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LADY RORYMORF.-S GEMS
ADMIRaO BY ALL BUT HER L4DY-
AND HER H CSS AND.
ypTiat Follows Mutual Deceitr-A Queer
Story from London “Truth” Which
Tells of the Deceptions the Lord
and Lady PractLed on Each Other.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Laay Rorymore’s diamonds are among
the finest in" England. Every one think*
aizb'.y Of them excepting her ladyhip b er
lf BB d her husband. This requires ex
planation, and the same shall be given
immediately.
About five years ago Lord Rorymore,
fter heavy lossee on the turf, thought to
recoup himself by some stiff play at bao
•arat a game much in favor at Pink’s Club,
jf which be was an assiduous member.
Hafing lost for twenty nights in succession,
OD e morning found himself
the unpleasant position of
not snowing where to look for
, ooQ guineas which bad been won of him
avernight, and which he had to pay before
lunset He might have mortgaged some of
ois acres for the Rorymore estates were not
ret “dipped” to their full extent, but mort
gaging involves formalities which consume
Hme- he might have borrowed of usurers,
who would have been happy to lend him on
his note of hand at 30 per cent., but he was
not in such desperate plight as to care to
nav exorbitantly for a temporary accom
modation. Again, he might have ovordrawn
his banker’s account in the full certainty
m ttt i) 18 check to pay any amount would be
honored; but Lord Rorymore bad private
reasons for desiring not to place himself un
der obligations toward his bankers. They
were a square-toed firm, who had once or
twice ventured on respectful, remonstrances
touching bis lordship’s reckless sale of scrip
amass*! during the late peer’s lifetime; and.
in fact, Lord Rorymore, being still a youug
man stood in some awe of them. Under
these perplexing circumstances it occurred
to my lord that if he could raise some
money for a few weeks on part of his wife’s
diamonds there would be no harm done.
Quarter dav was but a fortnight distant,
and rents would be coming in; so
that the jewels could be pledged and re
deemed without Lady Rorymore knowing
anything about R. Her ladyship had just
parted on a month’s visit to ner parents in
Scotland, and the diamonds—that it, the
most valuable among them —were lodged|in a
safe at the tank. Lord Rorymore had
scarcely conceived his project than he put
It into execution by driving to his bankers’
and removing tbe jewels. Then he hied him
to tbe pawnbroker’s.
Triball, tbe broker in question, was
one of the wealthiest members of the trade,
but in so far as Lord Rorymore was con
cerned he was something else beside a
money lender —he was an unsuspected
triend Twenty years previously the late
Lord Rorymore had rendered Mr. Triball a
service whioh the latter had never forgot
ten and oould never forget, so inestimable
was it. He had saved young Triball from a
criminal prosecution, which might have re
sulted In his being transported for life. Tri
ball, Jr., had been in those days a wild and
bad young dog, who almost broke his
parents’ heartsjthrough his.eviljcourses; but
he was an only child, and they loved him
so that when he committed the atrocious
offense which put him in tbe grip of tbe
police there was nothing they would not
have done to save him. It so happened that
old Lord Rorymore was in a position to
rescue tbe lad through the interest be pos
sessed with the parties who were prosecutors
iu the case; so Mr. Triball sought out the
peer, and fairly threw himself on his knees,
beseeching his assistance. Not only did Lora
Rorymore accede to this prayer, but, after
he had stopped the prosecution so promptly
that no scandal transpired, he spoke
personally to young Triball and warned him
with paternal kindness to take a lesson
from the peril which he had just escaped.
Old Lord Rorymore was a very different
person from his son—upright and just, but
very genial; and the impressive words
which he spoke to young Triball softened
tbe heart of that cub, who became thence
forth a very deceit member of society.
It should be added that until the
day when Mr. Triball called on
him Lord Rorymore had never seen or
hoard of the pawnbroker, but he saw him
several times in the course of subsequent
years, for the father and bod would pay him
periodical visits to remind him that their
gratitude was not dead, and that to their
lives’ end they would regard him as their
benefactor. Of all these facts young Lord
Rorymore was quite ignorant, and he
brought his jewels to Mr. Triball without
any Idea of the emotion whioh his visit was
going to cause.
