St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 April 1894 — Page 2

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Mrs. Walsingham wrote to Gilbert Sinclair, immediately after Mr. Wyatt’s departure, a few hasty lines begging him to come to her without delay. “Something has occurred,” she wrote, “an event of supreme importanco. I will tell you nothing more Jill we meet. ” Sho dispatched her groom to the Albany with this note, and then waited with intense impatience for Gilbert Sinclair's coming. If he were at home, it was scarcely possible ho would refuse •so come to her. “I shall know the worst very soon,” she said to herself, as she sat behind the Howers that shaded her window. ’‘After to-day there shall bo no uncertainty between us—no further reservation on my part—no more acting on >is. He shall find that lam not his dupe, to be fooled to the last point, and to be taken bv surprise soma fine morning by the anno; ncenient of his marriage in the Times. ” Mr. Sinclair was not at home when note was delivered, but between 2 and 3 o’clock in the afternoon his thundering knock assailed the door, and he «ame into the room announced. In spite of the previous night’s ball %e had ridden fifteen miles into the eountry that morning to attend a sale •of hunters, and was looking flushed with his long ride. “What on earth is the matter. Clara?” Ie asked. “I have been out since 8 o’clock. Poor Townley’s stud was sold ©ff this morning at a pretty little place he had beyond Barnet, and I rode down there to k?e if there was anything worth bidding for. I might have saved sayself the trouble, for I never saw such a pack of screws. The ride was pleasant enough, however.” “I wonder you were out so early after Hast night’s dance. ” “Oh, you've seen my name down among the swells,” he answered, with rather a forced laugh. “Yes, I was iard at it last night, no end of waltzes and galops. But. you know, late hours ao ver make much "difference to me.” “Was it a very pleasant party?” “The usual thing—too many people dor the rooms.” “Your favorite. Miss Clanyarde, was there, I see.” “Yes; the Clanyardes were there. But I suppose you haven’t sent for me to ask questions about Body Deptford s ball? I thought by your letter something serious had happened.” “Something serious has happened. My husband is dead." She said the words very slowly, with ler eyes fixed on Gilbert Sinclair's face. The florid color faded suddenly ®ut of his cheeks, and left him gha-tly pale. Os all the events within the I ■range of probal ility, this was the la-t । he had expected to hear of, and th ? ! most unwelcome. “Indeed!” he s'ammerel, after an Awkward pause. “I suppose I ought t) congratulate .you on the recovery of your freedom?” “I am very glad to be free.” “What did' he die of—Colonel Walsingham? And how did you get the news?” “Through a foreign paper. He was killed in a duel. * And tbgn she repeated the contents »f the paragraph James Wyatt had I read to her. “Is the news con et, do you think? No mistake about the identity of the person in question?”

“None whatever, I am convinced. .However, I shall drive into the city presently and see the solicitor who arranged our separation. I know the Colonel was in the habit of corresponding with him, and no doubt he will be able to give official intelligence of the event. ” After this there came another pause, more awkward than the first. Gilbert sat with his eyes fixed upon the carpet, tracing out the figures of it meditatively with his stick, with an air of study a5 profound as if he had been an art designer bent upon achieving some novel combination of form and color. Clara Walsingham sat opposite to him,

waiting for him to speak, with a pale, rigid fa e that grew more stony-look-ing as the silen. e continued. That silence became at last quite unendurable, and Gilbert felt himself obliged to say something, no matter what. “Does this business make any alteration in your circumstances?” Gilbert asked, with a faint show of interest. “Only for the better. I surrendered the Colonel the income of one of the estates my father left me. in order to bribe him into consenting to a separation. Henceforward the income will be mine. My poor father took pains ' to secure me from the possibility of be- ! ing ruined by a husband. My fortune was wholly at my own disposal, but I was willing to make the surrender in question in exchange for my liberty.” “I am glad to find that you will be" so well off,” said Mr. Sinclair, still engrossed by the pattern of the carpet. “Is that all you have to say?” “What more can I say upon the subject?” “There was a time when you would have said a great deal more. ” “Very likely,” answered Gilbert, "bluntly; “but then, you see, that time is past and gone. What is it Friar Bacon’s brazen head said, ‘Time is, time was, time's past?’ Come, Ciara, it is very little use for you and me to play at cross-purposes. Why did you send for me in such hot haste to tell aae of your husband’s death?”

