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Opening a large glass door he stood before his superior. The latter motioned him to a chair. "Tell me,'' he said, "if you have been reading tho newspapers and are posted upon the Niautic disas ter." "The Niantic," said Mr. Martinot, running the case over in his mind and speaking in the bright, quick way which so pleased the chief, "was an apartment house, an old fashioned, aristocratic Structure, facing Washington square. At midnight, a month ago, it burned to the ground with great loss of life. The fire is supposed to havaoriginated in an explosion in an upper story, caused in some mysterious way by the gas with which most of tho tenants heated their rooms." "Good," said the chief. "Now I have only to tell you wherein this fire concerns us. There visited here today Henry Williams, the famous diamond collector, whose apartments were in the Niautic, and he tells me that on the night of the fire he was robbed of his fortune in jewels, $250,000 being sto len." "And you wish me"— "To talk with Henry Williams, get the points of the robbery and recover the missing gems for him. And—l would suggest that in tracing the rob bery you may find that the Niautic was set on fire. This involves a case of man slaughter, as lives were lost. In short, it will be the biggest case of the year. And I have in my band a letter from the Empire Fire Insurance offering $10,000 reward for the discovery of the origin of the fire." "When do I begin?" "Right away. You will find Henry Williams in the reception room." Detective Martinot bowed in his usu al quiet manner and stepped across the hall to where Collector Williams sat, nervously waiting to tell his story. "Before you begin," said Mr. Marti not, "tell me why yon have waited a month before coining here. " "I have been expecting to find tho jewels in the ruins of the building, es pecially as I have offered immense re wards to the workmen." "And when did the idea of their be ing stolen enter your mind?" "I had a suspicion the night of the fire. But it was too vague to put in words. Yon must have read that I was the first to give the alarm and the last to leave the building. The fact is that I was awakened that night by a sound in my rooms. And, always on tho alert for my jewels, I arose, and, lighting a taper, I stepped out into my private hallway to go to the front room where the jewels were hidden in a safe in the wall. As I did so I heard a swift sound, as though some one was run ning. It was the merest movement, but it alarmed me, and, fearing to make a mark of myself, I blew out the taper and picked up my revolver. An uncan ny something seemed to rush past me; but, recovering msyelf, I flew after it to my hall door. It was closed, and all was still again. 'It's my imagination,' I said to myself. But I went into the front room to look after tho jewels. "I was about to put my hand in the safe, which was behind the picture, when I was startled by a terrific explo sion, which seemed to blow 7 the roof off the house. I rushed back along my hall way and threw open the door. The big hall was filling with smoke, and, with a sudden fear for the people in the house, I ran along, knocking on all the doors and calling on everybody to awak en. "Then, flying back to my rooms, I slipped on some clothing, put my watch and money in my pocket, and ran to my front room for my jewel casket. I put my hand in the safo in the wall, but tho casket was not there! Across the room was another and similar safe, and, hurrying across, I was about to move tho picture from in front of it when a fireman rushed in, shouting: 'Run for your life. Tho main staircase is on fire!' I would have waited even then, but he seized me by the shoulders and forced me to tho iron fire escape, which was already hot with the tongues of flame. "Even then I did not forget the jew els. But, knowing they were in the solid iron casket, I reasoned that they would fall through into tho rains, and that I should recover the box entire. Even if its fastenings melted away there were steel drawers, absolutely fireproof. "I did not leave tho scene, and with this idea in my mind I have haunted the ruins night and day. And now the fact of not lindiug them, taken with the recollections of that night, convinces me that they were stolen from me before tho fire. And there is something else. "That same night my old housekeeper, Ivho occupies a room on the floor above me, slept very uneasily. Finally sho rose, seeing a light burning in tho front apartment, where she was sure she had left none, and was about to investigate it when—when the explosion occurred. It was so near her that she was over come with smoke and escaped with dif ficulty, flame seeming to be all around her. "And still more singular. Yesterday