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Then Edgar gave me to understand
that he had no relations in the world,
and we rejoiced mutually that we were
thus completely arbiters of our own
fate. No one had a right to mar our
plans.
Little enough time was there for
preparations, but Edgar undertook to
make all necessary arrangements, even
to the ordering of my India outfit,
which was to be ready on our arrival in
IiOndon.
On Saturday I said my last good-bye
to my lover so soon to be my husband
when he told me it wculd be impos
sible to see me again until we met in
church on Monday morning; bat the
certainty that on Monday morning we
two were to be mae one forever, caused
me to think lightly of the few hour'
separation.
Lightly? Ah, how little did I dream
of the terrible catastrophe to happen in
the interim!
I rose early on Monday morning long
before daylight and was ready in my
traveling dress when Dr. Grey called
for me in his carriage. I remember
leaning on his arm as I walked up the
aisle of the little country church. I re
member seeing, as in a dream, in the
early and still misty morning light, a
solitary figure standing just ontside the
altar rails, next whom I took my place.
The service at once commenced and pro
ceeded to the close.
.Doctor Grey jocularly hurried us for
ward to sign cur names. Edgar wrote
his and placed the pen between my fin
gers. After writing my old signature
for tho last time I looked up at my hus
band, then stared bewildered, startled at
the change I saw in him. At the first
glance I scarcely recognized him, the
lower part of his face being completely
altered. His dark mustache, the admir
ation of all the girls in Lesscar had dis
appeared. A deep flush spread itself
over his countenance as his eyes met
mine. He bit his under lin and turned
away.
When the last farewells to the few
kind friends who saw U3 off at Lesscar
station had been spoken, and the train
had started for N , an uncomfortable
feeling of embarrassment crept over me
on finding myself alone with Edgar. He
would have taken my hand, but invol
uhtarily I drew back; then, seeing his
look of chagrined surprise, I suffered
him to kiss me, but could not repress a
slight shiver as he did so.
"Why do you shrink from me,Leonie?:
be asked, reproachfully.
"For the silliest reason in the world
when put into words," I answered, quite
happy and laughing now, with a sa-lden,
strange revulsion. "Only the iuan I
promised to marry had a mustache, and
you have none. What unreasonizg.fool
ish creatures we are! But it changes
your face so completely that I hardly
knew you."
"You are quite sure you have no other
reason?" he inquired, with more earnest'
neas apparently than the question
seeded.
HA.!!. TTFI . .
vune euro, wuai other reason I
conld, I have. But you hud no right to I
make such a change in your appearance
without my leave, lOlgai the very day
of our marriage! Why. did you doit?"
, I asked, playfully, all the time looking
at him intently and trying to learn his
lace over again, and, as it were, get used
to it.
"I will tell you, my darling, all about
it bo me day when we are far away upon
the sea. Would we were there now, he
added, fervently. And I noticed that
bis lips trembled nervously after he had
spoken.
fn less than an hoar we reached N
uere we naa oareiy time to take our
ats in the 10 o clock express for Lon-
on. It is not possible to have a com
rtment to ourselves. An old gentle
l, white-headed, spectacled with the
tempered looking face I ever saw,
ied that which we entered. He
jveloped in rugs and studying his
per with the deepest attent'o i.
a quick, expressive nee
: of deep-set, small, b'r.Jk
it appear" to notice our in-
-o parliamentary de-
not a oomio
wondered
dy, jovial
whispers
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his
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a mischiev
ottling myself
over the large
sading it. But
husband inter
jk the papor from
jaid, authoritatively,
the train, please; I ask
l of Edgar! Was.it because I
A talk to him in whispers that
at to punish me? But the words
.-ely spoken "Love, honor and
came to my mind, and I quietly
Jed.
e lajnched at York. Afterward, as
tood alene by the bookstall, our fel-
traveler came up to me.
"Choosing a novel, my dear?" he
asked, in the fatherly way that old men
sometimes adopt even to a stranger, and
and which somehow one rather likes
to hear. "Take my advice don't. Look
here," he added, pointing with his walk
ing stick to a conspicuous white placard
where large black letters announced the
latest news, "save the money you were
about to spend on a novel and bay a
penny paper instead. Can any novel
hold out such promises as that? Wy,
that alone;" he went on, arresting his
stick at the words "Horrible , Discovery.