He entered the establishment through the
shop door, and handed his card to one of the
clerks. In a minute he was requested to
step into a parlor, and there he found a se
date old gentleman, who made him a bow
and ushered him to a seat near the fire.
A momeut’s awkwardness followed, for
Lord Rorymore, who had brought the jewel
cases in a parcel under his ashamed
as he untied the string; but Mr. Triball,
who looked at him, felt more ashamed still.
WheD tbe jewels lay exposed and Lord
Rorymore stated his errand, the pawn
broker’s face reddened, and he hung Ui9
head, evidently troubled by the story of
extravagance and impending ruin which he
guessed. He had placed the Rorymores so
high in his esteem—he had, as it were,
built them a shrine in his heart; arid here
was the heir of this great house already di
lapidating its fortuues! Lord Rorymore,
noticing the confusion of Mr. Triball’s face,
interpreted it as a symptom of unwilling
b®®B to * on( * ; be was soon undeceived.
' live thousand guineas, my Lord,” said
the pawnbroker quietly. “Very well, I will
sign you a check.”
' i ou bad better examine the atones,
though,” suggested the peer. “They are
said to be worth 15,000 guineas; but people
sometimes make mistakes about these
things. 1 ’
The Rorymore diamonds are well
down, ’ answered Mr. Triball a3 he sat
writing table; “but I have no
iso to keep these jewels in pledge. If
jour lordship requires money I shall be
. ®ppy to lend it. Your word is enough
for me.”
k tos really is very obliging,”
, ,s'™ Lard Rorymore, naturally aston
' ei Ji the pawnbroker banded Idm the
. 9 f“,' "Y shall only want the money for a
you a toll” Ut y ° U must al ' ow mo t 0
J a 7 to o at your convenience,” said the
'°^ er ' civill T- There was a slight
nnrl' and then 116 “dded: "Lord Rory-
e ' J° u r father once rendered me a ser
- ' e , * c h my whole fortune would not re
rhi Ll - ani oal y too glad to be able to
°°uge his son.”
old bs todeed- ah 1 We ought to count as
a. f( s" nds then,” said Lord Rorymore,with
had CBd he fingered the draft. “I
had never heard that—’’
ha h # ur fa ther did not tell you, then, how
me!"
“Ts' . be nothing about it.”
Trih.n 1 1 was i ust Uka him 1” exclaimed Mr.
boca „' . Wlth feoßng. “Your father was a
said man a my lord.” This was
kbe Pawnbroker was escorting bis
customer to the door.
lilooin U^S <1 r que * r mone v lender that,” so
brout/h l or< i Rorymore, stepping into his
“If the jewels under his arm.
him ”°TT whe tber there are more like
eomfnri l mus, “g in this strain he felt un
it th rta , ac< i Vowed to repay the money
fc.l 1 * 6 * l possible date,
whies * hn * ta make many such vows,
course nf° r - are unable to keep. In the
avai„ a . ew day® Lora Rorymore was
and at ° Bt T aite * ow ing to losses on the turf
he w , , au .d> to make matters worse,
stex.r i toi® juncture victimised by his
kictinni • a roguo wklo absconded after col
cf mA Quarter’s rents and a great deal
Thh t' BJr f° r timber, corn aud cattle.
U men /®® Lord Rorymore was truly in a
in- l , le Predicament After instruct
ed Z. “‘toiler to raise him a loan
tobrtggge ha was still in
want of mrnev to pay some debts
of honor and defray his persona! ex
penditure. It was then that the thought
suddenly occurred to him of selling his ;
wife’s jewels and having diamonds of paste [
put into the feltings m their place. The 1
first time this pretty idea occurred to him he ,
dismissed it promptly, but under the press
ure of .'need it recuri ed again and again. 1
Lord Rorymore kept on repeating to himself I
that his wife scare rly ever wore those famous
family jewel*. She" had lots of others for
ordinary wea-. aud these wore only sported
on great occasions, which recurred but once
or twice a year, so that they were virtually
like so much dormant, unprofitable capital.
