Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1888.

ßStrai$eressa2e BT DORA RUSSELL. Author of "Footprints is the Sxotv,' Thb Bbokex Seal," "Tub Vicar's Govxrxess." "Annabel's Rital."

CHAPTER LH. "MT BKOTnEB-IX-LAW." EARLY the next morning Biddulph arrived at Dr. Alexander's house in Balla, after epending a restless and dissatisfied night, for his common sense told him, though ho had not admitted this to Nora, that the likeness in the handwriting of the two letters was at least a remarkable fact. Yet his ardent desire to believe that this woman was not tho Natalie Berancr he had wedded years ago, swept everything before it, and ho went to Dr. Alexander's determined to be convinced of nothing else. The doctor came down in his old plaid dressing-gown a somewhat uncouth figure, for he had not shaved, nor yet had breakfasted and held out his hand and took Biddulph's in a warm and friendly grasp. "Ye've come about this bad business. Eh, mon, ye're changed !" "I've gone through a good deal since I've seen you, doctor, and have had a very sharp fight for life." "Miss Leonora Stewart told me of yer gare trouble, and of yer goodness to the puir laddie, Malcolm Fräser, whose gat name at last! Eh, Mr. Biddulph; it's been a tangled web, all this, and now there seems no end of it still.' "You know what I have come about; ind now doctor I want to hear the exact truth. Miss Stewart told me last night that this woman who is here now who went to her and oüered, for a certain sum of money, to admit she was deceiving us all when she declared she was mv wife thatdavin the kirk, had told or hinted something of this to you before. Is this so?" "Ye mind," answered the doctor, gravely, "when ye declined to give her the money she wanted, and sent me to tell her sa, she said she must ha' it; and then and there she started up, and nsked me how much she thought ye wad gi' to believe you yense.' again a free mon." "And why did you not tell me this?" asked Biddulph, briefly. "Mr. Biddulph, I'll answer ye as I answered her. I told her we were all puir weak, erring creatures, prone to fall, and I thought this offer waa tempting ye too far?" "You might have allowed me to judge of that." "Maybe I should, but in my puir judgment " "You would have spared me months of pain if you had done so," interrupted Biddulph, as the doctor hesitated. "How, Mr. Biddulph ? The woman was lying then, as she wad lie now." "But how do you know this? She swore she was my wife in the kirk, you wiilsay; but 6he was ready to 6vear to you then, and she is ready to swear to me now, that she is not. "Why should you believe one oath more than the other?" 'Truth is a vera' subtle thine, Mr. Biddulph. That womau standing there in the house of God tbAt day had it in her eyes and on her tongue, to my mind, aud when she make tlii oß'er she had not." "But this is only your own idea. And have you forgotten that Natalie's weddingring the ring with which 1 married her, at least was certainly found on the dead woman's hand?" "Ay; but what about the words she whispered in yer ear the words ye said none but she "could know?" A dark flush rose to Biddulph's very brow. "They were only pome folly," he said abruptly; "gome stupid speech I made when I first placed it on Natalie's hand, which she no doubt had repeated to her ister." "But ye did not think this that day in the kirk?" "I do now, at all events ; and I want you to go to her, and, it you will be so good, to arrange about the money, and also about the time when she will make a solemn declaration take an oath, in fact that she is not my wife, before witnesses. I think of asking Mr. Eraser of Airdlinn to be present." But the doctor shooit his head. "I'll ha naught to do wi' it," ho Faid; 'it'a unjust to the young leedy, whose Boul is as white as snaw." "It's unjust to rae that my whole life should bo rendered wretched by a false claim!" "But is it false?" said the doctor, fixing small scrutinizing eyes on Biddulph's dark, agitated face. "Mr. Biddulph, doesn't a sma' voice within ve whisDor that this sin this folly of yer youth, wc rnay call it hangs around yer throat heavy as a millstane 6till?" "I will throw it ofT, tien," naM Biddulph, flinging back his head with a passionate gesture; "I will see this woman if you will not; and if she will swear on the bible she is no wife of mine " "She wad sell her vera soul," interrupted the doctor. "Let her sell it, thtn ! I believe she's a ile impostress, who traded on her likeness to her dead sister. I w ish you good morninz, Dr. Alexander;" and, with a somewhat haughty bow, Biddulph took up his hat and went away. Yet scarcely was he gone when his heart reproached him for being angry with a good