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NOT DEAD ' YET" I VALLIE LUTTHINCER, MAHCr<URSH OS TIN, COFFER Al!-SHEET-Ii) WAKE AND TIN ROIit'IXa,! - t , Kespeetlalty tartte the attention i his friends and the pabiiein arenerai to tneiaet that he Is still carry In on business at tae old stand opposite she Mountain House. Kbesburx. nl is prepared to supply from a large stock, ornanaraeiurinic to or der, any artlcls la hit lino. I rum tbe suiallest to tbe larnedt. Is tbe best manner and at tbe lowest llvlnir prices. PWNo penitentiary work eltker made nr sold at tbltettabltahDient. - . , TIN ROOF1NO SI'KCIALTY. Illve me a eall and (atlt ly oorselres aa to my work and prices V I.V1T KlIStrEK. tMburn, Alrill3. 1883-tl. f enne.on . T,r I. Itclnir ntnle It J'.hil It. itMMltn,lM..' ,. T.i .-ik .r mW. Smlff, y i 4I m .( Mi. k. I. i.i I. . jt W. r.B trmrh yvl.kly hwr l.in.u fr.nliw S IO . tlmy at the iM,t, a4 MmM ym ,e na. II. .tii riM, .! air. lu any part of Jim au e.ntuire .1 hute. siv imC .11 var IIMte r ..r in. MM-nt. ohlT IO Um wuik. All i ii m. I.twl iirMkl ft .rv wtirkw. V. r Mart o., fiirniriiine rritbi.r. I.AKII.I . Kl Lil.ll V VmwnL I'Altl l t I.AI1M Ihll.. Jk.atrrM .t Mir htl.tsex a to.. ivKiXaAit, uut, riUlE KKKtMAN It the lancest paper In North 1. l imnriM. liuti'l iorei it. -w" A YY 5 ViV w -v- tr ' Ttar eV I 7. 11 QUICKLY MARRIED: city luxuries anaeacn uma m co.a.is any well supplied store. Ewery- j . . . . louurea acugut in using it u ' DEMOCRATIC TITLES. Wc olten hay wi'.U Joy and prldo, Dur bearers to convince Of aouie oil-'; (jnulity that he's A veriiublo prince An oniInc bent the record while SUo'a foamiu:; us the ajrf. ' . And then slip Is t'.io rei raiuj queen Uf nil the Yaniici: turf. In ieal:iii of the lio i trl'd Thut oti tbe hu::iu.t I. a--ts W ail ailmit, n l.:iiwn;ly, . Tl:ii he's iho kij of iK.-a's. It strik" i inn us maarkable. And hard to u.l r.tanil. How royal f.tk-s -"'iU,:- iu thin Moftt ucluJCutio lnd. ' . . M-think.i In Kpe-Akins of n prince Whom wc itu t-jLV r scan. We slioul I i-r i hm.i liim fur and wide A blooming abl.-rui;in. . Tit" f!istst rticer on the trick. To fatnc should cv.rr bo The l:idy of the white house of The turf, it Rotuis to iue. The lion. vh!l! he caracoles Wila fuir or foul intent. Of -11 tlie niuiui7 i.u earth Should be ihc jiresiJent. A "renl bona fule" iluke In whom-Momc frnl we see, A senator we .-l:on d proclaim In our unbouniidd h'lee. Our playins cards we e'en should take Anil tear to sniirhrreens, " " ' Till postmi.siru-sos and povernora Supplant tlu.- kius aud queens. These names that smack of royalty Wc should be t.r ulnive. If hut to be coii-sisti tit with The priuciiUes wo love. -Puck. FACING THE AMEER. Cool Head and a Clear Brain Wirt in a Bold Enterprise. "The thinp; that earned me my first promotion," said Col. It , of the Scvciity-oio;hth Russian infantry, as we sut in the balcony of the little jHist house at Tchinaz (in one of the drear iest parts of central Asia) watchinjj the red tflow of sunset fading- over the broad, shinin; curves of the Syr-Paria and the great plrtin beyond, - "nras rather a queer affair altogether." I giva this story, which is ierfectly true, as nearly as jxissible in the words of the hero hiaiselt: '"It was certainly one of those thinjjs which are a po xl deal pleasante.r to talk about afterwards than to go throiiirh at the time, and 1 don't much think that I .should cure to try it aaiu, imyhow. "This was how it happened: When I first eair.ii ont here tli2 likhoi;aiid"se f;l:ll lu-U stll tho country that we llus r.ians have taken since, and it would have leen no easy matter to get even as far as this. "A6 for th country on the other tide of the river we knew no more about it than if it had Keen in thi- iuoiK - "Xinv, tlii-. traet bej'iTnd the river (which ltelonred to the aincer of Bok hara iu those Uayt) was jut the very place that our colonel. TcliernaielT, particularly wanted to know about. "We were pretty certain to have to invade Ilokhara sooner or later, and it was specially important to know if we should find any water and forag-e on the way and what sort of country we should have to cross. . "So when I got down here with one of our flyinjy eolrunns, which was mak ing a raid through the KhoUacdcse ter ritory to give the 'coffee-faces a lesson,' 1 liethonijht myself that it might be long enough before I was soclose to the border again, and that, as I knew the native language pretty well and wasn't afraid of a rouU ride. I'd just go over into Kokhara and see what it was like. "Didn't the old colonel look pleased when I volunteered? And I hadn't to ask