Once Lord Rorymore had begun reasoning
in this way he soon schooled bionelt to the
belief that be should be foolish if he let
himself be arrested by squeamish scruples.
The upshot was that returned to Mr.
Triball’s shop, partly impe)led;by the reflec
tion that in selling his jewels to the pawn
broker he would be quashing that debt of
5,000 guineas, been irksome to
him from the first.
Mr. Triball was not prepared for the Dro
posal which Lord liprymore made him at
this new visit. Ha’,had trusted that his
manner of granting the former loan would
convey a rebuke to the young peer, and it
had given him exquisite pleasure to reflect
that he might have, been instrumental in
wiuning fact the son of his benefactor to
straight courses. It, therefore, caused him
proportionate Dain when he saw to what ex
pedients Lord Rorymore was now descend
ing. He examined tjie diamonds in silence,
turned them to the light, and at length said
he would give £9,tLO for them, which,
added to tbe £5.20& be had already leat,
would be about their mar ket value. As he
was concluding his bargain, he said gently;
“Excuse the question. Lord Rorymore, but
does her ladyship know of this transac
tion?”
“O ye-as, of course,'” stammered the peer,
reddening; “but, you know, she wants to
have a paste set exactly like them, so that
society may not suspect anything. You
can make good imitations in paste, can’t
you?”
“I think you will be satisfied, my Lord,”
said Mr. Triball, gravely, and he bowed out
his noble visitor, who went forth with a
Bank of Englaud draft in his pocket.
* * * * * * *
While these things were taking plaoe in
London, Lady Rorymore was also in
pecuniary straits, and was brooding over
them very dolefully in Scotland. She was
an extravagant beauty, who had for years
been running up bills without ever paying
them, and now, at length, her tradesmen,
alarmed perhaps by reports of her hus
band’s extravagances, had begun to send
their bills all together. Now, it was a
peculiarity in Lord Rorymore that, although
very nimble at getting "into debt himself, he
flew into wild rages when his wife did the
same. And her ladyship well knew that if
she were to confess debts of £6,000
or £7,000 she would never hear the
end of it. This would never do for
a lady who liked a quiet life. So it
came to pass that at the very time when
my lord was converting the family jewels
into paste the thoughts of my lady were
likewise running on paste, for she had lately
been shown some imitation stones which
were really so like genuine ones tnat it was
scarcely possible to detect the difference
even on close scrutiny. Lady Rorymore
argued with considerable sophistry to
justify herself in deceiving her husband,
just as my lord had done on his side. On her
return to London she lost no time In going
to the bank (without informing her bus
band), and on asking to have her jewels
given up to her she learned, through some
inadvertent remarks of a clerk, that Lord
Rorymore had withdrawn all her jewels in
her absence and had but lately returned
them. “Ah, then, l am too ‘.late,” mut
tered her ladyship, with sudden misgiving,
and she turned quite pale, feeling con
vinced that her husband must have fore
stalled her. “Oh! what baseness 1” she ex
claimed within herself. “But if I find he
he has done this mean thing I will never
forgive him, and everybody shall know of
it. I’ll petition for a divorce. Her lady
ship was almost beside with anxiety
and rage as she left the bank and ordered
her coachmau to drive her to Mr. Triball’s.
She had heard of this broker as being the
cleverest expert in diamonds.
Mr. Trihall was seated in his office parlor
looking into the fire in a reflective mood
and thinking of Lord Rorymore, when her
ladyship was announced. Bbe flounced iu,
trailing a skirt of two yards’ length after
her, and plumped down all her jewels on the
table.
“Mr. Triball, I bear you are a good judge
of diamonds,” said she excitedly. “I want
you to tell me truly whether these stones
are genuine.”
