Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 October 1899 — Page 6

CHAPTER XV. It was midday by the time she reacted the village; and being very faint she ventured into the quaint littlo ina ami asked fcr a glas of milk. To cat seemed im;vs-ible; but the mis-troä.-of the inn. notion- the frail form and evidences of wearines?, fcrought home-made bread ami butter, and suggested that she had better k?p up her strength. Little as she felt inclined for it. the food did her good, and. when she ha.! finished, the people directed her U Mr. Brandon's. " Could you tell me." she asked timidly, "if Mr. Brandon U at home Jast new?" The woman giggled, and looked at -fcer daughter, who a!cO giggled. "No, he ain't." she said. "He's ;ot carried," giggled the daughter. "And he's g:me for his weddingtrip," addJ the mother. "Dear me!" said Marguerite, in astonishment. "Yes. He's married the doctor's I daughter. She was a deal toj young i ard pretty far him: but l;.?r father, they do say, n:ad her. The old can's pretty v.vll rolling i;i money." "Ye? rolling in my money," inwardly thought Marguerite, as. inspired with fresh resolution, she paid her modest reckoning, aud started onwards -cnoe more. Full of thought, she walked rapidly forward, and hardly noticed whera she was going, till su;M:n!y she stopped T-ith a sart: fesr she was in a place which h rememl ert d. It was a large, level meadow, through which ran a sTeam, shaded by sldirs and fringed with river weeds. BUT IT WAS I," Hi: SAID. TO MY A iittle rusti; Hi' crossed tho 6t:ua; end in the distance, behind a clump of dark mes. a thin line cf Iue smoke went up, show lag where the house lay. Marguerite let hrslf into the rceadow, and wandertd across it like Ci in a dream. She went and stood fin the bridge, and stared down at the cJ?ar water. Little incidents came Crowding upon her memory. It was fcerrc ehe had sat so late, absorbed in h'er book, on the evening of her attempted escape. She remembered how sie had watched the sun behind that very clump of trees; she recalled the ff-'endor of the sky; she heard again tie caw of the rooks as they flew home fa long graceful lines, looking so itasely black against the glowing ssy; tihrt almost felt the dampness of the dew on the pasture as her small feet threaded the misty meadow as she went homeward. J Yielding to the impulse of the moT&tnt. she left the bridge and went wandering on, making for a small rhite wicket, which apeared in the iark private hedge. Step by step she traversed the very way she had gone that evening when she saw her uncle'3 girsst leaning against the porch. She would approach the house this way. cot by the drive and front gate. Daniel Drandoa was away there was no one to say her nay. The wicket clicked under her light toneh. A deathly stillness reigned round. Was the watch dog dead, she wondered the dog whose name she liatl so often tried to remember? In a path between high clipped walls of privet she paused. "His name was 'Sultan.' of course." fce said. "I remember it we.l :ncugh." Her heart beat with a strong agitation ea she reached the end of the privet walk. She knew she had but to turn the corner of that clump of flowering shrubs, and she should see the white columns of the heavy porch. Her steps faltered. For a moment she stopped and held her breath. A sort of superstitious fear seized her. She felt as if. once she turned that corner, &e solution of her difficulties would tare her ia the face. It took but a moment to conquer the feeling. Slowly she passed round the thick barrier f laurel, yew, and holly, and there hashed upon her sight the same plctore which had presented Itself that Evening long ago; and her heart almost cease! to beat for an instant, and Iter mind wr filled with a ghastly con-sclousnefi-of delusion. A man waa leaning against the white pfllar of the porch a man with hl3 arms folded and hi3 head bowed; his Whole attitude was expressive of the most hopeless and absolute dejection. He had not heard her footstep; he -remained perfectly motionless, but the

