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12 WAITING FOR THE MAIL. S. F! Fbs* in Detroit Free Pies* With anxious features, worn and pale, He waits the coming of the mail Fach day h" asks with hope aud fear, "My letter, is my letter here?" Each day he hears in silence dumb. “Not vet. old man. it has not come." The harmless madman, old and gray, No oDe would jeer or drive away “Ah me." he says. "I< .eg years have past, But It will come, twill come at last.” And so he waits in silence dumb. The letter that will never come. Through misty vision of his tears He see® the long, far sundered vears. The i*ast comes up before him there When he was strong, and she was fair; Once more he feels in very truth. The leaping pulses of his youth: A strong. straDge joy he teels again The old wild fever in’his brain An angry word.a eareles* lone— And she has gone and he's alone: Since then he wails iu sik-tice dumb. The letter that will never come. Alas' his poor old w its are fled. He cannot know that she is dead: And so be asks it o'er and o'er, The same old question as before. He waits with morning light to say: “My letter- -it trill come to-day." With tottering limbs that almost fail, He creep.' each morning to the mail, And hears with ever new regret, "Not yet, old man. not yet. not yet.” And so he waits in silence dumb, The letter that will never come. Ah, me! poor madman, even we Are dupes of fickle destiny; In ceaseless hope we waiting sit, For missives that were never writ. W'e wait to see tie harvest grown. Of seed that we have never sown; We seek the harbor mouth to hail Die vessels that will never sail. We wait to see our garnet® filled With fruit of fields we have not tilled We wait iu gathering stillti .ss dumb, For letters that will never eorne. THE MARRIAGE MARKET. A French Modiste Who Sympathizes Wiih Prospective Husbands. Fioni th*: yen: York JDve/ling Sun. “So sorry for zat man; such nice man, - ’ laid a French modiste as sh-‘ looked out of her windows near Fifth avenue. She was ipenking to a journalist who had merely Iropped in tp tell her to hut ry up that vei ret Spring i-ooe for lus wife. Hb<* pointed a subdued-looking, well-dressed broker with a military beartitg, on his way down town. “What maker you so sorry for him.' BM l*r be sorry for me, with that bill of yours to pay.' She laughed and replied: “Ze case is not je same, monsieur. Vouch'd marry one splen did girl. He, too. But. monsieur, you get ze love and ze flesh: and he- well, monsieur, be get ze money and ze h .-.* -- And h- side. V) sick, of hees bargain. I ha? one nice lee tie story about zat friend of mine, but t o fraid you put it in ze paper. No; Bien: ten here it ees: “Two year ago I haf order to prepare one grand t.lossesu for Mile. J( of Murray Hill. Money; Oh. oui; plenty moniv. Family' vaii v rich. I nor.sk (flout ze gentleman, but I go ahead and fill out ze ladye— you understand, monsieui’t Put ze cotton where v- flesh ought to be, and make one lovely Venus out of ze hones. “Eh. bien! Zen come ze grand wedding, big crowd at, ze church, and ze trip tz* France- la Iwlle France!" And she clapped her hands in reminiscent glee. “Zen zav Come hack, and Major N (I will not, tell rou hees name completei lie did call to see ne. He look bad—not chic and bright like se voung married man. Zen he say to me: •‘Madame, you haf made of me one grand fool—you and ze mir.istere. But eet was beezme* and I swallow ze pill. I haf youth, s, gfilde and a skeleton vife. Ees it not sad.’ fnalmany friends who think to marry out *pv fear zay not get ze goods zay want. Vouch si one fi n e beezmess wid ze riches of 'ijoftfc" iselles and ze widows. I vill make golf Eery rich eef you do do what I zay.’ I ask, ‘What you haf to propose, monsieur?’ “ ‘Only zees, madame,’ he sav, ‘I am one beeziness man. Everything must be done on beeziness principles. Efery man wants ze goods zat he buy and pays bees monie for. Eeef ze trade ees not faire. Invc is cheated and he fly away. So now. Yen ze made moiselles come for toilets, you take ze reel measurement, and zen you take zee false one. Haf I right V “Oh, oui, monsieur,’ “ ‘So, - he zay, ‘Now to beeziness. I villa lub form of foefty gentlemen. Zav will pay you two huntert tollar apiece, and ven *y want a diagram of ze reef mademni lelle. yott geev z<-m ze truth. Vat yon zay?' “Sacre bleu," continued the excited JUgame to the reporter, “I do tell ze gentl**- Jbdli zat eet' be talk big monie like zat, he HHk' my hair to turn gray in one night, HwMari* Antoinette’*. But’" she addtsl in yft4v,-itching whisfier. “I did make zee con- MM. and I atn one reech woman. Ven ze jfililb memhaires send for diugrams of ze Mt'ppmoiselie*, I fumee-sh zem, and zey gpwey pay me extra monie. Eef ze goods Ire genuine, zen eet is worth two hundrvt lollaire to be sure; eef zay are sham, zen set ees worth ze same dollaire to be warned, {ees ees one lone-life job. But come zees Vay, and I will show you what Gen. G.—lie tery funny man—do call my lmne-ynrd.” Here the chirpy Madame put a warning Snger to her lips, and leading the way '.brough the bric-a-brac ami post the tajies srie* and her busy assistants st,op]ied Is-lore i cosy back room, to which she carried the >nlv key. In the right corner was a mahogany case, about five feet high and Jhree feet wide, filled with a series of slender drawers, alphalietically ai'ranged Here, in tins ghostly eharnel house, she hml pre served the actual bust, arm and bin tmvis uremeuita of a hundred or more fashionable hellos of New York! “No, no, monsieur; excuse moi. You cannot open ze drawer and see ze names. Not efen a club membaire could do zat. Only can he get zc measurement he need for j matrimonial guide. Zat is left to ze gen tlemen's honor. “Rather a risky business, madame,” the reporter said. “It would ruin your trade if knyone discovered the use you made of your *onevord. “Certainlee, monsieur. Eef ze great, se pet get out I baf protection in ze monie I haf in bank. Zen Igo quick away and leef In France some more. But let me tell you, monsieur, zat I haf great competition in z< palls and ze opera. Zey do hurt some my beeziness. So low do ze ladies cut zeir dresses zat ze gentlemen can for ze price of ►ne opera teeket find out vat I would zem tharge two hundret dollaire for. Perhap ze time <*Jiue in one or two year, between ze ypera und the seashore, zat; zc gentlemen all fare my club. Eet would not pay item.” “Po any foreign gentlemen, anv Italian oounts or (k-rmau barons belong to tho club, nadame f’ “Parbleu. what, n question, monsieur! Zey ■haf not objection to bymenial bones, eef zey Are only goal plate<J; and zeu, how zey evaue pay so foe to tieloug ?” A French Love Powder. Fi (Mi tar Prill M 'll Ornette. A curious instance of how deeply old su perstition., me still rn itd in remote part* <.f UM country fa h case whi'‘h ha.- jut U*n brought before the magistrates of Mui qiiel, in the department of I/ii ret,, in Franc* A short t ime ago the gr\ e digger of Fontana v Mir-f/ang said to some workingmen with whom hi we* talking at a l'errierns factory: '‘i'erhaf< yon think that ileul mop's l sin's* are of im ue to ujr one; but you an* m < akuli. I liavc sold some i/> ten women Jrotn FuTkfW." The |ioii(*. hearing of tide uKWrmp. modi* inquiries), ami the to!- lowing fin'll Were I'VntH: Tin women from FeiTienn went to KnnUmay sulr Isnng ai) asked ties gra * a dig •••r for man* Uuina n Ixinm At tit ho ienid, but mu soon faMMiarhii In yield by amjil<> lirlho. The wtniir-ii, wlm |mml m tlto iiintri' t for etiwii. tHiltliftl hotiM* hiding (he lean* 'or u short (fine, ami then bin mi,g them imt laufnlly patlsriiig up lie cinder*: beir |*ii)inie Imiih In |*)ore iov* height f> a young an<l pieUy nwir > v mi* wi*, hurt ordered it In it- onqm r the Volt f • I Oir wfc.. tied 1.10.1 her /*# II OM E S EO E TII E PEOP E E. c-' c; ' •* i -$?wPw p 1 -illi£mliPi .81- i <lB2!BB3ffi'JS£SeirG£t iSM'yWEtj&'i.- - : -'A'ffYC-a:^s &&&■!s laixwsytgar izarieviK n;-yiMsa—p^ - ■■ nc.m )nm*m fc-r.