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My busi* mas hours were ostensibly from ten to five but the fact of mv house adjoin ing the office made me subservient to the wishes of the pullic beyond the time stated on the brass plate at my of* flee door. In fact, it wa9 generally fat ter business hours that my most profit able clients came ; and though I say I refused many a time the agency of some shady business, still 1 must con fess with regret that once or twice I found myself unwittingly involved in transactions which I would have much rather left alone. One of these I have occasion to remember too well, and I can never think of it but I thank Prov idence for saying me from becoming an accomplice unwittingly in a most auda cious piece of imposture. I was interrupted one night at te* by the servant entering and saying that a lady wished to see me. Hastily finish ing the meal, I hurried iuto my busi ness room. As I entered and bowed, a lady rose, made a slight courtesy and remained standing. I begged her to be seated, and asked of what service I could be to her. It was a little time before she answered, and then it was in a nervous, frighten id way, glancing round the room as if she were afraid somebody else was present. I saw that, although she was dressed in good style, she had not the air of a lady,nut, as she wore a thick veil, I could not distinguish her features,though I made out a gray hair here and there. "I suppose I had better explain who lam and what I want," she began. M I am a Miss Howard, of Giaham square, and I want you to make out my will." I started involuntarily, for this eld erly person, though I had never seen her before, had been the subject of many a surmise and many a gossip with the neighbors. She was reported to be very wealthy ; but had apparent ly abandoned tbe world, for, during the last five years she had shut herself up in hei bouse, seeing no one but her servants. My curiosity was therefore piqued at the idea of makiDg out this old eccentric's will. Taking up a pen, I asked her to give me the particulars of how she wished the property dis posed of. "That is very simple," she said. "I wish my whole property to go to Mr. David Simpson, of Stafford street here. I have never been married ; and I want the will framed so as to cut off any beir who might claim relationship to me. I also wish you to act as my executor in seeing my will carried iato effect." I made a note of the instructions, and asked when it would be convenient for her call and sign the deed. 4 'lf yon could have it written out by to-morrow night, I could call then and sign it. I wou'd like if you could ar range to have a doctor present to be a witness to my signing—a young doctor, if possible." . "Certainly, madam. To-morrow night at this time will suit, and I will arrange about a doctor being present. —ls there anything else you wish mem tioned in the will ?" "No ; nothing," she said, rising. "But be sure you make it so as to cut off all relations." I assured her everything would be as she desired ; and after assisting her in to the cab which was waiting, noticing the while that she had a slight limp in her walk, I retired to my study to frame the will in accordance with her instructions. Next night, punctual to a minute, she called : and as I had a doctor present, the ceremony of signing was soon over, the doctor signing as a witness along with my clerk, and ap pending a certificate of sanity, as desir ed by my client; and the deed was consigned to my safe. The affair had almost completely pasted from my mind, when I was star tled one morning by receiving a note from Mr. Simpson, the legatee in the will, informing me that Miss Howard was dead. I immediately proceeded to the house, performed the usual duties devolving upon a solicitor in such cir cumgtances, and made* what arrange ments were neccessary. After the fu neral I had a meeting with Mr. Simp son, and explained to him the position of affairs—that be was sole legatee, and that I was executor. He seemed to take the matter very coolly, I thought, but was anxious that everything should be lealized as soon as possible. Our interview was very short ; and I came away with a strong feeling of dislike for the man, who, I found, bad acted as a sort of factor for the deceased lady. MILLHEIM PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20., 1885. Acting within the duties of execu torship, and also with a desire to find out if possible the lelations the old la dy had been so anxious to cut off, I in serted a notice of her death in most of the leading newspapers in the king dom. This had the desired effect; for in the course of a few