“Pray be seatod,” said the pawnbroker,
and he took up tbe largest case with his
most serious air. “Yes, your ladyship,
these diamonds are quite genuine and very
fine ones.”
“Are you quite sure?” asked Lady Rory
more, all trembling. “1 was afraid they
had been tampered with. I have had a dis
honest servant.”
“They are perfectly genuine, and of the
finest water,” repeated the pawnbroker.
“Ah! thank heaven!” exclaimed her lady
ship, with a great sigh of relief. “Well,
then, Mr. Triball, will you buy them of
me?”
“Buy them. Lady Rorymore!”
He stood a moment dumfounded; but im
mediately my lady overwhelmed him with
a flood of talk, mingled with tears. She
told him of her debts, sorrows, apprehen
sion. She was almost afraid she would be
beaten if the amount of her debts came to
be known. In short, she hail now but one
resource in the world, and if Mr. Triball
refused to buy her jewels and give her some
others of paste, she was sure that she should
fall exceedingly ill and perhaps die. Here
there was some more weeping and wringing
of hands.
Mr. Triball had sat through all thia try
ing scene without making any remark. He
nodded at times, that was all. When his
fair visitor had quite finished speaking be
said quietly: “I suppose you know, Lady
Rorymore, that I have no right to buy those
jewels of you without your husband’s au
thority ?'
"U, but they are not entailed; and be
sides, he will never know,” exclaimed her
ladyship, who seemed to have the law at her
finger’s ends.
“Can you assure me that be will never
know?”
“Never, I promise you, never!”
“Well, on this understanding I will pur
chase the diamonds of you for £14,000,”
said Mr. Triball. “But mind. Lady Rory
more, I rely upon your word that this shall
be kept a secret.”
“Eternally. O I am sure this is very
kind of you, and I shall never forget it,”
whimpered my lady, whose heart beat an
ecstatic tattoo as the pawnbroker’s pen
signed the check.
A week later Lady Rorympee received a
suite of diamonds which she befieved to be
of paste, and deemed, for her part, quite as
nice as the others.
****+ CK * *
Lord and Lady Rorymore have mended
their manners and their fortunes since the
aforementioned events, and now that tney
have settled down into sober ways of living
a pang of regret occasionally assails them
both because of those faintly diamonds
which they sold. They are. ..uneasy, too,
about the deceit whioh each practiced
toward the other. Every time my lady
sports her diamonds (and she does so as
seldom as possible) she is in horrible
fear lest some accident 'should be
tray them to be of paste, and Lord
Rorymore feels equally uncomfort
able, insomuch that he loathes gala festiv
ities of every sort. But all who see Lady
Rorymore’s diamonds on those rare occa
sions when she shines in them Are agreed
that for size and sparkle such brilliants are
scarcely to be foued. And this has been
the verdict of good judges who have seen
them quite close. Possibly my lord and my
lady will discover some day that Mr. Triball
did not take advantage of their misfortunes
to deprive them of their precious heirlooms,
but, iu any case, their heirs will find out in
due time that there is no paste in the family
casket.
Antimigraine cures all headaches. — Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
LOVE’S MANY VAGARIES.
TER " IS, THE ACTOR, WRITES OF AN
AMCSING INSTANCE
Cupid at Work on the Stage—A Young
Man Who Tired ef the Sea and W ent
on the Boards Inspired by Love -
Mr. Terris’ Good Offices.
From the Boston Herald.
For love’s vagaries there is no accounting.
I have seen some strange people mated to
gether, but the strangest couple are—l
should say were—a pair of my oldest
friends.
After I had loft my first profession, the
merchant service, aud had joined the happy
band of mummers, my thoughts used often
to revert to my old messmates and our
merry life; fpr we were merry, notwith
standing bad weather, keeping watch, leave
stopped aud other small disc nnforts. And
a good deal of our fnorriness arose from the
mad pranks that we used to play upon each
other. In particular I will mention one un
fortunate wight. I must give him a name,
though it was not his own, and will call him
Peter Vanity, for that was his one little
weakness. He thought he was good look
ing.
