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A WIFE LOST BY A PARROT.
MISS ELSIE BRUCE wm walking
down Ann Street. Just at a cross
ing a gentleman met her.
"Miss BtwceT'
"Mr. Weldon!"
Tben he was about to pons on. She
paused In a di4cima, for she bod several
rolls of muslo in her hand, and the crossing
was terribly muddy. .What a splendid
prospeot for bedraggled skirts !
Rioh Weldon saw her trouble. " Permit
me," he said.
She gave the muslo into his hand, and
was a happy woman again. Rich was very
much rejoioed, glad to get an opportunity
of assisting Miss Bruce. After the crossing
was passed, 'he did not relinquish tlio music,
but continued on by her bhIo.
Miss Etoio turned from Ann to Pike
Street. A block further up was hor fa
ther's residence.
" Please-conic in, Mr. Weldon,' she said,
at the gate.
Thank you, 1 believe I will go in for a
short time," he Baid.
Miss Elsie ushered him into the parlor.
" Excuse hie for a moment," she said.
She was gone but for a niinuto. As she
was returning there was a ring at the en
trance. ' . -.
She walked along the hall and opened
the door, not waiting for a servant to do so.
A tall young gentleman with a handsome
face and giiro was standing outside. Elsie
blushed a little and bowed. Tbo gentle
man returned her bow.
In a moment Elsie had recovered from
her embarrassment.
"Do come in, Mr. Montague," she said.
She took him to the parlor. As sho
showed blm in there was a slight twinkle
of misclHcf in her eye. The two gentlemen
who were about to meet were rivals, as she
was quite confident. Further, rivals for
the regaid of her own pretty self. They
bad neverimet before, either, she was cer
tain. "Mr. Weldon, Mr. Montngno," sho said.
"Mr Montague, Mr. Weldon."
InsMootively they bowed a little distrust
fully toaoh other. Each saw a rival in
the otler, and a man docs not feel comfort
able wtero bo beholds a trespasser on tho
peculuu-demain that ho hopes to call his
own. .
For an hour or two the three sat' and
talked. Their subjects are of no particu
lar importance to this narrative. Any one
can imagine how heartily each of the gen
tlemen wished the other absent, so that the
Nubjectof conversation might bo changed
to something a little more confidential. At
length, by a tacit understanding, they saw
that they mnst depart togother on this oc
casion. IVo all know that rivals never
give war it o.ech. other.
Mr. Weldon and Mr. Moutagie arose,
therefore, at the samo time, and, followed
by Miss Elsie, wout out into the hall. As
it chanced a. pet parrot was hanging there
in his cage
"Call again, air. Weldon."
Then beioro the sound had died away a
very sirutUr invitation rang out
" Call again, dir. Montague."
Miss Klaie .laughed, Mushed, and bowed
the gcutlemonout. Then sho returned to
that naughty parrot.
"You winked Wareor," she cried, "are
: not you ashamed of yourself ?"
"Kiwi me, EUiio," said tho parrot, in n
very pleasing tone.
" O, you wicked tyaicor, ,you shall hang
here no mtne,".cid MisslElsie.
"Fie ! Mr. Montague," returned Varcor.
Elsie placed iior bauds to her ears and
ran away laughing. Sho found a servant.
"Tuko Vtuvxjr'.s cago and hang it up
stairs nt tho back window."
Then Elsie suddenly bethought herself
t hat she had bettor .do that herself. And
hlie did, keeping herihauds upon dier ears
v as long as she eould. JIowevert she beard
a mingled muttering -of comical sentences.
Out on the street, Mr. Weldon bad walk
ed down toward the -east end of Pike
Street. Mr. Montague .tip toward the west
end.
"(I shall call to-UMrj'OAV .afternoon, " aid
Mr. Weldon to liiuutelf, "and ask hor to
marry me, for I lind that J. am desperately
smitten.
"To-nionow night lta!l.ooBie and tot!
Elxie that I love her," (taught Mr. Mon
tague, " and ask her to beaiy wiCo."
It is t.ingular, peihaps. Low a jos,rect
Ut( rivalry will hurry up nien lu Mono .mat
ters. .Punctual to time on the afternoon at the
iet day Mr. Weldon called again at the
Jiuuce residence, lie found Miss Elsie at
bulk'.
;K is not necessary to dwell here. Mr.
Woldon stammered around awhile, as men
usually do on such occasions, but finally
managed to state bis case.
. " Wiy, Mr. Weldon, you astonish oie,"
cried JClsie, in a surprised tone. " I have
never thought at all upon the subject, and
mint linv time to consider."
" How nuielj?" he asked.
" 0, a week."
Mr. Wldou groaned mentally. lint the
result wit Uioit he had to submit to delay.