days I was waited upon by a young gentleman. Edward Howard, who informed mo lie was a nephew of the late Miss Howard, and had called upon me, having gat my name and address from the office of one of the newspapers to which I had sent the advertisement. During my inter view with Mr. Howard, I was much impressed with his bearing, on iny tell ing him the position of affairs, us he was much more concerned at his aunt's deUh thin at the purpose of her will. He told me that five years ago he had married against his aunt's wishes ; she had refused to recognize his wife ; and though he had written her several let ters, he had never heard from her in reply. He thanked me for my infor mation, and said he would likely see me again, as he was coming into town to a situation he had just been offered. Some weeks after this, as I was re turning home in the evening from a consultation,my atteution was arrested by the figure of a woman in front of me. She was hurrying along as if try ing to escape observation ; but there wasfsometbing in her style and the liiAP which she had that struck me as familiar, though I coald not remember where I had seen her. Just as she was passing a lighted part of the street, she happened to look around, and the face I saw at once explained to me the fa miliarity of ber figure—both face aud figure being an exact counterpart of my late client's Miss Howard ! Some how or other, a suspicion flashed across my mind ; my instinct told me some thing was wrong, and I determined to follow her and see where she went to. Tushing my hat well over my brow and pulling the collar of my coat well up, I followed through two or three streets, And was almost at her heels when she suddenly turned into a pnb lie-house, when, so close had I followed her, I heard the attendant say, in an swer to an inquiry by ber : "Number thirteen, ma'am and I saw her dis appear into the back premises. I im mediately followed, beard the door of number thirteen shut, and glancing at the numbers, quietly opened number twelve, and after giving an order for some slight refreshment to the attend ant who had followed me, I took a look around the room. I found it was divided from the next one only by a wooden partition, which did not reach the ceiling, and that, by remaining peifectly quiet, I could bear that a whispered conversation was be ing carried on in tbe next room. The entrance of the attendant with my or der disturbed my investigation ; but on his departure, and regardless of the old saying that listeuers seldom hear anything to their own advantage, I did my best to make out the conversation. I distinguished the voices to be those of two men and one woman. The lat ter I at once recognized, or at least my imagination led me to believe it to be the voice of the person who bad called on me a year ago to make her will. The voice of one of the men was strange to me ; but after the discovery I had already made, I was not greatly astonished at recognizing the voice of the other man to be that of Simpson, the legatee in the will. The whole thing flashed upon me at once, and I saw I had been made tbe innocent ma chinery for carrying through a clever and daring piece of imposture. I,how ever, listened attentively to the conver sation, in order to fathom the whole affair. The first sentence I made out came from the stranger : "I told you young Sinclair was the very man to do the work for you. These young lawyers never ask any questions as long as they get the business." "Well, well,' , said Simpson, "that is all right now. But the present ques tion is, what is to be done in the way of hurrying him up with the realization of the estate without exciting suspi cion ? The sooner we all get away from this the better. lam glad that young fellow Howard didn't ask any questions. But one thing's certain, we must get the old woman away from this immediately or she's sure to get recognized. She's been keeping pretty close lately, but X dare say she's get' ting tired of it. Aren't you, old la dy ?" "Indeed," was the reply, "I would be glad to get away from this place I to morrow, if I could. I'm sure I only wish you could have been content with half of the estate with Mr. Edward, in' stead of burning the will, when you found it was to be divided between you and him, and getting me to do what I did. I'm sure it's a wonder my mis stress doesn't rise from her grave to de noun 36 us all." A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. "Keep that can't for another occa sion, old woman ; it's no use getting religious now. ,Hut I'll tell you what l've got an idea." Here the conversation got so low that I could not catch more than an