“Becau e I had reason to consider the news would be as welcome to you as it was to me. ” “That might have been so if the event had happened a year or two ago; unhappily your release comes too late for my welfare. You accused me the other day of intending to jilt you. I think that was scarcely fair when it is remembered how long I. was contented to remain your devoted slave, patiently waiting for something better than slavery. There is a limit to all things, however, and I confess the bondage ’ became a little irksome at last, and I began to lot k in other directions for the happiness of ray future life.” “Does that mean that you ate going to be married?” “It does.” “The lady is Miss Clanyarde, I conclude,” said Mrs. Walsingham. Her breathing was a little hurried, but there, was no other outward sign of the storm that raged within. “Yes, the lady is Constance Clan-

, yarde. And now, my dear Clara, let ; me entreat you to be reasonable, and r to consider how long I waited for the chance that has coma at last too late to , be of any avail, so far as lam con- _ cernod. lam not coxcomb enough to , fear that you will regret me very much, and I am sure you know that I . shall always regard you with the warmest friendship and admiration. With your splendid attractions vou will have plenty of opportunities in the matrimonial lino, and will have, I dare say, little reason to lament my secession.” < Clara Walsingham looked at him with unutterable scorn. “And I once gave you credit for a heart, Gilbert Sinclair,” she :aid. “Well, the dream is ended.” “Don't lot us part ill-friends, Clara. Say you wish me well in mv new life.” “I cannot say anything so"false. No, Gilbert, I will not take your hand. There can be no such thing as friendship between you and me. ’’ “That seems rather hard,” answered Sinclair in a sulky tone. “But let it be as you please. Good-by.” “Goca-morning, Mr. Sinclair.” Mrs. Walsingham rang the bell, but be foie her summons could be answered Gilboit Sinclair had gone out of the house. He walked back to the Albany in a very gloomy frame of mind, thinking it a hard thing that Col. Walsingham should have chosen this crisis for his death. He was glad that the interview was over, and that Clara knew what she had to expect, but he felt an uneasy sense that the business was not yet finished. “She took it pretty quietly, upon the whole,” he said to himself: "but there was a look in her eyes that I didn't like.” Mrs. Walsingham called on her late husband's lawyer in the course of the afternoon, and received a confirmation of James Wyatts news. Her husband’s death increased her income from two to three thousand a year, arising chiefly from landed property which had been purchased by her father, a city tradesman, who had late in life conceived the idea of becoming a country squire, and had died of the dullness incident up< n an unrecognized position in the depths of the country. His only daughter's marriage with Colonel Walsingam had been a severe affliction to him, but he had taken care to settle ' his money upon her in such a manner | as if to secure it from any depredations on the part of her husband. CHAPTER VI. “ARISE, BLACK VENGEANCE. FROM THY HOLLOW CELL ” The summer had melted into autumn, ; the London season was over, and the > j Clanyardes had left their furnished ; i home in Eaton Place, which the \ is- ‘ j count had taken for the season, to re- I turn to Marchbrook, where Gilbert I Sinclair was to follow them as a i isitor. i He had propped for Constance, and had been accepted—with mich inward rejoicing on the part of the father; with a strange conflict of feeling in the mind i of th- lady herself. Did she love the ’ man she had promised to marry? Well, i no; there was no such feeling as love for Gilbert Sinclair in her mind. She • thought him tolerably good-looking, I and not exactly disagreeable, and It * had been impressed upon her that he ' was one of the richest men in England 1 —a man who could bestow upon her । everything which a well-bred young ;

lady must, by education and nature, de- I sire. The bitter pinch of poverty had ; been severely felt at Marchbrook, and t the Clanyarde girls had been taught. I in an indirect kind of way, that they ; were bound to contribute to the restora- J tion of the family fortunes by judicious ■ marriages. The two elder girls Adelia, . and Margaret, had married weii—one j Sir Henry Erlington, a Sussex baronet, with a very nice place ami a comfortable income, tne other a rich East Indian : merchant, considerably past middle ' age. But the fortunes of Sir Henry, and Mr. Campion, the merchant, were i as nothing compared with the wealth i of Gilbert Sinclair; and Lor I Clanyarde

