——————_—"3 LOST LIGHT. 1 eanno’ make her smile come back That sunshine of her face That used to make this worn earth seem, At times, so gay a place. The same dear eyes look out at me; The features are the samo; But, oh! the smile is out of them, And I must be to blame. Bometimes see it still; T went With her the other day, To meet a long-missed friend, and while We still were on the way, Here confidence in waiting love Brought back, for me to see, That old-time love-light to her eyes That will not shine for me. They tell me money waits for me; They say I might have fame. I like those gowgaws quite as well As others like those same. But 1 care not for what I have, Nor lust for what | lack One tithe as much as my heart longs To call that lost light back. Come back! dear banished smile, come back ! And into exile drive All thoughts, and aims, ana jealous hopes That in thy stead would thrive, Who wants the earth without the sun? And what has life for me That's worth a thought, if, as it's price, It leaves me robbed of thee! — Edward 8. Martin, in Scribner, FOUND GUILTY. The man who its down to deliberately plan a crime works every point and de- | tail to one common centre—an alibi. The | Jaw has common sense enough in this one particular to presume that a man who is | in Boston, for instance, when a murder is committed in Ciocinnati could not have fired the shot struck the blow. Therefore, let one of crime | prove to the jury that he was at some other point at a certain critical hour, and he must be declared innocent. This] knowledge makes the alibi a favorite de- | fence. If not clearly proved, it always | raises doubts and affords opportunity for | argument. On the other hand, however, | when an alibi is fairly beaten by the | prosecution, then circumstantial evidence becomes the death-trap of the accused, | and he has no show, One of the best laid alibis I ever ran up against in my career as a detective, and one of the easiest to work out after | I got the end of the thread in hand, ws put forward in a case in Jowa about twen- ty years ago. The situation was this: In a small village in the western part of the State lived a Miss Clarinda Moore, a spinster about forty-five years of age. She was worth £50,000, and she had | adopted a boy named Byron Fergus. At the date of which I am writing this boy | was no longer » boy, but a young man of | twenty-three. He was employed as a clerk in a dry goods house, and boarded and lodged at home. He wgs adopted at the age of twelve, and the day he | reached his majority Miss Moore made a will leaving him. everything. This fact | was known to all in the village, Fergus was a model young man. No one could | point out a single bad habit, He was trusted and respected by all, and had he been accused of the slightest dishonesty, or accused — on no one would have believed the charge In a smaller village six miles Fergus had an aunt who was a widow, and lived alone, with the exception of having the company of servant girl. He was in the habit of going over there | about once in two months and remaining | over Sunday. On these trips he drove a horse and buggy belonging to the vil- lage cooper. The horse had a peculiar | habit which will be described later One BSaturdsy evening of a July day, Fergus drove away on one of the se trips. There were two or three women at the gate in company with Miss Moore when he drove away. The only thing out of | the usual run was the remark that Byron | looked rather pale and seemed 3 53% ous, but probably this never would have been thought of but for what came to 8 away a SEPY ETY At 11 o'clock that night there was a thunder storm and an insurance agent | who was on the road between the two vil | Iages with horse and buggy, drove into & fence corner and sheltered himself as well | as possible with the water proofs. In the midst of the storm a horse and buggy came along. The driver was so enveloped | by waterproofs that the agent could not | tell whether he was old or young, large or small, white or black. At that spot | the road had been lately graded up and | was very soft. The stranger was urging | the horse to trot, but the beast found the | mud too deep and could only proceed at | a walk. As the strange horte came op- | ite, there was a long, vivid flash of | Behtning and the agent saw that the | animal had his head turned to the right | and his tongue out. This was the peculiar | habit of the cooper's horse when on a walk. When trotting he held up his head | and kept his tongue back. The agent | identified the hore to his perfect satis. | faction and called out to the driver, ask. ing who he was. Instead of halting or replying the man struck the horse sha ly with the whip and was out of sight in a moment, “That's old Bhepperd (the