-v /j v ! L Jj ii jj ) I fr*-q.. Q FIRST FLOOR Two bed-rooms of fair sizes on each side of the hall in the second story. Each has a good closet. Brick wall under the whole house, with cellar under the kitchen, dining-room and hall. , Wood mantles provided for the parlor and the dining room. On the first floor plan the dotted square in the kitchen indicates where the stove should lie placed It the house is built upon a post foundation, without cellar, the cost would be reduced,about §lOO. The above design was furnished us for publication by the Cooperative Building Plan Association, a large firm of Architects doing business at 19! Broadway Mew York who make a specialty of country and suburban work, Umg able t.> furnish the drawings and specifications for more than three Hundred different designs, mostly of low and moderate cost. They invite correspondence from all intending builders, however distant. They will send their latest publication (called Shoppell's Modern’ Houses No ft] containing more than fifty designs, on receipt of §l. ’ ’ ' DIVINING RODS. Tests Made With a Set of Them Owned in Chicago. From the Chicago Tribune. A set of divining rods are the latest acqui sition to Chicago's collection of wonders. Not a divining rod such as has been used for the last eighteen or nineteen centuries, and which every man who lias lived in “drouthy Kansas” knows of, but a whole set of rods. The ancient divining rod was a witch-hazel or ash twig forked, apd will) it precious metals could lie located, though hidden many feet below the surface of the earth. It was also said to Is- an unfailing indicator of hidden sources of water. The set of rods to which allusion is made here has not all those |>owers. Their only affinities are gold and silver, and these two metals they will always locate. At least so says their owner, a middle-aged and very intelligent lady living at No. (i! Thirty-seventh street. A reporter called upon her and obtained some information concerning the rods, and was also permitted to see them and to watch their action. They are slender nieces of fibrous wood, four in number, and a little larger than an ordinary lend pencil. They look like the common hemp, but are stained red. One end of each of the sticks is whit tled down to a point, while the other is cut in the shape of a V, so that the ends fit into each other. When their owner brought them out and exhibited them site remarked: "1 don’t know that you w ill be convinced of the efficacy of these little sticks, because they are so simple. Hut you know the greatest things have been achieved by sim ple instruments. I only claim that there is an affinity between these sticks and the metals gold and silver, and 1 have demon strated the fact so often that my claim can not be shaken. 1 obtained the sticks from a friend of mine who spent many years in Mexico among the Mexican Indians, and who was by them placed in possession of the secret powers of t his shrub, which grows in the mountains of that country. These little sticks which you see here located £IO,OOO in gold which had been hidden in Monterey. Mex., and since I have had them $1,0(10 buried in an open field in New York State was located by then], but one neiLs to lie educated somewhat to understand the in struments." The lady then gave the reporter two of the sticks, with instructions to hold them by the poiut< between the thumb and first linger, tit'' point of the index lingor of each hand touching each other. She took hold of the other two sticks in the sutne maimer, litted the notched ends togetherandawuitcd developments. But lieyond a slight (inher ing of the sticks, such ns might have arisen from th<> muscular tension, though the sticks were belli very light ly, there were no developments. “Wait a moment,” said tiie lady, "the little things don't know what to do. S’on have gold and silvern! out you, haven't you' Yes, a watch mid chain. All! see, they liegin to move," mid th .'