A lady supposed to have been murdered
in a railway carriage. The murderer at
large that alone is sufficient sensation
for a whole journey. A three volume
romance lies hidden under those few
works. But the troth will out. Sooner
or latter the British public will know all
about it. Did you ever read De Qnincy's
'Murder Considered as One of the Fine
Arts?'"
Thereupon the old man settled him
self into his corner to sleep, a placid
smile upon his good-natured face, and
when I was sure of being unobserved I
crept closer to Edgar and slipped my
hand in his. "I wish we were at our
journey's end. I wish we were far, far
upon the sea!" I whispered, hoping thus
to soothe him.
"How fervently I wish it God only
knows!" he answered in the same low
tones, drawing me closer to him, and I
trembled as I looked up into his anxious
face. Suddenly a terrible, scarcely de
fined fear assailed me. "Edgar," I
whispered, "you are not surely afraid
that anything will will part us now!"
"Would you allow anything to part
us, Leonie," he inquired sadly.
"No power on earth!" I answered.
And though he did not speak I knew
that he believed me.
At about 4:45 the train thundered into
the railway station at King's Cross. The
afternoondhad been unusually dark and
gloomy. A dense fog was setting in.
The lamps were lighted.
Our fellow traveler, rousing from his
long slumber, collected his papers and
placed them in his traveling-bag. As he
closed the lid he took hold of a label at
tached and turned it over, thus exposing
the address. Without the least desire to
do so, I could not help soeiug what was
written. It was this: "Septimus Good
eringham, Charing Cross Hotel."
The hotel we were going to ourselves.
He threw his rug over "his arm, took up
his bag, then looking round at us, raised
his hat and smiled. The next moment
he was lost in the crowd.
"Any luggage, sir?" asked a porter, as
Edgar helped me out of the carriage.
"Yes. Darling, stay here a moment
while I go and see to it."
So saying, my husband went off with
the porter toward the luggage-van, and
I was left standing under the full flare
of a gas lamp alone. j
The moments lengthened into min
utes, and with every minute the crowd
grew less. Cab after cab, olose by where
I stood, laden with boxes, drove off in
turn. After what appeared an age, at
length I saw three persons Coming to
ward me. The middle one was Edgr.
Plainly enough I couid see thrao f ces
in the gaslight. My husband's was 'pale
and drawn, and as I came; quite near I
noticed a nervous switching of the lips,
though, in spite "of it, he tried to smile.
"Darling," ho said, with an unsteady
voice, but quite loud enough to reach
his companions, "darling, I cannot go
with you. This this person," indi
cating some one of the men "will ac
company yon to the Charing Cross hotel,
where I telegraphed for rooms this
morning. In an hour or two I hops to
jcin you. You may be sure the business
must be imperative that takes me from
you."
"O Edgar! "Business aow?"
"Don't make it harder for me, Leo
nie?" And the sorrowful, pleading tone
awed me instantly into silent acquies
cence. The two men must have heard each
word, but both kept their, eyes averted,
and the peculiar stolidity on the coun
tenance of the one seemed to reflect it
self on that of the other. : With a silent
hand clasp El gar and I parted, and I
was driven off in a cab as fast as the
crowded state of the London streets per
mitted. J HI .a
I vu reacning unaring uross hotel, the
man Edgar had sent with ma on tho box
only waited to see the luggage in and to
know the number of the apartments ai
lotted to me I saw him enter it in bis
uocketbook and then, without a word
to me, be departed.
I was shown into a handsome suite o
rooms on the first floor. Numerous can
dies lighted up the pretty sitting-room,
a briaht fire burned in the grate,
near which was a small round dining
table laden with fruit and flowers, and
covers laid for two. The quantity of
lovely flowers made the air heavy with
perfume.
A little later on, emerging irom tne
bedroom, I found a waiter removing one
of the covers. He inquired if he should
serve dinner then. Not until my hus
band came. I told him.
"Pardon, niadnm, he said deferen
tially, "but the dinner was ordered at
this hour, and the person who saw to
the luggage said it was the gentleman's
wish he should not be waited for.
'I cannot dine alone, was my only
answer, witn Uimculty cnosing Dace a
sob. and when the man had left the
room I shed tears at the forlornness of
my position a husbandless bride!
