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0 OLD CRONE’S CURSE.
(SB QYPSY’d MALUDIOTION
BROUGHT BAD LUCK.
penied the Alma Bhe Demanded the
Romany Hag Cursed the People,
gervants and Home—Death, Illness,
Lose of Fortune, Insanity and Ruin
Followed on Each Other's Heals.
Spooks Played About the Deserted
Mansion Within a Year—Only Fire
Broke the Spell.
From the. Chicago Time*.
A month ago I read an Item in an In
diana paper to the effect that "the old John
Harsh house” bad Anally been wiped out
by fire, and that there was great rejoicing
among the residents of the town of V .
After the Are some boys went poking about
among the ruins and found the half-oon
lumed body of a supposed tramp, and also a
ateleton which was believed to have been
walled up in the house for years.
The ‘‘old John Marsh house” stood at the
bead of a street half a mile south of the
town hall in the town of V . John
jlarsb, when I went to read law with him,
was acknowledged to be the lending lawyer
of tbe county. Indeed, he bad a state repu
tation. He was then 47 years old, a wid
ower and about to be married again. Asa
lawyer be took advantage of every circum
stance to get the better of the other
side, but as a citizen he was frank
and open and free-handed. He had a
son of JO, who was at college studying med
icine, and a daughter of 17, who was the
tbe belle of the town. His maiden sister
was bis housekeeper, and as I lived in the
family I can truthfully say that no home
was ever more pleasant, rion,daughter and
sister seemed to be entirely reconciled to
the idea of another marriage, and the
widow to whom Mr. Marsh was engaged
was handsome, accomplished and a general
favorite in society.
I bad teen in the family eight months,
and on a dozen different occasions I had
known of the lawyer giving aims to tramps
wbo came along, when one evening about 8
o'olock a queer-looking old woman called at
the back door and asked for food. The
housekeeper was suffering with toothache
arid petulantly refused the inendiwant’s re
quest. The old woman broke out with a
tirade of abuse, and her voice called the
rest of us into tbe kitoheu. She was
ragged and dirty and old, but by no
means feeble. The lawyer was just
ready to go out, and therefore had
an excuse for being brusque. The old
woman did not solicit charity, but de
manded it, and her manner was so offensive
that he ordered her off tbe grounds. She
stood in the kitchen door, which was Aung
wide open, and with the darkness of night
as a background she pointed a long, skinny
arm at the lawyer and said:
AS OLD HAG’S CURSE.
‘‘l give you an old woman’s curse! May
you and yours he accursed forever and for
ever. Aye, may tbe curse rest upon your
house and grounds after your bones have
become dust!”
VVe stood staring at her when the coach
man came in from the barn. The lawyer
motioned to him aud he took the old hag by
the arm and walked her to tbe gate and put
her out. She did not struggle against it,
nor did she utter a word until she had been
thrust out. Those of us in tbe house had
meanwhile pajsed frond the kitoheu to tho
front door, and so we plainly heard what
she said to Robert, the coachman, although
she did not raise her voice. She said:
“And a curse on you as well! You shall
die within a month 1”
All of us laughed at the woman’s words.
I don’t believe any one bad them in mind a
quarter of an hour. VVe looked upon her as
some poor and dissipated old wreok living
on the outskirts of the town who wanted
money to buy liquor, aud whose words were
the natural result of her disappointment.
It didn’t occur to ns that she was a stranger,
and she certainly did’t resemble a gypsy in
the slightest.
Not a word was said about her next day,
and nothing happened to recall her words
for a fortnight. Then Robert was found
dead in the barn. While harnessing the
horses he had been kicked in the head by
one of them. I don’t know that we would
have thought of the old woman then but
for the sister. While she hadn’t said any
one she had still been greatlv worried over
“the curse,” and she now declared her belief
that Robert’s death was the beginning (if a
series of calamities.
I propose to relate things as they oc
curred and leave you to draw your own
conclusions.
