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Having closed up all outside business, which for a year or two interrupted my regular law practice, I am now enabled to, and shall, from ithis time, give mv undivided time aud axclu sive attention to tlie law; and to such persons as my entrust me witli their litigation, I prom ise niy best efforts and such ability as I may possess. Lan 18-tf VIRGINIA COLLEC E For YOUNG LADIES, Roanoke, Va. Opens Sept. 12, 1H'.14. One of the leading Schools for Young Ladles in the South. Mag niticent buildings, all modern improvements. Campus ten acres. Grand mountain scenery iv valley of Va.. famed for health. European and American teachers. Full course. In Art and Music unexcelled Pupils from seventeen States. For catalogues address the President, W. A. HARRIS, D.1)., Roanoke, Va. !uly 25-4ts BRICKS FOX SALE. Enquire at the office of the STAUNTON IMPROVEMENT COMPANY No. 207, West Main Street, for prices, &c. Apr 29-tf REEVES CATT. 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SPECIFICS. duly i-lyr STAUNTON BUSINESS COLLEGE, STAUNTON, VA. Incorporated. Over 75 per cent, home pa tronise. Open all the year to both sexes. For terms. &c, address HUMPHREYS & HINBK, June 27 Box J*. REMOVAL OF THE LADIES AND GENTLEMEfIS RESTAURANT! The undersigned have removed their Ladies and Gentlemen's Kestauraut to the Hurley Building tin the corner of Main aud Lewis Streets, where they hope their old patrons will call upon them as heretofore as they will bo better prepared to accommodate them. They will take regular boarders, to a number ot whom they can furnish lodniiit- or l ent rooms as well as board at cheap rates. Remember the place—Hurley BuHdlr,'*. second story, corner Main and Lewis Streets. MAKGAKET& LUCYCAUTKOKN. feb 3rd Virginia Hotel STAUNTON, V. J. C. mm. ■ Proprietor Relurnisliefl and Refitted rnrougliout The Restaurant In connection witli the hotel is always supplied with the best, the very best, tlie market affords a 1 Steamed Oyster and Chafing Dish Stews a Specialty First-Class Meal for 25Cts. Finest Cafe in the City. April 5, '93 -"PSYCHE AND THat"POTBOILERS.' How many potboilers I've painted And sold llieni, iirst cheap and now dear; I've toiled at tliem till my heart fainted And till I'd two thousand a year. But once—'twas a hazardous pleasure— I painted a Psyche all day. I knew she'd be counted no treasure And carefully bid her away. I hid her, but yet her gho.-rt rises. She wanders about in tlie place. And all the potboilers despises With wonder and ruth in her face. I love her—l hate and defy her; Her eyes are no tranquil and true; I'd sell her, but no one would buy her— She's over their heads—and mine too. She's fair as tlie dnam of a poet Whoso works aren't intended to sell. Wc'vo nothing in common—l know itl She knows it a great deal too weli! She's lying face downward. I never Look at her, for fear I should see She's wondering if she could over Have realiy been painted by me! —May Kendall i:i ..lagazine. BIG STAKES. ' A huge fire of hickory logs crackled and spluttered In tlio old time fireplace of Kenilworth inn. A group of gentle men sat enjoying its genial warmth, ■while the fierce gale raging without roared through vale and ravine, encir cled the mountain iv its fury and rat tled the panes of the dripping windows. Every one who has visited the wilds of ■western North Carolina appreciates the sublimity and grandeur of a storm amid the mountains. Even in the dreamy haze of Indian summer these grim old sentinels are moody and solemn, but when the clouds lower, the skies darken and echoing peals of thunder reverber ate through tho cavernous sides of in numerable peaks and headlands the ef fect becomes awe inspiring to a degree. Fragments of clouds are blown hither and thither by the fury of the wind rushing through tall forests of mighty trees which bend and snap before its resistless force like tender twigs. Tho storm comes howling along with tho deafening roar of a charge of myriad artillery. Such was the equinoctial gale which enveloped the mountains in its fury. The immense oaken timbers of Kenilworth inn trembled and shook in 'the grasp of the wind like the flutter of a fugitive bird. Although it was early in the afternoon, the darkness of the storm was almost Egyptian in its intensity, and the faces of the smokers around the hospitable hearth were only lighted by the glare of its glowing embers. It was late iv October, and but few guests re mained at the inn, they being a party of sportsmen