Sarah hobbled out for the first time and naturally turned her steps toward her burned home, where they are still busy with tho ruins, and while she stood there a plainly dressed woman came along, wearing on her hand a brilliant marquise ring, one which Barah thought sho recognized as one of my collection.'' "Would you recognize your jewels," asked Mr. Martinot, "if they had been taken from their settings?" "As quickly as I would my own fin gers," stretching out the long slender hand of a student. "And I will give yon my gem catalogue, with each de scribed in it. And upon all," making a very tiny mark, "there is this sign, easily seen with a pocket microscope— my own particular trademark." "There is one thing certain," he mused as he put on his hat and coat. "Hemy Williams was robbed of those jewels and before the fire. So the Ni autic was probably set on fire by soma one _the one who took the jewels. But it looks a little uVrk now. The crime was at night It wasn't ihe old servant. Women do not work at night. Yet the step was a light one. It was a gentle- STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 24,1895. man, tnen, witnwnom wo nave to mat, not a hard footed servant. And when he slipped out so lightly he had that casket with him, hiding it under his coat, of course. That iron casket was heavy and conspicuous, and the first idea was to get rid of it. To do this he must take it to a safe place, break it open and get the jewels out. The Niantic was op posite the park, so of comae he would carry the casket over there, and after putting the jewels in his pocket throw the case in the shrubbery. It was found next morning and ought now to be in the recovered articles department." This line of reasoning so impressed Detective Martinot that he hurried away to the park. Sure enough., the casket had been found, supposed to be dropped by some one running from the burning building. It was empty. "I declare, it is heavy,'' observed Mr. Martinot, lifting it. "Iwcudcv that the thief took the trouble to carry it out of the building. Why did he not throw it into the flames or drop it in the hall? It would never have been noticed in the confusion. No wonder that in the hurry of emptying it he dropped a ring—the ring old Sarah saw on the girl's hand. I must visit tho pawnshops to see if he has sold the rest of them yet." When Moses Mendle saw Detective Martinot enter, he was not pleased. "Nothing in your line," he called out before the door closed. "Come, come, Moses, I'vo an induce ment for you," said Mr. Martinot, tak ing out a roll of bills. "The fact is some very valuable pieces of jewelry have been taken—special pets of the owner — and if you know where they are or can get them I'll pay the pledged price and a nice bonus, providing yon tell me the name of the person who brought them here." Martinot's description and the sight of the money tempted Moses. "Come to think of it," he said, "a man did leave some very good rings," pulling out a package with three glisten ing beauties inside, so brilliant that Mr. Martinot could not repress an exclama tion of pleasure, "but I can't give his name.'' Reluctantly, but with his eyes upon tho greenbacks, Moses finally wrote down a name. Mr. Martinot looked at it and whistled. "Now, what in the world," thought he as he walked away with the rings in his coat pocket, "can Connor, the green goods king, mean by stealing tho Wil liams diamonds?" In the office of the secret service there is a great volume of personals, and in this Mr. Martinot read: "Connor, George; born in Connecticut; horseman, bookmaker, reputed wealthy; in green goods transactions; fine looking.'' Then 4 followed a line a few days old: "Impli cated in green ;;oods work; sent to Sing Sing for a year.'' "Ah, so he may have in town re cently. Awl now ho must tell me the story cf thoso rings. " An upward bound traiu found Detective Martinot on Mb way to Siug Sing. "I want to see Con nor," he said to Am warden. Showing his secret service ladge to the green goods king, he sa : d abruptly : "I've come to see you about thoso rings you pawned with Meudle. I mean than, They were stolen property, and I con fiscated them, yon see." "My dear officer," said Connor, glanc ing carelessly, though Mr. Martinot thought uneasily, at the rings, "you .ire mistaken, and : o is Menrlle if he says I pawned them. I never saw them before in my life." "Better think a minute," cautioned Mr. Martinot. "They are part of the Williams collection stolen from the Ni autic the night she burned, but you know more about it than I. Anything more to say?" Connor shook his head. "Good day. Oh, something else! Here's a letter I brought up for you from your hotel. It's from a lady, post marked New Haven. Scented. She couldn't have known you were here when she