But he was the best tempered, most for
giving fellow on earth or sea. Not without
pluck, though, for when we put on
him too much he would hit out manfully
against an oldster. lam afraid that bis
rather dandy gab-up, his very long nose, his
sandy kair and white eyebrows and eye
lashes and little finikin manner enticed ns
to cut down his hammock, turn upon him
iu dark corners and upset things over his
clean ducks rather frequently. But we
liked him and he liked us. He was never
Intended by nature to be a sailor, aud I
oft;n wondered how bo got on. He told me
he would not take to tbs oounting house (his
father was a merchant), and so be was sent
to sea in one of the ships belonging to the
firm.
You can imagine my surprise, years after
when, being called to the reading of anew
piecs, and the parts givon out, one of three
lines, intrusted to a flunkey, was taken by
Peter Vanity. I could "not .believe my
eyes! What could have induced him to
take to the stage. At a glance I took in
that things were not very flourishing with
him in a wordly point of view, but there
was that precise neatness which bad always
distinguished him. He seemed half afraid
to address me, so I took the
initiative, and went up and
shook him by the hand. He told me
that he couldn’t pass, that the “governor”
got savage, aud that he was sick of the sea.
As he would not rejoin his vessel all sup
plies were stopped, and he had been strug
gling on one way and the other till, through
an old actor, who had known his family
and had interest with the management, he
had got this engagement, naturally at little
more than super’s pay. I coached him as
much as 1 could with the view of his getting
something better by and by, but 1 did not
find him a very promising pupil.
PETER’S STAGE FRIGHT.
We had at that time a very beautiful
?;irl, who played ingenue parts, and bad*
air to become a great actress. In one of
her scenes Peter had to bring on a card for
her to take from a salver, and to announce
that the gentleman was waiting. Gn tbe
first night poor Peter could not even do
this properly. He got on the wrong side,
he had stage fright and could not utter a
word, aud Miss Dempster, the young ao
tress, had to introdiice his line, and so
furtunately got him out of his scrape, but
it ruffled her, aud as tbe close of the act
she spoke rather sharply, yet -courteously,
to him. Peter was awfully sorry, and 1
put in a good word for him, and when I
had an opportunity explained to her his
position, so far as that he was a gentleman;
though I said nothing about his family. I
noticed she looked at him with something
like pity, and I believe that at that moment
her love for him began.
By degrees she contrived to get him to
talk to her, of which he was very shy at
first, for he was proud in his way and re
served, aud felt how much beneath her he
was in the theatrical social scale. But
gradually I learnt that be used to see her
part of the way home, and then it came to
leaving her at her door, and the end of it
was that he was head over ears iu love with
her, and she with him. But he never said a
word, though she must have seen it, and
then, I suppose, he thought it would only be
honorable for him not to eutangle her in any
way, as he had no prospect of marrying
her, so he told me he was going to try for an
engagement somewhere in the provinces. I
told this to Miss Dempster the same even
ing. She looked very miserable for a
moment or two, and then brightened up
suddenly.
That night she referred to his coming de
parture, and pointedly asked him to seo her
home. The next day they came to me in a
very sheepish manner, and contrived be
tween the pair of them to let me know that
they wero engaged; how they managed to
come to an understanding I don’t know, but
I shall always believe she proposed to him,
though Mrs. Vanity vows she did not.
Would you believe it, they were married in
a mouth? She was earning a small, but
decent salary, and he was getting little
more than at first. Anyhow, they contrived
to live comfortably on their little income,
and were as happy as possible.
Then came the trouble. Peter caught
cold, which led to inflammation of the
lungs. How she did nurse him—attending
rehearsals, always at her work at night,
and then hurrying away to see after him.
He got better, and then, I suppose, the anx
iety and trouble told upou her, for she got
low fever, was laid up, of course treasury
stopped after a time, and the poor fellow
was like a madman on her account. He had
struggled on bravely when he had only
himself to think of, but to see her want •
what money could procure humbled him.
