Lebanon Advertiser

              eb&iton
VOL. 45-NO. 26.
LEBANON, LEBANON COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1892.
WHOLE NO.—2152.
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POR-W-LI. AMI*
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LEBARUH   RAIL'
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DFBULLS
D1EKCT KOUTE FOK ALL POINTS on th*
PKNNHYLVAKIA KAILKOAD.
Arrangement of Pui.nc.r Train*.
On and after
Monday. Dec. 1
9, .892, lassen-
ger trains wilt ran us* follows :
ttamma
A||    AM    AM
PM    P M    P M
6:26 10:15 11:21)
2:00   8:16   6:85
•-88 10:25 11:81
2:11   8:27   6.47
Mt. Gretna....
6:43 10:34 11:41
2:21  3:87  6:67
Arrive—
AM    AM    PM
PM    PM    P M
Lancaster.....
8:10 11:85 12:50
3:46   4:46  8:40
fm  r m r x
p m r m r m
Philadelphia..
10:20   1:25   8:00
6:45   6:50 10:55
PM   P M    P M
P M   P X All
New York	
12:63   4:00   5:50
9.20  9:35 8.50
AM               P M
P M                PM
Harrisburg....
7:86 12:01   ....
8:10  ....   7:60
WilliamBpt.rt..
11:15   :.:00 ....
7:00 lfc'O
Pittsburg	
6 60   9:00 ....
11:20  ....   7:46
Leave—
AM    AM    AM
AM    PM    P M
New York	
12:16  ........
9:00   ....   2:00
Philadelphia.
4:80   7:00   8:60 11:40   ....   4:35
Lancaster.....
6:27   9:31 10:55
2:00   2:50  «:*»
Harrisburg...
6:55 10:35 11:40
SOS 8:40 7:80
Williamsport..
8:25   	
.... 12:80  4:00
Pittsburg.	
8:10   3:30  ....
7:15  8:00  .....
Arrive—
AM    AM    PM
fM    PM    PM
Mt. Gretna....
7:62 11:30 12:85
3:20  1:35  8:"5
8:02 11:40 12:46
3:30   4:45   *:36
Lebanon..	
8:16 11:60 12:66
MO' 4:66   8:46
Mt. Gretna Park proved ita
popularity by
_ff-92.
the larerelv Increased business <
There will be many improvements for tne
season of l_»_.
' A. D. --UTH.
Dec. 21, Ult.
Gen'l Supt.
TtHlLAOKLPUIA AND READING KAlL-
_T    BOAD.
——
ABBANUEMENTO* PASSENGERTBAINS.
NOV. 13th, 1892.
TBAINS LEAVE LEBANON.
Por New York via Philadelphia, Weekdays,
' 7:07,8*0,10:80a. m..2:17, t-Mand 8:48 p. m.:
Sunday ,7:42 a m.. 2:49 and 4:49 p. m.
Por New York via Allentown, Weekdays, _:_■'
a. aa., 12:66,2:17,4:40 p. m. Sunday, 7:4*, MS
a. m- and 4:49 p. m. '
Por Philadelphia, Weekdays, 6:06, 7:07, 8:50,
lo:» a. m., 2:17, 4.40 aad 6:46 p. m.; Sunday,
7:42*. m., 2:49, 4:49 and S-.51 p. m. -.-
Per Middletown, Weekdays, 6:02, 8:28 a. m,
12156, 6:15, and 11:20 p.m.; Sunday,9:54 and
11-48 a.m.
Per Reading. Weekdays, 6*86, 7:07 (Fast Express) 8:50,10:80 a. ___ 12:56, 2:17, 4:40, 6:46, ftIB
p.m. Snnday, 7:42,9:48a. m.,2:49, 4:49,5:51, 8:62
mja_
for Allentown, Weekdays, 6:05, 7:07,8:50 a. m.,
l_:_-,2:I7 and 4:40 p. —.; Sunday. 7:42, 9:43 a
m., 4:49 p. m.
Por Harrisburg, Weekdays, 6:02, 8:23, __:58 a.
K. 12:66, 2:22, 5:15. WT7, 8:46 (Past Express),
and 11-20 p. m.; Sunday, 7*4,9*4,11:48 a, m.,
U:04.7KH,lf:20p. m.
Por Pinegrove, 8:25a.m., 1:00,6:15and8:56p.m.
