Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1881, Page 7

FASHION WRINKLES. New Canrers are in Chinese paateras BRacELeTs are worn outside the sleeves. Reo ts {n especial favor for mi!linery devices. Haxotre UHat-Racxs are formed of deers antlers. SHADES OF HONEYSUCKLE Will 09 Used on new bonnets. GoLpEs Butrgenctr Is the newest shade of yellow. NECKLACES are worn even over Llgh-necked dresses. Hanpsowe stiver jewelry ts becoming as fash- lomable as gold. MAHOGANY AND GERANIUM [INKS are new Colors tn milinery. = Van! = Kep ts the latest color, a shade darker than cardinal. CRinpess’s DRassxs are made Styles than formerly. Naw Warxtve Boors for ladies are square toed, with broad, flat heels. HveRr Hows of ribbon nine tnches wide are ‘rorn on the left side of the bett. | CLEAR M&nivuM FRENCH BLUES are revived as the latest revival of navy blue. Sows ov THE New Patrerns tn cambrte imt- | late embroidery In Roman pearis. } + THR SHoortne JackRT 1s made with broad box | impler pleats and {= confined at the waist with a wide i pelt. Emperor rkep Connars for chi and come in showy opes-work de- shew dresses for school-ciris are | d and furnished with large bat Banoie tives are now hw two min- ute pigs. oue in white the other tn oxtalz metal. Corsage Borgrsts of pond have a golien dragon-tly luster. .oWN BYRON COLLARS are imported open- work and Irish point em- oxtensty droidery. OLD FAsniosgD LACE UNDRASCERVSS are fn troduced to wear with the sleeveless dresses so popular new, Emporis Mcstiw as wide as dresa goods | Is a novelty for making basque walsts of white | anusiin dresses. | A GaeaT Many Harr ORNAMENTS, stars, dag- Ser-beads and butterfies, are rade of Paristan diamonds set tn silver, LONG-STE¥MED BOUQUETS of rose-buds for the Corsage arc shaded from pink to damask rei, or else cream to deep yellow. Tus Stregrro with which the daughters o: Ttaly are wont to do up their back hair 1s now furnished in gilded metal for American girls. A Haxnsome Come or natural flower, placed low, at the left side, behind the ear, ts ail the ornament worn tn the hatr for full dress totlets. | THE Lish WALKING Hart promises, the | New York #a/! says, to be revived in rough | and ready straw, and fancy braids for spring | and summer use. | PICKLES for the table are cut in the shape of Towers. Red peppers become 1! and white | onions may be mistaken for marguerites daisies, abd jessamine flowers, with yellow ceffters. THE Most TASTEFUL AND EL apoRaTE TOILET ts frequentiy made ineffective and uabecoming by a tight shoe, an elastic that touches some sensitive nerve, or evea a hair-pin uncomfort- ably misplaced. OX THE GROUNDS of some of the new cotton printed goods appear tiny tlowers, bees, butter- dtes and birds, a 1 embraced tn one pattern, | but sO managed as to require examination to discover the animated figures. Womsx wio have dull light brown hair, Colorless faves, and gray or bine ey shoult wear neutral tints, fawnus, grays or Phey will look best in black, dark bine, | dark maroon, and creamy white. Scarrs forthe neck have a nar- a-stitched all around them, and * rs of colored blocks hem- mH each end for ornament; a bit of needle-work 13 in tha center of ach blo ‘Yue New Trssore Inpta Pe RRs are plaided In with marked lighter shades of color to the BTounds of the goods, or with dark brown en- livened with t black and w) Bt f bright red, blue, yellow, grounds being eitter ccru, lavender, silver gray, or na row, Tus New 1.acB, point d'Aurtiias, ts silk lace, With a ground of very tne meshes, with heavy leat designs thickly wrought forming scal- joped edges, This is very effective, and may be worn either pleated of fully gathered. As Wis slik, it does not wash, Dat will clean weil if sent to a professional cleaner of laces. The Miracourt lace is very similar to d’Aurtilac, but is all cotton, and ‘should therefore wash well. Says “arts correspondent of the London Truh-—*1 was glad the other night to see, at President Ty's, Bice, young, girls In short, light dresses. and with thelr feet tu those low- heeled shoes. which American ladies call ‘slip- | pers.” Ther were kept from slipping off by Sandals crossed at the instep and wound round the ankle. The easy walk of the fair wearers contrasted agreeably with the bobbiing Chinese | gait of belles who attempt fo add several inches to ther stature by raising tlemseives at thetr heels.” if 15 BEcowmNG MOR® anp More the custom for ladies to attend the Lenten services of the churches which take place during the Lenten Season. The costume for this purpose ts blac 8nd is cut short with Jersey bodice, and simp! draped and kilted skirt, which 1s united to », the join being concealed by folds ar- ranged scarf-wise. With this dress is worn a little black embroidered mantle, or,on coli days, a dark ulster, and Derby hat, with pale gray veil folded round !t, and round the throat. A silver-mounted ebony prayer-book 1s carried by silver chains, ULTRa FASHIONATIE WOMEN'S ARMS, says a | ‘New York correspondent, now look lke | legs. The cause of this is the new styles of ‘loves and sleeves. Fine woolen gloves, Tesemblin« stockings or Jersey webbin, are worn to reach nearly to the elbow. it the arm be plump and tapering, its appear- ance ts wonderfully leg-like In such a 29v- ering: and even if it be thin. tt ts sti's ike @ leg Of the scrawny sort. Then It the el- vow sleeve have a white lace edge. and you have both legs and drawers complete. At 4 arty a girl thus gloved was mst her hands into a pair of | chiid’s shoes, drape her waist and shoulders in & child's dress. and, standtnx behind a table, de a marionette (lance with ber arms. The per- formance was a hit. POKES of medium size, some smail bonnets, | And very large flaring round hats make up ihe bulk of the frst tmportations of spring honnets. The pattern bonnets shown meant for the earliest spring da the closely woven Tuscan and or the split ‘open lave- Ir . and are of Leghorn braids, Belgian straws, rather than the ke fancy straws that will be used When summer comes, The pokes are not ex- Travazanuy large. amd are of much better shape than those worn tn tue i Tront projects \ and the crown h Yevers turned up on It, or else a very close cur- tain band. novelty In such Is the Yeturn to face trimmings for them, arranged in the styles of a hundred years Of ribton- and soft satin tri orics mac yons and at od. —Har pe 4 Darrt."—One mode of removing drifts of sv ow obstructing the railroads in the northwest is thus graphically described by an eye-witness: “It Is called by the tratnmen “bucking a drift.’ The snow is packed down bard. To run an engine into a drift 200 feet long and et deep with any expectation of Zong tire seems preposterous. Bus gotng Lack buif 2 mile. so astoget a good headway | at the drift, steam ts ratsed to 135 pounds; the “g0 aliead’ signa) is sounded, and the tron horse Sprlpgs for ard under a fall head of @eam to & galt of forty uilles per hour. The hearts of bag Papi the — staud stili, ese i ue grandeur Of the spectacle. See! the | Gritt has been reached. a cléud of suow unirty feet high ts thrown into the alr, and there is Hothing to tudicate where the engine ts except < pecullar to tue tron horse. ence prevails. ‘The limit has hed, and another attack must be made. The secona attempt {8 a success. It ig @ sight never to be forgotten."