Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 July 1882 — Page 6

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

which one?

One of us, dearBut oneWill sit by the bed with a nameless fear,

And cla*p a hand

Growing cold ah it feols for the spirit land Darling, which one?

One of us, dear— But oneWill frtand by the other's coffin bier

And look, and weep,

While those marble lips strange silence keep Darling, which one?

One of us, dear— But one— By an open grave will drop a tear,

And homeward go,

The anguish of an unshared grief to know Darling, which one?

One of u.«, earBut one— Shall speak glad wordslhe other cannot hear

Arid fully know

All we have dimly groped for here below Darling, which one?

One of iw, darling, it most be, II may Ik-, you will slip from mo My little life may Jim be done J'in glad we do not know

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Which one. —{Julia H. May.

The Haunting Voice.

BY FRANCES A. CONANT.

CHAPTER I.

ALONE WITH THE DEAD.

"The only hope, Mrs. Richards, lies in this medicine. Don't forget to give a dose every hour. There is nothing else you can do for your husband. He seems almost unconscious, but I think, you can arouse him long enough to give the medicine. I will call early in the morning. Good-night.'

The woman addressed answered not a word, but sighed heavily, as shecontinued her preparations for the night. She was unaccustomed to watching the sick, and there was no love for the invalid, to lighten the task. ••Takes coolly for her class," the doctor muttered, as he rode towards homo. "Thev genorally go into hysterics, and kill the patient if ho would not die otherwise. Lucky that I was

rtasning—half

an hour more would have

kmui too late. I called the attack apoplexy, because you must call a disease something, to have folks think you know anything but I I am blossedif I know what it is. Fortunately, there is no law that compels a doctor to tell all hat ho don't know."

Mrs. Richards did take it coolly, to all appoaranco but her mind was filled with conflicting emotions. She had married a man old enough to be her father, simply for a home. She was a handsome, ambitious woman—profoundly discontented with her fato.

Ro-kland, the lakesido village a mile awav, was the resort of Summer pleasure seekers. The women wore uainty dresses and Muttering ribbons. Tiicy rodo in carriages every day. Mrs. Richards often wondered why thoy had nothing but pleasure in life, and she nothing but work? She believed that she could see her way clear to a lile of wealth, but for the obstacle of her husbands existence. Still it had nevor occurred to her to poison him, or to shoot him accidentally, but the doctor's words: "Theonly linpo is ill this medicine," exposed her to a fearful temptation. If she did not ivo the medicine, there would bo no _»ope. She sat down by the bed, and thought intently, while the sick man's slight, chances for lifo trembled in the balance the hardships of her lifo assumed exaggerated proportions, and t!«.o untried life of wealth wasendowed with every imaginable bliss.

An hour passed it was time to administer the medicine. With oager haste tho watcher arose, and performed tho service: then she walkod nervously atvtu::' the room, and lookup out of the window. 4J.'Uo moon WAS rising—it looked red as "blood ghostly clouds flecked tho sk3*. The woman craved a moment's perfect silence, that she might think more clearly but the night concert of insects went on without a p.vuso. She looked at the hotel across too lake its windows gleamed with light. It was Septemler, and the last hop of tho season was in progress strains of a wait/, were borne over lie water, on tho chill night breeze. The drawing-room seeno came vividly b:f'ore her, as sh had gazed at it trom the outside. She saw the groups of elo-gantlv-dre^ed ladies, and the children dancing lUe fairies. In the next room her little girl is sleepio^ peacefully. In another year th may Im numbered with nut ti a bright assembly, if she neglects to give th» medicine. It is not like performing any dtnnl of violence. She has Him ply to do nothing.

Another hour parses the sick man sleeps, unconscious of danger. The time has C'uno for the wale her to make her decision. She rises slowly, takes the glass of medicine, and moves towards the bed. She hesitates—then takes another step but it is in theopjosiie direction. Firmly and quickly she walks to the window, and pours* tlie medicine out. The line K'tween guilt and innocence is crov^Hl. There is no return.