Por Gettysburg, 6:02, 10:68    a.  m.,2:22 p.m.
Por Shippensburg, 8*2,10:68 a. m., 2:22 p.  m.
Por Brookslde, 8.25 a. tn.. 1.00 p. m.
Por Pottsville via Pine Orove, 8.25 a. ra. and
LOO p. no.
TBAINS FOB LEBANON.
Leave Nerw York via Allentown, Weekdays,
4:00 and 8-46 a. m., 1*0, 8:46, and 5:45 p. m.
Sunday. 1*0.5:30 p. m.
Leave New Tork viaPhiladelphia, Weekday.
745 a m.. 1:80, 4:00, 5:00 p. m., and 12:15
midnight; Sunday, 11:30 a. in.,6:00 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Weekdays, 4:10.8*5,10:00
a. m., 1:40,4:00. 6:00, 7:15 p. m.; Sunday, 6:80
and 9:05 a. m., and 8:40,7:15 p. m.
Leave Heading, Weekdays, 6:05,7:15,10:1©,, 11:50
a. in., 1:97,..So,6:00,7*7 and 10:26p. m. ' Sundays, 6:»0,8:50,10:48 a. m., 4:00,6:00,10:25 p. m
Leave Allentown. Weekdays, 5:67, 8:40 a. m.,
12:10,4:26,8:40,9:86 p. mt.; Sunday, 7:26 a. m.,
4*6 and 9:05 p. nt.
Leave Hairiehnrg, Weekdays, 5:10, 6:26, 7:56,
9:86 a. m., 12:00 noon, 1:25,8:46, 5:50, and 8:06
*    p.m.   Sundays, 6:50,8:50 a.m., 2:00.4:00, 6:00
6:10 p. m.
Leave Brookslde, «.30 a. m, 12.16,2.55 p. tn.
Leave Pine Orove, 6.16, 7.30 a. ru., 1.00 and
4.20 p.m.
ATLANTIC CITT DIVISION.
Leave Philadelphia. Chestnut Street Wharf
"• and South Street Wharf
POB ATLANTIO OITY,
Weekdays— Express, 9:00. a.   m..  200,  4.00
6*0 p.  m.   Accommodation, >8:00 a. m., 8.45
p.n*.
Sundays— Express, 9:00, a. m. Accommodation. W00, a.m., and 4:30 p. m.
Beturning leave Atlantic City Depot, Atlantic and Arkansas Avenues, Weekdays,—
7*0,7:46 9.00 a. m., and 4.00 p. m. Accommodation, 8.10 A m., and 4.80 p. m.
Sundays—Express,   4:00,  p.  nt. Accommo
datlon,7:30 a. m. and 4.30 p. m.
0. O. HANCOCK,
Oen'l Passenger Agent,
L A. 8WE1GABD.
General Manager.
Apr. 21—ti.
IENNSYLVAN1A BAILBOAD.
On and after June it, ISSt, train* will leave
Lebanon am follows, connecting at Conewago
ttr all points on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Leave Lebanon at 8.25 a. m. Arrive at Conewago 7.05 a. m., Lanoaster8.10 a. m , Philadelphia 10.20 A m., New York 1.10 p. m., Harriaburg 7.80 a. m„ Altoona 1-45 p -m., Pittsburg
".60 p. m. Thia train makes close conneotion
at Harrisburg tor point* on the Northern
Central and Phlludolphia-- Erie Bailroad.
Leave Lebanon 8.15 a. m. Arrive ait Conewago 8.50a.m., Harrisburg 11.06 p. in. Arrive
at Philadelphia 11.25 a. m New Tork 2.00 p. m.
This train makes cloee oonneotlon at Harrisburg for points on the Northern Central
and P. A E. It. B.
Leave Lebanon 10.50 a. m. Arrive at Conewago 11.85 a. m., uancasUr 18.60 p. m.,
Harrisburg 12.01 noon. Philadelphia 8.00 p.
m., New York 5.60 p. m.
Leave 1 ebanon 2.00 p. m., arrive at Cone-
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wago 2.45 p. m., Lancaster 8.55 p. m. Phlladel-
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! p. m., New York 9.20 p. m., Harris-
: 3.20 p. m., Altoona 7.60 p. m., Pittsburg
 , m., Baltimore 6.45 p. m„ Washington
8.16 p. m.
