THE SCRANTON TRIBUTE WEDNESDAY MORaJLNfcr. MAYT 22, 1895.
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I Eye of Beatrice, t
iTO By EDWARD J. WHEELOCK.
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Shortly before 3 o'clock on the mni
lng of the 7th of May, 1SS1, four ycc-.yg
men sat playlnB whlnt in an uiip;r
room of one of the best-known clubs uf
New York.
For obvious reasons we will, in tlio
present narrative, disguise the title of
thla orgimination under the name of
"The Myrtk."
Of the h.,r young men we are con
cerned with." but one. Thi3 was Roper
Laroue, a black-haired, black-iyed
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Wish n Scream of A?ony Ilo Threw I'p
Ills Hi: litis.
younff fello-y, with a shifting praze and
uncommonly flood luck at cards. ire
was dressed faultlessly, appeared suf
ficiently wealthy for all mundane pur
poses, lived In a state of carelias bache
lorhood, had no known relatives ll' ln;,
End had dropped Intu Gotham so;:!."-ly
a year or fo before from Paris or rer
un or some other place where it v.vuld
be equally impossible to hunt up 1:1s
antecedent.'.
In London such a man would bo
promptly black-balled at any respecta
ble club. Hut In New York tilings are
done differently, 1 and Roger's appli
cation for membership In "The Myrtles"
had been backed by two of the fore
most leaders of the ulra-frllded set.
The room in which the quartette sat
was in nowise different from dozens of
such semJ-private rooms in fashionable
clubs the world over. It was papered
in deep maroon. The furniture and
walnscotting were of heavy oak. Upon
lone side of the room was the door,
hung with a rich Oriental portiere.
Upon another were two road windows
overlooking the electric-lighted square.
Upon another there simply hunt? an
etching or two in broad white and gilt
frames.
Upon the fourtlr-was-an antique man
tel with oak paneling. Over this man
tel hung a beautiful copy in oils of the
Breatrlce Cencl, with those calm, lucid
eyes following every movement of the
inmates of the room.
Through tha disposition of the whist
players Roser Laroue sat with his back
to the mantel, ind f.ie Beatrice Cenci
gazed down upon the top of Ms head.
The game" had been in progress since
midnight.
One of the players, at the end of a
certain hand, touched an electric bell,
and a' moment later a ciub waiter ap
peared. '
"Alfonse, some more brandy, ; and
some cigars."
"A dash of absinthe with mine," mut
tered Roger Laroue, absorbed In the
hand which hadfallen to his lot hi the
new deal.
Alfonso was not 'the typical club
waiter. -Hi "dress uH was Irreproach
able, his face was clean-shaven, his at
titude was respectful. But his cadav
erous face was disquieting, and he had
big green eyes that made him an un
comfortable man to look full in the
face. He claimed to be a Pole, and
epoke English with a barbarous accent.
He was not a favorite with the mem
bers, but as he had been with "The
Myrtle" for six months, and no spe
cific fault could be found with him, he
was tolerated.
It the four young men had been less
Interested In the painted bits of paste
board tonight they might have noticed
that Alfonse's green eyes were fastened
upon Rogur Laroua's face during the
entire time he was in the room.
.And there was an ominous light flick
ering In the depths of those catlike
orbs. '
The brandy and cigars were brought,
and the garaa proceeded. For some
minutes the silence was only broken
by the shuffle and flip of the cards
upon the table.
Three was chimed by the silvery boll
of a dainty ormula clock beneath the
Beatrice Cenci.
Suddenly there was a sharp, swift
swish in the air like the night of a
heavy whip.
With a acream of agony, Roger La
roue threw up his handu, raining the
cards about him, and, with a single
moan, dropped heavily to the floor.
When his friends went to his assist
ance he was dead.
, When one of the most skillful sur
geons In New York came to make the
posit mortem this was what he found.
A Jagged wound about a quarter of
an Inch In diameter, situated in the
back of the dead man's head almost dl
reotly over the suture between the oc
cipital and parietal bones.
Imbedded deeply In the brain a small,
bard bullet, 6t evidently some composi
tion of lead with antimony or copper,
and nearly square In shape.
Beyond this, nothing.
At the Inquest the only relevant testi
mony was that given by the three other
card players, and this was mainly neg
ative In character eo far as the ques
tion as to what killed Roger Laroue
was concerned.