—y. ¥. Herald. ELECTRIC CONDITION OF a Tow trical conditions in this place, durin week, would bave kept Professor from midnight to midnight again. Papar, note size. as we handled them, became electrically excited, and adhered to each other like fhagnets, or, at other times. repelled each other, so that two of them, heid by one The elec- the past ice awake Sheets of stcod out like the gold foil of an electrometer, OF Closed pon a hard held between then, There heve beet © visible auroras, but all the barometer, jow temperature ctric (tension—have prevatied, ent shOW may Occur at any LrnDtRY GtrFoRD felt a pain tn his hand while working at bis lathe in the Hoosier drill shops at Kichmond, Ind, and called the atten- Uon Of a man beside him to It, saying that it ‘was Creeping up his arm, and he was afraid it Would prove serious. Later in the afternoon ‘be sald the pit of bis stomach pained him, and A moment afterward fell Itfeless to the door. | Ues—less In allusion to thefr size than to their | Teputation—then somewhat uncommon in | —so far decended, ren are larger | St | handsome surplus left him tu eash and Con: | penny went Into the pockets of Count Steldi | or Mr, O'Birn. | had prospered. She used to amuse herself by } clea: | with a'shout and a glare. | yerre are ' gj A MOST REMARKABLE WILL I Miss Bridgita Molloy was a matden lady of royal descent, who lived at an English water- Ing-place—I really forget whether at Bath, or Citfton, or Cheltenham, or Maivern, or Leam- ington, or Saxton; but If Was at some such | Place. and lucktly the name of the town isthe ope deta l which does not matter. For the sake of avoiding Dianks and dashes, I will call it Chatterbury, a3 more or less applicable to them all—at least, in Miss Molloy’s time. She Was aA little eccentric in trittes; but In all es- sential tnings as notoriously whole-minded, and strong-minded too, as any lady of sixty in the whole kingdom. I mnst enter a little into her famlly history: but only so far as 13 need- fu). She bad been the second ef three beau- {ful sisters, the daughters and coheireases of a gentleman of estate in Ireland. They | Were much run after In their girlhood, and had } once been known a3 the threo pocket-beau- | Dublin—of being worth marrying for some. | thing more lasting than beauty. Weil, tocut a long story short before it 13 Well begun, the eldest, Miss Luct3 Molloy (a quaint first name; Dut {Calways struék me asa Sipgularly pretty one for a pretty girl), eloped | with @gentleman also descended from royalty 1 Indeed, that there was | searcely a further sociai depta left htm to descend to—namad Fitzgerald O'Birn: and the gest, Misa Judith, went off with a foreign "e. A sort of Hungiitan-German-P jancing Master ce samed Ferentz S: entz ts the Hungariau for Francls, f belie il, I faney 18 Bavarian or Tyrolese, rfages turne Both mm) jut miserably—so ralserabiy, | | that Miss Bridgita forswore romance, and even | matrimony, and actually kept her vow. She also pt more than her vow—she erfortune. When the creditors got Dold of Mr. Molloy’s great es'ates, he lett the very absoiutely to his one wise daughter. Nota IL was a bitter d sappointment fo both gentlemen; and I belfeve they avenged thelr wrongs upon their wives after the manner of their kind. So while poor Madame Steld! suffered and Starved all over merge and poor M ‘2 Starved and suffered in the larver aad darker vontinent of London, Miss Moiloy Itved aloue and In dignified opulence at Chatterbury. She Was a first-rate economist, and her patrimony Speciilating in stock—always shrewdly and ciuuously, By the time she was sixty, it was reckoned that her !ncame could not amount to jess than a safe twelve hundred a year, of which she sayed at least five. Now what In the world was to become of alt this money tf Bridgita Molloy ever hap- Fened to die IL. One afternoon the mail-coaca fron, London set down two gentlemen at the Vlad Swan, Chaiterbury, Both had remarkably little lug- gage for those days, when men could not run from York to London and back again ina few hours. Both ordered a bed, both walked Into | he coffee-room, and one of them rang the bell. Waen the waliér answered It, one of the gen— Memen ordered cold brandy, the other hot whisky. And the waiter’s report at the bar Was Not favoroble to elther. But with that opinion lack of lucgage may have had some- Uurg to do. ‘There was other resemblances between the two men. Both were well past middle age: neither looked like one of the hunting men, or ofticers on half pay, or rheumatic patients, who formed the bulk of the male visitors to Chat- | ferbury. But there all likeness came to an end. He of the whiskey was along lean man, with flerce untrimmed whisker=, a shiny dald’head, | bloodshot blue eyes, and a teil-tale nose, dressed in the height of fashion, with a ten- dency to overstepping !t into loudness. He had | ordered bis grog in a thick rich brogue. He of the brandy, on the other hand, was short and sfgat, with a dirty sallow complexton, thick grizzled halr, and twinkling black eyes. He wore the then unusual ornament. tf ornament | it be of a mustache; and, for the rest, was | or rather half shaved, and there was hing Frenchtfied about his costume. “Walther!” sald the Irishman. “If anybody Calls here to-dee or to-morrow for Mejor O’Birn, —m Mejor O'Birn”” The other started for a moment, and laid his glass down, onsieur,” he asked, And why wouldn't I give me | ald O'Birn, with a ttle leap fo hts chair, “Ts none to be ashamed of, anyhow. Tu like to see the man with a name to hls back @s cood as O'Birn!” “une bundred thouzand pardons, Monsieur, I glad that I koow—that ts al, Eh, but one Luuared Wousand pardons, Monsieur Fitzgerald oBirn. ‘The Major's jaw fell, and all his face, save his nose, grew suddenly pale. “pure, DOW, yee not goin’ to tell me ye're yard Jews!” cried he. ~Sara, ‘Twould De too crool an” all, woen I’ve come down to see me own wife's sisther, that’s rollin’ over and over Im jools an’ gold. An’ yeve fol- lowed me oll the we down here; an’ this isa free country! An’ bad luek to the country where an officer an’ gentleman mustn't pee a Visti to his wife’s relations without being hunted by-all Jerusalem jn full ery' Come, Moses, ye give me another dee. bi So you tink no one shall know your wut the people which shall hold your Monsieur O'B'rn? J hold not your bits; I 10t a fool. You come down to see Maile. gita, then, { shali compreben vire, then, "Us the div¥ , anyhow, than vein” But that’s ye are what I taoaght n Shall not be so sure, Monsie ow Your Cristian name, and J shall know Christiam name of the sister of your wife, use 1 am Ferenty Steldl, Monstéur O’Birn! Aba: you shall have the trembiement percepti- | ble, Monsieur O'Birn!? “ilwhat?” cried the Maj I shall eaping fo his feet | “Ye sit there in cold blood, and ye tell mr, Major Fitzgerald O'Birn, that—miscreant—tnat biagyard—that Suake In the grass—that