For several years the lawyer bad had a
very important case banging fire in the
higher courts. He firmly believed he had
justice and equity on his side, and that he
would win. I may tell you that it was a
suit to establish the validity of a claim of a
poor man to over 8800,000 worth of real
estate in Cincinnati. The case had doubt
less been taken “on shares,” although law
yers seldom admit such self-interest.
That case came up two weeks after the
coachman’s death, aud the lawyer lost it. I
know to a. certainty that he was several
thousand dollars out of pocket. If the case
was not a good one, how did it come about
in after years that the people in possession,
with a decision in their favor, bought the
heir off for 8100,000 ? The lawyer was
knocked off bis feet by the deolsion, and
from that time on I think he feared “the
curse.” He asked me to look about and
find the old woman, and then another queer
feature was developed. She could not be
found. She bad never lived in the town,
and it turned outthas noons had seen her
except the four of us. I made a eirouit of
twenty-five miles around our town, tint i
positively failed to any one who had set
eyes on her.
MORE TROUBT-.lt FOLLOWS.
The thiug had an uncanny look tome, and
I was sure it troubled the lawyer more than
he would admit. It was Sept. 19 when the
old woman uttered hor curse. The lawyer
was to be married Nov. 90. his birthday.
On Not. 10 the daughter was stric -jn with
malignant diphtheria and died four days
later. When first taken, and
before the physician was sure
of the case, she declared her belief
in the “curse.” The sad affliction of course
caused a postponement of the wedding.
The bride-elect had made all preparations,
and I had every reason to believe it was a
love match. After the funeral and post
ponement of the wedding the lawyer em
ployed a detective to hunt for the old
woman. I knew what was going on aud I
have always believed that his idea was to
find and propitiate her. She could not be
found.
I know for fact that over $2,000 was
paid out before the search was abandoned,
hut no trace of her was hah The daughter
died in November. One day in the early
part of January a boy brought a note to the
office ot the lawyer. It was a dull, stormy
day arid we were alone. He read the epistle
and fell in a heap on the floor His prom
ised Made bad written bim that her ieelings
bad undergone a change and that see
wanted to be released from the engagement.
Rhe wrote so strongly that Mr. Marsh never
made an attempt to see her. She went away
in a few days and in the 8; ring was married
to a man in ludianapolis and is living there
to-day.
In April l went away to college. The
dar after 1 left V the son Charles re
turned home unexpectedly. He was rather
a wild boy, and hai takeu part In some dis
graceful affair at college, for which he had
been expelled. What happened between
him ami his father may he guessed from the
fact that within a week he committed
suicide. I have in an old scrapbook the
finding of the coroner’s jury as printed in
oue of the newspapers. It gives’•despond
ence” as the causa of his bauging himself in
his own bedroom. The father seemed to
take ou ten years in a month, and eve y
body said bi mind was affected. He soon
ceased to do business, and shut himself up
from the world like a hermit.
It was the anniversary of the daughter’s
death before anything else important oo-
currel. Then Aunt Hattie, as I bad always
called the sister, wrote me such a strauge
letter that I was suro her mind was affected,
and I hastened home to And that she bad
disappeared. The lawyer was little tetter
than daft, not being able to keep bis mind
for five minutes at a time and spending most
of his hours in the garret of the house de
livering imaginary addresses to imaginary
courts. It was generally believed that the
woman had drowned herself, though the
body was not found. At this time a brother
of the lawyer came from Burlingtou, la.,
and bad him adjudged of unsound mind
and took him away to a Chicago asylum.
He had not. been an Inmate of the plane two
months when he threw himself from a win
dow and was killed.
What I have told you up to this time was
common talk, published iu three or four
different papers, and I may add that nine
tenths of the people believed in the old
crone’s curse. The house was Arst rented
to a grocer, who was known to everybody
as a hard-headed man and a man with
plenty of nerve, and yet after six weeks’
residence in the house he moved out. He
had leased it for a year. I do not know
what he may have told others, but be in
formed me, under promise of secrecy, that
he believed the house to be haunted. It
was no use to ridicule his statements for he
was serious and earnest. The fact of his
moving out proved that. He, however,
made suoh reasonable excuses to others that
he Anally subleased to a stone yard man
named Applegate.