Tlwy had seen their friend sitting be
fore them one moment; had heard him
scream and seen him fall the next.
There had been no report, as of a gun
or revolver, no emoke, no smell, no
sound, saving that mysterious swishing
of tho air -which had preceded the ca
tastrophe. There- had been nobody else
in the room but the four whist play
ers, nor, so far as was known, had
there been anybody else in that portion
of the clubhouse, the. maroon papered
room being in the third story.
This was the standing of the case
when lit was put Into the hands of Ser
geant Detective' Btacey, of Inspector
Byrnes' staff for solution. -.!.'
Btacey was not a shrewd detective
by any means, but he had acquired
the reputation 'of being one of the most
brilliant guessers on the metropolitan
fores. That Is to say, by putting to
It
gether in his mind the scattered facts
of a. puzzling case he could hit at the
solution as by inspiration, without the
troublesome necessity of running down
all manner uf Intleniilcant clews.
Two weeks labor another young man
was killed in the ircarcon-papered room
of the "The Myrtle" In precisely the
same way. His name waa Hugues Nar-b-jn.
He was a Parisian artist, had
bo?n in New York but a few months
on a visit, and was not a member of
"The Myrtle," but had free entree
thsre on, a privileged card.
He, too, h id tut with hla back to tho
oaken nutntel and the Beatrice Cenci;
lu, tea, hud fallen dead with a Jagged
wound in the head made by a square
bullet; and his death had been pre-ced.-d
by the same mysterious swish
ing sound that had been heard before
R.iger L-rouo'a fall.
About this time there lived amid the
wilderness of upper Fifth avenue the
CoimtcMi Claire Brodcky, of Saint
IVtci-sburtj.
The Counters Claire was about 35,
blur-do. supple, wealthy and widowed.
Her Eoel.il status was undoubted, be
cmuo traveled Americans had attended
her anion In the Czar's capital, had met
her Ute husband, wV was of the
Czar'o diplomatic suite, and all the
world hud hc.ird of the tragedy of De
cember, 1879, when tha Count Nlcolal
Brodcky, having unwittingly stumbled
Into a npLt of Nihilists In the lower
quarters uf Mosc.w while on a mid
night iMlstorlntr bout, had fallen with
twenty knlta wauads In as many parts
of bin body.
It Is a natural deduction, therefore,
that the Couut.;sa Claire had no par
ticular love for Nihilists or the prin
ciples they represented, and It was sur
prising to her friends that after her
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He Kept Ills Eye on Alplionso.
husband's death she should voluntarily
have shifted her residence first to
Paris and afterward to New York the
two cities above all others which teem
with tha varied elements of repub
licanism and democracy.
New York society could find no fault
with her. Her establishment was mag
niii'ient, her entertainments were con-
ntli rally Buperb, and she was re
ceived everywhere. She iwas a society
queen so far as any woman can be in
a country where "society" Is but a
relativo term and Is applied indifferent
ly to every stratum of tl. community.
Hut behind all this worldllness was
the woman's heart and soul, the depths
o." which no one had thus far sounded.
She had no Intimate friends; she had
no loverj.
She had been passionately devoted
to her husband, and the shadow of his
death hur.g over hor still.
What had brought her to America?
If any one were Impertinent enough
to ask her she would unhesitatingly
raply that it was to escape the memo
lies of her happy married life which
tormented her among the familiar
scenes of St. Petersburg and Moscow,
Cracow aad Vienna, and other cities
wheru hi.-. husband' j diplomatic duties
had c'allod lslm. Besides, she averred
an Intense admiration for the Ameri
cans and the American character.
"But there are Nihilists In Ameri
ca," ventured an acquaintance one
day.
"I know it," she replied, in a low
voice, with a repressed shudder.
It really did not appear as though
Staoey had made much progress on the
cas.j after a week's work, From the
point of vie-w of the average mortal
this wis what he had done:
Made a casual Inspection of the ma-room-papered
room, and found noth
ing. Questioned the club servants one by
one, and, of course, obtained nothing.
Not exactly, either, for there was
one point' which Kacey seized and
made URa of 83 a possible foundation
for torn .' of Ills chiracteristlc keen offi
cial guesjlng. This was the fact that
both ciin had been in New York but
a comparatively short time before their
death, r,nd that both had previously
lived In Paris,
Relative to this point a cablegram
was forwarded . upon Superintendent
Byrne3' authority to the prefect of po
llee of the department of the Seine ask
ing for Information as to the lives and
connection of Roger Laroue and
Hugues Narbon In thi2 French capital.
