MEDE
VOL. IV.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1892.
NO. 12.
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E. B. PICKEL, K. D.
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Medford, Oregon.
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FBANCIS FITCH,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW.
Medford, Oregon.
J. B. WATT, M. D.
Physician and Snrgeon.
Medford, Oregon.
Office: In Childers' Block.
B. P. GEAB.Y, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Medford, Oregon.
Office on C street.
BOBT. A. MTT.T.F.ft.
Attorney and Connsellor-at-Law.
Jacksonville, Oregon.
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J. H. WHITMAN.
Abstracter and Attorney-at-Law
MEDFORD, OREGON.
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plete and reliable abstracts of title lu Jackson
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Physician and Surgeon.
Medford, Oregon.
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Medford, Oregon.
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MEDFORD. OREGON.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
MEDFORD, ORE.
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Farm Notes.
Poultry Lice.
If fowls are well fed and'ahundant
exercise is promoted, and", still they
don't lay, look for lice, .which ore
enough to cause ulmost total cessa
tion from laying. When fowls have
swarms of lice sucking their life blood,
theirvigor and strength., are .being
sucked away as fast as. sometimes
faster than, the digestive anil assimi
lative organs can repair it, and no
wonder they don't lay.
There are many kinds of'poultry
lice, but only two kinds are extremely
troublesome, namely the gray or body
louse and red spider louse, sometimes
called "red mites."
These last secrete themselves dur
ing the day in cracks and crevices
about the under side of the roost-pole
or upon the roost supports, or about
the sides of the building near the
roosts, and come forth at night to
suck the blood of their victims. If
seen in the morning when full of
blood they are of a bright red color,
but late in the day, when they have
digested their feed of the night before,
they are a pale pink. The best way
to destroy these pests is to drench
the roost poles and supports with ker
osene oil, taking care that itpeue-
trates all c-r.ieks and crevices, especi
ally on the underside. Kerosene oil
kills them instantly and also destroys
the nits. Thorough whitewashing
of the building is a good remedy, as
the limewator will destroy them if it
penetrates the crack?, etc., and
reaches then. Or course when the
whitewash has set it has no more ef
fect upon them than as much paint,
hence kerosene upon the roosts and
roost supports about once a month is
the best reliance.
The body louse is of wholly differ
ent habit and lives aod breeds close
down to the warm body of the fowl,
depositing its eggs (nits) upsn the
feathers, where the warmth of the
fowl's body will hatch them. These
lice live wholly within the feathers of
the fowls and, of course, whitewash
and kerosene on roasts, nests and
building can not reach them. Kero
sene will kill them, but it has been
found that kerosene is injurious to
the fowls when rubbed into the feath
ers whene the lice are: it is sj pene
trating it seems to get into the fowl's
system and upset it for some time,
making it quite ill. The most effect
ive remedy is line tobacco dust, or
Dalmatian insect powder (buhael ),
sifted through the feathers. Any fine
dust coming in contact with the lice
will kill them, as they breathe through
the pores of the skin and the dust
clogs the pores and stps the breath.
That i3 the reason Jowls dust them
selves (or wallow, as some call it,)
working the dust or loam all through
their feathers clear down to the skin,
and fowls which dust themselves
dai'y, having constant access to a
good dust bath, will keep themselves
practically free from boJy lice.
To rid a fowl of lice take her legs in
the Ieffr hand, letting her head hang
downward, when the wings will hang
open and all the feathers will be open
to leceive the insecticide) which is
sifted into them with the right hand.
Dust under the wings, about the
thighs and vent, about the tail and
neck, which are the most promising
places, not overlooking the back be
tween the wings. A fowl thoroughly
dusted with a good insecticide will be
comparatively free from living lice,
but we cannot reach the nits, hence
the work must be done over again
two days later to reach those hatched
in the meantime, and a third dusting
two days later stil" is advisable to
make sure of thorough work.
This means labor. There's no fun
in it! .But if the fowls are lousv it
must be done. They must be con
quered or they will conquer you.
Half-way measures are of no use ; the
lice must be stamped out and kept in
subjection if we would have the fowls
lay eggs.
Our method is to fight them deter
minedly on the setting hens so that
the chicks shall be free from lice, then
raise the chicks out in the fields away
from the fowls (excepting their moth
ers, which we have cleaned up);
then tell off all old stock and clean
up and whitewash, etc., the house be
fore the pullets are brought in in
September. In that way we have them
free from the pests and then it is com
paratively easy to keep them free.
New England Farmer.