twice for leave to fo, I can promise you. " 'I don't think you'll ever come back, my boy,' said he, 'but if you do you'll see that I know how to reward good service. "With this consolation I set off, ac companied tmly by two Cossacks. "I reineuiler well how queer I fel when 1 sUkhI for the first time on -th opposite bank and looked back at th campfires of our soldiers and then for ward at the great wide waste of ties ert: "but the bright sun:hine kept my spirits up it s wonderful what a differ ence it makes sometimes whether the day's fine or gloomy and away I went, merrily enough. "As for my two Cossacks, they looked as comfortable as if they were going to a picnic : - "We kept a bright lookout as we went along; und well we might, in a country where we might all have our throats cut at any . moment. I5ut for tbe first two bonrs we didn't see a liv ing thing. However, I had already : made up my mind what to dj ' in case we did fall in with any of the. Itokha riotes; and it was well I had, for all at on ire i caught sight of at-loud of dust, far in thc.distanoe.-with a sort of glit ter running through it every now and then, coining right down upon us. - "I saw my Cossacks looking at me to' sec how I took it, and -so, of eoome. I had to put on as lold a face as I could; but I don't mind Confessing now that I would have given all my chances of promotion to tjrxi myself sale cross the border ag"ain. . - "However, It was too late to think of that, for by : this time we were so near that we sould Ree wc had in front of us a body of at least lifty horsemen, every man with a gun at his back and a sword nt his side. , v -I tied my-whit handkerchief to the point of my sword, by way of a flag of . truce, and, bidding ihe Cossacks stay where tlmy wore, I rode forward to meet the liokhariotes, who slackened speed us I came up and looked at each other in a puzzled kind of way, as if they didn't quite know what to make" of me. ' , . , " Peace be with you, brothers,"said -I. 'You have doubtless been sent to meet me by .the great ameer, under the shadow of whose throne tlie whole earth rests. May he live a hundred and twenty years! I bring' h'm gifts from the czar of the Ooroos.-, (Russians). Let our uorses be swift to reach !an:areaud. lliut I may make the dubt upon the threshold of liazret (his majesty) into ointment for my eyeliils. "The fellows looked more puzzled than ever, but no one thought of doubt ing what I said; for, indeed, it could never have entered into their heads that, any Kusian could be riding through their deserts with only two taen at his back, unless he had really souie bost ness there. ".So the leader of the hand saluted me very politely, and said that he 'laid his forehead in the dust bvfore the messenger of the great czar,' with a lot more rigmarole of the some sort: and then the whole party turned ami rode back toward Sarnarcand, with me and my Cossacks in the center. "We slept at Djizak that night, just where the desert ends and the moun tain begins. The governor pitched a tent in the garden liehind his house, and entertained 'the messenger of the great czar' iu"st sumptuously. My Cos sacks who, li'.ce true Uus.sian soldiers, felt quite safe so long as their com mnnu.n,' otiicer showed no si;m of anx iety nt two pounds of pilatf (a mess of riei and mutton) apiece, and then fell asloep quite comfortably. "My slumbers, however, were not so quiet by any means.'. 1 had heard enough of the ameer to be sure that he wouldn't be easily taken in; and if ho found me out, it would be only leiug tortured to death by inches, instead of getting cut down at once. "Once or twice I thoxight of waking up my Cossacks and making a run for it; but every time I looked out of the tent, tlu-re were two or three liok hariotes strolling aliout with guns on their shoulders, and I soon-saw that there was nothing for it but to go right through with it to the end. "We started again a little before sun rise, and got to Sarnarcand aliout noon. The view of the Tchcpan-Ata hills, standing out over the rush and foaming of the river, was very fine; but to my grat disgust, as soon as we got to the oi-1-.tirts of the town, they blindfolded me with a silken scarf, so I missed see ing just the very thing that I especially wanted to see. "We passed through several streets, seemingly crowded, to judge by their noise. Then I felt myself led up a winding path and through a gate; and then, all at once, the bandage was taken away from my eyes, and I fonnd myself in a large paved court, in the midst of which, on a pile of cushions, sat a shorl fit, heavy -looking old man, with smali aarrow black C3-es. "The moment the liokhariotes who were with me came near him they all fell upon their faces; and then I guessed that this old rogue must be the ameer himself. '"What seek you here, Oorooss? asked the ameer, looking keenly at me. "So then I plucked up courage and told him as steadily as I could (for the Ulr-heathed swords all around were rather unpleasantly suggestive) that I had brought him gifts from the czar, ! giving him at the same time my gold j watch and iny revolver. j "He wasequite delighted with the re- volvcr, and must need fire it ofT at once, ! nearly shooting some of his own at- j tendants. 