He took his leave and Elsie sat thinking.
Somehow, as o thought of his ofl'cr, the
handsome face of Chtist'T Montnguo caine
Before her mind, i
"I believe I eould have answered this
afternoon," she murmured. " Why should
I delay t" She loft that question unan
swered, however.
It was eight o'clock when Mr. Montague
made his call on Pike Street. . Ho,. too, was
lucky enough to And Miss Elsie at home.
For an hour they talked on commonplace
subjects. At length the man reached the
subject next bis heart.
"I love you, Miss Elsie," he said.
" Will you be my wife ?" Elsie was silent.
He took her hand, and his eyes met hers.
In an instant her answer trembled on her
lips. Then a woman-like Idea entered her
brain.
"I will not be too easily won," she
thought.
" Mr. Montague, I will give you your an
swer in a fow days," she said aloud.
And he was too much of a gentleman to
Insist on having it sooner than i pleased
her to give it.
It was the next morning that she called
hor papa into the parlor. Mr. Bruce was a
strict church member, a little too strict in
his doctrines, perhaps, but a high-toned
honorable man.
" Papa," said Elsio, "I have two offers
of marriage."
" Humph 1" said Mr. Bruce. " Well ?"
" Mr. Weldon, and Mr. Montague. Papa
I want your advice."
" My dear, Mr. Weldon is my preference.
Ho has wealth, and can provide for you as
luxuriously as you have been accustomed
to live. Montague has no great amount of
this woild's goods, some I admit, but
still Mr. Weldon far exceeds bim in that
refspect."
" But, papa 1"
"Well, my dear."
" There are some arguments in favor of
Mr. Montague. He has a profession, and
though a young man now, he has talent
and will rise in the law. And papa I"
" Well, my dear."
"He is a church member, and you know
a consistent one."
Elsio had made a mistake, from this fact.
She should have allowed her father to ex
press no preforenoe for Mr. Weldon before
stating her arguments. In that case they
would probably have boon conclusive and
convincing, especially the last. But if Mr,
Bruce possessed one peculiarity above an
other it was that he was very stubborn.
When once he had taken a " set," it was
pretty hard to move him from it. So now
ho said :
" Elsio, I do not think I can give my
consent to your marrying Mr. Montague."
. And so the matter stood.
'
. Mr. Richard Weldon wag walking slowly
along the street upon which his home
was. Perhaps he was thinking of. Elsie,
perhaps of something else. Suddenly, his
thoughts were interrupted by the shouts of
a flock of men and boys behind him, who
came running toward him. He turned
around. Evidently the crowd were chasing
something. But what? Weldon could
not see at first. Presently his gaze, how
ever, rested on a bird flying slowly over
head. It. was a parrot.
On Hew the parrot, Mr. Weldon with
others, following along after it. Shortly it
lighted upon tho sill of an open window.
Now that open window was Mr. Weldon's
own, and doubtless the fates guided that
bird there. The crowd yelled and the par
rot hopped inside. The window was in the
second story of tho building, and as the
bird did not appear, a ladder was obtained
and placed ofton the window sill. Thon
Mr. Weldon ascended and closed the win
dow. The parrot was a captive. The
crowd was satisfied, and dispersed.
A couple of days passed. The end of Mr.
Weldon's week was approaching. But as
be had not beheld Miss Elsie since making
his proposal, ho felt that he could not en
dure to remain away from her any longer.
It could do no harm to call upon her, es
pecially as he had no intentions of troub
ling her with the old subject yet.
Acting upon his resolution, ho walked
up Pike Street. Just as he entered the
gate, some one came out nt t lie lull 1 door.
It was Chester Montague.
" Singular that I always meet that mini
bore, lutcly," muttered Mr. Weldon, frown
ing. However, he cleared the frown from
his brow, and greeted Mr. Montague cour
teously enough as he passed. It may as
well be stated here that Mr. Montague bad
not yot received his answer.
During bis call, Mr. Weldon adhered to
bis resolution, and said, nothing about tht
momentous question. It is ooly necessary
to refer to one portion of the conversation
between him and Miss Elsie.
" I have had a misfortune," said Elsie,
at one time. 1
" Why, what?" asked Mr. Weldon.
" Varcor, my parrot, has made his es
cape." Mr. Weldon was rejoiced. Then the par
rot that he hud at home lu a cage belonged
to Muis Elsie. Restoring it would be a
small matter, but then small matters some
times turned the current iii such a II u I i s as
his.
" Why, Miss Bruce," he exclaimed,"!
believe I had the good fortune to capture
your bird, and I have him caged now. If I
bad taken a thought I might have known
he belonged to you. I will bring him to
you this very afternoon. Ho has not been
happy with mo, for not a word has ho ut
tered since I captured him."
