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BT A DETROIT REPORTER.
There’s many a young man of
twenty who would prefer an easy
situation and good pay to laboring at
his trade. Therefore, there are many
who will say that the following ad
vertisement would insure a dozen ap
plicants wherever published:
NY anted. —A gentleman of moans,
who intends making a trip to Europe
next month, would like to engage
the services of a smart young man,
to go along and render himself use
ful in caring for the baggage, paying
hotel-billls, etc. &!ary, 1100 per
month and n’l ep't.•.-i* Apply
to Charles Sherman, Park avenue.
I was type-setter In the office of the
Boston Nows, a paper which went to
the sheriff years ago,. and when the
above “ad ” was laid on my case to
be put in type, I read it over three
<or four times. I was working hard,
and making seven dollars per week.
Seven dollars jer week was good
wages rn those old silver dollar times,
when first-class board could be had at
two and a half, and doeskin pants
find French calf hoots were only four
or five dollars a pair. But here was
a chance to make twenty-five dollars
per week, clean thing, and the work
was all travel and sight-seeing
Why, a man in my situation would
have been little short of a blockhead
not to have looked at the matter just
as I did.
It was 7 o’clock in the evening,
and the advertisement would appear
in (he morning issue. I read it over
once more, set np the word “wanted,”
and then put down my “stick” and
washed np.
“ What’s up?” inquired the fore
man, as he saw me washing my
hands.
“Nothing particular—be back in
half an hour,” I replied, as I slipped
on my overcoat and started down
stairs.
Of course, I had made Up mv mind
to apply for the situation, I thought
I might fill the bill, if he was not too
exacting, and if ho refused mo, I
would be no worse off than before.
Park avenue was a long way out
from tlie licart of the city, and I went
hy stage. I did not know Mr, Sher
man even by reputation, but the
driver knew whore lie lived, and that
was enough. It was a March night,
with considerable snow, and my en
thusiasm lin'd cooled off considerably
before the stage dropped me down in
front of a large, fine brick mansion,
standing back a few rods from the
avenue. In going up the path I no
ticed that the lawn was ornamented
with statuary, and could see at a
glance that the gentleman was pos
sessed of wealth and good taste.
There was no light below that I
could discover, but a couple of pulls
at the bell brought a woman, past
the middle age, to the door, lamp in
hand, To my query as to whether
Mr. Sherman was in, she made no di
rect reply, but asked if my business
was very important. It was, I said;
but she replied that I had better
come again in the morning; Mr. Slier
man was in, but was not well. I
was turning away when a gentleman
came down lire hall stubs, and said:
“ Did the gentleman wish to see
me, Jane?”
“I did, sir," T replied, and he im
mediately invited me into the parlor.
The lamp was turned up, we took
seats, and then I slated ary errand.
“If you can pass the test, you
shall have the place?” lie exclaimed,
slapping his hands together, and
breaking me off as I was giving him
references.
“ Ask me any question you wish,”
I replied.
“But it is a test of a different char
acter, he continued. “Come up to
my room.”
As we passed through the hall on
our way np stairs, the woman stand
ing in the library door laid her hand
upon my arm and whispered some
thing which I did not catch. I
thought it a great piece of imperti
nence on her part, and wondered if
she was not half drunk orabitdaaed.
The room which v. r as entered was
about twenty feet square, without
carpels, chairs, pictures or any furni
ture, except a table and a row of
shelves. There was a smell similar
to that encountered at the photo
grapher’s, and I saw a dozen glass
jars and a number of bottles on the
shelves. On the table was a galvanic
battery, having two handles for one
to take hold of, like some of the ma
chines seen on the street corners of
large cities.
“ Beg pardon for bringing yon into
such a cheerless place,’* said the mart,
locking tho door and pocketing the
key, “but I could not demonstrate
my ideas elsewhere.”
5 made reply that T was perfectly
satisfied, and ho put his ear totpno
of the panels of the door, and lis
tened to learn if the woman had fol
lowed ns np Stairs.
“Do you know,” ho whispered,
placing his hands on my shoulders,
“that the old waraa'i down stairs in
tends to poison me ? ”
“Impossible 1 she would not dare,”
I replied.
“ Oh 1 yon don’t know her ns well
as I do,” lie continued, arching Ills
eyebrows. “It’s a tnero question of
time, ot will be, if you can’t aid me,
She can’t poison my food, nor my
lea, wine nor coffee, but she has
another way.”
“llow—what?” I added, for the
first time noticing something strange
in his looks.
“You see, I don’t live as other
folks do,” lie whispered; “I am com
posed of cast-iron, and have to bo
very careful what I eat and drink.
I drink a great deal of spring water,
because that prevents mo from rust
ing; if my inside should got rusty
that would be the last of me!”
lie was insane! I could detoet it
in every look, now tint his words
had betrayed the secret, and a chill
crept up my back at tho discovery.
