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A DIVORCEJVAKTBB.
ITotv the Private Detective is Sometimes
Expected to Get It.
A Good Plea for the Abolishment of
Divorce by Beferees.
THIS IS NOT AN UNCOMMON CASE,
Suspicion attaches to much ol the work of the
Jjrivato detective.
There are various reasons why they are under a
teloud with the courts and the public.
Some of the men who start in it are without
character—worse than the men they are employed
to “shadow.”
They undertake to do the work at low rates—fol
low a man for a few hours and sleep the balance of
the time, often making fictitious reports.
Then, again, they are charged with often selling
out to the other side for a consideration, after hav
ing sponged both sides very thoroughly.
Trickery like this cannot be reached, as any at
tempt to expose it would subject the parties to pub
lic ridicule.
There are cases, however, where the honest pri
vate detective has occasion sometimes to feel very
indignant at propositions that are made. The fol
lowing
SINGULAR CASE
is so strange that we prefer to let the detective tell
the story in his own way and give it in the plain
way given us:
The case that lam about to tell you is of to-day,
said the detective, and I have no doubt there are
many like it. If I did not yield to temptation,
that is not to say that others have not, and for that
reason I would have no divorces obtained by refer
ence before a referee, but in open court. Editors
are the best judges of what should be published
and suppressed.
But that is digressing from the case.
I was sitting in my office figuring up a bill of
costs in a case just finished when a very stylishly
dressed lady entered.
“Mr. Lucas,” she said bowing, “I believe.”
I bowed, got up and gave her a seat.
I may as well be known as Lucas as by ahy other
Dame. You know, just before the war broke out, I
found myself in the South as Lord Lucas, in my
eight months chase after Maloney through the
South.
The lady was very abrupt and came to business
like the shot from a gun. There were no hems or
haws, or hesitation.
•♦I desire to employ you to get a divorce for me
from my husband,” she said with the utmost cool
ness, while she toyed with her fan. “ Your terms ?”
I told her that it was very seldom that I dropped
into such business.
“O, but you will perhaps do it to oblige my dear
friend Mr. at the same time handing me a
letter of introduction from a gentleman in Broad
Street, a very intimate friend of mine.
“Well, yes; I’ll take the case up,” I said alter
reading the letter. “But I don’t like such busi
ness.”
YOUR TERMS.
•'Thanks,” said the lady. “Now what are your
terms ? *
This was said with the coolness of one marketing
the price of a joint of meat for dinner.
“Ten dollars a day, and expenses,” I replied.
“Ah,” was her response. Then, after a pause,
•'You will please call upon my lawyer to-morrow,
at say,about three in the afternoon, if convenient.”
I bowed.
“There is my lawyer’s card. Good day, sir.”
•‘Good day,” I said, opening the door and show
ing my fair friend out.
THE FIRST SHADOWING.
At the hour appointed, I was in the outer office
Of the lawyer, and did not have a great while to
wait for my distinguished friend, the lawyer. In
the inner room I heard male and female voices, but
at the time I didn’t think much of it.
At last the lawyer came out, and we had a short
conference on the subject that interested his client,
the lady.
THE LADY GIVES POINTS.
Then the lady came out, and we had a futher chat
On the subject. At the close, she said :
•• You will find my husband.to-night at the
Hotel, at eight o'clock; he will there register him
eelf 'John Rogers and wife.’ ”
“But,” said I, “how am I to know your hus
band—l haven't seen him yet? I can’t ‘shadow - a
man that I don’t know and have never seen.”
“ Oh, Mr. Rogers is in the inner room; you just
Bit there, and you will see him when we go out
together.”
•• No, no,’"l replied; “he must not know me. I
couldn't ‘shadow’ a man that knows me.”
“ Then what do you mean to do ?” said the lady.
“ I can go to morrow morning and ’pipe’ him as
fee leaves your house.”
“ That won’t do. He will be at this hotel with
this woman to-night—l know it, and he may not be
there again in a year. I can’t stand it.”
“Well, then,” I said, “I’ll go out on the street,
Bee you two leave, then I'll get him. That will do,
Won’t it ?”
“ Excellent,” she replied.
I picked my hat up and left the office.
WHAT DID IT MEAN ?
As I stood leaning against a lamp post, nearly
Opposite to the lawyer’s office, I began to think.
This is queer. He and she are together in the
lawyer’s office. They don’t seem to have any sus
picion of each other. She must be either an angel
or a devil.
Then, bow could she know that her husband
would be at this particular hotel, with a woman, at
the hour named ?
It struck me as strange that I, called in as the
detective in the case, should be told by the wife
that, at a certain hour, I would find proof of adul
tery 1
Was the mistress in communication with the
Wife? Was she, herself, playing detective, but
didn’t care to come to the surface ?
This puzzled me. At length man and wife came
out of the lawyer’s office arm-in-arm, and having
got a full front and side view of his face, I turned
and left.
A LONG WAIT IN VAIN.
I went to the hotel and waited from six to ten
o’clock in the evening. It was drizzly wet, and tired
••piping” off, I left and went home. No Mr. Rog
ers entered the hotel that night with a woman. No
one that at all looked like him took supper in the
restaurant with a lady, or hired a room.
There were three entrances to the hotel; poseibly
he might have escaped me.
The following day I called at the lawyer’s office
and made a verbal report of non-success. The law
yer asked me to wait and see the lady. When she
came, I told her her husband was not there the
night before. She said he had been there.
It surprised me that she should be so positive. I
said it was possible that he had been at the hotel,
but hardly probable, as I had watched very care
fully.
“ Well,” said the lady, twisting her glove, “ if he
wasn’t there last night, you will find him to-night,
between eight and twelve, with a lady.”
“So I” I remarked involuntarily, as if speaking to
myself.
“Yes. I’m sure of it.”
“Well, I’ll try again,” I said as I left.
To make sure that I should not be as I had
been the night before, I went to the hotel at six
o’clock, two hours earlier than the expected time of
my friend’s arrival.
I sat back at a table where I could see the bar and
the entrance of guests up-stairs. To put in time, I
ordered a dinner that would take some time to
cook. It came. I finished it. No Mr. Rogers and
lady came. Seven o'cl’ock struck. He hadn’t come.