occasional word, and what that idea was I never found out, as he never got the chance to try it on me, for I had heard enough to know that next door to me were three of the most daring conspirators I had ever come across, who had duned me, aud made me, though unwittingly, the chief actor in the conspiracy. My first idea was to lock the door of the room they were in and go for help ; but as that was like ly to cause a disturbance, I determined to slip out and tru9b to being back in time for their arrest. As luck would have it, nearly the first man I met out side was a detsctive, whom I had known very well in connection with some criminal trials in which I had been engaged. A few words explained my purpose ; and signaling to the near est policeman he placed him at the door of the shop and both of us walked in. He nodded familiarly to the bar-tender and,leauing oyer the counter, whispered in bis ear. The shopman started and gaye vent to a long, low whistle. "You'll do it as quietly as you can, for the credit of the house," said he. "Of course," said the detective. "Show us in." In another minuute we were inside the room, with our backs to the door, the detective dangling a pair of steel bracelets and nodding smilingly round the room. The woman fainted. We had no difficulty iu securing the men ; and in half an hour we had them safe ly housed in jail. Before their trial came on, we had worked out the whole story. The wo man who had called on me and signed the will was Mrs. Simpson, Miss How ard's housekeeper, the mother of Simp son in whose favor the will was made ; and the other man was a lawyer's clerk who had suggested to them the feasi bility of such a scheme. The fact of Miss Howard's self-confinement and my own imprudence had nearly made the plot a success, but for my accident al recognition of the house-Keeper. Each of the prisoners offered to turn Queen's evidence ; but, a9 we had no difficulty in proving the case, -his was refused, and they were sentenced to various periods of penal servitude. 1 had then the pleasure of hauding over the estate to the rightful heir, young Edward Howard, who, notwithstand ing that I had nearly been the means of depriving bim of bis inheritance, made me his agent. The estate turned out to be much larger than I had at first thought, as I succeeded in proving that a large num ber of investments in Simpson's name really belonged to Miss Howard, and the management of so large a property fairly put me on my feet as regards business. I have bad many good cli ents since then, but I have often thought that my Veiled Client was my best one, as sue was the means of giv ing me my first lesson in prudence, and my first start in life. What the Newspaper Does. Rev.John Rhey Thompson,of New York, says : The crowning marvel of our modern civilization is the print ing press. It is impossible to over estimate its vast power. It prop agates and defuses information. It gives wings to knowledge, LO that on a breath ot morning it flies every where to bless and elevate. I stand in growing wonder in the presence cf the printing press. It lays its bauds upon the telegraph and speedily gath ers news from all parts of the world, and acute editors and übiquitous re porters and rapid compositors and fly ing steam presses commit to paper a faithful photograph of what is going on in the world. And yonder stands the iron horse, with bieath of flame and libs of steel, ready to go to remote por tions of the country, dropping package 3 of the daily papers on the way. Yes,it is a mighty engine for good and a mighty engine, too, for evil. Like all the blessings of this trial life of ours,it is not an unmixed blessing. Remarkable Presenoe of Mind. On a first night at the Theatre Fran cais, Kegnier, the comedian, now de ceased, displayed remarkable presence of mind. He was alone on the stage, and was supposed to be expecting a friend. 'He comes !' exclaimed Regni er, looking off on the left. 'Joy 1 I have been awaiting bim so impatiently.' At this cue his friend entered—on the right. Some one had blundered—but who ? There was no time for hesita tion, and the veteran player's ready wit came to his aid. 