Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1893 — Page 10

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10 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 7, 1893-TWELVE PAGES.

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LOWRY'S

San Francisco It was certainly very unfortunate for Lowry that he ahoulJ have died at that particular time. Had the unwelcome -eyeut occurred a month before it would sot have mattered so much ; but now, juit a he had struck it rich and bad written East for hia wife to come on and share bid good fortune, it was, to ear the least. Very exasperating. Bat he waa dead, beyond a doubt, and likewise variously ecattered, the result of too close intimacy with a prematura blast. The miners gathered up hid visible remains and buried theai with due solemnity; then they waitud for the advent of the widow. Eut not without much misgiving. How would they meet her? And who of their number would assume the delicate and embarrassing task of informing her that che was a widow ? They talked it all over that night in front of Pete Simpson's bar. "Fac is, fellers," said One-eyed Jerry, the autocrat of the camp, as he turned hid solitary optic on the crowd, "fac' is, it's a tough job, but it's got to be done, an I'll do it. if it takes a leg. Leave it to me, fellers, and I'll let 'er down as eoothin' a9 poaiible." And with a deep feeling of relief, that found expression in another round of red liquor, the minora leit it to Jerry. In due course of time a letter addressed to James Lowry in a ehaky, feminine hand and postmarked Harriaburtf, I'a., arrived in camp and was opened by Lowry'a elf-appointed executors. It was from Mrs. Lowry, and from it they learned that the would not arrive for several weeki. One day about eis weeks after the reception of this letter, as the etae rattled up to the eingle so-called hotel of the little Tuolumne mining camp, the loungers on the porch caught the g'.impee of a dress '.nside. At once all was excitement. :?he' come!" they exclaimed. "Where's Jerry?" Jerry, who was aeated at a table in the bar-room, reluctantly laid down a "pat band" and reached the outside in time to aeit the lady from the stage, awkwardly liftioz hi bat as he did so. "Mrs. Lowry, I reckon," said Jerry, aa she alighted. The lady threw back the veil from her face, smiled and answered: "Yea. Where's my hu.band?" The crowd that had gathered inquisitively, but respectfully, about the stage fell beck astounded; not at the question, but at the woman who aiked it. Lowry was liity years old, if a day, at the time Le was! so unceremoniously fired out of existence. Ho had never ppoken much about his wife, whom he had left in the Last fully ten years before, yet from familiarity with Jim's age, hi. homely face and still mora homely ways, the miners j Lad formed the impression that his wife must be a woman of forty or forty-five and equally angular and unimpressive in appearance. Hut here the was before them, a woman of possibly thirty, plump und shapely, with a face that was eimply bewitching. 'he was absolutely handeomc and there was an expression in her eve and mouth that eeemed to indicate tliLt ehe knew it. The siaila disappeared and she looked at Jerrr somewhat anxiously. "Why Isn't !Ir. Lowry here to meet me?" ahe ecked. There was a painful pause. The miners looked at Jerry and Jerry looked at hi boots. "Fac' ia, ma'am," he finally eaid, as he slowly twirled his greasy hat with one hand, "Fac' is, Jim's a ailin'. '.in workin' like like blazes, you know, guttin' ready fer you, an' an' sorter down with a fever or aomethin'. Fac' is, he's but eayl You must be tired an' hungry; there's a room fer you in this here hotel an' I'll take you over to eeo Jim later." With apparent reluctance Mrs. Lowry followed the hx'tel proprietor to the room that had been fitted up for her weeka before and sacrsdly kept unoccupied ever since, while tha crowd, with exclamations of astonishment and delight, pressed forward to the tar. "Fellers,", said Jerry, with the air of one who haa just discovered a rich "pocket" of the rich metal; 'fellers, here's to the widderl" An hour later Mrs. Lowry, accompanied Jerry to Jim's cabin, and on the way up the trail he broke to her the sad news of Iter husband's death. But in what way he imparted the melancholy information his companions never could learn. "Fac is, fellers." he had eaid in reply to their questions, "it makes me creepy to think about it, she took on that terrible; but I let Yr down easy as r.osserble. Thoujht she faint cure, 'special' when I thowed her where Jim was chucked. Her carryin' on was mighty depressing I'm tellin' you. Let's liquor." The naxt morning the widow, who had yat down at the supper-table the evening SI her arrival in a gown of soft-toned gray that at once took all the boarders captive, larprised every one by appearing arrayed ftx a somber robe of mourning, iter face brai pal and sorrowful, and there was a ladness in her voice that excited the deep sympathy of all who saw her. All but one. Bradford, the "gentleman ambler," whose dark eyes and long black mustache had dawned upon the camp a Jew months before, wore a scowl as he rot up from the late breakfast table. He had eaten slowly, if indeed he bad eaten anything at all. The miners had breaklasted long before, only a few businesa men, gamblers and idlers were at the table, and one by one they finished their meal and departed, until only he and the widow remained. As he passed her chair on his way out he stooped and hurriedly whispered: "Fool! what are you doing with that dresa on? Were you supposed to know that you were a widow when you ttarted? And if not, how the devil do you expect to account for that drees between last night and this morning?" Then, with a suppressed oath, he strode angrily out from the room. The widow looked frightened. She hastily arose and went to her room. The landlord, out on the porch, was talking to J'rry, and dubiously Hhaking his head. "Now. whre in blixen did she git them duds?" he eaid in a manner that impressed Jerry most painfully. The latter slowly worked his jaws, ex pectoratiog in gloomy silence. At last, "Fac' is," be replied, "these here women la 'stoniehin'; me an' you don't know no more 'bout 'em than they do of tun'ls, drif's and winzes. I reckon that big trunk of hern was fall of clo'es an' eho come pervided fer ever' contingency. Of course, she couldn't a knowed as how Lowry had liunked till I told 'er; an' she did carry on amszin', I tell you." That mourning costume was the seed from which eprang curiosity, doubt, and finally suspicion. Mrs. Lowry took pos ition of the little cin in which her husband had lived, and there she flept mnA AA hr nwn rrT V i n er Sh iIHnnn inees in connection with the sale of the mine, a transaction that she ehowed a feverish anxiety to close. But she was at

WIDOW.