I called for a glass of ale, and read the paper. Eight
o’clock struck. Mr. Rogers,hadn’t come. I began
to get uneasy, when, near to'nine o'clock, my friend
Rogers entered the hotel alone, went up to the bar,
and had a diink.
A SURPRISE.
That seemed curious.
He looked around, as if expecting to see some one,
and was a long time getting through with his drink.
At last, when he had put down his empty glass,
apparently in disgust, I got up, went to the bar,
and called for a drink, and at the same time touch
ing Mr. Rogers politely on the shoulder, asked him
to join in.
“G’t’nly,” he replied.
I threw down a quarter, and didn’t hurry up to
lift the five-cent piece thrown back in change.
After he had drained his glass and wiped his mouth,
he very coolly picked up the five-cent piece and put
it in his pocket. The amount was trifling, but the
thing struck me as strange.
“ IT IS MY CHANGE.”
“Beg your pardo-n,” I said; “that change is
mine.”
“Yours?” he said, with a sneer.
“Yes. Didn’t I ask you to have a drink ? Didn’t
I throw down a quarter and get that five cents
change ?’’
“That change is mine all the same,” said Mr.
Rogers.
“You talk strangely,” I said. ‘
“Not a bit. Ain't you employed by my wife to
get her a divorce, and isn’t it my money that you
are spending for that purpose ? That being so,
ain't I entitled at least to the change coming from
my own money ?”
“Why, sir, you are a fool.”
“I’ve been that,” he coolly replied,
“I thought you a gentleman.’’
•• And you a detective.”
you mean ?”
•‘CoStS, coUe, now, own up-you are the detec
tive that was engaged by my wife to get evidence
to obt.an a divorce ?”
“A detective?”
“ Yes, sir.”
••You astonish me.”
“ You are not a d’etective 1”
“ Why, no, sir; you have made a very grave
mistake. I don’t see how you could think such a
thing of me.”
“ Well,” and he drew his fingers through his hair.
•• You do look mighty like the man, but I may bo
mistaken. Como back and let us have a quiet chat,
and I’ll tell you all about it.”
MR. ROGERS COMMUNICATIVE.
We went back to the end bar and I ordered
a bottle of wine—it was with his money. He became
communicative. A year ago, he said, my check for
$50,000 would have been cashed at any bank; to-day
I couldn’t raise fi-fty dollars on a note. I married
this woman, the law says is my wife, an adven
turess. She has ruined me. How she has disposed
of my fortune I don’t know. We want to get rid of
each other, She no doubt has some other dupe in
view. 1 don’t care. I was perfectly willing that
she should get a divorce, as she promised me SSOO
cash out of the wreck of my fortune. I’m so dead
broke that I’d let her nave her divorce for five hun
dred cents. No doubt she has got somebody else
in her mesh, now that I’m financially as dried up
as a smoked mackeral.”
“ But how did you come to suppose I was a de
tective ?” I asked.
“Didn’t you go to the office of her lawyer day
before yesterday ? No. And you didn’t come to
this hotel last night, and wait for me ? No. And
report to my wife that I did not come to the hotel,
which is true? No. That is curious. I could
swear that you stood across the street, when day
yesterday she pointed you out and said,
4 that’s the maa will do it.’ Aint you ? No.
Strange, there is a remarkable likeness between you
atfd that mao.”
When he had finished, I told him he was very
much mistaken, but I would be glad to meet him,
at the same place and hour the following night. He
agreed.
THE DETECTIVE REPORTS.
“ I have a very interesting report te make to
you, madam,” I said to the lady when 1 met her in
the lawyer’s private room next day.
“O, I’m so glad it’s finished,” she exclaimed
Smilingly.
“ And so am I,” was the reply I made.
“I thought you men in your business liked long
cases.”
“Sometimes.”
• I am ever so much oblighed that you worked it
Up so promptly.”
•• Yes, if I should ever have a friend wanting your
services I'll recommend him to you.”
“ Thank you,” said I.
“I am so glad,” she said.
“ Now,” said I, “ this has gone far enough. I can
never be a party to such a piece of rascality as
this."
She started.
“ What do you mean ?”
“ I mean this, that your husband, for a consider
ation, agreed to commit a crime, that I was to be
witness to it, application was to be made to the
court for a separation, his lawyer, whom you have
paid, would consent to a reference, and on my
testimony, he appearing by counsel, and making
a sham defense, the referee would report in your
favor, and the judge would grant a divorce. Now,
madam, I want you to understand, that I shan’t
be a narty to this fraud. I have a higher respect
for myself than join in such a collusion.”
While I spoke she became very agitated, she
flushed, then became pale, bit her lips to control
what she really wished to say, and when I paused,
we looked each other in the eyes. We had both
risen to our leet. In a low, sarcastic tone she at
last ventured to speak, smothering her emotion.
“I didn’t think that private detectives were so
gingerly virtuous?”
“The devil you didn’t,” I exclaimed, forgetting
myself for the moment, then recovering my temper
I said in her own low, canting tone, “you know
it now."
“Indeed!” she replied with one of those won
drous smile that a thwarted, but not defeated
woman can assume.
I laughed outright—l couldn’t help it. I nover
saw acting off or on the stage to equal it.
There was a queer silence for a few second*. At
length I said:
“Madam, there is my bill for services rendered ;
two days at ten dollars a day is twenty dollars.
Then the expenses, twenty dollars. I had dinner
the night before last; dinner again at the hotel last
night for myself with your husband, and for wine
between us, forty dollars. There is the bill—pay
and I’ll receipt it.”
Any other woman would have fainted. Not she.
She crimsoned slightly, and at length said, stamp
ing her foot:
“ You’re the devil!”
“We are mated,” I simply said, with a smile, still
holding out the bill to her.
She paid it and I bowed myself out of her pres
ence.
HOW MR. ROGERS FELT.
In the evening I went back to the hotel. I wasn't
sure that Mr. Rogers would keep the appointment.
If he had seen his wife that afternoon, he wouldn’t;
if he hadn’t, probably he might come.
He did.
“ Good evening, Mr. Rogers,” I said, as he en
tered. “I’m very glad to have met you again.
Come, what will you have ? Let’s take a seat; I
want to have a talk with you at the same time. A
couple of cigars, waiter.”
We were seated, had drank and lighted our cigars.
We were sitting opposite to each other. I was rest
ing my elbows on the table, looking straight at
him.
