Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1886, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C.. SATURD Written for Tu EvENtNo Stax. A STRANGE SETTLEMENT. By NOAH BROOKS, AUTHOR OF “LOST IN THE FOG” AND NUMER- OUS STORIES IN THE “CENTURY,” “HAR- [Copyright, 1886.] Most people were inclined to think, when I undertook to be guide, philosopher and friend tomy grand-nephew, on his entrance into New York society, after his leaving college, that I had assumed a responsibility greater than I knew. A handsome, willful young man, fall of animal spirits and disposed to sundry family Weaknesses of temperament and taste, was not ® person to steer easily among the rocks and shallows of metropolitan social life. But then, Arthur had a natural right to ciaim my protec- tion and counsel, as I was bis only near rela- tion. I was the sole male representative of his amother’s family, as he was of his father’s fam- ily and nami Ye two were alone inthe world, as it were, and the young fellow soon endeared himself to me, living as Idid in an old-bachelorish and selfish way nbers, with nobody to care for but myself. And when we had been to- gether for a few months,I almost wondered how Ihad existed without this brisk young | bap to stir me up, once in a while, with bis | eccentricities, overflowing spirits and unac- | countable vagaries. For Arthur had his queer streaks, notwithstanding his youth and health- ful temper. Quly on one thing did I stand firm with the Jad; Leould invite nobody to a partnership in my chambers, Inever knew anybody thatI would be willing toudmit to the freedom of daily intimacy, so Arthur had his lodings in the Oxonian, and Thad mine in the Aberyst- with, Both were satisfied with that arrange- | ment. Arthur made it a point, at first, to port to me at least once a ¢ Ksay “at “first,” | Jor, after a while, he formed new acquaintances | a good many of them, in fact, and how could | an old srsvbeard like Myself expect to keep | forever by him a gay and volatile young feliow like Arun: So the iad iell Into the habit of dropping inon me about the time of day when he knew that I should be making spy leisurely toilet, or, clad in dressing-gown afd slippers, xetting ready for bed... We were all late to bed and late to Fise, we Chesters, and Arthur was so like his yrand- father (my brother Alired), who used to say | that he hated to stir out of doors until the ai- mosphere had been well aired, that it | times gave me a little thrill to bear him run on; and wen, ging into his rooms at the Oxonian, one day, I'gazed around, and, taking in the ar: Uistie disorder of the ‘apartment, exclaimed ‘you luxurious dog!” He only laughed and sald: “You would say that there was no Chess ter in me if I wasn’t.” ‘Of course, that shut me up. But we grew to be very deeply and sincerely attached to each other, For my part i saw in him the traits and characteristies of gener: tions of the Chesters duplicated and redupli- cated In the most bewildering and kaleido- scopic way. Family failings and family vircu were all pretty well known tome. ‘They had been dinned into my ears ever since boyhood, Aud now it sometimes seemed to me, while lazily studying the character of m: nephew, that ail the tric! ard mibd of the family, since the landing of the first Chester, in 1629, | were the heritage of the handsome young fe Jow who was the last of the line. But, although I counted that day lost on which the lad did not lounge into my rooms on his way down town to the olfice were he reading law, or, more likely ou his way he from the Atuenian Club, somewhere toward: morning, and although people did say that Arthur Spenser seemed to think that the sun Tose and set where his » the young man actually had one or two intimates | Who, like myself, were elderly and of the stern | sex." I did not wonder that everybody like Arthur, he was so frank and winning in way; he had such an open and candid face, lighted with wide inquisitive eyes, tiat nove Us to say: “Now here is a young fellow who has nothing to conceal.” Aud so when he and my old friend Crosby struck up a queer sort of friendly alliance, 1 was very glad and notat all surprised. Crosby Was one of those mature men with no past and with a most wholesome future, into whose hands one may trust the best ahd purest of youthful natures, masculine or feminine. As Crosby and I were both in the literary line of life, circumstances threw us much together. He 'wrote books and I wrote stories and essays for the magazines. And Arthur was wont to say, in his haif-injest, balfin-earnest way, that iis Unele Bob knew everything and that Mr. Crosby knew ull the rest." I never quite unde: stood the tie that bound the old iellow and the young one together. But it was clear tome that Arthur admired Crosby with a sentiment almost akin to Veneration; and, after a while, when Arthur turned on me, as with an unap: lable statement, “Mr. Crosby says so,” 1 Knew it was useleas to proiong the discussic; ‘Crosby, however, had a wife and children, and, having given these hostages to the iuture, he could not afford the time to cultivate any man’s friendship. When be was not grubbing away atanew novel, for which, [am bound to say, the public waited with eagerness, he was | Javing slave under the silent watch of the fond Sotestic eve; lor Mra ‘Crosby wasa, worldly: minded woman who believed in making te Ziost of everything, including her husband; so Arthur's moments of basking in the sunlight 3¢ poor old Crosby's kindiy nature were few and ting. I bute to bestartled. I suppose every other selfish old bachelor ‘sympatnizes with me ip that aversion. And when, oue cold and drizzly morning in Mareb. as I had turned over for my second sieep, a thundering knock came ‘at the door of the’ adjoining sitting-room, I called out, rather crossiy: “Who's there?” Only & muffled reply came back. The street cars Jingling past the house arowned all nearer Sounds, and so, still more crossly slippirg into my dressing-gown, I went to the door. It was Arthur, uncommogly early for him, and look- ing greatly excited. “What is the matter?” I pettishly asked. “Have you lost your pocket book; vou are al- ways losing your pocketbook; or'has your dog an attack of the moliygrubs? "You look as if you Lal been up all night and had a head on.” “Oh, Jnele Bob.” the boy replied in. an awe- wtrieken way. “Don't make iun, please. Mr. Zrosby has gone!” “Gone! Gone where!” I demanded. “hat's it. Nobody Knows. He's mystert- ously disappeared. Why, bless my lifet_ Artie? you shock me. Mysteridusly disappeared! Let me see. It was ouly last Wednesday that 1 saw him at the re- ception at the Academy of Design. Aud this ou Saturday! What makes anybody think he has really disappeared?” ‘Weil, you see, Uncle Bob, he went over to his publishers, Wednesday atternoon, to read some proofs, and finding ihat they were pretty “teul,’ as I believe you eall it, he carried ‘thei home With him, intending to read them that Bight, after the art show. Mrs. Crosby sas after leaving Ler at the door of his house, he went down to the All Night Club to get a cigar: and she hasn't seen him since. Nobody has, There are the proof-slips ou bis study\tabie; you Know how awfully particular old Crosby’ was With bis proofreading; not _a line touched, and the printers swearing mad ever since Thursday morning. It’s dreadiul to contempiate.” “Which? the protanity of the printers? Or the disappearance! Crosby?” “Now don’t joke, Nunky. I'm sure you can- not believe what Isay if you tatk sh iightiy About it, And old Crosby Was such a dear old Shap. Everybody liked nim. “You need not taik of Crosby in the past tense, Arthur, my boy, as it he were dead. "No, 1do not believe that he has really and truly disappeared, never to be heard from. It 1s one of bis larks, you may depend upon it. For, Underneath the benign exterior that always Stiracted you and otier light-minded people, ola Crosby bad «lurking devil iu bua that would lead bim a dance only 01 Bad bis way.” PUY Ee Arthur protested that [ could not mean what I said, and to pacify the youngster 1 dressed roysell as quickly as possible, and, withost so tnueh as a cup of coffee to keep away the chilis, Went straight to the Crosby family mansion’ Bre, Crosby, with an air of injured und be- trayed contidence that nettied me, spoke calmiy of the mysterious disappearance of her husband. The story that Arthur told me was substantially true, It differed from thatof Mrs. Crosby. particular: Mr. Crosby,on that fatal Wednes= ay night, had “gone around the corner” alter cigar, not to the All Night Club. But, think- lng that Arthur knew more about come of Crosby's habits than Mrs. Crosby did, I iorebore semark. Itwasaclearcase, We dallied with and fear tor atew days. Then we coacladed to Jet the thing get intothe newspapers. it had Yeen hushed until yy Crost friends that time. Wien the news, beesme public property, it was surprising to find how much more knew ‘about old a Rosana rau avant tate ws) ‘accounts and his pase « «Another queer thing about ihe business ie Vast mutnber of ment axed ‘them, that myste- pbearances, But never to the man we ‘hy the families of these missiug men bad never made known their Josses until we began to vex the public ear with lames not eee umerously put it, there Dowsoe'r defended rivers were and even the thur got himself into trouble with knocking down a man who bud said that of course there Was a woman at the bottom of the mystery; which was an indiscreet thing for the boy todo, as I had to rise betimes and attend the Police Court to go bail forthe hot-headed youngster. 