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"The value of that plea, gentlemen,
I leave for yon to decide. Let us pass
again to the circumstantial evidence
and deal first of all with
The Norwegian Knife.
"This knife has tho letter 'A' brand
ed upon its handle. The knife was in
the prisoner's possession, it is agreed,
until a few moments or a fow hours be
fore the murder. It is admitted that
Astray Marsden was with Josiah Mars
den on the night of tho murder. It is
also admitted that he used the knife to
open a cigar box in the presence of his
guardian and then left it behind him
ready for the murderer, who, we are
told, entered the house after the prison
er had left it. The value of that plea,
gentlemen, is again for you to decida
"The murder was first discovered by
the woman Margaret Gadsden, who was
in the habit of going daily to attend to
the domestic requirements of the de
ceased. On the morning of Jan. 12 she
went, as usual, and gained admittance
at the side entrance by the key she al
ways had in her possession.
4'You
will recollect that between the
night of the 11th and the morning of
the 12th there was a phenomenally
heavy fall of snow, and the woman no
ticed that there were footprints leading
to the front door of the house, but none
leading from it
"Becoming alarmed at the unusual
stillness which reigned through the
house and unable to got any answer
when she knocked at Josiah Marsden'B
door, Margaret Qadsden hastened to
the police station and returned with
Chief of Police Dobson.
"That man, gentlemen, you have had
before you. He has told you himself of
his attempt to blind the aims of justice
by withholding the most important
piece of evidence in this intricate case,
the paper that JoBiah Marsden left be
hind him. Dobson has expressed his
contrition and regret for tho disgrace
ful course which he took, but whether
that contrition will absolve him from
the penalties of his action I very much
dv,.ibt I cannot refrain from referring
to the supreme and utter idiocy mani
fested throughout by Chief Dobson in
relation to this case and cannot too
warmly applaud the indefatigable en
ergy. the zeal and acumen, of Mr. Her
bert Darrent, the official who took
charge of the case and was fortunately
able to retrieve all the errors—I will
content myself by calling them errors
at present—which Dobson committed
prior to his appearance on tho scene.
Returning to the events of Jan. 12, you
will remember that Dobson and the
woman returned together and npon en
tering the library found Josiah Marsden
lying dead upon the floor, stabbed to
the heart By his side was the paper
which has had such an important bear
ing upon the case, the paper "Which
Dobson retained, showing it only to the
prisoner, Astray Marsden. You have
heard Dobson's account of that inter
view—that the prisoner turned pale and
trembled and then promised to see lnm
later in the day
"It is for you to say whether Dobson
is a man whose evidence can be relied
upon or not But, setting that upon one
aide, was the action of Astray Marsden
that of an innocent man Ho sought
refuge in flight. It is urged that he be
came the prey to a spasm of fear, but
an innocent man should have no such
cowardly emotion. Why did he not defy
the blackmail of Dobson and, knowing
his innocence, rest contented on being
able to prove an alibi If Why? Because,
gentlemen, he could not because he
was bound to admit that he was at The
Grange on that night He owns he was
at The Grange, but pleads that he left
before the sno.wstorm and left Josiah
.Marsden alive.
"If the defense could prove that fact,
could account for the period that elapsed
between the prisoner leaving The
Grange and being met by Policeman
Thompson, there might be some grounds
flor the plea, but not one single witness
has been called to substantiate it, and
we are asked to believe that he walked
about for hours in a blinding snow
storm That has been put before you in
•contradistinction to the theory of the
prosecution that he entered the house
after the snowstorm, leaving his foot
prints up to the door that the old
standing quarrel which it is admitted
on both sides existed was renewed and
that ho left by the secret passage on to
the frozen river, a passage that was
known only to those who had lived at
The Grange.
"Astray Marsden was met by Thomp
*Xi soon after 2 o'clock in the morning
of the 12th in a very excited condition,
still chafing, the defense says, under
the insults he had had heaped upon him
—chafing, gentl Jwen, after several
hours' walk.
"I have reviewed tho circumstances
that occurred in Norcombe, but it is
not upon these events alone that the
case stands. Let us turn to Chicago.
Herbert Darrent has been before you
and given his evidence with exemplary
clearness. He has told you the manner
in which he succeeded in tracking
Astray Marsden to the Royal hotel in
Chicago, and he has related tho story of
The Arrvat.