Leave Lebanon 8.16 p. m. Arrive at Cone
wago 4.00 p. rn., Lancaster. 4.46 p. m., Philadelphia 8.50 p. m., New York 9.86 p. m.
Leave Lebanon 7.10 p. m.   Arrive at Conewago 7.65 p.m., Lancaster8.40 p. m., Philadelphia 10.55 p. m.. Harrisburg 8.46 p. m.
CHAS. E. PUGH, J. B. HOOD.
Oeneral Manager.        Oenl. Passr. Agt.
Dec. 3. 18_a
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We mail one pack 26c. Five $1   A 81-4 lb. can tl.80. Six
cans, $6.00, express paid.    Fouttry Batting Guide, price
£5 oents, free with $1.00 orders or more.   Sample copy
of Tan Best Poultbv Fa_p__b sent free.
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*tJ7*A-IT-.D AGENTS
W Everywhore, lor the Knoll's wonderful Double Washer, address Jonas L. Knoll,
04 Chestnut St., Lebanon, Pa. ly.
CORNWALL BAILBOAD.
Lebanon & Lancaster Joint-Line.
rVShortest route for Lanoaster and all points east and west."*__I
On and after November 15th, 1892, Passenger Trains -will be run as follows:
p.m.
7 1*
7 SH
7»
T»
741
7S»
. »
p.m
p.m.
(10
111
_ M
p. in.
p.i_t.
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11 U
12 M
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1 19
1 56
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p.m. p.a
a.m.
9 10
9 SI
9 -4
a.m.
7 IS
7S7
7 30
T
741
7 88
8 8.
918
a.m.
a.m.
6S0
048
6 60
400
IS
800
8 00
P.B..
p.m.
it au
a.m.
788
12 4*2
8 10
18 48
8 18
_'_.
,,,,,
844
.....
9 20
9 90
p.m.
a.m.
Leave.
Leave. -   Arrive.
.........Lebanon...........
 Cornwall..........
.... ..Miners' Village	
 ..Penryn	
.........Ht. Hope..........
.........Manheim.........
..King Street, Lancaster..
 Columbia	
Arrive. Leave.
a.m.
8 11
7 69
7 66
7 60
748
788
700
a.m.
a.m.
10 28
1018
1010
p.m.
2 03
1 SI
1 48
1 42
1 87
1 Sb
12 88
12 35
a.m. p.m.
p.m.
4 36
4 S3
4 20
p.m.
Arrive.
p.m. p.m.
6 oil 840
r 34; 6 29
5 80| 8 26
6 SO
6 18
6 03
330
8 40
p.m.'p.m.
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............... Lebanon...............
 • Cornwall	
 Miners' Village...........
................Penryn	
 ........Mt. Hope	
•••••••••••-•• Manhoim. ..•••■»».
 King Street, Lancaster.......
.............. Columbia..............
^ Arrive.   Leave.       ^ .       _.	
North and Boothbonnd trains connect at Lebanon with trains on Philadelphia <_ Heading
llallroad to and from Hanlsb^*gI^eadl^i_Pott8vllle, Philadelphia and New York,
a.m.
p.m.
932
286
9 17
2 23
9 14
2 30
_'oo
8 46
8 00
8 OS
;a.m.
p.m.
p m.
SOS
4 51
4 46
4SB
4 28
8 46
84S
p.m
narruDuiY, -tending, rottsvuie, Philadelphia and New York.
South-bound trains oonneot at Manheim witb trains on tba Beading A Columbia Bailroad
for potato between Heading and Columbia. ■        _.      ____■       ._.  -;.j.r-TjL_,T-XTTJ?ra '*/a>
PBllad-jphia * Heading Kallroad Company mileage books will be aooepted on tbe Cornwall I not give Qyiers the benefit of your expe-
Hailroad- >_i___d   *-____*— -»ii-«>-^- -
The Hon. Tommy Arden had never
known a day's luck since he married the
sweetest and the best girl in the world.
He had been a sad rake in a qniet fashion, and had lived in the best possible
way for as long as any of the youngsters
could remember. Nobody quite knew
how he had done it, and nobody particularly cared. He was always well
dressed, always well shaved and brushed
up, always rode in the best hansoms,
always dined at the Cafe Royal with
somebody, and went everywhere.