' After Mr. Weldon took his departure he
was not absent long. He returned shortly
with a parrot.
" Is this your bird ?" he atdtod.
Miss Elsio took the cage in her hand.
" Yes, It is Varcor," she ciled. " Speak
to me, Varcar."
But Varcor ruffled, up his feathers and
refused to utter a sound.
. " I am very grateful t to you, Mr. Wel
don," said Elsto, turning her attentions to
the gentleman.
lie remained another hour and thon
wont away. , . ,
Varcor's courso troubled Elsie, lie sat
in his cage, seemingly angry at the whole
world, and refused to give forth an utter
ance. This went on for twenty-four hours.
Then Elsie laid her cose before her papa.
She found him alone in the library, and
carried Varcor, cago and all, in to him.
" Papa, I bolieve Varcor is going to die,"
said pretty Miss Elsie.
"Mr. Bruce adjusted his spectacles.
" Elsie, it occurs to me that it is singular
that a woman who has the consideration of
her future fate in her hands at the present,
should let her mind be occupied with such
trivial matters."
" Papa, I supposo it is because I am a
woman," laughed Elsie.
Varcor ruflled his feathers, smoothed
them again, and then hopped up pertly.
" Elsio," said Mr. Bruce, gravely, " I
should suppose that you 'would realize "
" The devil 1" interrupted an Irreverent
voice.
. " Whence came that note of sin ?" ' ex
claimed Mr. Bruce, looking around in be
wilderment. " Hellilugins," repeated the voice.
Mr. Bruce leaped to bis feet.
" Am I bewitchod ?" ho questioned.
The answer was :
"I'm Captain Jinks of the boss marines ;
I'm a captain in the army."
Then it all becamo apparent. The voice
was from Varcor's cage. His long period
of silence was over. The talented bird had
changed tutors, to some purpose, ' yon see.
''I'm a daring young man with a flying
trapeze ; I can fly through the air with the
greatest of ease," proceeding with his
choice extracts.
Mr.' Bruce walked around the cage. He
eyed it in sheer dismay. Varcor hopped
towards him. " ''
"Old skinflint, old skinflint, old skin
flint," he snapped out.
"That bird must die," roared Mr. Bruce
He seized lhe cage, and opened it, while
Elsie fled from the apartment in tears.
I But Mr. Bruce bad reckoned without his
host. . Varcor had relapsed into total de
pravity. As ho reached his arm in the
. oago Varcor seized his linger, and held on
. till it was withdrawn. - .
. Mr. Bruce danced around tho room snap
ping bis fingers together. His spectacles
were dashed to the floor and broken. He
ran against a table covered with books and
vases, and it overturned with a crash.
Meantime Varcor released his bold, and
flew out at the hall door. lie fired a part
ing shot as he went.
"T-h-e d.e-v-i-1-1"
Mr. Bruce sprang after him, but he flit
ted along the hall and into the parlor. A
window was open there, and ho made his
escape forever. Elsie was tboro,
" Where has that bird boon ?" foamed
Mr. Bruce.
Mr. Weldon bus had him for a few days,"
Elsie faltered. .
"Who?"
"Mr. Weldon."
" Mr. Weldon I Ha ! and he wants to
marry you. Evidently' he is a very bad
roan himself and must keep very bad com
pany. Ho shall never marry you. You
shall marry Mr. Montague to-morrow, if
you want to. Weldon's a scoundrel."
And Mr. Bruce rushed away to cool his
wratb.
Well, Elsie did not marry Mr. Montague
as soon as Mr. Bruce had indicated. But
she did dually become his wife.
Varcor was never seen in that viciuity
afterwards. If he has received tho reward
he should have for his aptness in taking
lessons from Mr. Weldon, he Is traveling
with a circus and acquiring fame. .
A Wife's Mistake.
Two or three months since tho body of a
drowned man was found in the Delaware,
at Philadelphia, and lakeu to the Morgue
for identification. About that timo one
Anthony Murphy, who resided in Ahiska
street, was missing from his house. Some
of his relatives visited the Morgue and
identified the body as thut of Murphy.
Tho body was removed to . the housu on
Aluska street, and Mrs. Murphy declared
that it wns her husbuud. Arrangements
were made for the funeral, and the man
was buried as Anthony Murphy. Lost
Thursday evening, whilo the family was
quietly sitting in the house, Authony
Murphy walked in. He was in good health
and was at once recognized by Mrs.
Murphy. Explanations ensued, and the
general rejoicing can be better imagined
thau described,
t33" If you can from your heart forgive an
other for Christ's sake, you huvo no reason
to doubt that Ood has forgiven you.
tW Trlde cannot boar reproof, hut hu
mility bows before It. I
A Remarkable Conviction. '
IROM the reports of the Supreme
, Court's proceedings, says the ; St.
