Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1890, Page 10

10 ‘Written for Tax EVENiIve Stam. WHOSE WAS THE HAND? BY MISS BRADDON. Asthor of “Lady Andley’s Secret,” “Like and Unlike,” “Ishmael,” “The Day Will Come,” &o. (4LL RIGHTS RESERVED” —_—— CHAPTER XIIL UNDER CURRENTS. HE WOMAN looked at her sleeping baby to assure herself that he was not likely to awake for the next few | minutes, and then accompanied Florestan to the landing below, @here se knocked at the door of a room to- ward the front of the house. A feeble, old voice called to her to enter, and she entered, leaving Florestan outside There was a brief pariey, and then he was -sdmitted toa narrow slip of a room with a deep set-window and a small fireplace in the corner. The furniture consisted of an old walnut-wood wardrobe with heavy brass handles, much too large for the room, a nar- | row bedstead, a comfortable arm chair. and a small round table. There was acloset on one side of the room, which served the old lady for her toilet. ‘The wall space, where not obscured by the tall wardrobe, was covered with old-fashiened prints and colored lithographs in which might have been read “an abstract and brief chron- icle of the time” since the fall of the Bastile, which was depicted in one of the most notice- able of the engravings. They were for the most part scenes of revolution or bloodshed— the Death of the Duc d'Enghien. the Days of June, the Coup d’Etat, the Execution of Maxi- milian, the Commune. There were coarsely executed prints cut from the illustrated ue ws- papers of half acenturs ago, in marked con- trast with the superior art of inter years. | ‘The old woman sat in her arm chair by the Window, neatly clad in a black alpaca gown and | a picturesque white cap. her missal and rosary | on the table by her side, and her canary chir- ruping in his cage in the window. | The withered old face had all the traces of | good looks and of gooi blood, and there; was no lack of me-a.»-7 or intelligence in the keen gray eyes which scrutinized the stranger. Vial and his wife bad saved buy a little dteednn orpe tayen Hn in to v= business and in this house that ‘ing, was born.” you never . married, Made- moiselle?"*asked Florestan, after he had ex- pressed all due interest in her narrative. 2 It “Those who asked me to marry were peop! with whom I could not have been happy. may be that something of the pride of race which bad died out of my father's mind was revived in me. I always felt it a hard thing that my father, Eugene Lafont—de Lafont, as I saw the name written in old documents— should be a shoemaker. This street was not soshabby in my youth as it has been for the last forty years, but it was not a very grand neighborhood even then, and I used to walk in the fashionable quarters of Paris of a Sunday afternoon with my father and used to feel that fate had used us I saw the Marquise de Lafont drive by in her carriage and my father told me that I was of the same race. He made a joke of the difference between ns, but it cut me tathe quick that we who were of the same family should be so wide apart. My father and mother both died before I was thirty and 1 was left quite alone in the world. They had just been able to make a living, but they had saved only as much as served to pay their debts and to bury them. The house and the business seapage into other hands, but I stayed here, like a piece of old furnituge. I have been a lodger in this room in which you find me ever since my father’s death. I was able to earn my own ‘ing when I was eighteen by fine needle work and I worked at the same business for fifty years. I was seventy years of age before I ever needed help from any one; but'at that age my sight began to fail and it would have gone hard with me if the Marquise de Lafont had not chanced to hear about me from the mistress of the large lingerie shop for which I had worked all those years. The marquise took pity upon my helplessness and pleaded my cause with the marquis, who came to see me and looked through my papers and made out my father's relationship to the great family. Convinced of this, he granted me a small pension, which his house steward has paid me ever since. His generosity has made my declining days peace- fui and free from care. Irise from my bed every moruing with the assurance that my dail bread is provided for me, and I know that shail not he in a pauper’s grave, for my noble Kinsman has promised me u niche in the family yault at Pere Lachaise. I pray for the marquis and his family every day and I hope that the ravers of a grateful old woman may be heard y the Blessed Virgin, whose divine pity has succored my loneliness.” “but you have not been altogether lonely, I hope, Mademoiselle? You have found sj pathy and friendship even within these wal said Ploresian, gently leading up to the q tion which he wanted to ask. “¥es. I have had friends here—friends who came and went. It has often seemed to me xt (an Mia uml AN INTERESTING STORY. “Take the trouble to seat Monsieur,” said Mile. Lafont, pointing graci- ouslyte the only unoccupied chair, which was placed opposite her own. yonder”—with a glance at the door through which Florestan’s introducer had retired— yourself, “My good friend; “tells me you want information about some former lodger. I was born in this house and I have lived in it nearly ninety years.” “That is a curious