So he put his pride in his pocket, and went
to his father—l won’t say like a prodigal
son, for he had never done anything wrong,
but he told him exactly bow he was placed.
A “STIFF AND STARCHY” FATHER.
The “governor” was very st ff and starchy
at first, more particularly when he heard
that he had a daughter-in-law, but I fancy
the old fellow had bean hoping that tho tru
ant would turn up and asic forgiveness.
Even when he did consent to do something
for Peter, it must be on his own conditions
—“he must give up all that play-acting
tomfoolery,” and come aud take his place
in the office like any other clerk, and the
only differenoe he would make was that,
being his own son, Peter should have a
larger salary, and he wouldn’t see Peter’s
wife—at least not at present.
This the husband was very sore at, but
his great love bad taught film wisdom, and
so he mounted his high stool and pegged
away at “bills of lading” and invoices, for
he was put quite at the bottom of the tree.
And he got on, too, and pleased tbe gov
ernor, though the governor did not openly
let him see it.
And now Peter’s only trouble was about
his wife. She had recovered in a measure,
but was very delicate, and could not follow
her profession, and this worried her much,
but not so much as that Vanity, Sr., had not
been to see her. So Peter tried his father
one day when be was in a better temper
than usual, and at last induced him to go to
their lodgings. He found them neatly kept,
and Mrs. Vanity, Jr., pleasant and nice
without any cringiog; and so the old gen
man got gradually to like her.
The young people did not forget me ; I
was always welcome, and I saw things were
gradually getting smoother with them. This
is some years ago. Peter Is no longer slim,
or pale, or poor. He is a partner with the
governor now, and they are capital friends.
And Peter and his wife livfe In a swell ter
race and keep their carriage, and Mrs.
Vanity, Jr., is as handsome os ever, but of
tbe Juno-like order now. To this day sbs
thinks there is no one like her Peter, though
1 never can understand what she saw in
him. Surely I can’t have been a little jeal
ous of him at one time. She was very
pretty.
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Carthage, 111., Jan. 28.—The excite
ment concerning Lewis Boston’s ghost is on
the increase, and the story has spread far
and wide. Newspaper men have been mak
ing life a burden to young Wright, who is a
quiet country farmer, and in his wildest
dreams never hoped to gain the notoriety
he has attained. A correspondent has suc
ceeded in obtaining from Wright an explicit
statement concerning his experience with
the spook. They were made in the presence
of A. N. Cherril, a notary public, and C.
W. Boston, a relative of the dead boy.
The statepient, which is full, and which
Wright will swear to at any time, is as fol
lows:
My name is Arthur Wright; age 10. I
have seen ghosts twelve or thirteen times
within the past two months. On Wednes
day night Inst I was going home from a
meeting at Bowen, driving a pair of ponies
to a buggy, when, within nearly half a mile
of home, a ghost came out from a hedge
fence. It was clothed in white. It oaught
both my horses by the bridle reins. The
horses were frightened and tried to get away.
Tbe ghost spoke to tho horses, calling them
by name. He caught the smaller one,
Frank, by the rein, and walked
around by tbe side of him, and then
came to tbe side of tbe buggy and
climbed on tbe wheel, and put his
knee on the side of the bed as if to get in.
He said to me: “Hello, Art.” It was the
ghost of Lewis Boston, who died lately.
I worked for him about two years ago. He
said: “Poor old L. L. has come back to
see you.” He sakl he had come back to tell
me something. He told mo some things
which I will not repeat. It was good ad
vice to me and other friends. Ho said to
me not to tail what he said now, but he told
me when I might tell them. He sent a
message to his father, his son Willie and
bis wife, and others not remembered now.