Restless and feverish, I alternately
paced the rooms or stood listening for
the slightest sound that might herald my
husband's coming. Allet once my glance
fell on a heap of newspapers lying on a
side table, and the sight of them recalled
an incident of oar journey. What I
wanted was easy enough to find! It oc
cupied a conspicuous place in the first
paper I took up.
When the last train reached London
from the north on Saturday night a lady
was discovered in a first class carriage
dead. On examining the compartment
there seemed abundant evidence of a
struggle having taken place. A doctor
a surgeon from one of the London hos
pitals, whose name for certain reasons I
withhold gave it as his opinion tha
death had been caused by strangulation.
That robbery had been the incentive to
the terrible crime seemed only too ap
parent from the fact that some sover
eigns and silver were scattered on the
floor, also that a broken watch chain
hung from the lady's pocket, whence
the watch appeared to be violently
wrenched. There was no clue to the
unfortunate lady's identity. Her ap
pearance and dress were both minutely
described. The latest accounts
stated that the police believed them
selves on the right track of the dastard
ly perpetrators of the crime.
How was it, although I read this so
attentively, and can even now recall
every word, it yet failed at the time to
produce the effect I coveted? It was
powerless to make me forget even for a
moment my own forlorn position a
deserted bride.
When I had finished reading I looked
at the time piece. It was nearly tea
o'clock. At this moment a man was
ushered in by the waiter. I recognized
him at once as the same who had come
on the cab from the station.
The newspaper was still lying spread
out before me. Besting my hands upon
it I looked at the intruder. "Do you
come from Mr. Harrington?" I asked.
"I do, ma'am."
"You have brought me a message?" I
said, inquiringly.
"A note."
So saying he strode forward and laid a
folded slip of paper before me. A small
key fell from it as I opened it. These
words were scrawled in pencil:
"Dearest Enclosed is key to my
portmanteau. The bearer has my in
structions. E. H."
"I'm here to open the gentleman's
portmanteau, ma'am, and the sooner you I
show it to me the quicker things will '
get done."
"But we have not been out of En
gland," some vague old memories of custom-house
duties flitting through my
mind. "The portmanteau is in there," I
added; for, after all, had I not proof this
man wa3 sent by Ldgar? .
Scarcely had I spoken when be dragged
the portmanteau in from the adjoining
bedroom and commenced a most careful
examination of its contents. How it
chafed me to see those coarse, rough
hands turning over my husband's things
things which to me, his wife, would
have been sacred !
Was Edgar compelled by the business
which had called him away to stay all
night? This interpretation of the affair
occurred to me at seeing two or three
articles of dress after undergoing a
strangely close Lcrutiny placed on one
side. Something fell from the waist
coat pocket as the man was folding it.
He picked it up, looked at it eagerly,
and there burst from him a sudden, un
controllable cry of surprise.
"What is that?"
"Nothing," he answered awkward y,
and thrust it into his own pooket.
"I insist on you showing me what you
haye got there. It belongs to my hus
band, and not to you, I conclude.
Show it instantly," I said, for I felt sure
that this man was exceeding his prerog
ative. "If you insist, of course I will. But
my dear lady, I'll take upon me to say
that your husband would rather I did
not."
"I order you."
Somewhat reluctantly, it seemed, he
drew out his hand, opened it, and showed
me a watch a small gold watch. On the
back was a monogram in brilliants. To
the swivel hung about an inch of broken
chain. Only a watch an inch of broken
chain.
From the pretty jeweled toy I looked
into the face of the man. My eyes were
opened then, and I knew him to be a po
liceman. . For the moment I was a mur
deress myself in thought, wishing I oould
kill him where he stood.
"And he Mr. Harrington my hus
band is accused of ?" I gasped then
paused. .
"Of murder. It's an ugly word, but
you would have it, ma'am. The gentle
.man said as how you knew nothing and
needn't know till morning."
"But he is innocent," I cried in agony.
"He oould not do this thing never
never!
"Oh! If you can prove an alibi, he's
safe enough," returned the man in tones
that expressed more than doubt.
Alas! I had not seen Edgar from part
ing with him on Saturday afternoon
until that Monday morning. What vat
there I oould do or say to help him?
"But where is he? Surely they will
accept bail?"