wrote. Look! Mr. Jack Con nor. A friend probably. I'm going up there today. Any word?" "Only that it's fortunate for you I'm behind these bars." "Capital!" soliloquized Mr. Martinot on the train. "He holds his tongue be cause this woman's in the scrape. I'll have to put a little personal in tomor row's Planet from her. Then I'll come up and see Conner again." Next morning, when Mr. Martinot visited Sing Sing, George Connor was reading this personal: "Jack—Tell all. Give up jewels. New Haven." "Your ruse is admirable," said Con nor with a smile, but nevertheless ill at ease. "Unfortunately I have nothing to tell you.'' Mr. Martinot wutt luck 10 ihs iity. "I was way off the tiLth," said he, "or Connor would have been deceived. He hasn't the jewels. The woman has them. Fortunately I know she is in New Haven, and still more fortunately that Connor isn't allowed to write to his friends for three days yet. The.warden says the letter writing takes place then. I must go to New Haven, and if I can't locate a young, pretty woman—she is young and pretty—in three days I'd bet ter resign my position in the service. I'll put up at the best Hotel andgo ev erywhere,"' "Anything going on tonight," asked Martinot of tho hotel clerk in New Haven, "bet-ides the ball in the halt? No? Then I'll trouble you to send for tickets for ma Ai:d, by the way, I shnll want a dress (nit. Traveling for pleas ure, I left mine heron." An hour later, snugly located in tho gallery of the palm decker! hall, tho de tective watched and waited, enjoying the brilliant scene about him and al most forget;: „ 0 theobJQct of his unusual dissipation. Of a sudden there was a hush. A woman v. as entering the room, and loaning forward like the rest he caught full sight of the object of si much attention as she passed under the : palms surrounded by a court of .students. : Prom In art to foot she glistened with diamonds and jewels of all sorts. "Who is that youugwoman?" ho ask ; ed a man near him. j "That is Marie Newcastle." "And who is Marie Newcastle?" "Oh," laughed the man, "you must !be a Stranger here. Miss Newcastle is a young actress whose parents live here, where she spends her vac::! ions. From b> simple village ; ; rl she has grown to be the quern of the college boys and tho leader among the livelier set of Ihe town. She is frowned upon and petted, but that she is enjoying her youthful reign you will acknowledge when you see her drive down Hillsboro avenue to morrow afternoon behind her white ponies with a college boy at her side dividing honors with a snow white bull dog. Oh, Marie Newcastle is a college queen.'' I With misgiving, next morning Mr. | Martinot betook himself to the lively i though simply appointed cottage of Miss ■ Newcastle's parents. "She has the jew ! els. That is enough for me," he said as | he waited interminably for that- young^ iacty to appear aner net uiß=ijjm«uu tiie night before. Wheu Miss Newcastle did appear, it was with a hastily donned gown twisted about her in aesthetic fashion, simulat ing the coils of a serpent. Its delicate green beautifully set off her blond com plexion, but the ornament at the neck caught Mr. Martinot '■ instant attention. This was a frog of the most brilliant emeralds, with a diamond stripe run ning down its back, while its legs of gold filigree terminated in two enor mous pearls. Something in Mr. Marti not's face frightened Miss Newcastle, for sho stepped to the portieres and closed them. "I am sorry," said he, "to be abrupt with you, but I must ask yon for thoso jewels—that frog and tho others. They are stolen property, as you know, but if you givo them up at once perhaps"— Miss Newcastle smiled, showing a set of very pretty white teeth. <: You are mistaken," she said, "for they are not stolen, and if you will allow me to write a note and send it away by a mes senger I shall soon receive an answer that will convince you.'' Miss Newcastle seated herself at a dainty desk and dashed off a note upon the same paper and in the same hand which Mr. Martinot remembered. "Now," she said, "I will wait up stairs until the answer comes, but you may keep this if you like," tossing the frog into his hands. No sooner had the portieies closed than Mr. Martinot stepped to the desk, and picking up the blotter held it in front of the overhanging mirror. The words were blurred, but discernible: "Come. Trouble. Jewels you gave me." The address was plain. Bushing out, Mr. Martinot hailed a cab. "Drive to 998 Chapel street," he ordered "and $5 if yon beat a messenger with five minutes the start." As the cab drew up to the door a young man disappeared inside. '' That is the man I want—the young man who hides when he sees a stranger." Up stairs in his room, where the de tective ran two steps at a time to catch him, crouched the young