An orchardist who is located on the
hillside asks us how to prevent his
land from washing orgullyingduiing
heavy rains. There is no better way
that we know of than the "furrowing
out oi the orchard. That is, the
plowing of cross furrows all through
the rows, thus form i tic six or seven
ditches between every row in which
water may run off, rather than allow
ing the water to run wherever it
pleases. It is the massing of the wa
ter in one or two places that makes
the gulleys. When it is divided into
numerous small streams the effect is
much less, of course. Citrogiaph.
Pure water is essential to health
It is not a good plan to force stock of
any kind to drink foul water; neither
is it healthy to force them to do with
out any all day long and then fill up
once a day. Because stock can do
without water two or three days is
hirdly a sufficient reason why they
should be compelled to do it. Plenty
of water and pure water at that is an
important item at all times.
' 'Waste not. want not " Is a bald
headed old motto, but nevertheless it
deserves to be painted in big letters
and hung where it can be seen on the
farm every day.
Farm productions cannot be
changed to suit the temporary fluctu
ations oi tne market.
in Bolivia have de-
The Indians
stroved half a
dozen towns, killing
the men and children and carrying
on me women.
Woman's World.
We Are N..t All Alike.
Mr. Editor : There has been a con
troversy or discussion among ladies
writiug for the New England Farmer
in the course of which one Lizzie Dean
has been scored rather harshly for
some expressed opinions, and I feel
like taking up the cudgels for herand
prefer your paper to the Boston me
dium for reaching the public. I wish
to-day to take up the letter of one who
signs herself "Gauntlet." She says:
As I have a better half who is trou
bled with dyspepsia and I have had
to study the merits or rood very care
fully for the last ten years, I would
like to ask Lizzie Dean a few ques
tions in regard to some articles of
food which she claims are so very in
jurious. There is nothing mat gives
my husband so much distress as sieaK
well-done or rare, therefore lamb or
mutton cooked in the steamer until
tender and then niceiy browned in
the oven forms the nucleus for quite
a good many dinners for us.
Gauntlet ought to remember that
what is one man's meat is another
man s poison. The mutton that ner
dyspeptic husband digests so readily
might be the very article which Lizzie
Dean, who thoroughly enjoys a beer
steak, could not digest at all. My
husband has seen the time when to
eat a piece of beef-steak weighing
three ounces would put him in dis
tress f r three weeks, though he could
make a hearty meal off mince pie aud
cheese at 10 o'clock in the evening
and then retire and sleep the sleep of
the just. Yet I would not recommend
every dyspeptic to eat mince pie for a
regular diet The meal my dyspeptic
husband enjoyed might kill another,
whose indigestion arises from a dif
ferent cause.
I would remark that my husband
was restored to full beef-digesting ca
pacity by swallowing what do you
suppose? oil of vitrol sulphuric acid.
He came in contact with Dr. T. H.
Hoskius, well known in New England
as a horticultural writer, hoskius
said he had been afficted the same
way while attending a medical .college
in his youth. He saw no such trouble
described in the books, but he rea
soned out the cause of his trouble and
cured it by taking a few drops of sul
phuric acid in a glass of water after
each meal for a few weeks. It may
be that "circus lemonade," made of
sulphuric acid and water, is more of a
blessing than a curse.
"Gauntlet's criticism of baked
beans, soda biscuits and beef lirer
are as fully disposed of in the proverb
that "what is one man's meat is an
other man's poison" as that of the
beefsteak. She says:
I am afraid that beans cooked in
the manner she describes would put
an end to all dyspeptics at once
should they partake of them in the
day time, letting alone the possibility
of their eating tnem at night (.an
Lizzie tell me why she has such a hor
ror of soda? It forms quite an im
portant adjunct in the making up of
a medicine nigniy recommended oy
phvsicians as a remedy lor dyspepsia.
Also beef liver is one of the most in
digestible of meats. I know this
from my husband's experience. Will
Lizzie quote her authority for think
ing this easy of digestion? Also why
she considers raised rolls so much su
perior to soda biscuit.
What cures indigestion in one man
might aggravate it in another, and
the suggestions and experiences of
both are valuable if we read them In
telligently.
Mattie Esgle.
Hoine-Made Attar of Kmc.
The attar of roses is supposed to be
a peculiarly oriental production, but
1 saw the other day a small bottle of
genuine altar made in St. Louis
county by two ladies, in whose yard
there grew an immense quantity of
roses. Early in the spring they con
ceived the idea of manufacturing
some of the attar. They gathered all
the roses they could find on the place
and followed the method as described
in the books or Eastern travel. They
were somewhat discouraged at find
ing how little attar could be made
from so large a quanity cf roses. It
took, in fact, about a barrel of rose-
leaves to make less than an ounce of
the attar, but it is genuine, as fra
grant as the oriental product, and
made them very proud of their suc
cess. The genuine product sells for
from $40 to $30 an ounce, but theirs is
not for sale.