15ut just as all seemed to lie going well, lie snot a piercing glance at me and said: " 'Surely my brother, the czar, would not send such gifts without sending a letter with them? "For a moment I felt cold all over, for then it seemed as if we were fairly caught at last; and 1 knew what mercy we might expect from these ruffians if once the trick were found out. "I could seek my Cossacks looking as blank aa I did, but just then a bright thought struck me. "About a week before, my brother in St. Petersburg had sent me a playbill of the Alexander theater, with the pro gramme of my favorite play of Shakes peare. "I drew it out of my pocketbook with a flourish, and said: " 'The king hath spoken wisdom, and, lo! the letter of the czar of Ooroosistan (Russia) is before his sulr lime eyes. "The ameer looked at it, like a monkey at a Greek inscription; but the huge double eagle and the big 'Alex ander' (the only word he could read) quite satisfied him. "He dismissed me with rich presents. and gave me an escort from his own J guard as far as the frontier, where I j wo mighty glad to find myself again, I can tell you. "As for the precious playbill, it was laid up with all honor in the archives of ISokhara, and when our fellows took Saiuareand, seven years later, they must have been rather astonished to find it there." David Kcr, in Golden Days. - ALL ABOUT A KISS. A Gtrla litirenioui. T:trtir4 on f!cceivin the I'irvit Saluto from I!c- I-ot-er. This, I am assured, is n true t-.tory, says a writer in the Detroit Free lYes The gciu?t-m:in himself told it to me. and the lady, now his wife, sat besiUu him and admitted it to be true. He had waited tin Ik V' for several weeks, when one evening he resolved to kiss her, and told her so. 'You shall do nothing of the kind," she said uilh a good deal of asperity.. Hut he was not to lie frightened ovA of it. lie reached for her, but she drew away and indignantly declared that if he undertook any such lilierties she would scream. He didn't believe she would so he grabbed up and gave her a good, rousing smack. . . Sure enough, she screeched like a steam calliope, and frightened the young man well-nigh out of his senses, for lie heard the family rushing toward the parlor. The young lady's mother was the iirst to cuter, and the father canie close; WhimL "What's the matter?" asked the mother. .. The young man stood by the piano, wishing the roof : would fall in and bury every lody. The young lady had jumped upon the sofa. "I saw a mouse, she said. The parents went Trnek, snrl the young man kissed Iter until she couldn't have told a mouse from a.mountain. Sublime Amsraarf. The nerviest man in America has leen discovered. He is a tram a. and when Inst seen was disappearing around a corner in Topcka. Kan., one day lately.- He hml e-nWreU a relau rant and had ordered an claliorate mcaL After eating it with great relish he t-iok his check, walked to the cashier's d.sk and coolly informed him that he had no money. The cashier put hi hand to a shelf under the desk, produced u pistol and ordered the man to pay. 'What's that-. the tramp asked, point ing to the pistoL "That, sir," answered the other, "is a revolver." An expres sion of relief came, over the man's face as he replied: Oh, I don't care a straw for a revolver", I thought it wu a stom ach pump. Good afternoon. And he walked out before the astonished ca&h- ier could rally from his surprise. NOT SUITED TO THE PURPOSE. This jx-ncil Is too ft rone for me."-Lewis Car roll. The editor Ktmpsleil In vain with his pen. In only one r;i- wi.ul.l It willinely move; He made a b inaitis U'-ain and uj-.iin. And then aaid abruptly: I mut he in ) Jove!" i Yes: thin must Toe why one fair face of all j faces j Hetaecn him and his "copy" continually cn-pl, Pri-vr;!' 1 ito!f In the smallest of spaces. And T.ilietl at him out of the clouds when he slept. " Th re?::-1 r's snrcly before m' 111 write! He n.utt rod. and seized his recalcitrant yen. - If I s..v:h. I may possihlv illustrate frltrht, Aa ! 