thing to happen in such ® restless city as Paris,” said Florestan, interested in the sad, old face, the dull and barren life. “How came it, Mademoiselle, that your life was thus uneventful. “There are many such lives in every great city, Monsieur—lives that are of little more account than the life of a limpet on a rock. My father was flung like a weed on the ocean of Paris a lad of sixteen, without friends or | home. His father was a lawyer, prosperous, successfal; his mother was a beauty, sought after by the best people in Paris. All his boy- hood had been spent in the stormy atmosphere of the revolution, but the troubles of those dreadful years seemed hardly to have touched hishome, His father was in constant employ- ment and had a voice in the Senate, where his eloquence made him a man of mark; his mother’s friends still flocked around her, except when now and then the guillotine made sudden gap in the circle. The Brotherhood | e In whose house my father had been educated were broken up and dispersed. He was av home in idleness, enjoying his life and all the fever of the time—waiting till his father should have leisure to take up the thread of his education, hoping to follow in his father's footsteps as a successful ad- vocate, full of belief in the ‘golden harvest of that bloody seed which was being sown broadcast through the fairest cities of | France. Boy as he was he was already an ar-| dent politician, and had the entree of more than one club where opinion was ultra red. | One night he went home from a turbulent de- bate at one of his clubs to find the servants in tribulation and his home desolate. His father and mother had been arrested and taken to the Conciergerie. Within a week they had both by Mpeth eo which Fouquier Tin- | Ville kept on to Eternity. All their | fine friends were powerless to help them or afraid to interfere. My grandfather had ne- | glected his private interests for the cause ofthe | republic, and he died deeply in debt. Credi- | tors took possession of house and property’ and my father wandered = the streets, jungry, too proud to appeal to his father's friends.” = she The old woman paused for a few moments snd then, seeing that her listener was warmly interested, continued in her slow deliberate ac- cents, quietly reciting a story which she had told to all comers for more than half a cen- tury: “Chance brought him in his desolation to the threshold of this house. He sat down upon the step in front of the shop door: not because he that place above any other bat because he bad reached the hmit of his strength and needs drop somewhere. The sop is kept by a shoe maker now, and it was kept by a shoe | maker then, a Provencal, whose father was gardener to Madame du Barry, and who had come to Paris to seek his fortune in the | days of court favor. Madame du "s head was laid low and court favor | at oop Francois Vial and his wife | strugg! on as t they might, mending and making shoes for red republicans.” “They were not too poor to have pity on| your father, I take it,” said Floresta. | “Their hearts were larger than their means, Monsieur. They saw a fainting lad sitting on | their doorstep with his head leaning against the door post, and they took him in and fed him and comforted him. He told them that he was the son of suspects who had been guillo- LH i z a long illness, a low fever, the result of grief and exposure. He had been wandering sbout the streets nearly a week before they took compassion wu ‘im—wandering about and sleeping in dark corners of the city with only afew pence between him and absolute Marvation. Francois Vial and his wife were shildless and ther took a fancy to the orphan and taught him their trade. He had no other | in the worid to help him, for those of his | father’s friends who had not been swept away | the strong tide of blved had left the | country, and there was no onc to help him ex- cept these good people. So he who was to have an advocate and @ senator was content to | make and mend shoes, and he fell in love with an orphan niece of Francois Vial—a little fw: haired gir! who had comforted him in his so tow for his dead parents—and he married her | when he was three and twenty, and when the | new-born century was opening im splendor and es He had quite reconciled himswif to his bie avocation. He was content to remain what destiny had made him. His mind scemed to have fashioned itself easily to thats humble | I have often wondered that it was so, | blood in his veins did not revolt | daily drudgery, that narrow sordid | 8 mg & 4 i against x “It was strange, assuredl: a sphere from which | iatk thin ai af gE m was wanderi most of the time. all that ‘comuseted bim with his past life ve weakened, till the miluence of that wae nearly lost. fand he was able x begin a nce among low-born people without much pain in the change. At any rate Fe BREE Ho i T | He y. that he never | him t in that long illness of his, when | money throug! that this house is like a caravansary in an Arabian desert. My friends were so quickly gone, like travelers who stay only fora single night, Some have been very good tome. I would have loved them if I had dared. You want to ask me about a ledger in this house, Madame Manant told me, Was the person here in the long pa “Twelve years ago. “Ah, that is not the past. The friends I re- member best are those of fifty years ago. Who was the