.ticks began to boo up and down, apparently of their own volition, tor nuiliier the reporter nor tlia lady did anything to piodoce sir h action. Then, that the actmn of tne -ticks might lie seen to letter advantage, the i*. |saler placed hi - watch mi l chain and some gold und *ib“r coin on h table in un udj n mg room and again took hold of tic tj which soil bcg'iii to swing around toward Me* tah> containing tin' nn-tal. Tin* |*>,i twin of thu table wan then chunked - .ml times an I tie* sticks i nrrl I into - tic, room*, bill whenever fin- not* lied ends n on Vigeihei ftiry swung around in tic •efts'll'.l, ul Uu> t opart M' l do)sa.ll. ''Jfow. ' said the own* of the enjleil.ori. “t know you are not Nhiisi ’ 1 hi yen ~y ~ mind that Mils Is a fait !.' *■' tiiat i did II • ms' i lie iol to naive but it i- a fact Un! I last nothin? to do with It end also tli.l •' v • <*< i. i• •>* ( i Mis mats a O.l u.- saoe result will < ,i-u* I am linn king ut • * •. ... nr, ~ a i,„ st, THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. PERSPECTIVE VIEW. DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN. Size or Structvb®—Front, 33 feet, 6 inches. Ride, 21 feet. Size of Rooms—See floor plans.' IlEtonT os- Stories—Cellar, fi feet, 6 inches; First Story, 9 cut; Second Story, 8 l'cet. Materials—Foundation, brick; First Story, clapboards; Sec uid Story, clapboards; Roof, shingles. Cost—§l.lso to §1,300, complete. Special Featpres—A compact arrangement of rooms in simple form,affording good accommodations for a family of six or even. The parlor or family room is large, and has two closet", and an alcove or bay a; the end. It has a chimney breast and flue for a stove, which is connected with the kitchen and dining-room chimney. Where there ie a large room for genera! sitting, as in this design, there is no necessity for the other rooms to be very large. cately poising the rods so that they will lie removed altogether from human influence. I know they w ill operate that way just as well as in my hands. And they will also locate gold and silver in mountains or plains. Take it in u large area and they will point toward the treasure until they are directly over it, and then they will lie gin to spread apart. When t hev do that you may know you have found treasure. ! A city is a bad place to make a test of these instruments, because there is so much metal round at suit one to affect the instruments. I'll give you an illustration: I was trying an experiment with one of my friends in the house here one day. He had concealed some money, and I was to timl it with the aid of the rods. Well, when they were placed in position they insisted on moving toward an open window that faced an open window jn Uie house adjoining. The gen tleman bad not gone out of the house, ami he rallied me about the failure of the rods, and said he had the money in his pocket. But 1 knew there was something wrong and that the rods were telling the truth, and, sure enough. 1 learned a short time there after that there was a fine display of wed ding presents in the house opposite, and of course the attraction for the sticks was to ward the greatest quantity of metal. This same phenomenon was witnessed in New York .Stato where $1,500 was hidden in a field in two uacknges, otto of *I.OOO and the other of iSoflO. The rods passed din-tly over the soOii and indicated the spot where the SI,OOO was buried." The visitor wo* compelled to admit that he didn't think the t".st he had witnessed was sufficient to dissipate his credulity, and was invited to tome again, when preparation* might la* made for a more thorough and ex acting test of the merits of the rods. Hub sequeutly he met Mr. K. Morgan, who is employed by Manasse, and was to,d bv Mr. Morgan that he und a friend named \Vug lier had set*n the sticks at work; and that they had apparently loci ted a liox contain ing gold and silver which had been hidden in a closet in the house unknown to the lady who owns the treasure-finders and whose fait.li in them is so strong. Mr. Morgan was net inclined to express an opinion as to the merit of the indicators. THE PRESIDENT’S MAIL. Letters From all Sort3 of People, In cluding Children. /■■"• 11l Wellington Letter to A'cio Yurk Herald. The i’ivsideiit’s mail contains an average of from lik) to *l5O letters a day from per sons whose claims for pension are pending before the de|irlnic-nt. Those people ml dresa the (Ihiei Executive in the belie/, probably, that the pension office is next door i to the White llotisi* and