“ I saw your wife to-day, Mr. Rogers,” I said, tak
ing the cigar out of my mouth.
“ You did ?” He looked astonished.
I nodded.
“ Where the duse did you see her ?”
“ Where we first met.
He looked puzzled.
“I’m as wise as I was. Where?"
“ In her lawyer’s office.”
“ You then are "
“lhe detective that was to get a divorce for your
wife I"
“ The devil you are 1” he exclaimed, the most as
tonished man that I ever put eyes on. “You are
the detective ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“ Well, I’ll be blowed ! Give me your hand.”
“ All the same, but I have thrown up that little
job your wife gave me.”
He was again more confounded; he couldn't speak
for several seconds. At last he said, in a seemingly
despairing tone:
“Impossible!”
“ Yes, it is just as I told you. I would not, under
any circumstances, or for any money, become a
party to a crime. '
“But, my dear sir,” he said, imploringly, “you
commit no crime. Ido It. You only witness it.”
“ But your wife connives at it, and I aid you and
her. In short, it is a conspiracy of its kind that I
can’t be a party to.”
“I see no harm on your part.”
“ The law does, and so does human nature. Can’t
play that part, sir.”
“But consider, my dear sir, my fix. I’m ruined.
I haven’t a penny in the world. She has robbed
me of everything. What is that woman, that ad
venturess, to me now ? I must have money. If you
will finish the job I’ll give you half. You see my
desperate strait.”
“Mr. Rogers, I would have knocked you down
to make such a proposition, but under the circum
stances you are to be excused. I pity you. There
are many who have suffered like you. She would
get a divorce, and only entangle some one else to
ruin. The best I can do for you is to give you my
sympathy. There is the S4O I got from your wife
to-day to get that divorce for her. I didn’t earn it.
It is yours, and you are welcome to it. My advice
is, keep that woman where she is. Let her go—but
never give her a chance to ruin another gentleman.
Come, let’s have a smile.”
We had a parting drink, said the detective, and I
was sorry for him; but, under the circumstances,
could I assent to be a party to the fraud that the
two desired?
OUR FIRE DEPARTjj&JT.
HOSE TENDERS—A TRIAL-SICK
FIREMEN—THE PAY ROLLS, Etc.
The Board of Fire Commissioners met in regular
weekly session last Wednesday morning, with
President Purroy iu the chair.
NEW HOSE TENDERS.
The first business transacted was the opening of
proposals for supplying the department with five
lour-wheeled hose tenders, and the contract was
awarded to the Gleason-Bailey Manufacturing Co.,
at $4,315.
BROKE A LANTERN.
Fireman John J. Britt, of Engine Company No.
16, was fried on a charge that, while standing op
posite the company quarters on the night of July
16tb, he, without any provocation, broke a lantern
which was being carried by a boy named Henry
Roman, living at No. 220 East Twenty-fifth street,
whereby Britt received injuries which caused his
removal in an ambulance to Bellevue Hospital. He
pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Assistant Foreman Walter H. Jones testified—
“ When Britt came in the engine house he had a
handkerchief around his head, which was soaked
with blood. He said a boy had struck him. He
washed his head in the bath-tub. The surgeon at
the hospital said he had cut some of the arteries.
He did not tell me how he got hurt. He said noth
ing to me about bis breaking a lantern.”
The boy,Henry Roman,then testified—“l|was play
ing in the street with a lantern, when this fireman
asked me for it to light his cigar. I handed it to
him, and he then threw it up in the air and broke
it. I asked him what he broke the lantern for, and
I then picked up a piece of the glass of the lantern
and threw it at him, and I cut his face. He has
made no complaint against me. He had a cigar. I
was playing • soldier ’ at the time he took the lan
tern.”
Britt, in his own behalf, said: “I was standing at
the door of the engine-house waiting for a chance to
go to my supper; somebody came and told me that
there was a boy up the street swinging a lantern,
and being afraid he might do some harm with it, I
asked the boy to give it to me. I took hold of it,
and, as it burned my hand, I dropped it, when it
was smashed on the sidewalk. I wanted to show
him that he was doing wrong in swinging the lan
tern. I was not smoking nor did I have a cigar. I
was going to show him how to carry the lantern.”
President Purroy—•• That is no excuse, nor is it a
straight story, and of the two, I would rather be.
lieve the boy. Another thing, you have a bad rec
ord, and you had no right to take away that lantern
from the boy.”
He was then fined five day’s pay-
SICK FIREMEN,
The medical officers reported that there were
forty-two sick and injured officers and men on their
lists.
THE PAY ROLLS.
All the July payrolls of the Department were sent
in to the Comptroller’s office on Wednesday, and
sworn; there is no good reason why our brave fire
laddies should not get their salaries by to-morrow,
or on Tuesday at the farthest.
NO APPOINTMENTS.
It was announced at Headquarters on Friday that
there would be no more new appointments made
until October or November.
A NEW VOLUNTEER FIREMENS’ ASSOCIATION
A new association of volunteer firemen has been
organized at No. 141 East Eight street, under the
name of the Volunteer Council, No. 1, American
Order of Firemen, with a membership of one hun
dred and fifty. Mr. Michael Crane, the president,
William Conley, vice-president, William Bennett,
secretary, and RoberLKennedy,treasurer. There are
47,000 members of this order In this State.
Moonlight Slights.
THE DELIGHT OF LOVERS FEARED AND HATED
BY LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.
“Moonlight nights—they are the bane of railroad
engineers,” remarked an official to a reporter. He
is a gentleman who knows every branch of rail
roading.
•• I would have thought that the trainmeu would
be glad to have moonlight nights,” interposed the
writer.
“ Nd, sir; all engineers dread moonlight nights;
they tny the nerves (of the engineers to the utmost.
1 ngineers like to run on dark nights. On a moon
light night the trouble with them is no trouble at
all—shadows. An engineer, looking out from his
engine, sees before him all manner of shadows. He
is sure that the snadow across the track is a man,
or a rock, or some kind of an obstruction. He
doesn't know and he is kept in a state of nervous
excitement all the time. Going around the curves,
along hillsides, many curious snadows are outlined
on the track, and very often an engineer is so
worked up over a night’s ride that he is scarcely
able to perform his duties.