Almost as soon as Mrs. Richards had thrown away the medicine, she began to fear that her husband might die while she w.xs alone with him. Minute by minute this terror grew upon her, and she watched with intense interest every movement of the in valid. She was not a cowardly woman but the possibility of Iteing alone with the dead was frightful. With the nearest house half a mile away, no call for help would lie heard, ami she could not go away and leave her child exposed to some possible danger. Love for the child was the one passion of her lile. There was nothing to do but to wait for the morning.

Tho clock struck twelve. She could not remove her fasoinaU»d from her husKiml's form. The bed was covered •with a blue and white patchwork quilt. A gorgeoviH blue star was directly over the sic* man's chest. It moved with every respiration. She fancied—it must l»e only a fancy—that the star rose and fell less frequently. In the dim light the sick man face looked ghastly, but she dared not rise and go to him— she could only sit and g**e, fascinated. She was sure the intervals between the breathing grew longer and longer. The clock struck one. 'i*he star had cewsod to rise ami fall —the slok man was dead.

The waman would have fieri ar»y-| vrhere then, to have ee-otped from her 1 sen*e of guilt but she realised, in that tirst hour, that it would go with her overy whore, and lie henceforth a pari uf her very existence.

Alone with tlw d«ad In the drearv night, word* fail to picture the gviiltv woman's terror, she could not turn away from the still and awful form of death. Ii wa- impossible to move or c»v. IM^Iorlcd fat-*"* p***red through lie open window. Th» ehirp of instvis in the garden crew *upernrally loud. TIh* nigh*, wore on. The single candic

burned low, flickered, and went out. The moon passed behind a dense cloud. Darkness was added to the horrors of guilt and death—still she could see that awful form, but she could not move. She could only sit and wait for the dawn of morning. As time passed, she despaired of its coming. Eternal night had fallen upon the world.

At six o'clock in the morning the docter cam? then for the tirst time in her life Mrs. Richards fainted quite away.

In a few hours the house was crowded with neighbors, and she had no more solitude oefore the funeral.

Some of the people came to be of service some to see if Mrs. Richards kept her whole house as tidy as the sittingroom: and all were anxious to see "how the widder took it." She took it in quite a different fashion from any they had ever seen. Slje walked around apparently unconscious of everything that was said or done. She shed no tears, and did not even realize that demonstrations of grief were expected from her.

CHAPTER II. OOSSIPS DISAGREE.

Public opinion, as expressed at Mrs. Smith's tea-party the day following Paul Richards' funeral, was divided as to the propriety of the widow'sconduct. "For my part," said Mrs. Brown, "if anybody's got feelin's I think they'll show 'em. I was there early in the mornin' before they'd brought her to. Soon as I heerd Richards had a stroke, says I she'll want consolin', and I'll go over, and she hain't shed a tear that anybody's seen. I put Watt's hyinns in my pocaet, and read 'em half through to her, and she never let on she heerd a word." "I've noticed," said Mrs. Jinks, "that tain't them as makes most fuss, that allers wears black longest. There was Mandy Nichols. She sot such store by her husband, that they couldn't hardly tear her away from his coflin, but sho hed a beau in three months and was married iu six."

Here Mrs. Brown remarked, "Black's verv becomin'to Mrs. Richards—likely sherll wear it longer on that account though if that rich widower Roberts comes shinin'around her, there's no tellin' how soon she'll be dressin' gay as a peacock. Any woman that can hear Watt's hymns, and not notice'em, must lie pretty hardened but then sho ain't a professor, and there couldn't be so much exported of her. It's to be hoped that thit dispensation will bo sanctified to her eternal good." "Suppose we wait and see what she does beforo wo pull her to pieces," said charitable Mrs. Jinks. "Who's ptillin' her to pieces?" snapped Mrs. Brown. "Can't anybody give a little neighborly advice?"

Here tho hostess interposed "Wo can't deny, ladies, that remarks has been made. A widder woman has to be keerful. Folks has said that she liked Mr. Roberts full better'n her own husband but you know folks will talk. Some thought 'twould looked better if Roberts hadn't sent his kerridgeto take her to the buryin' ground."

