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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1889)
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Aad yet It tare w A sweeter perfume, day oy day, Thaa aay other could essay. For bees aad butterflies. When Jack Frost warned, with Carers hoar. The shivering flowers to seek Proteet.oa la the hoase once more. This lonely plant neglected sore "Was left to die, aa helplessly, Beaeata the glittering, frosty sky. Scourged by the north wlads bleak. One day I passed with footstep light The Med wall beside, My garments brashed with coatact licit Its leaves all blackened by the n'gat "VVaca sweetly shed aroundmy head A sad reproach, that plainly said- Oar sweetness has not died r Harry Haydea Moore, ia Good Hoasekeeplac. A MOMENT OF ANGER ; Tho History of Mr. and Brownlow's QnarreL Mr. BT ROBERT HOTE. CHAPTER. V. Co.vrtM.K3. "Very well.' responded Mr. Brownlow, in a '"ow tone, " it was about eight o'clock when t found out definitely that Mrs. Brownlow had departed. I did not want to go and cne alone wita the friends who ex pected us. I should have been obliged to explain to them my wife absence; therefore I remained alone at home until eleven o'clock smoking and expecting to see my wife return at any minute. Then baing unable to smoke any loncer, I went out vita the intention of asking whether she had not been seen at the house of her most intimate fnends. "When I was outside the door I reflected that she could not have sought shelter at tne house of any of the persons whom we knew, because they would have immediately sent me word. I reflected that 1 should wake Mp people who had been ia bed some time, and that I shouid make a useless scandal upon the sub ject of a family quarrel, of which it was bet ter to wait the natural solution. I strolled up theavenne and into Central Far", where I wandered about a prey to sentiments, sometimes sad. sometimes violent, aad I do not know exactly at what hour I returned "You d-d not cine any where then that evening!" Did you take any measures looking toward a discovert- of tout wife's whereabout- J'' 2o." "Did you notify her family of her dis appearance or her f fiends !' I did not. and for the reasons that I have just now indicated. I beLeved that she . would return soon and I did not care to ex pose my domestic relations to criticism of outsiders. That nobody has been enabled to find out where she is or what became of her justifies my intention nnon that mat ter. Ton pretend to say that she went away ia evening dress without any other clothes P "That I can swear to. "Are you aware that Mrs. Brownlow made a will in which she bequeathed all her property to you ! 2o. sir. I am ignorant of the existence of any such paper.' " But it was written at a date which pre cedes your wife's disappearance by a few days only." The defendant did not answer. - You have heard the testimony concern in? the opera cloak and the identification of the remains of Mrs. Brownlow. Have you any thing to offer upon that subject!" "Simply this, that I was considerably disturbed when the cloak was shown me. because it did teem to be evidence that some , trouble had befallen her which I knew not of. As for tne body identified as that of Mrs. Brownlow. I do not believe that it was she. There is no pood evidence before the court to prove that it is. "Would you not consider the evidence of her relatives as pood for the purpose of identification in this case J No." "Your honor, said the district attorney, I have no more questions to ask. CHAPTER VI. The judge turned to the prisoner and asked if he had not any witnesses whom he wished to have heard ia his behalf. Mr. Brownlow quietly responded that there were none: he had told his story, that was sufncient for him. If you have any thing to say to the jury, then, said the judge, addressing the pris oner once more, -you have the opportunity to do so now.' Mr. Brownlow's address was brief: "Gen tlemen of the jury, said he, " the hazard of drawing by lot has gathered upon your bench twelve citizen, strangers to each other, belonging to the most diverse classes and professions, each one occanied with any thing rather than criminal psychology, and badiy prepared, undoubtedly, to discern the traefrom the false or to draw the reality from tne mist of the clever sophistries of the public prosecution, well drilled as it is, and wearing as it does the judicial apparel which the prosecution renders solemn