“ Some years ago, when I was going over the
main line of the eastern road one night, there was a
freight wreck ahead of us. They were running
freight in convoys then, or, as we now call them, in
sections. was stopped, and I went for
ward to see what was the damage. Lying in the
cut was about the worst freight wreck I have ever
seen. I went forward to see what the trouble was. It
was a moonlight night, and when I got forward I saw
the engineer. He was shaking all over with excite
ment. He was one of the oldest and best engineers
on the road, and I was surprised to see him so ner-
escaped unhurt.”
“What is the trouble, Tom,” I asked him. I could
see nothing wrong.
“«It was a rock,' replied Tom. ‘I was coming
round the curve when I saw it. It was a big one
big enough to smash a whole train. I reversed the
engine to avoid a smash-up, and the cars coming
down the grade just piled up in the shape you see
them.’
“ I looked around, but could see no rock any
where. The wreck was cleared away that night and
there wasn’t the sign of an obstruction near the
locomotive. We all were curious to find out what
had caused the trouble. The next night a railroad
man went to the cut, and there in the moonlight
he saw a perfect image of a big rock lying across the
track. He looked up on the hill side, and there was
a big rock throwing its shadow down on the track
that caused a wreck that cost the company thou
sands of dollars. No, sir; if an engineer wants
things to suit him, he don’t want moonlight by
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JULY 31. 1887.
Living in the Country.
ONE EXCEEDINGLY TRYING EXPERIENCE.
A journalist, who has been in the habit of sending
his lamily to the lake shore each Summer to be
loaded up with malaria and eaten up by mosqui
toes, determined this year to try the country brands
of those articles, and consequently took a house in
the suburbs, where city taxes and country roads
help to keep the inhabitants from being too bliss
fully happy. He moved out last week, and for
three days he made the bulk of his friends weary
with his rhapsodies on the beauties of life in the
country, where the grass grows green and the birds
and bullfrogs make the air musical day and night;
Where the cherry trees tempt the wayfarer and the
bulldogs warn him against falling into temptation.
All this and much more has been discoursed until
his friends girded up their loins and fled at his
approach.
One day, however, he came to the office and his
; usual budget of country news was not opened; on
the contrary, he sat down at his desk and never a
word spoke he to any one. The city editor, fearing
that something had happened to him, camo to him
and in kindly tones beseeched him to unbosom
himself. With a sigh the journalist sa!4;
“You know I’ve moved into the country ?”
The city editor groaned, for he knew it only too
well.
'• You see, I’ve been so stuck on the place that
I’ve staid out there every night until last night,
when I had some business thatcalledme into town.
I went and finished what I had to do as quickly as
rossible, and took the ten o'clock train for home.
reached the station in about twenty minutes.
Now the road to my house is through a little woods,
around a cornfield and across two meadows. It is
a beautiful daylight road, but about the worst after
dark pathway you ever came across. I was all
right until I struck the woods, and, though the
moon was shining, the place was as dark as a pan
try. I got in so far that it was impossible to retrace
my steps. The natives, I understand, use lanterns
iu their after dark peregrinations, and, as the cigar
store signa say, so will I, in future. But last night
I did not know this custom, and I went stumbling
on, keeping in the path by the aid of a few matches
I bad in my pocket. I finally reached the cornfield,
and then I walked into a ditch, I extricated my
self, and proceeded on my journey, and, after sev
eral adventures with inquisitive cows, I reached
home.
“ Now, thought I, as I put my key in the door, my
troubles are over.
“ Alas, they had only just begun. It was anew
key and a new lock, and they had never met before
and did not take to each other on first acquaint
ance. I worked away for a quarter of an hour with
out results and determined to ring the bell; but
there is no bell, so I pounded away until I awakened
every person in the neighboring houses and every
dog for twenty miles around. My folks, however,
slept the sleep of the just. Then I tried the win
dows, all commendably locked and barred. Then I
scaled the gate and tried the summer kitchen.
Locked, too. In my despair I broke a pane of glass
in the sash next to the door, and thrust my hand
through the aperture and slipped the bolt. I en
tered, but alas ! only to find that the main kitchen
door was impregnable.
“Sadly I retraced my steps and went into the
yard and amused myself and enraged the two mil
lion dogs that belong around our part by heaving
bricks at my wife’s bedroom window. Peacefully
she slept on. Then I went to the front door again
and kicked all the paint off it. When I had bruised
my feet sufficiently, the good lady awoke and lot me
in. I talked for a while, and then she said : 'lt’s a
blessed thing that the children are asleep and can
not hear such awful language.'
“ I am perfectly sure that every man, woman and
child in tho neighborhood has me down as a thor
oughly abandoned person, and I suppose a commit
tee from the church will call and condole with my
wife to-day. What makes me mad,” he continued,
* Ib the certainty that, while I could not get into
the blamed place, the first burglar that comes along
will have no difficulty in making his entrance ana
wandering unmolested all through the house.”
English Home life.
AN AMERICAN TELLS MANY LIES ABOUT IT.
Daw reigns in the typical English household, and
there law is enforced with military uniformity. The
family is an institution in fact as well as in name.
Parents, children, servants and guests are all under
law, and the family is a law-abiding community.
The coming in and the going out, the up-rising and
the down-sitting, are regulated by law. In the
house of the wealthy and noble not unfrequently
the statutes are printed and posted in conspicuous
places, so that the casual guest may govern himself
accordingly. Perhaps in all the bedrooms, as well
as in the great hall, there will be framed cards hung
up on which are printed the hours for prayers and
the daily meals.
This reign of law begets a strict and valuable econ
omy in every direction. First of all, it saves time.
Dinner is ready to the minute; the family—all the
family—are as punctual as the cook. The carriage
is on time or otherwise the coachman is discharged
for unpromptness, and he forfeits a certificate of
good character.
The children go to school on time, and what is
of infinitely more importance, they go to bed on
time. There are no sleeping, lolling children,
yawning, or no sleeping, snoring children, when
they should be in their beds, irritating the nerves
of guests.
Servants have their times and seasons, their days
out and their holidays, and no household crisis is
great enough to cause the housewife to venture
upon diplomatic measures to abridge these privi
leges. The servants rise on time and retire at an
appointed hour, and these regulations are as invio
lable ps the order of nature. Children obey and
behave by law. It is the law of the family that the
children shall be dutiful and affectionate. No child
answers back. I was never in but one English
family where I noticed undutiful or sulking chil
dren. Obedience is rendered with alacrity and de
light. English children are wholly possessed of the
belief that to obey means power; th’at only weak
and witless people d-isobey when duty demands.