The latter lived there only three weeks.
Neither he nor his wife would offer on ex
cuse beyond that the place was rather lone
some, but a daughter 20 years old said they
had heard footfalls passing through the
house until all were half scared to death.
On several occasions, she said, the kitchen
door had been found open when all were
positive that it had been looked.
A NIGHT IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
It was a year before any one else took the
house, and it was then vacated for good.
The story got around that it was haunted,
and though it was offered rent free to poor
people, no one would move into it. When It
was put up at auction sale there was only
one bid, aud so no sale was effected.
While ready to admit that I half believed
in "the curse,” I can truthfully declare that
the stories reaching me from time to time
regarding the house excited my oontempt.
For several months bsfore the opportunity
came 1 was anxious to pass a night there
and Bee what would occur. House ana
grounds had long teen abandoned to
tramps, but yet on certain occasions these
tramps had made queer statements about
what had happened there. The windows
had been broken, the doors torn away, and
the once fine old mansion was a had wreck
when I inspected It one afternoon. The
only two doors left intact were tho sliding
doors separating the parlors. The others
had been used for fuel in the Areplaees.
I told no one of my intentions, but at 10
o'clock that night, armed with a revolver,
candle aud matches, I returned to tbe house
and sat down on the Aoor in a corner of the
back parlor. There was a doorway between
this room and tbe dining room and one be
tween that and tbe kitchen. It was a warm
night in summer, with never a breath of
wind. It was as quiet as a graveyard in
the house and about the grounds. You must
not think me boastful when 1 teil you that
I was not even shaky, I was somewhat ex
cited, but not at all nervous. Iu the Arst
place, I believed that all the stories had been
grossly exaggerated, and in the next I was
of the opinion that some practical joker had
a band in the business if there was anything
in it.
From 10 to 1 o’clock nothing happered—
nothing but my going to sleep. I heard the
town clock strike 12, and I heard the Arst
quarter chime. I didn’t feel sleepy, aud
yet I dropped off, and about a minute after
I awoke the clock struck 1. The sounds of
footsteps awoke me. Someone came up
the graveled walk from the gate, passed
around to the kitohen door, and en
tered. It was a shuttling, dragging
step. It passed aoross the kitchen,
passed across the dining room, aud I
firmly expected to tee a person in the
doorway. It was not so dark but I could
have made out even a rat. No one ap
peared. I crept on hands and knees to tho
doorway. No one could be seen. While I
orouohed there the step went away from
me across the room and into the kitoheu to
the back door. I followed on tiptoe clear
to the hack door. I stood in the doorway
while the footsteps passed down the gravel
walk and were lost at tbe gate.
Whose footsteps? You tell! I returned
to the parlor and sat down. In about ten
minutes someone slowly descended the
front stairs. There were no frontdoors. I
rose up, tiptoed into tbe front parlor, and
thence into the hallway. Nothing was to
be seen. After a minute the footfall echoed
down tbe ball leading to the dining room.
I followed after. I seemed to be almost
over them. Had there been a person there
1 should have bumped aguinst him. Down
the hall, through the dining room, aoros-i
the kitchen, and down the graveled walk to
the gate. Thus I followed tha footfalls and
saw nothing hut the gloom of the night.
Feople had told of hearing women weep,
of sighs and groans and curses, of sudden
drafts of cold air and the sounds of blows.
I heard nothing hut the footfalls. I went
away not because I was afraid, but beoause
I had found out all I could. In a year or
two more a part of the roof fell In, aud the
house was a sort of ruin, wherein tramps
skulked away when hard pressed for lodg
ings. After years and years one of them
started a conflagration and perished in the
flames. Whose skeleton did they find? I
believe it was “Aunt Hattie’s.” I believe
the half-crazed lawyer killed her and hid
the body somewhere in the walls. That’s
all. You oan smile in derision or speculate
on it as a mystery.