A school bag Make it of broad
cloth just a yard long and fouiteen
inches wide, but the size should cor
respond to the size of books to be car
ried. A slit of sufficient length for
putting in the books is left in the
middle of the seam. The ends are
embroidered with any preferred de
sign. Gilt rings connected by achain
complete the bag. A lining of some
stout material like Silesia will make
it wear much longer.
Some excellent taffy -may be made
bv taking one Quart of molasses and
half a pound of butter, and boiling
the two until the mass thickens.
This will take about hair an hour.
Then stir with a spoon until, on tak
ing out a little taffv. it becomes hard
on immersion in cold water. Take
half a tea cup of vinegar, pour into
the mass and stir for hair a minute.
Then pour the taffy into buttered
tins, or dishes, and set aside to cool.
The southern citrus fair was a suc
cessful exhibit but a financial failure.
The people of southern California see
s much citrus fruit that the fair is
not much of an attraction to them
Sarah AltheaSharon Terry has been
sent to the Stockton insane asylum.
H. J.' Palmer, once manager of-
James G. Fair's Yolo county ranch,
shot Charles W. Paleger dead at Sac
ramento March 12.. Phleger was the
principal witness when Fair caused
the prosecution of Palmer and after
wards held Palmer's old position on
the ranch.
The cannery at Knight's Ferry has
been removed to Stockton, the neces-
'sary labor to run it being unobtalna
jble at Kn'.gnt's Ferry at the season
wnen it is neeueu.
Current News.
Labor Unions and Strikes.
The shoemakers' union in San
Francisco hits given withdrawal cards
to all who wanted them, and all the
employes of the factories in the com
bine took them, so that the union is
left with but a handful of members.
This was done In preference to with
drawing the boycott from Calm, Nick
elsberg & Co., as all the factories re
fused to employ members of any or
ganization affiliated with the Federa
ted Trades as loug as the federation
carried on the boycott.
The San Francisco breweries, except
those in the English syndicate, nre
being run with non-union help be
cause the employers refusa to give
work to men a portion of whose
wages, through the union, goes to the
support of the boycott on the Jackson
brewery. This boycott was levied be
cause tlitit brewery- refused to dis
charge a uumber of its drivers when
the union expelled them for fuilingto
pay an assessment of $20 a head lev
ied at headquarteis iu the east for a
strike fund.
The San Francisco pine lumber
company continues to have its lumber
handled by non-union men.
The typographical union at Chey
enne will advance the cost of the
Keeley treatment for druukenucss to
any member wishing to try it, the
money to be refunded by the recipient
after he is cured.
Wages at the Birmingham, (.Al.,)
iron furnaces have Wen reduced 10
per cent.. Twenty thousand men
were affected.
The engineers and firemen of the
Union Steamship company at Van
couver have struck for a raise from
$S0 and $40 a month to $100 and $50.
Congi
Stanford has introduced a bill iu
the senate fixing the duty on opium,
whether crude or manufactured, at $5
a pound if it contains per cent of
morphine.
In the senate Stewart has intro
duced a resolution calling for a con
stitutional amendment, to the effect
that no president shall be eligible to
a second term until four years after.:
the expiration of his first term.
An Aatl-l'rohibllion Kacw
James Wolverton, accused of selling
whisky, took a change of venue from
the Benton (.III.) courts t Squire
Mulkev's court near that place. The
proceedings were as tisuid until the
court rendered judgment against Wol
verton, lining him $20 and the cost.
Immediately Wolverton left the
room and made a desperate break for
freedom. Mr. R'igland, the marshal,
is a big 200-pounder, and shouting
into the courtroom for help he made
a dash for his horse and started in
pursuit. William Hurt, the citv at
torney, rushed out. He is an old
time athlete. He hastened to join in
the cross-counttv free-for-all, hift
Wolverton, having some l yards
start, seemed likelv to reach the
woods bcfoie being overtaken.
Squire Mulkey, seeing the advantage
of short cuts, leaped on a horse stand
ing near and clearing fences with a
bound was soon ahead of the prisoner
and between him and liberty. Mar
shal England bore down from the
north and Attornev Hart coming up
from behind the bird was hemmed in.