in order to strike with better effect apon your imagination. Tea would, therefore, be Terr excusable if it should sometimes occur that tou acquit criminals and condemn the mno- cent. But the affair which is to-day sub- mined to you ia too simple for your con- I science to be led astrav, and yoa will need ! to make no great effort of good common sense to set aside an accusation in wfaicli the first element of likelihood is lacking. You are asked to declare that I have killed my wife, yet my prosecutors have found it an impossibility to present any clear evidence that my wife was the victim of my violence. Thev have, it is true, declared that a cer tain corpse f ound m the river in an advanced tate of decomposition was that of Mrs. Brownlow, but when yon consider the mo tives that would lead the family of Mrs. Brownlow, prejudiced as they are, to iden tify these remains as her body, yon need sot think long before you decide that sach evidence is wholly untrustworthy. But even if it should prove true That the body thus found was that of Mrs. Brownlow. worthy a mo-Beat's i iiiiiiian iliini which shows that I ia any way was resaeaeible f or her death. As a matter of fact, her death is uncertain, so that if I should be "w'id to aarry again to-day no Minister or wise jus tice or anybody having any authority to per form the ceremony would dare to do so, for bo one could prove nete be a widower. 'Here is a contradiction which will met escape your wisdom. I beg of you, there fore, to send me promptly about my busi ness and go back to your own. This discourse was exceedingly awkward; it was full of a contemptuous i niisir w wi iTmi for the institution of tae jury, a contempt which the accused would bare done better to dissimulate. The public prosecutor prof ited by this mistake: he took good care to emphasize it ia his reply to the jury, which was a forcible resume of all the testimony and an earnest appeal to the jurymen not to be led astray by any idea that the defendant was not in his right mind. "Why," he said, "is it that a wealthy man should deliberately refuse to employ coun sel in his defense, whose whole course has been contrary to what would be taken by most sensible men? Why has be done so! Because the weight of evidence is so tre mendous that he knows there is co escape from it, but his only chance for life, which he, as all men, holds dear, is to convey the impression that he is insane; but up to this time there has been nothing in the career of the defendant which has led any one to sup pose that his mind was not as well balanced as that of any other member of this com munity. The jury finally retired about four o'clock in the afternoon. What were the srcum stances that bad most weight upon their minds, and what was the course of their de liberations it would be manifestly improper and, as a fact, impossible to'say. The secrets of the jury-room are kept profound ly sacred ia almost all cases. It was cer tainly so ia this. The audience in the eours room remained for nearly two hours with out stirring except to indulge in conversa tion. When it was nearly six o'clock word was sent in from the jury-room to request instruction from the court upon a point rela tive to the value of circumstantial evidence and the evidence of the relatives of the de ceased. When the instruction that had been asked for had been givem there was another wait, and after the room had grown dark aad the janitor had lighted the gas. many of the spectators went out, one after another, believing that the verdict would not be reached that night. The more they waited the more certain it seemed that a disagreement would be the result. And yet when the jury first went out it was the universal opinion that a verdict of guilty would be recorded. At half-past eight a few loungers in the court-room were startled from their ennui by the appearance of the court crier, who came in to announce that the jury were ready to return. The judge, who had been chatting in the con sulting room with several lawyers, returned to his place on the bench, and in three min utes the court-room was crowded again to its utmost capacity. Sbt many of the fash ionable people who had been there during the trial were present, but their absence was more than made up by others who had struggled in vain for an opportunity to hear the testimony. The defendant was'brought in from a room down stairs where he had been waiting alone and was placed again at the bar. The jurymen filed in,ledby an officer of the court, and took their places up on the bench. Mr. Brownlow looked at their faces in tently as they passed, but in none of them could he discern a hint of what was to come. When all had been seated and the roll had been called, the clerk proceeded to put the formal questions.- Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a verdict in the case of the'de fendant at the bar! "We have,' answered the foreman. "Gentlemen, what say you, is the de fendant guilty or not guilty!" The foreman's face was grave yd steady as he responded: Guilty, as charged in the indictment. There was a slight rustle in the court room as all eyes were turned upon Mr. Brownlow. He did not move a muscle, but looked curiously from one face to the other in the jury box, as if wondering what class and manner of men they could be who could arrive at such a decision upon the facts as presented in the trial. There was a slight pause before tae proceedings were resumed. When they were the clerk said: 'Gustave Brownlow, stand up. When the prisoner had risen to his feet these questions followed : " What is your age J" "Thirty-one." "Your place of residence !"' " "So. Fifth avenue. "What is your occupation!'" Mr. Brownlow paued for a moment, then he responded: "Ihave no business. After that he was permitted to sit down again, but in a moment more the judge, who had been sitting with his eyes upon the ceilisg and a most abstracted expression upon his face, ordered him once more to stand. "Prisoner," said the court, "you have been accused of the most heinous of crimes of which it is possible to accuse any citizen, i ou have had every opportunity to present your side of the case in its most favorable light. That you have deliberately refused to do so can have no weight with thU court in passing sentence for the crime of which vou have just been convicted. It is not for us to act as your defender, or to extenuate tne circumstances oi tne crime, it is our part only to exicute the orders of the law. j and in so doing 1 am obliged to consider that this jury before whom you have been tried is fully competent, as I believe it was. to determine with accuracy and justice the truth of this terrible matter. .The crime of which you Lave been convicted is one that can not be palliated by any circumstances, and I can not therefore permit either raercv or any other consideration to modify in any degree the penalty which the law provides fcr murder. Nevertheless, I give you one more opportunity to say if yon have any reason to offer why sentence of death should not be passed upon you.' Mr. Brownlow looked at the court for a moment steadily and then said: "I have only this to sav, that the result of thu trial is the most severe condemnation that could possibly be made of the jury system." "Prisoner, said the judge, sternly, whea he saw that Mr. Brownlow had noth ing further to offer, "yoa hare persistently aggravated your situation from beginning to end. It would be impossible now, if it ever bad been, to exercise aay discretion in ths matter of regulating your sentence. The sentence of the conrt is, therefore, that yoa be taken to the county jail, confined there until Friday, the 21st of January, aad that yon be then taken frost your cell sad hong by the neck until yon are dead, and may God have mercy npoayonrsouL Gen tlemen of the jury, yon are discharged." Mr. Brownlow received the sentence as he had the verdict. without flinching, aad to all efforts of either friends or reporters so in tercede in his behalf, or eater into conver sation with him, be simply asserted that be had said what he had to say. But his friends did not let the matter rest. As the de fendant's coarse bad prectnded asysossi bility of securing a new trial, all they could do was to try to secure exscatrre dem eacy. A petition was circulated among the city praying that his tewce beat least commuted until it should be defizdtelv prevea that Urs. Brownlow bad died by violence. Various obstacles lay before the successToftaispetitioB- Perhaps the great est was thatthe incumbent of the Guber aaterial chair was a thonjogatroing aIiti daa,and weald fear to offead the geaeral pubhc by extending to a rich man a faror that might without special risk have been granted to a poor man. Whea Mr. Brownlow had bees taken to the cell which he would occupy until he should he put ta death he called for the services of a lawyer, bat not for the pur pose of snaking a