THE TIMES, NEW BL00MEIEL1), PA., MAY 14, 1878.
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For Tb IHnonifMd TIrm.
A SINGULAR FRAUD.
COXCMJDEI).
II7K were married muohngnlnstiier
YY father's Inclination. From tbe
Mint lie guessed my motlves,and dlstrust
d me to the last, lie made hla will In such
manner that I could never obtain on
Heflsion of hbt daughter' property, if
such had been my deal re though it
never was. I was satisfied to have con
troltf the income, which amply aup
4lied Okw wants ; leslde, the business
in whlou he etalillHhd nie, began to
prosper andipay me well. Indeed, by
jtrudent speculation, I now possess
enough to buy the Farrell estate twine
.over. But I was still a poor man when
iie died. Lillian and I lived in perfect
unison. Hhe was not without her faults,
the trivial ones of a spoilt child, but I
was patient, never exacting, for her
heart was kind and good and she loved
me tendorly. The birth of our child
cemented our union with endearing
lionds. Then came the clouds of sorrow
after ali this sunshine of happiness. My
wife was stricken down by the destroy,
er's hand and taken from me. I cannot
describe to you the crushing weight with
which this blow fell upon me. Hud it
aot been for my darling little one I
should have gone mad, and given up all.
I rallied my senses for her sake. Bhe too
sickened, and then indeed the world
looked blank. Lured by the news of
her illness, as vultures scent carrion
from afur, relatives I had never heard
of, harpies who knew the tenor of Judge
Farrell's will, began to gather, offering
their condolence In public, but secretly
gloating in anticipation of their division
of the property. My fortune hung upon
my child's life, for my business had not
then assumed a lucrative form her
death would be ruin to me. I should be
hurled from my proud position and see
.strangers in the home which the memo
ry of my lost wife made a hallowed spot
io me. I wish you to fully understand
ihe motive that led me to the strange
crime I then committed.
"But I do not see what this has to do
with my child," said Nance, timidly.
"Iwn comdng to that now. Our fam
ily physician imving given up the child,
s a last hope and despairing effort to
save her I determined to consult the best
medical skill New York afforded. I call
ed upon several eminent physicians, but
found them too much engaged to go
with me, though they all promised to
attend in the morning. It was quite
dark when I left the coach, and walked
to the ferry, wrapping my cloak around
me for the night was chilly. Under a
llamp post I saw a little girl, hardly three
voars of age crying bitterly not loudly,
but in a suppressed terrified kind of way.
I surmised at once that she was lost.
The thought of my poor stricken one at
home made my heart warm towards her.
I stooped down and raised her in my
arms, with the intention of taking her
home, if I could ascertain where it was,
as I raised her up the rays of the gas
lamp fell upon her face, and I fancied that
I could detect a resemblance in it to my
own darling. In an instant one of those
sudden Inspirations which sway the hu
man mind, flashed through my brain.
What if I should find my child dead on
my return, could not I substantiate this
this one in her place ? It was an insane
project, with an hundred chances to one
against its successful accomplishment;
but it was a last hope to save the Farrel
etate from rapacious relatives who had
less right to it than I. This little one
was coarsely clad but she was robust and
healthy ; one, doubtless, out of some poor
man's brood, who had a dozen beside,
who would scarcely miss her, and be
very thankful to have one mouth less to
feed.
"Come, darling, and I'll take you
home" I said.
" She nestled coufidingly to my breast,
and I wrapped my cloak about her in
fluch a way as to hide her completely
from view. In this manner I took her
on board of the ferry boat. By the time
I reached Green Point she was souna
asleep sleeping the heavy sleep of In
fancy. I walked hurriedly home, fear
ful that she might awake; butthere was
little danger of that her ramble in the
streets had completely wearied her. I
let myself into the house with the latch
key, paused in the dimly lighted hall to
adjust my burden in such a manner that
tom might suspect its presence, should
1 meet any of the servants on the stairs,
I knew they would think nothing of my
-wearing my cloak and hat Into the sick
room, as my natural anxiety would pre
ventmefrom stopping to remove them
until I saw my child.
" I found the nurse alone by the bed
wfcle; the doctor, she told me, had Just
left, telling her the child could not live
till morning. He bad done all he could
but while there was life there was
' Jiope. He would call around early In
th morning. The little sufferer lay
aspig out her life. I was in time. I
ent my nurse to bed, my usual custom
on returning, to keep a weary vigil by
the death couch. Worn out by long
watering, she gladly availed herself of
my permission la retire. I locked the
door after her, placed the sleeping child
beside the dying one, and carefully
dropped the wludow curtains. Ho fur
my scheme had succeeded; but if my
child should linger until morning, and
the' presence of the other be detected,
what then Cold drops of perspiration
oozed slowly from ' my forehead as I
Btood beside the bed and watched and
waited.