RICH CONGRESSMEN.
THE NEW SENATE POORER THAN
THAT BODY USED TO BE.
From the Washington Star.
The only very rich man among the new sena
tors is A. C. Beckwith of Wyoming. His wealth
is estimated all the way from $500,000 to sl,-
OOO.iWO, derived from coal mines and banking.
Next to him in point of means comes Murphy
of New York, who has accumulate 1 at least
$:53,000 in the brewing business. Notwith
standing the acquisition of these fortunes, the
upper house as a body is not half so well off in
money as It was during Mr. Cleveland's first ad
ministration. Three of the greatest capitalists
in the world have dropped out of it since
then. Hearse of California, who died two years
ago, was worth $2 >,000.000. When Stanford
first escorted him down the middle aisle < f the
Senate to be sworn in it was remarked that
those two individuals could buy out all the rest
of the Senate if they wanted to. Payne of (ihio,
the .Standard oil magnate, has retired with his
$15,0(K OCO from service, and the term of Uncle
I j hilotus Sawyer of Oskosh, VVis . came to an
end March 4of this year Thebegtnuingof the
I SC3,OA),i>X) which he has got togeth-r was SI,OOO
lent him by his brother when he wa. a
youngster. Having rolled this small nucleus
into a hugh financial enow ball by investments
in timber lands he paid back the loan with $4
interest for every $1 borrowed.
Two other men of millions—Farwell of Illi
nois and Palmer of Michigan—have left the Sen
ate Since Clevelan l’s first term. The only great
fortunes which have came into it meanwhile are
those of Calvin S. Brice, who has made about
i S5 0C0.(i00 oy speculation in railway and oil
i stock, and Thomas C. Power of Montana The
I latter is worth at least $1,500,000. He owns
railways and steamship lines, as well as trading
houses all along the Montana border. The
Thomas C. Power cattle Company is one of tue
biggebt enterprises of that kind in trie west.
POORER THAN IT USED TO BE.
All things considered, the upper house is
much poorer than it uso l to be, tbouth there
are still a number of millionaires In it. Stanford
of California, though he ias given $1,000.0 10 to
ids pet university, mu.t have at least $;5,U00,-
000 Don Cameron may b • set down at $-, J 0.-
000 His money was inherited. Eugene Hale
of Maine has $2,000,000. He got most of it with
hit Wife John Sherman’s means are not ote
ostimated at $1,000,000. He has been very fortu
nate u laud speculations, and he has Invented
largely ill real estate in YVasuington. William
K Chan 11 r <.f New Hampshire has accumu
lated *750,00 I by manufacturing wool and by
lucky sacculation. Carey of Wyoming and
Teller of Colorado each possess about sdoe.ooo.
k.nes of Nevada is a very picturesque figure
financially, having made and lost more fortunes
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than any other man in the United States. He
still owns one-t wehth of tbe great Comstock
lode and is probably worth $1,500,000 to-day.
Mining: speculations are extra hazardous.
Senator Jones' colleague, Stewart, had $3,000,-
000 at one time. It was then that he built that
monstrosity of architecture called Scewart
castle, on Dupont circle, now occupied by the
Chinese legation. Probably his wealth amounts
to no more than a small fraction of that
amount now. Washburn, the Minnesota
miller, has been a great gawoler in land. Two
years ago he was reduced to comparative pov
erty; at present he is probably worth $750,000.
The richest member of the House of Repre
sentatives is John L. Mitchell of Wisconsin. His
possessions will foot up at least $1,000,000, most
of which he inherited from his father, who was
tbe great financier and railway organizer of
that pa; tof toe country a generation ago. The
son is president of a gas company aud of a
bank in Milwaukee.
NOT MANY REPRESENTATIVES RICH.
Not many of the representatives in congress
are r.ch men. Thomas B. Reed is very well off.
though he always “talks poor.'* Before he wag
chosen speaker he kept house, but since that he
has lived at Levi P. Morton’s great hostlery on
Fifteenth 6treet, the •‘Shoreham.” Speaker
Crisp puts up at the Metropolitan hotel Mr.