move for freedom. He would not permit the lawyer to talk about that, but hatted bis services strictly to putting his affairs into such shape that there would be no possible question of their disposition after his death. It was, perhaps, characteristic of the maa that ia choosing his attorney be passed over the eminent men ia the profession wham he personally knew and sent for Mr. Henry Parker, the young lawyer assigned to defend him by the judge, and whom Mr. Brownlow had rebuffed so coldly and emphatically. The most important work for Mr. Parker was, of coarse, the drawing up of his strange client's wilL Mr. Parker's astonishment may, perhaps, be imagined when Mr. Brownlow directed that all his property without exception should be given, to "Mrs. Leonora Brownlow, my wife, when she shall return to her home.' Mr. Parker was made trustee for her with a salary of five thousand dollars yearly, to be drawn from the estate until the lady should appear to claim the property. The young lawyer protested m Tain at his client's extraordinary testament, pointing out that it made him, Parker, actually the TEE TOCSG HWTZB "KOTrSTET Df VAIS. heir to the property, for no one believed that Mrs. Brownlow was alive. "Yon are mistaken," responded Mr. Brownlow, quietly; "I believe it." Sc the will was drawn as directed and duly witnessed by officials of thejaiL But Mr. Parker went about his duties with a strange feeling of oppression and doubt. Was the law about to take the life of an irresponsible man. or was it about to mur der an mnocent man! It must be one cf these. If he were hanged the will could not be contested successfully by Mr. Brownlow's relatives, for it would be the theory of the law that any question of Mr. Brownlow's sanity had been settled by the tr-aL And yet the unfortunate man seemed to be irrational. And yet again Mr. Parker could not help a feeling that he was innocent. The young lawyer decided that in the time intervening before the execution he would make a great effort to discover the truth of Mrs. Brownlow's disappearance. CHAPTER VIL The young lawyer went about bis work in a methodical way. He said to himself: The possioilities ia this ease are very few; it should be reasonably easy to eliminate all tnings which are not possible from consid eration, ana so concentrate attention upon those things which were most likely to happen. Now, then, the first point which may be taken as a clew is this: Mrs. Brown low left the house altogether unprepared for a journey. She was not only in eveain g dress, out so far as the efforts of the detect ives have shown any thing, it is clear that she went away without any money m her pocket to pay for a journey of any consid erable length. The matter, then, resolves itself irfto one of two general things: She is either dead, having been killed, or met with some fatal accident before getting far from her house, or she is alive and in this immediate vicinity. There is no reason to think that any other horn of the dilemma can be found. "Sow, if we proceed upon the theory that she is alive, and that is a thing that we must do sow, it is necessary to find out in what part of this vicinity she might be. That, then, is the one problem that confronts me." Having gone thus far in his analysis of the situation, Mr. Parker came to a dead stop. It was night, and he was at his of fice, and long after the other occupants had left for their homes he remained, his feet in the air and an nnlighted cigar in his lips, pondering over the situation. The next morning he started for the house of Mr. Champion, and when he had found the head of the family, he said I am Henry Parker, sir, the member of the bar who was assigned by the court to act as the counsel in behalf of your son-in-law on the occasion of his recent trial He absolutely declined to receive my sere ices, but has since employed me in other matters. It is without his knowledge or consent that I come here now to see if I can not do something further to clear up the mystery surrounding the disappearance of your daughter.' "Well, sir," said Mr. Champion, rather brusquely, "do I understand yon to hint that I have any more knowledge of the matter than that I have given upon the witness-stand and to the oScers of the law!" "Pardon me, sir," replied Mr. Parker, "for having stated ay errand in such terms as should have allowed yoa to make that most unhappy inference. Jbalsevethatysn have been profoundly aaxfoBS to ""and oat the troth