"Bail? evidence against him far too
strong for that," he answered, looking
with exultant satisfaction at the bundle
of olothes he held in his arms. "Ac
cused is at the police station, where
he'll stay right enough till morning
Can't waste no more time here. Good
night, ma'am."
Summoning the waiter, I said to him
'as collectedly as I could : "There is an
old gentleman here, called Uoodenng-
bam Mr. Septimus Gooderingham.
wish to see him immediately. Find me
this number and this is yours." So say
ing I laid a golden bribe upon the table.
The waiter was not long in earning his
reward. I heard the handle turn, and
Mr. Goodermgham came in. "My hus-
bandihas been arrested charged with
that dreadful crime you were reading of.
He wa3 innocent I know that he was
innocent. We were only married this
morning. Mr. Gooderingbam. some
thing tells me you can save him."
Mr. Gooderingham sat for some mo
ments silent, lost in thought. Presently
he asked : "By the bye, you said there
was a diamond monogram upon the
watch?"
"Yes. The letters were quite plain
they were M. G.
If I had suddenly accused him of the
murder he could hardly haye started
more visibly.
"What? he cried, bending for ward and
grasping spasmodically both arms of his
chair: "Not 11. G. in Koman letters, on
a dark blue ground? r. Don't tell me that.
Don't, don't." u
But it is the truth, Mr. Goodering
ham. You have described the watch ex
actly. These two letters stood out quite
clearly on a ground of dark enamel. But
you have discovered a clew! Tell me
for pity sake, tell me "
He jumped up, seized his hat, and was
rushing from the room. Vainly I sought
to bar his passage.
"useless to aetain me. j. can c explain.
In the morning I will tell you all I
know. It may be all a mistake, bat
dear! it's coming perilously near borne."
With these enigmatical words be left
me and Hurried down tne stairs, men
slowly and sadly I sought my room,
where, sitting down beside the window.
I kept my lonely vigil. When midnight
struck I knew my wedding day was
ended.
Some time after noon a commission
aire brought me a tiny, twisted note. It
contained these words, written in pencil,
hurriedly, in Edgar's . hand : "All is
well. In an hour or less 1 snail be with
you. lut the reaction was too mucn.
I flung myself upon the bed and sobbed
aloud.
A short half hour owe and I was in
Edgar's arms, laughing and crying al
ternately at the ftrange joy of it, and in
my newly-found happiness, forgetting to
inquire, and scarce caring to know, how
it had come about. But after a little
time I knew, and, as brifly as possible, I
will relate it here.
When Edgar reached N , after
parting with me on Saturday afternoon,
he found a telegram awaiting him from
the firm of engineers who had given him
the Indian appointment. It is stated
that the head of the firm was obliged,
unexpectedly, to start for Paris next
day, and desired Edgar, if possible, to
meet him in London first to receive his
final instructions. There was just time
to save the 4 o'clock express to town,
and Edgar left by it, judging it best not
to inform me of his sudden and unex
pected departure. He traveled alone
from York to Peterborough.
At the last named station, when, after
a few minutes' delay the train wan on
the point of starting, a young lady,"ap
parently in a state of oonsidreable ex
citement, ran along the platform and
pushing past the guard, who was about
to close the door, jumped into the car
riage beside my husband. They had
proceeded some distance before she had
sufficiently recovered breath to speak.
but at last, in gasps, she made him un
derstand that she had no ticket and no
money; that she had run away from
some great danger, and if he would
have pity on her and furnish her with
sufficient funds to pursue her journey
she would give him the address of her
uncle, by whom he would be repaid.
Her strange, excited manner alarmed my
husband. Hoping to calm her he handed
her his purse, tequesting her to take
what money she required. He saw hei
help herself to gold and silver. Then,
with the money and purse still in her
hand, she took out her watch and tried
apparently to detach it from tho chain.
Too impatient to effect this properly, she
tore it off by sheer force, breaking at the
same time the slender, plain chain of
Indian gold to which it was fastened.
Then, placiag the watch, together with
the purse, in Edgar's hand, she said:
"Take that to Uncle Septimus; he will
reoognize it and will repay yoa. I par
ticularly want him to have the watch.
His address"
She never spoke again, but, with a
stifled cry, fell on the floor of the car
riage, struggling and writhing in mortal
agony. Edgar, guessing this to be either
some paroxysm of madness or some sort
of fit, grappled with' her with all his
might, but his utmost natural strength
was slight compared with that of frenzy.