coope.), and he's afraid 1 am 8 highwayman I" lsughed the agent, and the rain now beginning to he made ready to resume his jour. eS ian Moore was an early riser, and moreover never missed church services As the day was fine, and she was not seen at church, two or three of her friends called at the house on thelr way to ascer- tain her excuse, ound the cur. locked, As { where | He had in a few minutes it was discovered that a murder had been committed, The dead body of Miss Moore was found in the sit. ting room, at the door of her bedroom, She had been struck three terrible blows with a club or other blunt weapon, each one breaking the skull. I was visiting the Sheriff at this time, and we were driving through the village when the first alarm was sounded. I was, therefore, at the house among the first, and being placed in charge by the Sheriff, 1 kept the people out until 1 could make | an investigation. The murderer had not | obtained forcible entry to the house. | Not a single article of value had been re- moved, nor had any ransacking been done. The woman had been struck | down where the body lay, but her hands were clenched as if sho had grasped the weapon of death and it had been pulled | away from her, The palm of one hand was torn and bleeding. i I did not know | either the dead woman or Fergus, but 1 wanted authority to arrest the latter. When this fact became known I was re- garded as an idiot or a lunatic. A gen- | eral cry went up that Fergus could no more be suspected than an angel in heaven, but while the Sheriff was left to secure the necessary papers, I drove out to interview the young mmn and break the news to him. If Fergus was guilty, his defence would be an alibi, and he had carefully arranged the details. He would be expecting the news, and he would be | braced up to play a part, I found him making ready to hitch up to drive back. He had never seen me before, and he did not know my profes- sion. As entered the barn he startled and turned pale, but recovered himself after a minute, and nature of my business, “You know, Moore is dead?” 1 care CHowhow exclaimed, turning very “Well, she is dead, poor thing.’ looked : he ait asked t should “And do they charge “With what “Her murder” “1 hadn't told you sim did you knov He saw the trap he had fallen into he gasped and stammered best to smooth it over, 1 pretende to lay it up as a point against | speedily arranged that he ald return iz my vehicle and leave the cooper’s it was. After the first shock he braced up wonderfully, and his demeanor on the way home was entirely that of an innocent man. He expressed great will ingness to give us all possible informa- tion, but at the same time advanced and clung to the theory that no one but a tramp could have guilty of the crime. Upon reaching home he displayed considerable ¢ In fact, he rather overdid it i more like acting out a part, was murder Hq had been murdered t she was dead ¥ L341) been rief and emotion. It w The § dignant that he should be suspected he was not put under restraint, . pee were in. nile ni ! no warrant had been issued for him Early the next morning, satisfied in my own mind that Fergus was tl I drove out to his sunt's I found ti he arrived there at 7 ck night, Half an hour later he complaine of hie veda he and we nt to Iw d, lown again by 9 o'clock he did he girl knoe on his door but rec murderer, oO Saturd EBRYing would be ked nt eiving { disturb him mates of ti day morni as window was up, an she crossed was han in found the co pet Fergus had done thi not made a : horse, however, and 1 found pl nity mud on his fetlocks As it was dosty Saturday night when he was driven over, this mud must have been picked up after the storm. I found the h damp fr being the cloth cushion of ZR still damp Hunting further, I found the fresh tracks of horse and turning barnyard after the rain. The the room oc upied by Fi TRUS opens ad on the roof of the shed. At the lower edge of the roof stood a leach. On the edges of this leach snd on the roof I found mud. On the earpet in Fergus's room | found more of it. He had scraped and of srness stiff and mn wet, and the bu WAS into the of buggy window | cleaned his boots and flung the dirt into a stove, whence [ got half a pound. All this I got without the aunt suspect. ing that I was after proofs. 