Wolverton, who runs a restaurant in
Benton, after vain efforts to give se
curity for the fine ami costs, uiid
them and left town.
A Terrible Blunnl.
A terrible blizzard passed over Min
nesota and Nebraska March 9 and 10.
People were frozen to death in many
instances.
At Withrop, Minn., many houses
were blown down. The storm in Du
luth was the worst that city has ever
known. Inside of ten hours the mer
cury fell from 36 degrees ubove to
below zero. The w'nd blew sixty
miles an hour. The property loss
was very general. Hundreds of bus
iness men and women, after making
vain efforts to reach their home,
turned back and stient the night iu
their offices or hotels near by. Pub
lie buildings were converted intrt
lodging-houses for strunded working-
men, and over sixty of them were
quartered in the city jail.
At Luke Park. Minn., a Norticru
Pacific passeger train er.tshed in'xi
snowplow. Several trainmen wen-
hurt.
Thomas Nugent anl a pair of
horses froze to death near Maiivel,
N. D.
Near Willow city, N. D., a Mrs.
Lokken and a boy named Torgon
Thompson were fatally frozon in
making a journey of half a mile.
Two persons froze to de ith on the
street at Utico, N. Y.
In Omaha pedestrains weie kept
busy dodging signs and fragments of
roofs which h id boon loosened by the
wind and were blown about the
streets.
A high chimney at the new St. Jo
seph's hospital was blown down, do
ing considerable damage.
The roof of the stationary depart
ment of the Union Pacific company
was ba-lly damaged. The roof of the
Omaha Savings bank was rolled up
like parchment. A number of .dwell
ings were unroored and soveral resi
dences and business blocks In course
of erection collapsed before the wind.
Cabs and other vehicles were cap
sized by the wind and overturned on
the streets.
Eight newspapers have been sup
pressed In Germany for commenting
on some of Emperor William's re
cent remarkable speechos. Riotous
demonstrations are still occasional co
occurrences in German cities.
General News.
Lieutenant Hetheriuoton of the
United States navy while stationed at
Yokohoma shot and killed Georcre
Uower Robinson, a wealthy English
resident, 1-eb. 13, for an intrigue with
Mrs. Hethorlgton.
The heirs of the Ivncherf Italians nt
New Orleans liae sued the cit.v for
$30,000.
An effort is b ing made auain to
coiner the world's output of copper.
Garza s revolution seems to have
collapsed. Quit a number of arrests
for tiibustering have been made.
UNIT ED STATES.
Wolf hunts, on much the same plan
as the California rabbit drives, are
being resoited to in Illinois. A thou
sand men the other day rounded up
seventeen wolves, a bear and many
rabbits. The bear got away and the
rabbits were not molested, but all the
wolves were killed.
An unknown trainn assaulted Mrs.
John Perrcpnu at Carrolton. Mo..
March 11, aud was hanged by a mob
the next day.
A 15-year-old girl poisoned a whole
family at Bavvillc. Mo., and was
lynched March 13.
John Bright killed his wife at Ozark.
Mo., and was lynched.
Henrietta Costa of New York ad
vertised for a husband and got one
who ran away with $50 of her monev
and $250 worth of jewelry-
The English coal miners' strike has
begun. Many factories have shut
down on account of the high price of
fuel.
The Farmers' Alliance attempted to
captuie the North Dakota Prohibition
convention, but failed, aud the Alli
ance representatives withdrew.
The trust has reduced the price of
whisky 1 cent a gallon.
Three negroes were lynched by a
mob at Memphis March .
Dr. Scudder. charged with murder-
iBg his mother-in-law in Chicago, is
in jail.
Jav Gould abandoned his proposed
trip into Mexico because he feared he
would be kidnaped and held lor a ran
som.
Prince John Z.ibeiski, grandson of
the king of Poland, has been arrested
for stealing a horse at Mount Kisko,
. i.
Dr. Teed, the alleged Messiah, is
trying to amalgamate the seventeen
celibate societies.
Charles Wing, a Chinese leper, now
at the Philadelphia hospital, has been
employed as a cook in the Peabody
hotel in that citv. several witnesses
testilied that Wing's feet and legs at
times had been so sore that he had
been compelled to sit upon the table
while mixing flour.
I. W. Tolbert, father of th Inter
national Order of Machinists and at
one time lis president, was killed Feb.
7 at Florence, S. C. In a tight with
two boys named Barringer. The kill
ing is the result of a whippiug he
gave one of the boys foralleired scan
dalous talk-about hisdaugntcr.
Alger is in the race for presidential
nomination.