"An hour passed away in this dread
ful suspense, A neighboring church
bell tolled the hour of ten, and with the
last stroke a convulsive sigh broke from
the pale lips, the llltlo frame quivered,
there was a sound like the rushing of
wings In the room, and then all grew
ghastly still again ; no sound but the
regular breathing of the sleeping child,
which my acute ears could hear distinct
ly, whilst mine lay dead beside her, I
sank upon my knees by the bedside, and
my grief went over me like a flood,raln
lug a torrent of tears from my eyes. But
these tears did me good; they blunted
the edge of my sorrow, and prepared me
for what was yet to be done.
" I knew the servants had all retired,
to rest, and I was the only one stirring
In the house; yet I had better use dis
patch. With trembling fingers, I chang
ed the clothes of the dead and living
child, wrapped the body in a little blan
ket, placed the stranger where my own
had laid, stole silently out of the house
by the back stairs, out to the river's
bank, and there, by the moon's rays,
burled my precious one beneath an elm
the tallest In the grove a ghastly fu
neral. A year after, I reclaimed the
poor hidden remains In the same man
ner, and placed them in her mother's
tomb. The world thinks that carved
box contains but waxen flowers ; It
could not see the little skeleton hidden
beneath them.
" In the morning they found me by
the bedside prepared for the final failure
or accomplishment of my scheme. The
child awoke early and called for food. I
sought for milk and bread leaving the
nurse bewildered at this unlooked for re
covery. The doctor, when he came
pronounced it miraculous but he had
seen such cases before, I could have
laughed at Ids oracular manner, but
there was too much at stake. Though
the child prattled names, and spoke of
things my child had never heard of, yet
none suspected the cheat. Why should
they No 'one would ever have dream
ed of such a thing. The doctor pro
nounced her ' light-headed' and that set
tled it."
" It all seems like a dream to me,"
said Nance, "and all these years you
have passed my daughter off as yours "
" As I have told you. Bhe has filled a
daughter's place in my heart. I love
her as dearly as I would my own child if
she had lived. Bhe seems to belong more
to me ban to you. I wish to restore her
to you ; yet at the same time you must
never claim her as your daughter."
" Not claim her as my daughter Not
clasp her to my heart after all these
weary years "
" You mourned her dead you never
expected to see her more "
" True, I did."
" As my daughter and the heiress of
the Farrell estate, she holds a proud po
sition in the world, and will marry well.
To acknowledge her as your daughter
were to put a blight upon her young life
and prospects, which no amount of
wealth I can bestow upon her and she
shall have it all can ever efface. You
can live in the same house with her, be
ever near, a constant witness to her hap
pinesscan you desire more Would it
be a large increase of Joy to hear her call
you 'mother,' knowing the penalty she
must pay for that one word "
" Let me live in the same house with
her; watch over her constantly I am
content, my lips shall never disclose the
secret," answered Nance, with true
motherly abnegation.
John Waldron smiled benignly. This
man had the faculty of moulding others
to suit his own purposes.
" You are a sensible woman," he said,
pleasantly. Now there is one other be
side ourselves who knows this secret
one Nobbles; that'B the name."
"Bob Nobbles I know him."
"He discovered Lillian's strong resem
blance to yourself, and Is in possession
of some other facts of the story, but he
can prove nothing without your help.
If you should be called upon, which is
hardly likely, you must never acknowl
edge that Lillian is your child."
" I never will."
He glanced keenly in her clear blue
eyes for a moment. They met his look
unswervingly. He was satisfied.
" Come, let us go home your home
for all time to come," he said. " You
shall pass for my cousin, and we will
call you Mrs. Fitzgerald we must have
an Irish name, you know, and we may
as well have a good one."
Perhaps you think John Waldron
should not thus have so successful tri
umphed in his fraud, keeping a stranger
in the Farrell estate while the poor rela
tives eyed it from a distance with covet
ous eyes. Perhaps not ; but this Is a
narration of events as they were, not
as they should be. How many frauds
prosper in our midst that ' we never
dream of until our morning's paper be
wilders us with the fact that the next
door neighbor, a cashier in the First Na
tional, has been a dafaulter for years ;
but for the one discovered, how many
escape unsuspected. Who can tell
Nance had never seen such happy
days as she passed beneath John Wal
dron ' roof ; and when in time, Lillian
became the wife of Rydney Gray, and
she nursed their first baby her bliss was
complete. Ho they lived on with the
secret unspoken amongst them ; for Bob
Nobbles, wandering in foreign countries
or perhaps burled beneath the waters of
the ocean, never returned to disturb
their serenity.