drinkin’, swindjto’, | mane-spirited uader-handed, slanduerin’, mur derin’, onrespectable thief of the whole world, Ferentz Stela? And ye think to escape from the tist of a gentlemen this dee? “Patience, patience, mon bean frere,” said Steldl, without the slightest change of tone. “Fine wo rds shall not butter what you call the vanais, Ttis you Who shall escape from me, You shall leave thistown. I shall guard Mdlle. Molloy, sister of my wife, aunt of my son, from you. For that I am here.” Something tn the significant calmness of his | foreign brother-in-law calmed the Major down. He returned to his chair, shifted his glass on ible, and said: An’ ‘us for that I'm here, too,” said he, “Tm here to defend me own ‘sisther, an’ me wife's sisther, ap’ me surl’s aunt, frem all the Counts out of Hungary an’ the Siven Dyles. An’ yell move from your sate {f ye dare.” “| shall not desire.” sald Steldl. “I am well where 1 ai. I desire to have the eye on you, my teau-frere. While you shall sit taere. | shail Sit here, tf it shall be to the death, Monsieur O'Birn. “It shall be the duel a fa Jaort, Mon- sieur. and we shail fight with the bottoms of the chairs, “Then, faith. Il sit like the hen of Banag- her—an she sat ull the sod undher her began to crow. So ye think Miss Biddy'll open the crack er door to the likes of you “Why net he {3 sister of my wife, and aunt of my son. ° “Aunt of my daughter, re mane. Poh! | What'd she know of a son of yours? “You mock of yourself. my bearfrere. Have She not buy my son Ferent/ the commisston of the Foot, and keep him, so long he see not me “Then ye He ln your throat, Ferentz Stelal! Tis me own canghter, an’ her own goddaugh- ter an’ ulece, Lucis Bridgita, that she's kept at school at her own charge, an’ keeps in pocket money as long as 1 don't see ner more than woonsi a year. “she do that for your daughter? Monsteur’ he do that for your son? impossivle | 2 Mr. Steldl, ye ie ‘The way tn which these two gentlemen quar- relied, without showing the least sign of com- ing to blows, gave the walter, who was not tar off, an altogether fresh view of the possibilities of human nature. Obviously there was a world in whieh gentlemen cared more tor their physt- cal than thetr moral skin. “Take yourself of, my beau—/rere, In effect, she adopt Ferentz, my sop. She lcave all to | him.” e “Ye're 4 fool, Steldl—that’s what she’s been Makin’ of ye. the old screw of-the world! As if she'd lave a penny to any but her own niece Luels, afther doin’ all she has for the darlin’ chila:* Steld] was the sort of man who would be given to shrugging his shoulders, like a French- men in a play; sohe no doubt did so now. “Soe cannot have dene so much for Mise Lucis, ort shall have hear. I know not till now she have done so much for the daughter Of the Diack sheep; but what shall a school-bill be, after ali? Bah '—a bagatelle. But a com- mission in the Foot—ah, that is another shoe ! And you consent not tosce your own flesh and Dieod for the sake of a bill of a school?” I'm & betther sort of a father than to sthand in me Own child's wee of a fortune. sit there an‘ tell : cetmission op your son—uniess ‘tis in the Ma- rae where they'll believe the tale.” ees “Parole de centiihonme, Monsieur O'BI ‘a, 1 on — of Ferentz Stell; lentenant oe King | “And | of Lucis Bridgita OBir1 ‘( the shoes ot Mie oe ‘Birn, thavll be in e two fathers emptled thetr tu { the Major rang for more. Neither perro = sitting match if he could help tt, that was Re “Ii T didn't Know,” sald Steldi slowly and tm- ge2 had taught fencing in his time, and had won several bets that he would make a bullet mark out a pack of cards. So, instead of re- torting witha cl of hot whisky into his brother-In-iaw’s yellow face, he contented him- Self by saying with an angry grin: “An what'll ye say when 1 tell ye my wita is with her own sisther this very dee. as thick as bees In a hive: The Irisiman, though he had kept his teraper the worst, won the match after all. Steidi leapt trom his chair with a volley of language that proved his own temper to be no deeper than the thinnest part of his skin. “ Your wife, you fortune-hunting Irish beg- gar? Your wife with Miss Molloy? So that's why you've been keeping me here?” He threw the rest of his Hquor into the fire, and sent a blaze up the chimney. Then he buttoned his coat deflantiy, saying: “I will see Miss Mol- loy.” ~ An’ that’s what I call mighty waste of good drjok, ‘said Major O'Birn, guiping down the re- maiuder of hisown. “Yea, ye may go, Steidl. 1 Won't bother even to see her door shut tn your face—though, faith, 1t would be fun.” “And I tell you. Monsieur,” cried Steldl rats- ing bis voice into a sort of scream, “that it is my wife which ts now with Miss Molloy!” ‘The two busbands glared at one another hercely. And, short of running the risk of being knocked down by the other, that was all left them todo. Words had done their worst; and they were evidently not men of deeds. No: Miss Bridgita Molloy had not turned out a bad sister after all. She would never even acsnowledge so much as the extstence of the Major and the Count, and had an odd way of Widows; but she did not visit’ tue sins of » fathers upon the children. Ata very eariy age, Loo early for them to make a deliberate choice between their father and their fortunes, she had sent both the little Ferentz and the they grew Digger, sometimes had them’ to Chatterbury for the holidays to mest their mothers, who accepted the arrangement more ressonably thar mothers always will, For that matter, netther Count nog Major cared to be bothered with a baby, nor always with a wife, so that the two young children were re. moved from evil tniluence as much a3 lay to Miss Molloy’s power. She was a very strict own way. [never saw much of the children, but i liked what I did see. Ferentz was a Nhe, frank, high-spirited young fellow, with- ywith the sons ot prodigal fathers, and Was almost a3 pretty as her mother had een when she eloped with the Major. Rather 4 quiet girl, used to think, but amtable, and With a dash of her eunt Biddy’s good sense about her way of speaking. But it was one of viss Molloy’s caprics that the left hand which she held out to one sister should kaow nothiag of how the right hand was held out to the other. Neither mother, neither child was ever t at The same time as the other motaer e other child. I doubt it Ferentz knew had a cousin Lucts, or she that she had a cousin Ferentz. Most assuredly each of the mothers believed that she alone was favored with her sister's bounty. ‘That reserve was one of Miss Molloy’s very Strongest foibles, if one may properly calla foidle strong. She would never tell even me, her lawyer, more than she thought absolutely ni about anything; aud so of course even she, with all her good Dustness ({uallties, would sometiines make little mistakes out of which 1 found it dimicult to help her. And the same course that she pursued wita her lawyer she followed with her doctor too— that 1s to say, with a certain doctor who hap- pened to be a personal friend; for she used to boast that she had never had a medicine bottle in the house but once, and that she had thrown. out of the window. Sheoften said that she bad nothing of a coflia about her but the strength of its nails; and yet the very first time she was compelled to send for her medical triend ip a professional capacity, he found that she must have been suffering for years from a most oe internal and organic disease, and afatal one. How do hungry relations always hear such news? Had she made her Will? If not, would she recognize the fact that the pa- ture of lier disease admitted of no delay?) And vr the first time, Mi ’Birn and Mrs, Steldl, at the expense of thelr husbands’ ered!