Carlisle has until recently lived at one hotel or
another since he first took up his residence in
Washington. The late Samuel J. Randall
dwelt iu a little bouse which his wife owned on
(J street southeast. Chairman Springer of the
ways and means committee, occupies a small
rented house on B street noitheqst These lo
cations, though conveniently near the capilol,
are very unfashionable, Dingley and Boutelle
of Maine ana Burrows of Michigan board at
hotels. Four-fifths of the representative*
board.
Much that is paid about the difficulty which
congressmen find in living hereon their salaries
of $5,000 a year is not well founded in fact. A
score of representatives could be mentioned off
hand each oi whom saves from $2,000 to $3,000
annualiy out of his pay. Jerry Simjsouof
Kansas aud the ec eatnc Martin of Texas, who
is alleged to have blown out the gas at a hotel
when ue first come to Washington, have been
among the most economical among recent
members of the House Many of them occu *. y
single bedrooms, dress shabbily aud live iu no
respect better than the average department
clerk. There are plenty of boarding houses
here where meals aud lxigiugs can be got at
low prices, from $lB to $35 a month. This city
has been widely advertised as a very expensive
place to dwell in. It is not so at all, if oue
chooses to be saving. For S7OO a year one cau
rent a nice little house near the capitol; a serv
ant cau be got for $lO a month, an the markets
are not hub.
If a congressman must have a fine house in
the fashionable ouarter of the town a r and enter
tain liberally $5,000 will not go very far. The
same proposition would apply anywhere else.
One trouble with the new member is that be
does not know whether he is going to remain
here two years or twenty. For furnished dwell
ings an absurdly high rental is demanded.
Many legislators for the nation save by leaving
then families at home. Out of Bio-odd mem
bers and delegates in the House during the iast
session ouly 90 had wives with them. It was
n iticeable that of the 10 members whose names
begin with the letter O not one was accompa
nied by bis wife. Out of the 16 P's only 1 had
his wife with him in Washington, aud of 21 M's
but 3 enjoyed the companionship of their
spouses. Is it possible that men whose nan.es
begin with those letters are commonly less in
clined to be uxorious than thoso whose initials
are found elsewhere in the alphabet? On the
other hand, more than naif of the senators were*
accompanied by their wives, an l they had
twenty-seven daughters with them in addition.
WHAT IT COSTS TO BE IN SOCIETY.
Some of the finest places in this city of beau
ttf ul houses are occupied by congressmen A
senator, whoso wife is fond of society, cau
easily spend $20,000 a year iu entertaining with
out making much of a splurge. The Brices are
particularly lavish with flowers, the table et
their dinner parties being always fairly c >vered
with c stly roses aud other blooms. This item
alone must cost them several hundred dollars
for every evening of such festivity. Living on
such a scale a very moderate reckoning of a
congressman's expenditures in Washington
would teas follows:
Rent of furnished house $12,000
Entertaining 20,000
Housekeeping and servants 10.000
Equipages 5.000
Two daughters ... 8.0-0
One son 5,000
Summer outing 10,000
Other expenses 10,000
Total 000
The total might easily run up to SIOO,OOO. In
the legislative halls a congressman who lives
on such a scale may sit choek-by-jowl with a
colleague who spends $7 a v ok for his meals
and a small bedroom in a third rate boarding
house. The contrast is very striking. One
reasou why there are so many millionaires in
the Senate is that when a man has at tained
great wealth there Is nothing better for him to
adopt as the final ambition ot his life than a
senatorship, which may be considered the most
agreeable aud dignified position 11 which any
body can attain. Washington, too, is a very
delighttul plac& to livelu.
ADVANTAGES OF BEING A CONGRESSMAN.
Certain advantages a congressman enjoys
which ordinary people do not share. Forex
ample. let it be supposed taat a senator feels
fatigued at the close of an afternoon session.