on their return from a hunting trip over to the valley of the French Broad. The most conspicuous figure in this little group of well groomed but brawny gentlemen, much tanned by their ex posure to the weather, was a large and portly man of middle age and distin guished mien. The doctor, for as such was ho addressed by his comrades, had just removed his pipe from his lips and was stroking his luxuriant auburn beard, meantime gassing pensively in the fire, as was his accustomed manner when he thought. Tha doctor wiis quite a racon teur, having traveled over the entire globe, visited every known country un der tho sun and of course met with many remarkable experiences. He had just been called upon for one of his in imitable yarns to whilo away the mo notony of tlie storm. His stories were very ludicrous and amusing generally, but from the expression of his benevo lent face his friends saw that the com ing tale was of a moro serious nature than usual. The story teller relit his pipe, and between long drawn puffs of aromatic Virginia began more in solilo quy than otherwise: "Our presence here near the scene of what I am about to relate recalls to my mind the memory of one whoso sad life has mado a deep impression upon me. Poor Virginia Staunton! Her history is a singular and a romantic one. It is a repetition of tho old, old story of wom an's confiding trust and man's villain ous perfidy. It could scarcely bo termed a love story, for there was little love lost on either side. Yet there was in the place of love a kind of fascination—the diabolical enchantment and mysterious charm exercised by the serpent over the hypnotized bird. "Well, I first knew the Stauutons— that is, the mother aud daughter—in Philadelphia when I was a medical stu dent at the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Staunton was thou a handsome widow of somo 40 years, a most charm ing woman. She had recently lost her husband and was living a rather se cluded life with her daughter Virginia, who was at that time a romping, frolic some creature in her teens. "Mrs. Staunton had been a fond and devoted wife, and in her bereavement evinced all the richness and sweetness of a pure, good woman, along with a softened mellow twilight sadness which touched every heart and yet threw a peculiar luster and beauty over her manners and entire character. She had the refined familiarity of the cultivated woman without any undue boldness on the one hand or prudery on the other. I was very fond of her society and fre quently called at her home. "Virgio was a winsome and hand- Borne girl, ust budding into sweet young womanhood, mischievous and sfull of pranks, as all healthful girls should be, y«t withal manifesting much of her mother's sweetness of temper and amiability of disposition. "As you all know, after my gradua tion I went abroad and did not return for six years, and thus it was I lost track of tho Stauntons. A year or two after my return, however, together with a party of friends, I visited Asheville, and what was my surprise to find myself in the same hotel with Mrs. Stauuton and daughter. I lost no time in making my self known to my friend of former years and met with a most cordial reception. The gay and romping Virgie of my old time remembrance had developed into a remarkably handsome woman of digni fied manners, but still retaining much of tha diablerie of her younger days. Thero was a merry twinkle in her bril liant dark eyes which ever challenged a 6milo and response, and the rippling peals of laughter bubbling up from her . glad and joyous heart spread a conta gion of -mirth throughout the corridors, Z{. the hotel. "Miss Staunton of Philadelphia was the furore in Asheville during the sum mer of 18—. Beautiful, accomplished and wealthy, sho of course had many beaux and admirers, notably one, a soi flisant French nobleman, tho Vicomte de Grenet. Every sensible person is aware of tho madness prevailing among American girls for titled foreigners, particularly among heiresses, for tho less fortunate, maids dare not aspire so high. "Mere beauty is a secondary consider ation with these adventurers. For au empty title these angelic creatures will barter their bodies and cast their pearls STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1894. Deiore"~swin£ Alter an international wedding of great pomp and ceremony they sail off to Europe to fetch up prob.