How long the dreadful struggle lasted
he could not guess. In vain he at
tempted to signal to the guard to stop
the train: his hands were too closely oc
cupied in holding the unfortunate girl
down upon the floor. At last she lay
qnte still, but when thus enabled to re
lax his hold, life had fled. He raised
her. placed her on the seat, and then the
awkwardness of bis own position oocured
to him for the- first time.
The fact of a lady being found dead in
the train would necessitate an inquiry.
and he. Edgar, as the only person cog
nizant of the circumstances of her death,
would be required to attend such in
auirv. This would inevitably cause de
lay.and delay to Edgar at this particular
iuncture of his life meant certain ruin to
all his prospects, the one stipulation re
garding his Indian appointment being
that he must start on Wednesday with
out fail. This last thought decided him.
He determined that, voluntarily, he
would nay nothing of the terrible tragedy
he had witnessed. He entirely forgot
the watch which, in his haste to render
assistance to tho poor girl, he bad thrust
hurriedly in.to his pocket. He had forgot
tte money which had fallen to the
ground when she was first seized; but
with a sad feeling at his heart and aeon
science that all the time upbraided him
sorely, he removed, as far as be was able,
the traces of the encounter from his
clothes and person. The instant the train
reached King s Cross, at twenty minutes
to eleven, he gave up his ticket and was
out of the station probably before many
of the passengers had even, left their car
riages. I
He next went .into a restaurant, and
there the idea occurred to 'him that the
removal of bis moustache . might aid in
frustrating any attempt to identify him
as the traveling companion of ''the un
fortunate girl. The interview with his
employer was accomplished satisfac
torily, and be left London again for the
north by the 1:42 train on Sunday morn
ing. !
Having made the return journey with
out iecognition, he hoped all would now
be well. It was not until he saw the
newspaper account of the affair on his
way to Leascar on Monday morning
that he realized the horror of the situ
ation, and then, when too1 late, deeply
regretted the part he had taken. There
appeared nothing for it now but to let .
events take their natural course. There
was still the chance he might be-able
to leave England without discovery.
He would risk that chance; and, if fate
favored him, he would write a detailed
account of the whole sad story and
send it to the newspapers. Fate did
not favor him. He was seen and recog
nized at Peterborough, and a telegram
to Scotland Yard caused two detectives
in plain clothes to be in waiting at
King's Cross. .
When told of the charge laid against
him, Edgar contented himself with sim
ply asserting his innocence, and pro
fessed his entire readiness to go to- -police
station and explain everything be
fore the proper authorities. Nowfor
tbe part Mr. Gooderingham played -in
the affair. Late as it was when be left
me he managed to gain access to the
room where the body of the poor girl
laf and at once identified it as that i f his
niece and only living relation. She had
been subject to epileptic fits since child
hood, and owing to their increased se
verity had been placed by her uncle,
within the last few months, under the
oare of a doctor in Huntingdonshire,
who gave particular attention to such
cases. Daring his temporary absence
and by means which need not be de
tailed here, she managed io escape from
the custody of those who had charge of
her.
i'Aiid now," said Edgar, when he had
told me this, "thanks solely, I . believe,
to the wonderful cbacce that threw Mr.
Septimus Gooderingham across our
path, my character is not only com
pletely cleared from the horrible charge.
dus wnat i nai scarcely aareu to nope,
we can sail lor Lndia on Wednesday
without let or hindrance."
Ah, well, we are happy now. But I
may safely say that never in all our lives
to come shall we commemorate with any
thing like rejoicing, the anniversary of
our terrible wedding-day.
An Anecdote of Longfellow;
Bev. James B. Kenycn describes in the
Syracuse Chistian Advocate a visit-to
Boston in J une, lool, and tells how he
spent one morning in attendance to cer
tain publishing interests in the oity, and
met "Aldrich, the present editor of the
Atlantic, a dapper little man, with waxen
moustaohe and a nervous, open, genial
manner," and in- the afternoon went to
Cambridge "to that' pleasant, old-fashioned
country seat where Longfellow
passed so many melodious years of his
life." In the course of the narrative oc
curs the following. " Longfellow's cour
tesy was the outgrowth of his nature. A
simpler, nobler bearing I have never
known. There was no labored polite
ness, no straining at mere etiquette, bat
you felt at once mat you were in tne
presence ef a gentleman one of nature s
rare and finished spirits. I shall never
forgot the exquisite grace with which he
proferred B. and myself a cigarette (un
doubtedly a costly kind), and my only
regret has been that we did not have an
equal grace to accept it; even though we
. . . i , 1 1 i
naa not usea it mere we migut uave re
quested to keep the tiny gift as a memo
rial of that day an l or the artless and
beautiful courtesy which prompted it.