- tors, flew on the wings of sisterly affeediou, and met together at Miss Molloy’s bedside. It was—for 1£ must have been—a strange miceting between the two forlorn, faded, worse than widowed, halt-childless women by the death-bed of one who to them had for many years represented strength, health, comfort— all that they had wanted since they were girls together long and long ago, There they had 2 & question she had been “commanded by her tyrant to ask, conscious that the other was stmilarly burdened, unable to ask it In the other's presence, not daring nor knowing how to ask it had she been alone by the bedside, Por I declare that even I inyself would sooner have led a forlorn hope than have asked Miss Molloy what she meant to do with her money. I like to think of the dismay of the two hus- bands, but I don’t in pity like to think of what ihe two poor wives must have suifered in stience that afternoon. 1 had already—I need not tell anybody who knows places like Chatterbury—been pnt in the tea between the two yentlemen tn the coffee- ‘They had not spoken In whispers, and Swan had key-holes and {ts waiter had ry much surprised when, course of the evening, 1 recelved a sum mons 10 attend Miss Molioy. “Ab'” sald her doctor, who was diniag wit’: mje when the summons came. | report the ex- Clamalion because 1L Was meant to mean a great deal. “T hope eo eee I find you better, Miss Mol- loy.” sald 1, wi 1 was shown into her bed- had not left for some weeks Mr. ake, you don't,” sald she. “I didn't ve | was a dying woman three hours ago, but 1do now. Don't say anything stu Ive never been afraid’ to face anything in my gin now.” She was rignt: with all her little oddities she had been really a good, ifsomewhat hari-mannered, woman, and always a singu- larly brave one. “1 Know I'm dying, because the hawks and kites are abroad. We used to thing between a count and a major. Those poor silly sisters of mine have been here both- ering me to make my will. And If you don’t know what that means, Mr. Lake, I do. It means death, as sure as I'm lylog here.” “You mean to say that your sisters have mentioued such @ thing?” * It was really not a case for common phrases, Miss Molloy Was—Miss Molloy. “Not In words—no, oy sat and cried, and there was nothin; Wi Dut — Will—Will, in every tear. ‘Tisn’t them f Dian that way. "Twas as mauch as I could do not to say Won't—Won't—Won’t; but I've always had the wit to hold my tongue. Ab, Mr. Lake, since then I've teen thinking how maybe ‘tis better to have somebody to drop a real tear over your own self, If ‘ts halt brandy, and from a Count ore MAOY, than to have lived in pe : only to dieall alone, But that’s fool’s talk; and I didn’t ask ye not to talk like a stupid that ye might listen the better to a fool.” ‘Surely, said I, “you are not alons. steld!—Miss O'Birn.” Pook! who remembers a dead aunt for a whole day, I'd like to know? Would I want to make a boy and a girl cry before their own troubles come? ‘There's pens and papers Tam going to make my will” “1 am sure you are right In that. Urely at your service, Miss Molloy.” “Then,” sald she “I want you to draw my will now. No instructions, mind, to be drafted to-morrow, 1 might be dead by then— who knews? My pain® almost left me; and U's & bad sign, ti death’s a bad thing. It will very short and very stmple. Take a Meut, J am en- Ee Now write: “This is the last Will and Testa- ment of Bridgita bot a “da”: and with only one “‘t,” mind; for I'm particular about that way, for ‘tis the way my mother spelt it: right or wrong—“ot Bridgtia Molloy, ot Chatter! of’ —whatever it was—“spinster’: praise glory for that, anyhow! But ye needa’tpat that in— the glory, 1 mean. “spinster; I give and be- queath to Rachel Andrews, my housekeeper, gacy duty, dnd i request her to take re my aoe Dash, knowlng that she will fulfil request according to the tntention wherewith I make thé same. I giveand bequeath to every Person who shall have been In my service for One month preceding my decease the amouat of one year's ae Igive and bequesth to my friend John Kirwan, of Chatterbury, Doctor of Medicine, the sum of five hundred pounds, free of legacy duty. I give and bequeath fo uw brother-in-law. Ferentz Steld) the elder” is it all right, so far? “quite, But how do you spell Ferentz?” asked I. “oF, @ 1, 0, n. t, 2"—Ferentz Steldl. ‘The boy's name Is Firentz, with an “1.” I won't bave him his father’s name. “My brother-in-law, Ferentz Steldl, the elder, the sum of one shilling, free ot legacy duty, to buy mitre S . I give and bequeath fo my brother-in-law, Fitgerald O’Birn, the sum of one shilling, free of legacy duty, to buy a mourning-riag. I give and bequeath to my dear nephew, Firenv.”—with an “O”—steldl, Lieutenant in the Army, the sum of one thous- and pouns I give and bequeath to Lucis Bridgita O'Birn, my niece, the-sum of one thousand pounds. And all ‘the residi® of my property, wheelie Feal or personal. I give. be- queath, an io--"? Mshe paused. Up to this point she had not needed my help, so expert she seemed in the art of the testator. ¥ “« Devise to,” echoed I. ‘Well, Miss Molloy?’ ‘The residuary legatee was to be the important Pressivety, “there is no school tn the land who shall teach for no pay, I shall not belteve. But she shall but toss one bone to one hungry d ae Majer OrBirn, though he had ow, Major 07 never met | bis brother-in-law im the ‘tes was a { citizen of that world which knew that the retu- mo el he Sas won on ae ae wenty-five thousand pou! - ‘haps aod deal more, after ail debta and le- But still me gactes were paid. paused. All the rest had been “Mr. Lake,” she satd at last, “I may be dy- ing, but I'm ‘not an o) wom and 1 might an old Speaking Of the married Mis3 Molloys as if they | tue Lucis Bridgita to good schools, and, as | aunt and a terribly exacting patroness; but sue | meant to be Kind, and was really kind in her our any of his father’s vices, as 1s often the | to sit, one on each side of the bed, consclous of | position of belug able to report the conversa- | pid. I've | not lived such a bad life that I’m afratd; and | Ife, except marriage, and I'm not going to be- | keep a banshee in the old Umes, and {ts some. | da things. But there — though “tis not nice to be cried over | ‘Tis business 1 sent ye for. | sheet of the bly foolscap—that'll be plenty. | —mind ye spell tt with a | ury, In the county | the sum of three hundred pounds, free of es | ol i my — live for years. Now my sisters are gone, I feel 1 -s8 lke dying than! did wnen I sent for ye tomake my will. Ive