thut theta* is the only letter he may have received in it u,%*k. COAXINU Mils. CI.EVKLA.Vi>. About or ' half of these litters are sent to Mi-s. Ciovcland. The writers in such canes ii" n i:illv Mi,* wives or daughters of tin* o I'tamers. Some of them i*)*tow upon *ii c v . laud such titles as “Her Mijost y,” '■l'i'ijc, •*' an J other appellation* uf royal t . I'licrn arc few of the letters that do not contain Minn* touch*-- of human nature 'l’ll' v are i vid< iitly writ ten In the sincere I* lei Hint Mis. Cleveland will nx*mt the.lt if her ill.ipillik* *un only I*. amused. U Ith i** - 1 ’ • <■t in view n y rent mass of detail •et forth "i tla- ■‘otmnitnieati u. which, t< ■ *■ with obscure fliimgraphy and tmd p iliiig, rairke it* undcrsuiiiiliiig a matter of it ii's.tH/ih mbit* time and k|l*n It nmy lm said In Mils niimci’tion that n Hi 1 ' I'risHiient inn* Mr*. fTetwiland is * "fi aware of tn** esj-teue,, of ih* |#*tt *isi. I in * ais* oiMmod by an unr*'mantle sod mi siioo. nt. ■ Ii rk .a it** Ki.ruUn Mansion Horn elm-* iuuui* May fall into tbo waste !*asbt aad nee lev nr heard nf ag nil I lim w.iiie-n wiui wklroMs Mrs Clavriand •' * -*-• ...... M,. I*4o .. I method of presenting their claim to the President. One of the plans which a p rusal of the letters show that- all women hold in common is for her to wait until Mr. Cleve land has had his supper and then, when he is enjoying a quiet smoke in the parlor (*fc) tiring the matter to his attention. Many of them tell her that, this is the hour of theclay when a man is most amenable to argument, and that they (the writers) prefer this as the safest time for presenting their own re quests. THE SOLDIER HABIT. The applicants for pensions who write to the President are, as has been said, old soldiers, who, like the feminine part of the family, are sadly and iflcicnt in the principles of even an elementary education. They write, too, in a more vigorous style than their helpmeets, and their language is some times ol so robust a nature that it fre quently provokes a smile. For example, an Illinois man who addresses the President in a letter received to-day savs: “The pen con officials tell tile to got cor roborative i vidt’.nco from some of my com rodes. I want to say to you that it’s a hell of a hard matter to get evidence from men who go into an action and never conic out again,” and then he continues by saying that Ills company went into the Wildern-o -a hun dred strong, and at the end of the sev >n days' tight there were bur nine of the num ber who were left to mi! the tale. LETTERS FROM CHILDREN. Sometimes ,he letters are written by children, who begin iu this fashion: “Dear Mr. President— l am a little girl only 10 years ot u -:v. My papa does not know lam writing this letter. If he did lie would not, permit it.” Then follows a pathetic tale of wsnt and misery, touching enontrh in its simple style of treatment, but rendi retl doubly so by the fact of tho writer’s youth and innocence. Several mouths a-u, one of these touch ing missives-cliani *i to reach the Presi dent's eve. Its simple pleading touched a synipathotie chord in the President's heart. The little miss hoe;;' and the retention of her father, a Republican, ott the Board of Me li cal Examiner* in tho Mi w Englan 1 town , , which their home was located. See said lie was very old and rlyir of an incurable dis ease. 'lie- rxwition pole! him a salary of about Rl.’JOtin year, and in vi ,v of r IMI fact he could no lon’.- r practice his profession the foregoing so-, was t:... ; -only source of in come. The letter concluded naively in those word-: “Pnpn must not kim w about this. It must Is* a i-cret Ivtwce;: yit and me. If von de cide to lax'ii him mark an X on the hack of the inci s., and post'd nni and then I will know that you are ,7<>iti . to grant my wi.-li." 1 h** I’lvsideut sent the letter usd cn cln*,u*e to ('oimniie:.liter of Pensions black, with this ind,irwunt at: “If there me no charges against tlv* ex aminer in question you will oblige rnt- by retaining l in in his presi nf ivisitiou.” (Sen. lliai , inv. *ii.,.0.