- ably iv tho padded cells of a madhouse or else in a few years are glad enough to return to good old soapmakiug, pork packing papa aud mamma. The morning I had tlie honor to be presented to Vicomle Grcuet my better judgment Bi-*od him up as some impecunious bar ber or chef de cuisine on the hunt for H fortune. With a number of tremendous trunks—which at a later stage of the game the hotel people found to be en tirely empty, to their .great dismay—the viconne had ensconced himself in an elegant suit of rooms and Was lording it high over the admiring Americans. The fastest horses in Buncombe county were always at tho command of "his grace," and wild dashes over the moun tain and dale were the daily sport of Virginia Btaunton and Vicomtc de Greuet. Virgie was one of those frolic some, daring girls, always in for any- [ thing and what you might term in the vernacular of the jeunesse doree a 'dead game sport.' ' 'There was uo mawkish sentimental it*.* about her nor the die away languor , f charming incapacity assumed by wom en of fashion. She was a vigorous young woman, full of lifo and bubbling over with mirth and jollity. Her companion ship was delightful, and half the time you forgot that the handsome creature by your side was a woman, so intelli gently and sensibly could she converse about things of masculine interest. I Horses, dogs, hunting, fishing, every, maimer of sport was as fond and fa-' miliar a subject with her as the latest style of Paris gown. The tame cordial, hearty maimer to all alike, no one could tell upon whom Miss Staunton looked with most favor. Although she rode and danced with him aud scarcely appeared without the vicomte tagging along at her heels, it was evident that sho did not regard the Frenchman in a senti-1 mental light. Iv fact, it was well i known that sho had kicked him twice ' and always met his most importunate overtures with chilling courtesy. "He was the typical foreigner you see at Bar Harbor, Narragansett and New- j port, where titled nincompoops do most congregate. He was shrewd and | keen as a brier, with a machiavelian expression of countenance which seem-' ed to be particularly charming to the women. I overheard one of them say once in a discussion of which the vi comte was the subject: 'Oh, he is just too fascinating for anything! He is bo ♦leliciously wicked!' That he really] possessed this charming attribute no one BSD gainsay. Virginia regarded the ! foreigner more as a pastime than as a ; beau or friend, always styling him her 'dear froggie.' At times sho was most freezingly distant when his presump tion carried him too far, but with her ■ mother it was very different. She was thoroughly captivated by (lie vicomte and his very aristocratic bearing. Per ceiving that he had made a most palpa ble hit with the mother, he immediate ly proceeded to 'pet the cow in order to catch the calf.' It was oven talked about the hotel verandas that the im pudent Frenchman had really address ed Mrs. Staunton. "One day while out on ono of their mad rides over the mountain Virgie was thrown from her horse and severe ly hurt. A messenger was dispatched to the hotel for help, and tho uncon scious girl was brought home on a lit ter. The accident was never satisfac torily explained, and I have always be lieved tho designing scoundrel had pre concerted the fall and its result. Upon hearing of tiie accident I hurried to Mrs. Staunton's apartments to offer my services and was very much surprised to find Greuet in attendance upon tho injured girl. He was stooping over tho bed bathing her face and temples and was administering some drug. Mrs. Stauuton hurriedly thanked me for the offer of my professional services and stated that the vicomte was a distiu guishcd surgeon, and as ho was already in attendance she would not wound his feelings by calling mo in. 'He is so sensitive and feeling,' she added as I left tho room, 'that I could not have the heart to offend him.' That ho was a physician I have never for a moment believed, and it has always been a source of self reproach that I did not in terfere with tho machinations of this incarnate fiend and scotch them in the beginning. But I was a younger man then, lacking mature judgment and de termination, and allowed the matter to pass. "Virginia Staunton remained in a ■state of unconsciousness for 24 hours, and when she at last awoke it was with a burning fever and in a wild delirium. For six long weeks this poor girl was racked with pain and suffering, fluctu ating between life and death, entirely at the mercy of Vicomte Greuet, who, besides her mother, was the only porsou permitted to see her. He was