man for speaking according to his conscience. The doctor thought dillerently to what Biddulph so earnestly wished; but, as he did think so, I'dddufph knew that, for Nora Stewart's sake, he was justified in expressing his opinion. And Biddulph's head fell low on his breast as he ilowly walked from the doctor's hous.; to the little inn at Balla. Dr. Alexander's strong convictions had not tended to make bis mind easier; it influenced him as honest, truthful words ever will. When he reached the small hostelry, And asked for Madame de Be ran per, he ' was told she had not yet appeared. Biddulph was still so lame that to walk was a rery great exertion to him, and he therefore sat down to wait until she was ready to receive hirn. She sent a message that she would not be long, and presently the door of the little parlor opened, and Biddulph half started when he saw the strangely familiar dark face appear. fehe smiled a little scornfully, and nodded her head as she walked into the room. "t5o you've come to seek me this time?" ? she said. V "Yes," answered Biddulph, still with his eyes fixed upon her face. "Well, are vou willing to come to terms?" went on the woman who called herself Madame de Beranger, yet more rnfully. "Are you and the young lady 'i cy mJxZ DU luiiuo aaaas i j i-M uvuri ling to par down tho sum I asked for l luxury?'' am willing to pay you a large sum if will f p?k the truth." trutii that is most pleasant to you the real truth, snid Biddulph, 1 W ra Ti!t Itrirtr Air eruiL- 1 n rr K r it day in the kirk here, when you be the woman whom I believed inch will you give to know?"

Biddulph frowned and bit his lips at this mocking question. "You named a price," he said the next moment, "to Mias Stewart; that price, great as it was, I would give to be certainly assured that I was free. But you must prove this ; for Miss Stewart's sake, I cannot accept your word, even your oath alone." "What do you mean by proving it?" "I mean jou must go into some details of your past life; brine forward some witness to prove that you are Natalie's twin sister, and not Natalie herself, as I believe now you only pretended you were." Tho woman laughed her strange shrill laugh. "You have grown very partic jlar," she said. ' It, is for Miss Stewart's sake, I repeat; this has cost her enough pain already, cruel pain, and I do not wish to add to it. Surely you have some friend whom you can bring forward to prove your words?" Again she laughed. "I have borne Natalie's namei lately, of course." she 6aid "the name she "took when you refused her yours and have been known as Madame de Beranger, since my income depended upon this, as ycu are" aware. Her friends have been mine naturally, and mine hers. One of us was known to be dead; but the one who had the rich husband who would not acknowledge her was supposed to be alive. I had to play the part I had chosen, you know !" "And you will swear that you were acting 8 wear that vou are not Natalie Beranger, but Josephine ?'' I will swear this for the sum 1 named." "Who was your husband? Is he dead?" She shrugged her shoulders, and laughed aloud. "I am happily rid of him!" she said. "What was his name?" persisted Biddulph. "Why do you want to know?" "I want to trace your past history to find out that you are not deceiving me again." "I don't want my past hisiory traced out. My life has not been quite a led of roses, I can tell you ; but I am ready to Bvear you are not my husband ready to swear I took you in for the sake of getting Natalie's income, as I had none of my own. There I Will that not satisfy you ? It will the young lady, I am sure, for she's so desperately fond of you that she said she would give her whole fortune to know that you were free." Biddulph's face slightly flushed. "And you wilf go to her and swear that I am?" he said "swear before her friends that you deceived me when you pretended my wife still lived?" "I will swear this you know what for?" "Yes, I know." "And you will give me this money before I do this?" "I will give you half of it, and my bond for the rest." "All right. I can bring forward a friend, if you like, too, who will swear I am Josephine." "You had better do this. When can you bring forward this friend?" "Iiet nie consider this is Tuesday. He can be down to this benighted region by Thursday. He lives in town; he is half a Frenchman." "Very well; on Thursday afternoon, then, will you and this friend go to Miss Stewart at" Rossmore, and there declare that you never were married to me; that you assumed your dead sister's name for the sake of money; and your friend will bear you out in thi.s?" "It" is settled, then ; you agree to my terms and I will keep my word." "Good day