THE D AXLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1891.
THE OLD TENOR.
Did yoa say the si aging only fair?
Sir, if the chance fclven. roe v
To change from him on lite, etr.zc up there '
Straight to an angel's symphony .
Well, it might stagger my poor old brain.
Bat I think, on the whole, I back should come
- To hear these worn, sweet notes again, '
And see yon form that is cumbersome.
The Why of it all? It fell, my friend,
A matter of fifteen years ago.
. A certain man was nigh his end.
Lying racked in a fever glow,
And a line young star, in his flush of fame. '
' Stept to his bedside, took his hand.
And tried to waken life's spent flame
By singing songs of the lovely land.
Cod, how he sang! till the sick man turned
Hiii face from the wall and tookfldeep breath.
And said, as his eyes with new light yearned.
That life ran sweeter far than death
j seventeen, evidently mother, brother and
; sister. ; The mother attracted my atten-
tion first, and I was idly admiring her
still unusual Beauty, sublimated, but
not destroyed by age, when the young
lady turned around.
"Aunt, she might hare been the origi
nal of your picture, so like she was in
every detail. I was astonished and could
hardly believe my eyes. I watched her
quietly and studied her featurea '. until
there was no doubt about it. There was
the broad brow, the dark brown hair
fcoeely confined, the dark gray eye, the
sweet, firm mouth, and above all the ex
pression of intellectuality, unselfishness
and ingenionsness. I forgot the story.
njiertalningl wa-j Topu: r.d I found her '
all T had expecletl fcr be-from ber j
face, and became locr in love than ever.
I told her that I wa : !rmger, having
recently come to i;
kind enough to invire
"I had no time to
A DETECTIVE'., STORY.
ee: ?, r.ud she was
ro call.
How the Finding of a Visiting Card Led
tu an Important Arrest.. .
Two men sat in a secluded corner of j
the- Ebbitt House lobby and enjoyed a i
I i .r.nii ni i Qet chat over their after dinner cigars.
attempt to take tiie Hir;.-?.v by storm, a , ,, . , , ' , i
dangerous Unug to ,-o. .,.., there was no j of th lue.n "one f ihe oest known
opportuuity to V r,:. s,fer plan of a ; members m las profession, and if he I
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thing in my favor: I was on the spot and J
the other fellow
4"I soon availed Biv?:f
tion to call and snu t
evenins: one of i iro.-e 'momenta of de
light' thii are :it oooe so tweet and so
her invita- i
ery. pleasant ;
and I could not take my eyes off her one ! painful tc reinemoer it. 1jss lu-.ppy times.
If one might hearken to strains like. this.
And he swore he would live In death's de-.
spite.
Then sleep dropped down on him like a kiss.
And he woke with his blood all cool and
- right. ' ;
Perhaps' yon can fancy who was the man.
And who is the singer there on the stage.
And why I listen and sob and can
But love his faults and his hints of age.
Some folks will say, when they pay their coin.
The perf eetest singer is their choice.
Where youth and art and genius join.
Bat I like a man behind the voice!
Richard Burton In Harper's Weekly.
AN IDEAL
"When I find the girl who .looks like
that picture I am going to marry her."
George Mil man, who made this re
mark, and his aunt, Mrs. Henderson,
were standing before a picture of hers
almost beautiful enough to justify such
extravagant admiration. It was called
"Future," and represented at half length-
a girl in all the sweet freshness of budding-womanhood.
"Yes," he continued, "note, the char
acteristics of this picture and their sig
nificance and yoa will see why l say so.
The figure is graceful, the head, deli-
jmaIv rmieojl ia tfiflloi lai-cro and rrtA
brow, of unusaal breadth, is brought
into full relief by the dark brown hair,
brushed straight back, with its wavy
abundance only slightly confined by
ribbon around the head. The eyes are a
dark gray, large and at fnce bright and
thoughtful; the mouth and chin, though
marked by the tender lines of youth yet,
- show sufficient decision of character,
T i IT . . i l.'l 3 ' 2
.uiieiicxjcuz&iib.y juiu uiiaeiusiiueta aio in
dicated, but the one characteristic most
prominent brought out its ingeniousness
in the noblest sense of that often mis
used word. . - f
"It is more than innocence and does
not depend on ignorance. It is most
often seen as a characteristic of a noble
woman, and is retained by them in some
miraculous way in spite of much intel
lectual knowledge of the world's wicked
ness. Such a woman as is portrayed in
this picture would naturally be clinging
. and dependent, but finding herself with
out a support, or her chosen protector
proving unworthy, would meet the
emergency heroically and stand nnf al
tering. Such a woman I most admire,
and such a woman, if I have the good
fortune to find her, I shall certainly
marry."