He desc -nds to the basement of the oapitol and
has a w arm bath drawn for him in a superb tub
of white marble. If be prefers be can make it a
Turkish bath, for which all the appurtenauc s
are at l aud. There ure negro attendants skilled
in massage who will thump and slap him to his
heart's content. For ail this he is not required
to pay a cent Perchance a favorite corn has
annoyed him during the day. He summon* the
official chiropodist, a salaried expert in govern
ment employ, who operates free of charge. If
he expects to spend the evening outlie may
want a snave and haircut, which are readily
obtained at the hands ot deft-fingered barbers,
likewise in the servic: ot Uncle Sam The hair
tome applied to his locks, the “brilliantine'’ for
his mustache and the cologne bestowed upon
hit countenance through an atomizer are all
purchased out of the contingent fund of the
S-uat • Finally, a gratuitous "shine" is put on
his boots by a stipeodary shoeblack.
Among other things which the contingent
fund pavsfor are castor oil, of which any Sen
ator can get a dose for nothing, quinine pills,
‘ pond lily wash" and c urt plaster. Then; are
but a few of hundreds of such queer things
which are enumerated in the accounts Of tiie
secretary of the Senate, together with ginger
ale by the case and lemons oy the box, as being
required at government expense for the com
fort of t int aligns body. The representatives
at the other on lof the capiti l have their bar
ber shop a! o. but they pay for their shaves and
haircut- ’ ' some reason which has never
been saii-b.ctoriiy explained, a senator is sup
posed to li ivo -ed of many more luxuries than
arp granted tn a mem tier of the House. He is
allowed a clerk at $2.0)3 a year, while only
lately for the first time lias it been decided that
a representative may bo granted a clerk, so
Ion,: as the salary of sunh an assistant does not
exceed $10) a mouth.
PRIVILEGES THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAV.
geveral useful privileges which congressmen
formerly tad tney no longer enjoy. They
abused the right of franking to Buch an exteat,
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A MOST DECIDED BARGAIN WEEK
LADIES’
Mnslin Underwear.
3,C00 pieces fine Cambric or Muslin
GOWNS, SKIRTS, DRAWERS, CHEMISE.
CORSET COVERS, elegantly made, trim
med and finished, same as sold at previous
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week at
23c and 49c-
SECOND FLOOR
EMBROIDERIES
Cotton, Cambric, Nainsook and Colored
EDGIISGS and EMBROIDERIES, usual 10c,
15c and 25c qualities, at
sc, 10c and 19c Yard.
MAIN FLOOR. REAR
FLOUNCING!).
Every piece of Ladies’ Hemstitched and
Embroidered FLOUNCING in the house,
45 inches deep, suitable for dresses or
aprons,
Isc Yard.
Misses’ Swiss Flouncings, 27 inches deep,
10c Yard.
MAIN FLOOR. REAR
Gfloves.
One lot of KID GLOVES, 500 pairs, all
kinds, all sorts, all sizes,
85c Pair.
MAIN FLOOR, CENTER
using it to obtain free transportation for all
sorts of packages and bundles, that it has been
restricted. At present they are only allowed to
frank public documents and official litters.
Koch senator or representative has an annual
allowance of (125 worth of stationery. This is
drawn upon by requisition for anything that is
wanted from the big stationers’ shops at either
end of the capitol. Until recently these shops
kept such things in stock as penknives, opera
glasses, clocks, etc., the consequence being that
ninny legislators bought their Christmas pres
ents at cost prices out of their allowances. This
was put a stop to finally. Railway passes are
no longer so readily obtained as before tue inter
state commerce law came into force, but it is
believed that most congressmen get them just
the same.