Heal ways doos that for poor people," said Mrs. Jinks." fie ain't noway stuck up about his money." "He indifferent from other rich folks about that," assontod Mrs. Brown "but then he lived here when he was young, and we all know that he got his start iu lifo sellin' lead-pencils, and't wouldn't be becomin' in him to look down on us just because he happened to go to New York and git rich but he must feel proud of his new house. It's the handsomest one on the lake, by all odds. Most rich folks feel too big to speak to us. I'd like to have 'er/. know that I'm as good as they air any day, if I do take in a little wa«hin' to oblige 'cm. If the widder Rich mis ketches Roberts, I expect she'll feel as grand as any of the big-bugs, and forgit them that's stood by her through thick and thin. If it hadn't boon for mo she would hev forgot to wear black, Do you know, Sister Smith, whose bunnit sho hod? I thought 't would have looked bettor if it sot closer to her facV

Wft3 Sophwny Allen's bunnit—a hew ono sho got to Petersburg—and she had Miss Ray sbawl and dress. The dress was a leetlo too long, but 1 ketched it up under tho basque. Miss Shaw's bunnit would bo more suitable, but Miss Richards said she'd go bare-headed rather than borrow it. You see they'd quarrelled about some yenst-cakes, and thev haiu'lBspoke in six months." "That's drellui," groaned Mrs. Brown, "I'm glad I hain't got such an onforgivin' disposition. The unsanctyfied heart is desperate above all things and deceitfully wicked. 'Twas an argufvin'sarmont of Kldor ltanges*. It settled total depravity, fore-ordination, 'lection, and allsceh. Must a been awful eomfortin' to the mm mors. Did you think the corpse looked nat'ral. Sister Smith?" "Yes, I did but I thought that wreath of posies his sister brought from Trov, to put onto tho eollin, was heathenish. I never see sech a thing did before. I thought his sister was more cut up about, tho affliction than the widder, didn't you. Sister Brown?" "It seemed to me like she felt real bad. Come upon her awful suddent. In the midst of lifp—no I'm 'bleeged to you, Sister Smith, I wont take noswoetin' in my ten. I tried it in the iast cup, and thought 1 nidn't relish it quite so well. If ever I see a woman act like she's froze —that woman's Mrs. Richards." "It's enough to freeze any woman to stay alone with her dead husband from one o'clock in the night till daylight. I can't remember a funeral siuce I came hero, who re everybody was satisfied with the way the mourners acted. They took on too 'much, or else thoy didn take on enough. Some folks can't be pleased. How much sallvratus do you say you put in your biscuits, Miss Smith

This diversion set the housekeepers to comparing noUs, and Mrs. Richards and her bereavement were momentarily forgotten.

Meantime the newly-made widow sat in her house, trying to comprehend the new conditions of her lifo. Many times that night she asked the question that haunted her years after,"Would he have died if I had given him the medicine?"

CHAPTER III.

A (IHOSTLY WARNIXO.

The first annivesarv of Paul Richards' death, found his widow in a very exultant fnune of mind. In a week she was to become the wife of the Rockland millionaire, the rich man who was so popular with his neighbors. Though Mr. Roberts had lived in New York ten ycsirs, his associations had been such that his mind and manners were not at all improved, and a* be did not put on nirs of superiority on account of his good fortune, he was'much admired by the natives of Rockland.

Mrs. Richards, in her present joy, had almost forjpotten tbe horrors of the*night a year before, and had altogether cwisod to hold herself in anydpgree responsible for the events of thai night.

The bridal dress and veil bad already arrived from New York. Thev were the gift from the bridegr»vm, and exceeded I

tunity for display which a wedding offers. Tbe marriage was to take place in the Rockland Episcopal chapel, but the guests were not to be invited till the very last day. The bride-elect was strangely capricious, even for one in her favored position, but her lover considered himself fortunate in being allowed to gratifv her most unreasonable whim.

It was'iate when Mrs. Ricnards' lover left her house on this memorable evening. He had been unusually eloquent in picturing the life of pleasure that lay before them. Fair and bright was this vision oflutuns years to the imagination of the fortunate woman.

Though it was near midnight, she could not compose herself to rest. She satbyber window, and looked around at her contemptible possesions. Everything looked meaner than usual, in contrast with the luxury awaiting her.