"Everywhere" meant the Empire till
closing time, afterward one smart
dance, and then a flash club—he made
a point of never going to a respectable
clnb after dinner.
fn the summer he always took a turn
in the row; was seen is the lobby of the
opera during one act; was generally to
be met at Sandown and Kempton, and
occasionally at Ranelagh on Sundays;
■trolled about the lawn at Cowes during
the regatta week, and in the off season
was never seen, but said be was "shooting in the north till I run over to Ostend
for a flutter."
Where he lived was known to no one.
On what he lived was known only to individuals separately to whom he said he
had the devil's own lnck. This did not
mean he made a book, or if tt did it was
false, but the general impression was
that he knew the inside of everything,
nnd that U he were not ao scrupulous
abont secrets and would only let his
friends stand in oftener he would make
their fortunes and his own. His own
explanation was that he never made a
bet unless ba "knew something," and
that was how he always won. The result was that his advice was Always
asked, and when he gave it always followed. The real truth wm that tbe
Hon. Tommy had never made a bet in
his life.
When he married he gave tt all up.
He was truly attached to his wife and
abandoned everything for her. Be was
no more seam at music balls and flash
clubs, and he dined at home and never
went ont alone afterward. Everybody
thought it wonld all come right, as they
called it, in six months; bnt tt did not,
and to the surprise of everybody Tommy got shabbier and shabbier in appearance, and was seen on omnibuses and
in the underground railway aad otber
inexpensive and bourgeois places. The
result waa Ua former friends aaid he
had married a ehrew, and that he wonld
kick over the traces some day.
The truth was Tommy was in love with
hit wife, and,she was never so happy as
in his oompany, and nothing was so re-
pellant to him as his old associates and (
Us old ways. But virtue is its own re*
ward, and the reward of virtue which
the Haak Tommy experienced was A par*
petual shower of county oourt summonses, for his commissions for recommending stock broken, advertisements,
wine merchants, tailors, pictures and
other recognized forms of livelihood by
which he had tried to earn what he
called a respectable living had not proved
very remunerative.
Things had arrived at this pass when
the brokers were put In for two quarters' rent. During the five days allowed
by law Tommy had flown about to try
and collect the commissions due to him,
with whiob to pay the fifty pounds that
were ao expedient to the quieting of his
blue eyed and brown haired little wife,
who, though sadly troubled, had taken
hia word for it that it would be "all
right.'* Bis efforts were almost in vain,
and he went to see the agent "to explain
tbe situation" and ask for time. Be was
lucky in only seeing a sympathetic clerk,
who kindly pointed ont to him that he
was entitled by law to au extension of
fifteen days. In hia joy at learning this
he confided his position to Mrs. Tommy,
wbo in her own sweet way, believing
absolutely in her own love and the love
of bar husband, said:
"Bnt why bother, Tommy, darling,
trying to earn the money?"
"Bow else can I get it, my dear girl?"
"Oh, why not bet as you used to do?
They all say you are ao clever and have
such luok; I am sure you would win it
all in next to no time."
"Oh, I have given up all that sort of
thing, and hate tt more than I oan tell
you. It ia not to be thought of In connection with you."
"Oh, nonsense, Tommyl   You must
not let me ruin you; and I am sure all
tbe very best people bat.   Borse racing
is a noble sport; and, though you never
confess it to me, you must have made a
lot of money at it."
"My dear ohild. tt can't be done now.1*
"X do not know how, or I Would go
and win you a fortune.   How do you
MT
4m\ don't bet!"
"Don't be silly!   How nsed yon to
•bet? I always wanted to know.   Doesn't
the   bookmaker   lay   against   all   the
horses f
" Wlee."
"And do you back all tbe horses?"
"Good heavens! No.   If you did that
how could you win?"
"Why? The bookmaker lays against
all tha horses, and he always "wins,
doesn't he?"
**Yes, the, bookmaker always wins."
"WeU, then, if you follow the same
rule and baok all the horses, yon are
sure to win with one of them?"
"My dear child, no woman ever could
understand batting, and I am sure, of
all women in the world, I have no desire
that you should."
"But if you *»*on%bet yourself, why
L   -_—'   .    —- j__ _ —II W_M"__
sure that they would be glad to pay you
a commission if they won—which would
be better than being robbed out of commissions by wine merchants."
The Hon. Tommy changed the subject, bat, oddly enough, he lay awake all
night thinking over the last words of
his little wife in connection with her
strange ideas about how to win money
by backing all the horses. The next
morning he did not refer to the subject,
but staid away from business and occupied his entire day by making out long
lists of his rich racing acquaintances
and compiling elaborate calculations.