person you are curious about?” “A mi! !iner’s apprentice. called Toinette. I ao not her surname.” “A milliner’s apprentice,” repeated the old woman musingly. ‘There have been mani such in the attics. Bright girl-faces, sad girl- faces, have passed by my door through the long years and have faded and vanished like my own dreams. Toinette, Toinette, Toinctte,” she repeated, still musing. Florestan waited patiently while the slow memories of old age wandered im the dim cor- ridors of the past, Presently the old woman took up her missal and began to look through the well-thumbed pages. Between the leaves | there were many of those little pictures of Madonna, saints and martyrs which Romanists love, and every one of those little engravings, with their lace borders, was a souvenir of some vanished friend, aud on every one of them there was some scrap of writing. She looked through them slowly and care- fully and at last came to a little piccure of St. Stephen, on the back of which was written: “To Mile, Lafont, from her loving Toinette. St. Stephen's Day, 1868.” “There is the name, at least,” said the spinster. *Toinette! Yes; I remember. She was a sweet girl, and I was very fond of her, and I think I helped her to escape a great dan- er. But she vanished like the rest of my riends, They were all shadows, ‘There is only this lonely room and that bird cage, with its changing occupants, that remain. I try to cheat myself with the fancy that the bird is al- ways the same, but even he changes. I put away my poor little dead canary and buy my- self a new one and call him by the old name, but it is long before he gets to know me as the dead one did. Ah, monsieur, thatis what makes life hard—that it should be so short for some and so long for others.” “Yes, mademoiselle, that is @ misery we ail feel. But itis some consolation to have lived a blameless life, as you ave. ‘Limpets live blameless lives,” retorted Mile. Lafont with a touch of scorn. “There is no more merit in my blameless life than in a iimpet’s, But you were asking about Toin- es. Please tell me all youcan. Her sur- name in the first place.” “Impossible. [have quite forgotten it.” “What was the danger from which you helped to save her?” “Her passionate love of aman who was her superior in station—an Englishman.” “You do not think that any evil came out of that love?” “It almost broke the girl’s heart; no more evil than that. I believe the man meant hon- orably, though he tritled with a girl who adored him. He did not mean to betray her, | He was touched by her romantic love for him, He gave her some half dozen jaunts to the villages near Paris; little tete-a-tete water parties, which are not always so harmless as in thiscase, He respected ner innocence and her Triendlessness, and she was able to respect her- self. I was her only contidante and I warned her of the peril which she ran when she gave Ler heart to @ man who was very unlikely to marry her, She had not long come from the south, and she had only one reiation in Paris, a brother, who did not often come near her,” “Do you know how the brother earned his living?” “He was an assistant in a chemist’s shop.” “Did you ever see him? “Two or three times. Toinette brought him into this room to show him off, and to let him tal tome. She was proud of him, because he was cleverer than most young men in his sta- tion; but { don’t think he was as kind to her as he might have been, seeing that she was a stranger and alone in this great city.” “Did he know of her love gffair?” “Not at the beginning. but afterward, at my advice, she told him allabout her Sanday jaunts with the Englishman. He made a great fuss and swore that the Englishman should marry her, and although my poor Toinctte entreated him not to interfere he evidently did so, for a few days after their conversation the girl re- ceived « letter from her admirer bidding her farewell and inclosing an English bank note for two thousand five hundred francs. She brought the letter to me in her despair. She was broken hearted, poor child. She told me she hud never hoped to marry him. She only wanted to be with him for a little while now and then, as she had been at Bougival or Asnicres—just to see him and to hear his voice: just to know that he cared for her, though she could never be more to him than his humble little friend. And now he bade her farewell forever! The letter was a kind letter, a gentioman’s letter, written in very good French. I tried to make her understand that there was no other course | for the Englishman to take if he were an hon- est mau. If she could not be his wife she could be nothing to-him. 1 told’ her that it was kind of him to send her « parting gift, which would be a dot for her when she shou!d marry some honest young man in her own station.” “Was she willing to accept his gift?” asked romantic child burst Florestan. ae “Not she! e flood of tears and asked me if I could think her so base as to take @ price inte @ fresh for her broken,heart. ‘He has been very crue! to me,’ she said, ‘and the cruclest act f all was to send me this money. I shall send it back tohim.’ 