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firl reeled and staggered hack a pacs or two in a feel ins of helpless terror. The nan was there It was the same man who stood there before and yet it was the last man whom she would have expected to see. It was Mr. Martineau! The rush of ideas was too quick, too instantaneous to enable her to reason; she only fell Lack as if suddenly struck in the face. and. as it seemed, without her own volition a nanu spasmodically left her lip5?. -Val!" she cried. The short syllable appeared to ring out like a bell, so startling was the round. The man who heard tt started; his eyes met those of Marguerite, and for son:e moments they remained so each staring at the other with the terror cf the tirst surprise written on their haggard faces. Through the girl's mind was stealing the awful conviction that this was no delusion, but a horrible reality a thing that could not le rejected. Twice it seemed as if he would speak twice he made an unavailing movement towards her; then, with a despairing gesture he turned away, and covered his face with his hands. Slowly, with compressed lips. Marguerite approached him. She went nearer and nearer: and at last, with a strong effort of will, laid a hand upon his arm. He stared again, and raised his face, gazing at her with a look cf dumb, despairing appeal. "I wanted to see," she said, huskily, "if you were real, or whether you were a nightmare. You are real you are a man oh. most unmanly! Oh, cowEVERLASTING D I'd RA HAT JON." ard! Whataui I to do? Oh. what am I to do?" "You urged me to eonfeys," raid a hollow voice, "but I had not sufficient courage. I dared not tell you what a wretch I was; I could not bear to think cf your eyes turned upon me with contempt for a deed so vile. Confession would have been terrible, but not so terrible as this. Marguer ite " "Hold!" she said, shrinking from him with an air of disgust which made him wince. "Is this true? Is it really so. or are you and I both mad? Tell me tell me oh, don't spy it! I have liked you so trusted you so don't say you are the wretch for whom I have teen searching all this time!" "I am the man who injured you," he said, huskily; -and would give my life to be oble to deny it. See," he said, desperately, "I am at vour mercy say what you please to me; do as you like! Set me any penance; I swear to perform it. I loathe myself and my fault. Could a man's humiliation be more complete?" "You!" she ejaculated, turning imploring, pitecus eyes up to his. "You oh, you!" "It was worse than Caesar's 'Et tu Brute!" Valdane was rallying his manhood. He had lx-en terribly unnerved at the sight cf her. Daily, since he parted from her In London, had he haunted the old house, head and heart filled on ly with the thought of that one woman. To look up and behold her had been to Mm only the realization of a daily dream. Now that the first feeling cf horror and shame was over, and he stood so utterly condemned, it seemed as if. by comparison, those lost few days had been full of radiant hope. It was over. What remained to him was the bitter humiliation of having to let Bernard Selwyn know cf his wrong-doing, and his exile from Marguerite forever. CHAPTER XVI. She had walked a few paces away from him; now she came hack, and stood locking into his face. "Oh, say you did not do It!" she cried. "It would be useless to say so; you know I did It," he returned mournfully. "You remember me; I saw it In your eyes just now. You called me 'Val as I taught you to do in those old days. I stand convicted. I ask for no mercy." "Mercy! Did you show me mercy when I wa3 helpless and In your power?" she cried, a burning blush creeping into her face. "Oh, to think of It all! To think of how you used to deceive me of hew I used to to " She hid fcw cfceeks with her hands.

Ti v3 blushing as deeply a3 sie tut Le slrcgg'.cd for self-control. "Oh. Marguerite, ycu tortura me!" he said, with a Mcaa. "And yru are not content thr.t I a:n fallen lo lew? Listen listen! The other day ycu urged me to confess to atone! It was not too late for some poor sort cf atonement. I can set you free; and meanwhile meanwhile" faltering "there is something I would tell you. Will you hear me?" "Yes," she answered, weeping. "I will hear you. I do not want to be unmerciful." She sat down In the porch sect. Yaldan leaned against the pillar aad bt over her. "I should like to tell you here." be said, in a low tone "here, where we first met. What I want to say is this there is no need for you to punish me; my punishment has overtaken me already. The retribution is peculiarly just and fitting. The woman I wronged so Is the woman I love. Do I insult you by those words? Hardly. Love is free to all. I love you as I never thought to love any woman with a love which nothing can tear from my heart. Is that not punishment bitter enough that the one