'ir.'s, as a rule, adore courage in men. . Now tii uditor h:.d a clear title to use TIi-: utters "li. A." as attached to hi car.:-'. And w!.y should so lmrle a matter confuse A i:.iu-l i.o lotn traim-d to directness ol aim? Th ri -tr-i t- err1 cr.iliu? fer rn;:y no time Wu hi- to cn-liate. h must do it tit imw. ' IViiiii; : ' ."o would iaucy it mro done In ruyi.ie." He murmured: "Oh, trAy do I feel like a "lititieer ' " Well. sitnnV fi-rcctnss. It may be. is best; It mirf'.it be oraa'-e should I call uer 'di vine:' If she loves me, her own heart will furnish j "I love yon. he wrote; "dearest, will yon J be miner " I have analyzed carefully that which I feel, A:i l 1 p re i substantially in the above; Heply by the i!nsou,:cr to my aiitical. And state, if you can, n return of my lore" He mused, and then dronmilv added: "P. S. Write plainly on one side of papr, and need not be published your name and ad dress. It l-i merely a form, for I know where you live." The answer came swiftly: be read it between Tw para,-. a;dis of a discourse uixm bank; And he 'ole to the suaJo of a Ja;auese sere-ju. "It's c-nicliid jd." he said; "she's declined nc with thanks:' Margaret Vaod-Krift, In Century. THE HIGHEST KIDDER. He Got Not Only tho Broken Slip per, But a Wife Peggy flildreth was the belle of the village. No tine ever questioned that fact. There were many f-irls as pretty as Peggy.' bnt none as i:ri;:!:t nnd saney. Certainly no young girl of eight een had had more suitors or knew let ter h"ow to refuse them anl still keep them at her feet. Now, Peggy had a stepmother and no father, and like the tr.tditii:i::l step mother, this one was hard to live tvitlu Perhaps Pejfgy was a little t' blame h. :r -If. for she strongly obj.cted being dictated to, even when, as Mrs. 1 1 5 1 dreth would inform her, "it was only fir her own goo. I:"" but as it was oniy the week lief jre she had lx-en heard t say she ".should !,e glad when that witch was we'l mtri icd and out of the house, we can hardly blame Peggy for not having unquestioned faith in Mrs. llildreth's desire for her goxL One afternoon, when these two had had a few words of anything but an amiable nature, the servant announced a caller Tor Miss Peggy, Mr. Jack Les lie, of the Seventh regiment, it ap peared from the card, and Peggy has tened to meet him. looking, with her sparkling blue eyes and golden curls, gowned in a short-waisted white mus lin tied up under the arms with a broad sash, like an animated Kate Grecnaway pictnre. - "Oh, Jack. I am so glad you've come! Mrs. H. and I have Wen having it again, although I came Jout ahead," with a laugh. "As usual, I see. Itut what were you quarreling over this time?" "Well. I'll tell yon. .1 called that young l.liss a fool or an idiot, I don't remember which, and as he is distantly related to Mrs. H., she natura'.ly ol jected. We argued the mitter to some length, anil then she told me to prove my statement or take it back. 1 said I cortltL and that she would agree with me if she had -only heard him propose tin- other night. "It was done ia tJsisway,' and Peggy stood up at an angle of forty-five de grees and loyed with an imaginary eye glass: "Weally, Miss Hihhveth. you weally must do me the au--extreme kindness of accepting my name and an-estates, doncher know, anil then after that she gave in, and Peggy txk two waltz turns and sank into an easy chair and said: "Now, Jack, let's have it. I know you've brought some good news by the disagreeable way the lines in your fore head run." "Well, you've guessed aright, so just catch yonr breath while I relate all I know. The Seventh intend giving a ball on the third of next month, and I've come over to invite you early so there can be no mistake about your going with inc. " "Really; honor bright; cut your throat. - Oh. how lovely! How nice of you to come over and tell me before the other girls knew anything about it!' "Well, as long as"you don't throw me over at the last minute for Overaile or any of the Wainwright boys, I shall f eel repaid." . : ' . . ,'. ' Peggy actually colored, for Howarth Overaile was one of the few men whom she could not bring to her feet Not a very handsome man, but tall and dis tinguished looking, . bearing himself like the true, honest soldier that he was. He had of ten - watched Peggy Hildrcth from afar, and contrasted her with the. pale., tired, invalid bister he had at home in far-away Montana. Jack Leslie had purposely mentioned Over aile just to tease Peggy, lie had always known her, and as she pestered him when it suited her mood, he once in awhile retaliated. It was war to the knife lietween the two .until Jack left, and then Peggy went upstairs to pull over some old trunks of her own mother's to see what she could find suitable to wear to the ball.