Men possessed of the true detective
Instinct the Instinct of burrowing re
neath the surface of things and lnter
prettnst appearances In an entirely dlf
fent s:nGe from that they seem to war
rant have a highly useful faculty of
picking out from amid a crowd certain
Individuals who, to the ordinary ob
server, appear In no way distinguished
from the average run of mortals, but
who, to the acute official mind, give
promise of rich results if properly de
veloped. ' . ;
Through the exercise of this faculty
Btacey, upon his second vlalt to "The
Myrtle,": had picked out Alfonse, the
Polish waiter, as the one man among
the score or so of employes of the
club upon whom he wanted to keep an
eye.,' Not that there was the slightest
evidence connecting Alforae in any way
with the death of the two young men,
or that there was anything suspicious
In the man's appearance or actions.
He was .the same imperturbable, obse
quious Individual as ever.
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. , ' CHAPTER II.
The sunken, cat-like eyes of Alfonse,
the suavity of his movements, and the
closeness with which he stuck to tho
detective's elbow while the latter was
making his second and more complete
examination of the maroon-papered
room, had naturally drawn Stacey's at
tention to him.
"You waited upon the parties In this
room at the time when these men were
killed, I believe," said the detective
suddenly, turning upon him after a
long look out of one of the windows.
"Yes, sir," replied the waiter. He
had been gazing fixedly at the calm
face of Beatrice Cencl above the man
tel, but when Btacey turned upon him
he dropped his eyes humbly to the
floor.
"You are always assigned to wait
upon this room, I understand?"
"Yes, sir."
"Show me how the table and chairs
were arranged upon the two nights
when these men were killed."
Alfonse Btiarted ever so slightly, and
his green eyes again sought the face
of Beatrice, as though drawn by an
Irresistible fascination.
"1 I don't think I rfmomber. sir."
"Try. The table is a square one,
and ihere were four In the party on
each occasion, therefore one must have
sat upon each side of the table. Now,
try to remember where Mr. Larouse
and Mr. Narbon eat when they were
killed."
"I I think It was there, sir," Indi
cating the side nearest the windows.
"Well, you're mistaken; It was here,"
said the detective, moving In front of
the oaken mantel. "At least, so the
other gentlemen who were present tes
tified at the Inquest."
"Perhaps It was, sir; my memory Is
not good."
"Apisarently not. Now, come here,
I want you to sit there for a moment,"
and Stacey pointed to the fatal chair
with Its back to the mantel.
"I certainly, sir, If you wish," said
Alfonse, with some hesitation. He
cast a furtive glance once more up
Into the Impassive face of the Roman
woman, and took the chair.
Stacey took from his pocket two dia
grams procured from the coroner's
physician, showing the location of the
wound and the direction taken by the
bullet in each of the victims. With
these as a guide he located upon Al
fonso's head the spot marked by the
wounds, and placed a finger upon It.
As he did so he felt that the man
trembled slightly, but he appeared not
to notice It.
He next gauged the track of the bul
lets by means of his walking stick,
which he held against Alfonse's head,
regulating 'its angle by means of the
diagrams. This done Stacey felt cer
tain that he had secured the line along
which the fatal square 'bullets had
traveled.
And, therefore, he was greatly sur
prised when, upon prolonging the line
thus marked in the air by his walking
stick, ho found that the other end ter
minated In the face of the Beatrice
Cenci.
Having very little of the artistic in
his soul, the detective had heretofore
paid but slight attention to the picture,
excepting as one of the component
parts of the room as a whole, possess
ing about the same relative importance
In his eyes as the windows and the
furniture. It now suddenly leaped Into
prominence as the one single feature of
the apartment worthy of his attention.
He dismissed Alfonse, and turned to
tho picture.
It hung about eight feet from the
floor level and three feet above the
oaken mantel. The canvas appeared
to be about 24 by 30 Inches, and was sur
rounded by a heavy gilt frame. Hav
ing observed this much from the van
tage ground of the carpet Stacey rang
the electric bell and demanded a step
ladder. When this was brought and he
was again alone he proceeded to make
a closer inspection of the picture. He
was no sooner at the top of the ladder
and his face upon a level with the por
trait than he made an Important dis
covery. There was no pupil In the left eye of
Beatrice Cencl.