done all the justice [ pecd do; and fT don’t want a handsome prop- erty to be split up—that would bea sortof a shame. Neither Firentz nor Lucis has any ex- Pectation cr getting what I may jiave to leave, | Whatever others may. It’s for the sake of the roperty that it must gointo one hand. And, itr Lake, Idaren’t trustthe very walis of my | bedroom with the name I ask you to write the name in my will, I should have to speak {t to you, and for aught I know the Count or the Major may have bribed the nurse to listen at that very door.” No. The paper might get drepped about, and—no; I'd rather you wouldn't know the mame. It isn’t that I don’t trust ye, but ye might say {t out In a dream, and your wife might bear it, and she might let {t out by some chance to somebody who might talk about itin @ place like Chatterbury, aud then the Count or the Major would get at_the secret as sure as you're alive. And then there’s no counting the Villanies that wouldn't be ddne; they’d be try- ing to get me shut up in a madhouse, and forg- Ing and murdering some one maybe; anyhow there'd be no comfort in living, if1 am to live any more. I’ve thought of a way to keep off all danger, and to make It everybody’s Interest to support the will, and to save every bit of { er. I'll write the name myself in the will » with my own hand, and then cover tt over while ye write the rest and ye'll give me your word of honor ye won't try to See what I've Written till I'm dead and gone.” ‘The whim was astupidone, I thought, for a testator who was In other respects proving her- } selt so clear-headed; but there was certainly no ) Apparent harm tn indulging her. “But.” said i, “2s you wish to take Such extreme precau- tions, does It not strike you that It 1s easter for an expectant heir to overhaul a will than tor a solictror to break confidence in a dream? “Tye thought of all that,” said she, Sor | course theyll try to overhaul, and where there's a wi'i there's a way—Dbut there's more ways of killing a dog than hanging him. I'll manage so that if every seryant in the house is in the Count’s pay or the Major's, they shall earn their money for nothing at all. So I'll take the ; Pen, tf ye please, and the will; give me a dip of ink, and any scrap of paper ye find handy.” I gave her all she asked for. She first of all, very slowly, wrote dowp upon the scrap of paper what was presumably a rough draft of What she was going to enter in the will. Then she copied It into the document even yet more slowly, dwelling, as itseemed, upon every let- ter. She thrust the scrap of paper on which she had made her first memorandum under her pillow, and then carefully folded the will itself So that I could see nothiny without deliberately breaking my word. Dr. Kirwan and myseif were appointea executors; and the executjon of the will was witnessed by the nurse anda nelgh- bor. There was certainly nothing remarkabie about Miss Molloy’s will so far but the exces- sive care she had taken that !f3 principal pro- ee should not even be guessed at until she \ ied. Nor did Miss Molloy die auite so soon as everybody had expected. The Count and the Major, finding a protracted stay at the Oid Swan beyond their means, had parted, deadly enemfes—all the more deadly because each in- spired the other with a feeling of mortai terror. Tam very much afratd that both Mrs. Steldi and Mrs. O'Birn had to bear, at her husband's hands, the burden of punishment for the sins of her brother-in-law. But, however, that may be, the day came at last when [ heard from Dr. Kirwan the long-expected news that my client, Miss iridgita Molloy, was alive no more. “She couldn't have lasted another wee said he. “But all the same, I might have kept her going for another day or tw), with care, Would you believe it, but the obstinate old lady, only the night before last. gave her nurse the slip, and, weak as she was, went all over the house to see if everything was ip order! was a relief to her, and she was a «queer old lady in some ways—and the worst patient in all the town—but I’m sorry she’s gone.”’ And that, I am afraid, was the only note of honest mourning which Miss Molloy, with all her many virtues and her singularly tew weak- nesses, Was privileged to recelve. She had al- ways hidden her good qualities out of public Sight; and hardness of manner, like charity, covers a great deal, To the last sl . had stuck to her will. It was Will—B. M.” I own it was with some curtosity that I opened it; for she had made such a mys— tery of what should have been a very simple 1ece of business, that I had some misgivings jest she should have disinherited nlece and nephew allke, and made her dog Dash or some Anti-Matrinionial Soctety her residuary lega- tee. My own sympathies were with Miss Lucis: my wife's with Lieutenant Firentz steldl., That wasa ttle matter of human nature: ag a matter of reason, we felt that they had equal claims, and that twenty-five thousand pounds would have borne equal partition very well. Sol broke open the envelope, unfolded the Will, and read: * - * And ail the residue of my | whether real or personal, I give, bequ | devise to IDZN 2. roperty, th, and IPXDNWMOYEDOVAWDMIET Ii. That was the bequest—as clear to the sight as | it was dark to the mind. Had I been mistaken, and had Miss Molloy been insane after ali? If that were so, every penny of the five-and-twen- ty thousand pounds would have to be divided | between the Count and the Major, as the hus- | bands of her next of kin. No, surely that in- | sanity was impossible. | _ twisted the document up and down, and } and faultless proc: round and round. Those letters still obstinate- ly Tematned as they were; the alphabet, at any | rate, had gone mad, unles#it was I who had | gone tusane. I needed some evidence of my Own Senses, and carried the will straight to my | co executor, Dr, Kirwan. | “She was an odd old lady:” said he at last. “But I'll bear witness in any court you Itke that | she Was as Sane as anybody that ever made a will. ut What's to be done?” | “Ah, what indeed ! will as it stands? “Tm just hanged if I know. The will’s other- wise without a flaw. And in all my practice, and all my reading too, I never heard of the | alphabet’s belng made a residuary legatee. I ‘don’t like to say, without consideration, that there's no prixciple a court of equity would go upon; but I don’t know of one. eens how it would come within the doctrine of Cu Pre . “What's that?" Vhy, that when the conditions of a ft can’t be literally carried out, the Court’ of Chancery will decree some method conformable to the general object, and following the inten~ tions of the donor as nearly as ible.” | _’Then,” said Dr. Kirwan, “I should say the Court would apply the estate to the foundation Of a college for the study of conundrums. But —holioa, Lake, here's ek else dropped out of the envelope; perhaps it's the answer. | 103 a letter addressed to you.” | _ That, also, was sealed. When 1 openet it, I | found only these words: | “If you are puzzled, lift up the carpet tn the drawing-room in the corner between the fire- Place and window, under the chiffonter.