The pot that day furnished us with sev
. . - i i
erai humorous instances oi visits wniou
he had received from various persons at
various times. Some of these anecdotes
I have already seen in print, all of them
varying more or less from Mr. Long
fellow's own relation of them. One
especially has entirely lost its point, as
I have seen it printed. As tbe poet re
lated it to us, it ran as follows: One day
knock was heard at the door, wnen Mr.
Longfellow answered In person. The
poet at once recognized his visitor, both
by his accent and dress, as a Western
rustic. As his custom was, Mr. Long
fellow invited the man to step in. Once
fairly in the house, the fellow gazed
enriously around, and at last said : Is
this the house that Ueorge Washington
once occupied?' Mr. Longfellow an
swered: It is.' ' Well, by the way,
said tha rustic, 'might I ask who the
party is that occupies it at present?'
Certainly, replied tne poet, my name
is Longfellow. ' Longfeller, Longfeller,
drawled the sinew of tho West,' you
don't mean Henrv W- Longfellow?
That is mv name.' answered the poet.
' Well. I vum. said the rustic. that
beats me : why. I thought that Henry W.
Longfellow died before Washington was
born!'"
A Catfibh Causes Tboublk. For
several days the Bock Island water
works have been practically useless. The
authorities telegraphed to Ira Holly,
and he having concluded an examma
tion made a special report to the oity
council. He found that the pumps were
working with power that should produce
27,000,000 gallons per day, hut that the
city was only getting about U.UUU.UUU
srallons. Taking the pumps apart he
found in them a oatfim three feet nine
inches long and weighing fifty pounds.
Upon removing the fish, whioh had to
be done in sections, the pumps worked
all right.
A tailor's
Star.
goose the dude. Boston
A Peculiar Divorce Salt.
David Holtz, in an action in the Court
of Common Pleas, is seeking to have his
marriage with Pauline Moses annulled.
In his complaint be says that ha became
engaged to Miss Moses on the 1st of
April last. At that time she and her
relations represented to him, he being a
foreigner,' that it was necessary under
the laws of this . state that the marriage
should bo performed by some official at
the city hall. He objeoted to this sort
of proceeding, as he desired to consult
his mother, and also become better ac
quainted with Miss Moses.
He was told, however, that the cere
mony would not be binding upon them.
and that an actual marriage would take
place afteward by a Rabbi. He was in
duced toconsant to the marriage at the
city ball, which was performed by one
of the aldermen, and on the 15th of
April another ceremony was performed
by the Hebrew minister. On the mornincr
of April lGtb, he declares that his wife
became insane, and that some time after
ward she was taken to the Black well's
Island insane asylum.
Mr. liolfz charges upon information
and belief, that his wife has been a luna
tic for some years, and that she has been
confined in an asylum several times'. He
says, moreover, that occasionally she has
lucid intervals of from five days to
twelye months, and while in this condi
tion appears to be perfectly sane. He
declares that she was aware that she was
insane, and that she was led to' believe
that if she got married she could be
cured. Mr. Holtz charges that her rela
tives kept from him the fact that Miss
Moses was insane, that they wanted him
to marry her, and that the marriage oc
curred while she was in a sane condition.
He declares that sinea he ascertained
that she was insane he has not lived with
her, and he asks that the marriage shall
be annulled.
The case was before Judge J. F. Daly
yesterday in the court of common pleas. 1
n i j , .
oeversi amasvus were presented snow
ing that Mrs. Holtz was in no condition
to be served with the summons. Morris
J. Friedlander.plaintifTs counsel, assert
ed that Dr. Thomas M. Franklin, tha
physician at the asylum, asserted that
Mrs. Holtz was in no condition to be
served with the papers, and he refused
to allow her to be served. Tbe papers
were placed in the hands of the sheriff,
who also failed to serve them. An affi
davit made by the plaintiff himself stated
that he had never seen the girl's father,
but he believes that he is a lnntio and
has been for ten years. Judge Daly di
rected that the summons in the -suit
should be served personally upon Mrs.