regardant; your daughter and that yoa haredone all in yeor posse-fas gain that and farther the ends of jastiee, bat while I do not pretend to any-; that I have siaoDeuriwo-s-Bfl snaw stSSjtnsu, f JWM1 say that it has seemed to me possible that something further might be done, aad it is with that rather shadowy notion in my mind that lhavew-Metoysv,bjsijrnng that yon will accord n-yonrhssrTy co-oseration in whatever I may attempt." "Very well, sir," said Mr. Champion; "I will not iaterpsse any obstacles .ta your work,bntI wfllsay piswiisij that wothfsg eonld shake my belief that Mrs. Brownlow was murdered by her hosband." "5otbier queried the yenng lawyer, a return. "5ot even the nrsdactiea ef the lady alive !" "Ah,weB, that's isntbrr matter." said Mr. Chs-saiaa. "If yen ares-oingtovrork npoa that absnrd hjsnlhf ii. that she i still alive, I fear that 1 shall simalv waste sty time with yon." i ' 'ir; Fa l ! : 1 .1 :, twhk Parker. "We are going simply to try to discover the truth, and if that truth proves to be tiat she was murdered and we get at the complete story of the matter, I shall be satisted, although, I confess, to a certain extent grieved, for I can not bat believe that year daughter stSl alive.' Mr. Champion simply raised his brews with an expression f pitiable tolerance for tne young lawyer's notion aad waited for him to proceed. "I would like to ask, nrst," said Mr. Parker, "for the complete history of yoar daughter's life from her early childhood op to the time of her marriage, and imtras of akiagyoatotellitto me offhand I will try to get it by certain questions. Sow, then, did she have in her childhood any intimate friends to whom she might have tied in this emergency, aad with whom she might be in hiding! " " I can think of none." said Mr. Cham- ojon. " All her friends are people who are well known, and who are in the swim ef society aad conversant with the news of the day. And it could not be possible that any of them would restrain her from com ing back to her parents and friends in such a time as this. There are one or two of her early acquaintances with whom she was intimate until well along in her teens of whom I have lost track, but I know that they live in distant parts of the country aad even in foreign countries." "There were, then, no friends in humbler life to whom she might have gone!" con tinued Mr. Parker. "I think not," retarned Mr. Champion. ' coldly. We restrained our dmghter"s as sociates to the grade of society in which she was born. We alwa-. s discouraged anv association with poor people." "H'm," was Mr. Parker's only retort. Then after a pause he asked: "Have the servants that are now in your family been employed by you for many years ! " No, only one or two. We have had the usual changes of servants mark every family's domestic history." " Was there any favorite servant in the family at the time of your daughter's child hood! " Mr. Champion thought a moment and then said, with some hesitation : "It seems to me there was. As I think of it, there was a woman named Mary something upon my soul I can not think what her last name was now for whom our daughter seemed to have the liveliest affection when she was the merest cnild. She left our employ nearly fifteen years ago, and of course I have known nothing of her since. I am in clined to think you are pursuing a very shadowy clew.' "That may be,' said Mr. Parker; "we shall see. We shall see. Would Mrs. Champion know more about this woman, Mary, than you doi" "She might. I will call her if you ex presslv desire it-'" "I do." Mr. Parker touched a bell, and when a servant responded to the , he said: "Ask Mrs. Champion to come to the study," aad ia a few moments the lady entered, aressed in deep mourning. Iro bi cosTi-crnx SIMPLICITY OF LANGUAGE. Sharp, Trse SeatsCM Versus Verbois, Grmadlloqarat Statement. Boys, if you have any thing to savor write, say or write it in a plain, simple manner. Do not be verbose (that is, wordy) ; do not aim at a florid style; above all things, avoid the grandiloquent (fine talk in g) . Words were not designed to obscure thought- High-sounding phrases do not in dicate the scholar. Monosyllables are abun dant; the Anglo-Saxon is essentially vig orous. A simple style of speaking or writing can be graceful and elegant. Even sublime thoughts are most charming when clothed in simple language. -God said. Let there be light, and there was light" What can be grander than the thought, and yet what can