"But she might be the original of this
picture, and yet not have the character
you describe," said Mrs. Henderson.
"No. that is impossible; a woman
could not look that way without being
all that I have suggested."
' "But if you find her you still might
not win her." .'
'"Yes I would, no matter if she was
engaged to be married and ' her wedding
day was appointed."
"It is like you Jo be so sure, and like
you, too, to fall so desperately in love
.with a picture." . . .
In this Mrs. Henderson . was right;
such a determination was characteristic'
of George Milman. Though born in this
country, his father was a native German
and his mother of German descent.
This, with a practical American train
ing, gave him a curious combination of
German and American characteristics.'
His peculiarly intellectual head, so large
that all his hats were made to order;
some of his features, especially his brown
and rather . dreamy eyes, and occasion
ally his manners and conversation, were
German, while his figure and usually his
manner were American. He had the
German' 8 ideality, romanticism and love
of deep thought, philosophic and specu
lative, with the American's . keen ob
servation, eye for the machine and prac
tical attention to details.
His dual nature was shown in bis busi
ness. He was a drummer for a large
mannfactorv. aelline to iobbine houses.
and so had to take long trips from city'
to-city. When actually at work he was
all attention to business and put his
whole soul into it with distinguished
success. On the intervening trips he
yielded to the speculative side of his na
ture, spending his time in reading -the
best novels, histories and philosophical
works from Carlyle to Henry George.
He would sometimes feel and express the
deepest disgust for his work, but he al
ways remembered that it brought him a
handsome income and held on to his posi
tion. 1
Some three months after the above
conversation George again called to see
his aunt, who asked him if he had yet
found the object of his adoration.
"I can't exactly say that I have, but
your question reminds me that I have a
story to tell yoa, and I suppose I might
just as well begin at the beginning."
"Please do. It is about that picture,
I know," she replied. . ;,
U a11 mvn ol? all AAA uraa 4-Via va
spouse, and he began: " . - .
''I was on the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis train on my way to Nash
ville. I had been traveling twelve hoars
and was rather tared. I was reading the
"Tale of Two Cities" trying to read it,
that Is, for my mind was stranglye wan
dering in spite of my interest in that re
markable story the best Dickens ever
wrote. Looking up in one of these fits
of inattention, I happened to notice a
party which must have got on at the
iast station, and had taken seats diago-'
nally in front of me. It consisted of an
minute I fear she must have noticed it,
J" "I know she did," interrupted Mrs.
Henderson. "You must have stared her
out of countenance."
"I suspect I did, and all the time I
was endeavoring to realize my good for
tune, and thinking how I should manage
to find out the young lady's name and
how I could make her acquaintance.
"After, an hour's ride in this way I
went into the smoking car for my cigar
case, which I had left there. I was de
tained by a friend whom I met there and
left the car just as the train was starting
again after having stopped at a small
station. Chancing to look to one side, I
saw my new found ideal and her party
just getting into a carnage, which
apparently been waiting for them. Aunt,
just one thought filled my mind that I
could not afford thus to loose my ideal so
soon, and that unless I followed her . she
was lost. This was rather an impulse
than a thought there was no time f or
that, and I piled off after her.
"The carriage had started, and there
was only one man in sight the depot
agent. I spoke to him and asked who
the people who had just left were. He
said that he did not know; that he had
never seen them before; but I believe
now that he did and that he must have
taken me for a lunatic; my appearance
was outlandish enough and I suspect my
manner was excited. I tried to hire a
horse, offered him a large price for the
use of one an hour, but the fellow told
me that he had none and there was none
in two miles. The carriage was now al
most out of sight, and still hoping to
find out something about it I started out
after it.