I felt for a moment as if my legs
were going out from under me, but
the man smiled and appeared so
pleasant and gentle that my norvo
soon cam" back.
“She will poison one of my bottles
of spring water,” he continued, reach
ing down three bottles from tho
shelf and placing them on the table.
They were all nearly full of clear
water, and all looked so exactly alike
that one could not be told front the
other.
“What poison do you suppose sine
would use?” he asked.
“Arsenic or strychnine, probably,”
I answered, feeling rather nervous,
“Perfectly correct; I think you
will pass the test,” ho said. “Now
here arc tho two poisons, and I shall
put one in this bottlo and one in
that!”
He reached down two ounce pack
ages, one labeled “ strychnine ” and
the other “ arsenic.” The name of
the druggist was pasted on each pa
per, with a death’s head and cross
boncs. He carefully emptied the
centents into the different bottles,
shook them up, and then asked me
to go to the other end of the room.
I heard .him handling the bottles,
but was not prepared for what fol
lowed. He came over to me after n
few minutes, bringing tho lamp and
placing it on the floor.
Now, the real test Is for you to
pick out the bottle which has not
been poisoned ! ” he whispered, rub
bing his hands together.
I went forward to the table, exam
ined each bottle, but there was noth
ing by which my judgment could be
guided, lie had brushed them clean,
and would not allow me to tako the
light so that I could look for sediment.
“ I cannot tell,” I said, going back
to him.
“You are a liar ! ” he hissed, draw
ing a revolver from his Ik :oin and
cocking it. “I know you the mo
ment I saw you; you are old Jones’
son, and you came here on purpose
to poison me! ”
I tried to soothe him and to reason
with him, and he finally grew calm.
I told him that I was a detective,
come to arrest the old woman, and
requested him to unlock the door
so that I could seize her, Ile6eemed
about to comply, when he changed
his mind and whispered,
“ Help me to detect the poison, and
then we wili go down and chop the
woman to pieces! ”
“ I cannot pick out the bottle!”
“ You roust 1 ”
Ho drew the revolver again, and I
saw that he would shoot me if I did
not comply. Thinking that he might
be satisfied if I selected one of the
three, I made a choice and handed it
to him. ♦
“ There is no poison in this ? ” he
asked.
“ Ho—this is only pure water,” I
replied.
“I shall not believe you until
you drink!” bo said, after a sharp
look at the bottle. “ Let me see you
taste I ”
He had me there. One good swal
low from one of the poisonous bot
tles would have been death. I put
the bottle back, took another, put
that back, and finally gave up in de
spair.
“T knew youl” lie hissed, “you
wanted to poison me but I have trap
ped yon! Now yen must drink
from one of the bottles!”
I beg,pi trying to get bis mind on
something else bnt it was a failure,
lie went to the door, listened, and
then I saw him look at the galvanic
battery, and then at me.
“Take hold of those handles! ” lie
ordered, flourishing tho revolver.
I knew that ho would rack mo se
verely, and so, after taking the han- !
dies, and whilfi he was making ready*
T wrenched them off. Ho did not
discover it, being on the other side of
the table, and when ho found that he
could not shock me his eyes gleamed
with new malice.
“ You arc % devil!” he said, com
ing around the tablo. “Yon mast
choose a bottle or I will kill you ! ”
I put him off in one way or another 1
for about fifteen minutes, and then lie
forced mo up to tho table, presenting
the innzzle of the revolver against
my hack. I shiver as I think of it
now, for there was his every chance
that carelessness would discharge the
weapon.
“ Choose! choose 1” he fairly yelled,
and finally I picked up one of the bot
tles.
“ Now drink !” ho whispered, hold
ing the weapon not a foot from my
face.
I could see by the gleam of his
eyes and compressed lips that he was
determined, and I uncorked tho hot-,
tie. There was one chance in throe 1
if I drank, and death was certain if I
refused. Holding tho bottle in my
right hand, I suddenly resolved to
strike hitn with it. I cannot tell how
I did it, but I know that the bottle
catne down on his temple, that his
revolver was discharged, and lie foil
on the floor.
I hunted around the room a dozen
times to find the door, although the
lamp was burning, and then I crouched
down in a corkier and was near crazy
when a couple of men, whom the
woman had sent for, came and burst
tho door iti.
The truth was, that Sherman had
beon gradually becoming insane for
months; he had no idea of going to
Europe, and probably wrote tho ad
vertisement in order to got someone
to practice his wild trick on. lie was
sactlly injured by the blow, but recov
ered after a few months, and I heard
several years afterward that the doc
tors had cured him of his malady.
Tho bottles were examined a day or
two alter the event, and tho doctor
found that I had taken the one with
tho arsenic in it.
When to Advebtisk. —There is no
season of the year when it is safe to
discontinue advertising.