Congressmen are allowed 10 cents for every
mile traveled in going one round trip from
home to Washington and back during each con
gress. A member from California would draw
S3OO on his account. In the early days of the
national legislature senators and representa
tives were paid at the rate of $8 for everyday
of actual service The roll call thus served as a
salary list. There being no railways then, in
stead of 10 cents a mile, one day’s pay was
drawn for each 20 miles traveled. Twenty miles
waw considered a fair day’s journey on horse
back or by stage. Nearly every congressman
has a book of tranks for telegrams, supplied by
the Western Union company. Such a book
contain* 100 detachable stamps and the holder,
when he wants to send a message, simply tears
one out and sticks it upon the telegraph blank
These nlankg are biing used to a considerable
extent at present for telegrams which have re
lation to appointments to offloes. The possessor
is not supposed to employ them for business
purposes, but only on private matter:.
Representatives in congress use l to be al
lowed to draw on their salaries In advance from
the sergeant-at arms of the House. When the
lamous Kllcott defalcation occured a number
of members were found to have got money
ahead of their salaries Tie sergeant-at arms
did a largo business in lending money to mem
bers and shaving their notes at a high rate of
interest. He would make loans which were se
cured by the member’s salary and by a life in
surance policy guaranteeing the latter’s sur
vival. He could only lose in case the member
resigned, which did happen on two or three
occasions. In one instance he lent a man $lO,
000- the entire amnuut of his salary for two
years of service ahead. This sort of thing was
put a stop to when Bilcott's theft occurred, and
now no representative is permitted to draw a
penny in advance. He can only get his $415 a
month as it comes due.
Convinced t)y an Oriental Adept.
From the Washington Hews.
“The stories of the remarkable power of
the oriental adepts to bury themselves for
months have not been exaggerated in the
least,” said Archibald C. Lewellyn, a
Rritoulan, whose ruddy tan and sturdy
irsme bespoke the exposure and trials of
many lands.
“When I first went to India some years
ago, like every other white man I was abso
lutely incredulous as to the ability of any
man on earth to be hermetically sealed in a
box and burled underground for six months,
or six hours, for that matter.
“One day my dhmga told me of the fakir
who bad just come into the little village,
who, he said, could perform the feut. After
a great deal of ceremony and by dint of a
liberal bribe, we set about to bury the yel
low-skinned old ra cal. He was not a very
lovable object, and I would have about as
little trouble on my conscience , of killing
blra as any human being I ever saw, but 1
felt like an accessory to a murder as wo
lowered bim iuto a trench lu my garden
aud heard the plunk of the eartn upon his
coffin. He was swathed in bandages from
head to foot. He had drawn himself up
iDto a bail, bad rolled back Ms tongue into
his throat, stuffed his ears and nostrils with
s it wadding, aud was apparently (load teu
minutes after he began his final prepara
tions.
‘1 put a white guard over that grave
night and day for six months. At the end
of that time, as agreed, the natives gath
ered together and I sent for the officers of
our mess and we dug him up. If I had seen
Moses resurrected, if Julius Cassor were to
walk down Fennsylvania avenue, I would
not be more astonished than I was when 1
saw that fakir. He was covered with
mould, and, while perfeotly Inanimate, had
not decayed.
“In about three hours he had fully re
covered and was chant! og the praises of
Buddha.”
CHINA SILK DRESSES.
Plenty of women make their own dresses, plenty more hire them made,
but a greater number of them buy them ready-made. The time is past
when to get either the newest style or the exactest fit it is necessary to go
to a special dressmaker. Sixty China Silk Dresses in Black and Red, Black
and White, and Navy Blue and White Stripes, were previous to to-day
sll 98, goon sale MONDAY MORNING at
$7 90.
* BECOND FLOOR.
WRAPPERS.
Percale, Woven Cotton Flannelette Wrappers, Mother Hubbard Yoke-
Watteau Back, Body Lined, all new Spring Patterns. Another lot Calico,
Gingham and Flannelette in neat and pretty designs, prices
89c to $2 25.
SECOND FLOOR.
SHIRT WAISTS.
White Lawn and Percale. Plaited Back and Front Plaited Ruffles
Down Front Rolling Collars and High Sleeves; all of them, both the 75c
and the 98c kinds—you take your pick from some 70 odd dozen.
At 49c.
SECOND FLOOR.