be simpler than the language! all mon osyllables, but compact with vigor. -"Art not two sparrows sold for a farthing! and one of them shall not fall to the ground with out your Father," etc Suppose we change that to "The feathered tribes are consid ered of small importance, and yet thev share the protection of Providence.' Does that not greatly weaken the passage! The enetjgy and the searching sense of the ap peal are gone. Most of the frequently quoted sentences that have come down to as from classic times are sharp, terse sentences. Of more modern times the remark ia just as true. What made General Dix's order so famous but its short, sturdy, vigorous character! He said: "If any man pulls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." It was spoken at the right time in the righ way, and subsequently made him Governot of a great State. Sucn would not have been the result had he worded his order as follows : "If anybody remove the United States colors from the pols, enterxtmplaiat against him at the earliest convenience, and have him committed for trial at the next term of the supreme court for the county." Balfour's style was gorgeously verbose; Erskine's, on the contrary, was crisp and vigorous. The following anecdote is told about the two barristers: Commg into court one day Erskine noticed --'i Bal four's ankle was bandaged. '-Whv, what is the matter!" asked Erskine. Instead of replying, "I fell from a pate," Balfour an swered, m bis usual round-aoc-.t manner. "I was taking a romantic ramble in tf brotner s para en. and on coming to a gate i ciscoverea mat i nad to climb over it. b which I came in contact vrith the first bar. I and grazed the epidermis of my leg. which nas caused a slight extravasation of the blood." "You may thank VOUr luckv Stars " " . - w I replied Erskine. "that your brother's gate - - -. j 4 Kwtrm -fna? rrtTi Kpntki.'a m.- was not as lorty as your style, for you rer tamly would have broken your neck." Detroit Free Press. A Caol Bat Jut Criticism. "juss iXKiaieton, said a voung man. "did yon read the poem that I sent joui" "Yes," replied the young ladr.' rather languidly. " - "flow did yoa like it!" r r --zawuuijoneianKsonaawitaiv' vji "Wh-wMii-- -a i-A "It was a little bit too lunr there were Jw-rtbouttwsTeTsestDenifto-f' j xluu me juu.u Ht uown in .ne corner ana sadly- remembered that the- were onlv tara-ieaasTto the" i t ft ii n-Mqrcaant Traveler, i " tMixx it very strong aad close, John, saM a Wester" lady te; Che i-agre wsewas buildlnga'new garden fence.- "My 'Chris tianity can't stand the test of my neigh bor's pigs aad chickens." "I blieveyoa, missis," was the old . aws's. rwahstk. re sponse; in I Ufa aQns notice cat eer was an cad to all peace an' good-will an naborliness an 'iigioe whar darwam'tae fence." Btssanaasbeenturniar overt 3. i5i isjbb n.kse jxing;v c nt MDmm- ii mi . - -n . -- - . enhniaaf- eantmuaaaly fer framing gronad la the Ch- nsse Empire ss the eCect that the Gsas THE PfiOFESSOK. Tha WIdo-gr Spencer's Experience with Electric Spectacles. S somebody n o c k i n ' at the door. Mrs. Spen cer." gasped the widow's little maid, "Sorah, bursting in to the kitchen one summer morning. "La, me! what shall I doF' ex claimed the mis tress, who. with her bands in the dough. surely unfit to greet company. "Go an' tell 'em I"m busy," she finally commanded. hurriedly patting away the bread-pan and going to the sink to wash her plump hands. Jorah languidly started for the front door, but she did not relish her task, and be fore she bad reached her destination she was overtaken and passed by the energetic widow, who opened the door herself. On the threshold stood a man whose ap pearance indicated that he was a Count or member of Congress at least. Tall, distin guished, with heavy black side-whiskers aad an eye-glass, he was really a being to command attention. "Ah, permit me to introduce myself." he said, as the hostess appeared, and bowing low he handed her a heavy beveied-edged card, which said: PROF- DE MACKE, : Occlist : An : EucriacxAjr. : The printing was very fine, and the widow could no more read it than she could fly. I He saw her embarrassment, and haugh tily took the pasteboard from her. "Permit me, mademoiselle, to decipher the very minute printing." and he read the words with a rising inflection on "electri cian." Before there was time for the lady, as tounded aaao much greatness, to speak, he continued: "Have I the honor of addressing