woman I would make my wife should be the woman whose greatest sorrow is the shadow tie that binds her to myself." he shuddered. There was a fire of passion in his voice whith terrified and astonished her. "See." he said, "when 1 break that tie when that marriage of ours Is dissolved, I break my heart, too! It is a poor sort of atonement. Fr.ch as It is. I lay it at your feet." She could lind no words in which to reply to him. A feeling of pity was stealing over her. She knew the bitterness cf a love that was not returned. "I would give worlds." she faltered presently, "for it to have been any one else but you. Hut but " "Rut it was I," he said, "to my everlasting degradation." There was silence, only broken by an occasional sob from Marguerite. A lark shot up into the sunny sky, and sang rapturously. The branches rustled softly in the breeze; and Valdane longed to prolong each minute that went by the last minute he shouid spend with her. At last she stirred. "I will go back again," she said. There were a few moments cf hesitation; then with an tffort she said, "Good-hy." The pain ficmf d too gseut to bear. He leaned Imploringly over her as sh sat. (To be continued.) CLIPPED FHOM NEWSPAPERS. In ca?-'in about for a rvitnblp gift by v.-hich to acknowledge Mifs Helen Coulr"s kindnrsKS to thf- roldiers during the late war. Gen. Joseph Wheeler hit upon a novel plar. He had prepared for her a fevap-bcok containing clippings from all the nrwhpapcrs and other publications which mentioned her work. T're sc clippings were tastefully arranged ar.d handsomely bound. The volume, now in Miss tlould's harrlf., -hows what the American people think of her praiseworthy work. Ftr pfrrmis in public life, few thing are more interesting, nul perhaps genuinely instructive, than such a set of clipping. It is true that, coming as they soir.etim s ?o from biased newspnrerK and from publication- reprcfrr.iing the roost irreconcilable opinions, they frequently present the same act in very different lights, but taken altogether, they give a person a chance to ste himself as others see him. So desirable if this that it has become quite a business to clip from the newspapers every reference to certain men. bonh, ventures and so forth, and to sell these clippings to regular M'bscrihers. Many senators and other public men in Washington and elsewhere are fubscribers to om cf these clippings bureaus, and 0 keep themselves informed of everything that 1? said of them in printer's ink. Speaker Reed's little offlcc at the hotel in Washington, where he used to live, was decorated with newspaper cartoons in which the speaker hime!f was caricatured. One of President McKinley's clerks keeps a scrap-book of newspaper references to the administration and its policies, and this the president frequently peruses. CURED BY JEALOUSY. tlovr Oii" Woman Wm Mailet Well and Rosy. It would never do to give any clew to the identity of the physician who conducts a private hospital and who has just surceesfully accomplished a new departure in medicine, says the San Francisco News letter. One of the patients is a wealthy but ignorant woman, who has been for many years a confirmed hypochondriac and who has successively trieel allopathy, homeopathy, hydropathy, osteopathy In ehcrt everything pathic. The patience of her husband was finally exhausted, and he consented to enter into a conspiracy with the doctor to play upon his wife's jealousy. It was arranged that he should 6eem deeply smitten with a young widow, healthy, rosy and jolly, who is secretly engaged to be married to a Los Angeleno. There was no question alxiut the unhappy hypochondriac's jealousy. It blazed out in hysterical declaration that the pretty widow was waiting for her old Khocs, but ehe vowed she would get better just to spite her supposed rival and to be avenged upon her faithless husband. She has kept her word and is now certainly fair, fat and forty. Rut her doctor say she is an example cl the jealousy cure. Taken fnawnre. Philadelphia North American: Ha "You seem surprised that I have asked you to marry me." She "Yes; I've been proceeding all along on the theory that you hadn't the courage to do such a thing." Why Not Then? Philadelphia North American: Tetey , "Say, pop " Father "Well, what now?" Fetsy "If de pen Is mlgntler 'an de sword, way don't dey give our feilen In de Flllypines fountain pend?"