1 begged her to think better of itand toremember that if her health failed her. or work should be hard to get by and by, there would be nothing between her and swrvution. -{f there were not,’ she sad, ‘I ‘ould not eat the price of my love. I did not sell him that; 1 gave it to him freely and would again and again and again, I love him as I love God and His saints,’ * “Did she return the note?” passed out of her hands, but whether it reached the giver is more than I can say. She had written her letter and enclosed the money in the envelope, when her brother happened to visit her. His visite had been more frequent than usual since he found ont her love s ‘tioned her about the letter and she to! hat she had done. He approved and of- to deliver the letter, te her thnt there would be a risk in se h the it It had ered to her by hand, I may observe. My ‘Toinetic was simple enough to trast him; whetuer the money ever reached its is doubtful. I never liked her brother's count- eaance or manner, and I would not have trusted him with any delicate commission, “Did you see much of bim after that time Mademo eelle?” fored “No; he was too much taken up by politics or clubs to waste his time upon an old woman like me, or to pay much attention to his sister. I saw no more of her than ever, poor child, for mo one now to take her into the try on a Sunday afternoon, and her Sun- were mostly tin this room. She was to me. used to read to me and ser me with her company, though it was too that al the happiness had gone out of er cwn life. She lived in this house till the dark days of the Commune, and in all that time she had no new sweetheart. no friend except an old woman. She was a splendid worker— industrious, economical, as good as gold. Af- ter the troubles began her brother took her away to London with him atan hour's warning. He had been entangled with the Communists, and he was in no small risk of being sent to New Caledonia, From that time to this I have heard nothing of her or of him. I think if she had prospered and been happy Toinette would have written to me, sol fear that all has not gone well with her.” 4 “If you could only remember that young man's name,” said Florestan. “His name—yes. I remember. His name was Claude—Claude Morel.” eee? which had failed Mile. Lafont when she tried to recall the sister's surname, re- called the name of the brother without an effort. “I thank you most cordially, Mademoiselle, for the amiability with which you have an- swered all my questions.” began Florestan, when the old woman interrupted him— “Do not suppose it has been irksome to me to talk to you,” she said, with her sly smile; “my life is very lonely and I have few intelli- gent people to talk to, and I daresay that you Know that women like to talk, especially old women, You have let me talk about myself and my poor little history. It is always a pleas- ure to tell one’s own history.” “If you have pleased yourself, dear Made- moiselie, you have done me a service all the same, and T should like to present you with some little souvenir of our convereation, I cannot venture to offer you money.” *Pray do not,” said the little old lady, draw- ing up her head with a certain hauteur which did not ill become her; “I am very poor, and I live upon charity, but it is a kinsman’s charity, Ihave enough for my sinall wants, and I like to think myself a lady, though my father was a shoemaker.” “Believe me, I know how to honor good birth and refined manaers wherever I meet with them,” replied Florestan, deferentially, “I want, therefore, to offer you some lite gift—something for this room in which you spend your days, for instance—which you may receive without the slightest derogation of dig- nity.” “Ab, Monsieur, do not laugh at un old wo- man—more than old enough to be your grand- mother. It seems a satire to talk of my dig- nity iu this one poor room, which serves me for bed room, parlor and kitchen.” “Ah, but dignity does not depend on sur- Toundings, except so tur as they belong to character, The exquisite neatness of this room would alone tell me I was in the apartment of a lady.” He looked around the poor little room, so scantily furnished, so old and faded as to wood work and wall paper, yet with that look of airiness and perfect purity which some women know how to give to the poorest room. One thing only seemed to him out of harmony, and seeing that Mile. Lafont liked to talk to him and was quite ready to give him her confidence he ventured to express his wonder at the style of = which she had chosen to adorn her walls, “You wonder that I should surround myself with scenes of bloodshed,” she said, ‘with the image of the guillotine which made my poor futher an orphan in the morning of his hie— with the picture of the fullof that fortress, with whose ancient towers there fell the old aristoc- racy of France, never to rise again with the old ower or the old influence on the fate of men. Frisa strange taste, perhaps, but I like to look at the dreadful records of that revolution which robbed me of fortune and station before 1 was born and which has given me so little ext cept loud talk and empty promises in place of all ittook away. I like to brood over the dull days that overshadowed Paris before this century and L were born. It isa morbid fancy, perhaps, but it pleases me. ‘The history @f my country is written in blood and I like to read that history.” s “Do the pictures never \poil your sleep or mix themselves with your dreams?” asked Florestan. “Very seldom. I have this under my pillow, and I have her blessed image to reassure me,” She touched her rosary with her long lean fingers and glanced to the