most at tentive, exerting himself both night and day. His usual gay and frivolous man ner was changed to the deep earnestness of a man playing for heavy stakes. He seemed to gain a most singular aud complete ascendancy over the mind of Mrs. Staunton. Sho williugly acquiesc ed in all he proposed and was complete ly dominated by him. Of course the poor woman was wretched and misera ble, for her daughter was her idol, and the thought of losing her only child would bring on paroxysm after paroxysm of grief. During these hysterical at tacks the viscomte would give the suf fering woman a concoction which had the effect of quieting tho nerves, but weakened tlie mind. This arch fiend had discovered in some way a powerful drug, which, given continuously and systematically, gradually softened tho brain and destroyed the intellect. The mysterious seclusion and secrecy with which too whole thing was managed and the sudden development of Grenet as a physician naturally created gossip about the hotel and in fact throughout the cily. Grenet claimed that Miss Staunton's accident had resulted in a violent case of fever. "At the expiration of six weeks she was said to be convalescent. One marvel ously lovely day in late September, as I was standing upon tho upper veranda of tlie hotel looking out over the sea of mountains which lay before me and drinking in the beauty of the scene; I heard a sa*J and plaintive voice ntter my name. Turning around, I saw be fore mo Virgie Staunton. Yes, it was Virgie, but, oh, how changed! Drag ging her weary limbs along with pain ful effort, she approached mo aud ex-! tended her emaciated hand. ".As I looked into her face nhe tried to force a smile, but the attempt died away on her colorless lips. In the once beautiful eyes there was a dull, listless flitter which at times assumed a mani acal expression. Dropping heavily into a proffered chair, she essayed to talk, but her conversation was rambling and dis jointed. Her mind seemed seriously, im uaired. In a few minutes Mrs. Staunton appeared, and shortly atterward (ire net joined us. In his villainous black eyes I thought there gleamed a tri unipliant smile as he doffed his hat aud exclaimed: 'Bon jour, mesdames et messieur! I hope zat me leetle patient ees vare well dis morning.' "Mrs. Staunton took this occasion to inform me that upon her daughter's complete recovery sho would become Viscountess Grenet. Somehow my mind seemed prepared for the statement, and I was not in the least surprised. This singular man had become completely dominant over tho mind and action of the mother, and the daughter had seemingly lost all will of her own. In a few days Mrs. Staunton left for the north, her object being to purchase Vir ginia's trousseau. It was well under stood that au international marriage would take place upon her return. As soon as sho had gone the Frenchman, possibly fearing some unexpected de nouement, urged tho performance, of a hurried ceremony, to which the poor girl, in her enfeebled state of mind, of fered no resistance, and he spirited her away. "The marriage was performed in se cret, only a priest and the necessary wit nesses being present. The couple had been gone 86 hours before they were missed. The vulgar precipitation of the ceremony, its profound secrecy and the clandestine departure very naturally aroused suspicions of foul play, and more speculation was indulged in by the guests of the hotel. Inquiry was made, and it was found that Greuet had at different times obtained very power ful and mischievous drugs at a certain pharmacy. These drugs could not pos sibly have been used for any good pur pose in Virginia Staunton's case. "Tho discovery of the fact that such medicines were in the Frenchman's pos session immediately explained to me the cause of Virgie's aberration of mind. I had been fool enough to think it due to the violence of her fall from the run ning horse and the fever which was consequent. The scoundrel's scheme now became quite apparent. Finding it impossible to win the girl by fair means, he had resorted to foul. Con triving to bring about the accident which stunned her, he imposed upon the mother the belief that he was a na val surgeon and thus secured tbe oppor tunity of administering his poisons. The whole thing was now clear to me. Why had I been so confoundedly stupid not to see it before? "Immediate wires to Mrs. Staunton in New York city and Philadelphia brought no response. Valuable time was being lost, and Vicomte de Grenet was meanwhile speeding