told his daughter Constance that she would put her sist rs to shame by the i brilliancy of her marriage. Heflewj into a terrible passion when she at first j expressed her elf disinclined to accept ' Mr. Sinclair’s offer, and asked her how 1 she dared to fly in the face of Provi- 1 dence by refusing such a splendid destiny. What in Heaven's name did she expect, a girl without a sixpence of her own, and with nothing but her pretty face and aristo ratio lineage to recommend her? He sent his wife to talk to her, and Lady Clanyarde. who was a ■ very meek person, and lived in a state ! of perpetual sub ervienee to her husband, held forth dolefully to her daughter for upward of an hour upon the foolishness and ingratitude of her course. Then came the two married ' sisters with more lecturing and per- I suasion, and at last the girl gave way, I fairly tired out, and scolded into a kind I of desponding submission. So Gilbert Sinclair came one morning to Eaton Place, and finding Miss Clanyarde alone in the drawinspro m, made her a solemn offer of his heart and hand. He had a-ked her to be his wife before this, and she had put him off with an answer that was almost a refusal. Then had come the lecturing and scolding, and she had been schooled into resignation to a fate that seemed to her irresistible. She told her suitor that she did not love him-that if she I accepted him it would be in deference 1

to her father’s wishes, and J could give him nothing in the affection he was so good :

tertam for her. This was en< , Gilbert, who was bent on winr for his wife in a headstrong, spirit, that made no count of t hPu But as Miis Clanyarde sat h-AX- r with her hand in his, and liSK 1 ® 3 ® his protestations of affection, r rose before her the vision of not Gilbert Sinclair’s— a darkly ah? to did face, that had looked upon h£ f ?“ ere such unutterable love one sumffii in the shadowy Kentish lane; wished that Cyprian DavenOSrdn carried her off to some strang* m late land, in which they mig»» lived and died together. 2* “What will he think of me j™ hears that I have sold myself H 0 • man for the sake of his fortu»l 0n v „ asked herself. And then she IpOo j I at Gilbert's face and wondered ws?" sh > sho could ever teach herself ®k e q J!; I him, or to be grateful to him Whether love. Bo love i All this had happened withirßor hig ' of Gilbert's final interview wil Walsingham, and in a very shrt a week 1 the fact of Mr. Sinclair’s engsih Mrs. I ] to Miss Clanyarde was pre^wt time , known to all that gentleman’jjfement j . and acquaintances. He w« well ’ ' proud of carrying off a ghwyien is beauty had made a considerable very tion in the past two seasonsGL^ho-e talked of his matrimonial a swaggering, boastful wayro“ eminently distasteful to son<^ ts la , acquaintances. Men ,f hl^ . with Mr. Sinclair's an tec* * ? IkUinr , ged their shoulders oiY 4 s-* — - the marriage was discnseSm-' ' ed ill for the future hapnine < rL Clanyarde. “Yes ” answered Gilbert, / lovely girl, isn't she? and of cousfe r . a , proud of her affection. It’s to be* reg^ i ular love-match, you know. I v^ldiT’t ' marry the handsomest womaq^n the j world if I were not secure p that point. I don't say the father Ifen’t an eye to my fortune. He’s a through man of the world, and, of coilrsajlully alive to that sort of thing, bunion-

stance is superior to any such oo®ide"ation. If I didn t believe that Would ; not be such a fool as to stake hap- : piness on the venture.” “I scarcely fancied you would bok at matters from such a sentiments point 1 of view,” said Mr. Wyatt, tWwPhtfully, “especially as this" is by nf means your first love.” “It is the first love worth *®aking of,” answered the other. “I new knew what it was t > be passionatelyf^ love till I mot Constance Clanyard J "Not with Mrs. WalsinghanK