- She came across a beautiful white brocade with tiny pink rosebuds em broidered over iL "Now," she soliloquized, "this would just suit me made no with a little of this horJton lace. Mrs. Hiidreth will faint with horror at the idea, and say I'll look like my own grandmother. Then perhaps someliody will fall in love with iny own grandmother. Now, I'll put it on and dance the minuet with some body's grandfather. I wished the somebody's grandfather looked like Howarth '-Overaile, the hateful old thing. I'd like the fun of refusing him. Now, l'eggy, wait a moment. If Mr. Overaile sliould ask jou to ac- company him to Montana and spend a dull existence with an invalid sister and an old mother, would you, after all, refuse? Oh, bother, it's too warm to get into discussions with one's self." And doing the sweet, old-fashioned gown up into a bundle, Peggy saun tered down to the village dressmaker, and. after leaving there, decided she'd just run in and see if Widow Tucker's boy was recovering from slow fever. It was a por little cottage into which Peggy wended her way, and the widow herself looked half-fed. "I don't believe you've had any din ner to-day, thought Peggy, "and as you're too proud to ask for it, I'll have to plan. "Why don't you tnke a walk while I sit by Jamie ami tell him stories?" she said, aloud. "And. by the way. if you're going by my house just stop in and get my cape and tell Hannah to give you your dinner. It will save you cooking here." The widow gladly went, and Peggy amused herself and Jamie inventing stories. While in the middle of one she glanced up and ln-held Howarth Overaile stand ing in the doorway with a look of rapt admiration on his face. "Do you come here often?" was his first remark. "Never," she replied, while Jamie's eyes dilated to such an extent one would know she was not telling the truth. "What are yon here for? he asked. "My laundry," was the brief reply. He saw her home through the twi light, and Peggy after that took more interest than ever in her gown for the "Thir.L" The evening came and with it Jack Leslie for Peggy, and when he saw her he exclaimed: "Why, Peggy Hiidreth, you lovely little picture! I'm almost tempted to carry you off by main force, you look so beautiful." "Well, you needn't," serenely re marked Peggy, as she gathered her opera cloak around her and let him put her into the carriage. Words of admiration could le heard from all sides as she entered the hall with her escort. And she did look lovely. The golden curls were gathered on to the top of her head, and the beautiful brocade was modernized. Slippers had been made to match the gown, and although Peggy took only a three boot, she had squeezed her foot into a two, the result lieing before the evening was half over in one giving way when she was dancing with Capt Yan Leaten. "Now." said Peggy, philosophically, "I am finished for dancing. All I can do is to flirt." "No such thing, said the captain. "I shall send for more .slippers;"' and he was as gixnl as his word. Wln-n they came Peggy was sur rounded by admirers, and holding up the pretty broken slipper, she said: 'Now what do you bid for it?"' " "A box of gloves," said Jack Leslie. "Two lioxes." said Capt- Van Leaten. "I'll go yon one better and offer three lioxes and a five-pound Iwix of candy." exclaimed an ardent admirer. Peggy saw Mrs. Hiidreth gazing at her in horror, and with her eyes danc ing with merriment she said: "Come quickly! Hid away! I'll marry the highest bidder!" "A diamond bracelet!" Diamond pin!" "Two tickets for Patti!" And so the bids rattled on an-" I.5'g found herself the center of a ' 'ge and admiring circle and she liegan to wish she was well out of it alL At that moment Mr. Overaile ap peared, and stepping forward quickly, said: "I offer over-all." And Teggy laneh ingly called: "Gone!" and started waltzing with the highest bidder. The circle disbanded, murmuring: "Trickod," 'Tuns not allowed," and similar remarks, but Peg--y was happy, and when half an hour later she met the possessor of her slipper in the con servatory, and he asked her if she woiiM confirm her remark and marry the hip;hest bidder, she only said in a half laughing manner, but with a se rious look in the bine eyes for once: "I always keep my word." Koston Globe. TOLD BY PHOTOGRAPHERS. A YofXO laily in Ix'wiston, Me., en tered a photographer's gallery and. aft .T seating herself in a chair, calmly informed hiin that she wanted her. "fae