Mile. Spencer, ah!" "My name is Spencer," responded the widow, at last fiading her tongue, "but there is Mrs. before it. Won't vou come in!" Thanks; I will, for I hare important business to transact with Mademoi ; beg pardon, madam. It is so easy to mis take youth and beauty." This last compliment was so broad that the widow, who was " fat, fair and forty," could not help blushing, and the faintest semblance of a pleased smile was visible on her face whea ab.fi sat down with her guest in the parlor. Many men bad called on Mrs. Spencer since the year of mourning was over, nearly a half decade ago, but none had had the air and bearing of this one. Her im pressible mind, ignorant of the great world's ways, and easily influenced by the arrogance of the stranger, was all" in a wnirl, and she hardly knew how to demean herself. "Pardon my mentioning the subject," said the professor, urbanely; "but I no ticed when I handed yon my card that you had trouble reading it. May I ask if your eyes trouble you 1" "Kot a that is. only a little sometimes when the sun shines in them," answered Mrs. Spencer, evasively. "O, I see, madam. You need not be at all diffident about it. Frequently girls of four teen are compelled to remain at home con stantly on account of weak sight, and you need have no compunctions because you who are probably ten years older than that begin to be troubled." "To be honest," admitted she, mollified by the remark," I am beginning to be a little-- justalittle near-sighted. Bat I won't wear glasses, though." "Quite right, although a great many people da However, as to my reason for calling. I am a professor of the eye, an oculist. I stopped to inquire the way to the next town, bat wnen I saw to nr difficult v in w - m uiM, TZMXTT XE TO- tSTEOOCCB MT3ZLM.n reeding my card. 1 concluded te aid you. I stop usually in large cities only, but this summer I am taking a vacation trip and am almost tempted to stay a few weeks in this beautiful valley. Doycu know of any farm house where I'ceuld fled lodgings for a short spell!" "" without giving her tane to aaswer.re rattled on with the following nraeasftMn: "Why not let me board here and meat, your eyes for payment! You would not, I pre- nm ran to irotoabnnirlinsrwinntrr-nhT-- -. o -- r -... - j..-j :..;.. ... I....... ...... ..v .?. . aieian to have your orbs of vision nently spelled." pcrma- The proposal was startling, but the up shot ofthe'matter was that it was accepted aadteeprafaBsorwas esorrted to the best -.j- How pleasant he appeared when he came down to dinner I He talked of art and science. -nad. told her of lis life, now he had? began. poor sac "rtn-a us way as ntukesw worm a quarter ox a mimon, wen ne , v j -t . -. wiaow; jseua-usae sssanetermet such a fine gentleman, and ia torn confided to him a history of the late 8pencerand how he bad left her the two-hundred-acre farm npoa which, she Jixed aad whh-fc leased that lir --The eaie. nftertbis, and. dinner heinw anlsted, he explained how he had L It was thrsugn electricity.- "i aare -aaeaO-tae,' aseaioae m sach a way a te produce the most startling results. Yen have no idea of the wonders I hare -performed. .Hay, hrae to walk aaS the Mind seel" - "La! that is mighty waaaarfair ex claimed the widow. "les, and yon shall see far WBU1CUML" jr,"" 7 t a Tes; I will Wgm tnthe uewasas good as his pjSSJJBSJBSJBSJfSfSSf. jj w" y I " JE 4k 5EjsfW'A rrl7 isslrrr "KV"4BwSSBwSSBwSSBw"SJ W3S i fsswBsHVtft flsdrfl w siBjsTefT ana ii tfreW-- ssare !W.eiart-BcBre- i 4 8 r J & "Here are a par of electric Mme. Spencer." he said, opening the bundle. -Taey are very expensive, bet are simply wonderful in their effect." "But I don't want to wear glasses. "It will be necessary to wear these only s short time saya month and tnen you will be free from glasses or spectacles of any kind forever " The patient looked a little dubious, bat she took the wonderful spectacles and pat them on. "You will notice the electric balls on the ends of the wires," explained the professor. -WAX, S'GOSHt" putting his hands on either side of her head as if to place the wires straight. "Oh! oh! you hurt me!" exclamied the widow, jumping back. "Ha! ha!" laughed the professor; "that was the electricity acting on your nerves." "Why, I thought you had pins in your fingers or something." No, madam, it was the magnetic car rent's action, and yon most not be surprised if it is even more severe at times." He took off the spectacles and showed her two black balls