“No, Jim. I did care for hc^ good deal once upon a time, but n^B^as I care for ( onstance. I think ifdlbt girl were to play me false I should®! myself. By the way, I'm sure yfttjjknow more aljout Cyprian Davenai? than you were inclined to confess t toother night. I fancy there was somKland of a love affair—some youthful flirtation —between him and Constance. LYou might as well tell me every tWngwvou know about it ” / “I know nothing about M>» ’Y yarde, and I can tell you noth)’ Davenant. He and 1 are old 4 ' and I am too fully in his confit talk of his sentiments or his a; "What a confounded prig ; Wyatt. But you can’tdegam® ‘>avenant was in love with GGnstann believe she has ever cared ai/Gaw for him, however: and if he shoufc live to come ba 'k to England I shall take good care he never darkens my doors. How about that place of his, by the by? Is i it in the market?” “Yes; I have received Sir Cyprian’s I instructions to sell whenever'!'see a : favorable opportunity. He won’t profit much by the sale, poor fellow, for it is i mo tu'ged up to the hib.” » ! "11l look at the place while at March- ! brook, and if I like it I may make you an offer. We shall want something nearer town than the place my father built in the north, bat I shall not give up that, either." "You can afford a couple of country seats, and you will have a house in i town, of course?” “Yes; I have been thinking of Park Lane, but it is so difficult to get anything there. I’ve told the agents what 1 want, however, and I dare say they’ll ! find something before long. “When are you to be married?” “Not later than <)ctol>er, I hope. There is not the shadow of a reason for ; delay.” |TO BE CONTINUED. 1 WORSE THAN COOLIES. Frightful Condition of the Peasants of the Island of Sicily. The condition of the peasants of Si ily, h>re e itlv rose against their oppressors and well nigh precipitated a general revolt against the Italian ! government, is perhaps more wretched I than that of any other- civilized ®ople i in the world. ‘ For ages the d oror ■ clashes have been the prey of thej^che? and have been burdened by thrtmost exorbitant taxatim^^U^>||^. have general taxation at all. Corruption is \^fc in every office in th" inland arA^U-’tice is a mere mockery, -imply ■pßßding on who can give the largest l^lhe. The land is owned by- a few noblemen who live in Rome o • Palermo and who lease the r estates to capitalists known as “gabellotti,” or tax extorters. The-e in their turn divide the e tates and sub’et them to “.-übgabellotti,” who again lease the subdivided land piecemeal to the peasants, or. if yon wish, farmers. These latter are most shamefully bled. They are permitted to retain but one-quarter of their crops, I no matter how poor the yield may ■ be. In addition to this they aie comI polled to nay on enormous tax and provide themselves with seed and the necessities of life. Reduced to the most Abje- poverty, the estate-owner “padrone ometimes lends them money at 59 per cent, a year. j. The day laborer's lot is even wor.-e, • s .” e b a thing is possible. The lowest ( hinose cooly lives in luxury compared ; with the Sicilian day laborer. The reI suit of this is that agriculture, which । is the chief support of Sicily, has boi come totally mined. The pettv farmi ers and peasantry are held in complete | slavery by the capitalists and land- | owners. Neptune takes 165 years in making its journey around the sun, so that more than a century would have passed away on our earth before it had com- ; pleted one year. Neptune is so far ■ away from our earth that, although it ■ is the third largest planet, we°can- ■ not see it unless we look through a - telescope.

MADELINE IS WINNER. JURY GIVES HER A VERDICT FOR 515.000, Notorious Pollard-Breckinridge Breach of Promise Case l s Knded at Last _ SmaU . 1 ox Epidemic Is Not Absttag in ChieagoPost House Overcrowded. Jury Strikes an Average. W^bimrt 01 trial in line 7 k end ° 1 at last and Madenel ollard has a verdict for sls 000 against the silver-tongued Congressman from tho blue-grass region. The jury rendered its verdict alter having been out a little over an hour. Th^ ury took fifteen ballots before roaching a concision. The difference was mainly over the amount of dama ms to be granted, and there was but one man on the jury who favored tho defendant. On tho first ballot one ■ Il a Xwu w. c p Breckinridge.

' thought he did it more for tho sake of : argument than because he was strongly i in favor of Col. B: eckinri lye. A numi bcr of ballots wore re pirel to reach a coinpremise on the amount of damages to be awarded. Two or thee jurors wanted to give tho full amount of $50,000, while the ethers thought j that merely nominal damages woiild । serve to express their opinion that the ’ Congressman hail treated Miss Bollard ’ shabbily. t . -i. i