1 then re turned to the scene of the murder, and after an hour's search discovered the place where a horse had been hitched for some time. It was in the rear of the house, om an open space, and under a tree, and the horse had pawed up the ground and gnawed the bark of the tree, The footprints of a man could be faintly traced across the garden, and 1 had no doubt that Fergus came and went this way. On the fourth day after the funeral 1 learned from the insurance man what he had seen during the storm, and then a warrant was issued and Fergus was taken into custody. By this time the towns. people had begun to think it a queer case. Fergus had gone over the bouse and de. clared that nothing had been taken. No suspicious characters had been noticed in the neighborhood. Jewelry and money had been left lying on the bureau, show - ing that the object could not have been plunder. Did the woman have any enemy? No, not one, as far as we could learn, Who could profit by her death? No one but P , and yet ths was one of the strong points he brought forward, It'was known to a score of that she had made her will in his favor. Would not everything be his at her death? To clinch our case and make circum. capital OAR double it in one year in a logiti- mate enterprise. For particulars address Box 801," ete, Another rend : If yon have nerve and 83000 in cash we will make you a millionaire in one year, We permit the fullest investigation before invest ment, Write for particulars, A third just hit his case: Are you a young and ambitious man, feel ing that you could get ahead if properly backed and encouraged! Have you any money? Can you get from one thousand to three thous sand? If so, we will positively guarantee you $100 in return for every dollar, and inside of a year, I feit sure he had written some of these parties, but as 1 could not find any let- | 4 | fan plisses, ters from them 1 set out to hunt them up in person. They were bold-faced swind- lers, and they bothered me some, but in the end I got five Fergus. In one of them he stated that he would soon have money to invest, and expressed his satisfaction at the par- ticulars of the speculation as far as given him. The greed of gain, then was his incentive. The woman, who had been mother and sister to him came of a long- lived race, and was in good health, and a month before her death was told by a doctor in the hearing of Fergus that she letters written by | | Japanese lantern, ganized in 8t, Paul, was likely to live to be ninety or one | hundred years old. Until her death the young man could hope for litte or noth- ing, as she was obliged to make the in- terest of her capital support her Murderer or not, the boy was the legal heir, and he employed the best legal talent in the West to defend him. The lawyers might take every dollar if they could but clear him. It was veritable life with all the mon it side, a ey and most on one Had Fergus frank re ply to ear h ques explained it. Being made mat- fourteen 0G away. only CYARsIONs ters worse The jury were out i rdict of guilty, a full hours before finding a ve but within an hour he { fession. He told me tha had made at The Girl and the Dade. rhtin r mad metimes be ——— with one us still when women in r. because in such York letter to the Cincinnati is nobody to be whipped ghly of a cer- ue < happie be Cases, itlogical act emulated, he ocourre nce Was Irese nes my | A pretty and rich tered estaur 1 ant and en proceeded attract her g daunted, Soon ti : paper I 1 th s 10 « wl wi niling in a very WAY as he tore open ! be Spr ad out the paper within, I saw his countenance change Hke sh. I looked ler, Ya in out On the over his shoul made hing. me burst paper was a drawing of the g man, looking as like : tograph, but the head was put on the body of a don key, and the flap ears hung down over h him very foolish, for a donkey. Well, that dandy got was a caution. He looked as though he would have liked to insult the gir] at first for revenge, but he thought better of it, and walked out as stiff and indifferent as he could. That ended the scene. But grea his making the way out the next day the dandy, an athletic sort | of fellow sought out the brother of the girl and give him a vicarious thrashing. He couldu’t whip the offender, but be bestowed a whipping on the male portion of the family and doubtless felt better for it. Tee Water Shortens Life, Water for drinking purposes, says Dr, William A. Hammond, should never be below fifty degrees, We can almost al- ways get it even in the hottest weather | as cool as this by letting it run a minute or two from any houwschold faucet, or drawing it from any country well, the point mentioned, “monkey,” which can now be had almost anywhere in this country, aad by means of which the contaived water is cooled by its own evaporation, answers the pur. pose admimbly. Iam quite sure that, if water should be generally discarded as a drink, the average duration of life would be lengthened and existence ren. dered more tolerable, | A Tuxedo Park, The entire property of Tuxedo Park, the fashionable country resort for wealthy How Xtstids hind heen deeded in trust to Mr. Lorillard’s children, snd i it keeps on rnin or value and . larity for