wall beside her bed, where a plaster statuctte of the Virgin Mother stood on a little Swiss bracket above a beni- tier.” “What shall I bring you to decorate your room, Mademoiselle?” inquired Florestan, smiling at the little old lady, so serene in the simplicity of her faith. “Ah, Monsieur, you tempt me to impose on your generosity.” And then, almost reluctantly. the ancient spinster confessed that there was one thing for which she had been longing for the last thirty years, ever since she had begun to feel age creeping ou with increasing sensitivencss tocold. She had longed for a duvet, a liitie eider down quilt to put upon her bed. Every French woman of any substance hud her duvet, but how was she, whose little pevsion just served for food and fire, to save money enough to buy herself a duvet. It was not possible. She had been trying for thirty years, but when by much hard pinching and’ seraping there were a few francs 1m the tire lire, there came sicknes# and the tire lire had to be broker to pay for medicine and wine aud soup. “You shall have the duvet this evening. You shall sleep under it tonight,” cried Florestan, enchanted at being able to gratify a long cherished wish of this patient creature's. He thought of the lonely monotony of her life with inexpressible sadness. Could life in that gloomy old fortress which once stood not far off from this gloomy street have been very mach more dismal than life in this one small room over the cobbler's shop. Such a «treet! not one pleasing object, not one spot of bright nessor color to be seen from the window, strain one’s eyes and risk one's neck as one might. Nothing but the shabby dull old houses over the way and the gray and shabby dull old street right and left of the window. Florestan not only promised the eider down, but he promised also to go and see Mile, La- font again, and then, after gently touching the frail wasted hand,he took up his hat and bowed himself out of the room. Hs first visit was to the Bon Marche, where he chose an eider down quilt of the very best quality, co v- ered with rose-colored silk, It was a relief to him 4o think that there would be one little bit of vivid color in that iong gray street, though no body would see it except the little old lady. “When the warm weather begins I will send her some pots of stocks and wall flowers from the flower market and beg her to put them on her window sill, asan act of Christian charity,” he said to himself. “It is too dreadful to think of people living in such a street, while within hale hour's walk Chere axe Oe laughing gar- dens and the white villas, the gilded gates and gixnss porches, the bright-colored folly and frivolity of the Avenue de I'Imperatrice, or whatever these republicans call the place. [ only remember the old names that I knew when I was a boy.” The eider down disvatched to the old lady, Florestan’s next visit was toa man he bad sometimes had occasion to employ while he was secretary of legation, aman who may be loosely described asa private detective. To this person he imparted his desire to find out the whereabouts and occupation, surroundngs and character of a certain Claude Morel, em- ployed before the Commune as a chemiat's as- sistant—sabsequent mode and manner of life unknown, “I have reason to believe that he was con- cerned in some of the outrages of that period,” sail Florestan finally, “and that when the army got into Paris he found it prudent to get out with as litte delay as possible. “If he was active and influential at that time I ought to be abie to find out all aboat him,” said M. Jaluc, “for there has been a pretty sharp lookout kept upon those gentlemen— especially upon fhe goat escaped a voyage over the seas. Give me a few days to make my inquiries, Mr, Florestau, and I will call on you with the result.” ‘This was all that Gilbert Florestan could do toward the fuifiliment of his promise to Mrs, Arden, He wrote « long letter to her after his interyiew with Mile, Lafont, relating ali that he had learnt abou: Antoinette More, It was a relief to his mind to be able so to write, for when intrusted with his commission he had feared that his investigation of Robert Hatrell’s life in Paris might reveal an intrigue which would not be well for the wife to know. puy, in this memory of u past love, or perhaps rer & passing fancy, all was innocent, A city idyl set in a young man’s history, ike a flower between the leaves of a book. = Fiorestan went again to the somber old salon in the Rae St. Guillaau where the three women lived in a luxurious seclusion. He was the only visitor on this occasion, although it was the evening which Madame Quijada set apart for her friends, It was obvious that her was of the smallest, The room was fall of flowers, as before— eostiiest flowers. of azaleas and wi lilac lighted LS Po dark punelled walls; a shallow vase, ith e an almost oppressive ¢ in the dro at- mosphere; and Dol wore a bunch of reliow roses, fastened amidst the rich Ince of her bodice adiamond pin. These things told of from. some source or mers hime is ‘was not a Lonise Marcet ived him with a gentle i D. C.. SATURDAY, smile. Her plain black gown and complete ab- sence of ornament contrasted oddly with the subdued splendor of her cunt and cousin; but the melancholy, expressed in her face was hardly more anced than Mademoisell¢ Quijada’s listless weariness, And Florestan