"The first words of tho prisoner when
Darrent entered the room were, 'You
have come to arrest me,' and, though
warned not to commit himself, he then
launched into a heated attack againBt
the murdered man, an attack which
foreshadowed the line of defense which
has been adopted—that of revenge. He
charged Josiah Marsden with leaving
such a message for tho sole purpose of
encompassing the death of an innocent
man whom he hated
"With that point 1 have already
dealt. The idea in itself is too callous
to dilate upon.
"In the prisoner's confession to Her
bert Darrent he accounted for the loss
of hiB knife in the same manner that
the defense has insisted upon Ho took
it out to open the cigar box, forgot it,
and it waB left lying upon the table, a
handy weap6n for the murderer. To
that point of the defense I will but add
a word..
"If the murderer of Josiah Marsden
came to the house with intent to mur
der, would he have left the finding of
the weapon to chance, or would he have
come prepared? If he came prepared,
would he use a chance weapon or trust
to the one he knew 1
"Let me now, before you retire to
consider your verdiot, put into a few
words the whole evidence. Against the
prisoner you have the last words of the
dying man, the knife, the long stand
ing quarrel, the absence of a reasonable
alibi, andfor him"— The judge pauses
and deliberately turns bade the pu^ea
•I Ul lotMb whU» ilk#
A Detective Story
Of a Chicago Suburb. The
Murder at The Grunge and How
Its Mystery Was Solved by
Darrent, the Araer
lean Lecoq.
BY NORMAN HURST.
Copyright, 1899, by the American Press Association.
scorns to throb with emotion.
"It's ••. ic.iuui summing up," one
lawyer whispers to unmliur
"Kintal—d". il against him, poor
devil!" Li. i\»:,: mn!on replies, glancing
at the prisoner, who, pole as death,
I gazes b.f«»!v aim with eyes that see
nothing.
"While "for him,' the judge impas
sively conl. ::.!. ••you have the line of
defense that l»^ itsf Tho Grange honro
before the junnlor was committed.M
The judge closes his book, and wo
await his peroration Wo feel that we
know what it will be
"If yon have no doubt, it is your
duty to do your duty—an eye for an
1
eye, a life for a life," and many more
ronnded phrases with which a judge 1B
usually pleased to torment a man whose
life or death is to be Bettled within the
next hour. But we are mistaken.
"Gentlemen of the jury," he say^
"the case is in your hands." And that
is all. The summing up is over.
"Poor devil!" some one whispers
again, and we shudder. It puts into
words what we dared not thiiiir
The jury do not move. They only
whisper in the box It seems as if they
are going to decide without leaving it
But perhaps the seriousness of their
task comes over them, and they slowly
leave, and the prisoner is conducted
from the courtroom.
"Dead against him!" 1B the general
opinion. "Fair and just, but dead
against himl He hasn't got a line of
defense in his whole case."
The judge has retired, but no one else
leaves the court The audience feels
that it iB not a case of waiting for
hours, but minutes, perhaps only sec*
onds. The last words of the summing
up crash through each man's brain,
What do they amount to? Against the
prisoner you have—everything for
him—nothing I
The Terdlet*
The jury re-enter the box the judge
returns the prisoner, between two
deputies, takes his place in the dock.
"Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict?"
"We have."
"Do you find the prisoner, Astray
Marsden, guilty or nor guilty of the
murder of Josiah Marsden?"
"Guilty!"
A woman's scream, half stifled in its
birth, breaks tho fearful silence of the
court—a scream followed by a gasp.
The assembled throng breathes hard as
what it knew must happen comes.
Then the deathlike silence falls like
a pall again.
"Prisoner at the bar," a voice is say
ing, and it seems to come from some
where miles away, even to us—what
must it seem to him?—-"have you any
thing to say why sentence of death
should not be passed upon you?"
All eyes are turned with one impulse
toward the dock, and the spectators
start with amazement.
The prisoner, the man condemned to
death, whom they had pitied through
out the trial as one so miserable that
he could not defend himself, is trans
formed.
He stands erect, with almost a glow
upon his cheeks, nearly a smile upon
his lips, manhood and courage awaken
ing in his eye. He is condemned to
death and stands as though his fetters
had been released.