"But I did not go far before I realized
that pursuit was hopeless and that by
such conduct I was making myself
ridiculous, and I returned to the station
then for the first time I remembered
that I had left all my baggage, which
was very valuable, my umbrella and
overcoat, on the train, and even my hat,
as at the time of the incident I was mak
ing myself comfortable in a skull cap,
which was all I now had to protect my
ambrosial locks from the elements.
"I was now sufficiently disengaged to
find out something about- the place
which I bad so unexpectedly visited. It
consisted of the railroad station and one
6tore, which was unfortunately closed
the agent informed me' that its owner
was attending a camp meeting six miles
away. 1 questioned the agent agam
about the party I had pursued, but
gained no farther information. I tele
graphed to the conductor on the train I
had left to take care of my effects,
which he was kind enongh to do, and
after twelve hours in this neglected spot,
spent sitting on a barrel, realizing my
ridiculous conduct and bemoaning the
loss of my ideal, I took the next train
and finished my journey in safety."
Well, that is quite a story," said
Mrs. Henderson, and you have seen how
I have enjoyed it. Who but you would
have fallen in love in such a way, and it
is too bad that yon lost her. But it can
not have gone very far, even with you,
and yoa will soon find some one else."
We shall see about that. I don't
know whether it is love or not, bat I be
lieve that 1 shall find that girl again
some day, and I am not going to marry
until I do."
Two years passed daring which George
had been true to his resolution, and used
often to say that he was waiting for his
ideal Then he was transferred by his
house to the west and took up his abode
in Texas.
Not long afterward Mrs. Henderson
received from him a letter giving the
following account of his experiences:
"I have another story to tell yoa, and
as before I think I had best begin at the
beginning. Hempstead is a nice place
to live in, and I have had a pleasant
time here and have made many friends.
You know that I am not a society
man, and steer clear of the profes
sional Four Hundred which we find
intevery city. But .the larger class
of cultivated people I like, and go when
I can to their occasional entertainments..
Three months ago I went to one it was
given by a musical club, and combined
a programme of the best amateur talent
with social features that I am likely to
remember. For one of the last pieces
was a song by 'Miss Ethel Lyndon.' It
was well sang; I noticed that, but my
chief interest was in the' singer in
whom 1 recognized my ideal.
"I traced the resemblance in each par
ticular, and tried to discover whether
she was the woman I had seen in Ten
nessee. She was so like her I thought
she must be the same, though I could
not determine, but there was no doubt
about her being the woman in your pic
ture, and so my ideaL
"I asked my friend about her and dis
covered that her father was a prominent
business "man of Hempstead and had
lived there for years, and that she was
very popular among those who belonged
to her society, so much so that half the
young men of the town regretted her
announced engagement and approaching
marriage to a gentleman 'of Dallas.
"I Was already in love, and you may
imagine that this was discouraging in
telligence. But my motto has always
been 'nothing venture 'nothing .have,"
and I immediately determined to try the
fortune of war, knowing that I had
nothing to lose having so completely
lost my heart already and that I might
win. So when the musical programme
was over I was introduced by my friend.
I cannot tell you our conversation, or
What made ii e(e. pleasing to
me was that Mis Lytnioo .eenied to en
joy it as much cs I mJ. I remember
that you have of it ii lyigbed at love at
first sight, but I tiiink- r'utr. my experi
ence demontrate? ir muu. And that
evening 8ugges!e3 another question
which I endeavored to yo!ro, but could
not. I will ask your c pinion. Not only j-
did I feel pleasure iu oeiog; witu the wo
man I loved, but I hwi aiso a feeling of
being thoroughly en rx pi)ort with her',
as if she felt the same .;,; sure and there
was some subtle and mo kiwi sympathy
between us. Now.'wa i oat feeling a
creation of my ov-ii hviu, independent
of any similar feeling on uer part, or was
teresting experience it would fill vol-
with the quiet demeanor is one of the
keenest of criminal catchers, G. M.
Fletcher, of Chicagq. Jlr. Fletcher re
lated what he calls the strangest and
luckiest piece of trailing in his life, and
the end of the trail was in Washington,
"although," says Mr. Fletcher, "it was
only luck on my part that it did." j
Fifteen years ago a wealthy old farmer i
named Wilson was found murdered just
outside his house, near Evanston, HI.