Examiner. all timea gracious and pleasant to the men, and half the camp were madly in love with her. Independently of the mine, which was worth a cool hundred thousand, if a cent, and which Lowry had fortunately located in her name, she could have married any one of the magnates of the camp oif-baud within two days after her arrival, if she had been so disposed. Jerry, whom ene bad selected as her ritjht-hand man, was alternately exultant and depres.-ed. lie became her slave, and would have jumped down the deepest ehalt on the mountain Hide if ehe had asked him to; and yet he was much of the time troubled and perplexed. Gradually he became imbued with the idea that he had seen Mr, Lowry before; but whern or when, he vainly cudgeled his brain to remember. And eo ho went about, doinu her bidding, feeling amply rewarded by tue smiles ßhe showered upon him, her light, jesting talk, of which he only was the recipient, and her friendly, familiar ways, that were kept for him alone. But with his companions he had become moody, taciturn, even irritable, lie drank his whisky in silence, drank often and deeply; he neglected his claim, and spent half his time knocking around Jim's cabin, chorine for the widow, running errandd and negotiating with Tom Carroll, the wealthest mine owner in all that region for Mrs. I.owry's mine. From an oiler of "0,0(n) Carroll finally rose to $70.(Hü, and there he etuck. "It's like atealin' it, an' you know it, durnvou!" exclaimed Jerrv, wrathfully. "It's all T can etand," was the bland reply. "If th" widow can get more, all right; I shan't begrudge her the money." And Carroll turned away. The widow wus eajrer to" accept the amount ottered. "An throw away $30,000!" growled Jerry. "It's a fortun' in iUelf. You can frit what the mine's worth if you don't rush so blame' fas'. You got all summer before you. Ketch mo lettin' that swindlin' Carroll get away with the mine like that; it's worae'n stage robbin'!" But the widow wasobdurate. She must return Last; she needed money at once; ehe had left a dear pister almost on her death bed ; she couldn't manage the mine if she kept it; and if Carroll shoula change hid mind she would not probably be able to pell it at all a dozen other reasons that came promptly and plausibly from her persuasive lips. And so, exactly one week from the day of her arrival, the bargain was concluded. The next day the papers were to be prepared and the transfer duly made, and the following day Mrs. Lowry was to start on her return trip Last. Jerry was in an ugly mood that evenin?, and even his most intimate companions let him severely alone. For three hours he sat at a poker game, and during all that time he did not utter a word, except to sullenly name his bets, call for his cards and demand his drinks, lie drank heavily, and lost heavily aa he drank. In the subsequent expressive language of the barkeeper, "Jerry played the rottent-s' game that ever disgraced the house. He's worse than down on hid luck; since tho widow come he's got to be a blinkin', blasted ijet. He ought to pwoller a few ounces of nitroglycerine an' then pet down bard on a rock; it might knock some b'euse into him." When Jerry, his last dollar gone, aroei from tho gaming table he stalked straight out into the night. The stars were shining large and luminous in that clear mountain atmosphere ; the air was cool and sweet, and high up on the mountain side the tail pines were peacefully dreaming in the shadows. Bat the glories of the night had no attractions for Jerry. His mind dwelt solely upon tho widow, and irresistibly his feet turned up the narrow trail that led to her cabin. The fascination that Mrs. Lowry had exercised upon Jerry, and all in the short ßrace of one week, was a thing that he could not comprehend. Ht-r btauty. her magnetism, the scent of her c'.othing, the familiar and confidential tone of voice with which ehe invariably addressed him, nil had conspirel to infatuate him completely. For the last three days he had gone about under a spell; had he been hypnotized ho could not have been more completely subject to her intiuence. 1 he thought of her going away wa to him something worse than death. The camp, the mine, tho blue sky above him, all his surroundings, had merged themselves into that one woman, and with her exit thev would melt away and leave him the center of a black and dismal void. Such was his feeling; and, being by nature unintelligent and coarse, it served only to madden and brutalize him. It was a short time in which to be metamorphosed from a free man into a slave, from a thoughtleas, contented, hardworking, devil me care miner into a worrying, surly, mis erable do-nothing, who could pee nothing in the world but one woman, and in whoaa mind was room for but a single thought that he was about to lose her. I.ut men of intelligence, refinement and wide experience with women and the world have had their heads turned in even a shorter time and have and have doneevn crazier things than he. He no longer puzzled himself over the question of her identity. Was she in truth Lowry a widow? lie did not know, but neither did he now care. Had he seen that face before? Possibly, but if he hail it was now a matter of indifference to him when or where or under what circumstances. He could not let her go away, or if she went he was determined to go with her. And so he stumbled on up the trail, aliatne with love and liquor. It was hours past bedtime and there was no light in the window as Jerry made th e turn in the trail that brought him almost to the cabin door. Suddenly he collided with an object; he started back with an oath, and at the same time he heard an exclamation of surprise. A man stood before him, and in the bright starlight Jerry could see that it was Bradford, the gamb'er. Jerry's hand went to his pistol. "W hat the devil you doin' here, an' at this time o' night?" yelled T 1 At. a jerry, in a voice iiae me explosion ol a blast. "You sneaking spy, take that!" cried Bradford, suddenly springing forward and striking him a blow in the face that sent him pprawling. But even as the blow was etruck Jerry thrust his right hand upward and forward, there was a blaze of fire and the still night became alive with the reverberating echoes of a pistol shot. Headlong down, the steep trail, over Jerry's body fell Bradford, uttering a single cry "Ofiodl" And there he lay speechless, motionless, his face prone in the dust. The shock of the blow and of his fall and the report of the pistol instantly cleared away the fumes from Jerrv'a brain ; but before be could rise he heard a shriek, the cabin door flew open and a figure clothed in white came running down the trail, calling out in tones of terror, "John, John ! Oh. what is it! John, what has happened?" And tbus calling and running, in a few seconds Mia. Lowry, 'clothed only in her nightdress, was down the trail stooping over the two prostrate forma Bobbing, moaning and crying for help. Jerry, ashamed, half frightened; closed his eyes and lay quiet. The widow, shuddering, gave him a glance and then flung herself upon Bradford's body. And there she lay fondling his bloody face, mingling