George Morrison, a tough, killed
Souire allace at Big Bend. Col
and then killed Sheriff John Dungan,
who attempted to atrest lum, and es
caped.
li-v. Fath-jrMcGrail of St. Patrick's
church, Brockton, Mass., whipped a
man the other day n the street for
borrowing monev from the priest os
tensibly to send to a suffering family
in Ireland but really to spend on his
mistress.
Cincinnati has been havings great
religious revival.
The steam heater in a railroad car
exploded at Meriden, Kas., March 5
and killed two men ami painfull v in
jured 5.
Edwards Pierrepont is dead.
The ticket office at Gilford, Conn.,
was robbed of $75 by a man with a pis
tol March 5. The robber was ar
rested. G. W. Nealor lias been sentenced
to the penitentiary for ninety-nine
years from Dallas, "Tex., for murder.
FOREIGN.
The British government wants to
drop the Irish land bill and piu its
chances in parliament rather to a bill
dealing with the labor question.
Russia is concentrating troops on
the German frontier.
Barrios has been elected president
of Guatemala.
Thirty-six persons diet! of saber
wounds received in the Berlin ri
ots. '
The Vienna" police have forbidden
the distribution of fie? bread to
needy persons.
The Mercier party was overwhelm
Ingly defeated in the provincial elec
tion. B.KxIle caused It.
At Ceara, Brazil, the governor
has
been deposed by rebels.
An old wowau at Cliihiiuhua, Mex.,
was accused of witchcraft and of eat
ing children. During her absence
her home was broken into and babies'
-ones and the partlv eaten body of
one child were found. W hen she re
turned she was seized, roasted and
i-ateu.
EniM-ror William is reporknl t.
have said "I will pulverize Russia."
and the czar is said to have sent him
word that when - he begius pulver
izing Russia he will be happv to send
half a million men over the line into
Germany.
In the regular weekly mobbing of
the Salvation Army iu London March
6 several female members were so
badly injured that they had to bo ta
ken to hospitals.
Two men were killed by the explo
sion oi a nitro-giycerine can which
had been imperfectly emptied at
Winnipeg March 6.
The now khedive will endeavor to
subdue the Suudan.
The torios were completely routed
in the London county council elec
tions.
A bomb was thrown at tho czarina
as she was being driven through the
streets of St. Petersburg March G. It
failed to strike her or to explode.
Parliament has given the Salvation
Army free scope to parade in East
bourne, and it is thought this will
lead to the repeal of tho act forbidding
Catholio ceremonies or processions
outside oi churches.
An explosion of gas fn . the Ander-
luls calliery, nenrCharlerol, Belgium,
March 11, resulted In great loss of
life. There were 270 miners in the
mine at the time, of whom twenty-five
were women. Only about seventy es
caped unnurt. eany 200 were suffo
cated by gas.
Joanna's Bracelet.
He looked up indeed with admirably
acted surprise and said his "I? Certainly
not!" somewhat peremptorily.
Half a dozen of the guests were peer
ing stupidly about, as if they expected to
find the lost article in a flower vase or
within the globe of a lamp. Presently
their hostess stayed these explorations.
'Wait a momentrshe cried abruptly,
raising her head. "I have it!"
Well?" eagerly from several.
John must have moved it when he
brought in the tea. That must be it.
Ring the bell, James, aud we will ask
him."
So it was done. John came in and the
question was put to him.
es, sir," he said readily. "I saw a
bracelet. On this table, by the lamp."
He indicated the table near Lady Lin
cre. "Did you move it?"
"Move it, sir?" the man repeated, sur
prised by the question, the silence, and
the strained faces turned to him. "No,
fir; certainly not. I only saw it when 1
was handing the tea to to Mr. Wibber
ley, I think it was."
Ah, very well, his master answered.
"That is alL You may go."
It was not possible indeed to doubt
the man's face and manner. But when
he had left the room an uncomfortable
silence, ensued. "It is very strange,"
Barton Smith said at last, looking from
one to another, and then, for the twen
tieth time, groping under the table.
"It is very strange," Wibberley mur
mured. He felt bound to say some
thing. He could not free himself from
an idea that the others and particularly
the Indian civilian were casting special
looks at him, He appeared - calm
enough, but. he could not "be sure of
this. He fdt rather as if be were each
instant changing color and betraying
himself to every eye. His very voice
sounded forced to his ear as he repeated
fussily: "It is very odd very odd!
Where can it be?"
"It cost," Lady Linacre quavered,
irrelevantly, bnt by no means imperti
nently, "it cost 14,000 out there. In
dued it did. And that was before it was
set."