on with his help less victim to uobody knew where. Three days after the comte's departure news came that Mrs. Staunton had been found dead in her oerth between Wash ington and Philadelphia, cause of death supposed to be an overdose of morphine. The body of the ill fated woman was held awaiting directions. The suspicion of murder was now added to that of malpractice and abduction, ami tho case ■Wis immediately put iuto the hands of the authorities. Knowing the Stauntous as well as I did and being aware that the ouly relatives of the family were very distant ones, living somewhere in the far northwest, I felt it my duty to go north and superintend the funeral rites of the dead woman. You may well suppose that it was with a sad heart and many self reproaches that I looked upon tho cold face of my kind and good friend. I felt that by my confounded stupidity and inactivity I was in a way responsible for her death. I resolved then and there to rescue her innoceut daughter and hound the villain down, cost what it might. "The purpose of that resolve remains unaccomplished. Years have elapsed since Viconite de Grenet absconded from Asheville, carrying with him an imbe cile girl whose intellect he had willful ly destroyed. The villain is still at large and will probably never be found unless some Nemesis in the shape of retribu tive justice claims him for her own. The skillful service of an army of trained detectives has failed to unearth his whereabouts, and after the expenditure of thousands his pursuers are no wiser than before. Having traced him to Paris, where ho carried his stolen bride, his identity was lost. Tho inquest held over Mrs. Staunton decided that her death was caused by some powerful , ~..- -- "- as*-"* '" "* drug placed in her hands by an un known person, with mischievous in tent. That Grenet intended her death I do not believe. Ho probably calculated upon the loss of her reason and gradual decline. He was far too shrewd not to foresee the dangerous suspicion which would naturally attach to him. "Investigation raroved that Vicomte do Greuet was formerly a waiter upon a Liverpool liner; that ho subsequently settled iv Philadelphia as au aspiring barber and later came south in the role of nobleman. In St. Augustine, Fla., he was the toast for an entire season as Baron de Frisse. Upon leaviug Ashe ville Grenet proceeded directly to New York and there took passage on the French lino to Havre, from thence to Paris. It was learned from the officers of the Gasgogne, upon which ship the couple sailed, that the vicomte register ed for the voyage uuder the name of Jeau F. Vienuet. During the passage tho strong constitution of the unfortunate girl rallied under the influence of the bracing sea air, and her mind became clearer. At lucid intervals she realized tho horror of her situation and would plead to the captain for succor. Her irate husband would explain these ac tions as the freaks of a wild aud diseas ed imagination and force her to return to tho cabin. "Ono of tho stewards testified that on several nights he had been attracted to Viennet's cabin by tho -sound of blows, followed by piteous shrieks and wails. The captain's attention was called to this and Viennet forced to explain. Ho taid that his wife was a raving maniac and frequently assaulted him in thi3 manner. He was compelled to overpow er her by force when she uttered these shrieks and groans. In truth, tho heart less villain was no doubt trying to force the helpless girl to sign her property, which amounted to $ TOO, 000 in her own name, over to himself. "In Paris the same brutal treatment. was oontimwd, Virginia Stauuton, a beautiful American girl of wealth and position, was kept locked in a close room, starved, beaten aud tortured by an insignificant French cur to obtain her money until, driven stark mad, sho burst all confines and rushed frantically i into tho streets. Police interference, of course, caused the hellhound to flee, and protectiou, which was, alas, too late, rescued his victim. A raving maniac, Virginia Staunton was brought frosn a Parisian madhouse and now occupies comfortable apartments in a private sanitarium in New York. Her mind ut terly, irretrievably gone, she alternates ftom frantio terror to vacant lassitude, and thus ekes out ber exi^tenca.'" o£cct<fto& THE (xKEEK OFTODIY HE DOES NOT WORK WHEN HE CAN GET CIGARETTES. The Oath About Washing Out Disgrace and Other Things—The Inllueiice I'pon Archi tectural Styles—The Modern Greek Wom an—How the Men Dress, The