her frantic kisses with curses upon the

man who shot him, until at last she fuialed. Jerrv was no coward: but the unex pected meeting, with its tragical result, had unnerved him ; he got up and stealthily hurried awav. Besides, her wordsliad cut him to the heart. Her curses, her ecorn, her vindictive raging these he could not etav to face. Suddenly he stopped and abruptly Hung his hand to his head. Like a Hash that face and form were again before him, but in other surroundings than these. "Great Humes ! he exclaimed as he gazed blankly up at the etars; "it's Mandie Le Brunt, the commonest and brazenist female in all Sacramento!" The papers were not made out the next dav. That morning a woman, closely veiled, climbed into tho out-going stage at a point below the camp; and that very afternoon another woman, plainly dressed, with streaks of grav in her hair and a face that indicated vears of patient toil and sadness and trouble, was gently assisted from tho stage at the hotel door. And It was Jerry who helpeu her to alight. "Fellers." he said, as in a lew momenta a dozen or more miners crowded up to the bar. "fellers, fac' ia, women is devilish uncertain, but they can't fool us allere. Here a to the Widder! SHE WAS VERY FAT, But She Taught the Theater-Goers r Lesson lit Womanliness. She was very fat. not merely fleshy, and as she squeezed past people's knees, they evidently having no intention of standing up and giving" her more thoroughfare, she folt fat. She hoped she wa.-n t making all these young peopie wo uncomfortable, eaya the New Orleans J 'icu V'OIC. "The next time I come to the theater I'm cominz earlv so as to get my seat comfortably," she said to herself. As pbe iiushed along there was an amused expression on ail the young people's iace around. One young man (he had real lluüv vellow hair) remarked in a tone meant to be wiltf that "elephants are abroad." Tho fat woman stopped and looked around "I wonder if they will have live elephants on the stae," she thought, eagerly. . .. "Around the World in Eighty Days" was always a revelation to her. She found her number and was just about to draw a long sili oi reliei. when her right-hund neighbor said quite out aloud : "Sonio people ouht to have two seats when they cumo to the theater." A Hush of mortification rushed iuto the fat womnu'a face; she turned to the little woman and said: "I lour I kinder crushed you, my dear, but I didn't mean to, honest! I'd be a little mito every time if I could, but we can't n.ake ourselves, you know. I come bv rav l.esh honebt ; all the Taylors are iat." She spoke so gently, po softly, that even llully-banss stopped smiling. When the play started she discovered that her neighbor hail no program. "Just take mine." she said, putting the program in the girl's hand ; "I know all the kar-ricktera by heart." By and by it grew very warm in the theater; her neighbor had no fan. "Take mine," ehe whispered. When her request was politeiy refused she began to fan to that the little woman got most of the "wind." At the end of the fourth act there was a cry of "Fire!" Lvery one eprangupand tried to get ut. all but the iat woman. "Set fitill!" she cri-vi out. "i'on't be skeor-ed," she eaid kindly to the "'little woman," ' don't you hear the man on the etae say it's only a falso alarm? (toodiiess! You aiu't going to faint are you?" But the little woman was 'Voing to," und did. and the fat woman put her arm around her to keep her from slipping from the seat. A few minutes later the littlo woman found l.ereo.f upon tho fat woman's lap out in the "ladies' reception-room. "Oh. vou'r all right." the fat woman said, cheerfully; "your younc man wa terribly ekei red. lie thinks a sight of you. I'd go home ii I were you. I'mgoiugbackiu; that lust act is is a favorite of mine." "Oh, please forgive me for hurting your feelings, aa as I did about vour being fat," the little woman said, and repentaat tears came into her eyes. "Why, child, you don't hurt my feelinga't leat not much," the fat woinau anHwered heartily. When ehe reached "horo row" all the young people etood up respectfully for her to pass to her seat, and tlulfy bangs handed her his program. "Has the live elephant been in yet?" she paid, innocently, and f lull y bangs had enough manhood about him to cause him to blush. BRAVE HANNAH SNELL In Slain Attire She Served ns n Itrltish Marine with Great Credit. I I'liiluilelpliia Inquirer. There have been many women warriors in the world, but it must be admitted that there have been very few whose deeds were such as to claim the admiration of the country for any great length of time. In tho acoals of woman's warfare there are generally stories of ovcrzealousness, leading to fanaticism and subsequent punishment and disgrace. Seldom, indeed. Las a woman warrior been gratefully recognized by the government of her country. Within the memory of cur grandparents there lived in England a woman named Hannah Snell, who. when but a girl, took the strange resolution ol enlisting as a soldier. She served as a marine on one of the vessels of a fleet bound for the West Indies, and bhowed so much courage that ehe was repeatedly promoted. Her sex was unknown, end therefore it could never be claimed that Hannah Snell's success was due to partiality or favoritism. Once, when dangerously wounded, she extracted the ball herself, fearing that she might be discovered and discharged. After long service she returned to her native home at Worcester, Kng., where her adventures soon became spread abroad. The government, on investigation of her really great career, granted her a pension of .0. She died full of years and laden with honors in an inn near Wapping. Theodore Parker's .Apt I'hrme. Huston Transcript. In Theodore Barker's discourse on the death of John (juincy Adams, delivered at the Melodeon in this city on March 5, 1818. he says: "Ours is in theory the government of all, for all, and by ail." which is very similar to the oft-quoted expression used by Lincoln in his Gettysburg address on Nov. 1!, lSt3, "governmegt of the people, by the people, for the people." Well l'.noii;h OfT. Fließende liUtter.1 Doctor "Of this medicine I want you to give your husband a spoonful every four hours." Bich l'eaeaot's Wife "Oh doctor, we are, thank heaven, sufficiently well oUto let him take one every hour." The Kitynl Uund. Truth. Mrs. Tammany "Now that we have got some wealth, I think we ought to go into good society." Mr. Tammany "Well, my dear, we'll have to get a 'pull' somehow." The Cold Mm. Tata 8iftinr. The more a man becomes wrapped up in bimeelf the chillier be gets.