The old man had that day concluded the
sale of a piece of property, and was re
turning with nearly $2,000 in his pocket,
as it was growing dark, the cash having
been paid over "after bankine hours in
Evanston, and Wilson incautiously al
lowed the remark to drop that he wished
he had not made the sale until next
day.
He 'did not like the idea of carrying so
j much wealth to his home, five miles dis-
I a a ni jt x i i . ii i
1A ifc nrhat if. rppti,.! a.r,l .-m,.! T f.Wofrvra lao1" QcStj IUCIS, uesiaes me mUTder
ant, know because I e pri-pl it that she j iteelf' an ,the owlge that a notori
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old lady, a young lady and a boy about I what she thought of it, but if I can be
was similarly imprese!.
"It would tire you io read the de
tails; it iaenoagu to hy To at I made the
most of our acquaintance. I called as
often as I possibly oonlii. oftener than I
had any right to; met ber at receptions
and any other enteri&iotiuents where she
was likely to go; wf-at with her. to the
theater and to ihe Be-iboven club, at
one of whose meetings I had first made
her acquaintance i 0 sbori-. I took every
opportuuity I conld find or make of see-'
ing her.
"Finally I went viiliVer, her father
and a party on an exc-Hi sioa in a private
car to a new city, wbeiv he was working
up a real estate boom.
"On our return 1 t-r-id a favorable
opportunity and iokl ly-r That I loved
her how I did it f o uuot tell even you
and of course I received the reply that
she was engaged. Bui i-.ue said it very
sweetly, and made wie love her better
than ever. Then I sid. "How I wish I i
had known yon soorier." nd she said, 'I j
wish so too.'
" 'Then, darliug, if yon do wish it you
need not; if it can hn t bat yon love me
ah, you do, I see yon do- you can marry
me in spite of al!.'
" 'No, I will noulm.-Kk iu v promise, and
I will have to give up your acquaintance
unless you respect ir."
" 'I promise;' I ws too happy at finding
out my love return e l io care very much.
It could not be kf-pr of course, and I
very soon broke is by a sting Ethel if she
did not think it wToog io marry a man
who she did not love. .
" I think it is wrong- to break faith
with one who is faithful' to 'me,' she
said, 'and so wouiu you ir you were
treated that way yourself.' .
"'Yes, lknow ibar, bur) as I am the
one to profit by it I t hink that it is all
right and the other iicw ought not to
care. I certainly thin t that yon ought
at any rate to tell him rbafc you love him
no longer.'
" 'Yes, I ought tc do vti&t, and I will;
but I will offer ro i'ul till my promise,
though it was made principally to please
my parents, as I see tww, and, without
the love that could alone justify it.'
"This she did, and so-.-n thereafter re
ceived a letter from her riance, in which
he thanked her for ber frankness, and
told her that she had relieved him from
a similar embvi--staerjt, as he had
lately discovered that hi? affections were
engaged elsewhere, bnf. had felt in honor
boun l to her. St:ch are lis carious -and
inexplicable workings of the human
heart, but I did not cirtairel with them,
for they brought me my heart's desire.
"One day Iaskc3 Ethel if she had ever
been in Tennessee.
" 'Yes,' she said; "-two yesrsagd in Oc
tober, on a visit to my grandparents.'
" 'Were you on the Ivssnville, Chatta
nooga and St. Lor, is train and did you
get off at Uxton staTion?" '
"'Yes.'
" 'Then you are, I ure believed, the
woman I saw on the i ruin i hen. Darling,
I fell in love -wi tli you then, and have
been hunting for yoa ever 3ince.'
" 'And you are the man who stared at
me so hard on the train and followed
me off, leaving his hat behind; I recog
nized you when wb -were first intro
We were married, very quietly, al
though in church, jnst a month before
the time, originally set for Ethel's in
tended marriage, a nd we are now on our
wedding tour. .
"So you see I did fii.d my ideal, and
have won her, and yoa have to im
agine how happy I ra, for it is beyond
the power of worda lo tell yon." W. P.
W, in Atlanta Constitution.
A Well nper.-titlii.