1t was only a burst of the old Chester ehivairy, jowever. Mrs. Crosby and her daughters, in due time, put on the customary suits of solemn black. A’ Will, found in old Crosby's writing desk, was probated, and the world trotted along just as if there hail never been such a man as Theodore Francis Crosby. It was hard, as Arthur was won’t to say, that @ man should go under so utterly, leaving not a ripple, on the surface to show where he went down,’ But by midsummer Crosby’s name was never mentioned by iis old iriends except in au indolent, halfinquiring way, as if the speaker wondered where Crosby had vanished to and was too Indifferent to the subject to pursue it. But I noticed that Arthur did mourn tor bor old Crosby. He took a morbid satisfaction, jt seemed to me, in talking over the case, dis: cussing its probabilities and possibilities. I sce him now, the prematurely sobered young chap, sitting on the foot of my bed whileI make up my Inind to rise and_diess, nursing his leg In a quaint old-tasnioned way like an elderly man and suggesting a variety of etrious theories to account lor Crosby's absence. Weare not an imaginative family, we Ches- ters, and I aim inclined to think that Arthur got his fertility of imagination trom his father. Arthur Spenser, senior, was a political writer. It did not seem to me Whelesome tor the young man that he should dwell so much on Crosby’s mysterious fate, now that we had all settled down to the bellef that he was as good as dead. And I did not ike the wayin which my grand- hephew greedily absorbed all the stories of mysterious disappearances that he found in the he And, come to think of it, there were a great many. Ido not know that there ere iure disappearances unaccounted for then than had been usual. But it did now that ad one of our “y were nothing but mysterious disappea ances going on about us, As Arthur gloomily Said, “the woods were fuil of them.” One night, or rather morning, for it was well on towards the beginning of a new day, I found Arthur in my chambers when I returned trom alate dinner. 1 had given him a pass-key since he had been thrown more than usual on my hands by his morbid dislike for society. I felt that there was something wrong in a young ieilow’s giving up so much of social pleasure as he bad Since Crosby’s departure; and I could not understand why that event should bave made so deep an impression on the lad, Bat submitted to his varying humors and waited. “Hallo, you disreputable old uncle!” cried Artuur, when I appeared. “Where on earth have you been with that white tie under your ear like a hangman's knot? And there's xreat blob of something red on your shirt-iront, rgundy;” he said, examining it critically OF Musigny? I know Bond es wood dinners; but that is no reason Why 4 should stay out so late.” ‘You young seamp,” I retorted, “it is due to ce that you are under the cover of my respectable lodging to-night, instead of aging round into ail sorts of I'don't know What places. Disreputable, indeed!” But Arthur soberly protested that he was done with the vanities of this life. “I’ve an ea!” he exclaimed, it possioie?” ow, honest Indian, Uncle Bob, I have an idea that Mr. Crosby h “And what put that he: cI now how old Crosby used to , their comfortableness eir cheerful and solemn Well, he has ued with worry and ba’ tled to ssses of some mountainous country for irom his own kind. companions bee: Thanks, awfully.” ‘But what were ihe worries with which poor old Crosby Was over-burdeued, as you say, 1ny y 2” “Vrineipally that old cat, his wife.” “Good ‘gracious! Artiur, you don’t know whut you ure saying! I beg you not to repeat that Cutside of these tour walis, You would get us both into nu end of trouble. I don’t intend to, Uncie Bob; but you mark my words it yo rdoget to the bottom of this mystery, you will find that old Crosuy was @ henpecked’iusband. Don’t tell ine. 1 know." | And the lad sucok his head with a knowing air. We sat, as was often our custom at that time, tar into the morning, taiking over the various topics suggested by tue mysterious disappear- hat day, the newspapers bad published an account of tile finding of the body of an unknown young woman, preity, well-ciad and evidently delicately nurtured, And the odd Ubing about the case was that, as soon as the jacts were made public, the officials having the matter in charge were run down with applica- lions from innumerable relatives of missing girls, “There must have been a reguiar army of missing young women of whose sad plight we never should have heard it this poor dumb and unknown thing had not been turned up. Here is one of the hundred—what has beconie of the other ninety and nine?” And Arthur siniled grimly as he lighte ar. ‘ake caret Don’t set fire to that lamp- t's real lace, you rogue. There are Do nd nine wissing girls, my son; the anx- ious inquirers are only morbid seekers aiter a ew horror.” ‘Uh, but they give names and dates and Places, and all that sort of thing. Oh, no, you er that down, The young women are really missing. And’ what becomes ol ‘em? That's what zets me. “Well, weil,” I said, testily, “I hay cern in any of these things, and it is a business for you to be both about. Get out; Lam goin; “There Unele Bob, don't as you are going to bed. Itisn't healthy. 