MME. RECAMIER'S SECRET.

A LEF IN THE LIFE BOOK OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN. Fact AVhleli Tend to Prote That the Fnmous Frenrh Mrwl.iiiie Wan M-irried to Her Own Father Th Skeleton in the Cloittof a Ilrniitiful Lndy A Iteitolutton t Cast OiTthe Fetter Forged in Her Girlhood A Striking Chain of Kvidence. William Waldorf Astor haa the following noteworthy article in the first number of his new London periodical, the l'all Xfittl Magazine: This brilliant and beautiful woman's career and her extraordinary power over the social world ehe influenced and adorned are the theme of panegyrics that have ended by raising her to a level of almot mythical perfection. We are told that ehe possessed tho physical pymmetryof Medicean Venus ; that she charmed with marvelous intellectual fascination; that her tact, grace and kindness won all hearts; that in the midst of a dissolute court and in an atmosphere of adulation her character retained its maiden purity; that age changed her only to confer new and subtle attractions. So prominent a placo does she seem to nave filled, and so familiar has she been made to us during the forty-four years that have elapsed since her death, that our imagination can recall the witchery of her presence, the enchantment of her thought and speech, and th spotless soul that loo'iod from her eyes. We gaze at her as one may study a marble nymph, carved in unalterable youth and beauty. Moreover, ehe appears against a back ground of intense dramatic action, embracing the niont sanguinary period of the revolution and the triumphs and disasters of the Napoleonic era. The life of a woman bo gifted as Mme. Bodamier is reputed to havo been o.Vor3 more than the routine of journeys, fetes and correspondence with which biographers usually load their paes. In her who fascinated the renowned mon and women ol half Europe, we perceive the linesttype of rrencli feminine charartc-r at a period when I'arisian society retained much of the traditions and refinements of the ancient regime, combined with en impulse resulting from military und political events and from the scientific inspiration of this century. And it is in the cour.-e of an analysis of the intimate ircumbtauccs of her history that tbe olditic and contradictions of her relations with the man to whom she wa.' marrie I become noticable. Varied and exciting ad her life must have been, 6l;e is continually repining over pome un.atislied desire, some latent ailection that finds no object, some grief that ge.-ms tho p&t-sionate longing of an empty and breaking heart. Through all her correspondence, and in allusions to her in letters which those who knew hr best exchanged, we are conscious of a mystery that at two periods namely, when, she urges the dissolution of her marriage and upon her husband's death confront us with startling distinctness There is a secret woven through the yearn of her married life that cants a tadneus upon them, and to which reference is clearly made by so many persons that we may wonder how it could so long have remained unknown to the world. At tbe time of their marriage M. llecamier was forty-two years of ae, and Juliette Bernard hlteeu. thus presenting a disparity of nearly twenty-seven vear?. They bore a marked lilienss to each other, possessing tho same classically regular features, the same hair and eye-, the same trilling mannerism that go so fer to make a personal resemblance. Immediately after their marriage M. llecamier established his bri le with her mother at C'licy, where he dined with them almost daily, gpen ding his moraines at his counting house and habitually returning to 1'aris in the evening. And this binguiar menage, or one rosemblin it, continued for years. He treated . I uliette with unfailing kindness and indulgence, but thero is no contradic tion to bo found to the declaration of j many who knew them intimately that they never lived together as man and j wile. This has been accounted for by the conjecture that Mine. Kecnmierhad an intense abhorrence of the marital relation, or by a eurmiso imagined after her death, that she sullered from a physical infirmity. Both these suppositions are eflaced by the most extraordinary event in her life namely her resolve in 1S07 to pever her "filial re'ations" with M. llecamier and marry Prince Auzuatusof Prussia, whose ardent courtship and passionate love letters must have given her no doubtful intimation that he would prove a most unplatonic husband. The letters exchanged between the Kecamiers at this btrange juncture aro probably among the most remarkable ever penned to one another by husband and wife. Mme. llecamier camly declares that, yielding to the assiduities of tho prince of Prussia, as well as to her own inclination, she contemplates severing the bond that has joined them for thirteen years. To this monstrous announcement M. llecamier replies without temper, confining himself to expressions of chagrin' that a divorce with its attendant scandal, ehould embitter his last years, now that, iq the twilight of life, he had grown infirm, needy and friendless, living upon the fragments of the fortune ho had wrecked. Put ho admitted that the tie which united them was one the church would declare null, and agrees, if Juliette requires it, to meet her at some place outside France where they can concert tbe legal measures to be taken and seek to moderate the scandal he dreads in Paris. Compliance in a husband rarely goes further, but this astonishing situation explaius itself if we may believe that M. llecamier was addressing, not his wife, but his daughter. Although is is evident that Mme. Lenormant, who is Mme. liecamier's chief biographer, believed her to be M. liecamier's daughter, her intimations gave no adequate clew, and the strange story remains a mvstery but half revealed. The evidence, however, points to the conclusion that Juliette Bernard when a girl was married to her father, and that she carried this Beeret in silence to the grave. What motivo could have prompted this revolting semblance of a marriage and perhaps forced it upon her? Did she know her relationship to M. llecamier when she married him this man who, in her childhood, had given her dolls and sugar plums? or what event betrayed it? Her mother, Julie Matton Bernard, was a bourgeoise of striking beauty, with bright black eyes, and rosy face, and fair white neek, and daintily suggestive embonpoint. Her character was marked by what is sometimes called feminine levity, though it may be questioned this quality is more distinctively a trait of one pox than of the other. She was married to a notary of mediocre intelligence, who, nevertheless, sufficiently understood the nature of the young and handsome M. liecamier's visit to disown the paternity of Juliette. It was the familiar story of a dull and uninteresting husband absorbed in the routine of his duty and an attractive and sprightly wife left to beguile her solitude as best she might. Prior to the Ilevoiutfon the Racamiei and Bernard families were established ar