And English children have level heads upon this
subject.
The mother is the head of the house, and the
father is the head of the mother. He is the source
of all law, and the mother is the source of all order.
The mother executes the behests of the husband.
He determines the expenditures of the household.
Sbe makes them. Diaries for the engagements of
the family are kept. Household-expenditure books
are as necessary to a well-ordered family as a fan to
a well-dressed lady. By this is not meant it is or
namental; by no means. It is a part of the fitting
of the house, as a fan is essential to complete a toi
let. It is like a mariner’s log-book. The expense
books are in every family, and are posted weekly
and monthly, and are examined with business care
and exactness by t'he husband. There is no mean
advantage taken by the wife on the score of “ good
fellowship.” No more would a wife excuse inaccu
racies or carelessness in her accounts than in those
of the grocer or baker. All family bills of every
description—all the wages to servants, even those
paid to coachmen and gardeners—are paid by the
wife. The household has but one expense-book.
“Dude” Bear Hunters.
HOW SUCH MODERN NIMRODS CONDUCT
THEMSELVES.
The Shasta (Cal.) Courier refers to two Sacramento
“dude hunters” who went up to that county arm
ed with Winchesters and supplied with a tent and
hunting outfit. They employed a guide, and di
rected him to take them to good fishing, and espe
cially where the “bear and California lions were
thick,” as they proposed to exterminate a lot of these
pests. The guide complied, and on the afternoon
of the second day out from Shasta made “perma
nent” camp, and the fierce hunters plunged into
the shady forest, telling the guide to stay and keep
camp, and to come with the pack-horse after bear
meat or venison when he hoard a rifle shot. In
about two hours he heard hallooing and yells of
“Help 1 help I”
Starting in the.direction of the cries, he soon met
one ot the bold hunters coming at full speed, hat
less, gunless, and with eyes bulged out as though
ho had been struck in the back with a sandbag.
When he got wind enough, he explained that in
passing through a thicket they came upon a large
bear and a cub. The cub took to a small pne and
the old bear made a move for the hunters, growling
and snapping her teeth. This so terrified the
hunters that one dropped his gun, and with one
accord they both took to their heels, becoming sep
arated in their flight through the brush.
The chap who first made camp, expjessed the
belief that his companion had been overtaken by
bruin and loully dealt with. The guide left the
exhausted Nimrod to keep camp this time, and set
off to find the missing partner or his remains. Af
t?r traveling about a mile, his “halloo” was an
swered, and he found his man about fifteen feet up
a Digger pine, and his gun and hat were found
about fifteen yards away. The young man said he
had not seen the bear alter he turned to run, but
thought it chased him.
The other gun was soon found, and on gaining
camp he found the Jcamp-keeper perched on the
forks of a live oak. Night having almost come on,
they gave the guide five dollars if he would agree to
collect logs, limbs and stumps and build up a fire
that would burn all night and frighten “ var
mints.” Next day the bear-killers started for Red
ding, procured shotguns and contented themselves
with dove-shooting—and they were not very good
at that, either.
Buskin’s Carriage.
THE CRITIC AS AN OBLIGING HUSBAND.
(From the Philadelphia Press.)
Two or three letters have recently been received
asking for the story of Ruskin’s marriage. The
story is this: When comparatively young, li9 be
came interested in an unworldly maiden, some
years his juudor, whom he thought beautiful ac
cording to the rules and theories of art, and whom
he wooed on art principles. He married her,
though he was too unnatural to need a wife, and
treated her as if she had been a statue, admiring
her in a cold, abstract way. not altogether grateful
to a young woman of ardent temperament. Months
passed, their relations undergoing no change; he
contented, she discontented. Meanwhile, he had
engaged Millais, with whom, as a pre-Raphaelite,
he was much concerned, to paint her portrait. The
susceptible artist was struck by her beauty, and
being of a totally different constitution from Rus
kin, fell passionately in love with her. But loyal
to his friend, and a man of honor, he showed her
only the conventional respect that was due, stifling
the hunger of his heart.
Ruskin was at last aroused to his own marital de
fects, and to a sense of the mutual love between his
wife and the painter. He finally opened the sub
ject, and blaming himself for marrying, informed
her what he had observed. Overwhelmed with
surprise and confusion, and unconscious up to that
time of her own emotions or the awakening of her
heart, the truth suddenly dawned upon her. She
found that she was only a woman, after all—not a
frigid figure for the lofty pedestal on which her
nominal husband had placed her. He acted mag
nanimously, deciding not to stand in the way of
the happiness of two persons who were fitted for
each other. The matter was managed quietly, but
in due time she was released from her matrimonial
bonds and became Mrs. Millais. The celebrated
artist having been knighted, she is now Lady Mil.
lais. The three have been good friends ever since,
and two of them are indebted to the third for their
connubial happiness, and still vividly mindful of
their obligation.
Buffalo Bill’s Ziife.
SAID TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN FOR THE LON
DON COURT JOURNAL,
Hon. W. B. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was a close com
panion of a man named Boone, who discovered
Kentucky in 1869. Mr. Cody married a granddaugh
ter of a distinguished gentleman know® as Sitting
Bullfrog. Cody was twice governor of Chicago and
was at one time mayor of the Arkansas legislature.
He served in the Confederate army in the command
of General Butler, who so gallantly defended New
Orleans against the threatened invasiop of the Fed
eral General Longstreet. After the war Mr. Cody
w«at Coughs from tho province of Detroit, And
Introduced a measure for the relief of the citizens
of Buffalo, which gained for him the name of Buf
falo Bill. He has contributed largely to the “At
lantic Monthly,” a newspaper edited by Mark
Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a man who is mainly
known for his negro dialect sketches. Mr. Cody
has a ranch of many acres in St. Louis, where he
keeps a large lot of Indians and ponies constantly
on hand.
Trading Rats.
THE MOST MISCHIEVOUS OF RODENTS.
(From Wide Awake.)
Studies In natural history, calculated to excite
the wonder of a young student, abound in the west
ern regions of America. I know I was vastly enter
tained, during a trip through Arizona and New
Mexico, by my own observation of the mountain
rats, popularly known there as “ trading rats.” I
used to lie awake sometimes in order to watch their
pranks by the light of my camp-fire. Their antics
and gambols reminded me of young kittens at play.
