T
I
THE TOP OF HER BENT.
Spiritual Manifestations
Strange Apparitions.
and
A Specter Which Seemed to Caze
Out of Eyeless Sockets
Became a Denizen of the Palacs and Dis
poned as Freely as the Eoyal Mistress.
Once upon a time there was a Prin
cess who believed so ardently in the
supernatural that at last shi thought
and talked of nothing- else, and occu
pied herself solely discussing dreams
and spiritual manifestations, and she
surrounded herself with people only
who had seen visions and whose strange
dreams had (or had not) come true,
and who had received spiritual mani
festations and seen apparitions or at
least whose second cousins and great
aunts had witnessed the extraordinary.
Xow the Princess dwelt in a palace
which had once been a place of luxury
and delight, where people could move
about fearlessly during all the twenty
four hours of every day and night
But now that this Princess reigned in
it, it was haunted by spirits, and, go
where one might, some intangible
presence or some eerie appearance
filled every nook and corner of it One
day the Lord Chamberlain met a Shad
owy lady in blue on the staircase, who
seemed to gaze at him out of eyeless
sockets. The Lord Chamberlain did
not fail to relate his adventure, and
the next day the first maid of honor
encounterea tne same lady in the pic
ture gallery. Then she "was seen by
the chief page; then by the mistress of
the robes. .Soon she had been seen by
the whole household, including the
Princess herself, and thenceforth the
eyeless blue lady became a denizen of
the palace and walked there as freely
as its royal mistres. Next, a phantom
coach was he ird at midnight to drive
up to the palace portals and a phantom
hand rang furiously at the great bell!
No eye saw this vision. The curiosity
of those who peep id remained UHgrat
iiied. But the sounds were heard by
many, and those who heard shuddered
and clung to each other in dismay.
Soon unusual things happened in the
palace with regularity and frequency.
Nightly a cold and terrible hand w s
laid upon the cheek: of the Lord Chief
Justice after he had extinguished his
light Nightly also a rustling silk
gown passed through the chamber of
the Generalissimo of the Army. On
Sundays, at 2 in the early morning, a
hysteric 1 laugh was laughed at the
bedside of the Princess heseif, and at
an hour before co)k-crow every month
when the moon began to wane, feet
scuffled, a heavy body fell, and a deep
and dreadful groan was utte cedinlhe
apartment of the poet laureate. An
intangible monk seemed to inhabit the
library; an invisible but bloody pres
ence was felt to invade the ball room.
Men shunned the smoking room at the
going down of the sun, because at the
apartment was permeated by the faint
and exquisite aroma of a tobacco no
mortal had ever inhaled. The grand
piano in tne urawing room was con
stantly played upon, and when the
Princess and her suite entered in haste
although but that instant the room
had been ringing with melody the
piano would be found closed and the
apartment void. Children scampered
up and down the wide staircases, when
there were no children within a mile
of the palace. Dogs whined at closed
doors, and, lo! when one rose to admit
. the creature, no dog was to be found.
In short there was no end to the extra
ordinary occurrences which took place
in the Princess' palace daily. The
Princess grew thin and haggard, and
her large and luminous eyes looked as
if they would fall out of her head. And
her whole court grew meager and
pallid also, and none spoke above his
breath, and the women clustered to
gether in twos and threes, and when
any one entered a room, the occupants
would ask at once, "What have you
Been? What have you experienced?
What did you dream last night?".
Then some who had formerly held
high offices at the court, but who had
been displaced because they were in
credulous of the Princess' second sight,
and because they had declared that he
only who desired to see ghosts saw
them, for that ghosts per se existed not,
drew together in consultation and
agreed that something must be done.
"Let us prevail upon the Princess to
marry. Marriage is a healthy state,"
aid one.