We are creatures of impulsa The
spectators gaze at one another. The
same thought iB in every mind, ••Sup*
pose he is innocent)" There is mesmer
ism in his glance, and they follow it as
it rests upon the girl with her head
thrown forward on her arms upon the
table.
The judge shifts uneasily, moves as
though to speak. He seems held power
less by that strange force which is npon
all.
The girl feels the power of that
glance, and as if in obedience to its
command throws back her veil and rises
and faces Astray Marsden, and as she
does so even the heavens add to the in
tensity of the scena
The sun is setting. The room is
shrouded in gloom, save for one glorious
beam of light which passes over the
shoulder of the prisoner and floods the
face of the girl with a halo of light
They face one another, and the spec
tators pause and watch, lost in the
mystery of the thoughts that are pass
ing between them.
"Ethel!"
Only the lifting of the face more to
ward him shows that she has heard.
"Do you believe me guilty? Do you
believe that I am a murderer?"
"No!"
It is only a whisper, but it tfiylUa
Where have sophistries gone, where are
The girl throws back her veil and rUet.
deductions, when compared with the
love of this woman who stands thus be-,
fore the world
"If I were a free man, would you
marry me as you promised years ago?"
"Yes!"
The prisoner turns to the judge, the
girl resumes her seat, and the spell is
broken.
"I have nothing to say, my lord, but
that I am innocent"
The Sentence of Death.
Astray Marsden was sentenced to
death because it was the duty of the
judge to do so, but every spectator who
filed out of the courtroom after the
tence was pronounced was troubled
with doubts as to the result of the trial.
As one spectator expressed it: "Man
den was found guilty by the jury be
cause the jury could consider the evi
dence and come to no other verdict, and
the judge sentenced him to death be
cause tho judge was compelled to. Bat
is Marsden guilty?"
CHAPTER VIL
DARHKNT MAKES FBB8H DISOOVXBY.
It was the morn
in* aft* the gnat
sensations! trial, -,r-
sat i\t his breakfast in the dining room
of the Palaco hotel, Norcombe
Tho table he had selected was a small
one by the window, and he sat thero
noKleciinR his breakfast and moodily
si-i iUg out into tho street. Then he be
gan his meal, but his appetite seemed
to havp deserted hiai
"Theatrical, theatrical that's all,'
he mattered to himself, as if in answer
to his secret thoughts. "Done for ef
fect" And he drank his coffee and
picked up the morning paper, only to
throw it down again impatiently as the
displayed headlines caught his eye:
MARSDEN MUST SWING.
A Speedy Conviction the Nor
combe Murderer's Fate.
DETECTIVE DABSENTS TBIUMPH.
Dramatic Seene In Court—Condemn
ed Blan'a Sweetheart Declares Her
Belief In His Innocence Wonld
Marry Htm If He Were Free.
The headlines jarred upon him. Why?
The detective's triumph! It was a tri
umph—every one said so—and yet nev
er had he succeeded in a case that had
left behind such an unsettled feeling,
such a degree of uncertainty and doubt
as to whether he was really right after
alL He could not understand it him
self. Everything had seemed to be as
clear as daylight, and the judge and
jury—aye. the very spectators—had
shared the view that his deductions had
led him to form long ago—that Astray
Marsden was the culprit
"All for effect," he muttered again
to himself, his mind still on the final
scene in the court, with the last ray of
sunlight falling full on the woman's
face as she avowed before all her unal
terable belief in the innocence of Astray
Marsden "Theatrical that was all'
And yet somehow he could not shake off
remombrance of that final scena
Whether it was acting or not, it had
made a deep impression on Herbert Dar
rent
"Shouldn't wonder if it has a good
result for him rouses sensation and
sympathy, and they may get up a peti
tion for life imprisonment It's a clever
dodge." He called it "a dodge" to
shake his own doubts, and yet he could
not help feeling that ttere was no col
lusion in that last scene of all Still, it
is best to try to delude one's conscience
at sneh times as these Dull it, stifle it
if it wants to speak and disturb that
supremely happy feeling of self satisfac
tion that is so pleasant to experience.