Lyons, and .it was at that city that M. llecamier became a constant visitor at the Bernards. This liaison was probably not the banker's lirot gallantry, and it certainly was not his last. IJis subsequent financial embarrassments, which were mainly due to rash speculations, were considerably increased by the heavy sums withdrawn from his capital, to be spent no one but himself knew how. Half of his life was devoted to the pursuit of beautiful society women, and he availed himself of his wealth to allure them with those dazzling and magnificent gifts by which, in all ages, the fair and frail sex has been tempted. In his banking house were young men who passed as his nephews and he had aa many nephews as a cardinal some of whom bore to him the same personal resemblance that was so conspicuous in the daughter of Mme. Bernard. The marriage of Jacques llecamier with Juliette took place precipitately, April "4, 1793, in the midet of the lleign of Terror. As a rich man and an aristocrat, the banker had suddenly found himself "suspecte." The Bernard family, on the contrary, w ere violent republicans. In those days to become "suspecte" usually resulted in a visit to the guillotine. Those were days and nights of swift and appalling dangers, and it is conjectured that aa extreme peril led to the device, which probably Mme. Bernard imagined, to avert suspicion from her iormer lover by allying him with her own uitra-revolutionary family. This artifice of a marriage was perhaps intended merely as an expedient for a few months, until the fury of the storm wes spent, but it lasted a lifetime. Once only did Juliette geek to break the unnatural liuk that distorted her life when, a we have seen, she yielded to the suit of trie prince of Prussia and resolved to cast o!l" the letter which her girlhood had becopted and marry. Had she and M. Kecamivr baan lawfully wedded she would eviJaully not have entertained the project of a divorce, which the Koman church does not rtcoguie; nor even of a tepa.fltion, for which, in this instance, there was legally no cause of action. But if tlioir union was one that both church and tata would instantly declare void ab initio, her motive and its justice are ap paient. And. ei:nilarly. ;oes it not seem a f-oleci.mi that M. Ueoe i sr ehould have objected to this divorce, and that ehe should ultimately have abandoned it, merely because of a possible scandal, uniesji the facts of their case were buch that neither u them dared face the world after those facts were known? Was it not for very fchaiue'a salca that he pleaded her, und" that she yielded? And it is remarkable that when their union waseventually severed by M. Kcamier's dtath, in 18:10, not one oi tlio letters written to her by half a dc.ru intimate friends allude to her Iops us the bereavement of a wife, but all point to the removal of one who had f lied a parental relationship. Mme. Leiicrintint refers t this event with the bujirej'ivc comment, "Ml le perdant, Mine. Kecar.iiiT crut pedre une secondu fois eon pere." Theee facts present a Btrikinz chain of evidence: M. I'ecainior'.s gallant proclivities and his constant visits to Mme. Bernard; M. Bernard'n refusal to recognize Juiftte as his child: the personal ioeemblanre of Juliette to M. llecamier; the odd menage at Clichy, corroborated by the fact that this husband and wife never lived together, Mme. Becatnior's ceaseless rel.ain of an unsatistiud ailection. end her resolve to cut short this wicked farce of marriage and wed the prince of Prussia; M. liecamier's admission that she can terminate their union if bhe chooses, at the Bame time entreating her to spare them both a monstrous ecandal ; his peril as an aristocrat, during the Beign of Terror, furnishing a reason suilicient to have suggested the thought (d this marriage to Mme. Bernard; and finally the letters of those who must have known the secret in which M. Beeamier's death is referred to in language which common sense could not have addressed to a wife at the loss of a husband. Can these be mere chauco coincidences ? It can not surprise one to know that, when fhe had grown old, Mme. llecamier loved solitude and the revcrien to which sweet, soft mu&ic inclines. Xo wonder, either, that she invariably refused to go through the mockery of writing her memoirs. What an empty recapitulation they would have been without some ailuf.ion to the circumstances of which ehe was the living victim! And what marvelous meditations and souvenirs must have been hers who was married, vet had no husband; who was loved and fetod and worshiped as may fall to the lot of one woman in a century, yet who loved no man unreservedly through all the fiction and unreality ol her life, who repehed the amorous advunces of Bonaparte, and was punished by him with years of exile, yet lived to see his stupendous fail ; whose girlhood was passed amid the anguish and bloodshedding of the revolution, and whose later years faded away in the breathless calm that succeeded the exhaustion of the Napoleonic wars. But above all, through those silent musings, how sharply must have rung the minor key, "the undertone of teart?," in the bitterness of a