drawed." The photographer said he would draw it. A Chicago photographer claims to le doing a good business among the young men of that city by photographing the pictures of their sweethearts on their arms, when linislied appearing similar to the tattooing process with the ex ception of the colors. Ax amateur photographer went thir ty miles out in the country to take some choice views, filled fifty plates and found when he came to develop them at home that he hadn't opened the shutter of his camera. He had pressed the button, but for some reason it hadn't done the rest. A PHoTooRAriiKR at the convention in Ifnffalo told a reporter of the old days in the west, when the man at the camera used to make the subject "look pleasant" by leveling a pistol at him and saying: "Inik right in the muzzle o' this yere revolver, my man, and re meni'oer that I hain t agoin to hev this picture spoiled with any o' your foolin'." THE INDUSTRIES. Of 10,757 farms in LTtah 9,724 are made fertile by irrigation. s The production of anthracite coal this year is li.0.)l.0(lf) tons, or -:,.500,000 tons over the first half of last year. It is reported that a vein of coal three miles wide and fifty feet tliiek has been discovered in the Flatht ad country in Montana. A Texas cattleman says the outlook at present is that the supply of cattle from that state will fall short l.o'JO.OOd head as comparea with the numlier last year. The honey crop this season will ie the lightest California has ever known. The bees can't find nectar enough, and hives that yielded twenty-nine tons last year will not produce a pound this season. The exports from the city of Charles ton, S. C, increased from 1 '1. 7 8". 75 1 in the year ending June SO, 1.K, to '-21.-940,000 for the year ending June ou, 1SUI. The largest item of increase wa i that of cottoa. MOTHER'S KISS. When downward I tumble and bump my poor bead. Then hop up quite sure I am pretty near dead. And ma to my mat.iina a, quu 'i a - a wink. Ah, how do-'s sLe cure me: Pray, can you cot think r . Uy ki.ws so sweet, to be sure ! Acain and a-air.. I may wound mys- lf sore. Then cry ut because I have hurt mo soma more; No matter how husv or t'rel she nay be, She always takes time to annul to pour me To heai me at oi.c witu b -i iiis-1. When I am real pood, or w hen I am re: l bad. When I am quit. m- rry, or wbcu i'iri iuite sad. Wiles lb i m.tl patience so often have tried. She w ii. so lovii! r! .-. -nderiy c . d-: T.u n kiss mi', ju- l I i iac t'ie same. Ah, his.es lt'. th -se' ! we rv r 1 ir -'-t Tiiu love tU'-y ex;;r -s-e 1? Nay. itu eyelashes w. We'll yi an for them even in old, jrrowti-ep J'tVU'a. Our eye-- lirin, r;ir.i,- over wl:a hot. Minding tears. Wiillo l"::-in." for them nil in vain. Alas, that Iht heavt a:. '. h-T v. ice urc so dumb, To our yi'. rt.i : , aad r; . and n m.-tt:i r can c me And case "he keen heartache la our after l.fe. When we have -'ot hurt is the ior:d s cea-e-les-i Tr:f": No l;ise:. c m her.) us :i!te h. rs : Fannie L. Kaneher. in Portland Transcript. A IJAFFLIXU MVSTEItV. Strange, Remark hl Casa of Mr. "Mansfield's Wifr. All was excitement at the Mnnsfe ld mansion; its mistress, the leautiful and accomplished wile of D.ivi 1 Mans field, had suddenly and mvsVr"ously disappeared. They were all ready for an evening ride. Mr. Man-dudd was already at the carriage, awaiting his wife's cumin?. She had appeared at the doorway, but stopped, anil, telling her hitsltand that she had forgotten her gloves and would return for tliein. she reentered the house and started up stairs to her room. That was the lust Mr. Mansfield saw of his wife. lie waited fifteen or twen ty minutes, and then sent a servant to hurry Mrs. Mansfl'd.L The servant re turned and reported that the door to the lady's room was locked, and that there had been no response when she kn'cked. Frighteneil, Mr. Mansfield hastened upstairs and tried the dixr of his wife's room. It was loeked. as the servant had said. Mr. Mansfield called liis wife's name, but received no reply. He was now thoroughly frightened, and summoning all his strength, lie burst the door open. One hasty glance alxiut the room was ufiiciiT.t. The room was empty his wife was gone! Hut where, and how, and why? These were the questions that agi tated the mind of the hushainl. and he could find no answer for siny one of them. Still, she mi'rht be in the house, Mr. Mansfield thought, anil lu set the servants to searching for her. High and low, upstairs and down they searched, but no trace of the missing woman could they find. t Then they extended their search to the grounds, with the same results, and