1'll take a brisk spin up to the Oxonian.. ‘The ave- nue is empty now, and the walk will help to clear the cobwebs out of my brain.” So saying the fine young feliow gave me a parting hus, as was bis wont, and skipped nimbly down stair Next morning, I loitered about my rooms be- fore going out to breakiast, hoping that Arthur ‘down town and give no con- ery poor ering your head to bed.” seton your ear just would dropin on is ine a chance to say a few pleasant words by way of atonement for the spark ot ill-temper 1 had shown at parting, the night befure. But he did not come, and us'l bad an engagement to dine out that” night, it was unusually late when Ireturned tw my lodgings, The same thing oceurred the next day, but by that time J had begun to wonder mildly that he did not cull. Wa she mitled? We had been accustomed to disrega:d artiticial divisions of time, and when we were sufficiently awake to talk, it mattered not what was the hour by the clock. So, reflect “All the fellows have it. But if you can DRY GOODS. : ‘ 1 stop, tne others irom "asfog ti] dare say we epeeeONey LADIES’ GOODS. rites al Re You! have tase te oly ea rout that Tay Preparaioe Fourth year co aE & Bro. Goon Niwa Goov News issed ‘and wen' Batit was a bad ‘dightiormer And it was cacelare addres iit 18 MeCON: | OFFER THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF PARASOLS se edo worse morning when I read the cruel and in- SAD tie AeA aaa we RN THE SW! flated story of ‘the mysterious Kansas City . BELOW CosT. a “grass widow” and my noble young Arthur in the newspapers. But tt Of course this was a romance. It was ten bythe busy and hurrying public. gave me adeep wound. It roused unfelt 'T. GEORGE'S HALL. FOR BOYS AN! mev, St. George's, EC KINEAR. A.M, reopens 20.” English, Classical and Commercial U1 in advantages and situation. 18H TO IsH MOVEMENT AND MASSAGE TREAT. 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ILL GUARANTEE TO TEACH ANY ONE 3. @ HUTCHINSON, ‘at halfcost, prices, and will sell ing that Arthur migitt have had two dinner eu. gagements in succession, and had neglected to inention them, addressed myself to sleep. but I was not a little siartled next morning, when Tippoo Saib,as Arthur called the sabe attendant at the Oxonian, eame to my door to say that some of the young gentlemen at the Oxonian, Joint masters of Tippoo Saib, had dic rected him to come and ask Mr. Chester if he knew where Mr. Arthur wus. He had not been seen at his rooms for two or three days. He had an appointment todine with “the boys” on the night betore, but had not appeared, nor had. he seul a message, a thing unprecedented with Arthur, and, I may add, a thing unprecedented with any one by the naine of Chester. He had not been seen, so far as I could hear, since the hour of hi leaVing my ebambers. A.strange fear sucokme. Was this another mysterious disappearance?" I sought to banisi the suggestion as foolish. Arthur, notwithstand: ing his whim-whams, was a study healthy lad, tull of the Chester cotumon sense, and no cow? ard, to Shirk lile’s burdens or séclety’s obliga: tows. Ob, no,, the thing was too absurd, Nevertheless, I went with what haste I could to Arthur's rooms in the Oxonian; as if might find some trace of him ther ‘They were charming rooms, filled with the memorabilia that a college "man. picks up, things that are silly in the eyesof the unin: teresied and ignorant Visitor, but priceless tp the owner of the key to the treasure-house. It Was a sunny apartment and the rays of morn. ing streamed goldealy in, glorifying brie: brac, pictures, boxing gioves, lulls, prize fuss, scullsyand the “retlued disorder of the stake tabie, where a Moorish dagger was laid across the open pages of the latest novel. A group of half-expectant, halfapprehensive Oxonians stood around me as { wok a survey of the ‘Nothing here to afford a hint as to the youngster's whereabouts,” I said, with a whim- Sical and futile attempt to be jolly. “Nothing here,” they all said in a chorus. And then one of the young fellows began fine gering the dainty notes on the table, as if the; might give a clue. I placed imy yang on b and said, “My nephew's property, if you please. We wilt ot diate ‘therd. the 4 ver all, there was no need for us to worry. Arthur had innumerable friends and acquaint ances in the city and in the country. Hemight have taken it into his head to pay some one of them a visit. We should hear irom him in the course of the day. But it was queer that he did not leave a line for me, or send me a telegram. He was mighty scrupulous about such thii In spite of plucky attempts to put a bold tront on the matter, I was secretly worried. And, when, after a truitiess examination of the prem: ises, gave the apartment into Tippoo baib’s chaige and went heavily down the stairs, T heard one of the Oxonians remark, under his breath, “the old man seems to take It rather hard,” telt that I was twenty years older than I was when I went to bed the nignt before, It is needless to dwell on this part of my story. AS In the case of poor old ‘Crosby, we Kept the facts out of the Rewspapers, hop tbat something might turn up to solve the ride die of this mysterious disappearance, but noth- ing did. And when the newspapers did get ‘oid of itl was vexed und outraged by thelr conduct. 