This proposition was received with
unanimity, and an audience of the
Princess being obtained, two gentlemen,
who had once been respectively Prime
Minister and Chief Court Physician,
were admitted into her Royal Highness'
august presence. They found their
royal mistress who was herself a3
slender as a lily and very wan sur
rounded by her maids of honor, le in
and terrified damsels, and by her Min
isters of State cadaverous and melan
choly personages. The whole assem
bly looked as if it were smitten by soma
painful nervous sickness; each one
glanced hither and thither, as though
devoured by some dread expectancy
all started at every sound, and their
breasts heaved with inexplicable emo
tions and their bony hands were clinch
ed convulsively.
tor very pity the ex-chief physician
could have wept. Put he restrained
himself, while thi ex-Prime Minister
explained his errand, bogging respect
fu.iy to inform the Princess that, while
he was striving to grasp the super
natural, the natural was falling into
decay that the army and navy were
becoming disorganized, foreign Powers
were growing aggressive, literature was
neglected and art and science forgotten,
social evils were unremedied, and the
whole realm was becoming disaffected.
J hen the Princess said, sighing,
'What would you have me do?"
Then the ex-Prime Minister replied
with caution, "Madam, we would have
tout Royal Highness bend your mind
from the immaterial to the material,
To one so widely read as your Royal
Highness we need not to quote the wise
man's words: Our business is not to
know all things, but those which con
cern our conduct'"
"But how can we tell what truths
may not be revealed to us through
epiritu d investigation?'' said the Prin
ce ss.
'Madam, truth will reveal itself in
its own g,Mid time," rejoined the ex
IVirae Minister.
"Not so,"' said the Princess. '-Does
not the jeail remain hid until the diver
plunges into the sea? I have deeply
explored spiritual phenomena, auil
there have b x-n vouchsafed to me
visions so translucent that they were
indiscernible to any but the m ist high
ly spiritualized, and many other won
drous experiences have been accorded
to me, the servictJibleness of which
will doubtless be revealed in days to
"Madam," interrupted the ex-chief
physician, "does not your Koval High
ness know that the senses respond to
impressions from within as well as to
impressions from without?"'
"Sir, what did you mean by that?"
inquired the Princess, frowning.
"Madani," said the ex-chief physi
cian, boldly. "I mean that in the brain
messages may be transmitted from the
ideational centers to the sensory gang
lia, and that these messages from
within p.oduee a similar effect to the
impressions caused by external stimuli;
hence, at the suggestion of the idea
tional centers, sights may be seen and
sounds heard, nay, even tastes, odors
and tactual impressions perceived
which are not objective at all, but
purely imaginary."
"Do you mean, sir," cried the Prin
cess, "that you think I invent the spir
itual manifestations in which I re
joice?" "That which your Royal Highness
so aptly suggests is what your Royal
.inertness liumole servant is fain to
think,-' said the ex-chief physician
with a low bow.
it my cnier executioner were not
confined to his bed, and very ill from
the effects of an awful vision which
was given to him last night in which
he saw all the executioners of oil time
waging war against all the executed,
and the executed, forming a mighty
army, with tfieir heads beneath their
arms, subduing them, 1 would have you
beheaded," said the Princess.
The ex-chief physician bowod again,
and the ex-Primo Minister hastened to
say that, putting aside all explanations
that might be offered as to the objec
tivity or subjectivity of spiritual mani
festations, he woulu come to the point
of declaring that be and all the rest of
her Royal Highness' faithful subjects
earnestly desired that the Princess
might show herself more gracious
towards them, and to this end. trusting
that the indulgence of pure and healthy
domestic jovs would render her m ire
mindful of the mundane needs of her
people, they humbly entreated their
royal mistress to enter forthwith into
the holy bonds of wedlock.
At this the Princess blushed, for she
was but a woman, notwithstanding her
predilection for the supernatural.
"Rut I do not wish lo marry." she
said.
"Nevertheless, we venture to im
plore your Royal Highness to reconsid
er the matter," said the ex-Prime Min
ister. "Kut whom should I marry? Whom
could I marry?" said the Princess.
"Madam," began the ex-Prime Min
ister, "there is the Prince of "
But the Princess cut him short.
'A Prince is nought to mo," she said.