then until Thursday;'" and Biddulph bowed gravely and slowly left the room. "Goodbye, my broffter-in-law " cried the woman in mocking tones as he left her; and somehow her words had a false ring to Biddulph's anxious ears. CHAPTER LIII. DOCBTFCL EVIDENCE. Two days of suspense passed away; of suspense so cruel tnat Nora Stewart sometimes wished that this question had never been mooted; that she had remained Biddulph's friend, without the fond hopes and bitter doubts which now so constantly beset her heart. And Biddulph, too, looked pale and anxious. He had seen Jock Fraser on the matter, and honest Jock had declared he could not understand it. Dr. Alexander remained firm, and declined to have anything to do with it. And the two to whom it meant so much spoke of it with clasped hands and bated breath. "It is more than life to me, I think," Biddulph said, and Nora could only answer with a sigh. At last the hour came when the momentous declaration was to be made, and at Nora's earnest request Jock Eraser had consented to be present, Biddulph was standing near Nora when the house-bell rang, and Jock came in and silently shook Nora's hand, looking at her very kindly as he did so. Then again the door-bell rang, and this time two strangers were ushered into the drawing-roorn by Alfred ; and as the eyes of the three already assembled there fell on the face of the man who had come to confirm the woman's story, they all felt at once that they were looking at a most dubious witness. He was middle-aged, dark, and foreignlooking, with longish, greasy, black hair, parted so as to endeavor to conceal that he was growing bald; but it was the expression of his black eyes that tilled the gazers' hearts with doubt. They were bold, bad, and crafty; he had an evil face, in fact, on which the impress of an ill-MK-nt lifo had left its dusky shadows, lie bowed profoundly as he entered the room, gave one quick glance at each of the three standing before him, and then dropped his eyes, and stood, hat in hand, waiting for Madame to begin tho conversation. This she did with even more than her usual volubility. "This is my friend," she Raid, waving her red sunshade in the dubious looking man's direction, "Mr., or ii vou like it better, Monsieur Dobree. This gentleman has known me more years than I like to mention ; since my early girlhood, in fact, when poor Josephine I mean, poor Natalie and I were were children." Hhe tripped and faltered in her sjeech after she had said the word "Josephine," but tried to recover herself; but Nora, listening, clasped her hands together, and stood with parted lips and a sinking heart "And he is ready to prove," went on the woman rapidly, "that I am not tho wife of this gentleman, " and she pointed her sunshade at Biddulph. "This gentleman married my sister. You are ready to swear this, Dobree?" "Berfectly ready, madame" answered Dobree, with a bow and a quick warning glance at tho woman's face, who looked excited and strange. "I have the honor," be continued, speaking in a slightly foreign accent, "of knowing this lady and her twin sister, Natalie" (he pronounced the name with marked emphasis) "since their interesting infancy," and be again bowed. "And who did this lady marry?" asked Biddulph, in a cold, inquiring tone. Monsieur Dobree shrugged his shoulders, and raised his hands with a gesture of regret. "It was a misfortune," he said, "this lady's marriago. Her first marriage was an unhappy one; her second," and he smiled, "I hope will be otherwise." "What was his name?" asked Biddulph, Sternly. "It was Monsieur "Wbital.er one of

your countrymen ;" and again Monsieur Dobree shrugged his shoulders. "And vou can prove this?" asked Jock Fraser, looking with his shrewd brown eyes at the Frenchman's face. "I will swear it! These ladies and I have no secrets. I know all about Monsieur Whitaker and Biddulnh." . "And you know," said Biddulph, with a darkling brow, "that this woman came to me and swore falsely pretended ehe was her dead twin-sister?" Once more Monsieur Dobree raised his shoulders to express regret. "Alas, I know!" he 6aid. "Madame Whitaker was what you called hard up. What could she do ! You must pity and forgive her." "It was a vile deception!" said Biddulph, passionately. "But you are ready now, and she is ready to swear before this gentleman and lady that you both are now speaking the truth?' "I swear it as a gentleman 1" cried Monsieur Dobree, grandly. "And you? said Biddulph, looking at the woman fixedly. "I swear it too. When poor Josophino was shot " "Fool!" muttered Monsieur, with tightdrawn lips. "I mean poor Natalie, of course," continued the woman, with a little conscious laugh and a dusky blush; "but