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Phonography, Penmanship, Hookcepl ; | sh geeantvesd Gatseresearccle neieenes somes | OLY wis a VAPOR STOVE glad to mect him atthe club, He bad a six oF The Columbian College’ Preparatory School, 1399 fi | '*fenine Stone Colles Rennes aes TS AND ENGLISH Mags r he best, and ath thonths’ card tromvold man Dexter, the racing st. n.w.; 6 t0 10 o'clock Jettm | ihine Stone Earrings, 19, per pat. ast importation) BELOW COST. 45. canentas winkth FoR can find it ome fwit ore man; and he made himself very much ADWIN ALDEN & BRO:S Ladies’ Sleeve Buttons, in Silver snd Oxidize, only aa ara = he Celebrated CROWN JEWEL at home with the younger members of E 2 ig, per alr. 5 Tas Fecors Dares Sums tanuly on hand. ‘See Special cee ta nb uno declared that He kAew everyihine | pop sem pop ppp EER RRR 58g ILLUSTRATED SCHOOL CATALOGUE, Pins, {n Silver, Gilt and Oxidize, only 25c. pended by the leading Dressmakers. They avons ware A yorth knowin: ut sporting matters. SS Impervious, mylo-siueth,3m . COOLERS, &e bot noticed that be was well inormed on those | Be” Ex BBB B Ee Ban so, | 224 ese pamphlet showing engravings of dir. | ,badiew Combination Fob Chains and Glove Button- | Impervious USS | Acetate IR ONAUNUTE Loss COFFEY BOE jects. ._ But I ba nt colleges aud seniinaries, study. rooms, artistic 2 ase wow reduced 5 hide amental note te cui cect “Tits mas |B eee Bos Bow Hew HB Sas8 | laudscapen or college grounds, with Gost of sketciug | ,, bade Sterling Stiver Collar Buttong, with setings. |" 'Homtsoxa aaa W. & JENKS & Co., as read every book that Ihave, and some that catalogtie uscstovether with the cost of advertising sn | StiNg Oxidize Bracelets, only 19¢: $09 TAT Tm street, Thave not. the best papers, sent Free on application. Pen So eg nee 2: Bh: Seer ca ar Meanwhile, with a sorrowful eagerness that I] oF WASHING POWDERS DESIGNED TO IMI- EUWIN ALDEN & BRO., : Fob_Chaius, Kolled Gold, with Turquoise G F W. i. Tovenrox & Co, cannot describe, | had kept up my quest for my Newspaper Advertising Agents, ee = ee LOVE ITTING a . boy, now ten times more dear than ever [had | TATE JAMES PYLE'S WORLD RENOWNED ‘ y ante’ Shoulder Pins, only 6Sc. per pair. 1214 F STREET N. wW, supposed that anybody could be to me, It was s JelG-wasim __ 66 is 5 TIT ,8S5 ae yan Hope fled and was replaced by jo appre- PEARLINE, WHICH IS SOLD BY GROCERS | \yyw ENGLAND ERVATORY OF MUSIC, Serica: a Sollelte orders for destroying moth and their corm at hensive certainty which in turngave way tode-| oxpy ayy = BOSTON, MASS. é ! S| private residences, spair. ONLY, AND IS THE CHEAPEST AND ONLY |~), | Largest and Best Equipped ‘in the World—100 FIGURED SWISS. F Bags any other te Arthur Spencer had disappeared as utterly 28 | sar LABORSAVING COMPOUND EVER IN- | instructors, 2,005 students Inst year. Thorough in-| Beautiful New Patterns. just in to<day, in White a1 | of references, ithe earth had opened and swallowed him, struction in Vocal and Instrumental Music, Plano | Cream, at 30,35, 37ic per yard. The last pumbe ARE STILL TRIUMPHANT: ‘osay that lite seemed empty and frivolous | VENTED, and Organ Tonligs Fine’ arts; Oratory. bite Wyuld be cheap at Ot: per yard. WALL PAPER, STRAW MATTINGS AND WIN to ne How that so much sunshine hud gone out Frenchy Geran and “Tinton tere New White Dress Gouds arrive daily. For fifteen years they have steadily gained In favor, DOW SCREEN of it but iaimtly describes my condition. Ido Brauches, Gyumusties, ete. ‘Tuition So to 820; bon and with sa ly ng have become the not thing that l have ever been much of what | Goon aRTicLEs DO NOT REQUIRE PEDDLERS | #!!4 rooms with steam heat and electric light, $40.0 ree a pg eg rig alate en tgany d MATERIAL FOR LOOSE COVERS AT LOWEST the world calls asociety man. Social life in a 2 $22 per term. ferm bexins epzember 9, 1886, Getinay Seede Wie bee ie ee ACES, i jashionable city has aiwaysseemed very hollow AND PRIZES TO SELL THEM. For ilastrated calendar, with, fail “niormation, ad: | f ry ee eS and kif grades’ with Beta dong Wasdood wees | 7] and shan-like to me. “Iut itis the best we can ‘je-was2m Franklin square, Boston r AA NNN Sss, n° furnish hem when preferred. Jusr Rycerven, get,” I have olten said to some of the socialcen- | _4e5,26jy17,a07 Fh ih ce RD a L AAA NNN ha Highest awards from ail tne World’sgreat Fair | Sors whom I have inet. “Let us make the most "ARATORY SCH OL, TL a4 NOKN S338 ‘The lust medal received i= for Pirst Degree of Merit A CAR LOAD oF OUR o1it.” But now, all the cynical things that I For Lehigh University, trom the late Exposition held at New Ork had heard guid’came back to me with new ss ane = ealeden, Pa aes IMITATION MAHOGANY CHAMBER SUITES cs : . 