"What have I in common with ordi
nary mortals who have no cognizance
with the spirit-world, who are too
gross and carnal to discern the invisi
ble or to apprehend the impalpable,
and whose organizations re too coarse
to receive incorporeal manifestations?
Nay, my lord, if you would have me
wed, you must find for me a husband
so completely enrapporl with the spirit
worta tnat tie shall pasi through the
crucial test, wherewith I shall try him,
and retain not only my esteem and con
fidence but my adoring reverense."
At these words the ex-Prims Minis
ter and the ex-chief physician drooped
their heads dejectedly, while a faint
murmur of applause arose from the
thin lips of the courtiers. But a child,
who was seated on a stool at the Prin
cess' knee, the orphan sin of her dear
est frien l. asked, "Godmother, what is
the test?"
All listened for the answer. But the
Princess was moody and would not ex
plain. "When the time comes you will
know," she said.
Iain's hat And another caused his
limbs to bj tied with cords in many
knots and had himself shut up witniii
a small spi.-; wid a cigarette paper
laid uu : his knejs. aid. In, in a mo
ment the curtain was withdrawn and
the cigarette wa roiled aid between
the lips of him who still sat there
botnd with knotted chords. K it tlie
Princess only smile 1 aad said. -That
is mere sleight of h nd anl any jug
gler can do as much."
Then others came, relating how in
the stillest hours or night, in locked
chambers, friends who were at a gr.t
distance appeared to them, and how
they had learnt afterword that at that
moment tho friend had died, and telling
of warning voices which had kept them
from starting on some fateful journey,
and of prophetic dreams which had
been realized, and of strange coinci
dences and marvelous presentiments
and eccentric exhibitions of psychic
phenomena. But the Princess" still
smiled and s-iid, "These are only the
normal displays of spiritual force and
lowest servants in my scullery have
had manifestations as marked aud as
unusual. "
And sonic of the suitors went away
crestfallen. But some pleaded to bo
allowed to undergo the test, and to
these the Princess said, "Tell me of
what I am thinking. This is not the
test but if you can tell me that, you
will have accomplished something."
Then each strove lo read the royal
lady's thought and one guessed one
thing and one another. But none could
divine, for the Princess was always
thinking that each of her suitors was j
more tedious and unacceptable than tho
one that came before.
At last there arrived a young and i
handsome professor of mental physio
logy. ".Madam." said he, "there is no need
that 1 should try your patience by ex
hibiting tricks of legerdemain. All
juggleries can I perform. But they
are nothingto mo, since I can set tin;
Thames on lire, draw blood from a
stone, run the gauntlet of criticism,
pick a quarrel, nurse revenge, put a
rod in pickle, break my mother's
heart, teach my grandmother to suck
eggs, catch a weazel asleep, get out of
bed on the wrong side, raise the wind,
play with fire, kill two birds wi-,h one
stone, keep myself close, laugh on the
wrong side of my mouth, save my
breath to cool my porridge, keep a
secret steal a kiss, hug the shore,
hatch a plot, drive a bargain, swallow
an indignity, make a mountain out of
a molehill, reduce an argument to an
absurdity, double my pace, make mon
ey fly, find a verdict, preserve my tem
per, mince matters, create confusion,
magnify my own importance, rivet
your attention, take the bull by the
horns, and lose myself in a crowd. I
can also play upon tho imagination
aud fool a woman to the top of her :
bent Madam, your Royal Highness
doubtless perceives that my relation.
with the unseen powers are extraord-l
inary. May it be that to your Royal !
Highness most humble servant shall
brain shall Mvm like eig
;n.r n,i inieiii 'ctice in
bane. To your Royal H.gtm-
ht and h-'!r-a
month oiU
i- it
i k nn id the oiori-ers t)
this new. splendid and ummagiuahl.
development . . ,
Th; Princess who have indefr.uc.
prolonged this covers .tion. for even
to a lady who- supra-normal faculties
are acute it is not altogether disagree
able to be en rnj.rt with a handsome
voting man. B.it at this juncture the
Prime Minister came forwanl and l'g
ed respectfully to inquire whether the
Princess would graciously deign to in
form him if she intendei to apply the
crucial test to the last arrived suitor.