A bush as of awe fell upon -the room.
"Fourteen thousand pounds," Burton
Smith said softly, his hair rising on end.
"No, no." said the old lady, who had
not intended this mystification. "Not
pounds rupees."
"I understand," he replied, rubbing
his bead. "But that is a good stun."
It is over 1,000," the Indian civilian
put iu, stonily, "at the present rate of
excluinge."
"But. good gracious, James!" Mrs.
Burton Smith said impatiently, "why
are you valuing Lady Linacre's jewelry
instead of finding it for her? The ques
tion is, 'Where is it? It must be here.
It was on this table fifteen minutes ago.
It cannot have been spirited away."
"If any one," her husband began se
riously, "is doing this for a joke. I do
hope"
"For a joker the hostess cried sharp
Iv. "Impossible
"I sav, mv dear," he persisted, "if anv
one is duing this for a joke I hope he will
own up. It seems to me that it has been
carried far enough."
There was a chorus of assent, half in
dignant, half exculpatory. But no one
owned to the joke. No one produced the
bracelet-
"Well, I neverr Mrs. Burton Smith
exclaimed. . And as the company looked
at one another it seemed as if they also
had never known anything quite so ex
traordinary as this.
Really, Lady Linacre, I think that it
must be somewhere about yon," said the
host at last. "Would you mind giving
yourself a good shake?"
She rose and was solemnly preparing
to agitate her skirts when a guest inter-
red. It was the Hon. ereker May.
Yon need not trouble 'yourself. Lady
Linacre," he said, with a curious dry
ness, tie was still standing by tne fire
place. "It is not about you."
"Then where in the world is lt? re
torted Mrs. Galantine. "Do you know?"
If you do, for goodness sake speak
out," Mrs. Burton Smith added indig
nantly, while every one turned and
stared at the civilian-
Yon had better," he said, "ask Mr.
Wibberley!" .
That was alb But something in his
tone produced an electrical effect on
everv one. Joanna in ner corner re
mote, like the Indian, from the center of
the disturbance turned red and pale and
flashed angry glances round her. For
the rest, thev wished themselves awav.
It was impossible to misunderstand the
insinuation. The words, simple as they
were, had in a moment put a graver com
plexion on the matter. Even Mrs. Bur
ton Smith was silenced, looking to her
husband. He looked furtively at Wib-
berlev.
And Wibberley? Up to this moment
he had merely thought himself in an un
pleasant fix, from which he must escape
as best he could, at the expeuseof a little
embarrassment, a slight .loss of self re
spect. Even the latter he might regain
to-morrow, if he saw fit, by telling the
truth to Mrs. Burton Smith, and in time
the whole thing would become a tubjarot
of laughter, a stock dinner ojiaouote.
But now uow at the first sound TjfHhe
Imlinn'a voir rm reon(niixfHl hnilR&iIKL
and saw clearly in the hundredth part oi
a second that runr. social- damrmoou, pa
haps worse, threatened him.-'?H'irf 'w
ence of mind seemed to fail hbunduaalr
at sight of the pit opening At bis ftjett
He felt himself reeling, choking", Ids head
surcharged with blood. The room, tn
expectant faces all turned -to him, all
with that strange expression on them,
swam round before him. Ho had to lay
his hand on a choir to steady himself.
- But he did steady himself, so far that
those who marked his agitation did not
know whether it proceeded from anger
or fear. He drew himself up and looked
straight at his accuser, holding the chair
susiended in his hands. "What do you
mean?" he said hoarsely.
"1 should not have spoken," the civilian
(outinued returning his gaze andiejik
tnir In cool, measured accents, "if "Bur
ton Smith had not twice appealed to us, J
if any joke was being played, to confess
to it," i '
"Well?" ' - ' --
"Well, only thisAthe W gentleman
replied; "that I saw you - yourself take
Lady Linacre's bracelet from that table
a few moments before it was missed, Mr.
Wibberley."
."You saw
V xJ ' '?
mer criedWibberley. Thi1N pro JToubt ifespair-had partiall
as the ri- of honest drd mimbed WsUjerley.'s .mind, for st"
time there was
ance, of indignan
a, in his tone.
For if he felt ceitain of o::e thing it was
that no ;oni ha1 been looking at him
when the,m)ucky deed was done.
. "I did',"" replied the civilian dispas
sionatelyV "My back was toward you.
But my -eyes were on this mirror" he
touched an oval glass in a Venetian
frame which stood on the mantelpiece
"and I saw clearly, quite clearly. I am
bound to say that, judging from the ex
pression of your face, 1 was assured at
the time that it was a trick von were
playing a jest only."