your Highland whisky is so strong, my brain seems half muddled." But Nora had caught Biddulph's hand as she again had uttered the word "Josephine." "he is not speaking the truth, James," she'half whispered in his ear ; "I do not believe her. Ask her about the handWriting. I believe this is Natalie." "Did you write the letter tö warn Miss Stewart I was a married man?" asked Biddulph, 6harply,the next moment. "Yes at least" "And the one you wrote to her lately, to tell her you had something to communicate to her?" The woman looked as if afraid to commit herself; she hesitated; she glanced uneasily at Dobree. "I get puzzled," she said presently ; "you ask so many questions." "I think," 6aid Dobree, with a profound bow, "if this j-oung lady and madame will permit me to suggest, that this interview had better be deferred until another day. Ma lame, in her agitation, has taken more of the potent spirit of this land than is good for her brain. She is a little muddled, in fact; but if Monsieur Biddulph will come with me and her to the small inn, I shall prove to his satisfaction and the young lady's that this is Josephine Beranger, the twin-sister of Monsieur Biddulph's late wife. With your permission we shall now take our leave, aud I shall communicate with monsieur." He bowed to Biddulph as he spoke, and offered his arm to the woman, who took it without speaking, and they left the room together. Nora and Biddulph looked at each other as they went out, and there was bitter pain in Nora's eyes. "James," she said, clasping his hand, and forgetting the presence ot Jock Fraser, "it is all fale ! We cannot believe her, nor the man!" "He's a disreputable looking fellow, and I dou't believe a word he has been saying," 6aid Jock Fraser, bluntly. "Nora, my dear, you cannot act on such evidence as this." "No," she answered. "James, don't go near them any more," she continued, looking up into Biddulph's agitated face; "we we must forget what we hoped might be we must still be friends." Mie was very pale, and the bitterness of the disappointment was very great; but still she bore herself with a certain dignity, and displayed far greater calmness than Biddulph, whoso face was black as night." "Then you give up all doubt?" he said abruptly. "I nm afrnid fo." "I cannot!" he answered, with bitter emphasis and passion. "Biddulph," said Jock Fraser, kindly but firmly, "it's no use, my dear fellow, going on the word of such a man as that. Nora could not do it; you could not ask her. It's hard to have to say such a thing, but I believe this woman is your wife." "I'll 6et the fellow, at any rate," said Biddulph, "and 111 try to find out about this Whitaker. It may be a patched up story, but there mav be somo truth in it after all." "I fear not," answered Jock, and Nora's heart echoed his words. Then, presently, Jock went away, and Nora and Biddulph were alone. "Don't give up all hope, Nora," he said, taking both her hands. She looked up in his face and smiled a sad smile. "We shall always be friends, you know," ehe said gently; ami he knew from her manner she meant they could be nothing more. The same niiilit, about 10 o'clock, the doctor was sitting and refreshing himself with his accustomed toddy, before retiring to his well-earned rest, when a loud rapping at the surgery door disturbed him, and, with a sigh, he laid down his pipe and went to ojeu it. Outside stood the village inn-keeper, with an agitated, frightened face. "Anything wrong. Jamie?" asked the doctor, who was well acquainted with the man. Then the innkeeper in many words told his story. The "leedv," who was supposed to be the wife of Mr. Biddulph of Dunbaan, had been staying at his house for some days past, and this morning a friend, "a queer-looking foreign chap," came to visit her and they went out together during the afternoon." But before they went "the leddy," by the innkeeper's account, drank many glasses of whisky, and tho man (tho foreigner) seemed angry with her for doing this. And when they returned high words were exchanged between them, hut afterwards more whisky, was called for and then they apparently began to quarrel again a least the people in the room below thought they even heard the sound of blows. At 5 o'clock, however, the man came downstairs, and seemed all right. He told the innkeeper he was going out for a little walk, as "madame," who had had been agitated and fatigued, had lain down to rest in the sitting-room, and was not to be disturbed until she rang the bell. "But I shall return for a little supper, my frieDd," ho added to the innkeeper, and thus left the house smilingly. But he had never returned; and half an hour ago the innkeeper's wite, becoming