man, deadly pale and trembling from head to foot. "I will confess all—all," he gasped as the frog was flashed before his eyes, telling him that his game was up, "all —all, if only you will not let—let him know. "I was in debt, horribly in debt. I owed for everything and could not get a cent at home, though God knows I tried hard. And then when I was being post ed at my clubs I thought suddenly of— of father's jewels, that he has collected for a lifetime, and one of which would mean so much for me. I intended to slip into the upper apartment and take only one, but I could not find the casket. I had been drinking to nerve myself, and I turned on tho keys one after an other, trying to light tho gas. "Then I went down stairs to look in father's rooms, and I awakened him getting tho casket out." "And the fire?" The boy's face grew so ashen that Mr. Martinot stopped him, thinking he would faint. "O God! O God!" he moaned. "How can I hope to be forgiven! The sound of that awful explosion rings in my ears night and day. I have hated those awful jewels. I gave Marie most of thorn. She" sent some to a friend to sell for her. There were so many. But I could not touch one. They were blood covered." Tho young man's sobs shook the table upon which he had buried his head. "The little flame of gas must have exploded near those open torches, fa ther's great antique lights. And the peo ple who died! O my God! I heard them shriek!" There was a gasping, gurgling sound. Harry Williams was choking, but as he was lifted to the window a queer, weird laugh broke from his lips, and his eyes shone like a madman's. "Red as hell!" he shouted. "Beauti ful!" The case was never brought to trial, for Harry Williams did not regain his reason, and today his father is a broken hearted old man in spite of the recovery of nearly all the precious gems.—Au gusta Prescott in St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. Bryant at Williams College. The great name which we associate with Berkshire is that of Bryant. At Williams college his only college days were passed. Though he cannot be called with exactness a Berkshire man, he was born in sight of the Berkshire hills, across the Hampshire border, at Cum mington. There was spent most of his life up to his twentieth year. He enter ed Williams as a sophomore in 1810, but remained only seven months. The beauty of his person, his reputation for genius and the dignity and grace of his manner made him a marked figure among his fellows, and had ho chosen he might havo won their affection as a comrade and made his mark as a scholar. But he was not content, and in May, 1811, he retired. Something in the atmosphere of the place and of his surroundings he found uncongenial, and he betook himself once more to the retirement of his father's house at Cummington, with a Parthian shot behind him as he left in the shape of a satiric poem upon the town and college, which his friends, out of regard for the fame both of his college and himself, did not for half a century permit to see the light or know the touch of priuter's ink. Ho lived in West college, the old est of tho colleges-, and room No. 11 on the third floor is reputed to bo the one which he occupied. Years later the college gave him de grees and enrolled him among her grad uates. His desire was to enter Yale, and it is pathetic to know that it was the narrownt ss of his father's means—him self a scholar and a cultivated gentle man—which prevented him trom carry ing out liis earnest desire. —Arthur Law-, renco in Century. Sold. A wag went to one of the stations oi the Metropolitan railway one evening and finding the best seats all taken open ed the door of a carriage and said : "Why, this train isn't going." A general stampede ensued, and tho wag took tho coveted seat in the corner. In the midst of the general indigna tion ho was asked: "Why did you say the train wasn't going?" "Well, it wasn't then," replied tha wag, "but it is now."—London Ti|« Bits. uynicisnr. The poor drunkard lay in the gutter while the thoughtless crowd jeered. Along came the good hearted citizen and placed the unfortunate in a stand ing position. "Ah," said the crowd "He has been there himself." So shines a good deed in a naughty world.