-i the matter and fonn.i that the ■■xaminer was not an old man, Imt, mi thu eotitrarv, a lusty young Icllow s".-,' ;y ,ui * m.ics if a.*", and t.lmt .*) tar feu.' Imvmg • a hi'l<*glrl only 10 years 'it ng he a..* not ecu iu>irri(*d. Ilmi< |. rapli ul.er tin* isMii.tn't carry his ibsini. al .pi,.-., cnoagii t> Jnm, and since Mull lime i 'Uctn from little girls who write wit limit th'll |hi j sis kiiowli* Igc are tu< mi tumntly di .trnv *i us “fskis 1 pure u:id simple. A WOMAN IN DIBTREK3. boraiimu That Mad# tho blood of tho v'niuiiixir* hiuu Cold hum the rhhngn Mml *'’ • 1 " '! their we- Intense ercjtenient out oil J.!, nveiiU" ins! ulKhl would lm put ling it ti.i luiidl). Hueii a Umu isiuid not HitU'llt* tr*** lliu | •miiU* ™ ,v ir /J ■ vy l> * s fll , t 1 j Tyoom | | • l [Jj j=j | IjWj<4 Room li Vk f V ! |j n®cj rjoom ’ "** O '**> •; l\o n|t SECOJiii '"'*ol' blocks along that thoroughfare, as the wild screams of a woman in distress, followed by suppre-ood promts, ns from one in torture, and the sharp report of a pistol shot, all pro ceeded from the lower flat of tJS.VJ, rang out on the quiet night. In a few seconds hun dreds of h*>ads were protruding from liun dreds of windows, and hundreds of tongues were faking: “ Where is iff’ “What is it?” “Who is it.'” Then tins houses began to empty them selves into the street, and soon a large crowd of excited people were gathered .".round m.n.v;. The individual who shouts “lire' 1 when anything unusual occurs was not present, but the individual who turns in an alarm for the police patrol was there, and he wasted no time. In the meantime the crowd increased, the plot thiekened, and the susponse Ik'came in tolerable. Various stories, founded on theory, were passed around. A woman had first been assaulted, then murdered! Burg lars ha i broken m, had Issui discovered, iiad killed the lady of the house! A deceived husband had returned utiexp. etedly, found that another had taken his place and—mer ciful heavens!—had revenged himself. A woman hod been attacked by a mouse! Somelfoily !md blown out the gas and an explosion followed! It was the snumed lover ot her youth, who romnntted suicide and came back to haunt her. And in tlie midst of it all the patrol wagon drove up, the police entcnxl the house; a cold chill passed over the multitude °utsid •; ail was suspense, anxiety, agonizing fear, suppressed emotion. Then th<> police come out, jumped into the patrol wagon, and drove oft. The secret was buried under their winter overcoats. They were not communicative. Thev gave no satisfaction. What had they seen! What had they learned? Just this: That Mrs. Kidder, whose hus band was away, was occupying (.lie (la; ac'iie; that at the seasonable hour of 0 o’clock p. m., when all well-regulated, healthy, lone women liegin to yawn, she set prejir.ring her chamber for the night; u .i in the performance of this worthy do iiiestic and nee w iry duty it became necev y, "T for h. rto ad just a new-fangle 1, Ivvk .•. •t.on, folding liedst-ad, which in th day -I,;r •”• utasl to deceive the eye into the belief tnut if i awi 11-filled wardrobe; that slie pulled the front clown and began to smooth the covering: that she threw back a corner ot the seme from the (lead and re in nod the pillow shams and arranged a place for her hand; that while lean ing across the bed s), e must have tickled the internal icing in a fur.nv ’■! oi I hat it throw its hind hr;., into the air, *-’ m :i l;i ■!■ c.f smiremn safisluetion, and elosci t'fjut yon Mik. Kidder, wiucvzi ug her Isi.ly M;'u:■ -t the frame: that wnen sir* uw the I- v ! rising tip she screamed as only a terrified woman cm, scream; that she was - • liorridixl she couldn’t move, and that tleally the machine wouldn’t let her move; Jlai shi continued {o sonvun until ex huuste I, an l that in the midst of In r ,scream i ng a nervous young man who occupied a tooin iij •‘tons,flunking tin ts* were burglars in fie* house, fin'd <.,T his pistol to alarm the nrighlmrhnod, and then covert'd up his head wi; ■ i hr Iml clothing. Tiiis i* what iln* policemen found out, and this is why they aid not tarry. Tilt*v re lomvs) the r.xlmu ttsl. falntlu;, woman from the grasp of the demoniac folding bed, tin* w soin<‘ water in her fins*, and on re turning to tli. mr.tlon sent her n doctor. I hi' doctor to-day i ejiorted that 111* (latieut was lining well and ilmt her ultimata i*e Oovery was proliMble if sill' Would only move out "f .he neiglil.