1 wfa lltt (SI 7tf"
. . . ., .LaWo and ind.-scibabio
, .... ,i. ,. t,, nie. and the know!
of tlifsniieriiaiiin" 1 ' ,
ih"rea!:z--U me as i.u
i. -n m-rei'iioic nuu
Uplines irit. lisiueu
...... nm-n.at faculties can well per-
L'ave her hand to
promised to rely
rmure and to acionj
cdg.
me and
man hath ev
vour Key a
ce.
1 .,
7W
ing
were e
the Pn
(lorniiiio.is
"Tril. SIC OF WHAT I AM THlNKISo.
Then the Princess, turning her large
and speaking eyes upon the l ro.es.-or,
said. "Tell me of what I am thinking.
This is not the test, hut if you C'i!l tell
that, you will have aceoinplishe I sume
thing."' ".Madam," said the Professor liold.
"it becomes not inn to rc;ul your Royal
Highness' thoughts nloiid. But should
an Oracle reply to your Koyal High-n.-s-i'
command, wo.ild it not say,
"Sweet is the rapture of mutual under
standing and tho lasting companion
ship of equal minds is beyond praise?''
Then the Princess' pale cheeks flush
ed r.-d, for she had inde -d been think
ing that if she could bestow her hand
upon liny, it would be upon this hand
some and fynip itlc'lic profesr, whose
mind seemed to he a coont -rparl of
her own. So she s:iid with confusion,
"That will piii. Processor. My
thoughts wore possibly of some seduc
tive theme.''
"Then may I hope that your I'.oval
Highness will impart to me what is the
crucial test?" said he,.
"It is a hard thing," returned she,
sighing, fur she was reluctant to risl;
losing the Professor's society.
"Nevertheless. I will overcorn; it."
said he.
Then the Princess grooried within
herself, not daring to believe that tie
Professor should succeed. But at last1
she said, "Professor, if upon n certain '
day, in my sight and in the sight of nil
my court, you, by your own volition, j
be snatched away wholly and taken '
utterly out of our fleshly cognizance; j
WHAT IS YOUIt TITLE TO SEEK Mf
hand!"
Then the two ex-officers retired, sad
and desponding, and the Princess with
drew into a dim chamber, where daily
at that hour was heard the music of
unseen violins, played high in the air
by phantom fiddlers.
The ex-MinLsters rubbed their heads
and thought. What was this crucial
test wherewith the Princess should try
her would-ba husband? And who would
be found to submit himself to the or
deal! The two good gentleman were
sorely perplexed. But a rich princess
need not remain single long, and, as in
the legends of fairyland, suitors quick
ly presented themselves, each one con
fident that the test however hard it
might bo, was no harder a nut than he
could conveniently crack.
Upon each suitor who was brought
before her the Princess turned her eyes
languidly.
"What is yo.tr title to seek my
hand?" she said then.
And one Offered her a pack of cards
and bade her name the card that Should
spring from among its follows. And
another pjducad lighted Chines lan
terns oat of the Lord High Chamber-
be vouchsafed to pass the crucial tests
which shall be tho key to so great
ecstasies!"
Then the Princess regarded him
with favor, and she said, "Mr, how did
you obt iin this rccuciliement with the
Supernatural?
And the Professor made answer,
"Madam, 1 have obtained it by the
most careful and incessant cultivation
of a certain part of tho brain, within
which lies the power of being in touch
with the unnppro.iched and the un
approachable, in most human brains
these supra-normal ganglia are merely
rudimentary, and to few is it given so
to develop these high convolutions
that their mystic powers are declared.
But before these few are spread the
marvelous mysteries of tho other
w-orld, of which grosser creatures
know nought, and which they -in their
ignorant and undeveloped state de
ride." "Professor," said the Princess, earn
estly, "how can I attain this supra
normal development?"