A little round hole had been cut
He Mndo an Important Discovery.
through 'the canvas a hole hardly
largo enough to admit the end of a lead
pencil, otherwise It would have been
noticeable from the floor of the room,
but quite large enough to permit the
passage of a weapon of sufficient cali
ber to carry the little square bullets
which had been found Imbedded In the
victims' braln3.
Stacey felt that species of elation
which comes to the mathematician who
sees ahead of him the end of a difficult
problem in calculus.
He carefully lifted the heavy picture
from its fastenings. s In the wall where
It had hung was an orifice about the
size of a silver dime, cut very smoothly
and neatly through the maroon-colored
paper and the plaster. 1 And the wall
sounded hollow when Stacey tapped It
with his ca'ne.. Carefully replacing the
picture, he rang again, had the step,
ludder removed, then, calling the stew.
ard, demanded to be shown into the
apartment adjoining the maroon-pa-
perea room.
This proved. to be a meagrely fur
nished place, fitted with a plain bed
stead, a bureau and a washstand, and
internum for the use of the day ser
vants who might be called upon to stay
at tne ciud nouse all night. Left alone,
stacey locked the doop upon the In
side. ,
In the wall at the end of the apart
ment next to the maroon-papered room
was a narrow closet reaching nearly to
the celling, which, as the detective ex
petted, was fastened. Rather than
further divulge what he was doing by
making another call upon the servants
he cleverly forced the lock. In the top
of the closet was a board shelf. By
sounding with his cane Stacey quickly
located a hollow In the wall above one
And nf ithta Mholf ami hv ith llirh.f rtt
a wax vesta he found that a piece of
thin board, ' painted white, had been
rather roughly fitted into an aperture
about six inches square cut through the
plaster. Upon removing this there was
revealed an opening of the same size
cut nearly through the entire - thick
ness of lath and plaster, upon the other
side of which shone a little round point
of light from the eye of Beatrice.
But what interested the detective
most was a peculiar piece of compact
mechanism which was mounted upon a
species of rough foundation placed in
the opening. Taking this out he ex
amined It' closely.
It was a sort of miniature cannon
with a barrel of burnished steel about
Beven Inches long. The bore (if such
it could be called) was square prob
ably a quarter of an Inch square. Upon
the rear end there was a curious
clock work arrangement, with a piston
ftMlng into the tube, and a figured
scale which seemed to show that the
machine could be set to be sprung nit
a certain hour at the will of the oper
ator. Every part of ithe apparatus was
of forged steel, finished with the great
est care and minuteness. There were
no signs of smoke or powder stains
upon the machine, which drove Stacey
to the conclusion that It was nothing
more nor less than a powerful air
gun. He also concluded that it was of
foreign workmanship, such nicety and
care in the handling of. steel not being-
within the province of ithe average
American workman.
He carefully wrapped the deadly ma
chine In his handkerchief, deposited it
In his coat pocket, replaced the white
board over the opening .in the wall,
forced the lock upon the closet door
back into position, let himself out of
the apartment and quietly left the
clubhouse.
The manner In which Roger Laroue
and Hugues Narbon had been killed
was now clear enough to him. But
there remained the still more difficult
problem as to the human intelligence
that had noted behind this powerful lit
tle bundle of pteel which now reposed
so quietly In his coat pocket.
Who had loaded the air gun, sent It to
discharge Its fatal square bullet at a
certain time, and trained its muzzle
through the eye of Beatrice with such
precision as to strike down the man
who happened to be sitting with his
back to the oaken mantel?
AVhy had Laroue and Narbon been
picked out as Its victims?
What was the motive back of It all?
The day after these discoveries
Stacey was walking down Broadway
above Union square with a fellow
member of the force when, In the vicin
ity of Eighteenth street, he suddenly
drew his companion In to the doorway
of a cigar store.
"Do you see that man going up the
street on the other side? Wears a
soft hat and has a half-sllnklng walk?"
The other nodded affirmatively.
"Io me a favor and find out where
he goes. 1 cannot do It because he
knows me."
Without a word the other detective
started to follow the retreating figure.
which was none other than that of
Alfonse, the club waiter. Stacey con
tinued his walk downtown.