Col. Breckinridge, according to a di-patch. was very cool after the ver-, diet had been rendered. He declined to speak at that time f or publication, as did his attorneys. Mis Pollaid was somewhat excited, but not hysterical, while awaiting the result, and broke into tears when she heard it. She declined to be interviewed, and her attorneys said that she was anxious to efface herself from the public sight as far as possible, now that the case had ended. Congressman Breckinridge will appeal the ea-e, and in the meantime will go to Kentucky anl de--1 mand a re-election as a “vindication.”, The Verdict It Announced. | At 4:35 there was a rush toward the court-room. Judge Brad’ey and the entered at one door. Col. Breckinridge, his son and Col. Phil Thorny son, his attorney, by the other. There was some delay in waiting for the other parties. Every one knew the jurors had not come in to ask for instructions, because they carried their / i MISS MADELINE POLLARD. i coats and hats. The jury had been out ! only one hour and twenty-eight min- | utes. There was an intense silence. Five minutes pas ed before Attorney Carlisle, i epresenting Miss Pollard, entered. Judge Bradley lejuested the people to refrain from uemonstratiom. Then the verdict of $15,000 for the plaintiff was anno meed. Theie WvS ! no expression of approval cr disapj ptoval fcm the crowd. Col. BreckinI ridge him elf ro-' to make a moti n and Die owrt adjourned. I mere was nothing but expressions ।of approval and regrets that the ! amount was not larger among the few i Senators in the Senate chamber when j the bulletin was announced to them ! and rapidly passed around the chain- I ber. Since the verdict was rendered the ; theatrical managers have redoubled ! their importunities, anl several tele- 1 grams came to Miss Pollard offering her astonishing sums to go upon the stage at once. Her friends decline to 1 give the names of the theatrical managers or to discuss their offers, saving that no attention will be paid to any of them. Ask Congress to Take Action. Hardly had the verdict in the Pol- ! lard-Breckinridge case been rendered when a meeting of prominent Washington women was called to take action regarding the case of Col. Breckin- ‘ ridge. Representatives of several feminine organizations met at Willard's : Hotel, and. after an interesting con- ! ference. adopted resolutions calling ! ui on Congress to consider the qualifieationsof Representative Breckinridge for membership in that body. PEST HOUSE CROWDED. A Most Serious Condition of Affairs Exists in Chicago. One hundred and twenty-six new ' cases was the small-pox record in Chi- i cago for the last week as shown by the i books in the Health Department. Twenty-five of these were reported on Friday, twenty-three on Saturday. Eleven had teen discovered up to “4 o'clock Sunday, anl the department j declares the disease is still spreading. :

, One hundred and eighty-six patients says a dispatch, are in the pest house several are in the “suspect” ward of the County Ho. pital, and a number are quarantined in private houses because there is no room in the city's hospital No more women or children will be re™^’ed from infected houses unless ( some extra provision is made for their care. • Tb o Department of Health, by its Hnnum 8 ? nd ln ®P octor s, declares itself unable to meet the emergenci' and prevent the further spread of the disease unless further facilit es are proMded at once and the people of the yards most affected co-oparate in rcPoitng new ca e5 a . scoQ aj ill I*lo. v m ° B ? Sor j ous condition of affairs tiono e fTh dinthe southwest porand W w y ’ ospeolal, y the Ninth and tenth“ardi. Dr. M. Brand t'ie fou,ld three persons dead in their houses Sunday, and two simi'ar cases on Saturday. The people 1 Ain , n the houses had conceale i the existence of smallpox until de t lh came and hey were compelled to cal! in ^etndei taker. He notified the Health DeI Dr - U ™” d O Went to School and to Church. “It would not be well to give the addressv.-, said tho doctor w.-.en he waasked about them, "but they were i^ iamihei where the people had been passing in and out, the ehi’dren going to school, the family attending church and going about as if small-pox were au eyery-day affair. That seems to be nothing extrairdinary, either. I have had a number of eases where the first word we had of them was from the undertakor. Generally we tjpj us because wo are called in alter the harm has been done. "Another thing, and the most serious obstacle, is the opposition to vaccina- 1 tion. The Poles especially seem to rega- d inoculation with fear as a thing to be dreaded. It is next to impossible ; to persuade the residents of the dis- ■

triet to protect themselves and their I neighbor from contagion. As a result the condition of things here is serious i and something ought to be done at | once if they are not to be worse. “Hore is an example of the way the disease is scattered: I was called in i to examine a patient in a house. I । । found a little girl already dead, anoth- ; j er sister in the first stages, and the I । father, who was a butcher, attending i । ■ to his shop every day. There had been > । । no attempt to isolate him. He sold i ; I fresh meat to hundreds of people in