They often appeared to be at a game of “tag.” They
look like common rats, save that they are lighter in
color, their tails shorter and thicker, and their
gpses Jesj pointed. They live in hollow trees and
in the rocks.
' But the very funny thing is that, though they
are born thieves, little kleptomaniacs every one,
they always return something in the place of every
article taken away; and a queer thing, too, is the
fact that they rarely steal articles of food. One
night I felt a slight stir about my head. Cautiously
opening my eyes, I saw one of these rats tugging
manfully at my saddle, which I was using as a pil
low. As the saddle was one of the California style
and weighed about thirty pounds, the efforts of the
little rascal seemed to be very ambitious for an ani
mal.of his size. They take away cartridges, knives
and forks, or anything else they can carry. I have
been told by an old prospector that he had a whole
outfit of such things “rustled ’’—that Is, stolen—in
one night, and that various objects were returned
in its place.
Articles taken from one place have been found in
a shanty twenty miles distant. I met one day at a
railway station an old ranchman, who lived at least
twenty miles from the road, and chancing to speak
of these rats, he said :
“ I found in my ‘shack,’ the other day, quite a
collection of spoons, forks and knives hid under a
pile of rubbish, that had been brought there by the
little thieves. Where they came from I don’t know,
but I do know that they carried off in turn a whole
box of 45-75 Winchester cartridges.”
I laughed, and replied :
“ Well, I have your cartridges, and you probably
have my spoons, for out of a dozen I have only two
left. And as the cartridges will not fit my Sharp’s
40-70, they are no use to me. So if you’ll bring the
spoons to Flinn's store, I’ll see that the cartridges
are left there, and you can get them.”
The exchange was effected in the course of a few
days, and the spoons proved to be mine and the car
tridges his.
A Strange Battle.
BLACKBIRDS FIGHT A OAT.
The following extraordinary and touching scene
was witnessed by a gentleman in his garden :
A fledgling blackbird, evidently just escaped from
its nest close by, had, with some difficulty, flut
tered from a fence into the overhanging branches
of a lime tree; a cat also had observed the young
flyer, and immediately gave chase, rushing up the
stem o( the tree with the intention of getting on to
the branch to obtain her prey. But meanwhile the
parent birds had come upon the scene, and, seeing
the situation of their nestling, attacked the cat with
the utmost bravery, trying to prevent her crawling
on to the branch.
They kept alternately flying at her, using their
beaks and wings incessantly with the utmost fury,
and getting fearlessly within range of the oafs
claws, and while one was pouncing at her head, the
other would execute a “flank" attack, both of them
keeping up all the time that continuous, noisy, an
gry chatter, which blackbirds so well know how to
make on occasion. These bold stragettc movements
confused the cat very much, as her position in the
tree was not very advantageous, but she kept snarl
ing and striking out with her claws whenever an
opportunity occurred.
The interested observer tried to help the birds,
but from the lower branches of the tree intervening
missiles were not of much use. He was obliged to
leave the exciting scene, but after a long absence
returned and found the combat still going on, and
a person who had watched during the interval, said
the birds had kept up the attack without ceasing,
forcing the enemy to keep on the defensive only;
and this desperate struggle kept on for two hours,
till tho birds were completely exhausted and sat all
“in a heap,” looking as though they had lost half
their fathers.
But they had kept the destroyer from their little
fledgling, and their friend at last managed, with
some trouble, to dislodge the cat. In the afternoon
the birds seemed quite to have recovered them
selves, and were sining victoriously in the garden
in celebration of what, perhaps, was one of the long
est and pluckiest fights of the kind that has ever
been known.
Bretty 8011.
A PARROT BREAKS OFF A MATCH.
(From the London Telegraph.)
Parrots have been known for ages as being birds
who may be counted upon to say exactly the wrong
thing at the wrong time; but it is doubtful if they
have ever succeeded in making themselves more
utterly obnoxious than in a recent episode occur
ring at Dublin, in which one specimen of the fam
ily played a prominent part. The story is that a
gentleman, engaged to a pretty young lady who
had not yet seen the further side of twenty years,
went one morning to pay a call at the house of the
father of his beloved. He stayed a short time with
the head of the family, as in duty bound, probably
making rather inappropriate remarks, owing to his
anxiety to end the interview and see the young la
dy to whom his affections were plighted.
At length he took the sensible course of going to
look for her, and, rapping at the door oi the study,
the household parrot at once called eut in a loud
voice, “Come in, come in!" The gentleman ac
cepted the invitation, and entered. Naturally he
was rather surprised, and not very mu-ch pleased,
to discover that his fiancee had been all the time
engaged in a sprightly conversation with another
visitor of the male sex.
To make matters still worse, the heartless bird at
once began to imitate the sound of kissing in a
truly life-like way, and concluded with mocking
laughter. This in itself was enough to render any
body somewhat suspicious. The jealous lover does
not seem to have done what some lovers would have
been tempted to do- make an onslaught on the
parrot and wring its neck on the spot. He accepted
the bird as a useful informer, and either then or at
a subsequent interview broke off his engagement.
He went even further, for he has instituted an
action for a breach of promise.
In Warm Weather.
THE “KEEP-COOL” ANNUAL.
(From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.)
Close on the heels of the blood-purifying and
nerve-toning patent medicine advertiser comes the
grim, perspiring keep-cool editorial. Its most in
teresting feature to readers is tho fact that it can in
conformity with newspaper ethics be perpetrated
but once a year. It comes in various forms, and is
preventive or curative in its prescriptive features
as the whim of the compiler may dictatate:
Eat no meaf.
Beware of vegetables.
Carry a corn-colored umbrella lined with green.
Drink no ice water.
Beware of alcohol in any form.
Wear light clothing.
Abstain from work.
Wear a high-crowned, well-ventilated hat, an elas
tic band preferred.
Beware of the thermometer habit and of the sales
man who says it's a warm day.