Holtz, Dr. Franklin and Mrs. Annie
Moses, the girl's mother.
Uarrlsoa life.
Reveille roll-call is sounded at sunrise.
Then all the enlisted men of the garrison
form in front of their respective company
quarters or barrack buildings and answer
to their names, whioh are called by- the
first sergeant. The first sergeant reports
the result of the roll call to his company
officer, who in turn, reports it to the offi
cer of the day, who, standing in the cen
ter of the parade ground, receives the
reports, which he in turn hands over to
the commanding officer later on, during
office boars.
Directly after reveille the men have
stables and then breakfast.
6 a. m. goes sick call, when the lame.
the halt and the blind not already in the
hospital, and who are in need of medical
attendance, report to the surgeon in
charge and have their ills attended to.
At 7 o clock a. if. fatigue call is
sounded, and tLe different working
parties are assigned to the several duties.
and at 8 o'clock is heard the first call for
guard mount. This is a beautiful cere
mony, and in reality inaugurates the
new military day. as an entire chancre of
the guard. details is made, the new men
marching on duty and relieving the old
guard of its 24 hours of watching. After
the mount there is a drill for two hours.
All the officers and all ths men who are
not on duty at this time attend the drill.
The pi'vate soldiers are instructed in
the manual of arms, tactical movements
and the general use of the service rifle.
Recall from all duty is announced on the
bugle at 11 o'clock, and the men rest
themselves until 1 o'clock, when fatigue
call is again heard and work resumed.
Recall is given at 4 o'clock, and supper
soon after. Precisely at sundown is
heard the first call for retreat and 10
minutes later the assembly. The men
again fall in ranks to answer to their
names, and an undress parade is gone
through with. Sometimes this is varied
by dress parade, wh'ch is one of the fin
est ceremonies known to the military ser
vice. Tattoo is beaten at 9 o'clock p. m.,
when all must be present once more to
answer'to their names, and fifteen min
utes later the sound of the "taps" is
heard, all lights are extinguished and
sleep becomes the business of the hour.
This ends the routine' of duty for the
enlisted men.
Japanese Cremation.
A Japanese cremation costs about $1.
One shilling's worth of fuel is the
average consumption required for each
body. Granite supports are laid in pairs
along the earthen floor, and on these the
coffin-cbests are placed at 8 p. m., when
the well-dried faggots beneath are
k' idled. The fires are replenished from
time to time, and at 6 ic. the man in
charge goes round the building, and
from eaoh hearth oollects and stores in a
separate urn the handful of ashes whioh
alone remains. Some wealthy families
secure the services of Buddhist priests
to watch all night beside these funeral
pyres, but this is considered quite a
work of supererogation. After tbe
religious service in the house the further
attendance of the priests is optional; but
in many cases they return on the mor
row to officiate at the interment of the
ashes.
Mr.Musset says in a recent paper upon
the influence of tbe moon upon thedirec
sion of the plant growth: "Plants of
phototropio sensibility were grown from
seeds in pots in a very dark plae; then
on three nights exposed at a window to
direot moonlight, the stems bent over
towards the moon and followed it In its
oourso.
ALL SORTS.
A good man The man who is goo l to
me.
"There's plenty of room at tha top,"
is very true of dudes. .
One of the best stops to a hand-organ
is a pewter dime. x
Truth calls her "that seductive sallim-
baoque, Sarah Bernhardt." -
Geuaral Ord's widow, son and two
daughters are in Washington.
Modjeska is making a study of tha
Mexicans and Indians in Santa Fe,
xna up-town streets have the apraar-
anoe of not having been cleaned for
years. .
No matter how bad a tew per pne may
have, he should never lose it. '
"Died of scrawfully," was the brief
wording of a Michigan dootor's oertifi
cats.
Miss Emma Nevada, the singer, is seek
ing reoreation by a horseback trip
through Bohemia.
Mr. Sargent, the American Minister to
Germany, will 'return home some time
daring September.