alarmed at "madame s" prolonged slumber, had knocked at tho sitting-room door, and, receiving no answer, had ventured to open it. Madame was lying huddled "P on the sofa, with a shawl over her head. Tho innkeeper's wife asked her if she were ill, but got no reply. Then the innkeeper's wife went nearer, aud something in her attitude and her silence frightened the woman, who drew tho shawl from her face, when a terrible sight met her gaze. There was blood on her hair, blood on her brow, and her dress also was stained. "My belief is. doctor, the villain has just knocked her on the head and murdered her," said the innkeeper, with scared looks; "but ye best see My M woman is in a sare state, and tho whole house upside down." Tho doctor, we maybe sure, lost no time in hurrying on his coat and following the innkeeper home; and when he reached the same little parlor where his own two former interviews with the woman who had Milled herself Madame do Berarger

had taken place, he found her now lying cold and 6till in death. Long the doctor stood and looked at the changed face, at the half-open, blank dark eyes, which now Biniled scornfully no more. At last this checkered life a life whose dusky shadows none could know had ended, like her twin-sister's, in a violent and ßudden death. She had been struck on the head by some heavy instrument, and her skull was broken! and the splinters had pierced her brain. The weapon with which the cruel deed had been committed was not difficult to find. On an old iron poker in the fender there was a bloodstain, to which adhered some coarse dark hair. The man she had brought to confirm her story (true or false) had murdered her, probably in a rage at her breaking down in her evidence, and then had disappeared, carrying Biddulph's check with him, which, however, was never cashed, nor the murderer ever found. It was a dark end to a dark life, and with a sigh the doctor turned away, going out into the night with some very solemn feelings in his heart. Then he looked at his watch, and a kindly smile stole over his rugged features. "It's unco' late," he muttered; "still I'll gane to liossmore, and tell the bonnie lassie the news; she may as well sleep wi' a light heart as a heavy one." And when Nora heard heard there was nothing now at least to part her from one whom she loved so weli like a foolish woman, she broke down, and for a few minutes could not keep back her tears. "Nay, ye must na greet," said the doctor, patting her on the shoulder, as if she were a child, with his big hand. "We'll ha' a wedding after a' now, and I'll dance a reel at it mysel' if I ha' a leg to stand on!" "Doctor," said Nora, pleadingly, looking up at the face of her old friend with her dark eyes, "would you .mind it's a shame to ask you when it is so late still, would you mind going to-night to Dunbaan, to tell him?" "Weel," answered the doctor, with a little comical shrug, "I 11 be na doot vera' welcome, so I'll just gane." Aud though the hour was late, and the night dark, the kindly man crossed the loch with the tidings that were to give the gloomy owner of Dunbaan relief too great lor words. Biddulph was standing smoking on the terrace before his house, with folded arms and a restless, miserable heart, when the tall form of the doctor emerged from tho mist and approached him. "Weel, Mr. Biddulph, I've brought a message for ye," he began. "A message ?" repeated Biddulph, quickly. "Ay, fra' the young leedy at Rossmore. She bade me tell ye she'd be pleased to see ye in the morn." Then he told what he had really gone to tell, and Biddulph lisened with deep emotion, and in bilence wrung the doctor's hand. "This ends ail doubt, then," he said a few moments later. "Thank God, at last I am free !" Need we go with him on the morrow to Rossmore, or tell of the meeting which took place in the shady g.irden, during which at first few words were spoken? They met, these two, like those meet who together have escaped some great peril, and clasped each other's hands in silent joy. For to both the passing away of the t ar between them a bar uncertain, doubtful, Biddulph ever afterward maintained was a release from a haunting shadow, a grief which only could have ended with the wortian'a death, whose deceit, or that of her twin sister, had darkened Biddulph's life. And her secret died with her. Whether the woman that Biddulph had wedded long ago perished in tho (.ilenn of Balla, or by tlie hand of her so-called friend, remained among one of those unanswered problems of which human life is so full. The mysterious likeness between the two sisters made it, in fact, impossible to tell the end of which doubtful and dishonored life set Biddulph free.