as large as peas on the ends of the frames and two more on the wires that clasped her head. Then he explained, though she did not understand the expla nation, how the current passed from one to another and completed a circuit, thus car ing the most stubborn case of nearsighted ness. For ten days he continued his residence at the farm-house, and his "treatment" of his hostess eyes. It was the busy season, and it so happened that none of the rela tions of Mrs. Spencer had called. The whole village, though, knew of her aristocratic boarder and the ladies were wild to see him. He seemed to care to know nobody, how ever, but paid assiduous attention to the widow. Morning, noon and night he was at her side. He praised her farm, her house, her garden, and even praised "STorah. He fixed the electric spectacles many times a day, and when after a week he one evening allowed an arm to drop around his patient's neck, she was too preoccupied to notice it, or at least suffered ft to remain. Then he went a step farther and actually proposed. The widow was not quite ready to take such a monstrous step without thinking it over, and promised to give him an aaswe in three days. On the third dsy the sewing souieti met at the Spencer home. She knew Jonas and his wife would be there, and thought she would talk the matter of Prof. De Mauke over with her brother that afternoon when he came to take his wife home. 'How long have ye been wearin' glasses. Mis' Spencer!" asked the minister's wife, as they were sitting around the dining room table after supper, discussing various little matters of interest to the community and waiting for the members' husbands. Jonas was already there, and be and the professor were talking on the porch out side. "Oh, only a short time." answered Mrs. Spencer. 'I ain't agoin' to wear these long. They're jest a little short-cure experiment." "Shortcure! What d'ye mean !' inquired Mrs. 'Squire Beanse, "air they some new fangled things?" The inquisitive matron came nearer and peered at the strange articles. "What be them balls on the ends!" she queried. "Ahem V came from the porch, but Mrs. Spencer, proud of her possession, did not notice i- "They are "Iectric balls to cure the nerves," was her somewhat ambiguous an swer. "How do they work!" asked half a dozen ladies, coming forward, all agog with curi- osity. The professor hemmed and hawed npoa the porch but be was net heeded. Mrs. Spencer took off the wonderful spectacles and handed them to Mrs. Beanse. "How strange they be!"' exclaimed that lady, advancing toward the lamp. "Do they help your sight yet!" "Ya-a s, I think they da somegood.thoagh I can't see much difference. The 'lectricity, you know, goes through" "Why, Mrs. Beanse, what air ye doin'!" "Look, the balls is meitin' an'dropnin'off I" "What air they made of?" were some of the expressions that interrupted the expla nation. Jonas coming from the porch pushed aside the women and snatched the specta cles from the holder's grasp. Bringing them near to the lamp again, he wafched another "eakitric" bad melt and iail sw-ziiag tethe table. w "Wax,Vgenh- hemuttered, in deepdis iaia. " "Jeruba, waere'd ye git these blamed things!" " "The professor," Mrs. Spencer answered in a frightened tone. Jonas made one long stride which carried him almost to the porch the professor was gone. And he did not appear again. The spectacles were confiscated or the angry Jonas, who vowed he would horse whip the rascal if he caught h" The Widow Spencer is still a widow. She never confided her psepuial to Jonas, aad she diselies very mnoh the word "electric" Though she has hafd""work sometimes to read even very coarse print, she has not yet, and declares she never will, wear an other pair of spectacles. CkaxxxsM. l J, -Sa-yenr,hashdd?aas goeete Europe. M lartlwf? esariapjjd Mrs. Sweet Clatter to her dear friend Mrs. Olive Green at the last reception. "My husband hasn't issVttbtakiaf arieecM a thine1 MtJ Hmemt. CTIattmr www . "Whe eenld started sach a story!" "Why," answered Mrs. Oure Green, wfta a. leek ef wsU-bred snrarise, "Iwaskold that he "A penny far year tho-sghta, ayenag mother te her little sat saeaduy regardiag the i "lean not sett 1 the child, sweetly; "they are 6eds thenghta." r,aaif3!x-uaaaainici Jll' f 5 '1 L i i !V m k! t S . is stni not a f-'"! of and wealthy " the "Let as not he issaateat," -reatttdMr. the perch in the i ramgwith a -ays- Tan Mills bOI package in his BTUh BRZS-f ghts. 5M -? ! r 1 AfiSaX