Several hours later he received a re
port from his companion. Alfonse had
proceeded up to Madison square, turned
up Fifth avenue, and had finally dis
appeared In one of the brown stone
mansions of the latter thoroughfare,
entering by the rear way after making
a short detour through several small
streets. The mansion In question was
found to be the one occupied by the
Countess Claire Brodsky.
This was a Btartllng bit of informa
tion to Stacey. To the ordinary man.
perhaps, It would be nothing out of the
ordinary for a club servant to be seen
visiting a Fifth avenue residence by
the rear way. He was probably calling
upon the domestics.
But to Stacey It had an entirely dif
ferent aspect. It enabled him to In
dulge in what he admitted to be some
of the wildest guessing of his entire
official career, but which guessing was,
nevertheless, based upon what little of
fact he had been able to establish re
garding the double crime ' at "The
Myrtle."'
The result of his guessing was that
he immediately dispatched an officer In
citizen's clothes to the clubhouse with
a warrant for the arrest of Alfonse
upon sight. The officer shortly re
turned with the Information that Al
fonse had resigned his employ at "The
Myrtle" the day before, and that his
residence and present whereabouts
were unknown.
Then Stacey took the warrant into
his own hands, and, after swearing out
another one to go with it, was hastily
driven in a cab to the Countess
Brodsky's residence. There he was met
with the Information that the countess
had that morning quietly left the coun
try on the Etruria, Intending to return
to Russia, and that her household ef
fects were at that moment being
packed to be sent after her. An In
spection of the mansion by the detec
tive conformed the statement that the
bird had flown.
But what of Alfonse? . He had cer
tainly not left upon the Etruria, .be
cause it was less than Ave hours Blnce
he had been going Into the Fifth ave
nue house. But a diligent search of the
city by the metropolitan police, and a
close watch kept upon departing steam
ers for weeks after failed to locate him.
and he very likely slipped away In
some sort of disguise and Joined the
countess upon the other side of the At
lantic. And so Stacey was baffled, after all,
and 'the two warrants which he had
sworn out became bo much waste pa
per.
But that his guesses in the matter
were not so wild as one might infer
from the facts at his disposition is
proven by the following statement from
the head of the Parisian police, which
was transmitted to Inspector Byrnes by
"Find Out Where Ho Goes." '
cable itwo days after the flight f the
countess:
"Laroue and Narbon were members
of a notorious revolutionary society of
Montmartre known , as Les Couteaux
Rouges.' Both were fugitives from
Russia, where they were Implicated In
the Nihilistic outbreak In Moscow on
the night of Dec. 4, 1879, which resulted
in; the murder of Count. Nicplal
Brodsky." , .
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To,n .m-dot vnnnir things met In a street
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"Oh, surely not?
cn..t n,-tnUa nirn a flaH WfiR oarrled
home In a very mellow state one night
last week."
"I can't believe it!"
"nw it 1 a ,vl,a TliAv mv RtfinntiA wnn't
believe it either. Aren't you sorry for
her?"
"No."
"VVull nnrhnnn nhn ilnMn't deserve any
sympathy for marrying such a fellow. I
don't sympathize much with her myself."
"I don't believe she Is going to be mar
ried to him," said the one In gray.
"Don't you? . Why r
i ' 1 , ,, ,, n 1 1 u.i I am in ha married tn film TT1 V-
self next month. This Is my corner. Uood-
by."
A -.1 ,- nitraal vniinff thlnB Ifl - IfTllV
stepped off the car, leaving the sweet
young thing In brown gazing aner ner
in wide-eyed amazement.
SPRING'S RETURN.
In spring, when the green gits back in the
trees,
And the sun comes out and stays,
And yer boots pulls on with a good tight
squeeze.
And you think of yer barefoot days;
When you ort to work and you want to not,
And you and yer wife agrees
It's time to spado up the garden lot
When the green gits back In the trees
Well! work is the least o' my Idees
When tbe green, you know, gits back
In the trees!
When the green gits back In the trees, and
bees
Is a-buzzln' aroun' agin,
In that kind of a lazy "go-as-you-please'1
Old gait they bum roun' In;
When the groun's all bald where the hay
rick stood, ' .
And the crick's ris, and the breeze 1
Coaxes the bloom In the old dogwood.
And the green gits back In the trees.
I like, as I say. In slch scenes as these.