that neighborhood, and it' will be • i strange if seme of them do not come I । down sick. To make matters worse, 1 । the sanitary conditions in the district 1 are very bad. Not an alley in the j , Ninth or Tenth Ward is paved, and al- | j most all of them are filled with trash.” ■ TO RESIST COXEYITES. lowa’s Governor Orders State Militia In- I der Arms. Nine companie of the Towa National ' Guard in the western part of the State j were under arms, ready to go to Coun- : । cii Bluffs in case their presence was ! : i needed, to prevent lawlessness and dis- i j order on the part of Kelly’s Western j , | industrial army. Governor Jackson, j ' according to a Des Moines dispatch, i received ate egram from the Sheriff I of Pottawattamie County, asking him ! i for troops to preserve the peace and i prote t pro]e:ty. The Governor at i once ordered Company I, of the Third I : Regiment, lowa National Guard, at | Council Bluffs, W. E. Atkinson com- j manding. to report to the sheriff for duty. The company numbers forty : men, and is one of the best in the ’ State. A short time afterward N. M. Hub- > bard, Jr., of Cedar Rapids, attorney 1 for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, arrived in Des Moines and hurried to the Capitol. He rep 'e- . tented to the Governor that the trunk lines of railroad which touch Council Fluffs would be unab’e to piotect their ! trains and other property from the in- ; vaders. He feared that the :’,OOO des- ; pera’e men in Kelly s army would capture trains on some cf the east-west roads running into Council B uffs and run them wild eastward, possibly c ius- j ing wrecks and disaster. Gov. Jackson announced his inten- * ■ tionof preserving order and pre venting : the capture of any trains in lowa, and : in company with Mr. Hubbard started for Council Bluffs in a special train over the Chicago and Northwestern, i Before leaving Gov. Jackson tele- | graphed to Adjutant General Frim, who is in Cherokee, to report for immediate duty and through Maj. J. R. j Prim issued orders to the following companies to assemble at t heir armories ! and await marching orders: Company G, Third Regiment, Creston, 40 men, Capt. W. J. Fuggan; Company I. Third Regiment, Bedford, 65 men, Capt. M. Miller; i Company K, Third Regiment, Corning. SO men, ■ Capt. A. B. Shaw; Company B, Third Regiment, Villisca 45 men, Capt. S. B. Moore; j Company M, Third Regiment. Red Oak, 42 men, j Capt. J. W. Clark; Company E, Third Regi--1 ment, Shenandoah, 40 men, Capt. O. L. Shaffer; Company L. Third Regiment, Council Bluffs, I 1? .Capt. vv. E. Atchison; Companv L, l ourth Regiment, Sioux Citv. '.o men. Capt W. A. Kirx; Company 11, Sioux City. 50 men, > Capt. J. A. Haley. - ( Vinette’s Arm - Is Arrested. , San Bernardino, Cal. —In response to a call from Colton for help * Sheriff j j Booth, with forth-eight deputies armed j । with shot-guns, went to Colton to ar- ! j rest the second Los Angeles regiment I of the army of the unemployed. After quietly leaving this city the army , under Captain Vinette marched to Col- ; ton and during the night took posses- : sion of a Southern Pacific freight ; train. The engine r side-tracked his ? t a : nanl refused to haul the men. j Upon the arrival of Sheriff Boith and I pi sse, the army was ordered to get off ; the cars, whica command they refused jto obey. The town hose cart was then i drawn out and water from the city j waterworks was turned on the men. j They did not leave, however, until the ■ army was placed under arrest to a man. Cox-y : t Mi; sillon. J. S. Coxey, the leader of the com- : mon weal of "Christ, who so suddenly i disappeared from the ranks of the i ■ army at Addison, Pa., on Thursday, I , made his appearance in the streets of ' I Massillon Saturday morning. Mr. J I Coxey arrived there Friday night, and | I was driven directly to his hom-?. When I I questioned about his commonweal, he ! answered that it was a glorious sucI cess, and that Washington would be i reached without trouble of any kind. Alex. S. Paris, 16 years old, who forged the name of Agent C. Bryan, of , the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, at i । Cincinnati, and secured $675, was , ; brought back from San Francisco. (