—B. M.”" ) We went eens straight to the house of the | late Miss Molloy, and, according to our instruc- tions, turned up tne carpet in the corner of the | drawing-room. Sure enough, we found another sealed note addressed to me. “Look, we read, ‘‘at page 173 im the secona volume of Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall.” It ison @ shelf In the breakfast-room.—B. M.” I was too vexed at all this folly and mystitica- ton to smile. | “By Jupiter!” exclaimed the doctor, “this accounts for that midnight ramble over her | house just before she died. She was writing these hotes and hiding them. Poor old lady— it’s not an uncommon thing, though, for peo- pleon thelr death-beds to’ fancy themselves Surrounded by spies and enemies, "It isn’t lun- acy, though, eb?” ut it's the cause of lunacy in others,” grumbled I. ‘Well, now for Gibbon.” | “ And there, exactly on page 174 of volume IL, | was yet a third sealed note forme. And this ral Key behind wainscot three inches , Cupboard trom dressing-room window. . , AU last!’ said. “I was afraid we were going to be sentupall the chimneys before we'd done.” “By Jupiter, Lake, just think what would have peppene if there'd been one link missing; | {Lone of these pillar-to-post notes had been lost | or gone out of the way !"" : | | “It’s too terrible a chance to talk of. It would ; have cost one of those young people near twelve toward hundred a year. Come, here's the ng- | room; let's be quick and have done with the whole thing.” Come, but with you! Hold We were told to a @ match down, U —and here’s—holloa !” Dr. Kirwan puiled out a fragment of an envel- | Ope to which the red sealing wax sill clung, and on which I could read a part of my own name. ‘There were also some odds and ends of blank Paper scattered round. We pulled out all that was tMere, Alas, the fate of the key was only {oo plainly to be learned from the torn and half- cater scraps of envelope and note-paper we } foun A scuttering and scrambling behind the win- Scot mocked us with the certatnty that the Mice had swallowed the Key. Iv. What was to be done now? ‘The mice alone i et einen of the alphabet | w 7 e choose. If { was to | cslimad woman. Not at ail. “Write it down for me, then; here ts the | shall pen.” OW Death | well, found under her pillow when she died, sealed | Money to Licks Bridgita ('Birn or to Ferentz up in a large blue envelope, and indorsed: ‘My } Steld!? What's the effect of this “It ts read, Monsieur,” said Steldl pere, with a Dov I don’t see | my clerk brought in a card: e “All right: here's a loose board, just where | heard of Hi! | Knew to whom Miss Bridgita Molloy’s money | said taken whatever. It was not for a week, at Teast, after the will had been proved that I're- “A oe a Myre from ae. es accompa~ nie a dapper a Shasruy dressed you man, whom he introduced to me as Mr. withe ers, from the office of Withers & King. I sup- posed he was the legal adviser of the steldl claim, “You shall wonder, Mr. Lake.” said the | Count, “why I not rhink Miss Molloy what you T think of that | once; but then that give half the money to that | vermin, Fitzgerald O'Birn who sball lose it tn every vile Way. Tsay it shall be a good will, I | take advice, I; and I demand you all what be left to my son, Ferentz Ste} ‘alt a bit,” said I. “He has already recelved. his legacy of a thousand pounds.” “ Bab! what shall be one thousand pounds? oe & what you call residuary legatee of Miss jolloy.” * | wish he were, with all my heart! But we Must goto Chancery. There's nothing else to » done.” ne. No. He shall not e in chancery. He shall have his right and his due. Iam his fatuer, Morsteur.” “When you can read those confounded let- ters invo Ferentz Steldl, I'll pay him every penny i With all my heart, and take the consequences; | but not a minute before.” | * Very good, Mr. Lake. Then I shall Tead them into Ferentz Steldl, and without magic: and then you shalt pay, Now, Mr. Withers, if you please.” : Mr. Withers 1s your solicitor, I presume?"* have not the honor,” sald Mr. Withers glbly, “to be in the professign—in your pro- Tessiob, sir, that 1s to say. Weare a tirm of professional experts, sir. We practice the Selence of autography, and we coilect and deal in the autograph letters of celebrated historical persons. Naturally our business has occasionally included the branch of cryptor- raphy—of the construction and solution of ciphers, which, though requiring a certain spe- cial aptitude as well as experience, !s not diftewt as laymen might suppose, and 1s a: certain in tts results as arithmetic tiselt—bean- | fully certain, sir, Our friend Mr. Steldl has applied to me for the missing key of this little puvzle, and It took me barely half an hour's | study to find.” } “You mean you can read this jumble into Sense?” asked I. “You must be a clever fe low, Mr. Withers. How am I to know it Isn't guess Work? The correctness of your reading | will have to be neared, you see.” | “Up to the hilt, sir, The beauty of a cipher, or cryptograph, is that, if you once bit | on the right Key, it can only mean just that | onething—no doubt, no ambiguity. And as the discovery ot the key is a logical process, and as no cipher can possibly have more than one key, why, sir, solvitur canbulando—the | result ts proved by the process, sir; or rather, Tesult and process prove one another.” “Then I must bave your process, if you please.” No patent. Anybody can do “To be sure. ft. This cipher, sir, is even absurdly simple. Did you ever read the “Gold Bug” of Edgar Allan Poe? No? That’s a pity, because I siall have to explain from the beginning. J have ratber a contempt for that story—the cipher he makes his hero discover would have been found out bya child in halfthetime. And this cipher before us 1s of precisely the same Lm very simplest form of cipher known,” | “Well?” “A person like Miss Molloy, presumably ig- | norant of the beautiful science of gryptox- raphy, would be aimost certain to adopt the plan of making one letter do duty for another. Of course she has left no spaces between her words. Now, you Ksow that the commonest English letter 1s e; so that, ten to one, the com- monest letter in the cipher will represent e. ‘That letter isd. It comes no fewer than five limes in the twenty-five. So, ten to one, d stands fore. You percetve {apy rate, I follow. so far.” Very good, sir. Now look at the cipher and keep it before your eyes, We'll assume for the moment that d may mean e; and if d meanse, It’s likely enough a would be b, b would be c, aud so on, and so on, tak! the letter following. _Let’s try that dodge wit! m, because there’s more than one m, and becanse n (which it ought to stand for) isa commonish sort of letter. Very well. Putting e tordand n for m and dots for the other letters, we get; ...€..ne..e... €... Now, Mr. Lake, the question, as I under- Stand it 1s: Did Miss Molloy leave her Assuming that one of those e's must fall Into where the name of the legatee Iaust Come, t will strike you at once that there isn’t one single ein the lady’s name. It will also strike you that the young gentleman tsa Tt , and that we've got already ne—coming together, Let’s chance it. Let's write nephew" Tight out, and see if we get sense that way. It'll come like this, putting p for y, b for b. W for 0: .e, nephew. -en....