Her jov had one unselfish element. She was more delighted for the child's sake than for her own to be freed from the degradation of poverty. In imagination she constructed many splendid costumes for the little girl—pink silk, and blue silks, with lace overdresses and white dresses with rainbow-tinted sashes but she could not long keep her admiring gaze from her own bridal costume' as it was lying on the ted, where hor dead husband had lain only a year before. The night breeze freshened and sometimes stirred a fold of the veil It made the woman nervous—it was so like something moving under cover of the delicate rabric—so she reluctantly folded the dress and veil, and put them out of sight.

Then for some leason her brilliant prosjiecls seemed less substantial, and the fear came that something might yet happen to prevent her marriage, and she said aloud, defiantly: "Nothing must happen—nothing shall happen, to spoil my future." it was a warm night, but she felt suddenly chilled and depressed. She started to go into another room, when her attention was arrested by a thrilling whisper,and she was impressed with the idea that she was not alone. She looked around hastily. No form was visible, but a voice was heard uttering these words, iu a low. distinct tone, You will never have your heart's desire." The sound seemed not to come from any particular place, but to surround her in some in explicable way. Could all her splendid prospects be blighted by this ghostly voire? She pondered for along time, and decided that tho sound was not a reality, only a trick of the imagination. Then the warning was repeated, the voice speaking more forcibly. The woman was overwhelmed by misery. In a moment all bright visions faded. She saw nothing but years of toil and privation stretching out beforo her, with death at the end. No hope in this life, neither in life to come. Iu her desolation she related a touching sentence that she had once heard—-God has forgotten the world."

Darkness is the ally of despair. When tho morning dawned, Mrs. Richards felt more hopeful,and sho still cherished tho resolution to let nothing interfere with hor prospocts, though sho could not have been induced to give, audible expression to such sentiments.

Though daylight brought renew courage, sho had docided not to remain another night under her own roof, to risk the repetition of such a fright. When her lover made his morning call, she informed him of her resolution, without giving any reason for it and he proposed that they should go to New York immediately, and bo married there in some fashionable church, as soon cs necessary arrangements could bo made. There was'no need to wait for the appointed wedding-day, as the year of mourning demanded by Rockland etiquette hud expired.

The widow eagerly accepted this proposition, although it interfered with one of her chorished plans, which was to show her old neighbors the dawn of her splender, that they might begin envying her at the earliest possible moment but she considered that it would make her feel safer to get away from familiar surroundings. In the great city with its multitudes of people, surely the ghostly voice could not be hoard.

Tho second day after tlvit, Mrs Richards was sitting in her private parlor at tho Fifth aveuue Hotel, feeling rather oppressed by her gorgeous surroundings. and lonclv for the company or hor child, who had" been sent to her aunt in Troy.

She was profoundly thankful that sho was f.eed from tho degradation of poverty forever. Tho time for her marriage was only threo hours distant surely nothing could interfere or hinder It.

Her lover had just bidden her adieu for a short time, with the rather impractical assurance that they wero never again to be separated for a single hour. "Sho was tired, for she had been out walking, and tho city's uproar confused her. She had not removed her bonnet, but she had taken off her gloves to admire tho diamond in her engagement ring.

It was ten o'clock in the morning the boat was oppressive, but all theblindsin the parlor were thrown open, to admit tho sunlight. Even in the daytime, this woman hated any suggestion of darkuess, any corners "where shadows might lurk.

For half an hour she watched tho changing throng «n the street: then she began to grow restless and cold. It was still half an hour lefore she would need to dress. Certainly in that time she must feel better—she could not be ill now but "as the minutes passed she grew more deathly cold. Soon she felt a promotion that the mysterious voice was about to speak again. She tried to rise and Uy from the room, but terror par alyzed her. She had not long to wait before the warning came, spoken more impressively than ever—"You will never have your heart's desire."

For the third time the haunting voice hat! spoken, not as beforo, in the solitude of the country and thednrkness of night, but in tlv» great city, on its busiest thoroughfare, and in the broad tight of day. She could no longer doubt that it was a supernatural warning. She could not remain alone another minute. She mu3t fly into the crowded street to escape from tbe dread, invisible presence.

Acting upon this impulse, she rushed out into the street, and was soon lost in the multitude.