The time when the green gits back in
the trees I
When the whole tall-feathers o winter
time . '
Ta all nulled out and none!
And the sap it thaws and begins to climb,
And the Bweat It starts out on . .
A feller's forrerd, a-gtttln down
At the old spring on his knees
I kind o' like Jes' a-loaferln' roun'
When the sreen gits back In the trees
Jes' a-potterln' roun' as I durn pleas
When the green, you know, gits baek
In the trees! .
James Whltcomb Riley,
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
Rock of oil Is high, but toward the sky
Its value never soars,
Like Mary Ann, who, from her can,
Oil on the tire pours.
New York Recorder,
It usually happens I
That people are shotj
By men who are loaded,
, Or guns that are not.
Kansas City Journal.
The summer girl as usual
In the sea's surf will be found,
Unless the wits perchance do run her
Into the cold, dump ground.
Detroit Tribune.
Let a man get started In going down hill
And the world takes up the song.
Which It heartily sings with a vigorous
will:
"He's a good thing; push him along!"
Cincinnati Tribune,
Now doth ye gentle fisherman
Think about ye fly,
And eke he wonders if he can
Concoct a bigger lie.
Philadelphia Inquirer,
While beef and pork are out of sight
The prices are so steep,
For sausage we've no appetite,
Although It Is dog cheap.
Kansas City Journal.
QUIPS AND JESTS:
She What caused the trouble?
Her Friend Why, her hubby said that
he could not' afford to buy her a new bath
ing suit this year,-and she said that she
could do Just as well without. Syracuse
Post.
Stranger (In burial ground, to sexton)
Do thoy die often here?
Sexton Not any oftener than they're
born. Syracuse I'ost.
The Marquis de Castellane soys the
American nation Is "a nation of people
without ancestors." But we have tho
money and there is always plenty of an
cestry on the market. Washington Post.
.
COIN'S FATE:
"And now," Bald Grover, In his wrath,
"Let's crush that serpent in our path,
That premium, triple-plated fool
Who teaches 'Coin's Financial School.'
And yet our measures Just should be
And merciful. So let him be
Parboiled In oil and crucified,
Then drawn and quartered and then fried
His ashes to the winds be cast.
His memory hateful to the last,
lr others utter doctrines queer,
Then 'twill be time tO be severe."
Exchange.
LITTLE ONES IN RHYME:
He'll soon be here the fellow who
Asks If It's warm enough for you;
And likewise he which is much worse
Who Jokes about him In bad verse.
Kansas City Journal,
He wrote for all the magazines
Great man, without a doubt;
And this we note
Was what he' wrote:
"Is my subscription out?"
Atlanta Constitution.
When men attain perfection,
With not a fault In view
Oh, terrible reflection
What will reformers do?
Washington Star.
PROVERBS OF ALL NATIONS:
Feeling hath no fellow.
Human blood is all tme color.
God makes and apparel shapes.
Honor and ease are seldom bed fellows.
Gentility sent to market will not buy a
meal.
He that hath no money needeth no
purse.
He that plants trees loves others besides
himself.
He goes not out of his way who goes to
a good Inn.
He that lies down with dogs must rise
up with fleas.
Get a name to rise early and you may
lie abed all day.
He gets a great deal of credit who pays
but a small debt.
He who peeps through a hole may see
what will vex him.
Fetters of gold are still fetters and
silken cords pinch.
Go neither to a wedding nor a christen
ing without an Invitation.
He who desires to sleep soundly let him
buy the bed of a bankrupt.
There are only four things worth living
for, old wine to drink, old wood to burn,
old books to read, and old friends to con
verse with.
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Straat, Scranton, Pa. ,
ror
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DR. E. GREWER,
The Philadelphia Specialist, and hla asso
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physicians, are now permanently
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Old Postofflce Building, Corner Pnn
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The doctor is a graduae of the Univer
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The symptoms of which are dlizlness.lack
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noating berore tne eyes, loss ot memory,
unable to concentrate the mind on one
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Asthma, Deafness, Tumors, Cancers anal
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and confidents... Office hours dally frem
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blanks and my book railed "New I.lfe."
I will pay one thousand dollars In gold
to anyone whom I cannot cure of EPI
LEPTIC CONVULSIONS or FITS.
DR. E. GREWER,
Old Post Office Building, corner Pens
venue and Spruce street
SCRANTON. PA.
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