"Madam," said the Professor," by
perpetually dwelling upon the supra
normal idea, the supra-normal nerves
are set in motion and the supra-normal
grooves becomes fixed, and presently
the supra-normal ganglia dominate the
whole' existence. The rest of the
mind may be dormant The senses
may be dulled and the intellect
atrophied. But the supra-normal
groove will deepen and the supra-normal
nerves will work with more and
more activity, till the highest state
shall be achieved -even constant com
munion with the unperceived and the
imperceptible. But if I mistake not
madam, your Royal Highness has al
reany reached this ultimate state."
"I have thought of the Supernatural
and of nothing else for many years,"
said the Princess.
"And you have perceived?" said he,
tentatively.
"Many wonderfut things have been
manifested to me," said she, "Only
this morning the Idea of a Strangled
Abbott accompanied me from the'ino
mentof waking until noon. I did not
see it, neither did I hear its last gurg
ling breath, nor yet did I feel it But
it was given me to apprehend that it
was there by a subtle and indescriba
ble sense, which is vague and mystic,
and yet sharp and powerful as a
Damascene blade."
"The supra-normal is ever wonder
ful" murmured the Profossor.
"Yet there are some who call my
delicate perceptions Hbnormal, who at
tribute' my visions to a diseased and
morbid fancy, who impress upon me
the manifestations I have received are
entirely subjective," said the Princess.
"Those arc the coarse and groveling
natures which c in not soar to the cul
tivation of the supra-normal faculties,"
said the Professor with warmth. "The
supra-normal faculties of such ire
more rudimentary than those of the
brutes, for even dogs bark at we know
not what, and howl dismally when
death draws near."
"Then you do not think that my de
light in spiritual communion evidences
an unsound mind?" said tho Princess.
"A thojsari l tl-nes, ho!" cried the
Professor, with m ioh enirgy. "I be
lieve that it in licatei tho evolution of
asixth sonsj, whlc'.t shall s ibitmiiata
the fourth dimension, discover the
chemical properties of spirit, and be
side which ths function of the normal
enses an l tho ae.bn of the normal
and if, returning to us, you be etheral
! ized as no mortal man h:n ever been,
! and if you have had discernments such
i as no human senses have ever opem-d
! nnto, then shall 1 know that our rela-
lions with tho Supernatural arc abso-
lute, and then bhall I trust in you com
; pletely and adore you with the utmost
' reverence. This is the test." ;
j Then all gazed at the Professor, ex-
petting that he. should he daunted. ;
But he said, "Madam, bo it as your 1
! Koyal Highness de.-ires. In eight '
days will I be realy to undergo the '
; test, and then will 1 -in your Itoval '
j Hi'ihtiess' sight, .-.nl in tho right of "all
j the court-vanish wholly from your
i fleshly cognizance; and retiming after
a space, 1 will lie far and spiritualized :
j beyond thought, and my knowbiigo
i shall transcend all human discrimina- j
tion. Now retire we all and let ns
spend our days fasting and in contem
plation, so that our grosser parts may '
be deadened and our supra-normal j
faculties intensified to the uttermost, j
And beware, madam, lest bv the in- :
dulgence of the smallest normal :
thought your Royal Highness' supra- '
normal thought your Koval Highness'
supra-normal faeoltiuij bo 'but for an in- !
stant diminished, for if your Koval '
Highness' supra-normal faculties should '
abate their keenness and their expect
ancy only for the twinkling of an eye, '
it is most sure that some portion of the i
mystic drama will escape vour Royal
Highness' apprehension, and in this i
case, should the veil of the nniver-c '
be rent asunder and tho spirit-chorus '
come to meet you, your Roval High-1
ness would he deaf and blind to these '
inconceivable glories. And I, madam "
he added, in a voice audible to the '
I rinccss alone, "I should be cruel v
disappointed. For I think that vour :
Royal Highness has developed a men
tal possibility and a cerebral convolu
tion hitherto unknown
and if I find that I am mistaken if f
And the Prince-
the Professor. an
opon him for
l!,.t the Pniiee-s godson said: "The
. ...v..,- mis iiuRcired t all. lb)
Ui' SS,I ... , ,
...... ji .i, h. who'.- nine, and 1 caw
him snap his finger- and wink,"
-n,..,, ti,.. Piof.or sid mildly
-D .uhtless, mv end 1. you thought you
.. . si.-o.diiiL' th-: e. Hut you look-
el with th - eves of your lsiy, i rid o
,. ...i :ibseore that it s.-emed
to von I had never gone - as, when you
M.i'u a top v. ith a red sit. so rapid is
.,.. .,.! of the top that the red
t....t SI...TMS ever i'l sight. '
. the 1'iof ssor too, the Princess'
hand and led her away to the banquet-
h.-e! ieel the next Hay UK- iiupuais
leinatei witn great p imp. "i
;.j ,r r ile 1 t :. Pi inee-7. and her
I oei that tunc, ami tin: re
n-.ia nrn,i vitv i:i that laiel.