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Two hours later tbe bridegroom returned. When he rapped at tbe parlor door there was no response. He entered the room no one was visible. He hastily searched the other apartments, and found them untenanted. Hie bridal dress and veil, tbe fan, bouquet, and stoves, all were there—bat the bride was gone.

He summoned a servant, bat could get no information. Other employes came, and everybody talked at once, without throwing any light on tbe mystery. There was no robbery, for a watch, chain and other valuables were

Tbe rector of Gracecburck waited long that day, for a bridal party that never came.

ln vaitic the widow's ho«?«e and farm, envery of the ii» earanpc, Mr. Roberts, Th '.n:h a widow. Mr*. Richards had re-1 was more despoiling than even the] solved to make the most of the oppar- strange circumstances seem to demand,

From the first moment of the dis-

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

The literature of mysterious disappearances, had always had a peculiar fascination for him. He knew that mauy persons had been lost ont of the busy city aud never found. He recalled the case of the New York politician, who left the Merchant's Hotel on Cortland street to go to the People's Line of steamboats, and even in that short journey, undertaken in the daj-time, the man was lost, and no trace of his fate had ever been discovered, though twentyfive vears had passed.

The conviction forced itself upon the despairing millionaire that his bride was to be numbered with the steadily increasing company of those who go to meet some undiscoverable fate, so from the first bis part of the search was conducted with the listlessness of despair. He was also unknown to himself, partially colorblind so tbe detectives had an inacurate description of the missing bride and her dress but they were confident of success, as thev always are. Their theory was, that Mrs. Richards bad been enticed away from the hotel for the purpose of robbing her of her valuable engagement ring, aud they believed that she would soon be released in some distant part of the city.

Every policeman in Now York was on the watch for her that night but she was not found then, or any other time.

The day after the mysterious disappearance the New York dailies each published a loug article about it. Those that indulge in starting head lines used their largest type. The next day shorter articles appeared, some of them containing reminiscences of other mysterious disappearances.

Within a week an enterprising illustrated journal gave a picture of the room at the Fifth avenue, where the wedding dress was still arranged as its absent owner left it.

Afterwards, Trom time to time, short paragraphs were printed, chronicling tho failuro of the detectives to fathom the mystery, and abusing them for not accomplishing tho impossible.

Then the subject was dropped. Other startling events occupied public attention. Other people mysteriously disappeared, but to this day none of them have excited ftho romantic interest that attaches to tho bride who was suddenly lost in the bustling city an hour or two before her wedding.

Contrary to the prophecy of the detectives, the missing engagement ring was found in a pawn-broker's shop. It was expected that the diamond would be unset before its sale, but no trace of the person who left it could be discovered.

After tho recovery of the ring, Mr. Roberts had tho wedding-dress carefully put awav, to be kept with other relics of tbe dead", and the search for the missing bride was ended.

The disappearance of an inhabifantof Rockland was one of the most important events in tho annals of that place. A great many tea-parties were given for the purpose of discussing the fascinating subject. Mrs. Brown expressed the opinion that it was "a judgement upon Mrs. Richards, for not taking on more when her husband died."

When Mr. Rolierts and Mrs. Richards left home so suddenly, their neighbors decided that they had been privately married,and had gone on their "weddin' tower," without saying a word to anybody. They agreed that the widder Richards always was an unprincipled woman, keeping hor affairs to horself which her friends had a right to know, but they forgave her immediately when they heard of her disappearance. Each woman felt that Mrs. Richards had done her a personal favor bv getting lost, and affording such a delightful subject of speculation.

The little girl who had boon sent to her aunt in Troy, grieved awhile for her mother loss but a few new toys and pretty dresses consoled her.

In less than a year from the time of Mrs. Richard's disappearance, the world was doing very well without her. Mr. Roberts had consoled himself with another bride. The child had nearly forgotten its mother, and Rockland was still enjoying thedelightful mystery enshrouding the fate of the woman who was lost on her wedding day.