¢..Now what strikes you next, sir?” “Nothing whatever, Mr. Withers. Nothing at all.” “No? I'm surprised. that_en comesin Ferent the Dame Of Steldi both end in a letter between @ pair of letters—z di? A most remarkable bint, ludeed; for It interferes with no former as- sumpUion—z would mean I: x would mean i, Now jook how it reads:.e.r nephew frentz steidl. Only one thing bothers me. Where the dot comes now in f.rentz there ought to bead 10 ent ane. In reality there's aj. tbav’s a trifle; doubtless a clerical error. Whole thing’s as plain as a pikestaf. Sub- stituung letter for letter, and never mixtag them, here you are: my dear nephew, Fereatz Steidi;and there you are!” 1 was certainly surprised at the fellow’s inge- buity. Except for that missing e, the process Was without a flaw; and when We se a logical arriving at a provable conclusion, what are we to say? And, by Jove! Miss Molloy had made a particular point of spelling Ferentz, Firentz—with an 1. Look back at the draft of the will, and see, That was downright proof, if any was needed; the jin the cipher, heretofore unaccounted for, would bel, The very simple little process had all the wir of a miracie tome. I knew nothing then of the far greater marvels wrought by antiquarians tn rougher and larger field, or 1 should, perhaps. have heen less Surpri: ed jesn't it strike you that the cipher and We I was alittle sorry for Miss Lucts; but I didn’t grudge her cousin his good luck, and | was intensely relieved. I was thinking of the effect of all this as evidence, Steldl was loo} at me in dignified triumph, Mr. Withers was regarding his success wtth artistic pride, when a \—Major Fitygerald | O'Birn. i} I thought best to have everything out and | over then and there; so without considering | the presence of his brother-in-law and enemy, J had him ushered in. “Good-dee to ye, Mr. Lake,” sald he, without deigning to notice, or even to see, Mr. Steidl, who, for his pat threw a double «dose of be- nignity into his simile, “I suppose ye’ve been Wondherin why I didn’t go in for provin’ poor Miss Biddy non conpos—wake in the top, ye know. Asif I'd consent to go halves with a dirtby, mane, intriguing baste of a fellow that she'd cut off with a shilling with herown hand! All or none—that’s the waf-cry of the O'Birns: Solve just dropped in, on my wee, to ask ye for that twenty-live thousand that’s due to Luels, my danghther: and [ll take tt hot with— I mane short, If ye plase. Or, if ye haven't it at all in your pocket, a thri/le on account ’ do for to-dee. “I'm sorry for Miss O'Birn,” said I. She had her thousand pounds—” “—— her thousand pounds! I wouldn’t give Sixpence tor a beegarly thousand pounds. “Tis au fnsult to spake toa gentleman of such a x ‘Her thousand pounds, and—I'm atrald—this gentleman, Mr. Withers, will explain—there is no longer any doubt of Miss Molloy’s inten- U lieutenant Steldl is restduary legatee.” who's Mr. Withers? Is it ina coneptres ye’l be, with your heads as thick together as | Pays in one shell? “Why, ‘tis plainer thar | blazes that gpx sthands for Lucis O'Birn. What do ye see to that, sir, eh?” Tm afraid {t doesn’t,”sald L. “You'r a pretty fellow for a lawyer! suppose ye’ll have to belleve what's provea. Hizyips, ye’re wanted!” shouted he. He, too, it seemed, had brought a friend with bim—a little pinched, shabby, elderly man, with red squinting eyes. “1'll tutrojuce ye to me friend Higgins—a gen- tleman and a scholar, that'll rade ye off Jie. -w tuto Chinese for a glass of punch, an back into Tebrew fortwo. Faith, l'a like ye “But— Buti to tind a questiin that Higgins wouldn't ap- Swer ye oll-hand. Says I to him: “Hilggins, | what does gpx spell?” An’ says he: “Jus’ Luels O'Btm.”* A siitle of amused contempt came into the of smart Mr. Withers. n expert?” asked he. “An’ pray who may you be, sir?” asked Major OBirn. “D'ye mane to tell me ye haven't iggins—that ought to be a r of divinity anda member of parliament ‘t, and rather a dark hole, There | could see ye undher the teeble whenever ye us annihilat With- plase?” Having thus 3 ers, Higgins. do your “There's pes in said Mr, Higet ina shufiling sort of tone. reading that cipher I am at a loss to concelve. Do you mean to tell me that there 1s on earth, except Maj ‘the slightest dificult puzzle for more than hal en ae it any leas mplimentary, Mr. iaI, “Mr. Withers, as an expert, assures us that a clpher can only be read in one way.” tdidn’t want an expert to tell you that,” Mr. Higgins testily. “Of course you can duty,” said he. 1t—nothing in it at all,” took to | oniy read a cipher in one way. How can one z1 multiplication table in my | set of symbols stand for two different sets of dreams. I did not know what to do. I got words?” box of ivory letters and tried all sorts of ana- | “Then you will with Str. withers?” grams, but could make nothing out of five-an | oq No doubt. If Mr. Withers had read the ‘Uwenty with only four vowels amot cipher he wil} me. A cipher ismade them, and with so many 7's and x's. I prov toa particular key, and !t can’t be fitted with the will in fear and trembling, fully eas two. When old women make ciphers, they that the question of the sou: of mostly eneeae the letters by counting forward of the testatrix would be finmediately r: or backws rst I counted one forward, one or both of her brothers-in-law, who and made ‘b; that came to nothing. course been made aware of the contents, and | Then two forward, and made g mean f nothing were in possession those letters without J—no. K—no. Thenl meaning. But, strange to say, no steps were | letter torward—L According to that rule, g would be I; p would be u; x (making a foliow 1) Would bec. | Next comes d. which’ wonid bet; | F{ IDNE@EN, KIDREGBN then n, witich would be 8_—the true letter beta always the arth letter © cipher forward. | Ey — Follow {t out, gentlemen, and see for your KiDmRAER. —s selves.” 1 ‘aid ashe bade me. And the cipher read let- | KIDNEGEN. KIDNEGEN. sel by reega pee ae spell- | ng of the nAme of AUTLX 8 KIDN 5 BGEN = GPXDN WMDY:! vy JWDMI BT ; * BOER, xIDm LUCI3 BAIDGITA OBIKN MY | + wonx2. KIDNEGEN. (Trado-Slark Secured.) ‘te wie nO mére doubt that “= Gober in aanee: s than It was My dear nephew, Firentz Ste DN! i Tt meant oth equally and both at the samo | — TER Gama 1 put {t to every cryptol in the world, ts pa it within the bounds cf credits that acipher es ee nee e Soy ee be readable in two onan actly fe an consistent way and that Its two irreconcilable solutions should be | SIDNEGEN. AND DIORETS. — by Seeaivien | pe simple principles, both =4 equally ‘obvious and equally sound? incredi- bic—nay, Impossible! will be the unanimous | KIDNEGEN. KIDNEGEN ts highly recom- eee a yet os poste 6 marvel : cam. ous oBain of coincidences, was effected tn that —— Will of Miss Molloy. She could not tntenionaily | KIDNEGEN. mended and unsurpassed for WEAK Hee heeteee, Ey “rk Tesult, even if she 3% ad tried. 