told himself that the young and lovely woman was not much happier than the faded spinster, whose age he was unable to guess, That iron ry hair was evidently premature, and the p lines in the face were those which sorrow Veen hes in young faces, than the writ of advancing years. Florestan found his society by Dolores, who brightened at his coming and seemed to enjoy his conversation. She talked Very little herself and she was evidently afraid of her mother, but she was not without inteili- gence. There was something in her look and manner which suggested the idea of an im- prisoned spirit, a nature bound and tram- meled, a bird caught in a net, M. and Madame Duturque arrived soon after Florestan, aud the professor entertained the small assembly with various reveries, suites, nocturnes and gavoites of his own composition, which were so impressed with the stamp of the composer's individuality that to Florestan’s un- trained ear they sounded ali alike. The utmost he could find to say about them was that they were strikingly origi ° It was a very quiet e Louise Marcet sat in her favorite corner and only replied when she was spoken to. At 10 o'clock Madame Quijada invited ber guests into an adjoining room, where tea and sorbets and delicate snnd- | wiches were served with some distinction. Florestan noted the massivg silver and del- icate porcelain and formed his own conelu- sions. Conversation grew livelier with the stimulus of this lizht refreshment, The excel- jent Duturque devoured foie-gras sandwiches by the dozen and drank meny cups of straw- colored tea, while his worthy wife nibbled sweet cakes and crunched chocolate creams, talking in a gentle strain all the time to Madame Quijada about the delinquencies of her latest bonne a tout faire. This entertain- ment iasted nearly an hour and the clock chimed 11 soon atter the little party returned to the salon. Florestan approached his hostess to take leave, when the door opened suddenly and a man walked unaunounced saluted Madam Quijada with a careless nod as he passed her, and made straight for the piano, near which Dolores was seated talking to the professor. He leant over Dolores and began to talk to her. without taking the faintest notice of any one else in the room. “You are late, Leon,” said Madam Quijada; “had given you up for tonight,” “Ive no doubt you were able to amuse your- self without me,” replied the late arrival; with a keen and even resentful glance at Florestun, May I ask to be introduced to your new friend?” *Assuredly, if Monsieur permits.” Fiorestan bowed, “M. Leon Duverslier, Mr. Florestan.” “Madame Quijada’s circle is so small that a stranger's presence always makes an impres- sion,” said Duverdier, “Are you a resident in Paris, Mr. Florestan. or a visitor only? Your face seems familiar to me,” “Very likely, Monsieur, since 1 am a resident and an habitue in many places where Parisians are mostly to be found,” IN RUE ST. GUILLAUME, Duverdier turned to Dolores and Florestan was going to wish his hostess good night, when his attention was attracted by Louise Marcet, who had risen from her seat aad was standing | near the door of the dining room, paler than he had ever seen her before and with her eyes fixed upon Duverdier with’ an expression of mingled horror and aversion. Without a word and with that gaze unchanging to the lest she pemea into the dining room, shutting the dour ehind ber, Daverdier noticed the maneuver with a nervous little laugh. “Mademoiselle Marcet is no more sociable than usual,” he ssid lightly. “Has she been suffering from one of her hysterical attack: Neither mother nor daughter answerea his question and he didnot repeat it, changed his mind, and instead of bidding good night seated himself in a chair near Madame Quijada’s sofa, where he remained while the Duturques took leave, a somewhat lengthy business, and while Doiores and the new comer conversed in low voices, and with their beads very close together, “This is the man she loves,” thought Flores- tan, “but I don’t think this is the man who tinds the gilding for this lovely bird’s cage,” He had made up his mind to outstay the late arrival if he could without bad manners and amused himself by a profound consideration of the stranger's appearance, It was a clear-cut face and a clever face, but the cleverness was closely allied with craft, the good looks were marred by obvious indications of a premature decay, such decay as rarely comes from any other cause than a dissipated and wholly evil life. The lower part of the face was hidden by a thick black beard, but there were lines about the eyes which told a whole history to Gilbert, Florestan, He had lived much amongst Freitchmen of all grades and he kuew what those wicked lines meant. “Lam sorry for Madame Quijada’s daughter,” he said to himself, and it was with a real sor- row that he saw the besutiful young head lean- ing 80 near the high, narrow forehead. prema- turely baid and deeply lined—the fresh and pure check of girlhood almost touching the cheek of wasted manhood, with its livid, blood- leas hue and sunken outline. “Women are like barnacles,” he said; they are always ready to fasten upon a wreck. The timepiece chimed midnight. He could not decently protract his it, having arrived at9o'clock, Duverdier had a better excuse for lingering and he evidently meant to stay. Madame Quijada begged him to repeat his