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Terrible Tales Told of the Wreck of the Steamer Scotsman. THIRTEEN WERE DROWNED. Attempt to St the Women und Children hall The Crew, Conioel of "Scab" lMcked lp at Liverpool. Maltreat II el pi es Ladie The Dead. The story of the wreck of the Dominion line steamer Scotsman, which went on the rocks off Change island, in the straits of Helle isle, early in the morning of Sept. 21, involves the plunder and maltreatment of helpless and panic-stricken women by a drunken crew, and the drowning of thirteen people, if not more, while disembarking from the steamer in a boat from which the plug was missing, and which sank almost immediately on being lowered. To the honor of the British merchant marine, it is said the crimes cannot be ascribed to men regularly engaged In its service, but rather to a gang of "wharf rats" and hangers-on picked up on the docks at Liverpool. The stokers' strike in England had forced the various companies to employ "scats." The known dead are: Mrs. Childs, wife of the stage manager of "The Sign of the Cross Company;" Mrs. Dickinson, Windsor, Ont., wife of a former editor of the Toronto Globe; Mrs. Roberts, Montreal; Roberts, infant child of Mrs. Roberts; Mrs. Robinson, wife of the manager of the Sun Life company, Montreal; Miss Robinson, daughter of Mrs. Robinson; Mrs. M. M. Scott, Montreal; Mrs. Skclton, Montreal; Miss Street, Montreal; Mrs. Talbot, Montreal; Mrs. Tuthill, Mrs. Eliza Watkins, Miss B. Weavers. Of the surviving passengers of the Scotsman 249 were brought to Rimouski, Quebec, by the Montfort. Nine more, with forty-five of the crew, were taken off by the Monterey and delivered to the Grecian, which is bringing them to Ilimcuski. The remaining fifty-six are on the Monterey, on the way to Liverpool. PARLIAMENT IS SUMMONED. Britinh (abtuet Shirks the Itenpoiiftiblllty for War. The British parliament has been summoned by royal proclamation, and is expected to reassemble in about three weeks. The government desires a clear expression of approval by the legislature of the policy now being pursued in South Africa, as well as the necessary financial legislation. It Is believed the Boers will commit an overt act which will bring on hostilities before the assembling of parliament. Of Interest to Speculators. At Chicago Judge Chytraus rendered a decision holding that when a broker, contrary to his instructions, closes a deal at a certain price the measure of damages is the difference between the price closed at and the lowest market Trice before the expiration of the time limit of the broker's instructions. r.ight IVrsoiii Were Hurt. Train No. 4, east bound, on the Indiana, Decatur & Western railroad, went onto a siding at Montezuma, Ind. The rear sleeper did not clear the main track, and was struck by a fast freight train, west bound. The sleeper was upset, and eight persons were hurt, none seriously. Ituuior of Kutslaii 1'IjU There are rumors that the unanimity of the European papers in asserting the neutrality of continental Europe is a device to induce the Transvaal not to recede. Russia is said to be preparing for a movement on India while Great Britain is embroiled in South Africa. Honor for Admiral Dewey. It has been decided to make Admiral Dewey an advisory member of the cabinet at Washington, ir. order that the administration can have his assistance in solving problems developing from the Philippine situation. rittfibur?' M older on Strike. Thirty-seven of Pittsburg's foundarics are idle. The molders are on strike for an advance to $3 for a minimum day's wage, time and a half for extra hours and double time for Sunday work. Fire Do troya Calientn Town. The town of Lubaczow, Galicia, a place of about 300 inhabitants, northwest of Lemberg, was destroyed by fire. Hundreds of families are suffering from extreme destitution. Ilmprror 1'rnlftes Von Dlelerleh. Emperor William, while inspecting the German cruiser Kaiser, expressed warm appreciation of the ability and circumspection displayed by Admiral von Diedcrichs at Manila. Death of Colombian Diplomat. Gen. Julio Rengiffo, until recently the Collombian repres3ntatlve inWashington, and one of the best known South American diplomatists, w.us drowned in Colombia. Kx-I'otmater Wlllett Killed. James P. Willett, postmaster of Washington under President Cleveland's last administration, was instantly killed by falling down an elevator shaft at Washington. Tramport Kail for tai lla. Three transports sailed Sept. 30 for Manila. They are the Charles Nelson, Glenogle and Sheridan. In all over 2,rC0 men are on their way to reinforce Gen. Otis. Itaek from San Domlnpn. The United States cruiser New Orleans arrived at New York from San Domingo, having completed her work of looking after American interests. Falling Cowl Kills Ihrer. A fall of coal at the Conyngham mine shaft, Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed Thomas Timblln and fatally injured George Cooper and Thomas Timblln. Durciars K'l Missouri Dank. The safe of the bank of Houstonla at Houstnnla, Mo., was blown open by burglars. The robbers secured $1.100.

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ILLINOIS MILLS DESTROYED. Plant Near Illoomlngton at a Loss of S2.O.O0O One Mm l)e;,I. The plant of the Illinois Cereal company, three-fourths of a mile west of Bloomington. 111., took fire, and except for the .-mall office building, was totally destroyed. Loss, $250,000. Melvin Pen 11, a night watchman, aged 52 years, was found crushed to death beneath a falling wall. Bert King, a packer, was fatally burned.