Mr. Mansfield was in despair. Tbe disappearance of his wife was so sud den, so unexpected, so mysterious that he was filled with a kind of nameless, numbing feeling of horror, of fear, of he knew not what. For hours the search hail leen kept up, and at last, disheartened, weary, anguish-stricken, the liereaved husband ordered the search discontinued. What to do next he did not know, until it was suggested to him to send for a detective-Mr. Mansfield caught at the sug gestion at once, and telegraphed to the city for a detective. The next train brought one of the best detectives in the city of New York, and he lost no time in si tting to work. Accompanied by Mr. Mansfield, he entered the room of the missing lady, and bcg:in an examination of it. "Is everything just as it was when her absence was discovered?" askco Mr. Ferret, the detective; "has nothing been moved or changed in any way'.'" "Nothing," replied Mr. Mansfield. "Fverythmg is just us she left it." "Then that window was open,"' as serted the detective, indicating an open window at one side of the room, and Mr. Mansfield nodded assent. Mr. Ferret crossed the room, and ex amined the sill and floor lcneath the window. Then he looked out. The only possible means of reaching the ground, thirty feet lielow, was l3 a lightning rod, which could be reached from the window, and the detective shook his head. It would le a power ful incentive that would induce a wom an to descend by means of this rod. After examining every nook and cranny of the room, the detective sat down and studied the matter from every point of view, as he thought. At last he turned to his companion: "Mr. Mansfield," he said, "1 wish to ask you a question. It is of rather a delicate nature, but I hope you will not be angry. Did you and your wife have any trouble? Do you know any reason why she should wish to get away from you?" "I do not," was the reply. "My wife and I were on the best terms; we never quarreled in our livea" The detective looked puzzled. "I don't understand it, he said; "the only theory that I can advance is that she has committed suicide, though if you were on good terms there would be no reason for her doing this." The detective spent a week searching for a clew, but could find none. A sys tematic search was . made for miles around; advertisements were inserted in all the papers, but it availed noth ing. Nothing could lie discovered The disappearance of the woman was as complete and unfathomable a mystery as ever. Mr. Mansfield grew pale and thin, lie hail loved his lieautiful wif j as few men do love, and the uncertainty at tending the disappearance of his loved one made his sorrow all the harder to bear. It was worse really than it would have liecn had he known his wife was dead. He was unwilling the de tective should give up the search, and the week grew into a month. Two, three, four months the de tective kept at iL ' He exhausted every resource, sifted every semblance of a clew, and finally at the end of five months refused to work longer. "It's a waste of my time and youi money," he derTurcd. and Mr. MansfieU reluctantly acquiesced iu the detective" decision. "My opinion." said Mr Ferret, "if that your wife is dead. I think you ha liettcr accept that as a fact." "I will not iictvpt that as trti" until I know it is true." dcHaecl Mr. Mans field, and. unable to produce pro. f tha' his theory was the correct one, the de tective said no more, but bade th- sor rowing uiau good -by and returned to tliL city. A .tip!f of mnnth later, as he was sittl'ig at home, turning over in his inin 1 different ease, that he had lecn cngn-.'cd I'pni. Mr. l-'erret's mind re vert ed t the Mansfield case and be rave a start, as a sudden idea oceurod to l.im. "I h:!ve it!" h- exclaimed, aloud. "1"':1 wi-o-.-r I have f;i! hom 'd tiie uiys ler, of Mrr,. M.iuslieM disappearance! Vh" .r.ln't 1 think of it I.-fore, I ui.::i'er'.' Let's seo." and he SooUcd at ii's wa'eh. "I have just t itne e:i iiLrh to catch Ihe train. I believe I'll run down and put the matter to the test Bt once." Two hmirs later Mr. Ferret blood in the presence of Mr. Mansfield. The did -etive was shocked at the change in his late employer. He was ttged a score of years, and his hair, lately a lieautiful brown, was slivered with gray. He had a lioj-Je.ss expression of countenance that was pitiful to see, but brightened up a little, at sight of the detect ire. "Have yon do you bring me any news?" he asked, eagerly. ' Mr. Mansfiel 1. I wish to nsh- you a question or two." said lh detective. "lo you know unvthingrcgardingyuur wife's ancestors?"" "Only that they were excellent poo pie." qnic'.