To be emotional in this nineteenth
century is to be weak, or, worse than
anything, old fashioned. If something
happens in the course of one's daily life
that is keen and painful enough to
wring one's heart, the formula is—give
syni4',:thy a stunning blow and call the
whole thing "a dodge" and then go on
with life exactly as before. Yes that
is the wiser, the better and very fre
quently the cheaper way. It's only a
dodge that's alL Pass on and forget it
Having stigmatized the dramatic de
nouement of the trial as "a dodge" in
sufficiently stern a voice to frighten
away, for the time being at any rate,
all his inner promptings, Darrent picked
up the paper ag *ln and began reading
an editorial—the trial again, of course.
It was headed "The American Le
coq," and it set forth with abundant
praise the ability, the zeal, the acumen,
of one Herbert Darrent detective—set
it forth in such a florid high flown style
that the subject of these commendations
would have flushed, except that his
inner self had not yet recovered from
the stunning blow that had been dealt
it by modern cynicism.
Then the article went on to refer to
the emotional scene at the conclusion of
the triaL
"Astra nger scene," it remarked, "it
has never been our lot to witness."
And Darrent, startled from his habitual
composure, jumped to his feet, with an
exclamation of surprise.
Perhaps the compositor engaged upon
setting up that editorial had been car
ried away by the sensationalism of the
trial or perhaps by something else, but
in setting that line he had made a pe
culiar mistake, which had been passed
by the proofreader and now appeared
in every issue of that day's paper. He
had misplaced the spacing which Bhould
have made the division between the
words "A" and "stranger," and the
sentence which had so startled Herbert
Darrent read, "Astra nger scene it has
never been our lot to witness."
The second combination of letters,
"nger," might have been a portion of
a cryptogram, it was BO meaningless.
The first, "Astra," had a meaning for
Darrent that set hiB brain wildly at
work and caused a heavy feeling at his
heart
It was a strange coincidence that the
editorial on the trial should contain
such a glaring error. Emotional people
would have called it "the finger of
Providence,but of course it was not
It was simply the error of a compositor
who perhaps had had too much to drink
or at any rate was not at the instant
thinking of what he was doing.
Let us account for all things natural
ly if we can. We abominate superstition
in the nineteenth century and really
never care to discuss "the finger of
Providence" at all
"A—s—t—r—a— A stranger," Dar
rent muttered. "Suppose old Marsden
died before he could write what he in
tended to! Suppose another second of
life would have altered all things! Why
did not the defense think of that?
Astray Marsden quarreled with Josiah
and left him. A third person entered,
and that person was the one who com
mitted the deed. Josiah Marsden, dying
and alone, remembered. Something
warned him that Astray would be ac
cused, and he wrote what he intended
should prove his innocence. No one can
say what were the exact words he in
tended to writa 'I am dying, mur
dered by a strange man, who forced his
way into the house.' It might have
been that, it might have been anything
after the word 'strange,' the word in
the writing of which and before he
could complete it death overtook him,
and his very handwriting condemned
the man whom he had tried to save."
The more Darrent thought the more
moody became his reflections. Was it
possible he had blundered Was it pos
sible that the man now under sentence
of death was only the victim of a series
of circumstantial incidents that he
had so cloverly put together? He turned
to finish the breakfast that he had neg
leoted, but all inclination for food bad
vanished, and he pushed his plate aside
and stared out of the window again,
and, as he gazed, there continually
dinned in his ears one sentence: "Sup
pose you've been mistaken! Suppose
you've been mistaken!"
The repetition grew simply madden
ing. He could bear it no longer he
would retest every theory he would
retrace his steps, go right back to the
beginning, follow every clow from a
different standpoint and see where it
led him—see if there was anything, no
matter how minute, that he had over
looked. He turned to the newspaper
onoe more* and as ha glanoed down the
columns a chess diagram caught liis
eye, the usual weekly problem, "White
to play and mate in two moveB." In an
instant Darrent's mind was alert on a
new scent
So easy had been the trail that he had
followed, BO clearly had it pointed to
the guilt of Astray Marsden, that he
had quite overlooked the robbery of the
chessmen. They had seemed to have no
real connection with the actual murder,
and they had slipped from his memory.
Now, and it came forcibly back to hiwi,
he had better try to trace them and find
what bearing they had upon the case.