When business is dull it is needed
most and should be most energeti
cally used, because people are most
attracted at all times to the houses
who tako most pains to invito their
trade, and advertisers then get the
largest share of what is doing.
“ Dull times,” it is said, “ are the
best for advertisers.” Because, when
money is tight and the people are
forced to economize, they always
read the advertisements to ascertain
who sells the cheapest and where
they can trade to the best advantage.
If your goods hove special seasons,
build up a name for them when out
of season; and that reputation will
largely aid your sales when the season
arrives for putting them into the mar
ket. Il “no pent up ” season limits
the demand for your wares, it is
clear that there is no time when you
can judiciously withdraw from the
public eye yottr announcements.—
Toledo Commercial.
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but Try soon drags the wagon out of
the rut. The fox said Try, and he
got away from the houuds when they
almost snapped at him. The bees
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honey. The squirrel said Try, and
up hft went to the top of the beech
tree. The snowdrop said Try, and
bloomed in the cold snows of winter.
The sun said Try, and the spring
soon threw Jack Frost out of the
ssddle. The young lark said Try,
and he found that his new wings took
him over hedges and ditches, and up
where his father was singing. The
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WIT and HUMOR.
The Georgia negro has no more
faith in banks. Ho lays his money
out in sfaM-e clothes and hair oil, and
tho news of a bank suspension oa-tses
him to exclaim: “ Bust away wid ye,
bnt you can’t hurt dese lavender
pants.”
“Conductor, why didn’t yon walcß
me up as I asked? Here lam miles
beyond my station,” “I did try, sin,
but all I could get you to say was
‘all rigat, .Maria, get the children
their breakfast, and I’ll be down in
a minit.’”
An Irish glazier was putting a pane
of glass in a window, someone began
joking him, telling him to put !ti
plenty of putty. Said the Irishman:
“ Arrah, now, be off wid ye, or else
I’ll put*a pain Ift your head without
any putty.”
A Memphis young woman offered
to darn the stockings of a oity editor
by “ weaving among tho meshes goh
den strands of her own nuburii curls.”
In her secret soul she meant to use
her old curls, that had gone out o!
style, but tho editor was an innocent
youth, and did not know the guile of
woman.
A Syracuse girl declined to engage
herself to tho object of her affection*
until his father had given her a writ*
ten guarantee that his son was not
only sound “ in wind aud limb,” but
of good morals, gentle, and warranted
to behave both in “single and double
harness.” This girl did not intend to
be semi in a divorce court.
“ Voluntary abduction " is what a
Western newspaper calls an elope
ment.
Tho way to get rich is to spend
loss than you earn. If you earn noth
ing, don’t spend it,
A Maryland man whose wife drop*
ped dead a few days ago, had the fu
neral put off one day longer to get
the balance of his corn husked. He
said it wouldn’t mako any difference
to her, as she was always good na
tuved.
Talk about stamina in female cha
actor, hut there is a mother in Detroit
who will sit on the corner of the bu
reau and read a dime novel through
before she becomes aware that her
baby has been howling for thirty-five
minutes.
A country editor used his old bill*
to wrap papers in. One was a hilt
from his druggist, and read, “ total
for whiskey, $106.30; total for drugs,
$5.60.”
A Virginia City butcher told a
painter to make him a sign which
should read, “ Multtun in Pacw> Sau
sage.” When he got it great flam
ing letters showed him “ Mutton in
Porko Sausage.” Tt took three men
to got the cleaver out of his hands.
Miss Fay, of Baltimore, who, with
thin slippers on her feet, walked ft
blo ;k to attend anew year’s eve hop,
made a leap into eternity in fonr
days thereafter.
* Kre’s the way they get up jokes
in hold Ilengland: The London Ad
vertiser says that the subject of chris
tening ships with bottles of wine is
about to be taken up by the temper
ance people, who assert that the roll
ing of vessels at sea is mainly caused
thereby,
“Do make yourselves at heme, la
dies,” said a lady one day to her vis
itors; “ I’m at home myself, and I
wish you all were,”
A Danbury man who bought a now
pair of boots on Saturday, says a ship
may stand on one tack all uight if it
wants to, but he finds an hour and ft
half an elegant sufficiency.
There is nothing half so sad iu life
as the spectacle of an auctioneer at
tempting to sell flfi,ooo worth of
goods to an audience whose aggregate
and tangible assets foot np to thirty
cents.
The jewelry for the sea shore is un
doubtedly salt-aire diamonds.
Many opinions go for nothing—it
costs nothing to “ ex press them.”
There is nothing more depressing
to a thermometer than cold weather.
A Wisconsin man recently killed
six skunks in one day. After inter,
viewing the first one, he became
reckless, and so went on.
It is never too late to marry or to
mend.
If yon want to get more than one
hundred cents for a dollar, invest in
a bottle of porfumery.
A little girl being asked what dust
was, replied, ‘’mud with the juiao
B queezed out.”