modern Greek says he is the ' lineal descendant and heir of the an cient Greek, but he is not. He may be divided into two classes—such exam- j plus of him as look like the young Apol- ! lo aud such as do not. Those of the lat- i ter class, which is very far the larger, I look for tho most part like the impeni tent thief. The dress of the modern Greek is a number of short white pet ticoats, not unlike those worn by a fairy in the ballet, only in cases less clean. To call him dirty, however, as some travelers have done, is most unjust. A chimney sweep is dirty at the close of his day's work, but with tho modern Greek dirt is less a custom than an im memorial tradition. Tho first cases of him seen by the traveler —supposing hims to approach the country from that side—are in Mes senia. This fact has suggested to an an tiquary that at the disastrous close of the first Messenian war, in 735 B. C, the Messenians bound themselves by a great oath that until they had washed out disgrace they would wash nothing. That oath they have faithfully kept, and now it is unlikely ever to bo either terminated or broken. The modern Greek doas not work. There are, it is true, workingmen. They are needed for demonstrations of the unemployed, but they do not work. In tho same paradoxical spirit it may be said that the principal industry of the country is idleness. But for tho conven ience of the gazetteer it is officially given out that the nation is engaged in commerce—mainly currants. Besides this thero is a brisk trade in justice iv many parts of the country, while the inhabitants of somo seaport towns de vote their energies to blacking one an other's boot 3in the principal streets. Such are tho industi-ies of modern Greece. It is to be observed, however, that, although the modern Greek never works, he has an uneqnaled natural aptitude for looking as if ho were just thinking it almost time to begin work. Although inactive, he is enterprising. The race is very widely spread. Indeed the only place near Greece where you may not expect to find Greeks is the post of duty. Even hero the modern Greek has been noticed more than once, but he was almost invariably just stepping off a moment to light a cigarette. When he is about to light a cigarette, he is al ways smoking one, except when his neighlxir's tobacco gives out. He is not always drinking—a fact Which may bo ascribed more to the character of his native wines thau to his native sobriety —though he can seldom spare tho time to leave the wiueahop, but fill-* in tbe interval trying to induce, his neighbor to buy him wine to drink. It is proba bly the national devotiou to tho ciga rette to which wo may attribute the characteristic architectural styles i>f modern Greece. The common feature in all these is their rough, bold incom pleteness. To the experienced eye tbe building looks as if it were tumbling down, but this is not tho true explana tion. Plainly tlie house was half built when the master builder stepped away to get a light and forgot to return. In agriculture tho modern Greek does not excel. It is thought by sociologists that the land was so ravaged by tho end of the Peloponnesian war (404 B. C.) that the Greek became dispirited and has not planted anything since. Certainly it would be impossible to ravage tho land now. Thus cut off from his traditional military exploit, the modern Greek is but au indifferent soldier. But it is to be remembered that it is now hardly over 50 years since ho freed himself, acting throngh tho fleets of Euglaud, France aud Russia, from the brutal do minion of the Turks. Donbtless in a century or two he will have advanced more than one step on the road to re juvenescent prosperity. The perpetual invention of new labor saving machines is of the happiest augury for his future civilization. It should be said, more over, that there is in the islands a town with a large square and a fine subtropic al plant in the middle. It contaius pub lic buildings partly finished and eight or nine drinking shops, besides a statue of a patriot in knickerbockers called Muley—no doubt iv affectionate recog nition of his tenacity of purpose. The square is called the Place of tho Glory of the Resurgent Hollas, but it is very many times too large for it. Tho modern Greek woman differs in several important points from the mod ern Greek man. Sho sometimes works aud not seldom in early youth looks like a habitual criminal. It must not he thought, however, as some have done, that she goes so far as ever to tell tho truth. When she goes on a journey, she carries with her everything she has in . the world, in this respect approximating to the custom of her sisters among less civilized peoples. She carries her goods in a broken box with a particolored leather top, trellisedwith yellow tinsel. In the rare cases wheu the lock is not broken she further secures it with a piece of broken string.