twenty-five years as it Ly Jo Xa two years, it will be a ver. more than in itself, There are now It | not, there is no objection to cooling it to | instructor, has become so much of an in- The East India | i room. ~ 31 NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, 1 Old-fashioned barege is revived, Foulards are again in high favor. Ecru pongee is used for petticoats, Summer gowns are trimmed but not | draped, Black is still the leading favorite among | colors. Gloves of chamois skin are used for | shopping. Moonstone jewelry is very popular just ut present. The skirts of tulle dresses are made in English women refuse to adopt the low- crowned hat, The newest thing in work-baskets is A labor lyceum for women has been or- Soft finished piques are sometimes used for tennis costumes. Tan colored leather is used extensively for trimming dresses, Rhinestone belt buckles panced this summer, are counte- Belvedges form the trimming to some | of the summer gowns, A woman's exchange has been opened in Brook street, London. Low hats tied on with strings are worn at tennis parties, White China silk is one of fabrics for summer dresses, Mrs. Mary J. Holmes is in Italy gath ering points for a new story. narrow | the favorite women in the United States are practising lawyers. Seventy-five Ribbons intended for sashes in width from ten Mrs, Oscar Wilde is popular women orat Vary to twelve inches of rs in Engle one Tapestry painting Is the craze of the art students. N 1 Gn oir : Ang gan Empire der side Englishmen who aflect the sing! gases use one encircled with a gold rim. and chamois trimmings are traveling and. utility suits, Leather alin Beer Ll LH The new rococo ribbons look like the is of flower garden in full June bi and whit Gesigo Silk gowns in black when Tucks on the tucks on the waist, mn pkirt, sloowes, where! Ribbons for dresses, hats snd bonnets come in widths varying from two seven inches Mrs. D. G. Croly (Jeanie Tune) is about to start a new paper called the Woman's Century. Women interviewers are said to Ix than far n successful men on London BOWED pers re Batiste dresses, will fs watering plac with parasol to match, serve all-day dresses at Fancy sleeves of some thin fabric are 1 bio { worn this in tennis ses of thicke All the new jerseys are made the SORRON material. as possible after jonable bodies " i twilled silk of the Em taste for sh aa they suit dresses and that of 1830 There f tit business of dress are eight ladies ie in Eng land who carry on the and mantle making A Philadelphia washerwoman contrib uted the only matire had for Johnstown sufferers $s af ts she There over 3.000.000 women in this country who are engaged in work which is not domestic are A young woman who has her own liv. ing to make ne disembarrass her self of all false pride, ods to Among the dressy yet terials of the season printed mohairs and alpacas inexpensive ma are beautifully Irish poplins are beautiful in combina. tion with soft woolen material, as they come in such lovely tintings The Elmira (N. Y.) College is the oldest college in the world chartered for the education of women. Miss Susan B. Anthony is nearly seventy, but ber figure is straighter thas that of many a girl of seventeen. Dr. Giusepina Cattant is a woman, and she has been appointed lecturer on path ology at the University of Bologua, Italy. The long handied double eyeglasses now used so much by ladies seem to em- power them with the privilege to stare. | Zotique Kandahar, of Chicago, claims to have discovered a potion which will change blondes to brunettes, and vice versa, Miss Juliet Corson, the cooking school valid that she is not able to leave her A popular Bt. Louis girl recently re. Hs i iM i { killed 500 alligators in Florida ! son, | sunt who memorized { of a British penny in an oyster served them out, SELECT SIFTINGS. One of the students of Princeton is | seventy-three years old, The tomb of Virgil at Posilippo, just | outside Naples, is for sale. The amount of pressure in an ordinary | bandshake is eleven pounds, Cowboys are seriously contemplating | . | most important point in the British pos. the use of ostriches for herding cattle, {| A Chicago enthusiest talks of erecting | a tower in that city, 2000 feet in height, Oxford University, England, hss the appliances for printing in 150 languages. Red Clond, tbs Sioux chief, calls a | | certificate of character *‘a sugar paper.” Eugene Moore Inst sea- A gentleman named A Chicago faith-healer refused to treat | a man for dyspepsia because he would ent pickles, Travelers say that in Victoria, Austra | lia, there are trees more than 500 feet in height, W. D. Howells, novelist, had an half of Webster's the Dictionary. The Madras (India) Museum is said | now to possess the skeleton of the