'Sly dog 1' he said, jocosely, to the newly arrived : 'you thought to take me by surprise, but I saw you in the looking-glass yonder.' This brought down the house, though the audience had been on the point of hissing the very palpable blunder. Where Money Reigns Supreme- In New York, and, I suppose in all large cit'es, but there especially, money has been made by the fortune. They have hundreds of millionaires, aud thousands upon thousands of very rich men. Speculative opportunities afford ed by unscrupulous men who to-day live upon their ill-gotten gains. We are on the ragged edge of speculation. Speculation has put into the pockets of rascals millions, and has taken from the pockets of the greedy millions. A new set have come to the front socially and financially. They are vulgar,com mon, rude, offensive. They boast of their wealth ; they flaunt in the eyes of the public their new purchase ; they give balls aud entertainments to which gentlemen with whom they are unac quainted are invited. They send lists of guests to the newspapers; they fur nish, in addition to this, discriptionsof elegant toilets worn by the ladies at these entertainments, they inform so ciety reporters of all the details of ex penditure ; they tell bow much they spend for flowers, what the cost of the dinner or supper is to be. They pa rade beforo the reporters their gold and silver service, and are particular that they get its cost correctly. They ap pear upon the streets in the morning with diamonds in their ears, with cost ly ornaments upon their necks, and in expensive bracelets upon their arms, if they be women ; with diamond collar buttons and diamond sets, and heavy gold chains and solitaire diamond rings upon their Angers, if tney are men. They are loud in tone, flashy in dress and boorish in manner. All this, vul gar and low-bred as it is, is not bad ; it is simply disagreeable, and, doubtless, as time rolls on, social friction will smooth away the roughness, and when the fourth generation appears—by which time, however, the money will doubtless be spent—manhood and wo manhood will have their turn. The foregoing refers to the home life of these creatures. In their public and in their amusement taste I find the bea cons and the suggestions to which I earlier referred. Corners His Pa. About a month since the wife of the editor of the Magazine of Ilumor and mother of the inquisitive young gentle man aforesaid, had a queer attack of a complaint that is becoming chronic in our family, which left her with another daughter,and affected the editor in pre cisely the same way, and when their youthful knowledge glutton came home from school he was considerably sur prised. 4 Where did you get it ?' he inquired. 4 The doctor brought it to us,' the ed itor incautiously replied. 4 ln his pocket ?' •Yes,' the editor assented. •In his vest pocket ?' asked the boy. •Yes.' •Wrapped up in a piece of paper ?' •Yes.' •With its name printed on it V' •Yes.' •What is its name ?' •Why—son, it is—that is, we have not named it yet,' the editor inconsist ently exclaimed, in the dire moment of his surprise. •Where do the doctors get the babies for people ?' 'Oh, they find them !' •Who looses them, pa ?' •Oh, God let's them drop down from heaven and the doctors pick them up.' •It's awful high up to heaven, ain't it, pa ?' 'Thousands of miles.' •And if anybody would fall down from there, it would kill him, wouldn't it ?' 'I should think it would, my son.' •Then why don't it kill the babies ?' •Why, because—oh blank it!' 'Do they fall in a blanket, pa V' •Yes, that's what keeps them from being killed.' •Who hold's the blanket V •Why, the people close by see a baby falling when it is away up. and they run out and hold the blanket.' •And catch it ?' •Yes.' •And find it ?' •Certainly.' 'Then how does the doctor find it if the people that held the blanket found it.' •Oh, you bother me.' •Pa, do all liars go to hell ?' 'Of course they do.' •Where is hell, Pa ?' 'Why down under the earth.' •Pa, how are 3ou going to get down there and when will you start ?' Grand tableau consisting of an editor, a boy and a shingle;— Through Mail Magazine. When you read the seductive legend in the tobacconist's window, 'Our two penny cigars can't be beat,' remember that if they can't be beet, they may be cabbage. SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. What Astonished Lamar. Tho Preparation of a Proclamation in Which Cleveland took a Hand. From the New York Times. An earnest Republican, who since campaign times has learned to respect the intelligence as well as the integrity of President 'Cleveland, tells a good story that comes direct from Secretary Lamar. It relates to the first business meeting of the Cleveland Cabinet and shows how the President, in a quiet, unostentatious way, opened the eyes ot the Mississippi statesmen. Except Manning,there wasn't a member of tiie Cabinet, who did not manifest some curiosity as to the way iu which Presi dent Cleveland would conduct his ex ecutive household. They found him neither officious nor talkative and fhough he produced upon every one of them a most favorable impression, when the meeting broke up they didu't know liim much better than they did before the meeting begau. The Oklahoma boomers were cutting a wide swatb iu the country just then and the Okalho ma boomer was very generously dis cussed at that Cabinet meeting, it be ing resolved that the Secretaries of the Interior and War Should draw up a proclamation iu accordance with cer tain views upon which the President with the Cabinet had agreed. Secre tary Endicott quickly suggested that Secretary Lamar should put the proc lamation in shape and then they would go over it and elaborate it together. 