MANY INDICTED FOR MURDER. Eleven Negroes and Kiva Whlto Men II Id at Marlon, III. The grand jury at Marion, III., returned indictments against eleven negroes and five white men fc r murder. They are charged with firing into an Illinois Central train loaded with negro miners and their families at the Fredonia mines on June 30. when Mrs. Carr was killed. GENERAL ADVANCE BEGUN. American Troops Move Forward Against the Insurgent. A general advance of the American troops against Porac has commenced. Gens. MacArthur and Wheeler moving from Santa Rita and Gen. Wheaton from Angeles. Four regiments of infantry and a battery comprise the force. Operators Sae Christian County. The operators of the coal mine3 at Pana, 111., have entered suits against Christian county for damages, caused bv the protracted idleness of the mine3, claiming that the county ha3 afforded them no protection in operating D :Mrou Fir at Clnc'nnatl. At Cincinnati. Ohio, the Big Four warehouse, occupying a block bounded by Central avenue, Pearl, Plum and Second streets, was destroyed by fire, with forty loaded freight cars. The loss is over a million dollars. World" Iaelnj Record Lowered. Biimps, a brown gelding, lowered ths world's record to wagon at Louisville, Ky. He paced the mile in 2:03V4. one and one-half seconds faster than any horse had ever gone the distance before under similar conditions. I'orter Thinks Dreyfni CuiltvGen. Porter, United State3 ambassador to France, saya In his opinion Dreyfus is undoubtedly guilty, but wx3 Lot the principal medium of the treasonable commerce with ajents of foreign governments. I'loed for All Twin; Kehtten. At Marlon, 111.. Jud?e Vicker3 assessed a fine of $2.000 against the New York Life Insurance company and W. II. Piety of Sparta, one of its agents, for allowing rebates on two policies. Mill Confiscate the OoM. The gold produced during the war 13 to be deposited with the Transvaal government, who will mint sufficient to pay its working expenses. The rest will be returned after the war. llothlajr l'roetalmed at Waahing ton. President McKinley proclaimed a holiday in Washington Oct. 3, in honor cf Dewey day, when the hero of Manila formally received the official thanks of a grateful nation. IZiiAsia liffnes to Interfere. It is said Germany suggested to Russia the advisability of mediation between Great Britain and the Transvaal, and Russia declined to have anything to do with the matter. Crena-llor Guard for Africa. The Second battalion of the Grenadier guards, at Gibraltar, has been ordered to be in readiness, should war break out in South Africa, to go to the scene of the fighting. Have Acreed on Compensation. Great Britain and the United States have agreed to grant compensation to those who suffered damage during the recent bombardment in Samoa. Germany is to be exempt. Town Uurned ly llnrsrtar. The town of Madison Station. Miss., on the Illinois Central railroad, was almost totally destroyed by fire. The loss is about $SO,000. The fire wa3 started by burglars. Itnhonlc 1'lag'ie Is Spreading. Confirmation has been had of the report that the bubonic plague has made Its appearance at Baguia, a vi!läge outside of the sanitary cordon at Oporto, Portugal. PittsHeld. 111., Ilnrnnd Out. Thirty-two business htuses and residences in Nebo, a town of 800 inhabitants, twelve miles south of Pittsfield, 111., were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $40,000. Serious Fighting In Venezuela. There have been serious engagements between the Venezuelan government forces and the rebels, In which the net advantage seemed to rest with the rebels. James Harlan Near Death. James Harlan, last living member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, and Iowa's "grand old man." is lying at the point of death at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Immense Damn? ly Fire. Fire at Sydney, N. S. W., destroyed the Peninsular buildings and did immense damage. The loss not covered by insurance, will amount to $200,000. CJen. .faiidene I Itetlred. The Spanish supreme council of war has ordered that Gen. Jaudenea be p!aced on the retired list for surrendering Manila to the Americans. Doers Ontnnmher the lirltlsh. Thirty thousand Boers are under arms in the Transvaal, while the total British forces available for instant action in South America is but 16,000. Klint t Not a Cnndltlate. The story published to the effect that W. K. Shutt of Springfield, 111., is a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor Is unfounded. Doers Concentrate Around Natal. The Boers are concentrating their forces In the country contiguous to Natal, where the first outbreak of hostilities Is likely to occur.

DOCTORS AKki PREFERRED.