5 slety, .ccommen: wobert A rerton, % ae pir nee my relish for the society of in Univercity.. Prepares Young BBB U URRR GGG H HH 8t wable. BEVEL GLASS AND BRASS CANDELABRAS “Why do yo rT 1 men for Lehigh University, one of the most excel: BOBU UR RG GH H «&¢& Ketatlers are authorized to refund money If, on ex- ny de you make yourself such a recluse, Jent technical institutions of the east, and 80 righiy BBB OU URRE G HAH “sce amination, these Corsets do not prove as represeuted. Which we are selling at $29.75, this winter, Mr, Chester?” asked one gay young pee. FER DDD U U cCO EEB DDD endowed that it offers fee tuition to all. -s BOBU UR RGGGH H «& Ss For sale everywhere. woman who could not possibly have heard ot | B, Ez DpPpUUCE E DD Apply to BBB UU K RK GGG U HW és ‘Calalogue free on application. BEST VALUE EVER OFFERED my greal and consuming sorrow, ree Re BREE Se FE OB BI ssunsd ULRICH, Ph. D., Principal. x 3 - s wuse the world of society has goneonand | H kee Bos You’ Goo kes Bow | 7\coxts THOMSON, LANGDON & Co, CARPETS AND ALL FLOOR COVERINGS being crowded off our stools,” Tadded. “Those ‘The fourth year of this school (known for 83 years BBB RRR O O “re W. . HORKR Oia whe aretL aoe ad ee a3 Chestuut sireet seminary) will open W ¥ BBE ROO. Js the Palais Royal, : to th he andl suetes ee foreed to submit September 29th, at tz, the spacious coun ry seat Bsr Ek i “oo” = plete stock. | 1 ‘801 ‘30 n 0 the snubs and sughts of their own sons and September 20th, at Ogoutz: the spaci ry seal -c pete, stores, _ Evens ns jarket Space. 308 and 310 Sch st. nw. daughters are not so badiy off; but we take the CEE ee oe ra slings and arrows all the same.” ro ‘ ane ‘The giddy young thing laughed and said: EL pee P. Hassox Hiss & Coa “Society will put On mourning when you hie . e Pirkei SIC. you to Ubat monastery that you seem to have inners, as well as those wishing to be qualified for 420-422-424-426 SEVENTH STREET, fae eg ee Pet Feaders'und performers, ‘Terms moderats. 734 12th SPRING LINE one needs ve a Catholic, 1 wondered: ty be eae a: mare a m*_| COOLEST STOKE FoR SHOPPING. Je25, i candidate fora monastic retreat? 1b eg a = ~S as Children’s tong and short DRESSE = s oobi Yel, It Was supremely toulish and selfish gel ier 4, 1866. Turd year. “Chrculars at 132 tathst. | Grrear Mlark Dows Ix Goons | S225. SomES on No Goons: seed tes born fpr me tyeven so muclt as entertain the idea ot & eu oy haw. "Also private lesotts, _mnvae Tine "| Our Crescent “hist, made of gund cotton and dine | AS gu. large fat saeet ok of FANCY — oot at . r “pao oe w 0 age hE OF REM: OF ELD’ Linen some, reinfore: d, ‘i made with the patent: JD z M4 ERIE au 1 21 juands. ‘They were incessant, ‘That was Just ow ows Norn Mon true lisiled | stays, only OB ‘bie stiri, made of Waa | RE TOURER GMD GEAINED O800R tue trouble. “How | hated the cards and iuv! meihod, Classic and Modern Music; good German, Sutta cotton and. xtra tive Linen Hosoms Made IRS. SELMA ERT, — tations that came in upon me, day utter da: French and Malian, by susctassed methods, hay ver | the best manner, only 85 couts. Percale Shirts, | ap243m_ 60S s posite Patent OM1ce F What a weariness to the fles those inen's dine TAO Vth st nw., mite 1236 6." m25 | Collars and Cuff.'95 conte, “Clo ing out a lut ot'20 | yy -WHEATLEY'S DYE Woke. ee. ners, in Which I was wont to take delight, grew Some muspend-rs ut 17 cents: cheap at 25 cents. 3 | VY Sntabiished Lead FURNITURE, tobe. ‘There was the same everlasung round rUnuivached Socks, fall regune | q Judging from past « perience, the rush of work. this caRPETa. isis sayeth ace B ‘ ae | fail will be so great that it will’ be impossible two grt poke thera dereoy ear serena Tangunces. Musie aitced = rstmade Wo onder 19F 395 | aired. Gur many patrois wilt consult their own inter: | _myl $15 FIFTEENTH ST, N. W. sherry, White and red wine, chatnpagne, bur. = get At the Sha Winter garments imunedatelv or suring thesunt | 7 ee undy'and liqueurs, the sine fellows, che sae etn on BRANCH BALTIMORE. SHIRT FACTORY, Stouedieanad sdvelias deared wane | Le Wpaway cigars, und even the same Wwatie.s und the Lisves for Jezs 1002 F STKELT NOKTHWEST d delivered at rice upon notice bs | DRY AIR REFRIGERATOR. same servile boudmaa, Wao stuod ready with. sistem MILE d. OF at the office, 1068 Jefferson st, MOST IMPROVED AND SCIENTIFTO # mercenary grin to help one on WiLL his Wraps ' ewer s Sass REFRIGERATOR FOR FAMILY and snatch'a