'lt is a pretty stiff task, but I'll try it,' said Mr. Lamar, with a smile that was not hilarious. That night, some where about 11 or 12 o'clock, Mr. Endi cott's dreams at the Arlington were disturbed by a knocking which threat ened wholly to tear down bis bedroom door. In stalked-tlie tall Secretary of the Interior. He had brought over a draught of that proclamation. Mr.En dicott read it. Mr.Endicott was pleas ed and he said so. It was very good, very good indeed, he said. It couldn't be improved upon. Mr. Lamar had struck just the right key. Mr. Endi colt had not a single suggestion to of- I fer. He felt pretty sure, he said, that it would meet the President's approval just as it stood. 4 Yes, I guess ycu're right; I guess it will meet the President's approval just as it stands,' said Mr. Lamar. 'Let me tell you a thing or two. I worked over this thing for hours. I buuted up President Arthur's proclamation a gainst the boomers and tried to build one up of my own with it for a model, but I did not make much headway. Then I started out on my own account and struggled over a lot of blank paper. It was not a very satisfactory showing that'B a fact, but I strayed over to the White House with it, had a talk with t,he President, read him the doccument and asked him if he had any suggestions to make. I said to him frankly: 'Mr. President, it doesn't suit me.' He look ed over my draft and then he said to me in a quiet way : 'Suppose you let me try my hand at it, Mr. Secretary.' He took up his pen and he wrote. He didn't stop, he didn't hesitate ; ideas seemed crowding one right on top of a nother. When he was done he read it to me. That is all—what you've read and approved. Let me tell you, Mr. Secretary, President Cleyeland is a bus iness man; he knows what he means and he means what he says. He is sim ply a revelation to me.' A Singrular Race. In Sumatra there is a very singular race, called the Kubus, who aro too shy to mix with the other races of the island, and dwell in the recesses of the forests. They are looked on as inferiors by the Malays, and thought to be little better than beasts. Such is their shy ness that they will never willingly face a stranger. Their trade with the Ma layans is consequently carried on in a strange manner. The trader announc es his arrival by beating a gong, and then retires from the place of rendez vous. The Kubus approach, put their forest treasures ou the grouud, beat a gong, and retreat. The trader returns and lays his commodities down in quan tities sufficient, as he thinks, for the purchase of the goods on sale. Then he retires, and the Kubus reappear and consider the bargain. And so, after more withdrawals and approaches and gong-beatings, the respective parties come to an understanding,and carry ofiE independent their bargains. Tha Ku bus in theii wild state do not bury their dead. They live on snakes,grubs,fruits, and the flesh of any deer or pigs they can slay. They are skillful spearmen, and throw stones with marvelous ac curracy. They know of no state after death. In some physical respects they assimilate closely to the anthropoid apes. —Deininger's Beady Reference Tax Receipt Book ts growing in public fa vor. Customers from a distance are beginning to call for it. It is an ad mitted necessity for every tax-payer who does his business in a practical manner. It it arranged to last for ten years and sells at th# low price of 40 cents. Call and see it at the JOURNAL Store. NO. 32. NBWBPAPBR LAWS If subscribers order the dlscontluaath n of newspapers, the ptiollshers may continue to send them until ail arrearages Are pakt. . If subscribers refuse or neglect to take Uieir newspapers from the office to which theyaresent they are held responsible until they have set tied the'bills aiud ordered them discontinued. If subscribers move toother places without in forming the puldiwher, and the newspapers aro sent to the former place, they are reatonblble. ADVERTISING RATBS. 