Literary Women Seem to Seek rhyslelan as Their II unhands. It has often been remarked that literary women manifest a decided penchant for doctors as husbands. At any rate, the;e are a great many of them who do not have to send a servant tearing down the street for a physician every time they have a spell of nervousness. They have simply to call in the services of "hubby" and all is well. Someone has compiled a list it is only partial, however of the authoresses who have chosen their life partners from the medical profession. Helen Mathers, the clever authoress of ' Coming Through the Rye," married Dr. H. A. Reeves, a well-known surgeon, in 1876, when the fame of her first success was fresh on her. At the same age 24 Mrs. Frances Hodgson Rurnett married Dr. Burnett of Washington. She had begun to write six years before her marriage, when she was a girl of 18, but it was not until she had been married for four years that fame came to her on the wings of "That Las3 o' Lowrie's," published in 1877. Mme. Sarah Grand was but a "wild young Irish girl," impatient of home control and already fired by high ambitions, when she married at 10 a young army doctor called Mr. Fall, who died a year ago. She traveled with her husband for some years in the east, and it was only when her restless spirit had tired of new scenes and new faces that sh; settled down happily with her pen and began to write "Ideala." Miss Annie 3. Swan, who began to write children's stories in the paternal farm house in Scotland, also met and married a doctor. Dr. Burnett Smith. Mrs. Flora Annie Steel married a Bengal civil servant more than thirty years ago and spent her married life in India until 1889, when she found fame awaiting her in England. "John Oliver Hobbes" waited until she was 30 before she married Reginald Craigie. "John Strange Winter" was 28 when she married Arthur Stannard, a civil engineer, and two years later her charming book, "Boctle's Baby," with its wonderful knowledge of Infant and military life, made her famous. Miss Olive Schreiner waited long before she was content to part with her freedom to Mr. Cronwright, a south African gentleman farmer, and. like herself, "'a child cf the reit." "Rita" bas twice tempted Providence at the altar, her second husband being W. Desmond Humphreys, a gentleman of County Cork. Thackeray's gifted daughter, the author of so many delightful novels, is known to her friends as Mrs. Richmond Ritchie. ROMANCE OF WEALTH. Story f RTei;e and the DUc-overy of 330.000. Chadron (Neb.) correspondence St. Louia Globe-Democrat: Tip Morton, who formerly resided in Chadron. but who for tne past few years has been prospecting in and about Lead City and Custer, S. D., was here for a few weeks visiting old friends, and while here related a story of an old German who resided near hi3 claim for years, and who died recently, which reads like a romance. The old man's name was William Bismarck, but he waa known there as Prince Bismarck. When quite young he was deprived of his fortune in his native land by an unjust law, aad, being deeply mortified at Laving lost hu fortune and also caste with his former friends and associates, he at once determined to come to America, mako a fortune, and then return to his native land and lord it over those who cut him. Before he lost his fortune he married a very highly educated and highly connected but rather poor lady. He thought, of course, after she left her old associates, ehe would change, and so broke the news to her of his determination to leave Germany. But she refused to accompany him. Just after arriving in New York he Joined a party of prospectors bound for the Black hill3. This was early In the '70s. Upon arriving in the hills he took several claims, and was fortunate in disposing of them at a big sum. Soon after this he married a German girl, the daughter of a well-to-do ranchman. They worked hard and were frugal. He kept his money secreted somewhere in the vicinity of his house, but even his wife did not know the place. When he was about ready to return to the scenes of his childhood to wreak vengeance on his former wife and his associates he suddenly died, without leaving a will. From that day until a short time ago a constant search was conducted for his money, but until a few days ago unsuccessfully. In a claim close to the house a small cave was discovered. It was explored, and in this cave poor Bismarck kept burying his money for years in the solid stone, carefully covered by a slab of stone. Mr. Morton says that $300.000 was taken out of the ock. The widow of Bismarck paid the party well who unearthed the money, and it is said she will soon leave for Germany and, to the extent of her ability, try to carry out her husband's wishes. Old Rnln lo Re Sld. The ruins of Chepstow Castle, In England, in which Henry Marten, one of the judges of Charles I., was confined for upward of twenty years after the restoration, are to be sold at public auction. They cover an extensive area near the mouth of the Wye. and the walls on one side are neariy perpendicular with the cliff, which overhangs that river. The castle itse'.f is 6aid to date from the time of William the Conqueror, and it stood two sieges during the revolution. It has been successively in the hnds of the FitzOsbornes. the Clares, the Bigods. the Herberts and the Somersets, and it is now placed on the market by crdcr of the new Duke of Beaufort. MelnUnrcr. His will was of iron, stoutly declared. But his wife merely smiled and was not at all scared: For his will could be bent with facility great Her "won't" was a furnace that melted It straight. Tet for a Ilttnnnf One test of distinguishing diamond! from glass and paste Is to touch them with the tongue. The diamond fee? much the colder. Philadelphia Record.

HOUSEHOLD HINT8. If there is one thing on which tb housewife prides herself, it is that of having her laundering done nicely, so that the wearing apparel may be th admiration of all. The washinj U a small matter, any one almost can do that, but to have the linens present that flexible and glossy appearance

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