regret for her youth that had gone, and which, however brilliant before the world, had been empty and heartless and cold beneath the weight of her extraordinary secret 1 TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE. Some I'rnctical xinurnt tor the Young Housekeeper. Keinember in making coffee That the same ilavor will Dot suit every taste. That everyone can be suited to a nicety by properly blending two or more kinds. That equal parts of Mocha, Java and Rio will he relished by a good many people. That a mild coilee can be made dangerouelv f-trongand etill retain the mildnes of davor. That the enjoyment of a beverage and slavish devotion thereto are quite different things. That the flavor is improved if the liquid is turned from the dregs as eoon as the proper strength is obtained. That where the percolation method is used thecotl'ee should be ground very fine or the strength will not be extracted. , That if the ground coilee is put into the water and boiled it should be rather coarse, otherwise it will invariably be muddy. That a good coll'ee will always demand a fair price, but that a 1 high-priced coffees are not necessarily of high quality. That in serving the cups and cream should be warm; the cream should be put in the cup before the coll'ee is poured in, but it is immaterial when the sugar is added. That a level teaspoonful of the ground coilee to each cup is the ptanding allowance, from which deviation can be made in either direction according to the etrength desired. Only III Way. ( Judge. Misn Burtis "Don't be alarmed, Mr. Dolly." Mr. Dolly "What's that horwid longshoreman swearing in the hall fowr?" Mies Burtis "Do bit down. It's only papa. He stubbed his toe coming in and he's only telling himself how torry he is." A Congrrmi of SrnUkln. Commercial A lrertUor. Really the seals ought to get together up in some Alaskan hay and pass resolutions of grateful appreciation of Mr. Carter's able effort.

A FATHER'S DEEP GRIEF.

HIS DAUGHTER'S SHAME FELLHEAVILY ON HIS H E AKT. The Story of th i.XrVn Life Relate.l to a Drummer at This City by the GriefSi ricken Farmer She Hail Grown Tired of the Knr ami Went to the City to Live The Result. It mt as a hot, sultry afternoon. The train from Indianapolis was not due for over an hour and the sole occupants of a little station in tbe southern part of Indiana were an old farmer anu a drummer for a S. Meridian-st. firm who had driven across the country in order to catch the down train for a neighboring city, islowiy and sadly the farmer walked up and down the depot platform, while the drummer, lying under a tree opposite the miserable depot, attempted to read. It was a feeble attempt, however, for tho iiies and other insects made it impossible for him to enjoy himself with any degree of comfort. The railway tracks stretched away for miles, and the intense heat which aro.ue from the rails had no apparent effect on thn old farmer, who etood with his hat in his hand gazing wistfully in the direction of the far away city. Occasionally he placed hi hand, rough with toil, to his eyea and wiped away the tears which, in spite of his efforts at composure would course down h a wrinkled cheeks. He appeared to be anxious to speak to some one, and presently turned to the drummer and eaid: "l.a me! children never know what a trouble and anxiety they are to their parents." "That's so," replied the drummer by way of encouragement. "Xow there's my Mandy," continued the old gentleman, "aa line a girl aa ever lived in these parts, but she was too much for mother and I, too much for mother and I. You tee," continued the old man, "mother and I have one of the bent farms in this county and we were respected by the entire community. Mandy was our only child and aha had things pretty much as the liked. Kverv bundav we took her to church with us and long before she w as sixteen years of age everybody remarked what a pretty child she was. We allowed her every privilege and consequentlv de )ad euitora by the score, but our life did not buit her. Our ways were not her ways. In fart she appeared to belong to another world and I used to oftm wonder w hether she really was mv child or had been left at our door by some good angel who would receive our blepsini; forever. As Mandy grew older she became more dissatisfied, and although she loved mother and I dearly, she had a desire to know mere of the great world which lay beyond tho limits of our farm and had a longinz to leave our house and go to the wic ked city. "With such thoughts as these it was no trouble whatever tor a scoundrel with his üendiäh, llattering tongue to induce her to tun away with him. I never will forget the next morning after wo discovered that she bad left us. Tbe frhock was too much for mother and sho was taken sick and for a time I thought she, too, would leave me forever. I occasionally received a letter from Mandy and she always told me she was happy and for mother and I not to worry about her. I finally went up to Indianapolis to eeo her and found My (iod! what do think? that my Mandy had fallen from grace and was an inmate oi a vile den of sin. On my bended knees I begged of her to return home with me. No father.' she replied. 'I have disgraced you and could never look you or mother in the face again at home. No, let me remain here till 1 die.'" 'I tried everything to get her to come homo with me but she refused to do so, and I was finally forced to leave without her. Heartbroken I returned to the farm and in answer to molher'a eaerer inquiries J thought it bebt to tell the truth and did eo. She fell in a dead faint and the next day she passed over the dark river. Two days later we buried her on the little hillside which can be seen from the back door of the farm house. I never prospered after that. Everything went wrong, and I was often tempted to take my life and end it all and join mother on the other side, if there ii tsiich a thing as a suicide entering the kingdom of heaven. "Day before yesterday I received a dispatch saying that Mandy had died, and that the authorities wished to know what disposition to make of the remains, und I answered immediately: 'Send the body here.' Today It is coming und 1 will lay her beside mother, and when my time on earth is ended I wish to occupv a epot by their Eides." The deep, hoarse whistle of the train warned the drummer of its nearness and be and the farmer went to the platform to await its arrival. There was the usual bustle and confusion, and a rough pine box was tenderly placed on the platform. "All aboard!" shouted the conductor. and giving the signal to the engineer tho j train started to move slowly away. The i drummer swung himself on the rear pintform of the last couch, and as ho looked back ho saw the old farmer, with tears in his eyes, gazing on the box containing all that was mortal of his dearly loved but erring child. SAW THE SIGHTS, But She Preferred to See Them In Mule A 'tire. Omaha Wor d-Heral J.l Miss I'mnia Wood, who claims to be the daughter of a. wealthy Colorado rauclmian, Mas arrested in company with a young man who eaid his namo was Frank 1'aiton. and both were dressed in masculine attire. The story of the couple is that they both reside a short distance from Denver, and for the last two years have kept company. When Batton, who is employed on a neighboring ranch, was sent to South Omaha in charge of a consignment of cattle, they thought it an excellent opportunity to give the old folks a surprise party by making tho journey an elopement as well. The girl declares that they were married by a Lutheran clergyman before they left Denver. They arrived in Omaha Thursday night and devoted the next day to peeing the eights. The girl had often worn her brother's clothes out on the ranch during tho round-up and helped the men drive up the cattle, and last night ehe declared her intention of putting on one of her husband a suits and giing out to bee the town by gasdight. She assumed the trousers and the pair started down Dedge-st. and visited one or two swell resorts, after which the woman concluded she had enough and they started to the hotel, but were arrested. They were released today without being fined. III l'.xa t lliRht. The Cub. I "I am 6ix feet. How tall are you?" asked a tall man of l'resident Charles A. Deshon of the New York Southern club. "I am six feet too," replied Mr. Deshon, and his friends think to this day that Deshon is more than six feet in hight. Imported. Elsie "Where does Miss La Smythe get that lovelv complexion ?" Lthel "From Barfs. I believa." .