AN ILLINOIS MIRACLE. A CASE OF DEEP INTEREST TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE. Saved Through a Casual Glance at a News, paper—Weak, Pale and in a Deplorable Condition When Relief Came—A Remarkable Narrative Carefully Investigated by a Dubuque Times Reporter. [Dubuque, lowa, Times.'] the Pe^Mar conditions with which tne people of thepreient age are endowed is a remarkable capacity for oubting. Ihe l imes determined upon a thorough investigation into a medical case out in Savannah, 111., as a matter was^^n m th th ° that the ca6Q ° remarkable than the pubhc had teen given to understand WaS a good talker aQ <i told the story m a terse way as follows: - b ? rn “ arr en County, New ork, thirty-tnree years ago. 1 was married when I was in and came to Savannah seven years ago. With tha vfoi e e P nV° a O J times subject to mvseD n h 1 con.-idered myself a healthy w man up to five years ago. At that time 1 was veiv much run down and an easy piey to tha -^iP r ?-pt- aa riain and about the Mississippi bottom lands. I was taken I ST!' local PhysiciansTid mitt’ aftoeted by malaria and intermittent fever. I continually grew weaker and finally went to ;ee Dr. Mc^ey, of Clinton, lowa, who is renuted « Savannah. My stomach would not retain the medicine he gave me and he came to the conclusion that my stomach was badly diseased. Occasionally I would choke down and nearly suffocate. I then went to Dr. Maloney and he pronounced it a case of heart trouble. He helped me only temporarily. All this time I had grown weaker and paler until I was in a deplorable condition. I had a continual feeling of tiredness, my muscular power was nearly gone, and 1 could not go up half a dozen steps without resting, and often that much exercise would cause ire to have a terrible pain in my side. Seemingly the blood had left ‘my veins. I was pale as death; my lips were blue and cold and I had given up all hops of ever getting better. My husband insisted that I snould take some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. When the e had been used I was somewhat improved in health. I continued their use and felt I vas growing stronger, my sleep refreshed me and it seemed as if I could feel new blood coursing through my veins. I kept on taking Pink Pills until a short time ago, and now I consider myself a healthy, rugged woman. My hou=e is full of boarders, and I superintend all the work myself. In other words, I work all the time and am happy all the time. lam positive that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People saved my life, and I believe there are thousands of women who could find great relief if they used them. The sick headaches I was subject to from girlhood have disappeared, and I have not had a single aitaek since I ccmmenced taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” One of her neighbors said: "Mrs. Kenyon's recovery is something marvelous. She was reduced to a mere shadow, and was the palest and most ghost-like person I had ever seen. If mirae’es are not performed in these days I would be pleased to know how to describe a case of this kind.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, it seems, contain in a condensed form all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of the grippe, palpitation of tha heart, pale and sallow c:mplexions, that ti ed feeling resulting from nervous prostration; all disea es resulting from vitiated humors in the blcod, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregular itie-. and all forms of weakness. They build up the b'ood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excess of whatever nature. These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50. They are never sold by the dozen or hundred. Freak of a Fish. In the window of a cigar store on Columbus avenue, New York, is to be seen a freak of nature that attracts much attention. It is a goldfish without any fin on its back. Otherwise it is perfectly developed, and seems to suffer no inconvenience from the absence of this part of its anatomy. There is said to ba but one other such specimen in the country, and it is a stuffed one in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. A Standard Bearer. In the ernsade inauzurated neirly half a century ago against the professional ignorance of the old school of medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters was a standard bearer. Its victories over disease, when the old-time specifics proved abject failures, proved that the pseudo-philosophy which sanctioned the administration of violent remedies where the case required none, which laid down as unalterable rules blood-letting, violent purgation, the use of emetics and the employment of corrosive ajid cumulative poisons in simple cases of liver and malarial complaint, was in fact the worst of unphilosopby, contrary alike te the laws of true medicinal science, of hygiene and ot common sense. Biliousness, constipation and chills and fever, as now treated by the Bitters, promptly yield where before they obstinately resisted old-fashionedmedication. So do dyspepsia, rheumatism and kidney complaint—all surely conquerable by this sass and really philosophic remedy. Editor Not to Be Muzzled. On Friday last Councilman David Smith turned his little finger over his thumb a few times tco often, became uproariously drunk and was promptly arrested by Marshal Davis and lodged in the lockup to cool off. He was taken before Judge Neal Monday and was fined 82 and trimmings. We wish to say in this connection that we were im! portuned not to write this up, but will say that it is a news item and is a mat t r that the public ha\e a right through their local paper to know about. —Vanceburg Sun.