Each one of these themes admits of infinite varia
tion. Indeed every one is as inspiring in this re
spect as the renowne.d melodies of the “Home,
Swe?t Home” type. The diet should be carefully
guarded, and that man is coolest who makes the
nearest approach to actual starvation. It is im
portant that the color of the umbrella lining shall
be green. It has been satisfactorily demonstrated
that the greatest number of sunstruck unfortunates
come from the ranks of the thermometer gazers. It
is best to let the heat indicator alone; it won’t run
away. One of the best for keeping cool is
this : Help somebody else, poorer than yourself, to
keep cool, and revel in tho rarefied atmosphere of
the self-bßtisfaction that comes from doing good,
Blood Will Tell.
AND A SISTER SHOULDN’T FORGET THE FACT.
(From the American Magazine.)
Charlie, pged eight, brought home a slinking yel
low pup, bow-legged, drooping.tailed and shame
faced. Hecaredforit tenderly, fixed a dry goods
box in the back yard for a kennel, and on every
possible occasion exhibited the animal proudly.
His sister Ella, aged eighteen, asked him, fastidi
ously:
“ Where did you get tha»; dog?"
’ • I bought him from a man for twenty-five cents,”
—with the pr de of ownership.
“Mercy! The >dea of paying twenty-five cents
for that horrid beast!’’
CharVe’s eyes flashed indignantly.
“He isn’t horrid ! That shows how much a girl
knows; The man told me he is a full-blooded
our!”
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dissolved pour the two lads-tures together, and
when the sediment has settled you have a pail of
cle.tr fluid, which is the saturated solution of the
chloride of lead. A cloth satur-tted with the fluid
and hung up in a room wiN at once sweeten a fetid
atmosphere. Poured down a sink, water-closet or
drain, or on any decaying or offensive object, it will
produce the same result. The nitrate of lead is
very,cheap, and a pound of it would make several
barrels of the disinfectant.
A Thing of the Bast.
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machine-gun, or quick-firing arm of any kind on
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The Thieving Monkey.
AND WHY THAI ACUTE ANIMAL DOESN’T
TALK.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
In a house on the Boulevard Napoleon of Tou
louse, a woman locked up her money in a desk and
went out shopping. On her return she missed
three napoleans, a gold five-franc piece and a franc in
silver, There was no trace of a burglary. Very
much bewildered by these losses the good woman
was deep in reflection over the matter when she
heard a roar of laughter from her neighbor’s gar
den.
“ Ob, tho thief I” cried several persons at once.
“ Where has ho stolen this ?"
The dame descended instantly, ran out, and
said:
“Oh, my money, messiours; where is the
“ He’s up a tree madam,” pointing up to a mon
key on a high branch above them, “ but here is the
mqney."
The monkey, who certainly would be an invalu
able assistant to a burglar, had been seen to climb
into tho window of one of the good lady's rooms,
had unlocked a drawer, found tho money, and con
cealing it in his jowl, had brought it to his master.
I find that no less an authority than Buffon de
clares that a female chimpanzee who went out to
service at Loango made the beds, swept the house,
and so far assisted in cooking as to turn the spit.
M. de Grandpe, an officer of the French navy,
tells of another chimpanzee on board of a French
man-of-war, which assists the cook and turns the
capstan and furls sail as well as any of the sailors.
In China monkeys help in the tea-picking, and Lord
Monboddo used to gravely contend that apes could
talk readily enough, but that their superior cun
ning told them to hold their tongues lest they
should be put to hard work.
Travelers’ Talk.
DON'T GO “ BROKE" TO NEW MEXICO—TEXAS
FARMING INTERESTS.
(From the St. Louis Evening Chronicle. (
Captain J. W. Crawford, the “ Poet Scout,” at
Hurst’s: “I advise young men, unless they have
capital or are prepared for rough, hard work, to
keep away from New Mexico. There are more
clerks and book-keepers there.than are needed, and
lots of them go “broke” there for months at a time.
They do not get as good pay as they do in St. Louis.
I have seen many a first-class book-keeper walk out
of Santa Fe on his uppers, and many more glad to
take up the pick and shovel instead of pen and
pencil, to keep from starvation. If a young man
has only his salary to depond upon and is not fit
for roughing it, he had far better stay right here.
There may be great beauty in frontier life in the
books, but there is little in reality, except to those
who are specially fitted by nature for it.”
Henry F. Lones, of San Antonia, Texas, at the
Lindell: “I find that in the north there is a general
impression that Texas is not in a prosperous condi
tion because of the prevailing low prices for cattle.
If Texas had to depend upon her ranch interests for
her prosperity we would be in a very bad state in
deed, but I believe it is fair to say that the cattle
interests of Texas bear about the same relation to
our financial welfare as do the cattle interests of
Missouri, lowa, Illinois or Indiana to those States.
Texas, aside from its cotton yield, is becoming more
and more a gram growing country, and some of the
finest wheat I ever saw was raised in an hundred
acre field in the northern part of the State that
yielded 2,700 bushels, or 27 bushels to the acre.
Our sale of cattle this year has been about 40,000
head, and we have yet 50,000 head in the State ready
for the market, and I have no doubt they will all be
disposed of before Winter, at fair prices.”
They Would Look Absurd.
WHY SHE WOULDN’T MARRY THEM.
(From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.)
She was an extremely pretty girl, even for a St.
Paulite, and her name—well, society has “got it on
the Hot." fcJlw was trying on tbe lUrov-etyij-»ud
basement hats now in vogue, and chatting with a
friend who happened in the milliner’s at the same
time.
“Dear,” said the friend, “I thought you were to
be married this June?"
“Well, I was to have been; but, you see, Earl’s
soabominally short, and we look absyid together,
with all my swell hats. So I just told him that I
loved him as much as ever, but he really must wait
till.lower hats came in. Yes, he was very unrea
sonable, but I was firm. I told him I was really
very sorry, but there would be sure to be a reaction
against the high hats by next spring. Any way,
willy nilly, 4 I wouldn’t marry him till they went
QUt.”
Bor Forty-Four Hours.
REMARKABLE CASE OF PROSTRATION.
(From the Philadelphia News.)
There is an extraordinary and almost unparalleled
case of heat prostration at the Jefferson Hospital.
The patient is Michael Nolan, a middle-aged man,
who was brought in by the police patrol on Friday
night of last week. How long he had been uncon
scious previous to his arrival at the hospital is not
known. He remained in a comatose condition in
the hospital for forty-four hours before signs of ani
mation became apparent. Nolan awoke once, and
was able to give his name, but not his residence.