visit. Dolores hardly looked up in answer to his parting salutation. Her whole being seemed absorbed in Duverdier’s half-whispered utter- auces, “Where did you pick up your new friend?” asked Duverdier, directly the door closed upon Florestan. ‘*At that general miscellany of curi- osities, the Duturque salon, 1 suppose,” he went on. answering his own question, “Yet he louks 4 trifle too aristocratic to have come out of the Duturque collection,” “We met him at Madame Duturque’s all the same,” Madame Quijada replied coldly. “Really! And may I ae Your motive for making him free of this salon?” “He is a gentleman, aud he seemed inter- ested in us. In our lonely lives it is pleasant to muke an agreeable acquaintance whose so- ciety cannot compromise us.” “Do you think Perez would approve of such an acquaintance?” “Perez is in Spain,” “Yes, but he is not going to stay there for- ever; and when he comes back to Paris and finds your English acquaintance domesticated here, I doubt if he will be over pleased.” je will not make any objection to an ocea- sional visit from Mr. Florestan, Indeed, there fs only one person to whom he seriously ob- jects.” “Namely, your humble servant. I accept the prejudice as acompliment. And now, best of women, to business. I have been making a proposition to Dolores, but she is not an arith- metician, and I cannot inspire her with a proper appreciation of the difference between capital weil invested and capital lying idle at a banker's,” “Don't trouble yourself to say another word,” exclaimed Madame Quijada, I know exactly what 1s coming. You have got into some new difficulty on the Bourse and you want us to help you out of it—as we have done before, to our everlasting loss,” “Lam notin a difficuity; but I have the chianee of making a great coup; and you may share my luck, if you ike.” «Thanks for the privilege. We are not gam- blers.”” “This is a certainty. The Valley of Dolce Aqua Mineral Works—a valley west of Santa Kosa, in the Sonoma county, a valley which is one silver mine. For centuries the wealth has Hop- | laia there, unknown, undreamtof. It is known now ou!y to a chosen few. The whole valley bas been bonght for a so Shares in the prop- erty are now to be had at par. Once the trath ets kuoWn they will go up 500 per cent. You now what silver has done for Mackay. In the Doloe Aqua Valley there is the making of twenty Mackaye. Will you go in for a share in @ big pile while you've the chance?” “No,” answered Madame Quijada, with un- compromising firmness, “That 1s # monosyllabic answer.” “At any rate it isone you can't misunder- I think it was copper last time, was it quicksilver, at will it next si wonder? Perhaps brass.” “My dear aunt, you are unscientific; brass t grow in id oN on the foreheads of men, I sup- There was a long silence, during which Du- verdier paced the room with s troubled sir. le was decidedly handsome and he hada An hai 28 into the room, } Florestan | MARCH. — style berry mary ive among Class, though e very style, He was in evening was 8 carelessness about his costume and an odor of tobacco which hinted that his even- ing had not been spent in very exacting society. aaid at last, “Weil,” he first at Do- pated car then at =. mother. “If you will not goin with meand off a fortune perhaps you will help me by elonn, I have ledged iny- self to take a hundred shares, and have paid a deposit of twenty per cent, which will be for- feited if I don’t take them up, to say nothing of the discredit. Will you lend me eight hundred pounds for three months?” “My dear Leon, yon talk as if we were Roths- childs, my poor girl and I.” “I talk with a perfect knowledge of who and what you ate,” replied Duverdier in a cold, hard Voice and with a cruel emphasis uj every word, “I talk with the knowledge that Dolof€s has but to lift up her tinger in order to getany money she wants out of that oid money bag, Perez, whom you and she only tolerate because he is a money bag. She has only to say to him ‘I have a caprice which will cost me a thousand pounds’—a gown, a horse, an orchid, what you will—for the check to be written aud the cash at her disposal, to fling out of the window if she likes,” “What if he were to guess that the eaprice Was another uamo for a lover's necessity?” asked Madante Quijada, “He will not guess. He is blind and help- lews where Dolores is concerned.” “Weil, he is not going to be fooled this time. I forbid my daughwr to lend you another louis, You have bled us enough already— enough for a lifetime. You belong to an in- satiable race—the race of gamblers. ace course, Monte Carlo or Bourse, it isall the same thing. Call the vice by what name you-like, it means ruin!” “And yet if it had not been for one venture of mine you would never have veen able to make a new start in life at Madrid as a woman ; of good family,” said Duverdier, white with anger. “You owe me everything, amd yet reiuse to help me in my need!” “You had better forget that old debt, for fear I should remember it too often,” said the elder woman, There was something in her tone. somethin; in her look, that silenced bim for a time, and when he spoke next all the insolence was gone trom his speech, “For pity’s sake help me with a few hui dreds,” he said. “If you refuse I am a lost man, and I know you have something in an old stocking—more thousands than I am asking hundreds, You are too clever a woman