CHAPTER LIV. TRUE LOVE. There was a quiet marriage about a month after this, but not at liossmore. Nora was married from Lady Barbara Biddulph's house in town, that lady especially desiring that this mitrht be, "Ah I suppose, James," she said, with her usual brtisqueness of manner to her nephew, "that there is no fear of a third woman laying claim to you ?" Biddulph having assured his aunt that this need not be dreaded nor anticipated, Lady Barbara wrote a kind letter to Nora, and also invited tho doctor to be present at the ceremony. This invitation gave the good man great pride and pleasure but much perplexity. For one thing, he had a secret fear bf Lady Bab's sharp tongue, and for another, some of his poor patients at this time were sorely in need of his aid. Finally, he decided not to go to tho marriage, writing to tell Lady Bab "that such things are a bit out of my way;" at the same time thanking her for the honor she had done him, and wishing that all God's best gilts should be given to the two. "who were about to share, and thus lighten, the burdens of our mortal life."" lie also gave a gift to tho bride before she left Scotland a gift about which the halo of an old romance still hung; for in the days of his young manhood the doctor had bought this pretty, simple pearl ring, meaning to give it to the girl he then silently worshiped, when fame ami fortune came to fiim. Fame and fortune never came to hirn, and his love wedded another, not even knowing of tho faithful heart she had won. B:t the doctor made no second choice, K'.id for thirty years tho ring never saw the light. It pained him even now to look at it, though he had often thought of this unused love-token; but a few days before Nora left Rossmore, he arrived with it in his waistcoat pocket, and presented it to her with a blush and a sigh. "I bought it lang ago," he said, with simple pathos, "when 1 had my dreams, too, maybe, Miss Stewart; but no woman's "hand has ever wor it and thoush it's a puir thing amang all yer gauds, still if ye'll take it, and my blessing alang wi' it ; " He turned his head abruptly away, absolutely to hide that his eyes were .lim with tears; ami Nora, seeing this, caught his largo hand In both her own. "I shall always prize it," she said earnestly, "and I shall never forget, doctor, all the true kindness you have shown to us in our great troubles." "Which, with God's good grace, are, I pray, ended," answered the doctor, reverently, for the man's heart wis full of simple, pious faith. But all Nora's neighbors did not give her such good wishes. Alick Fraser heard the news of her second engagement to Biddulph with secret but bitter anger. He sent no present this time, but left Scotland: and a few days later, Nora, with a little surprise and amusement, received a letter from Maud Lee to announce her engagement to "our country cousin." Alick, in fact, hid his diapointmcnt as best he could, and his oiler to Miss Lee was accepted with pleasure and alacrity. She had always intended to marry a rich man if she possibly could do so, and was delighted to have succeeded. They were married shortly after Nora ami Biddulph two people who knew nothing of -ach other, and cared nothing; who married i for mutual convenience, ai:u therefore, it

is honed, expected nothing but what they bargained for. Jock Fraser did not go to his brother's wedding, nor to Nora's. The blow of hr son's death had struck home in the mother' heart, and Jock would not leave his grief-strirken wife; but Minnie went to both marriages, and at each the languid GlenJoyno pat 1 her so much attention that, as Minnie is now the future owner of Airdlinn, people say it will end in a marriage; Nora Biddulph, it is alto said, doing her best to arrange this. One picture more, when a bright August sun was shining on the loftv headland of Rossmore, and on the blue loch that lapped its steeps. A happy picture of a young wife sitting on tho grass, looking smilingly up in the face that to her is beautiful ; a grave face still though, for that shadowed youth of his has left its mark on Biddulph's brow, and the memory of those bitter days of shame and pain has not yet passed away. But they love eaeh other with a love no words can tell, a love strong, tender; for between them is that strange soul-link which no time can snap. "Do not look so grave," said Nora, rising and laying her hands on his shoulder, for she knew by the dreamy look in his grey eyes of wh:it he was thiukine. lie turned round, and laid his head against her arm. "I was thinking gravely," he answered; "thinking how miserable I might now have been but for you." THE END.