He asked me to shake bands with him. I did
so. His hand was as cold as ice. He said: “I
must go, for tbe angels in heaven are wait
ing fdr me,” or words to that effect. He then
disappeared. The tone of voice of this ghost
was precisely that of Lewis Boston. Dur
ing the tithe of this talk my horses bad run
into tbe hedge and were standing there, but
wanting to get away. Arriving at home I
said nothing about this apparition to any
member of my family, but told it the next
morning to all tn.v folks at home. The
ghost said to me before it disappeared that
I would never see him again, aud I never
have. Onoe before this, when I saw tbe
ghost about the same plaoe where the
ghost of Lewis Boston came out of
the hedge, it stepped ont in front of the
horses. They turned around. He went back
toward the hedge. The horses ran past him,
and bs came running out and climbed on
behind the buggy top. He rode that way
about a quarter of a mile, when I hallooed
and he got off. Before this I met him com
ing out of the barn. This was the first time I
ever saw him. My horses had been driving,
were frightened, and I held them until tho
ghost went out of tbe gate. I saw
the same ghost at the barn a number of
times afterward, and once threw at it
with a neck-yoke. Tbe ghost started at me
as if it would eat me up. It then disap-
peared. Once when the ghost came out of
the barn one night I asked it what it
wanted. It spoke and said: 1 ‘lt’s none of
your business.” Then pretty soon I said:
“What the devil do you want?” It said
the time would come when I would know
what it wanted. I said; “ you, if
you don’t get out of here I’ll blow you up.”
It then commenced crying like a man and
disappeared. All these and other appear
ances of tho ghost, which I believe to be
the late Lewis Boston, appeared to mo at
night.
THU RAINBOW.
BY MRR. AMELIA WELBV.
I sometimes have thoughts in my loneliest hours.
That lie on my heart like the dew on the
flowers,
Of a ramble I took one bright afternoon
When my heart was as bright as a flower In
June;
The green earth was moist with the late fallen
showers,
The breeze fluttered down and blew open the
flowers:
While a single white cloud, to its haven of rest
On the white wings of peace, floated off in the
west.
As I threw back my tresses to catch the cool
breeze
That scattered the rain drops and dimpled the
seas,
Far up the blue sky a rainbow unrolled
Its soft tinted pinions of purple aDd gold.
’Twas born in a moment, yet quick as its birth
It bad stretched to the uttermost parts of tho
earth,
And fair as an angel it floated as free.
With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea.
llow calm was the ocean! how gentle its swell!
Line a woman's soft bosom it rose and it fell,
While its light sparkling waves stealing laugh
ingly o’er,
When thev saw tbe fair rainbow fall down to
the shore;
No sweet hymn ascended, no murmur of
prayer
Yet T felt that the spirit of worship wss there,
And bent my young head in devotion and lore
’Neath the form of the angel that floated
above.
How wide was the sweep of its beautiful wings!
How boundless ite circle! how radiant its rings !
If I looked on the sky ’twas suspended in air;
If I looked on tbe ocean the rainbow was there;
Thus forming a girdle as brilliant and whole
As the thought of tbe r&iubew that circled my
soul;
Like the wings of the Deity, calmly unfurled.
It bent from tbe clouds and encircled the
world.
There are moments, I think, when the spirit
receives
Whole volumes of thoughts on its unwritten
leaves;
When tbe folds of tbe heart In a moment un
close
.Like the innermost leaves from the heart of the
rose.
And thus when the rainbow had passed from
the sky
The thoughts it awoke were too deep to pass
by; '
It left my full soul like the wings of a dove,
All fluttering with pleasure and fluttering with
love.
I know that each moment of rapture or psln
But shortens the links in life's mystical cnain:
I know that my form, like that bow from the
wave
Must pass from the earth and lie cold in the
grave;
Vet, 0: when death's shadows my bosom en
cloud
When I shrink from the thought of the coffin
and shroud
May Hope, like the rainbow, my spirit enfold
In her beautiful pinions of purple and gold.
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H. ALTMAY i
At ALTMAYER’S
THIS WEEK;
fuo i:
Sicilian Suitings,6 |-4c.
WORTH 12 l-2c.
rURRISUUIO GOOD*.
ItA^AR
HATTER % MEN’S FURNISHER
ALL THE LEADING FIRST-CLA C S HATSL
Such as DUNLAP, NASCUIENTOB,
aud BTKTSON.