His ultimate recovery is almost assured.
Physicians at the hospital state that this is the
longest period that a subject ol heat-stroke has re
mained in such a critical condition and survived
within recent experience, with the exception of a
case which was treated at the Pennsylvania Hospi
tal five years ago. In that instance the patient re
mained in a state of unconsciousness forty-eight
hours.
Does Philanthropy Fay?
THIS CONUNDRUM ANSWERED “JUST ONCE.”
(From the Omaha World.)
Omaha Man (just returned after a long absence)—
“ What has become of Deacon De Goode ?"
Old Citizen—“ De Goode ? De Goode ?”
“ Yes, he was a sort of philanthropist, don't you
know; was President of the Society to Make Great
Criminals Happy.”
“Oh, I remember now. He spent his fortune try
ing to invent a nice, easy, painless substitute for
hanging."
That’s the man.”
He’s dead."
“Eh! What did he die of?”
“ Burglars."
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF MAJOR GEORGE AERY.
It is our regretful duty to announce the death of
George Aery, which occurred without warning
Thursday night, July 28. There were fewer men
in the Seventh Ward of this city better known or
more respected than George Aery, where he has
conducted business as a baker for about a quarter
of a century. We cannot enter into the dry de
tails of his life, but we can speak of him as we
know him, as captain of the Scheutzen corps, com
mander of the Scheutzen corps of the United States
and as a kind neighbor and genial companion. He
had not been sick, and he fell to sleep to wake up
in that eternity into which the good and bad must
all enter some day. He leaves behind him a wife
and several children, who, when others have for
gotten him, will grieve for the loss of a happy
husband and kind father. George Aery had no
enemies that we have ever heard of; but he had
many friends who regret that so good a man, in
the full flush of manhood, should have left them
forever.
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st., N. R.. 6:45; Pier 6, N. R, 7:00; Jewell’s Wharf,
Brooklyn, 7:25. Round trip, 25c.
Staten Island Ferry boats every 15 minutes, from the
Battery, terminus of all Elevated Railroads. Fare 10c.
Steamer CANONICUS, from 31st., st., E. R., 6:45; Kent
st., Greenpoint, 6:55; Grand st., E. R., 7:10. Round
trip, 25c.
Admission, 50 cts. Grand Stand, 25 cts. extra. Boxes,
$6. Tickets at the gates and at Brentano’s, No. 5 Union
square. An elegant restaurant on the grounds.
ADISON SQUARE THEATRE. 8:30
Mr. A. M. PALMER. Sole Manager.
MR. RICH/RD MANSFIELD
In his own comedy, MONSIEUR.
INSTANT SUCCESI. Mat. Saturday. Cooled by iced air.
WALLACK’S. B’way and 30th st.
TEMPERATURE NEVER OVER 70.
THE BEGGAR I MOCAULL OPERA
STUDENT. | COMPANY.
Admission 50c. MATINEE SATURDAY at 2.
rpHEISS’S. THEISS’S.
ALHAMBRA COURT AND MUSIC HALL,
lltli street, near Third avenue.
THE “MONSTER ORCHESTRION ”
CORSETS MADE TO ORDER.
Ladies who desire a PERFECT FITTING CORSET, and
one that, tor comfort and durability, has no superior,
call at No. 311 East Twenty-seventh street, where an
HONEST WHALEBONE CORSET is made to order, in
any style, size, or shape desired, and of any color; quality
or material you may select, at PRICES TO SUIT EVERY
BODY.
A lady in attendance, who will call at your residence,
if desired.
WHALEBONE CORSET COMPANY.
NO. 311 EAST TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET.
AGENTS WANTED. NEW YORK.
ONTAUK AND N. Y. STEAM
BOAT CO.
STEAMER SHELTER ISLAND,
Capt. GEO. C. GIBBS, leaves pier 23, E. R. (foot of
Beekman st.), every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 P. M
and Saturday. at 2:30 P M , for ORIENT, SHELTER ISL
AND, GR ENPORT, SOUTHOLD and SAG HARBOk.
Returning, leaves Sag Harl or, Monday, Wednesday and
Fr day, at4:3o P. M. J. C. GIBB®, Agent, on pier.
STOOXS
**®**4ga® fi ®*piano COVERS, PIANO SCARFS.
E3 TABLE COVERS, STORE STOOLS,
JA MUSIC CABINETS and STANDS,
MANTEL LAMBREQUINS, GRAND
-W- and UPRIGHT COVERS MADE TO
4s® ORDER.
Jagjgj F. NEFPERT, Manufacturer
and importer, No. 390 Canal street,
near West Broadway, N. Y.
gw the
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING.
EPPS'S GOCOA,
BREAKFAST.
“ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which
govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by
a carelul application of the fine properties of well-selected
Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a
delicately flavored beverage which may eave us many
heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the judicious use of such ar
ticles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built
up until strong enough to resist every tendency to dis
ease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floated around us
ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may
escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well forti
fied with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.”—
Chvil Service Gax ,
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in
half pound tins by Grocers, labeled thus:
JAMES EPPS &
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Everett’s hotel
AND GRAND DINING ROOMS,
ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN.
BARCLAY AND VESEY, BETWEEN WASHINGTON
AND WEST STREETS,
NEW YORK.
SAMUEL H. EVERETT,
Proprietor,
JL. STROUB’S OYSTER
• 2869 THIRD AVENUE, between 128th and 129th
ets., is furnishing oysters by the quart and hundred, and
is delivering on the half shell at all hours. The proprie.
tor, John L. Stroub, is the patentee of the Clam Roaster
which is used at most all hotels, oyster houses, and by
private families throughout the country with great satis
faction. They are sola at all the house furnishing stores
throughput the U. 8. Principal Depots: John L. Stroub’s
Oyster Bay. 2369 3d av.; John L. Stroub’s Family Oyster
House, 93 Canal st. ; John L. Stroub’s River View Hotel,
foot of 125th street. North Biver. New York City.
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MANUFACTURED BY
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JAPAN fi>r exceUence and puri
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Tills celebrated beer is now put up in
bottles expressly for FAMILY
USE and Exportation.
ALL COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO
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Stapleton. Staten Island, N. I,
ESTABLISHED HALF A CENTURY.
HOT FOUND S hER fI|AKE3
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the $3 Shoes adver- J*
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