—lndianapolis Jour- EYEGLASSES FOR NEW YORKERS. fhe fimlffj OcuU'.t, Clipper Optician and ' Cheiipeyt v'orccr Stnnd. Opticians crowd this town almost as , they crowd Boston. Van may count sis ' or eight in two blocks of East Twenty- j third street, raid there are scores up and down Broadway, while dry goods shops ! and corner stands sell eyeglasses to those that will buy. It costs from 75 cents to j nearly as many dollars to be fitted with a first pair of eyeglasses. Thoso that go to the oculist for a prescription as pre liminary to putting on glasses must pay him from $10 to $25, or if the eyes need treatment from $25 to $100, according to the nature and length of the treat ment and the accustomed charges of the oculist. i When the patient is ready to buy his glasses, he takes the prescription of the oculist to an optician and orders them. I Being made to order especially for the ; patient, they may cast anywhere from ' $2.50 to $15. Persons with complicated ! disorders of the eye really wear from ' two to five pairs of glasses in one. Some prescriptions call for two separate pairs, and no prudent man is content to have only one pair of glasses by him, since the loss of his single pair may mean tho loss of a day's work or considerable in jury to tho eyes. The most careful opticians refuse to j examine the eyes of persons that come after eyeglasses, perhaps because the ecu- \ lists do not send patients with prescrip- ! tions to opticians that undertake to per form the work of the oculist. The most ; expensive way to purchase glasses is j through the oculist and the optician. Some very careful persons always visit an oculist before making a change in the power of their glasses. Others simply go on increasing the strength as need seems to direct. It is a good deal cheaper to buy of the oculist-optician, and some persons believe it to be quite as safe as the more expensive method. It is entire ly probable that for ordinary conditions of the eye the oculist-optician serves well enough. Most persons that do not j guess at their own needs in the matter of glasses cither go to an oculist-optician and have him fit them out at from $2.50 to $15 or consult a friend. This last is ' the cheapest method, and it is a favorite ! one with thousands. The friend, who j wears glasses, learns that tho other is having some difficulty of sight and offers . his own glasses on trial. If they seem to ■arte the need, the borrower goes to an Optician or some other dealer in eye glasses and gets a like pair. He thus j saves the fee of the oculist or that of tho . oculist-optician. Many persons b-.iv oyagla ;es of the | dry goods shops. They sell them at I 50 cents to $1, and thej look jnst those that : ipl icians s< 11 for ■'■.'. ~,0. They are perhaps as safe forth vvhose affections u'i the eyes are not c tplii ..;- ed, but they do not last so long as those of the opticians. They break at the del- ! icate joints. The frames, if they have i any, are brittle, and tho tiny screws are weak or are put in so badly that they . crack the lenses. Tho dry goods shops, ; however, cannot compete with the cor- ! ncr stands for the trade of a great many persons. There are plenty of old fellows that have been baying their glassei for almost nothing at corner stands any time these 40 years. They never spent a penny on oculists, and they despise opticians. The fact is that science of the eye has grown up since they began to use glasses, and having started with out its aid they keep on in like fashion. It is only because they are not troubled with complicated affections of the eyes that they are able to preserve their sight in defiance of the modern special ist—New York Sun. 1 Strange Use ot the Teetll. Mrs. Peary has told what a hard day's work it was for the Eskimo women in her service when they prepared skins for clothing. The women cleaned the skins, and after a certain number of hours spent in masticating hard hides their jaws were quite tired. Polynesian wom en chewing a particular root so as to prepare a fermented liquor must have an equally hard time of it. Primitive man had to use his teeth much more than we do, for he did not eat with them alone. Every "osteologist has noticed," writes Professor Mason, "how the teeth in the crania of certain savages are worn to the socket, and we are frequent ly told that this arises from the large quantity of sand in the food." But it is probable that primitive man used his teeth not alone for the trituration of his food. The teeth set on some small ob ject made a vise, and teeth were used for cutting implements. In basket mak ing the teeth were the ready nippers, and the small branches of osiers must havo been peeled by the same means. "Whoever has seen," writes Professor Mason, "an Eskimo boot neatly pucker ed all around the edge of the sole will not be surprised at the brevity of the good woman's teeth when he comes across her skull iv a museum."