CHAPTER IV.

the cash ok barntm. On that bright September morning, when Mrs. Richards left her parlor at the Fifth aveuuo Hotel, in obedience to some blind impulse, sho rushed along tho street in an aimless way for a few blocks, and fell in a fainting lit. She was lifted by two men, and carried into a drug store. The usual remedies failed to revive her. The druggist, appreciating the importance of prompt and skillful attention, had her placed in his own carriage anil driven to Bellevue Hospital.

An liourafter her admission there she opened her eyes, and seemed to regain consciousness. When asked her name, she replied "Helen Barnnm," consequently that name appeared on the hospital register.

In a lew weeks she recovered from the fever that had prostrated lier, but she was unable tos}»eak.

The physicians had had quite a varied experience with people who could talk and would not, but they soon were convinced that this patient was really speechless. From some jeou!iar symptoms she became the subject of a lively discussion, and "the ease of Helen Barnutn" atracted cons derableattention for a time in medical circles. Physieiansdisagreed concerning the cause of her afllict!on. It might be hysteria, or paralysis of the organs of speech.

Iyearn«Ki articles were written for tho medical journals, advocating certain theories of this peculiar erase and other learned articles demolished those theories. Then the disputants could do nothing, except to wait for tho anticipated povt-mortem. Each cue who had a theory to sustain anticipated a triumph, when that should demonstrate the truth of his view.

These physicians were not at all curious about the personal identity of the patient but they were deeply interested in the condition of her heart and brain. She bad the fascination of an unsolved medical problem. It must not be inferred that they wore unfeeling but devotion to science overshadowed other considerations. A striking example of this devotion waa shown in tne case of the Chicago physician, who recently died of a rare form of heart disease, aud bis last days were embittered by tbe strange regret tbat be could not examine his own heart, after it should cease in beat.

Tbe patient known as Helen Bam urn failed to do all that was expected of her to aid tbe cause of science. Instead of dying, she recovered—but not until several months bad passed—so tbe postmortem was indefinitely postponed, and tbe cause of her long enforced silence is not absolutely known to-day. A great shock to tbe nervous system took away the power of speech, and another great shock restored it.

After her partial recovery, when she found herself unable to speak, she believed the affliction a part of tbe mysterious punishment commenced by tbe haunting voice. She was ignorant of) rare, obscure diseases, and she did not seek to ex plain tbe phenomenon by nat ur*l causes, as tbe physicians did.

Communicating ideas by writing, which had always been difficult for her, had become impossible. Being naturally superstitious, she accepted her affliction as a fart of her punishment, and submitted to it with the resignation of hopelessness.

She heard enough of tho physicians' discussions, to know that sonleof them prophesied the recovery of her speech but she differed from them. Perpetual silence, and separation from those she loved, was apart of ber punishment. It was a bitter fate to be so puuished for simply neglecting to give a sick man two doses sf medicine, when there was no probability that they would have saved his life.

During all this time the heavily afflicted woman craved some knowledge of the world she bad left, and the fate of those she loved. At length it occurred to her that she might gain some Information from the newspapeis that came in her way.

The Winter passed, and the last month of Spring came before she saw any mention of Rockland. Then occasional items appeared about that "popular Summer resort." The principal hotels were repaired, and newly furnished. In July the number of guests was occasionally mentioned, aud the season was pronounced a brilliant one.

These commouplace items were of no interest to the woman who w*s thirsting for some definite knowledge of hor loved ones, from whom she was as completely separated as though she had passed beyond the grave.

In the latter part of August she began to have faint hopes that tho death-like silence iu which she lived was sometime to end. One by one words were coming back to her still she was not sufficiently fluent of speech to tell her own story.

When the last day of Summer came, she found in a Nevv York daily an item of startling interest,

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Marriage in

High Life." Mr. Roberts, the millionaire of Rockland, was married to Miss Alice Gregory, of Sail Francisco, at the Rockland Episcopal chapel, August twenty-eighth. The beauty and magnificence of tho toilettes were descriled, with superabundant adjectives. Then followed part of her own sad history. The mysterious disappearance in New York, the fruitless search, and the final conclusion that sho was dead, the lover's grief, and lastly tho description of the olegant monument which he had erected to her memory in tho Rockland churchyard. Even tlie inscription was copied:

Sacred to the memory of CAROLINE RICHARDS,

NVho met her death in some unknown way, In the City of New York, On or about the 20th of September, 1X70.