He recalled how he had built up a
theory that if he could only find those
chessmen he would be very near achiev
ing mate upon the murderer's* game.
What step should he take now? He
somehow could not disabuse his mind
of the uneasy feeling that had possessed
it—that perhaps he had put the hemp
round an innocent man's neck, and in
a few weeks' time, unless he proved
himself to have been wrong, to have
followed a bad theory to a false end,
the noose might be drawn Astray
Marsden gone beyond recall
He went up stairs to his room and
took from his bag the odd pawn and
tho piece of tissue paper containing the
chip of ivory, his new clews.
It was a big, manly task Darrent was
going to enter upon, because if he
proved that the conclusions he had al
ready arrived at were false and that all
along he had followed a false scent he
wrote for himself and his lauded ability
an awful denunciation. If, on the other
hand, he only confirmed his first theory(
there was nothing further to go on
working for beyond self satisfaction
and contentment Was it worth while,
after all? he pondered. Why not lei
things take their course?
He Btepped out into the street and
paused, irresolute, for a few moments.
Then, suddenly making up his mind,
he walked rapidly to the railway sta
tion and took tho train for Bideford.
He. had decided that the first new
step he must pursue was to ascertain
from Ethel Kingston anything he could
as to the real relationship between
Astray Marsden and the murdered man
and, further, what were the grounds
upon which old Marsden had forbidden
the marriage of Astray with her. Per
haps iu that very refusal of consent to
the alliance there might be something
that would lead him on a fresh scent,
something that would dull or satisfy
that aching that had taken possession
of his mind, that would allay ihe
haunting fear that perhaps, after all,
he was wrong
When Darrent reached Bideford, he
experienced but little trouble in finding
the abodo of Ethel Kingston,. for upon
a tiny burnished plate on a door in
High street he read the name and un
derneath the word "Milliner.','
How, wondered Darrent. as* he stood
awaiting an answer to his knock,
would lie find the woman who had tak
en that unrehearsed part in: the dra
matic scene at the trial? Wonld she be
prostrated with grief and refuse to see
him, or would she upbraid and assail
him for having so steadfastly pursued
and convicted the man she loved, the
man whom she believed to be innocent
and whom, if he were but free, she had
sworn before all men she would marry?
While Darrent turned these possibili
ties over in his mind the door was
opened by the girl herself, who could
ill conceal a start of astonishment as he
raised his hat.
"You have come from him?" she
queried.
"Yes," answered Darrent as heao
cepted her invitation to enter. "I have
come. Miss Kingston," he continued,
"because today I do not feel qnitis so
satisfied as I have been all along About
the guilt of Astray Marsden."
"And yet it is due to yon, and yon
alone, that he is condemned."
"I only did what was my duty.. 1
only pieced together facts, and the jury
decided upon those facta Today I come
to you because I feel that one of those
very facts is weakened, and its weak
ness weakens the whole chain.."
"Pray go on It is life and death to
him—to me
Darrent took a seat beside her and
drew from his pocket the paper that he
had been reading that morning and said
"Miss Kingston, when Astray Mars
den asked you in court if you believed
him guilty and you answered
Betook from hit bag the odd pawn.
but this morning I felt depressed, nd
when I opened this paper, out of your
very words of yesterday, out of the very
episode that had momentarily shaken
my confidence in his guilt, had grown
another incident that, ansnperstitiotu
as I am, seemed nothing short of a mi
raculous coincidence. If yon had not
spoken yesterday, these words that I am
going to show yon now wonld never
have been written, the mistake could
not have occurred, and it might never
have entered my mind that juatdoe bad
perhaps miscarried."
He placed the paper on the table and
pointed to the editorial with the mis
placed space, "Astra nger scene it has
never been our lot to witness.
For some moments Ethel Kingston
conld scarcely master her emotion as
she gazed at the printed lines, and,
sinking back into her seat, she covered
her face with her hands.
[CONTINUED.]
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trimmings nickel
plated. Sent
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1
stamp and 19
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pen of Ar*
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Mo. 97. Eighty-one Cold Eyed Needles.
Fnt npln A
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sorted sizes,
and made by
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post-paid
on rccelpt
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poitage
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Lady's Belt Buckle.