largest elephant ever killed in India, While traveling on a Western trin Jay Gould once drew up a check for several millions on the back of an envelope of the finding at The Boston papers tell # restaurant in that city the other day. There are seventy-three different stock of languages and nearly 800 dialec ted i Indi rica. ts rey aus of North reser Am The me #0 Inrge that he can readily uth of a Ge Wa C0 Inrge basball and thea leave hands to remove it neient thi ngland paid a fine Limes Aciar indren Ernald d) to King dipped with potassic chlor bottle of were , iguited by dipping into a concentrated sulphuric acid, manufscured and used in 1838 first made in 1 ali sntimony sulphide the chon matches were and OTUs Was Us d is sumuner a the size of the tower Mass... will be erected ford to mark fortification which Charles River, pew be the believes to he here is a degrth ¢ n this year, on account of commer Previous large sales {43 iu TORRONE. flower have rm 2oced the price so that the Dutch gr the bi to Were Wa et be « allowed to die 1 are carted off in he ’ are Lhe The military custom the hand into a ho r the evebrows is t § SUPP y cnt of the middle of I wer RT queen « wh the day she sat, nights sports of on which shielded bu aunty. thelr eyes i — The I=genions Little Prairie Dog. Major Benteen, tirement in Atlanta, was est frontier officers, and Custer expedition, which « He is a great observer of 1 and his narrative of st Is quiet as brilliant as are his recitals of con pending | ne of the who army incidents, *‘Not a blade of gross will grow, "said he, Y“whore takes up his abode.” “The prairie dog in burrows The burrows run down to a depth of five or six feet, then they tarn upward run. ning near the surface of the ground for several feet. The reason they make this turn in the burrows is to prevent water from drowning them out, and to take more precaution they work the dirt up a praivu aol lives around the mouth of their burrows to the | hight of a foot, sometimes more. There are a great many mistakes concerning the habits of those ingenious little animals Some claim that if ope is shot near his burrow he will frawl back into his burrow | | before he dies, but that is all a mistake. 1 have shot them while they would be in the mouth of their burrow and then took They live on cactus, as it js called by some, “The prairie dog is about the size of a fox squirrel, and is almost the color of one. They are very destructive to crops, The farmers poison thousands of them, Ees)s 32a ; ? i it {| took fire. Some think that a prairie dog | | enters his burrow at the coming of winter | | and remains there until spring calls hin: | forth, but that is another mistake. 1 ; have seen them walking in the snow hunt. | ing for something to eat, i kiy . | eeived during a short spell of sickness | alate andl Toots and. prickly peat, . of B00 roses and forty-eight pounds of ad ssi The True Hero of Waterloo, The Duke of Wellington was once asked who, in kis opinion, was the bravest man at Waterloo. #1 can't tell you that,” he said, ‘birt I ean tell youof one than whom I am sure there was fio braver. There was a private in the ar- rillery, A farm house, with an orchard surrounded by a thick hedge, formed a held The seasion, and was ordered to be against the enemy at any sncrifice, { hottest of the battle raged around this point, but the English behaved well, and beat back the French again and again, “At last the powder and ball were found to be running short; at the same time the hedges surrounding the orchard In the meantime & messenger had been sent to the rear for more pow - der and ball, in nu short time two loaded wagons came galloping down to the farm. house, the gallant defenders of which were keeping up a scanty fire through the flames which surrounded the post. The driver of the first wagon spurred his struggling horses through the burning heap, but the flames rose fiercely round and caught the powder, which exploded, sending rider, horses and wagon in frag- For instagt the second wagon paused, ap- ; the next, mes, beaten back plosion, afforded , he sent his smouldering breach and, rrison, landed Behind him the vd raged more fiercely ver lived to s act merited, MW Was CAOUSH CRS ments in the air, driver of t palied by observing that the fi for a mon him one one comrade’s fate ee his 4 nt by the ex Ge dL rate chance the within. id develon. votes for 14 000, Why They Lead, i all others, be. Lely possessing bh superior cura 2 but manufac. y 12 poopie (as they werees medic ier medicines are sch y shall eliher benelt or ery” for cata : throat time and given a falr trial. Money will b funded if 1t does not benefit or cure and Hets--gently laxative or aoe relng todose. 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