Louis Globe, we are able to give the par
ticulars of a remarkable murder that oc
curred here nearly twenty years ago. There
was no witness to the crime, the body of
the murdered woman was never found, and
the criminal suffered the extreme penalty
of the law on the strength of his own con
fession. Tbo popular idea that "murder
will out" found in this case a striking cor
roboration. George H. Lamb, aged about 40 years,
was indicted for tho murder of. his wife,
Sarah S. Lamb, by drowning in the Mis
sissippi river In December, 1857. The evi
dence chiefly relied upon on the part of the
State was the confession of Lamb, volun
tarily made by him before Rudolph Her
kenrath, a justice of the peace, before
whom he was examined in tho city of St.
Louis.
Prisoner's statemont was in substance as
follows : "I was married to Sarah S. Staf
ford in the court house, Quincy, 111., in
November, 1850, by a justice of the peace.
I was then a resident of Mendota, La Salle
county, Illinois. I did not take my wife to
Mondoto, but left her with her father at
Hamilton. In November, 18S7, I went
some place South to spend the winter. My
wife and I came to St. Louis about tho 38th
of November, 1857. Wo got here by day
light, and took breakfast and dinnor at
King's Hotel. From there we weut to the
Astor i House, on Franklin avenue. My
wifo was unwell, during the time we wore
at the Astor House. I had two physicians
attending her. Her sickness was caused
by my giving her poison, strychnine.
I bought it for the purpose of giving
it to her. I . think I gave it to her
twioe. My intention was to dispose of
her some woy. I had it in my mind to de
stroy her. I gave hor what the physician
prescribed, and , she recovered from the ef
fects of the poison administered. She threw
it up. About the 17th of December we left
the Astor House. The sun might have
been two or three hours high. J told her I
was going down the river i to Carondelot.
We left there in a baggage wagon. Nobody
went with tis buti the driver. . We took a
bandbox- with a boniiot in it. She was ap
parently perfectly willing to go. I think
the driver was a colored Uian. Wo started
down tho river in av skiff. I put some stones
in the boat, remarking they were to keep it
even. My design was to use the stoues to
sink her body. I noticed an island or
sand bur. It was above Carondelot. We
proceeded half way down the island on tho
cast side, near the channel where tho
steamers run. It was considerably dark.
I put my band right back of her neck and
pushed her head under the water ; it lay
down about two minutes under the water.
I then raised her partly out. She was dead.
Her death was caused by my holding .her
bead under the water. I took her shawl
aud bonnet off ; got some twino, and after
sinking the body I went ashoro. 3t was
getting dark when I threw ber overboard.
I designed drowning roy wifo when at the
Astor House. I felt dissatisfied, aud felt as
if I could not live happily with her. That
was my motive for drowning hor. She had
never said or done auything to oauso mo to
feel that way thut I can think of. I cannot
say that I had any-feelings towards her
or her relatives. 1 came up to the city
about 0 o'clock that night. 1 think I left
tho city next day. I went right to ber pa
rents, and took ber baggage there. I told
them I had buried her in Memphis.
On December 80, 1857 1 married a girl
by the name of Louisa ShortlifT. I married
her so soon after the death of my wife be
cause she said that she would not wait any
longer. She did not know anything of
this. She was perfectly innocent. I bad
been keeping company with her along
through the fall mouths. 1 have endea
ored to make a frank confessiou. I have
once left the church. It is tho transgres
sion of my duties toward my God that has
brought me bore."
lu connection with tho above statement,
it may be remarked that suspicion was first
exoited against tho prisoner on account of
his marrying so soon after the death of his
first wife, . His contradictory stories as to
her death led to an investigation that led
to liU arrest.
Tho Supreme Court aflirmed the ruling
of the lower vouit, and did nut disturb the
suuteucp, which was death. Ho was ex
ecuted at the gallows, then situated near
Sixth and Chestnut streets. His manner
at the time, as described by an eye-witness,
was as might have been expected. His I
coward soul quailed withiu him, and his
attenuated form had to be supported by two
meu before the fatal noose was adjusted
One of tho important points decided by
the Supreme Court in this caso was that if
the jury were satisfied that a crime had
been committed, it was not necessary that
the dead body sliuuld bo identified or dis.
covered.
VS" There Ua story of a country clergy
man who was sent for suddenly to a cot
tage, where ho found a m.in in bed, "Well,
my friend," said the pastor, " what induced
you to send for me ?" Tho patient, who
was rather deaf, appealed to his wife.
"What do ho say ?" "Mo says," shouted
the woman, " what tht deuce did yoi scud
for him for''"'
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