J. Armory Knox, the fanny man and
duelist of the Texas Siftings. was once a
dry goods clerk in Augusta.
- Mahone claims the oredit for having
increased the number of fre aohooLi in
Virginia from 2,000 to C.000.
Tbe general understanding is thit a
patient is not out of danger until the
doctor has been discharged. 1
Bo long as base ball reports contiuue
to eome regularly, nobody will believe
that the telegraph company is embar
rassed.
The difference of forty years between
the ages of a Miohigan bride and bride
groom was against the woman, who was
seventy-two.
The Portland Advertiser thinks Dor-
sey declined the oner or the Interior
portfolio because the Star-route port
folio paid better.
It is a Chicago scientist s prediction
that if pointed shoes remain in use hu
man toes will eventually be obliterated
among civilized people.
Gail Hamilton (Miss Abigail Dodge)
4s described as a plain, brown-eyed lady
of tbe most unpretending type.
Robert L. Ream, father of Tinnie
Ream Hoxie, the sculptor, has been ap-
fointed special agent of the geteral
and office.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is living
almost tbe life of a recluse at West
Gloucester, Mass., and working diligent
ly at a new story.
There arc many decent and espcUb!o
people who will regret to learn that Mrs.
Langtry will return to this country next
fall and visit San Francisco. .
Crushed banana is a new oolor. If it
is the color of the stars a man sees after
he has accidentally crushed a banana with
his feet the tint must be very brilliant.
DEFASTKD.
Tom Thumb la rone and Langtrr'a aailed!
O wofal, Mdful dlmlnaailouJ
Let Time weJl mark tba day r walled
. For Lily and the Lilliputian.
Charles G. Reynolds, tbe bookkeeper
in the office of the Boston City Treasurer,
has held his position for more than forty
years, lie is now eighty two years of
age.
It is the old story in the "Salvation
Army," the money and glory mostly
stays with the generals and colonels,
while the privates get barely enough to
live on.
A telegraph operator confined in the
penitentiary at Leavenworth has sont a
message to the manager of the strike,
asking for the signal. Ha says he wants
to "go out."
The city marshal of Dodge City, Kan.,
will be a candidate for re-election, and
bases his claim upon the fact that he
has killed a cowboy at a distanee of t'iree
hundred yards.
The Saturday Review says "tLe pe)pl
of Great Britain eat too much. One
a
One
wouldn't suppose so from the appear
ance oi some specimens reoentlv sent
over to this country.
A Boston school girl cannot bo made
to speak of overalls. She prefers to oall
them superomnes. Now let some of
those wild Western sheets again sneer at '
our culture, if they dare.
They thought they heard burglars in
the house last week; and in going down "
stairs to investigate Bibbs said to bis
wife: "You go first; it's a mean man who
would shoot a woman,"
The new preacher, who made such a
wonderfully favorable impression on a
Boston audience, on the occasion of his
trial sermon, said: "The children of
Israel were repeatedly on the point of
manumission, but rt tha last moment
the Lord afflicted Pharaoh with auricular
ossification."
A Washington county man has, after a
long searoh, found the cradle in which
he was rocked when a baby, also the
oradlo with whioh he cut his first dozen
of wheat. He has the switch with whioh
he was first whipped for going fishing
on Sunday; also the switch his wife wore
when ha first met her.
"Do you ever have a sort of laasitadal
feeling just after dinner ,a kind of creep
ing tiredness all over, and a desire to sit
down and rest for a year or two?" asked
the man on the soap box. "Well; yes,"
said the man on the mackerel barrel,
"only the feelinir comes oyer me earlier -in
the day. It strikes me just after
breakfast.'1 ,. yj
Seasickness is the result of reflex
irritations arising from little surprises
to the muscles, and shocks to the nerves
engaged in performing certain important
functions notably of locomotion,
respiration and vision and when ths
groups of muscles thus engaged are
once educated to the surrounding cir
enmatances, the 4?rvons revulsions are
not experienced.
Madame Hurtelle, a lady of position
in Paris, has been arrested for drunken
ness. In defense she said she had read
that the surest way of preserving furs
from the ravages of moths was to store
them away in an empty spirit cask. She
accordingly purchased one and confided
to it her cloak. The weather being
chilly, she required the garment, and
the alcoholic fumes produced intoxica
tion. She was acquitted.