But the Pru.ces. rau-ed her god-0n
i l. u 1 mi. I commanded that ho
should be sent lo a haunted rchool.
line In Xilll'i".
As we f it down in ill neighborhood
of ( ape II Uteri', mvs a writer in the
1 New York Nun, it came on to blow
cie.lt giwi-i and the seas were treipen
Uo ;s. I'll steamer pit -ln-d and tossed
aiei ro'l. d in a way to f"ig iten every
! IhnIv, ami floiot i;iida''"-nooii a sleek
lo iiiing vou ig man pitch -d acros the
c uiiii to tho sofa on
ting and a-Ued:
Do ou tii'n'i we can piiil thro igh
-It is doubtful1
"(iood ehun .; of gii'ng down, eh?"
"".est in the w oral."
"Well. I have a few dollars in eoun
terlit money it i in ami I go I'll
throw it overboard."
He pitched ac"os to bis t-t.it-nm
and probably got rid of it In about
half tin hour he catne for nit- again and
a-ke'l:
"What do you think of it now?"
She se. ins to be laboring heavily,
and 1 tun exporting to hear that (-he
ha- sprung ale.i'i'
"lsth.it so: I have two or three packs
of ra'-Cii in ray valise. That might,
court jegahi-t me In tho other world,
and I guess I'll heave 'em out."
lie wis gone aboil a quarter of an
l.o ir !lu tune, an I us he staggered up
lo the sofa ig:.in tho steamer almo-t
h'-onil (hi en I.
"It's growing worse, isn't it?" he in
quired. ".Much worse."
"Anl w ought to prepare for
death?''
di
; h I was sit-
TnwT
pian-
"I -I believe I have two or three
bogus bonds with in- tielonging to A
friend who Homoiiiies works a conli
dtnee game. 1 gu-s they'll have to
go, too."
Vt hen he was gone I shifted my po
sition and it was half an hour before
he found me again. J'be st a.oier w.-ii
rolling mm pitching ami he was verv
white as he inquired:
"W hat are tiie chances no'?"'
" hie in a mi;iion."
T a:. I .. .. ,
i uiu not se . , nn again until we
were Hearing Wilmington. Then I
caught him trying to work the thrcc-
i.iiu i-.c sei (Hi a , urtll;t
ter, and I called him aside-
"Vou seem to have, recovered all
your cheek, my friend?"
"I have yes."
"While you thought there was dan
ger of our going down you were very
penitent?"
' .lust so."
"I thought you threw overboard
everything belonging te your profes
sion. "Not quite. I was going to. but
when you said we ha 1 one chance in n
million I took it and ave.d monto, and
if you 11 let me alone I'll pull $.Vi out
o, that old cottonseed befo.e we make
the wharf.
be compelled to own that your Royal
Highness' faculties are but normal and !
unueveloped
thia to bo so,
iiond (orpw ThroHch i llrr.
Belief in dreams has received new ad
herents in Lincoln county, owing to
some s' range cireumsbw.es attending
the finding of the body of Elbridge
Call. For three or four days three or
four hundred people have been diligent-
.V scouring the woods and examining
the pomls m that vicinity, when a
bro,h .r.in-!awof the nussing ,n ul in
eca:-era!lmothcrle,,ir1,dh
be t n le t. dreamed that he had found
the body of Call drowned under a
others of his dream he Monte.-l ,n rii.....