"Though lost to sight to memory dear TIkhi ever will remain, The only hope my heart can cheer—

The hope to ineet again." So this woman had the rather unusual privilege of reading the epitaph on her own tombstone. Sho learned that she was dead to the world, and, all things considered, sho preferred to remain doad. She had a full appreciation of the sarcasm of the epitaph in connection with tho marriage notice. Iu all her bitter experience she had known nothing like tho agony of the hours which followed the reading of that marriage announcement. She had, indeed, sinned in vain.

Tho suffering brought one blessing— fully restored speech—but all hope of enjoying a lifo of pleasure and ease was gone. She determined not to return to her old home to endure Ihe contemptuous pity of her neighbors. She must ooutidein some one, ami she decided that it should be tho physician who had been kindest to her. To him Mm. Richards related the whole history of her crime and its punishment. He explained as well as lie could to an unlearned portion, the subject of hallucinations, but it did not affect hor belief that the voico had been a supernatural warning.

Tho sad story interested tho physician. Ho sympathized with Mrs. Richards intention to remain "lost." llo procured for her a position as nurse in the hospital, and also made a journey to Troy and adopted her child, and so restored it to the mother.

For some years Mrs. Richards has had an uneventful and not unhappy life as a hospital tiur.'O. She never neglects the most trilling duty—she would expect some supernatural punishment if she did. She strives to atone for her neglect of one sick person by the tenderett (•are to hundreds of others.

The awful ordeal through which she passed left an indeliblo impression on her face and a peculiarity in her -Manner, noticeable to any observant jwrson.

Imaginative people, who are given to constructing romances abou: strangers, often say when they meet her: "I wish I knew ihat woman's history."

This is a veritable history, uncolored by any touch ef imagination.

At No. 227 south Fifth street, in the city of Philadelphia, resides Dr. John II. SeHzer, a professional gentleman of crtmprebensiveatiaintiiontsHtid uf almost national reputation in matters connected with medicine, law, and State and National politics. The Doctor has held numerous positions of honor and responsibility under the city and State governments, and brought to every one a high degree of special adaptation for the position. In a recent conversation with a well known Philadelphia journalist, who called upon him in search of information relative to that splendid tonic. Liebig Malt Extract, tho doctor outlined in about the following language, his opinion of thcarticle in question "The fact that Liebig Malt Extract is the result of the thorough inv st'gation and researches of Liebig, the great German cbernist, whose fame has spread all over the world, is quite enough to insure its value as a remedial agent. My wife has been failing in strength, and is subject to nervous prostration but I propose to built her up physically by the use of Liebig Malt Extract." The Doctor proceeded, at considerable length, to show tbe benefits to be derived front the regular uso of the Liebig Malt Extract, and explained the influence of tlie article on tbe human system. Among other points touched upon was its application to tbe requirements of old and young. "It is certainly a splendid restorativw to persons who have become debilitated, whether old or young," said the Doctor. "Those who sre nervously prostrated from overwork in business and other causes, weakened by exposure of suffering with organic affections, and even those who are predisposed to pulmonary consumption will derive especial benefit by the use of the Liebig Malt Extract. It possesses great recuperative powers and when people become worn down in body, and low-spirited, without any apparent cause, all such will find themselves invigorated by using the Malt Evtract. It creates flesh, establishes proper functional activity of tbe digestive system, equalizes tbe circulation, and by its nutrient and remedial nature combined, acts as an espw ally valuable article for tbe use of weak and delicate females. as well as being an indispensable substance for nursing mothers. For ptinv, unhealthy, and complaining children, Uebig Malt Extract is unquewlionably a most excellent remedy. It' invigorates and strengthens tbem, and

by its pleasant taste they aroindu. take it with desire and regularity, they persistently refuse all other of food or nourishment—for such it has proved its right to be called." This and very much more of a scientific and medical" nature. the Doctor expressed but from the foregoing wo feel persuaded that our readers eau easily gather an impression of this most valuable tonie aud restorative.

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The term hydra may be used to represent any manifold evil. If you would battle successfully with this many-headed monster of diseases you will find it expedient to keep Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound always at band.—Dr. Banning.

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