Ernest Wibberley tried to frame the
words "And now?" tried to force a
smile, but he conld not. The perspira
tion sprang ont in great beads on his
face. He shook all over. He felt him
self and this time it was no fancy
growing livid.
"To the best of my belief," added the
civilian quietly, "the bracelet is on your
left arm now."
Wibberley tried to master, but could
not, the impulse the traitor impulse
which urged him to glance down at his
wrist. The idea that the bracelet might
be visible that the damning evidence
might be plain to every eye overcame
him. He looked down. Of course there
was nothing to be seen; he might have
known it, for he felt the hot clasp of the
horrible thing burning his arm inches
higher. But when he looked up again,
fleeting as had been his glance, he fonpd
that something dreadful had happened
to him. He faltered, and the chair drop
ped from his hands. He had never met
looks like these before. He read in ev
ery face save one suspicion and condem
nation. Thief and liar! He read the
words in their eyes, the eyes of his quon
dam friends! Yet he would, he must,
brazen it out: and though he conld hot
utter a word he looked from them to-1-1
Joanna.
The girl's face was pale and scared;
but her eyes they answered his right
eagerly were ablaze with indignation.
They held no doubt, no suspicion. The
moment his look fell on her .she -spoke.
"Show them your arm!" she cried, jm;
pulsively; "show them you have not got
it, Ernest!" with such scorn, such gener
ous passion, in her voice that it did not"
need the telltale came which fell too
glibly from her lips to betray her secret,
at least to every woman in the room.
"Show them your' arm!" Ah, but that
was just what be could not do! And as he
comprehended this he gnashed his teeth.
He saw himself netted and entrapped,
and his rage and misery were so written
in his face that the best and most merci
ful of thrtse about him turned from him
in shame and pitv.
Even the girl who
loved him shrank back, clutching the
mantelpiece in the first spasm of doubt
and ft-Jir and anguish. Her words, her
suggestion, had taken from him his last
chance. He saw it was so. He felt the
Nemesis the more bitterly on that ac
count, and with some wild gesture and
some wilder word he turned abruptly
and hurried from the room, blindly seized
his hat and went down to the street.
His feelings when he found himself
outside were such as it is impossible to
describe in smooth, passionless sentences.
He had wrecked his honor and happiness
in an hotr. He had lost his place among
men turongh a chance word. We talk
and read of a thunderbolt from the blue,
but still the thing is to us unnatural.
Some law abiding citizen whom a mo
ment's passion has made a murderer.
some strong man whom a stunning blow
has left crushed and writhing on the
ground, a twisted cripple only these
could fitly describe his miserr and de
spair as he traversed the streets. It was
misery he had brought on himself, and
vet how far the punishment exceeded
the offense! How immensely the shame
and exposure exceeded the guilt! He had
bed, and the he had made him a thief!
He went up to his rooms "like one in a
dream, and, scarcely knowing what he
did, tore the bauble from his arm and
flung it on the mantel shelf. By his last
act of bringing it away he had made his
position a hundred times more serious,
but he did not at once remember this.
After he had sat a while, however, with
his head between his hands, wondering
if this really were himself if this really
had happened to himself, this dreadful
this he beijan to see things more clear
ly. Still, he conld not at once make up
his mind what to do. Beyond some
hazy idea of returning the bracelet by
the first post and going on the continent
of course he must resign his employ
ment he had settled nothing, when a
step outside made him start to his feet.
Some one knocked at the door of his
chambers. He stood pallid and listen
ing, struck by a sudden fear.
"The police!" he said to himself.
But a moment's thought satisfied him
that it was improbable, if not impossi
ble, that this summons should be theirs.
and he went to the door Ustleslessly and
threw it open. On the mat stood Burton
Smith in a soft slouched hat, his hands
thrust into the pockets of his overcoat
Wibberlev just glanced at him and saw
that he was alone, and then, leaving him
to shut the door, returned to his chair
and sat down in his old attitude, with
his head between his bauds. He looked
already a broken man.
Burton Smith followed him in and
stood, a moment looking down at him
uncomfortable enough. It is bU- to
have had such a scene as has been des
cribed at your house, but it is worse, if
a man be a man, to facea ellow crea
ture in his time of shame. At anv rate
Burton Smith felt it so. "Look here.
Wibberley," he said at length, as much
embarrassed as if he had been the thief:
"look here: it will be better to hush this
1 ap. 'Givte tne this confounded braeele
to hand v T T -
J
f.