, w ivjtuiV
undcveh,ped-truly, madam, if I , ; over which hi, dr m a, ,,1 1
mv lalA rill V. !.-.. i I blill (r. !,. :..r , ""'S
through the crucial , 7 ' mV,U i.Ti- "... .yer? "'." th
u . 1 """" o ; " y to tne
Rut if
etherealized beyond compare.
u '".'"' """'-ess stand without, of
what avail will it be that mv supra
normal powers are unimpeachable'
f or without you, madam, your Royal
el'fsi." UhfuI 8ervaat 2
JXlAr antl Pn the
-. v.UJ, ,,C U1Q Sl,n ,
garment, whose text.
discovered nor i. i, Z ' '
iiTi,u ,7 '.. " ""i. ana an
And
from ,. -. .7 "warn
,,. r'" ""ucr ine oia country
, u.e, huh old people
builUjeforethoirtimi tl,.
roail.tonehridge.soidUroldpr
say it was built tf, .u . 1 ,'Pla
found the body. -Bath Times
What Happrnrd to a Cot
At the outbreak ot
T. Norris wag an exd
operator, having U.J
from one of the telegra
receiving a message I
" ill. i" m i li OS, n I'M
to steal telegrams off.
let the I'liion Koldiers
I oiirederate Buck. W,
wan lying in front of p,
ris wns stationed th -n
obtained front a ( onf..
a puzzle ring, mad 0
ring", so woven that w
wan wt up it made
licavy pice of jew,-!,
knocked down made a
of eight Htnall tr, ri(.,
the HtH-ret o) itttttiiiff
getlicr.
Just on the edge of I',.
wan living ni a c,.n
I'lMiioiied irginia iiuuis
faintly named He ,,,
tlniightTM. MisH Klla 1 1,
Home young Virginia
exercised her ( liarniK
ccptililo mind of yotm -
niuiougii im Had a r;
i . i- . ,
.hiimoii h iiik lie IiceaiiiP
five to her. ( (tie eveui
Itng on .Iikh vo Hurt,
the puzzle ring lie hail
and bantered ution In
t up the puzzle that
an old Heal ring; w hi.
heirloom for over a
Ktiid when h, lirought
would Jui ve the nuzzle t
1 he next day Xorris
ns a Hpy, Bent to Hi, I
and H'iitpnced to death
pmon there when Kicim
WfW llberntei. ( on,, riJ
took up bin old pursuit
oni'K bv lim old love, tin
nrnl for many years
hm very mircosnful
at Springfield.
Wiout twenty v
wa ctiltiloved bv t he f'l
hine orks to rimtiiri
by t he namp ol .(ones.
Ilowod to lliclitii(!ii !, :
took Norrin bai-k to
While; walking around
of police in Petersburg I
Hforv of t he rings, and j
the le HartH. One id
iovm, mow grown to
cluinced to Ik? passing
introduction to Norri
HtoryMvtts related to lie
with his father and hro
b-en in the ('onfeonute :
ho laughingly exchiini.-d
nre the man with the ri;
1 WfintrTotr to come ntiff
mother. She has saved
lor you lor twenty-live ye
Mr. Ie Hart said that
had died several years
tlicy had often taxed thei
tion jib to what had bee
young secret agent wli
trothed himself to Kiln
ruthlessly torn away.
Norris went out to the
Ktcad and liud tin oil i
whom the twetity-liv.- y,
tho eiifei-liliiig marks ii! tl.
ot n long life. She reineir,
perflHtlv lltl'l lirnll'.'lit e
spool liox. from which sir-
raizzh ring. It 'n still tjt.
S'orriw taking it, put thf
get tier perfectly wit hiiifif!
after his arrival. Theolilli
about t he neal ring h-r dai
jestingly placed on Norri'
ami Norrw telegrniihcl tt
Iiih wife to forwanl therin
(lavs later the heirloom
stored to the D- Hart Vnc
tho puzzle ring around wi'f
coiln im woven tliirt roni.ii
now ndorrm tho hawk of
tive. Atlanta Constitutio!