-ly. "I never heard aught said against any relative of hers." "Well, answer me this: Did you ever hear of, or know of any relative of hers being aulieted with insanity?" This shot struck home. Mr. Mans field's face paled, and he reeled back against the wall. "Her uncle," he gasped, "is an occu pant of an insane asylum now. My God! Do you think do you snsjiect " "That your wife was insane when she (iis;:pp-arod m mysteriously? Yes, that is what I tLiuk, and now I would ndvise thut the different establishments for th .' care of the. insane, that are dis-tribiit-.il tliroue-hoiit the country, be looked through for your wife; she might Ik found. Mind you. 1 say wyif lx found; my own opinion is that she is dc.id." "We'll liegin the search to-morrow!" rlaclared Mr. Mansfield. "Nam- voitr price to help me anl consider yourself eligared." The search through the different in saue asylums began next day, and in a "private" institution of this kind, near ly a hundred miles from her home, Mrs. Mansfield was found. She was sane, too, as anybody, but prematurely old, from confinement in such a horrible place: but how h..ppy tha two were over their reunion, after being separated for .s long. Mrs. Matisiie'.d' . dory was soo:i tohL She had been taken with a sudden in sane notion that her hn .hand hated her and wished to make awur with her. She tho:it that, instead of go ing to th. opera, her hiishand was go ing to take her olF somewhere and murder her. With this fear to urge her on, she had returned to bernom on that evening, two years licfore, locked the door, cliiulted out of the window, descended I13- the lightning rod and taade her escape. She had wandered away, through the timber and across the country, to the rail road; lxvirding a train, she rod- to a town nearly a hundred miles distant. Here she left the train, and wandered again, until' picked tip by kind people and sent to the asylum for the insane. She came back to her right senses a few weeks after entering the asylum, but when she told them she was sane, and gave her name and address, they laughed at her, and never even thought of writing to the address she gavo them. So lespairipg. and . almost bearl broken, the poor woman was forced to remain an inmate of a mad house, a companion of mad men and women. It was terrible, end her joy ut regaining her freedom aud l Lng re stored to her home aud the arms of her loving husband, can lie better imag ined than described. Sin- never had a secoiiil touch of the dread malady, and among all theur many friends, there was never one who wits a more welcome visitor than the man who. sitting at his home thinking, had figured out the cause of Mrs. Mansfield's mysterious disappearance Mr. Ferret, the detective. S. A. D. Cox, in Yankee Llade. MECHANICAL NEWS. There art nearly six thousand pieces in 11 modern locomotive. CoMrurssKii paper is now used as a substitute for wood in the manufacture of shuttle and their wheels for looms. A itKslliKNT of Kvart, Mich., 1ms in vented a tie vice whereby brakes applied to a locomotive will operate every brake on tly train. " A si'VMl.F.sS steel lniat made front one piece of metal by hydraulic pressure promises to In- very desirable. It will last a great while and cannot leak. The steam-hammer used in forging the armor plates at licthlchcm has a plunge equal in weight to VZTt tons: tho anvil that receives this blow weighs 1,4(K) tons. Artificial grindstones, made of a mixture of pulverized quartz, powdered flint, powdered emery or corundum and rrbtuT dissolved by a suitable solvent, are now made for shariH'fi'i.ig tools which outwear by years any act ual stone known. Tiiky break up jams of logs iu the Androscoggin with dynamite. The charge is kished to a long pole and forced through the l -oiling water. The. jam leaves nt once. Formerly men went out on a jam. but it was very dan gerous. Sometimes eight cartridges are cxplodd at once. The Very Worst Smelt. An odor has Ik-cii found so frightful that the discoverers have In-en obliged to abandon its preparation. MM. Uau mati and Froinm, in experimenting at Freiburg, in Hrisgau, upon the organic, sulphur derivatives, caused hydrogen sulphide to set upon a-etone, and ob tained lx.'sides trithioaectone small quantities of a definite compound, non volatile and crystaline. CI5 lls S4. At the same time there is found a vere volatile I tody, having such a horribly idor that ethy luiereaptan, ethlene-uier-ciiptan and other volatile -.ulphur com pounds are perfumes compared with it. Pharmaceutical Lra, i! l; - I -r. -.1 I
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