1-1 to19. Return Sept. 29 81.30 round trip, account Slate fair.
To Flora. Ind., and return Sept. 21 to 25—return Sept. 20. 81.80 round trip account of fair and races.
To Terre Haute and return Sept. 21. to 25, including Sept. 2(J. One. faro 81.G0, round trip, account Trotting. Association.
Remember summer rates are good during September, but expire Sept. 30 for going. All good to return including Oct. 31. ^J C. HUTCHINSON-,
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Mrs. John'M. Rice, of North Manchester, arose to [close a window, and upon returning to betlj she found that her husband was dead, lie was6event one oars old.
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