Toward evening he went out and bought
a betting book, into which he carefully
copied the result of his work. This
done, he read it all over and smiled.
He then closed the book, ate his dinner
comfortably, retired to bed early and
slept like a top.
The next day he was ont and about
betimes, but instead of once more dunning his customers for the commissions
which they owed him, he paid a visit to
all the starting price bookmakers, asking the price of one horse at each place,
making an entry in his book mysteriously, and chatting with such of the habitues as he was acquainted with. He
lunched at tbe Cafe Boyal, where he
met more Mends with whom he discussed tha day's fixtures, nodded bis
head ominously and smiled knowingly,
and when pressed to express an opinion
said, "I oaat aay;" and when one young
sportsman offered to take a horse against
his, said:
"My dear boy, tbe first rule of racing
is that you cannot bet if you know—and
I know."
His virtuous disinclination to take on
tba youngster did not prevent hia friends,
when he turned up at the Empire, from
saying that Tommy had had a good day
—more especially aa to every one who
had lost or won he said, '1 oonld have
told you as muoh, only I was bound not
to say a word to a soul." During all
that week tha Hon. Tommy pursued
my muoh tbe same tactics, merely remarking over nigbt, wben tba result-
were known, "If ypu like to let me
stand in a couple of hundreds I will let
Son know a good tiling for Kempton on
aturday, provided you give me your
sacred word of honor never to breathe
my name aa your informant whether tt
comes off or not, as I have grave reasons which yon must not ask me to explain."
Anybody who knows the fashionable
sporting world will readily believe that
Sp trifling a condition was readily ooin-
plied with.
Before Saturday came round all those
wbo had consented to pay Tommy £200
In the event of his tip ooming off, and
had pledged their solemn oaths never
to divulge hia name aa their informant,
were duly placed in possession of a name
with the following sage counsel:
"Tha way yon chaps lose your money
is by going to every race meeting, by
backing a horse in every race, and by
patting your pals on, and thus spoiling
tbe market when you really do know
anything good. Now look at mat 1
always win money at racing.
"I have done so steadily for years, bnt
I never go near a meeting unless I know
something, and I never have a sixpence
an more than one race, whether Z win or
lose, and I keep my own counsel. Tan
ara tbe only man I hava given this tip
to, and, to be quite frank, the only reason I do so It because I cannot get any
more money on without spoiling tha
market; and I am pledged to my informant not to personally baok the horse fox
more than a certain som or tbe bookmakers wonld tumble, and if tba stable
were forestalled I should never get tbe
office again. Ik la by not being discreet
that fellows spoil themselves, and if I
ware to knock the betting about tt la as
likely aa not that they would pay me out
by lumbering me on to a wrong 'un next
time, and aa I have never taken the
knock I dont want to start now."
This very excellent advice was given
to some thirty-six of the Hon. Tommy
Arden's best and most "oofy" sporting
friends. There were six races on the
following Saturday at Kempton, for
which some thirty horses started. \\\
would be superfluous for the purposes of
this story to give the names of the horses,
their ages, weights or the names of then-
riders. All that remains to say is that
tbe Bon. Tommy Arden had £300 to
nothing on every horse that started.
Needless to say, only six horses won.
With thirty of hia friends Tommy has
condoled and said something about "the
luck of tba devil." With six of his
friends, who believe in him as a prophet
ever after to ba followed blindly, he has
rejoiced—more especially on the Monday, when they each handed him a
oheek for £300, making te aU £1,200,
with which he paid ont the brokers as
he had promised the agent
It ia due to his sagacity to say that the
Hon. Tommy Arden only plays this
game three times in each year. Other
men would ba more greedy. Tommy
only makes some £4,000; but he is contented with this, aa he has the love
and respect of his charming wife, who is
ona of the prettiest and beat dressed
women in town. In each year ha alto
makes some eighteen fast friends of the
men to whom ha haa given the straight
tip which has come off. The others.
Tommy consoles himself by saying, have
as good a chanoa aa aay one else, and
they all have their turn sooner or later.
There are a few wbo, after two or
three experiences of Tommy's straight
tips, have become slightly oolder toward
him; bat Tommy makes no fuss. Ha
pays them out by quietly leaving them
out of the next -food thing;" for the
simple  raason   that  thero are always
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RAITT & 00,
* Hatters **■ Gents' Furnishers.