No Pay, No Board.
AT A Mi, line-looking man, of milita
ry bearing and address, and attired
in a stylish-fitting suit of broadcloth,
entered one of Philadelphia's leading ho
tels last night, and, (n a scrawling chl
rogrophy, entered the name of " F. W.
Fawcett, Topeka, Kan.," upon the reg
ister. When the clerk had glanced at
the signature he retreated behind the
cashier's desk and scanned a sheet of pa
per which he took from a idle, glancing
once or twice toward the stranger.
" Has your baggage arrived " the
clerk inquired.
" No; It has not."
" In that case," sold the clerk, " we
shall require payment in advance."
The Btranger flushed up and with
some asperity wanted to know whether
this was the general custom of the house.
The clerk replied that It was, and there
upon the stranger, with a muttered ejac
ulation in an undertone, turned on his
heel and abruptly left the hotel.
" That man Is one of the most accom
plished hotel dead beats in the country,"
remarked the clerk as he gazed after the
retreating form. "See here," and he
handed over to the scribe the sheet of
paper which he held in his hand. It
was headed : " Hotel-keepers Associa
tion of Chicago. Dead heats." At the
head of the various columns were " re
port from," "name registered," "amount
of baggage," "age, size and complex
ion," "remarks." The spaces were
filled in with a complete description of
the retreating individual.
" This association is the best thing
out for us," the clerk continued, "and
although it only came into existence
with the new year, nearly every hotel
keeper In the United States is numbered
among its members. When a proprie
tor is victimized he fills one of these
blanks out in full and forwards it to the
central offices in Chicago, whence it is
in turn telegraphed all over the country.
Then when the beat or beatB, for their
name is legion, puts in an appearance at
another place where he is sanguine of
obtaining a day or week's good living on
the cheap, the proprietor is on his guard
and can demand cash in advance or no
accommodation. By this system we ex
pect to shortly consign the beat to ob
livion. At any rate, depend upon it,
there will be fewer victimized seaside
hotel-keepers this season than has ever
been known before. Philada. Record.
The Marvellous Jug.
IN THE years agone, when the old
Marine Barracks were over the hill
side, outside of the Navy Yard, In
Brooklyn, N. Y., some of the soldiers,
one cold, stormy day, thought what a
grand thing it would be to brew a punch,
hot and Btrong, in honor of squad who
had been detached, and were upon the
following day to go on board ship for
the Brazilian station.
There was money enough to pay for
the liquor to pay for a barrel of It but
how to get it into the barracks, that was
the question. Never a man came In
from liberty without being overhauled
by the sergeant of the guard from top to
toe. Not a vial as large as a finger could
be hidden from those sharp eyes and
sharper fingers. At length up spoke
Tim Murphy. Said he:
" Make up the money, boys, and I'll
go out and bring in the liquor. I'm
down for liberty to-day."
Tim was not a man to boast emptily,
and when he had seriously declared that
he was in earnest, the money was made
up enough to purchase two quarts and
a jug and in due time he went out. It
was in the edge of the evening, or just
at dusk, that Tliii came back, openly
swinging a large jug in his hand. Ar
rived in the guard-house, both the ser
geant of the guard and sergeant Moore
took him in hand for examination.
" What have you got in that jug "
" Molasses, sir."
" Let's see."
They took the jug, pulled out the cork
and smelled. It certainly smelled like
molasses. Then they procured a stick
and poked it down into the big-bellied
cruet, and upon pulling it out some
thing like molasses dripped off the end.
They both tasted and were satisfied, and
Tim was told to pass on ; he did pass on
Jug in hand.
Arrived in the barrack-room, those in
the secret gathered around. He led
them Into the rear apartment where the
bedding was stored, and closed the door.
Then he called for a tin dipper. Taking
the cork from the nozzle, Tim tipped up
the Jug over the tin dipper, and present
ly, In the midst of slowly-drlpplng trea
cle, out dropped a leaden bullet with a
strong cord attached. By means of this
line he drew up the neck of a bladder,
and, when the molasses had been emptied
out, perhaps a pint of It, he slipped the
cord from the neck of the bladder, and
poured out considerable more than two
quarts of fine old Monongahela whiskey.
Monster Steam Ships.