|'||(l so that all the Kills a venue were wcag in their i'i ii wi*. -| ar* ■ * Tie* entire ||f tii'uity pi* out of a inPnndoixUiiulPig with tie’ fol.nilg lesl, win.’li. it seems. Is of a **-ii sit ie and geldy |s<tterii, and ituTl stand A ROMANTIC JOKE. How a Sham Wedding Turned Out Real. Charleston (III.) Special to Globe- Democrat. There is lying very ill in this city an old gentleman, 75 years of ago, whose early life, inclusive of love, courtship and marriage, forms a fitting basis for a writer of ro mance to weave therefrom an interesting story. Buti tis just as interesting to the reader, perhaps, to chronicle the actual events connected therewith. The old gen tleman is one of the most widely known cit izens, whose name appeared at one time in the columns of the (.Hobo-Dcmocrat among the names of the most wealthy citizens of Coles county—Mr. Richard Stoddard. He has been a citizen of Coles county since 1 838, mid has beon identified with the county's growth. Mr. Stoddard is one of the class of men who never grow old in thought or action, always possessed an admiration for a joke, lias delighted telling them to others anti equally delighted in having them jierpe tratetl on himself, in thoso early days of settlement in Illiuois it was quite customary (as in all new countries, it seems) to tender considerable license to practical joking. About the time of which we write there lived in Charleston a justice of the peace named H. C. Dunbar. Dunbar was also a tun-loving individual, and Stoddard and he wero in tile habit of playing practical jokes from time to time on each, other, which finally resulted in a rather serious one. It seems that one bleak, dreary day in the month of March, as disagreeable as March days can sometimes be, Mr. Stoddard came to Dunbar and informed him that a friend of his (Dunbars), who resided some 20 miles from town, was to be married that day and had requested that ’Squire Dunbar be sent up to perform the ceremony. Fees were things sought after more assiduously then than now, marriage, as well as any other kind, and Dunbar, nothing doubting, pro ceeded on the journey. Arriving at the [>oint of destination nearly frozen he was appalled to find it was only a huge joke of Stoddard’s. He said nothing, but indulged inwardly in a few pages of profane history, and backward turned home, taking it good naturedly and biding Ins time to pay off Stoddard in his own coin. An opportunity presented itself during the next winter. It was the custom of early settlers to get up mock-weddings at their parties of some couple who were particularly “sweet” on each other, having the sham ceremony per formed by some sham official or sham clergy man. One of these parties were given on Christmas evening, 1844, and Dunbar, with the design of retaliating upon Stoddard, '■vent to the County Clerk’s office, Samuel Huffman being the clerk, and procured a marriage license for Richard Stodaard and Catherine llizor, a young lady with whom he hod been keeping company for some time. Armed with his document 110 proceeded to the party, and engineered matters so suc cessfully as to have Stoddard and Miss Rizor parties for the ceremony. Asa justice of the pea"e, he was called onto perform the (supposedi sham wedding. Confronting flic couple with due solemnity for a wedding “for keeps” he asked the usual questions re quired by law, was answered satisfactorily, and wound up by saying t.nat, as they were aware he was an officer, authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony, asked if it was their “desire to lie united in holy wedlock*’’ They answered in the affirma tive and he, holding the license in his hand (which they supposed was nothing but a blank piece of paper) went through with the ceremony in full, received the responses and solemnly pronounced them “man and wife." He turned away, made out the certificate with the usual witnesses, went over to the Clerk's office where he returned the certifi cate and had it recorded that night without giving a hint of the genuineness of the pro ceedings. The next day, however, the matter leaked out, and so many of Stoddard’s friends joked him about being married in so novel a man ner be went to the Clerk’s office to investi gate and found it true. He went to the girl and informed her what had occurred, when quite an excitement arose. Of course she cried and Stoddard swore, no doubt: not that they objected to each other, but to the way they were inveigled into it. At last Stoddard informed her they had better make the best of a “horrid joke'" and call it genuine. Like a good, sensible woman, as she was, she consented, and so the sham wedding turned out a real one, and, perhaps, there never 1 i vet! in Charles ton or anywhere else a more devoted and loving couple than Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stoddard. Mrs. Stoddard died in 1812, leav ing behind her a record worth of imitation by the young women of this country. As to ’Squire Dunbar, he was last heard of in Texas; but, if living or dead, he doubt less has often reflected that he paid Stoddard for his joke, with compound interest. ALL ABOUT SOLOMON’S WIVES. An Easter Monday Conversation Be tween Two St. Paul Ladies. From the St. Paul Globe. Two neatly-dre.ss.sd ladies sat in a West Seventh street car the day after Easter, on their way home from a down-town shopping excursion, and this is the conversation they indulged in between St. Peter and Wash ington streets: “I saw you at church yesterday, Mrs. Smith.” “O, yes; I never miss Easter services, you know. “ “Wasn’t it lovely f" “Be-e -u-tiful! 1 never saw such lovely flowers in my life. Did you notice that' double fuschia!” “Yes: ami I just couldn’t keep my eyes off of it. Whose was it, do you know*” “Mrs. Brown’s. She raised it from a slip she got in California two years ago. TU.it calla lily on the right of the pulpit was a pretty thaig." “Wasn’t it sweet! So fragrant, too. That was the largest oleander I ever saw. Did you notice it f’ “Yes; that's mine.” “Why, Mrs. Smith, you don’t say that that lovely oleander that stood near the chancel rail w as yours i” “Yes; 1 raised that from a small twig.” “Well, I never.” “Didn’t those hyacinths smell too sweet • “Just ravishing, and those lilies of the valley, toot” “Hein.” “Humph.” “Did you notice Mrs. Tripp’s now bon net?’’ “Well, 1 should think T did. Wasn't it just too perfectly awful fur anything? Didu t look a bit like an Hosier bonnet to me." "Nor me either. Too much ribbon in front, I thought, though Ha v re trimming their i Kilim As high this season.” "I know, but I didn’t like it a bit; now Mrs. I.ip K s honivt was in.*' too cute for anything, I t.Jiought. Tint pink ribbon J.ist .-*ct her cnnipi,Moil oft benultiully. 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Made only hr BkOWN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, Mlk LOTTERY. li.S.L. CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000. “ HV do hereby certify that tee supervise n arrangement* for all (he Monthly mid Semi- Annual Drawings of the Louisiana State lot tery Company, and in person manage amt com trot the //rawing* themselves, and that the sarns are conducted with honesty, fairness, and m Stood faith toward all parties, and we nuthorki the Company to use this certificate, with f.-yj. similes of our signatures attached, in its attest, tispnentsf' Commissioners. H'c the undersigned Honks and Rankers trill pay nil Prices drawn in the Ijraisiana State Lot teries which maybe presented at our counters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat'l Bar,*. PIERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Nat'l Bank. A BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat'l Ban, CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Bank, r nprecedented Attraction i * Over Half a Million Distributed. LOUISIANA STATU LOTTERY COMPANY. 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