R. R. R. RADWAY'S

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The Cheapest and Bet Medicine foi l'amily Use iu tho World. Fore Throat, Colds, Coahi, Pneumonia. Bron chitia, Iuiltramatiooa, Congestions, lotlaenzi Di:!icult Hrealhing cured anJ proreuteJ by RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Ir (lmmtlin of thi KiJaeri. Iafianmiti 9 ol tlie M.dJr, Inflammation ot the l Oaaf tloa of the Luii, Palpitation ot th II rt, HtitIpv, Crup, Piohtbarla, Catarrh, la la-nia, UH, Chills, Arfue ChtlU, (Jailtjlaici, Fnti-biiei, Hut OUuea. Sleatlectoai. Tbe application ot tbe UEIDY BELIMP j tit part or fart when the dilficaity- or pata eiuta trul fori an.l e rafort. IADWaY'S KEl)lf KELISF ii thaoalf r j olial aent ia voue that w it. initaatly atop pala. ll iualaotlr relieres aul aou cur. Rheumatism. Neuralgia. hcluticn, lh'itdiK he, 1 ont ll;t-llt-', 1 ti rtrt in luatlon, A at tutiii, InllU'-Ilf.'l, Uimcult lirenthlnc Lumbago, Swelling or the .loin tu, rain a ii It.ick, ( licut or Limb. Kadwny'a j Iti lief la .t t ur Tor Kverj 1'uin, imiiiM, 111 uisi. It Wus tin I irat auil la tlio Only PA IX REMEDY Tliat irWarjllr taps the excruciating pala. Hari Inflammation and cures C n tio n, wLttber of tia Luofet, Sloinaeh, Boa ttla or other glaud or orgaaa. X Hi.lX'iT !t, II!. Pr. BiwT: 1 have usol your lt-a If Ii -lif P11U and rtaraapariJtaa He. lTent, an J thine t'iat t!if are the Btan lar l reiuedlea of the worli. Tour oure When ail others fail. Aug. 1, iwL FUEL) M. MoCUEEOTf. -N'i)tS4L, IX tT. Kajwif. I have ate 1 jour me licia- lor I) Tears, and have cured all diseac4 1 ha erer treatod. 1 tars surei cases Ina other Uoct rs hl Ii vn u f ii hopeless. Ihssolh) best iicaaa wUfc Inflammatory rheumatism. March 8, lSJl. MKi S. Ü ÖJHELU. 1NTL11NALLY. a half to a W-i.uful ,n ha.f t tumbler ot water will, in a l- loiii'.tft, otira (.'ramps, Spasnia, öjur btouiiioh, .tiatu, Voiuitm, Urarlhurn, JCrr usne s. S.eesNsuuis, ?ick H -a 1 arhr, Diarrhea, Colic, 1 iatuleiajr, add all lnioraai 1 ami. Malaria in It Various Form Cured ami l'rcvciitel. Tliare I not a reine lial a, nut iu tie worll thai will cure (er and aue aod til other mal ti im, b.llus and other t. r-. aido 1 hr HA 1 V A Y 8 I'lLlA, iou.ulok.lr u niUffAV'3 KEA.iY KcLlEF. A fare Cur tor lever isutl Aua, KlA AY'S UEAUY HL 1.1 Er" is sur bare ti well as a prereulire ol KcTor aul Ai, litre is a remedy lor cents that will cur? this dls ttie iitirelf , aod eokbli parsons U lir ia tu it district, rae lroin attaoks. Tais is b jtl ;r thai ra legion of aue cures, quinine, ch lo4 aes, eta. II has cured tnousands. Ta-entr dr ps to a as? ist lul, la a iflaai of water, Ukon th first t'iiag on lUi out of bed la tt. morning, will irjtal Us iftern from attacks. One 3 -oonl b ttle will e irt aa entire latuily, and hare enough Uft to slip all ktait of pain that aaaf trouble you, eittior If jia aaai lsal or disease. lA)c per Bottle. Sold by Iru?gieta. . V? "1" Mil II Sarsapariliian Kmjioaimwrvs ReSQ.VGP.t. Thw Grant Illood Porlfler, For (lie Cure of Cliroaic Disease. Chronic Khe'.iiaatism, for.fula, Uickin, Dry Cju.1v Cancerous A Ceotlous. 1'. Aedlog of IQsLltM, WülU Pwoilintf Tunt..r. Uip Uiuo, lirouorulis. SotoulT d tha ear,aarillaUesolreol eaoel all remedial agents in tU cura ol Carouio, SflrafaUii, Confutations.! and oaia iUeac, hut is the val posltiTe care for KIDNEY AND BLADDER COMPLAINTS, irarel, Iiabetjs, lirousy, Stoua of Va.tr, I. contin.uoe of Urine, linxhfs Inat, Alhiuiiour.s, and in all eav where thsre are brica-1 Jit depo. la, er the water is thick, aloady, rnlal with sttDsiatoea like the while of an e, or threads liaa white ile. or there is a morbid, dura, b.lious apea'auo, aa J vhitc boi-e dun deports, aul wheu tb -re Is a yrtcal burning ajnsrtloa when pausing t'ie water, sal lain IB the mall of the back and aLou tas loiaa. Kiilitt-r Troubles. ATllEltl, O. IVar Sir: I thought I would write you and tl you what wonderful work your .