—New York Times. A Jehu's Courtesy. A noted American singer is fond of telling of a little experience she had in Boston once upon a time. She was to sing at an evening concert, and a car riage was to be sent for her. She was staying at the time with a friend, who had a suit of rooms in a large apart ment house, in which the tube system of communication with the outer world prevailed. It was past the time when the carriage should have appeared, and the lady was growing a little nervous. She was sitting with her wraps on when tho bell rang furiously. Hurrying to the tube herself, the prima donna said : "Well?" The reply came in a voice heavily charged with irritation. "I'm a hackman," said the voice, "an I was sent here to git some cussed lady, an I don't know what in time her name is! I've rung ev'ry bell in this house I Are you her?" When informed that the "cussed lady" herself was speaking to him, ha coolly replied: "Well, coma on. We'll have to lope it all the way to the hall to get there on time!"— Detroit Free Press. Queer Cure For Toothache. In Staffordshire and Shropshire, Eng land, they have a most extraordinary cure for toothache. The sufferer watches a mole's runway with spade and traps, and as soon as he succeeds in capturing one of these reputed eyeless little ani mals cuts off its paw and quickly ap plies it to the aching molar. In order to make the cure sure and effective, the paw must be amputated while the mole is yet alive. Furthermore, if the aching tooth is on the right side of the jaw, a left hand mole paw must be used, and vice versa. A similar toothache super stition exists in the Cape Verde islands and also od the Canaries.—St. Louis Republic. HE WOULD LIE DOWN. THE DEACON'S EIGHT YEARS' STRUG GLE WITH OLD BILLY. For a Time the Stranjje Performance In terested All Storkville Centre; Then Only Strangers Paid Attention to It—A Flood Ended the Contest. "Deacon Penguin," said Colonel Cal liper, "had a farm on the outskirts of Storkville Centre, Vt. He raised consid erable truck, and he was at the Centre most every day. In fact, he and his horse and wagon were about as familiar as any objects in Main street, and in 1852 something happened that drew at tention to them more than ever. "In that year the deacon bought a new horse—a big, gaunt, gray horse, which he called Billy. The gray wasn't a handsome horse, but he was good and strong, and the deacon got him pretty cheap, so he was satisfied. But the sec ond day he drove him into the village something disagreeable happened. When the deacon came out of a store where he had been leaving some vegetables, he found Billy lying down. That was un pleasant. It isn't nice to have a horse that lies down when you are driving him. Deacon Penguin got him np after a good deal of trouble and drove him home. The next day the horse lay down again, and the next, and then it was dis covered that lie had a habit of lying down, which the horse dealer of whom Deacon Penguin had bought him had forgotten to mention when he sold him to Deacon Penguin. '' The next day when the deacon drove along Main street the people saw around the body of the big gray horse a broad canvas belt, and when the deacon drew up by the curbstone at the store where he generally stopiied first they saw stick ing up from the top of this belt along side the saddle of the harness a stout iron ring. Sticking out of the rear of the deacon's wagon were three or four timbers, and what these things were for was very soon seen. The deacon hadn't much more than got into the store be fore the horse lay down, as usual. "When the deacon came out, he went around to the rear of the wagon and pulled out the timbers. He sot them up over the horse. They made a sort of gal lows frame—two uprights with a cross beam between. Right in the middle of tho crossbeam on the under side there was a stout irou eye. The deacon weut back to the wagon after !..- ■ . op {..'. di rrick and read ter tho seat and pulled out a tackle, one block of which lie hooked t-> the eye set in the crossbeam, while the other block ha . d into the ring in tho belt Then rrried tho free end oi th<> rope from the upper block along to a block att;: li ed to one of the uprights and then down to and around p. drum, to which .va tached a handle. "By the time the deacon had got this derrick rigged it seemed as though all Storkville Centre mid the surrounding population were standing on the side walk and in the street watching him, and when he set taut on the tackle and the frame began to creak with the horse's weight the interest was some thing tremendous. Slowly but surely ho raised the big gray horse until he had him on his feet again. When Billy's feet touched the ground, he gave up. The deacon unhooked the tackle and car ried it back and put it under the seat again, and then he took down the der rick and stowed it in the wagon. "But the next day the same perform ance was all gone through with again. It would seem as though Billy ought to have known better. Of course he knew that the deacon was bound to get him every time, but he was mulish about that one habit. He wouldn't give it up. And some people said the deacon was mulish too. He was certainly a very persistent, patient man. He kept