E
did
patio
Buiy
place
anxious i
sible. Yd
seized it, i
to escape- fx
But ho laid ,
quickly as ht
brows cametx.
upon his comp.
"This .is not..
There was no silt
"his- tone now"; it
His patience was
Linacre's was a di. ,.
great value, as you
plain gold, thing, worcY
heaven's sake, man," he adK
den vehemence "JCf your o.
not play the fon now. . Whe,
1 hrr1.r " '
1 aid n$ y8. "fid Barton Smitii
-"TJita U not the bracelet!? he said.
put Ms question more than once before
he got an answer. When Wibberley did
at last look up it was with a dazed face.
"What is it? he muttered, avoiding the
other's eyes.
"This is not Lady Linacre's bracelet"
"It is not?"
"No, certainly not."
Still confused, still avoiding the other's
grave look, Wibberley rose and took the
bracelet in his hand and glanced askance
at it And then Burton Smith saw him
start violently.
"It is of the same shape," repeated the
barrister, ice in his voice; he thought the
exchange a foolish, transparent artifice. .
"But Lady Linacre's has a large brill
iant where that has a plain boss. That
is not Lady Linacre's bracelet" .
Wibberley turned away, the circlet in
his hand, and went to the window, where
he stood for quite a moment looking ont ,
into the darkness. The curtains were
not drawn. As he stood there, other
wise motionless, his shoulders trembled
so violently that a certain dreadful sus
picion seized his late host, and the latter
desisted from watching him and looked
"about, hut invain, for a vial or glass.
At tne end or laaminnte rt looeney
turned. For the first time texrnfrentedr a
his visitor. His eyes were Etrangvly
bright, his face very pale, but his mouth
was set strong and firm. "I never said
it was!" he answered grimly.
"Was what?"
"I never said it was Lady Linacre's.
It was yon who said that;" he continued,
his head high, a singular Change evident
in his demeanor, an iacjsivenesB almost
harsh in his tone, "if was you vou
who suspected me! I amid not show you
mv arm because I had that bracelet on it."
And whose bracelet is it?" Barton
Smith murmured doubtfully, aVgi as
much by the sadden change in the man's
demeanor as by his denial
"It is your cousin's Miss Burton's.
We are engaged," replied Wibberley
sternly so entirely had the two changed
places. "She intended to tell yon to
morrow. I saw it on the table and se
creted it when I thought no one was
looking. It was a foolish thing to do."
And it was Joanna's bracelet that
Vereker Mav saw yon take?
"Precisely."
Burton Smith said a word about the
civilian which we need not repeat Then
he aded: "Bat why on earth, old fel
low, did you not explain?
"Firstly, Wibberley replied with force, -"because
1 should have had to proclaim
my engagement to all those fools, and I
had not Joanna's permission to ao that
And, secondly well, I did not wish to
confess to being such an idiot as I was."
Umphf said Barton Smith, skrsrlv.
an odd light in his eyes. l tTirnt- you
were a fcoL but I suppose ydu wul
shake hands?"
Certainlv, old man." And they did
so, warmly.
"Now then, continued the barrister,
his face becoming serious again, "the
question is. where is Lady Lanacre a
bracelet?-
"That is hardly my business," Wibber
ley answered. "I am sure you will ex
case me saying so. I have had trouble
enough with it I know that and, if
you don't mind, I am off to bed,"
Bat, though his fri'md left "rn on the
instant. Wibberley did not go to bed at
once. Burton Smith, hurrying home
ward, to find when he reached Onslow
mansions that Lacy Linacre's bracelet
had been discovered in a flounce of her
dress, would have been surprised, very
much surprised indeed, could he have
looked into the chambers a minute later
a minute after his own departure. He
would have seen his friend cast down on
his knees before a great chair, his face
hidden, his form shaken by wild, hysteri
cal sobbing. For Wibberley was moved
for once to the inmost depths of his na
ture. It is not given to all men to awake
and find their doom a dream. Only in
dreams indeed does the cripple get his
strength again and the murderer his old
place among his fellow men. Wibber
ley" was fortunate.
- And the lesson did he take it to
heart? Well, lessons and morals are out
of fashion. Or stay ask Joanna. She
should know.
thk exu. 1
4lne "Aan- Lna tt" I'r i,Kl .
"Aunt Luisa" Eldride has had a
long and brilliant career on ttie stage,
and has added not a little to her reputa
tion since she began to &ke "old
women " parts. H r rearw&arance lc
New York at the Garden iueatre. and
a letter in which she e "HaTe
been abroal twic -, bv :hly
American believ
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