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postpaid on rcceipt of 2 cent
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tures cut trom wrappers of
Arbuckles' Boasted Cofiee.
No. 77. Telescope
Drinking Cup.
This article is prevented from fall
iru npart by its unique construction.
JSicuel-plated and highly finished.
A very
uneftil
article
in the
house
boldtind
on the
farm.
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nickel- plat
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fitly feet long,
Sent post­
paid on receipt of ti cent postage
paid on rereipi oi cent postn«c piiHtutfe slump and
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wrappers of Arbuckles* Iioasted Colfee. buckles' Roasted Coffee
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An one Book of the following Hit will be not pnt-pMNitMlpt
of a 2 cent postaga stamp and 10 signaturat nrt fWB
tho wrappers of Arbuckles' Roasted CotfM.
No. 78
An Album of Illustrated
Natural History.
Fifty colored pictures of Animals
ftr
uf _1A 0,NE NIGHT MY8TERY, and two other gvsatDsUctive
Stories, Ly "ULibLicuxu."
85 ADVENTUHE8 OF A BASHFUL BACHELOR, to? CLARA
AUGUSTA. A
mirth provoking utory,
06 TEMPEST AND 8UN8HINE. NoT«l,bT Vullllv J.
jioLMt-s. ihe must popular female writer of fiction of lite age
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HARLAN.
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gated figured pattern *ith
frioge, 32 inches. Sent
post-paid on rocoint
of two ccnt poeiuko
Mtnmp nnd 'i5 nitron
tnrcs cut from wrappers of 1
Arbuckles' Roasted CofTce,
Arbuckles Roast*
Jed Coffee,
It.
ihelr beauty and rarity.
*»»«W en reccipt of 3
stamp and
10 sic
ca! from wrappers of
"Bos*
id Co**.
No. 79. and Salt
Enclosed
to emboss
ednlckel
ivofwwA cover no
WftS: 1 AKSHSSWIII larger than
HSB^ WFISARMIL^
ORDL*
3
nary watch
when tele
scoped,
when
tended
holds as much ns a coffee cup. Sent
pimt-pnld on receipt of 9 cent
piintutfu stamp and 13 slna
um cut from wrappers or Ar-
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tenso Cook ewr pubitebed.
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takrstlio rt'u'luroutof iho beaum tracks of knowMM^aad will
be found both entertalulng and useful.
OP ™,N THOUSAND
THING8 WORTH
MOOUR5,E
No. 94. A Dasket of Beauties.
A magnificent picture of Jtoses by Paul d«
Lougpre. the great painter of flowers. We
believe this to be oue of the handsomest
The original
was painted
by Jeercy
Moron.
TH ID
reproduc*
tlon in 11
printings Is
a genuine
work of art.
Size ltt'.x
25,4 inches.
Sent post
paid on
receipt of
two cent
postace
Uower pictures ever offered to the public. It
Is inohu.-) in size. Sent post-paid
on receipt «»f-2 cent postage stamp aad
10 HiBiintureM cut from wrappers of Ar«
buckles' Rousted Coffee.
No. 08
hair Pin Cabinet
A metal
Ikx
N0.9S
Threa BeautMM
Flower
Pictures.
Kach measnrlag NfSlf
Inches. The
Summer
A VsssofI41lfla."aBfl
"Fresh and BVNi'
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go together, and wttbt
sentpest-pelj saw,
celpt al SI
ace lUapullilit
natnres cut
doei
pers of ArlltkHi*
a Pocket
lllhocrnphed
in colors, containing One
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sorted and styles
straight, crimplod and In.
visible. The different
styles are in separate com
partments. Sent post
paid ou receipt of
ccnt poMtnge ntnmp
and 10 riignnturea cut
from wrappers of Ar
buckles' Itoasied Cotlee.
white metal
Seat
reeelpt af
wrappers of
\om—You can't expect to do away with
blemishes In a week's time. Keep on to
itncky Mountain Tea, You'll hare a loTelv com.
plex'on.—Smith's Pharmacy and Gregg ft ward.
TO BENT.
The suite of rooms In tbe Atwater building
over Gregg & Ward's store. Rooms are desirm
ble for offices or housekeeping. Enquire of Mrs,
&Ward. a.