.fete,
A young man acting ag iicullion
i , . s cui ion in a
ci?arette establishmenf ,.
uu uie 1'rofessor I l'rt,i --wiumif
clothed lna stran I : Vr r11'JOnt) hls J""t Wn
might not be ! r theft under v, TV peculiar
'V".nu".,laf"re"i-Bco,.!)
ineffable smile wan norm m o.'.
the courtiers were lean and pale and
heavy-eyed, for they had fast- d lr
3 anu endured much coni,.m. . .?..,"
.... .muuil.
ot the
rs.
circumstance,. 1 Wa, i,.a .. ' "
rin:or,edl'lr'nnt,,0
and the nallor anri mi...L '
Inln. """KMMUn 01 t
n , .bl8,nf mo,re aU of thei
Anuvsnt iroaon wan
and well noupished,
siLl,htoMhn1,J.080r' ,an'lin? ("
sigtit or the Princess and of tul u,a
court raised his hand , and c ied wi 'h
a loud voice, and Immediately thev
saw him not, neither did their ?-
behld him during toUuS
might have counted two score r?,
a voice said, "Welcome? oT. V I n?
ess! and again they saw the 7Ji
H'terthe l4 i M M
to itisfy Jds i-.,"' J'; a ty- 1,1 Tdur
tunity offered "of . . J' of " "1'1'or
the lJjZ.lUlkln monejr from
"Madam, did I not
laid
ness
see tV.,,( . V I
uusone.n hi. a
For that whh h
when the
that upward f ? M hJ5T ?'"CcrU,n
on "fine feathers.-' d b?e" "I)cnt
hih. to T LZrU Amn the artades
"y in IS . 10, stowed
tume of red Vill ,.olc' Were 11 co"
pha In wl,H? tt' T f'"M
Pi-tedin ,it !.. Cl1' ion. do-
mounMby 'a u,,;;;: ''Ca1
sur-
cerdlsl"
Jfor that. . "r "-outuries, . , .."""mil renorterf i.
reported in hm .i.
x3 I'lrits.-Haitimore
Truth snd .Slmsril
Thru ore si mule words I
- - ,
meaning. They are the
churacterand can make go.
little word and action
weary world this would I
bniiislie'l
The plonsureH of society '
tcrly destroyed and mankirj
H"t k the desert lor pence ui '
tnent. On thecontray, l
nnd inerit V are the gov
ciple society, in lovely anJ
ive. A society turn goa
lie compared to a Jotinimp
waters (sending Mr1"
Htreums, where the wear.
may rest nnd refresh
firpfifii e-loinff iniiiL'inat
l a I.JIv bwil ideilriin!.',
beaut V to olnectH whi' D "
in them, lint iiomiihk -with
undiminished luster ti
and sincerity. Sincere "
actions, tint unriuont ionabi-
tinnu fif sense and 11 cort't"
exonerate their h"Pl'.V P'l
from the whole of that toil1
which the Mislavcd and let-'
of .rrtihYinl character co'lflt
tain. Honor and hon-ty,t
sincerity, are the fotimm"l
nfn ronl character. Slt','l
nnrl actions have liower to
broken heart, and Booth";a1
rows. Jtisthe unam-cu"1'
mother's wellfarc that ren'i
blening to community.
The snirit of kitidiicsc,
.LI, t ..,! fibers hnlP.v
ninu w mnnc vw..- .-
and makes lovel.v tlio
Then how essential it j 1
should ever strive to he '
rnnnin to have every
made use of, Htftn(linglr,,0,1
One may be ever so g"
onmnluhMI tniiv IIIIIY e.
r. -,if on,! inf.llirrence. Ii"l'1
I , , ?TIV UIIU . ' " fS ' . m
thav hnlH !. nnwer Ot Bit" 1
respect if these most Imparl
' 4 . u. I in flnir cnn
and tbej will fall horfofi'l
olaca tbetr Uod aMignnr
SWA.
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