the derrick in his wagon always; never un loaded it. He was ready for Billy any time, and whenever he came to town Billy was sure to lie down and the dea con to raise him. "For a week or ten days the deacon's derrick was the most interesting thing in Main street. A crowd gathered every day to see him lift Billy up, and I sup pose that, all things considered, the lift ing of Billy, which was continued in that way for eight years, was really the most astonishing thing that ever hap pened in Storkville Centre. But after a week or two people scarcely paid any more attention to it. The deacon got to be very expert in getting the horse on his feet, and people—that is, Storkville people—paid no more attention to it than they would to a man rolling a bar rel of flour into a wagon on a pair of skids. But it was always of interest to strangers. The stranger who happened to see Deacon Penguin getting old Billy on his feet again was pretty sure to think and to say that it was the most curious thing he'd ever seen. "Well, this went along until the fall of 1860, which was the year they had the great flood in Storkvillo Centre. There was a little brook running through. Deacon Penguin's farm right back of the barn in which old Billy was stabled. Nobody ever dreamed of this little stream ever being anything more than a brook in any kind of weather, but in tho great flood it rose to a torrent, and it carried away the old barn and old Biliy down into the larger stream that runs through Storkvillo Centre, Tlichig was in ver heard of in £ Centre again, and so n< I - : >* tell how tl ' between him and tihe deacon might finally have ended."— Ni .- York i. . Frcnrhcrs Bfads Victims. "_ teachers ai-e the prey of all sorts of swindlers," said a prominentMetho'ist divine the other day to a group of fellow clergymen who were gathered in ...o Methodist Book concern in Fifth av enue. "I shall never forget," he con tinued, "how I was once taken in by what we sometimes call a 'temperance tramp.' " The solitary layman in the party did not know the definition of "temperanco tramp,'' and in reply to his inquiry the clergyman explained: "A temperance tramp is a man who goes from town to town delivering lectures on temperance. The man I refer to came one Wednesday evening to see me while I was stationed in a country town up in New York state. He presented one or two letters of recommendation from ministers whom I knew and said that he desired to lecture for me. We made over for his use a bedroom in the center of the house. My two sons and a daughter had rooms in the back of the house, and I occupied the front. None of us slept a wink all night—he snored so loud. "At breakfast the next morning after grace had been said I was serving the oatmeal whou the 'temperance tramp' pointed with his knife at the dish, and looking at my lean figure asked disdain- Staunton % pectator* RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ad vertiscnients are inserted at the rates of 1-'= cents per line, for the first, and 6 V cents for each subsequent insertion. Local Notices are inserted at the rate of 20 cents per lino for the first, and 10 cents for each subsequent insertion. vouw Business Notices are inserted at the rate of seq C ve 1 n S t[nL t rt fo , n , : Stana 8 CeDtS for £«** trnw/wSEEF 0 b ° maae on all order » rnV'A 1 m l . ; „ 1 ' X ' 3 ', A !! n " m ' cenientß of Candidates for office, and all communications t< *" ulu "" : " adveriiseme„te. araCter ' WUI *•*■■■• •- «« NO. 3f>, make yoii t':.:: I "That aftcru ..• ~■:;;.. ..p'red •if the so called E.■■.• Mr ' : was at my house. I told him i he \ .is He j said, 'Well. I have a\. a. ~: t to* ! ar- I rest and bare I rai Ial:o . a;: li ..i irom I place to plate for the i.mt : ..• i weeks.' I jHe was wanted for thi b.<■ •... rrf i me' | books in Philadorphfti rsul had bn ties ; passed forged clucks in v.srio'u places I through the stale mas a. .u::-.ed names."—New York Her... .. The (Jiull'y at ii».l. Tact is not dishonesty, v r'fes Frances E. Lanigan in the Ladies' Heme Jour nal. It does not mean (lie suppression of the truth nor tho expression of an un truth, but it does menu the withholding of gratuitous disagreements from argu ments in which they are quite Huperfln-' ous. It also means the effort to induce an agreement kindly when possible, and 1 if an agreement is impossible it demand* a gracious acceptance of opposing views.' i Tact cannot be said to be synonymous with policy. Tact is always honest, and policy cannot invariably be said to ha*** that distiugnishing mark. BICKLE & HAM RICK mmam parlor N03.1l AND 13 W. FKEDEHICK STREET, NEXT TO JESSER'S We keep constantly on hand *he finest 4tock of goods In our line ever seen In the city of Staunton. All the latest styles and novelties. Calls attended day and night. FUNERAL OUTFITTED in every detail and under careful personal at tentlon BICKLE 4 HAMRICK avis 4-tf N os. and W.Frederick St. CHURCH DIRECTORY. First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick St between New and Market streets, services II a. m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Itev. A. M. Fraser Second Presbyterian church corner Freder Ick and Lewis streets. Services at 11 a. m and 8 Faster, Key. tVt Camming. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at T. M. C. A. Hall. Services at 11 a. m., and Bp. m. Rector. Rev. 1!. c. .Tett. Trinity Episcopal church, Mam street, be tween Lev :•: and ciran h streets. Services nt 11 a. in., and Bp. m. Rector, Key. W. o. Hui llhen United Brethren cliur.-li. Lewis street, be tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at 11 a. m md Bp. m. Pastor, f.'ev. J. I> ikmi ovan. Methodist church, Lewis street, between Main and Frederick streets. Services at 11 m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D Christ Evangelical Lutheran church. Lew is street, between Main and Frederick street!" Services at 11a. ni. and 8 p. m. Pastor Rev H. F. Shealy. Baptist church, cornei .Haln and Washing ton streets. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m Pastor, Rev. W. J. E. Cox. St. Francis Roman Catholic, North August* street, Mass at 7 and 10.30 a. m. Vespers and benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament « p. in. Paster, Rev. Father McVerry. Young Men's Christian Association, corner Main and Water streets. Services at 4 p. m. Sunda . DIRETORY OF LODGES. MASONIC LODGE. Staunton Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. M., meets every second and last Friday night In eact month, in Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas M. Lickliter.W. M; H. A. Eskridge, Secy. UNION ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER. No. 3, meets third Friday to every month. In Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. W. Mc Guffln, High Priest; A. A. Eskridge, Secy. ODD FELLOWS' LODGER Staunton Lodge, No. 45,1. O. O. F. meets ey cry Thursday night to Odd Fellows' Hall, oves Wayt's drug store, on Main street. John C FretweU Noble Grand: C. A. Crafton, Sec' KNIGHTS OF HONOV ODGE. Staunton Lodge, No. 756, of Honor meets every first aad third Tuesday to each month, to Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L. Olivier, Dictator; W. A. Burnett, Recorder. MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE. No. 116,1. O. G. T., meets every Friday nigh* to their lodge room over Wayt's drug store on Main street. A. S. Woodhouse, Chief Templar F. B. Kennedy, Secy. DISTRICT LODGE. No. 22,1.0. G. T., meets every three months ft', * C , Shlpplett, D. C. T.; S. H. Bauserman District Secretary. ROYAL ARCANUM. Augusta Council, No. 480, Royal Arcanum meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the month, at Pythian Hall, Main street. W. W. Robertson, Regent; Jos. B.Woodward, Sec retary. SONS OF TEMPERANCE Charity Division, M. A., Sons of Temperance meets every Monday night at Odd Fellows all. W. A. Rapp, Worthy Patriarch; John n. Coffelt. Secy. UNIFORMED RANK, KNiGHTS OF PYTHIAS. E. .-■ Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second and .ourth .Mondays each montu at Pythian iiali. Sir Knight Captain, I. R. Berkley; S Knight Recorder, s. 11. Ifi^aMlmiiiii KNISHTS Otf I'VflilAS. Valley Lodj. ■-. .-.,>. is. k. , , Alum:., : street, mond, .:, Keeper 01 i • • Seal. K.N, . ABa Stauuto'- i lilar, iuret» v Masonic . ~ :•'■ cChesuey, Bminent ommandei, A. A. Ek ridge, Recorder. ONEIDA TRIBE, NO. 88,1. 0. R. M., Meets in their wigwam, In Valz Building every Wednesday at Wk run 30th breatli setting of the sun. J. I). Anthony, sacher Jarr.e3 W, Blackburn, cliief of records. J •ng brothers welcome. ; AMERICAN LXQION OF HONOR. Valley Council No. 7;t) meets on the first anc third Mondays in each month. Commande- A. S. Woodhouse; secretary, Dr. J. M. Hange collector, Isaac C. Morton, Jr. CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENIFICAII SOCIETY. | . Meets first Sunday in every month in tbe.r hall on the church lot. M. T. B presi dent; J. J. Kllgalen, first vice-president; J. J Murphy, second vice-president; D.J.O'Connell recording secretary. "STONEWALL" BRIGADE BAND. Band meets every Honda; and Thursday orchestra, every Wednesday, at 8 p. m., In City Hall. Mr. J. H. Brereton, director, J. A. Armentrout, president, and C. Harry Haines, secretary. CENTRAL PROHIBITION CLUB. Meet on Thursday night of each week, ;in the ub room, US East Ham street. Jas. W. Bod \ iy, Acting President; Preston A. Boss, Secre ary CHAMBER Or COMMERCE. Monthly meetings. Fourth Tuesday In the month at 7:JO o'clock. Room in City Hall build ing Isaac Wits, presld t; J.C.Shields, l»er« ary.