pour-buire With obsequious husve. LAUca FL In Masrvs E Mccari r USE IT IS WITH SOLVING student ‘oc human ‘nactte watted to ace 0 Ss, POU Tf Ssssg qiter ve chang "ot Se = Ba gss Sastrany comers =| ce ee Se more. The joy o: my lile having been clouded, Seca’ sorbet, vii . Hixuly recommended by physic styles ot L a Irhot pernaueniiy celipeed, 1 begun tosee bent Ss Too HF Sass HORI HA EWRTTING PRACTT- : ‘riigren's tat Siises Corsets at BAUM Staisinneh | MINIMUM CONSUMPTION OF TOE 13 heartiess und insincere. the world ol society Jy cully taught Succews nara: itced U instracuionsuce | Reduces the slze and increases the length of the walst | Jtablishmet, “thst © mylvm | ADDITION TO COLD HE ATMOPHEAGE was. 1 wanted no more dinner-givers hunting Chie er Jose atta cree OE GROMEELAN, | of fleshy ladies without injurious Uight lacing. Mika ®: 007. DTH STN W.—coRsETS | MUST NOT ONLY BE DRY, BUT PURE, sree tee men alee ome to look well or talk Dye ee pone Seen eee a ey PALAIS ROYAL, 2 Mio mace to ofder. “a berfect ft guaranteed: Also, AND THESE CONDITIONS MUST BE well ut their tables. Match-makers eagerly in as SA PALAIS BOYA hue of Shoulder Braces, Reform Waists, 1 2D, AND THEY ANE ONLY Guestol aligibie soune Miehae cine ee ran AaTRECT Je10,12 19,264 1117-19 Penneyvianta Pscts and Bustien." Corsets iaundericd. myo-oure MAINTAINED, AND THEY ANE 0) bets Fortune hunters sharply looking Out for ane Civil Service aati ar oan 3. W, SCHAEFER & BRO. opportunities to swap off an eligible tizure an aie Apisedie circa Re onal iat is ‘urs: ty! ~ ae 4 goudly apparel for the hand of an heiress, Sel. [Eripr attained Ret ee Big eT ar i CHINA. OLA AND ROUSEFURSTEEIDS, Ssh pleanure-seekers on the lookout ior other CHODE-OF FA J B L M ap?! 1310 Sth st. now, No, 1020 Seventh street nor bwest. ote bac Agee Lge eet ease to be ‘SCHOOL OF T UNE ARGAINS N JMASLLINERY. ay B. M. M aie apla Sole Agents the Distetet hardly worth living tor or living with, SCGOL BE eS GhiBEn a 2 IM. Mexcerrr, = : Manuing—{t was odd how 1 grew w like that SCHOOL GF .OOK-KESPLNG andi danas veed with King that jive was AT! Shorthand Books and Sapplic 5 als of all kinds for ART EMBROIDERY. I eae “4 . ery much of a sau, take It by aad marae ae || $l, #12, $12.50, sisso, {an iting Binetiies sa Spt Nee ee en oe eas | Kuverore Mace Woausxer tinies, so great Was my despondent disgust, 1 ale _ Oa Shik, Arrasene Crewel and Chi = 7 even thougut of seitdestruction. Butt pat the VERT, OF BOSTON, GRATE “ident Lace eA tee Shae, ete SPECIALLY DISTILLED FUL 2UDICLNAL USE, thought away witu sel-contempt, No Chester certiied exaniiner o: the New England | K OK 8% OGG ™ g58g ea Py LY “ered 13 STRICTLY PURE. had ever done, disuonorable deed, ‘Suicide 2h agteciniave, hormou, and vyice kK HNN eg = eee toe oe ees apl-3m_ Sore ouer aaah “as dishonorable, It was bad enoagh to have aia 1Uth at ne . is ME ASXIEE HUMPHERY. PERFKCTS DIGESTION this eioud of mystery Langing over my poor BIuVaTE LESSONS IN ALD KK WON SN G Go a 30 TENTH STKE.) NORTHWEST, rs boy's uae and fate. “I blusied wo think thut 1 : Siw ist adults eouaidertini: “repares for conege. | & MN AN GU Bags eee nd guaran ee perit itand Commer ae | Coequalled or Consumption, Wasting Diseases, ant hud even distantly contemplated feta de sc BPR, TEP BPR, UB og ERR pon, | seme ls Wet Pi fnt all camming SPL CTAD TIES Atte Generat Deby. ¥ perplexity was deepenea by Manni ‘1 ; y INS oy AW. COP: 4 5th a nw. nderclotsing, MerinoUnderwe atu Cleago, for as oh afoue with au ee bE gg o FE BB | Matoeinatteat, ciudseai, duoc, aE gi Lngerclouning, Menmov ear chinks be beia tinh ‘chdianneente unsympathetic world, Not that he was especi-| BR ER KEE DDD U co EKR Dib iweniiuis Clases. eee mnt Q Braces, and ail Dees Reform Goods. 3 ally a consoles; but nobody was a consoler; and . S Preiiue anes ee aie ce “cneh Corsets and Muses. Beware of Imitations, None genuine without the theretore I ae bist ‘tee syMpatby. a Signatures EISNER & MENDELSON, Yo be Continued.) ; pet ee sco " Pua, ee ui J janis: spoken. mrl4 Sole Ageuis tur tue Ua —roo—— =a = seaeican. De RLNCH YELNG, SCOURING AND DKY — To Ride Cowboy Fashion, Were Is Waar You Wanr — i qe FOR SALERY THE ENGLISH STYLE SHOWY BUT USELESS FOR To | eh arsenal oguaimssimeenre hed ‘Stott Cromwell & Cay LONG DISTANCES, 1205 NEW YORK AVENUE NORTHWEST. wehifvely & Evans, }wasington 20 Mr. Buffalo Bill in the Philadelphia News. PRICE BULLETIN: Evening Dresses, Laces. Lace Curtains, Crapo Veils 5 Feathers, Kid Gloves, Fla:nel and Pongee our speciaity, ihe, Eaailsh style of Hang a horse, whieh I Gent's Garments Dyed, Cleaned and Kepaired, Ladies a in vi re, is Very showy, sr Dresses Dyed and Cleaned without ripping. ANTON but it will not do forlong distances, Itis too a NOVELTIFS IN THIN GOODS FOR GENTLE. | THIMMED SAILORS, 10 CENTS. 