One of the compararivelymodern su
perstitions of the ere cf All Saints is
found at the bottom of old and aban
doned lime kilns. Just where it began
nobody can tell wi'h certainty, but in
all probability Ireland has the best claim
to it. At all events, it need to flourish in
that country some years ago. A girl
with no beau or a girl vrith too many
beaux is pnzzled to find out who is the
lucky cbap destined to become her hus
bond.' In such a predicament all she has
to do is fo arm herself with' a spool of
strong thread and start off after dark on
the eve of All SaioT9 to some old lime
kiln reputed to be the abode- of evil
spirits.
Standing alone on i in- e Jge of the deep
hole, the candidate for matrimony re
peats the Lord's prayer backward. Then
she takes the end of ths thread in her
left hand, and after tosihig the .spool into
the chasm before her, ?rif.i jEtly waits for
a bite. Soon she v,il frc-1 three pulls'
and she must politely L'k Ills s.-it;mic maj
tjr to be liiud eiiouU to "tell her the
namo cfliw' fnlrrrc lr.;t-KTi'I. A voice
below will pronouctv.- ih? aaaw.-Galig-nani
Messenger.
ous gambler named Edmondson , had
overheard, the speech, were all the cine
offered the detectives, who were set to
work on the case with a reward of $3,000,
held out as an inducement for running
down the murderer or murderers.
Months passed', but no f arther trace of
the gambler who was suspected could be
found anywhere.
During the early spring of 1877 Fletcher
was sent east on amission by the agency
of which he is a member, and in the
j course of his trip concluded to spend a
day or two in Washington before return
ing to the Lake City. While passing up
Pennsylvania avenue, near Sixth street,
with a friend, his attention was attracted
tp a small visiting card, which, after the
manner of his profession, he picked up
and examined.'
"I wasn't thinking of business just
then," said Mr. Fletcher, "but I suppose
instinct led me to do as I did, and what
do you suppose that pasteboard con
tained? The autograph of the very man
I had been looking for for months. Of
course the signature was not familiar to
me, but the first thought to suggest it
self was, 'How did the card get there?
and I could answer it only one way
Edmondson had dropped it; but how did
he happen to retain the same name if he
was guilty, unless he did not fear detec
tion? ' ' ' '
"Well," to cat a long story short, I de
termined to stay in Washington awhile
and see what . could be seen. I found
out the most notable houses where a
gambler of his typp wonld be likely to
hold forth, and after ten days' shadow
ing I found him in an old frame house
on Four-and-a-Half street. Edmond
son came with me without a requisition,
and made no fight. In fact, he was
tired of leading a hunted life and con
fessed the crime. ' He said he always
had an idea that the visiting card would
prove his doom, but somehow or other
he-could not destroy it, and knew at
once when he missed it from his case
that it would be a clew, for he had
been traveling undy an assumed name
since the murder. The card was the
last link of his former life,
i "Edmondson was hanged a few months
later, and that ended the most carious
episode in my twenty-five gears' expe
rience, as a detective." Washington
Post. . .- '
Something Wrong.
"Well," said the ."brute" to his wife
as he took his place at the breakfast
table, "who are the new neighbors next
door?"
"Why, how should I know?" answered
the wife.
"Don't yoa know their name?'
"Of course not." ,
"Are they , wealthy?' .
'Tin sure I don't know."
"The man an old skmflint?"
"I don't know."
"His wife extravagant?"
"You will have to ask some one else."
"Any daughters? And are they proud
and stuck up?'
"Why, Harry? I don't know."
"Anything mysterious about them? A
secret connected with the family?"
"I don't know anything about them."
"What! You don't?" .
"No."
"They have been, here twentf-four
hours rilsend the doctor up as I go
down town." ;
"What are you going to send the doc
tor up for?" :
"Something must be the matter with
you. That family has lived next to us
for one whole day and you don't know
the first thing about them yet. You
need attending to." , .
And then he buried himself in his
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"And every mimber of the honorable
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HENDERSON BKOTHKIiS, Chicago, III.
T. A. HUDSON, AGENT,
THE DAH.ES, - ' OKECON
Fop Sale at a Barga
A GOOD
Traction Engine
Has only been run sixty daye.
Buffalo Pitts Thresh
Only used two months. ;
, Chopping Mill,
per
Capable of 15 to 20 tons
$31. -
The above will be sold on eas j
W.L. WARE?
.. The Dalle