1 wk. 1 mo. 13 mos. 6 moo. 1 yea 1 square $2 00 $4 00 g5 00 $6 00 1800 % " TOO 10 00 1500 8000 40 00 1 10 00 1500 1 2500 4500 75 00 One Inch makes a square. Administrators and Executors' Notices 92.50. Transient adver tisements and locals 10 cents per line for first insertion and 5 coots per line for each additknr aljtnaertlon ; HOLD ALL WHEAT. CommissionerColman's Advice to Farmers. >* i | # *.A *#■ 1 his Year's Oiopßelow tha Average —Amount of Injured Grain— The Illinois Yield. Agricultural Commissioner Coleman thinks farmers had better hold on to their grain. Iu a bulletin issued from his bureau the following advice is giy en : 'This year is peculiar in having an unprecedented supply of okl wheat in the hands of traders; the effect is naturally an unexampled effort of hold ers to advance prices. How, it is net the provinoe of an official statistical service either to advance or depress prices, but to tell the truth. This de partment is expected to ;took to the in terest of farmers, but experience has shown that llteir interest is not advanc ed by underestimating the crop. The growers are at the Wrong end to profit by misrepresentation. Distance, heavy transportation and many occasions of delay are circumstances against them ; the telegraph, organization and capital favor the buyer. It is repeatedly prov eu that misrepresentation of crop pro duction insures only to the advantage of the speculater or wealthy purchaser. Honesty, then, is the best policy for farmers in crop reporting. With im mense stocks in commercial hands,high prices will benefit mainly the traders now; in two or three months with stocks exhausted and a new crop ready for de livery,the buyer will magnify European supplies, exaggerate the outcome of the American product and offer low prices. A PERTINENT SUGGESTION. "Here a suggestion is pertinent. The wheat harvest of the worid in 1885 will not be an average. Hence prices will eventually advance. But it should be remembered that it requires a full year to move the wheat crop of the world. Heavy harvests following deficiency do not depress prices materially for many months after garnering. The culmina tion of the effect is often in the follow ing year. 80 the large production of last year now fills the granaries of Eu rope and America and prices are low in the face of the current crop failures. Ho great advance will occur till the ex cess of stocks shall be consumed. "Let the farmer, therefore, who is not pressed for money, deliver slowly until commercial stocks are depleted, watch the markets, and if he can hold till late in the autumn or winter, he may profit by the scarcity. But he must, not assume the existence of the scarcity which is prophesied by the bulls of the present hour and hold for extra ordinary prices, refusing reasonable ad vances, or his ultimate loss ot price in terest and ratage may prove a sorer ca lamity than the early autumn sales. This is a true word for the ear of the wise fanner." • _ _ Dropping Unhurt 3,000 Feet. In September, 185T, upward of 15,000 people were at Lemon Hill and along the banks of the Schuylkill to see M. Godard go up in a balloon along with his brother and drop the latter out from among the clouds in a parachute. It is said that the feat had never been attempted before in the history of ballooning ; it was a startling novelty, and the people crowded to see it When the balloon sailed gracefully upward outside of the enclosure M. Godard and two friends were in the basket, while be low it M. E. Godard, his brother, was seated upon a small bar of wood at tached to the parachute. It looked like an immense umbrella. The ball oon went over the Schuylkill in a southwesterly direction, and after it had reached an altitude of abont 6,000 feet began to slowly descend. Then the parachnte began to expand. When within abont 3,000 feet of the earth the cord was cut and the para chute rapidly descended, with Godard banging on to the bar. The balloon shot upward again. The descent of the parachute was keenly watched by thousands of spectators, and many expected to see the daring man dash ed to the earth in the twinkling of an eye. It was observed however, that as the parachute neared the earth the descent was slow and easy. At last the man and his big umbrella faded out ot sight over the hills, and we learned next morning that he came down all right on his feet, like a cat, abont half a mile west of the old Bell tavern, on the Darby road.— Phila. Times. IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—J. H- Frank, west of Millbeim, gives notice that he has for sale a superior quality of Wheat, which be calls "Farmers' friend," for seeding purposes. Farm* ers desiring some of this excellent wheat are requested to apply to him.
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