THE largest merchant steamships at
present running are the English
steamers Great Eastern, Farraday, and
Hooper. There are some very large
steamships running regularly to New
York from Liverpool, hut none are so
large as those mentioned above. The
leviathan of ships, the Great Eastern, Is
one of the wonders of our progressive
age, and a mighty proof of the energy,
perseverance, and skill of man. No
other ship is worthy to be mentioned
with her. She stands alone, a proud
monument to her designees and builders.
Hhe was built at London about twenty
year ago, and cost a fabulous sum of
money. She Is nearly 700 feet long, 83
feet wide, and can carry 20,000 tons of
freight. The next largest vessel's ca
pacity Is not over 0,000 tons.
Although of such immense size her
lines are beautiful, and she sits upon the
water as gracefully as a yacht. She has
seven masts. Her engines, of the com
bined power of 10,000 horses, are a won
der to contemplate. Involuntarily the
keholded exclaims, as he gazes upon the
ponderous moving mass, " How could
man ever fabricate them" They are
without doubt the largest engines ever
constructed. Her paddle-wheels are fifty
feet in diameter. Her saloon Is lofty, of
great size, and most luxurious in its ap
pointments. Although built for a passenger and
freight steamer, and intended for the
Australian trade, she has been used al
most altogether in laying submarine tel
egraphs. Proving altogether too large
for profitable use as a merchant steamer.
There is no doubt, in the event of Great
Britain's going to war, she would be
used as a transport steamer, being able
to accomodate 10,000 soldiers with their
baggage.
American Girl's Adventure.
An American girl went over to Paris
with her brother, the other day, and the
instant she was left alone with their
companion in the carriage, a middle
aged Frenchman, he insulted her. She
told her brother when he returned, and
there was a fearful outburst. The French,
man gave his card, and said he was
deeply sorry, and would abide by the
decision of the other as to the conse
quences to ensue for his mistake, but
certainly he never suspected Mademois
elle was a lady, as she was painted. The
brother appealed to the best authorities
in Paris in these matters, to learn what
the code was under these circumstances,
and all the men of the Jockey Club told
him that if his sister's eyelashes were
blackened and her cheeks rouged he
could have no redress, and these practices
were never followed by vne demoiselle
de monde.
There is another practice I wish our
women would abandon, and one which
Is far more general than painting the
face, and that Is loading themselves
with jewelry when traveling. In Eu
rope you can tell American women as
far as you can see them on the boats
and railways by the quantity of Jing
ling bracelets, flashing ear rings, un
countable finger rings and loud neck
chains, lockets and chatelaines, which
proclaim their lack of keenness of per
ception in regard to the fitness of things.
Highbred women in Europe never wear
jewelry, except when In full dress. That
was one thing I so admired in Mrs.
Hicks. Her diamonds were gorgeous,
magnificent, yet she seldom wore all at
once, even in the evening. If she wore
her splcnded diamond and pearl necklace
she left off her diamond stomacher and
her high diamond comb. For carriage
wear and calling I never saw her wear
anything more showy than a small
diamond arrow, earrings and brooch,
scarcely bigger than this pen-tip I am
writing with.
l3f"HeDry Taylor, tbe author of "Philip
Van Artevulde," told a story of a girl who
had been brought up for tbe purpose of be
ing eaten on the day her master's son was
married or attained a certain age. She
was proud of being tbe plat for occasion,
for when she was acoosted by a missionary
who wanted to convert her to Christianity
and withdraw ber from hor fate, she said
sue had no objection to be a Christian, but
she must stay to be eaten , that she bad
been fattened for the purpose and must
fulfil her destiny.
VEGETINH
FOR DllorSY.
Central Full, B. I., Oct. 19, 1877.
lr. tt R. Rtevens t
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rnedlolne for prnnsy. I bean to feel better alter
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In all. I am perfectly well, never felt better. No
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A. 1. WHEELER.
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VEQETINE.
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Isleboro, Me., Deo. 28, 1877.
Mr. Stevens :
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J ear, when I commenced taking the Vegetlne.
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FOR SICK HE A DA CUE.
Evansvllle, Ind., Jan. 1, 1878.
Mr. Stevens !
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. 411 Third St
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"VEC3-ETI3STE.
DOCTOR'S REPORT.
Dr, Chas. M. Duddenhausen. Apothecary,
Evansvllle, Ind.
The doctor writes: I have a large number of
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the complaint for which it Is recommended.
Dec. 27, 1S77.
VEOETINE I a good panacea for our aged
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VEOETINE,
DOCTOH'8 BEPOKT.
H. It. Rtevens: '
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Da, J. E. BROWN & CO.. Druggists.
Uulontown.Ky.
Vegetlne ha never failed to effect a cure, giv
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disease. May
V 10 OETIN K
Prepared
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