708 Cumberland St., Lebanon, Pa.,
Is the place to purchase your HOLIDAY PRESENTS, as_
they have.the Largest Line in the City.
UMBRELLAS a Specialty.
he makes it his business
St. James Budget.
to cultivate.—
He
OLD iESON.
Judge between me and my guest, the
stranger within my gates, the man whom
in his extremity I olothed and fed.
I remember well the time of his coming, tot lt happened at the end of fire
days and nights during which the year
passed from strength to age; in the interval between the swallow's departure
and the redwing's coming; when the
tortoise in my garden crept into his winter quarters and the equinox was on us,
with an east wind that parched the
blood te the trees, so that their leaves
for onoe knew no gradations of red and
yellow, bnt turned at a stroke to brown
and crackled like tin foil.
At 5 o'clock te the morning of the
sixth day I looked out. The wind still
whistled across the sky, but now withont the obstruction of any cloui. Full
te front of my window Sinus flashed
with a whiteness that pierced the eye.
▲ little to the right the whole constellation of Orion was suspended clear over
a wedgelike gap te tile coast, wherein
the aea could ba guessed rather than
seen, and traveling yet farther the eye
fell on two brilliant lights, the one set
high above the other; the one steady and
a fiery red, tbe other yellow and blazing
intermittently; the one Aldebaran, the
other revolving on the lighthouse top,
fifteen miles away.
Half way up tbe east, the moon, now
in her laat quarter and decrepit, climbed
witb the dawn closest her heels. At this
hour tbey brought in the stranger, asking if my pleasure were to give him
clothing and hospitality.
Nobody knew whence he came, except
that it was from the wind and the night,
seeing tbat ha spoke in a strange tongue,
moaning and making a sound like tbe
twittering of birds in a chimney. But
his journey must have bam long and
painful, for bla legs bent under him, and
he could not stand when they lifted him.
So, finding it useless to question him
for the time, I learned from the servants
all they had to tell—namely, that they
had come upon him bnt a few minutes
before, lying on his face within my
grounds without staff or scrip, bareheaded, spent and crying feebly for succor te bis foreign tongue, and te pity
they had carried him in and brought
him to me.
Now for tbe look of this man. He
seemed a century old, being bald, extremely wrinkled, with wide hollows
where the teeth should be, and the flesh
hanging loose and flaccid on his cheekbones; aoid what color he had conld have
come only from exposure to that bitter
night. But his eyes chiefly spoke of Ua
extreme age. They were blue aad deep,
and filled with the wisdom Qf years, and
when he turned them te my direction
they appeared to look through ma, beyond me and back upon centuries of sorrow and the slow endurance of man, as
if his immediate .misfortunes wen bnt
an inconsiderable item in a long Mat.
They frightened me. Perhaps they
conveyed a warning of that which I was
to endure at their owner's hands. From
compassion I ordered the servants to
take him to my wife, with word that I
wished her to aet food before him and
see that It passed his lips.
So much I did for this stranger. Now
learn how he rewarded me.
He has taken my youth from me, and
tbe most of my substance, and the love
of my wife.
From the hour when he tasted food in
my house he sat there withont hint of
going. Whether from design, or because age and his sufferings had really
palsied him, be came back tediously to
'"   and warmth, nor for many days
life
rience?   s^tj_)|grwj^l^ij»dTS * ol;1*--r •00* ■tr-**1 ■»-«-■-*-* «»• •* St «*«n
professed himself able to stand erect.
Meanwhile he lived on the best of our
hospitality. My wife tended him, and
my servants ran at his bidding, for he
managed early to make them understand scraps of his language, though
slow in acquiring hours—I believe out of
calculation, lest some one should inquire
his business (which was a mystery) or
hint at his departure.
I myself often visited the room he had
appropriated, and would sit for an hour
watching those fathomless eyes while I
tried to make head or tail of his discourse. When wa were alone my wife
and I used to speculate at times on his
probable profession. Was he a merchant,
aa aged mariner, tinker, tailor, beg-
garman, thief? We could-never decide,
and he never disclosed.
Then the awakening came. I sat one
day in the chair beside his, wondering as
usual. I had felt heavy of lata with a
soreness and languor te my bones, as if
a dead weight hung continually on my
shoulders aad another rested on
heart.
my
A warmer color in the stranger's cheek
caught my attention, and I bent forward, peering under the pendulous lids.