1 for the e in Ferentz, or rather | noe ‘entz, left no room for doubt that Withers’ | KIDNEGEN. or FOUL KIDNEYS, DROPS¥, sclution was true. On the other hand, the pecu- — ar spelling of Bridgita was an unanswerabie — argument ih favor of Mr. Higgins. Withers had | KIDNEGEN. BRIGHTS DISEASE, LOSS OF Started on the prinepie which has amused so — maby readers of Edgar Moe, and sin t{selfa | —— perfectly true and sound one. Higgins had | KIDNEGEN. ENERGY, NERVOUS DEBILITY, Started On the principle favored by simpletons eek who correspond tn cipher in the agony columns, | — aud imagine that their silly secrets are not | KIDNEGEN. or any OBSTRUCTIONS arising open to anybody who takes five minutes trouble — to read them. — What was to be done—now ? KIDNEGEN. from KIDNEY or BLADDER DIS- Clearly the situation was not realize pala r of the fathers of the rival legatees. But -— jootn came over the face Of Mr. Withers. He KIDNEGEN. EASES. Also for BLOOD and KID- Ok up the paper on which Mr. Higgins had written his solution and examined tt in- — ch q | RIDNEGEN. NEY POISONING, in affected maz st the = fy an amatet KIDNEGEN. {arial sections. True,” sald Mr. Higgins, with a slight sneer, “duryinen are in the position of amateurs, | be. lieve, and judges, too,” A cipher can’t have two solutions,” said Mr, Withers. throwing the paper down. True again,” sald Mr. Higgins. “Happily for Miss O'Birn. “Have you studied cryptology as a science, Mr. Higgins?” asked Mr. Withers, with a wild + ‘Unlike any other preparation for Kidney dimMcultics, it has a yay Pleasant and agreeable taste amd favor. It contains POSITIVE DIURETIO properties and will NOT NAUSEATE. LADIES ESPECIALLY will like tt an@ KIDNEGEN. KIDNEGEN,. KIDNEGEN. efiort at elaborate courtesy. KIDNEGEN. GENTLEMEN will find KIDNR- “I'm not such an ass,” said Mr. Higgins, with GEN the best Kidney Tonle ever no pretence of courtesy at all. “I'd as 000 Set EIDNEGEN. used! =p = science of handwriting asa science of — whims,” KIDNEGEN. NOTIOB.—Each bottle bears “You are insulting, sir! There is a science of | sical Sizvature of LAWRENCE & — tose bandwriting—ay, and of character tn hand- | KIDNEGEN. TIN, also a PROPRIETARY GOV- writing; and 1 shouldn't Hke to write like you, | = ” ERNMENT STAMP, which permite judging from what it’s like to be.” KIDNEGE! EN = “T always make it a point of Insulting quacks | NEGEN. KIDNEGEN to be sold (withows and humbugs,” sata Mr. Higgins. “it’s the first | , Uoense) by Druggista, Grocers and duty of man. I've read that cipher in the way | KIDNEGEN. other persons everywhere. that would sagisty anybody but an expert, and | — there's an end.” KIDNEGEN. IN QUART-SIZE BOTTLES FOR “Whom do you cal! a quack, sir? Let me | GENERAL AND FAMILY USB. tell you that When ta inan deliberately Insulis | KIDNEGEN. PRICE 81 PER BOTTLE. my sclence, I—1— tee! itmy duty to kuoce him | janes jown.” 5 “Gentlemen—geatlemen:” I cried out, “you | SIDNEGER. LAYSREACE & MARTIN, | have both been very clever—a great deal too | KIDNEGEN. BOLD BY DRUGGISTS, GROCERS clever for me. I would gladly have accepted . elther of your readings, Heaven knows. But I can’t accept both; and both your reasons are sO admirable tbat I can’t accept either. And what's worse, {U's your arguments, not your assertions, that will have to go into Chancery; | and into Chancery we must ail go. Yes, there's no help for 1t now; and, once in, Heaven alone knows when we shall get out again.” “1 object to the law on principl Shall have nothing to do with the law,” sald Steldl; and | have no doubt but he had excellent reasons | AND DEALERS EVEBYWHERS. 4. C, EBGOOD &@ CO., Wholesale Agents in Washington. A. VOGELER & CO., Baltimore. noll-0o —29TH— POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THB Commonwealth Distribution Oo., AT MACAULEY'S THEATER, In the City of on for the only principle I ever heard of hls peti ee ai, Bring nS expert: you oie ep were MONDAY, FEBBUARBY 25, 1881. I demand Uwenty-tive thousand pounds for my Theee drawings oocur monthly (Sunaays oroept- ori despise the law,” shouted the Major, “an | SaubnSar "ReMoRs Of nat ge a New, =a S e law,” shou! jajor. “AD | o! mucky, iow; Irish ‘geotleman doesnt mix up with pettt- | Printing and Newspaper Co., spproved April 8, fogging rascals. I wouldn't touch the dirthy | 1878- thing with the endofan old boot. “Tis as clear | 48 day—Lucis Bridgita O'Birn.” Hi “Itmust be Compromise, or—t “hancery,” sald j I. “Have it as you will” | ‘ Ss 2” sald gee potnt- | ng fo the Major with his thumb. .~Not o2¢ | "ga_yes drawings are fair. Pcbpy shall he rob my gon.” { pes scan) “Compromise—with a Steldl 2” said the Major ; », Te Gompany bah yy aad in his turn. “Maybe with old Nick I would: tor | 24- eee es eer peseee De ean a Nick 5 a genuleman,” added he. FEBRUABY DBAWLING, And there was the deadest lock I ever heard S27" This is a Special act, and has mever The U.S. cireait Court on March Sist rendere@ Ast—That the Commonwealth Distrt- bution Company ts legal. of since 1 was born! No Lord Chancellor ever , 830,000 | 100 pris LOGea$ 10, 088 drew up a will that most clearly meant two | + 10,000 eae 3 ieee opposite and irreconcliable things. And so, I | % 6: 000 | 1000 a8 verily believe, should we have been standing at | io:000 | — thls ‘triangular deadlock at the present hour, | had not ihe delay Itself brought about a most natural solution in the most natural way In the world. “When in doubt, do nothing,” 1 constantly find to be the wisest maxim that ever Was made, ae. My relief at the time hardly equaied my sur- ‘Remit Mon ee or Bank Draft in opsend press. PT BEND BY REGISTER! 4 bai OR POSTOFFICE URDER. Orders of @8 3 But considering that Mrs. Steld! and ‘irs. O'Birn had never quaraled—considering oat they had met again—considering what sort of young people theirson and their daughter Were—I Inust own that 1 was an ass 10 feel sur- prised on learning of the marriage of Lieuten- ant Steldl to Lucis Bridgita O'Birn. The bis- tory of the Montagues and the Capuiets does hot stand alone tn the effect of the feuds of the Old upon the hearts of the young. But this is no part of my story. Enough that her claims became his, while his remalned bis own—and therefore her own, too. And tf two elderly ras- cals were kept th somewhat disreputable clover for the rest of their days, and if lwo executora were content to ran a little safe risk In making things comfortable all round for every! * themselves included, and if two cryptologists remained irreconcilable foes, and if two young | people became happy in their own pecullar way, and If the Court was deprived of a big cause, and the Uomo of the bulk of the property of Miss Molloy—well, the fault is mainly my own. I profess only to tell the story, not to solve | Seige yent ee Molloy’s most Remarkable Will.—Lon 5 aloraenaen be sent at our ex- ‘ik. M. BOARDMAN, oor rT COMMEBEOND,” 212 Broad: ways ew, York. 3 Wo 1703 N.X., and upward. by Express, can pense. Address LUMBER: ARMIAZINGLY LOW PRICES, FLOORING (DREsSED)....00--: -60 and 61.73 BOARDS, TEE BEST... .gecee....+ssecae-.-.G.38 jl cumsrane STATE LOTTERY. A Splendid Opportunity TO WIN A FORTUNE. 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