NEW NECKWEAR AND GLOYESL
Military and Society Goods.
Fine UMBRELLAS and Men’s Wear generally.
S7 HTJI.L STREET.
A. It. AI.TMAYF.It A < >.
At ALTMAYER’S
THIS WEEK,
BIG DRIVE IN
EMBROIDERIES!
6and 10c.; worthdouble.
WINTER KUSOKT*.
SUWANNEE SULPHER
Resort and Sanitarium.
SUWANNEE, - FLA.
OPEN ALL THE YEAR. Located on a high,
dry bluff, overlooking the Suwannee River, with
Its beautiful KCenery. The untuue Coquina
Rock Main Buildings, surrounded by the com
fOrtehle cottages, supplied with hot and cold
mineral water direct from the spring, offers as
a Winter and Summer Kesorc many advantages
that can only be appreciated by a visit. Per
fectly Q-ee from malaria, atmosphere dry and
pleasant, tempered by the southwest breeze of ’
the Gulf. The* remedial virtues of the water for
Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver
Complaints, are too well known to be expatiated
upon. Write for pamphlet with testimonials
and circular with rates.
8. H. PECK, Suwannee, Fla
LUMBER.
McCaaley, Stillwell & Cos.,
Yellow Pine Lumber,
ROUGH OR DRESSED.
Planing MUI, yard and office,Gwinnett street,
east of 8., F and W. Ry.
Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Mouldings, Weath
erboarding, Shingles, lathes, Etc.
Estimates furnished and prompt delivery
gua anteed.
A. R. ALTMA YEK & CO*
AT ALTMAYER’S
THIS WEEK,
Gents Uilaimdricd Shirts
'vsL
WITH LINEN BOSOM.
35c.; worth 50c^
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HOTELS.
Tampa Bay Hotel, c ,
TAMPA, FLA, *▼
Will open for the season on SATURDAY,
31st. Accommodation strictly first-classi.
Building fire-proof. Rate *4 day and upwards,
according to room.
O. H. CARTER, Manager.
F. J. HART, 6uperlntendent.ifJ
the~iStn, 5
PORT TAMPA, FLA
Delightfully situated on the waters of Old
Tampa Bay, offers first-class accommodations.
Steamers between Mobile. Havana, Jamaica
and Manatee river points land near bouse.
C. E. HOADLEY, Superintendent.
financial.
ACTIVE STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD
FOR CASH OR ON MABOIN BY
W. K. STEVENSON & CO.,
106 Broadway. N. Y.
tf. IS. Hr*Cable Address, “Wakaman.”
SHOES.
FTTirTT
EVERYTHING
IN YOUR FAVOR.
A light store, fresh stock, atten
tive clerks, goods the choicest
picks, prloee the lowest possible con
sistent with fair dealing. Can yon
not see where your iuterest lies!
Don’t leave your imereet and princi
pal both at the high priced stores,
but
Come to Butler & Morrissey.
li 11 11 II II
The
Leaders
IN
Low Prices
/\
( M 7 ”T“ Confound this olalro with
L-J WI w I the olaima of others which
nro not substantiated bv facts. Our goods Are
bock of our prices, ana we stand back of our
goode, ready to make every promise good.
BUTLER & MORRISSEY,
Broughton St.
HOTKI*.
THE
DE SOTO,
SAVANNAH, GA.
One of the most elegantly appointed hotels
in the world.
Accomodations for 500
O-ucHts.
OPEN ALL YEAR.
WATSON & _POWERS.
PULASKI HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Management strictly flnt-claaa
Situated In the business center,
Is W. SCO villa
CLOTH I NO.
tot Midis
IB THE
Order of the Bay.
A HEAVY STOCK
OF
Will (Ming
(As you all know we only carry
the best that’s made), is still
in our store, and we will offer
them
GHEAPEI THAN TIE
CHEAPEST,
in order to effect sales and
realize the cash. You all know
what we say we strictly ad
here to.
my is,
-—THE
Reliable Outfitters
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