Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — Alone in the Dark. [ARTICLE]

Alone in the Dark.

Reginald DeMugg stood alone on the steps of the handsome mansion, the door of which had just slammed in his face, and in his ears still rang the last words of the fair being whom he madly loved. They were : “Go, and never let me see your face again. You have no style about yourself.” And as Reginald stood there under the silent stars, he bitterly repented the act that had left him out in the cold in both senses of the phrase. Through the long summer, through the fall, as the winds wafting with them tlie first breath of winter, had kissed the leaves and left them nodding with a thousand golden hues, through the winter thus ftyr, he had been as a witling slave of the proud beauty, Madeliue Stumy, proud in her own womanly beauty, and proud of the position her father’s wealth gave to her. And had she not looked coldly on Reginald, and already had their friends coupled their names, and the preachers who saw them meandering together thought of probable fat marriage fees. And now all was lost, and Reginald might never hope to- see that fair face again, never hope to feel the soft, responsive of those fairy fingers, and as we said, bitterly did he repent, and what had Reginald done ? He had called to take Madeline to a party in the next block and hod not brought a hack ? And Madeline was not that kind of a hairpin, but had to have a hack if a party was only in the next block. And Reginald did not know this. Hence the slamming of the door, and the speech, and the standing, alone under the silent stars. —Evansville Argus. The difference between a hungry man and a glutton is, “one longs to eat, and the other eats too long. ” . Now they speak of Crude Petroleum as a remedy for Consumption; better not try it, but take Dr. Bull’s Cough Byrup—the standard Cough Bemedy of our age. It is agreeable to the taste, never fails to cure, and costs only 25 cents a bottle.