-ar-auarilliaa H iolsvctbas tlono for me. Si w-.eas m-J 1 cu.d bor tuote without the greate t j am with d.M.asa of tfij, kidneys. I have tried every kiul t liuluint an ditlerent ned.ciu.s and had my doctor to preecrih; but nothiUK Uidaur good until 1 tn-d your KesolTenU 1 -ok thr bottles (.m l jutt seut for threa n,ore. YourlMUareatiol-SfUd. 1 b.ss reoiamended tbeiu to over a hundred (.rsoii. ho all say they fouad thetu to be the be;, n,. itou, W TOM K AUDI N. V art Mast. Athens, M. l C Depot. Kldri ys lU tumlnK to n Ilralthy States U id way Co. tk'Ltl-uien: lam now tkio tha fifth bottlo of your Hoso vent and I am receiving Rreat benefit from ll when all other meiiciua. tailed, and mr Kidneys aro returnl; a healthy condlUon, and would recoumien l it t ail .uLlerlu, from any disease hatover irru their Kidneys. U soectlully yonr w , ,Trs P1.u,m()utu, Neb. iia0t:toa. I.one!4a, Mow Pr Radwar I.ar Sir: I hve ved a 1 your remedies Willi Krtat success in practice; and the way I Sind ...T Ith your Solvent, it cured m ot U.abetes after iure tihysidaus had lven me up. 1 detected achanre in my uriuem two hours -ft r tha 2m dose, aod three DotUe. cure l our Iriend, Dr. liihuy's SamDiri'.Iiin Resolvent A rented' oopood of lng-reiienls of extraordla,ry m dioai pro . rtiav w-ootlmilr " P Jr. . "pair and invit o the brok-a d.wn add wasUl body. Cime, pleasant, safe aad p-r.uaol in .-a treatment an t e:.rs. Sili b, .llJru!.. ON A UOLLAlt A U0TTLE. The 5rent t.lrr unci Mnmnctt Remedy. Am Kirellrnt ami Jl'M Cat hurtle. Perfect I'urir.tt tvea. SootliiiiR Aperient. Art Without l'.tin, Alw.iya Kt liuble ami Nai. ural In Thftv Ooertstlfin. Ptrtectly tast-Me, el fntlr coatl wlttk aw gum, uurtre. regulato, purity, olaaase and ilreafjthea. RADWAY'S PILLS For the cures of till disorders of the Slotnarli, I.iver, Ilowtls, KMneya, ltlri.l.ler. Nervous ltenea, Ia of Appetite, lIw!otie, loa. etipittlon, CoatU i'iiesi, Inlij,el ion, Itiliou. neu, lever, I n Hum Milt ion of the Itowel 1'ilea, mil all ilernne;eiiienta of the Intermit Viaeern. I'urely t'Ketaltle, iiitnininr no mercury, minerals, or ieleleriou irus. PLKKtcT l'I;i:sTK)X will he accomplished bf taking Uadway's Till, l y so do.tif DYSPEPSIA. Sick Headache, Foul ftoinaili, RUiousneisi, will h voided, as th fKd tiist is eaten contributes it nourishing properlies for the support of th natural wssto.of the body. crOberve to following symptom resulting from diseases el thidoslive ornas: Constipation, Inward piles, fullneas of Mood la th head, aoiditf of th stomach, nausea, heartburn, dismast of fo il, fullnes or weight of fie stomscn, smr raetstions, kinking or Guttering ot th heart, choking oreTaling sensstions when ia a lying pouur. dimasss of vision, dots or wens before th sight, frr aal dull psin in th he I, dertolenoy of perspiration, ye lowness of the skia and y, ta In tu sll, chest, limb and suddea flush of heal, burning ia the flsb Afwdoseof RADWAY'S TILL" will Ire ft ystetu of all tba ahov narasd disorder. Trice 2"c per Box. Bold bj all DrusrgisU. DR liADWAT A CO.. No. 32 Warren st, Naw York, will mall llook ot .Advice oa application, lim Sur to Get "lUdwatV"

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