Bis eyes were livelier aad less profound.
Tha melancholy was passing frpjjj them
as breath fades off a pane of glass.
J was growing younger. Starting up I ran
I across the room to the mirror.
There were two white hairs in my fore-
i lock, aud at the corner of either eye half
- a dozen radiating lines. I was an old
I man.
Turning, I regarded tbe stranger. He
: sat as phlegmatic as aa Indian idol, and
te my fancy I felt -the young blood
i draining from my own heart and saw it
I mantling in his cheeks. • Minute byinin-
I ute I watched the slow miracle—the old
i man beautified. As buds unfold be put
' on a lovely youthfulness, and drop by
drop left me winter.
I hurried from the room, and seeking
my wife laid the case before her. '"This
is a ghoul," I said, "that we harbor;- hei
is sucking my best blood, and the bouse-,
hold is clean bewitched." She laid aside
the book in which she read and laughed t
at me. Now my wife waa well looking,'
and her eyes were tba light of my souL,
Consider, than, how I felt as she laughed, taking the stranger's part against
me. When I left her it was with a new
suspicion te my heart. "Bow shall it
be," I thought, '.'if after stealing my
youth he go on to take the one thing
that is better?"
In my room, day by day, I brooded
npon this—hating my own alteration
and faaring worse. Witb the stranger,
there was no longer aay disguise. His
head blossomed te curls; -white teeth
filled the hollows of his mouth; the pits
in his cheeks were heaped full with roses,
glowing under a transparent skin. It •
was ./Eson renewed and thankless, and.
he sat on, devouring my substance.
Now having probed my weakness, and
being satisfied that I no longer dared to
turn him out, ha, who had half imposed
his native tongue upon us, constraining;
the household to a hideous jargon, the;
bastard growth of two languages, con-,
descended to jerk us back rudt.y into
our own speech once more, mastering it
with a readiness that proved his former
dissimulation and using it henceforward',
as the sole vehicle of bis wishes. On bis •
past life he remained1 went, bnt took
occasion to confide in me that he proposed embracing a military career aa
soon as he should tire of tba shelter of
my roof.
And I groaned in my chamber, for
that which I feared had come to pass.
He was making open love to my wife.
And the eyes with whicb he looked at
her and the lips with wbicb be coaxed
ber bad bean mine, and I was an old
man. Judge now between me and this
guest. ■
One morning I weaf to my wife, toe*
the burden was past bearing, and I must
satisfy myself. 1 fonnd her tending the*.
plants on her window ledge, and when
she turned I saw that years had not
taken from her comeliness oae jot. And
I was old.
So I taxed her on the matter of this
stranger, saying this and that, and how.
I had cause to believe he loved her
"Tbat is beyond doubt," sbe answered
and smiled.
"By my head, I believe his fancy is
returned!" I blurted out.
And her smile grew radiant as, looking me te the face, she answered, "By
my soul, husband, It is."
Then I went from her down into my
garden, where the day grew hot and tbe
flowers were beginning to droop. 1
stared upon them and conld find no solution to the problem that worked in my
heart. And then I glanced up, east
ward, to the sun above the privet hedge
and saw him coming across the flower
beds, treading them down te wantonness. He came with a light step and a
smile, and I waited for him, leaning
heavily on my stick.
"Give me your watch I" he called ont
as be drew near.
"Wby should I give you my watch?" 1
asked, while something worked in my
throat.
"Because I wish it; because it is golcK
because you are too old and won't warn
It much longer."
"Take it," I cried, pulling the watch
out and thrusting it into hia hand.
"Take it—you who have taken all that
is better!   Strip me, spoil me"——
A soft laugh sounded above, and 1
turned. My wife was looking down cat
us from the window, and her eyes wert.
both moist and glad.
"Pardon me," she said; "it is you who
are spoiling tiie child."—Arthur Sm Qail
ler-Couch in Noughts and Crosses.
Sbe Committed Suicide.
Mrs. F. C. Boe. at Watkins, left this
letter : "My husband—Forgive me if I
cause you trouble,-but I suffer so You
do not know what these long, wakeful,
wretched nights are to me, and I am so
tired, darling—the pain will never be
better. It is not easy to take* my own
life, but I have been sick so long. Goodbye, my husband, Hove you—-your wife."
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