F. J. Atwater or Gregg
Dr. W. Wixson, Italy Hill, N. Y,
says, "I heartily recommend One
Minute Cough Cure. It gave my wife
immediate relief in suffocating asth
ma." PleaBant to take. Never falls to
quickly cure all coughs and colds,
throat and lung troubles. -H. C.Smith.
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BR1TANNICA--:
Will weigh from
one ounce to S
pounds. -?ent bp
express, ehitrcee
prepaid by us*
receipt of ft coat
PO«ft i«e stamp
and '100 slgna
turv.H cut from
wrappers of Ar
buckles' Roasted
Colic*. When ON
derlng name your
nearest Express
Office as wsll as
your Post office.
of German Silver without
or Joint except where tops
•crew on and off. Heat post-palil
#,f„9
.cent postmce
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trom -r.pp._r. of Arbuckles'
No. 01
Tho Flrat Prayer.
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inehfts in
also. Scut
Post-paid
•n reoelpt
•f 9 eeit
postage
stamp ead
10 slcaa*
tares oat
from wrap*
psra of AfbocklM' Boastsd coflNk
No. SO. Noah'a Ark.
A msascsrts, 'rf of il paUa sf
Almals—Kepbaats, Camels, Deer, Borsss,
Otttls, Donkeys, Goats, Lions, Bears, Tigers,
ad Cats. Bach pair is coupled aad
alone. Tbey are lithographed la
colors on hsavy cardboard, cat eat
and embossed. Every ftoatureofthe Animals
distinctly shown. The elephants ate 7
high and 10 inches long,
and tbs
otbsv
re proportionately largo. Seat
on receipt of 9
coat postage
aad IS slfaataros cut from
of Artooekiss' Boasted dollss.
No. IOO
Safety
Pin Book
contains
twenty-toor
nickel plated
6afety»Plns
three olses
which enter
the shields
from either
•Ids, requiring
no guiding
when being
secured or re
leased. Seat
post-peld OB
receipt af 9
oentpeetace
acaap aad S slaaatares cut from
wrappers of Arbuckles' Boastsd Ooffss.
Tble repreeeattjoM M* of a List whtoh is foatul In eaeh
pound packaca of AmcKlee' Roasted Cofffce, and with eaoh
paokage in wntahttaa List is (band the purchaser has bought
m. article to be selected by him or her
lite pa/t of some article to be selected by him or her
tie Liet. eahleet only to the condition that the signature
package Is to be eat out and returned to Arbuoue Broa.
as a voucher, In Moordanoe with the directions printed in
connection with 4Mb Item Illustrated and descrlbedin the
This List will be kMt
|eed oal till Ma? 31,1M0. AaottS
page of thu LUt wB .ppw In tbls psper ibortU.
MANCHESTER, IOWA.
This
Store
of
ours
isn't a
rich
mans
store
Tl^
Notice—Life Imuranoa eompanlet will.
the rate ss par cent to all who agree to use
Mountain Tea. A wise measure. 85
Smith's Pharmacy and Gregg & Ward.
Work.
I am prepared to furnish estimates and ruar
antee satisfaction on an kinds of Mason work.
C. P, Mnxm.
17tf
"I wouldn't be without DeWltte
Witch Hazel Salve for any consider
ation," write* Tboe. B. Rhides, Center
field, O. Infallable for pilea, cuts,
burns and akin dlseasea. Beware ot
counterfeits.—H. C. Smith,
ALWAYS ON TOP
is where we are when it comes to
selling coal. Honesty with cus
tomers as to quality, weight and
price insures steady patronage,
self-respect, profit and advance*
ment. We have never represent
ed our coal to be anything it was
not. The coal we are offering
now is good coal. First-rate coal,
in fact better coal than you can
buy elsewhere at the price. It
will pay you to order a few tons,
prices may go up any day.
MANCHESTER LUMBER COMFY
It's a store tor everybody. It's a
a place where the poor man's dollar
will buy the biggest one hundred
cent's worth he ever saw and wher
the stylish man's money will pur
chase the latest styles. Needn't take
our word for it. Look around
ftw/l
vlnoe yourself.
Aftn-
New Fall Hats
are here in the greatest variety.
L. R. Stout
Postofflce Bl'k., Franklin St.
Largest stock of clothing be
tween Dubuque and W
aterioo