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
——A. T I I O ]\l E— —
IN THEIR NEW REPOSITORY (Finest in the South),
BROUGHTON AND JEFFERSON STREETS,
(Formerly M. BOLEY & SON’S Stand.)
CORK FACED COLLARS.
LIGHT, COOL. ELASTIC.
GUARANTEED . NOT : TO : GALL.
/ojr Anh: über-Busch Biikwiwj Ass’n. i
i&8 gr H St. Lons, Sept. 9. Ikß4 )
We take pleasure in informing you that
fIS, is your Cork-Faced Collars havti given ier
(j S feet satisfaction, and we declare them to
ffimffa- /.a he the best horse collar at present in ex-
Mm. Canada fgmk lstence. They are lielit, o >ol, elastic nnd
$$ a. ’ir ¥s* durable. Their lightness of weight is a
■■■ H w great comfort to horses aud pro-
BMIWm lßia vents sore necks and the elasticity
BH.I the cork facing prevents sore
■y | HBMHiatinnidnra A number of our draught an •
WS Jaß rry. Mtfjimab. with sore neck, have been com
'pyVTsjl ttr" ‘ BsHfl pietelr cured by the use of your Cork
’JHgpS JHW Faced Collars. We have now a large
T&fewA number in use anl propose to re
vflwV place all our other collars by Cork-Faced
Collars an 1 to use none others hereafter.
Mj-SSANHEUSER-BUSCH HB WING ASS'N,
* s Geo. Kiilhsuick, Vice l're.
_ , _ A . .. ti I "T”r— i— yryt IV. KA X) X' 111
IRON-CLAD GUARANTEE. ofmck b*x'.kt. rolks &. co . i
, . i u v CoKTBACTOW. V
-Ly Hobokk <a , Jau. 14. IU2. j
••We will replace every bro
. II _ xx- U_x l_x A 1. ukh for ti e ptst fifteen yenri, an i bavin*
ken steel axle, no matter what I I 'obi/iV-^ 1 metai um.isor; ns. tbmibii Ketn, boiio
11 J It ~S&. I and rou axleo. but b never been able to find
the load might weigh or what *'lieei?a > .d t M*fl’a*l< Bt of y-ur Auburn*. Wo
havo done away with all other makes an.l use
the circumstances under which UMf IVC -w?"n I SKiK
it broke, free of charge.” ALbIRN SML-AXiJS mmi
ABBIC Jan.22, 189 J. f Mxtal Storm.
Savannah Carriage and
Kissimmis, Oa.. I
IVViflon Cos.: Not. 21,1891. f
Dear Sim —I have (//jfi
Steel Axle” Wagon for An - TT7 — ——■— slijl used tbre ® ot y° ur ‘Aa-
Our No. 3 PIRN WAG9H .i : li.i .. I. .... On.” IlOsr.U
INFANTS’ CAPS
Mull and Laca—not one among them
that has not been sold at from 25c to 50c—
cut to
13c.
SECOND FLOOR
75 MORE PIECES
Everybody knows the value, the useful
ness of the French Flannels, which alwaya
sold for 65c to 75c a yard. A smart manu
facturer on this side has produced the
same effects in TUXEDO FLANNELS,
beautiful and serviceable designs espec
ially adapted tor wrappers and children's
dresses While they last you can buy
them at
6 1-4 c a Yard.
M AIN FLOOR, CENTEK
JERSEYS.
One odd lot BLACK and COLORED,
regular 50c ones,
11c.
SECOND FLOOR.
Wine Glasses.
Three gross of them, Fluted, Plain,
Banded and Engraved, at 33c, 49c, 59c and
73c per dozen.
250 dozen GLASS SAUCER EGG CUPS,
cost you 89c dozen usually, this week you
buy them at
69c for 12.
ADLEU'a ECONOMY BASEMENT.
EVERYTHING n .-tf-w®
W H E E L
harness too.
AND
EVERYTHING OF THE BEST
Victorias, Coupes, Surries, Pony Carls, Speeiinx Bag
gies, Carls, Sulkies, Rockaways, Carriages, Etc.
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