—Pall Mall Ga zette. Where the Money Is Found. Englishmen are the milk cows of the world. They are the great lenders from whom all other nations borrow. For generations they have been rich and saving until at last their annual accu mulations have become greater thau the annual openings for legitimate invest ment. So severe has the pres-jure be come that latterly the money lender has been forcing his money into every kind of undertaking, in all parts of the world, l creating, by his own eagerness to lend, ' the corresponding desiro to borrow. It is the weight of uninvested money which stimulates borrowing, not the cupidity of the impecunious. Bon owing has not produced lending, but loading borrowing. Interest has oantintiid (a fall because there are more lenders than borrowers. If Englishmen think, then, that any communities have dipped too deep into the English purse, they can easily apply the corrective by a little self control. They should abstain from further lending. This may seem a he roic remedy, but it is the only remedy. —Contemporary Review. The Polypus. The common polypus has tho mtr.-A wonderful power of life. Cut ono into a dozen pieces, and a dozen creaturts are the result. Two have been sliced and joined together, producing monstel9 with two heads. When turned inside out like a glove finger, they do not seem to notice any change or sustain any in convenience. —Exchange. it was yeW sudden. But the Man at the Telephone Cot th« An* swer lie Wanted. An event? has occurred iv Michigan, near Detroit, which appears to confirm the idea that oonrtahiF as **.ell as most other things will hereafter be greatly facilitated by recent inventions. It seom.3 that there is a young lady residing iv Detroit who for some time has been the recipient of the attentions of two young men—ono a young professor at the Michigan state university at Ann Ar bor and tho other a traveling salesman for a New York wholesale hardware house, whoso route extends through Michigan and parts of Canada. One day recently the New Yorker ar rived in Detroit late in tho afternoon, and of course immediately started to make the rounds of the retail hardware dealers, with the laudable purpose of selling each a good stock for the winter before the representative of any rival concern should put in an appearance. He had hoped to visit the object of his affections in the evenings but business was brisk, and at 8 o'clock found him very busy trying to induce a prominent dealer to take six dozen axes, four dozen grindstones and a half carload of wood en pails. At this stage of the proceed ings a younger brother of the young lady dropped in to get a new jackknife and accidentally mentioned that the Ann Arbor professor was up at the house. It instantly occurred to the progress ive hardware and cutlery drummer that tho college mau came for no other purpose than to lay his heart at the feet of the young lady he himself adored. For a moment there was a struggle in hs heart, but he speedily got control of himself and decided that ho could not possibly leave the store, as the dealer was just on the point of deciding to take the pails. But the thought of giving up the lady, who had been for months con stantly in his mind, waking and sleep ing, was unbearable. Light suddenly dawned ou him. Handing the merchant a circular explaining the merits of his new doublo bladed chopping knives, he requested the use of the dealer's tele phone for five minutes, stepped to it and rang up the central office. A moment later the telephone bell at the residenco of the young lady rang, sharp aud decisive. The professor had been there for an hour talking pleasant ly of tho grand educational work they wero doing in the department of fos silogy at Ann Arbor. When the bell rang, the lady's father being absent— he is a physician—she excused herself and proceeded to tho adjoining room to answer it. The professor heard her step to the telephone and say "Yes," make a short pause and say "Yes" again. Then there was a longer pause, and he heard her reply, '' Why—why—really, this is very sudden.'' Then there was a still longer pause, and he heard her say "Yes,'' very softly, and then ' 'Goodby,'' and then she hung up the receiver and camo into the **ack room. The college man moved closer to the lar'y and re marked that it was a warm evening, and he thought it was going to rain and thou resumed his talk about the great work at the university. Fifteen minutes later there was a riug at the front door bell. The lady responded to it, and a district messenger boy handed her a plain gold ring, which she slipped on her finger and returned to the parlor. "Miss——, "said the professor five minutes later, "I want to ask you a very important question this eveniug. Excuse me for putting it bluntly, but will you be my wife?" But we need go no furthor with this. Two minutes later the professor went down tho front steps and shook his fist at the telephone wire and took the first train for Ann Arbor. —Hardware. A Case of Had To. "I had a funny experience in a little town ou the lower Mississippi," said R. C. Blackley, a traveling man. "The place had but one hotel, the landlord of which conducted everything except the cooking and housecleaning, which his wife attended to. I was the only guest, and when I told him that I wanted to go up the river on a packet due any where between midnight and 3 o'clock in the morning I was shown to a room immediately over the office and was go ing to sleep when I heard a shrill femi nine voice call, 'John, you come to bed.' 'Sallie, you know I kain't go to bed. Got to wake that blamed drummer.' I enjoyed the situation and laughed my self wide awake, not getting sleepy again for two hours. Then the f eniinino voice called again, 'John, I say,- come to bed.' 'I kain't go to bed.' 'Let that pesky drummer wake hisself. Taint noway to run a hotel,' and there was silence again. Finally I went to sleep again and was soon awak ened by a most unearthly racket. Tho old man was pounding on tho office ceil ing with a broom handle. 'I'm awake,' I answered. 'I don't behove I'll go on that boat. I'm too tired. I'll wait until tomorrow.' 'I reckon you won't. You be down hyar in two minutes, or I'll be arter you. I ain't goin to set up fer nuthin.' I caught the boat."—Cincin nati Enquirer. Booth and Girls' Letters. Even Edwin Booth, most matter of fact, respectable and unapproachable of men, got any quantity of this sort of letters. Strangely enough, too, it is of record that, contrary to the usual cus tom of popular actors, he answered, in directly, several of his undesired love letters, for some of those received by him during his career were written by silly girls, daughters of men known and respected by Mr. Booth, who appended their true names to their effusions. Two or three of these were of such a nature that Mr. Booth felt it his duty, as a parent, to inclose them to the fathers of the writers, with a statement as to how they come into his possession. The re sult, it may be imagined, was hardly of a nature to encourage the stricken damsels in their devotion.—Hochester Democrat aud Chronicle. Ar.ylh-r.17 ; • (I -Is--- . The cflndnctaw ipproac who carries lighted -i -• - -.••• mnreyances. ''No Knoking, said - -. "I ain't BmokisK, .-. ty. "Your cigar i-. " "Well, I o.*u't help it. Thati rang cigar, and it docs as it pleases."' "Well," said the conductm-, "you can take your choice. Either you or the ciijar will have to be put out." And the man, after some thought, rubbed the cigar on his shoe and put it out —Washington Star. .rl's tlie ties Run Mad. O'Kief—Why did the Newsplices move? McEll—The wall paper on their old flat didn't harmonize with the new baby's complexion, I believe. — Brook lyn Eagle, ' I f tomrfon Spectator* RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are Inserted at the rate of 12.V cents per line, for the first, and 6!g cent* for each subsequent insertion. Local Notices are Inserted at the rate of 20 cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for each subsequent insertion. Business Notices are Inserted at the rate of 15 cents for the first and 8 cents for each sub sequent Insertion. A liberal discount will be made on all orders for .1, b, or 12 months. C t's ar *^ r - Wl » be NO. 51. jPiEBOE^.C!JRE. In all Brrncliial. Throat and Lung trouble* 1 Dr. Pierce* GoHroM xHea] Disc-very brinn | reuot and a pen.'snent euro. The way is I °P£ U *? tb » germs of Onr-umption if yon I suffer from Asthma. Bronchitis or Catarrh. • Begin early -ith " Discovery " mid a -~_ is certain. * ' English, Codte Co., Term. §Dr. R. V. 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