THE LONDON MYSTERIES. A. Slysterlou Aniflricnn Supposed to t Implicated in Them. London, Sept. 2'J. The coroner, in summing up at the inquest in tho case of the last woman fouail murdered in YV'hitechapel, stated to the jury that shortly after the details of the last sitting of the jury h.i'l been published, the subcurator of the English pathological museum b;i I informed hi n that some mouths &go an American had vis'.ted him and usked him (the sub-curator) to proour a number of specimens of the uterus. The visitor stated that he would willingly pny -0 each for speciuieus, bis object being to i.sue an actual specimen with each cony of a book upon which he was then ciigiigeti. The sub-curator promptly informed the applicant that it would be impossible to comply with his request. The American tili urged the feasibility of procuring the ppeciinens, and Raid he wanted them preserved in glycerine instead of spirits, in order to keep them flaccid. The request had been repeated at another institute. The sub-curator had promptly informed the Scotland yard authorities of the fact in his pos;esMon. The coroner expressed the hope that greater publicity would tend to elucidate the mystery, and that the publication of these facts iu the American press would assist ia throwing light on the subject. WESTON'S RELEASE. The Chicago Capitalist One More a Free Man His Alleged Crime. riTTSBUBO, Ta,, Sept. 2G. Milton "Weston, the well-known Chicago capitalist who was granted an unconditional pardon yesterday by Gov. Ueaver, waa released from the western penitentiary this morning, after serving two year and eieht months. lie said that the pardon came to him unexpectedly, as he had long no given up all hope. Weston was sentenced Jau. 2ö, lS-t, to live years in the penitentiary for voluntary manslaughter. The ca.se hud its origin in a dispute between Weston and Oba.iiah Haymaker for the possession of valuable od land at Murrysviile, Westmoreland coun'y. The controversy culminated in a personal encounter of the forces representing the eiposine interests. In the linht Ihiymaker was killed. Weston did not intlict the fatal wound, but he was convicted of voluntary 'manslaughter beraube he was present, and was aliened to have aided and abetted his friends iu their fiht with Haymaker's forces. A HEAVY RAIN-STORM. ISoston Flooded and Much Damage Done to Property. Boston, Sept. 20. Rain bepan to fall in Boston at 1 o'clock this morning, and between 2 and 2:30 it was very heavy. The record at noon was nearly two inches, which is about 63 per cent, of the average rainfall for September. The wind reached the force of a gale, and forne 3(i0 vessels took refuse in Boston harbor. The steamer iState of M tine for Portland, started this uioruing on her regular trip, but was obliged to put back. The water m Stony brook rose rapidly, but there is no danger of an overflow. The telegraph service from Boston to TTull and Highland liht is Interrupted. It is believed that but few of the larire number of vessels which left I'ortland, iWthbay, Gloucester and neighboring ports on Monday and Tuesday were caught in the bay lastnijjrht, as the weather lias been threatening for many preceding hours. The damage iu this and neighboring cities was mostly to trees, fences, eirns, etc. Anna Continues (it Large. Crawfordsville, Sept 2;. Special. Music hall was crowded to-niht by people anxious to tee the much-advertised Anna Dickinson. She spoke for nearly three hours, waving the bloody shirt in a tragic manner. Her vengeance neeuied to fall almost entirely upon (irover Cleveland, when she was cot euloirizim; Harrison atul the republican party. Hie pave the prohibitionists several unkind shots, aud TlIF. Ixmasapou.S Sn.VTINEL also came in for its share of tongue lashine. letweeu playing Ihim'ei and making republican speeches the opinion here is that Miss Dickinson should tackle the former, although she is undoubtedly doing a good work for the democratic party. For Cleveland and Reform. Catlin, 111., Sept. 2i. Special. William Woods, a retired farmer of Vance township and a life-lont; republican, has declared his intention to vote the straiglit democratic ticket this fall. POND'S EXTRACT INVALUABLE FOR. all Finis m mmmm. Sore Throat, Diphtheria. fse the Extract promptly. diUigorooe. licucf abjured. Delay is Sores, Sprains, Bruises. It Is cooling, cleansing', and Healing. fnfnvrll I'ond'a ixtrmrt Is nnnnrUaldl I lit pnpod for Catarrh, Cold In the llcad, &c (Sco patre 11, In Book of Directions wrapped around each bottle.) Rheumatism, Neuralgia. No other preparation has cttrcd mora tAs of theo oif"tre Ing complaints than l'ond's KxtracU Iryitl