4 CAROLINE LERCH, formerly with A. Fischer aud hard on man and beast. Let any one try to ride ii W iad , MES. > | @ horse fitty miles at anything like a pace in o 00 i it - ELEGANT LARGE SHADE HATS, 17 CENTS this manner, and both he and his animal will SF WM é | Pormeny with Lont & Taylor, New Vora: be used up atthe endo! the journey. It is a con- . 2 . ONLY. Wim, Barr & Co., St. Louis, Mo. Dr. CHEEVER'S ELECTRIC BELT, or Regenere: stant pound, pound, pound on the sadale, and Suits made at the shortest notice. ‘Superior fitting, - —~ ct, the percussion is too much for a horse or a'man 3 reasonable prices, and sutisiaction guarantecd. tor, ismade expressly for the cute of derangements to stand. The Earlof Dunraven and nuim- A LARGE RECENT PURCHASE FROM ONE | THOUSANDS OF NICE AND NOBBY STYLESOF 2 of the procreative organs. Whenever any debility of bers of other noted Englishmen who hunted OF THE LARGEST re the generative organs occurs, from Whatever cause, with me on the plains, rode. that Way at ‘first; THE LARGEST NEW YORX MANUFAC} cari pRuys HATS, AT 37, 50,60 and 75 the ‘continuous stream of electricity permeating but they soon saw, as he suid, “what bad form _ TURERS OF SUMMER CLOTHING PLACES UPON through the parts must restore them t» heslthy ao 1 was.’ and learhed to ride’ cowboy. iashion : OUR TABLES AN UNUSUALLY LARGE as-] CENTS Tue Narioxar Mervar Lave} tin. ‘tereis no mistake abou Moods’ “Wa -aecall_wsone” Witeny iter SORTMENT OF THIN GOODS, IN STYLES NOT 3 ASSOCIATION, OFFICE 1420 F St ane ee riding, Bill,” said the Earl, wnen he had mas. . SHONN BY ANY OTHER HOUSE IN WASH-| BLACK, WHITE AND COLORED FINE MILAN | ¥,W;,Pud Renae, T Seunk Linky eee | ccopnclag, Sake ot Wigee, maetiinp teen anyeeeene: tered the American style. ’ I feel sure that atter INGTON. < + ™ ‘Frank J. Tibbits, Gen. Man! "| or these on is cured. Do not confound this with the Wild West has been in Engiand three MILITAIRE, AT 65 and 75 CENTS and $l. — months you will seea revolution in the manuer | FRB [t g583 EER 3 woe NNN 5 FOR A POLICY OF $1,000. electric beits advertised to cure all ily from bead to of riuing over there, “How dowegetauchiper: | Ey Hf Bie Ea MMMM fh. Wg | cxecane im patie one _Admumson jac and medic, cramination, $5.00, | (wee Yius slur the Ute spesued purpose ur fect seats? By gripping our horse with our | # E MOM ASA N RN AND MIXED CO! LEA LAN pay BoP culars giving full inormation address Knees and logs sitting iow aud accommodatiog | Ha H oS fee EH 2° § NS | ow coucns, srmpes aNp reatps, mt bank, | AWE THE LEADING SHADES MILAN ATS, AT | pala Tor makina wralsai Riaamaia nosemee, CHEEVER ELECTEIC BELT 00. comes second nature after awhile. I can tell : MEDIUM AND LIGHT SHADES. 46 and 67 CENTS and @1. is cemcend (meat yen | 3-2 ee 163 Washington street, Chiaage, svery movothat: & esa making after ig Pye zs 2 50 - rf mn on his ve minutes. It you 23, 7% 12 want to see, how the art of perfeet ridin 18 ac SOME ARE S0LD COATS AND vests To, | ELEGANT FRENCH BOUQUETS AND SPRAYS Pa $10 ted aired, wat oul le Indian 's play! on 3. the bunos and ponies. ‘The instant shes get A GETHER, SOME COATS BY THEMSELVES:| aT 90, 25, 35 and 6OCENTS, si, 830 34.53 a near them they mount them. When they are SOME IN SACKS, SOME'IN “OUTAWAYS” AND = = +4 iso barebacked they have no way of holding them- BBR 00. 7 SOME IN “NORFOLK&” * S = Soo isso B e ous! wu , ‘ s 30. ¥ Go 23.00 the round of the animal's barrel, ahd yet Be O° -- Ss 4 990 2500 = year-old youngster will stick on 'iike wax. ee E “oo - THESE ARE ALL ENTIRELY NEW, AND 3 10 20 27 50 BE RUS SSe ET Cee shy Se ee 2 VERY DESIRABLE STYLES, WERE BOUGHT ‘YOU BUY UNTIL YOU HAVE POSTED = td 3 www HHH II S85. Ke ss Why gage: ey a Car Are Pre- AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT BELOW | © YOURSELVES IN OUR PRICES, = ey 3 wy Syc8E Sic il Cee Sua? ‘red. PRICES OF TWO WEEKS AGO, iD ARESOLD = yu ‘Prom the Hallway. World, CORRESPONDINGLY LOW: 2 ~ Pate aay Ue MANUFACTURING CLOTHIERS AND TAILORS, . = ALSO LARGE ADDTIONS TO OUR STOCK OF CUTAWAY coats, : ago published an article on the subject, and took the ground that there. could be iio’ ditfer- ence unless the sills and framing of jedlike the buckboard of 6 wagon Tho ay ‘vertainly no yield to car sill it every old traveler ayolds the claliy the bert gid travelers generally S ¢ ‘who seal og ng tind COR. 7TH AND ESTs, Wx Lassows HAIBR-ELIXIR. ‘Undoubtedly the best means for the preservation of | J°28 ‘the Hair, Recommended by the most renowned physicians, acts in a similar way. Any: and wholly free from aay metaltlc ingredient. about the track jerks —s Jerks ibe wi Positively harmless, made of vegetable matter only Sevarra Srazer Deorxenness, OR THE LIQUOR HABIT, POSITIVELY (CURED BY ADMINISTERING DR HAINES GOLDEN SPECIFIC. KING'S ‘The medicinal of whisky distitied apateret whee som Fiona ae a es Sp Biace Very Ligh pysi vu among Uae Snhasyiars ss Jollowing prices, 1b cases CuUlalng GbE dozeu Bt Lace Datta, bik pesedecor se gh seater