Hemorrhages. Uofm, or from acy cause. Is .peedlly controlled aud stopped. I3!lnr? I'ond'n Extract is nni'oubtedly JFl llLbs the bet remedy known for Piles. The use of Toml'd l'x tract Ointment In connection wi'h tho Hx'ract in Wirhly recommended. (See p. 1 r-oik of Directions wrapped arcuad each Lottie.) Female Complaints. tty otfemala diseases the Kxtrnct can b tinrd, as Is well known, with the protest benefit. Full directions accoinpaay each, bottle, rond's Extract Is Known Everywhere. It Is o1 In the bonpchold of ths Presid'mt as veil as that of the humblest citizen; by mem hers of thu srmr and the narr, the Ear and the jtanch, the pulpit and the press all ranks and Classes oi peopio. . CAUTION. Pond's Extract tho words " I'ond'B Extract " blown la tlis pla, and onr picture trade-mark on itirronndin buff wrapper. None other ii renalne. Alwsvs lnnlt on havlmr l'ond'i Extract. Ts' no other preparation. 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The Cheapest and Best Medicine for Famllj Use la tho World. SUMMER COMPLAINTS Looseness. Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus or painful dischars from thu bowels, are st rl Ii rtft-i t tweutr minute, by takin RaJway'a R?i4r litlicC Jo congrwtion or loäammation, do weakness or liisitnde, no had after eilects will follow tha uw of thj K. It Relief. Thirty to sixty drops In ha!f a tumbler of water will in a few minutes cure Crarnp., Sprains, Si ir Stomach. Heartburn, Sick Headache, Diarrhea, Dysrntary, Colic, Wind in tho Bowels, and a!l internal pains. Traveler. nhotiM alwar. carry a bottle ff lt.VDWAY'S READY RELIEF with them. A few drops la water will prevent sickness or pains from a chants of water. It is better than French Brandy or Bitter ass stimulant. A Family Necessity. Santa Fx, Kas., Auir. 23, '87. Vr. Kaflway A Co. : Your valuable mediciaes are. necessity in our family; we entirely rely on ths Roady Relief and Tills for what they are recommended, and they never fail to tfre sati'ifacti'ui. MUd. OEORGE LOilillLTEE. MALAKIA. Chills and Fever, Fever and Ague Conquered. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Kot only eure, the patient mixed with thia terrihle foe to settler, in cewly-tettled districts where the malaria of ajue exists, but if the people expoei to it will, every morning on Retting out of bod, take 20 or 60 drop, of the Ready Relief in a glass (A water and drink it, and eat, say a cracker, they will escape attacks. Practicing with R. R. R. M05TASUE, Tex. Dr. Zadvay & Co.: MI have been using your medicines for the last twenty years and in ail cases of Chills and Fever I have never failed to cure. I never use anything but your Ready Relief and Pill. TUOS. S. JONES. Fbvitlakd, la., Aug. 8, 1S87. Dr. Raduav: We re usictr your medicine for Typhoid aud Malaria Fever with the greatest benefit. What vour Ready Relief and Pills have done no one ran tell. JOHN SCHULTZ. Mr. John Morton of Verplanck Point, N. Y., proprietor of the Hudson River Brick Manufacturing Companv, says that he prevents and cures attacks of chills and fever in his iamily and among the mon in his employ by the use of IUdwit'j Ready Reuxp and Pills. Also the men in Mr. Frost's brickvard at the same place rely entirely on the R. R. R. for the cure and prevention of malaria. FEVER AN L AGUE cured for 5'Jc There is not a remedial agent in this world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarioti. Rilions. Tvphoid od other Fevers (aided by RADWAY'S TILLS) so quickly as Radwsy's Reidy Ralief. The Only Pain Remedy That Instantly stops the most excruciating pains, allays inflammation and cures congestion, whether of the Lungs, ätoiuach. Bowel or other glands or organs by one application IN TROH ONE TO TWEX IT HLXUTES No matter how violent or excruciating the nain tha Rheumatic, Bed-ridden, Infirm, Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgic or prostrated with disease may sutbr RADWAY'S HEADY BELIEF Will Afford Instant Ease. Inflammation of the Kidneys, Inflammation of the Bladder, Inflammation of the Bowels, Congestion of the Lungs, bore Throat, Difficult Breathing, Palr itation ot the Heart, Ilvsteric. Croup. Dintuherij, atarrb, Induenza, Headache, Toothache, Xeuralia, Kheurattism, Cold Chills, Ague Chills, NerToimjjj, blreplessness. The application of the BEADY RELIEF to th part or parts where the dimouity or pain exists will aiiord euse and comfort Tain Stopped in Two Minutes. Tux r.DO Park, N. Y. TV. Radwsy: I had the toothache for nearly a week and tried all kinds of medicines without any pood, when, on getting one ot your almauacs, I uv your Ready Relief spoktfo of. 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