not to provide for the hazards of the future.” “If I have provided you can’t suppose I shall destroy that provision in order to save you from a peril which would be renewed in less than six months, If things are desperate in Paris you had better get out of Paris while you can and try your fortunes somewhere else. never thouglit this a good place of residence for you.” “You have made up your mind?” he asked, with suddeu fierceness, “Irrevocabiy. “So be it. Good-night, Dolores,” He took her in his arms before she conld re- sist hiin, kissed her passionately and walked to the door. “What are you going to do?” “You will Know all about that tomorrow.” he answered, and banged the door behind him to give emphasis to his words, Dolores would have rushed out of the room in pursuit of him, but her mother stopped her on the threshold. ‘He means to kill himself!” cried the girl, wildly. “Not he, child! Of a thousand men who make kind of threat only one ever realizes it. belongs to the nine hundred and ninety- [To be Continued.) mee or ame HOME MATTERS, Household Hints and Seasonable Sug- gestions to Practical House Keepers. Hor Arum Water, borax, salt water, dalma- tian powder and carbolic acid are all vermin | exter ators, Rvs Your Lamp Carmyrys after washing with dry salt and you will be surprised at the new briiliance of your lights, | Wneaten Frourn Improves Wirn AcE and | costs far less if bought by the barrel than in emull quantities, The drier the place in which | it is kept the better, a dry, cool place being the standard rule for all stor: Wie, Correr on Frurr Starys can be re- moved from table cloths by pourimg boiling water over the spots before wetting or apply- ing soda and coal oil, citric acid or wetting in | Whisky before washing. The acid will take the | color out of red table cloths. | Grauam Fiour Suovtp Be Goop Waeat, | ground and unsifted, but is more often inferior | flour mixed with bran. Various forms of “whole wheat meal” are now in the market, j but to be had only at the best grocers or | directly from the mills. Like wheaten flour, | graam, if keptcool and dry, improves with age. Coxp Sticep Berr.—Slice thin some of the cold lean beef, layona meat dish and pour over a sauce made of a tablespoonful each of | walnut and mushroom catsup, French mustard, | n egg, half a teacup of vinegar, a table- spoonful of melted butter, the juive of a lemon, with butter, pepper and salt to taste. Fiour Batt For Basizs.—Pack one quart | of sifted flour solidly in a cloth and boil it four | hours; after removing it from the cloth scrape | off the entire coating of flour, about a quarter of an inch underneath the remaining portion fectly drv and Lard, like chalk. To tuls of this grated tlour, previously wet with # little milk and made into a thick paste, add one pint of boiling water, the same of good, rich milk, two tablespoonfuls of lime | water, one teaspoonful of sugar. After the sixth month four tablespoonfuis may be used, How ro Darsk Mitk.—It a glass of it is swal- lowed hastily it enters the stomach and then | forms in one curdled mass, dificult of diges- | tion, It. on the other hand. the same quantity is sipped and three minutes ut least are oecu- pied in drinking it, then on reaching the stomach it is so divided that, when coagulated, as it must be by the gustric jaice while digestion is going | on, instead of beimg in one hard, condensed | upon the outside of which only the diges- H fiu;ds can act, it is more in the form of a | spoue, and in and out of the entire bulk the | gastric juice can piay freely and perform its function. Siowsy Friep Foop 1s OnsEcTioNaBLE when, by reason of insufficient heat, the article fried becomes toughened and soaked with the fat, Quickly fried food, done by piunging the pre- pared ‘meats, cukes. pies. &c.. into heated oil or lard or butter, having the surface en- tirely and quickly browned and thus closed to the further entrance of the fat, is not so ob- jectionuble, while the browning brings out a delicious flavor in the meats, Paver yor Prrvows.— All England is crazy on the subject of paper pillows. Tear the paper into very small pieces, not bigger than the finger nail, and then put them into a pillow @ack of driil- ing or light ticking. They are very cool for | hot climates and much superior to feather pil- lows. The newspapers are printing appeals for them for hospi Newspaper is not nice for use, a@ there is a disagreeable odor from print- er’s ink; but brown and white paper and oid envelopes ure the best. As they are torn stuif them into an old pillow case until a sufficient quantity is had. ‘Tho easiest way is to tear or cut the paper in strips about half an inch wide and then tear or cut across, ‘he finer it ws the lighter it makes the pillows. A Warenrnoor Wuitewasa is in use in Germany. The powder ‘from three parts silicious rock (quartz), three parts of broken marble avd sand stone, two parts of burned | porcelain clay and two parts freshly slacked | lime, still warm, are mixed together. This formsa silicate if often wetted and becomes after a while almost like stone. It® applied guite thickly to a wall or other surface and al- lowed to dry one day. The next day it is cov- ered frequently with water, which makes it waterproof. Ose or THe Best Hor ApPPLicaTions For Paty in pneumonia or dysentery is a flannel bag filled with hops and wrung out with hot vinegar. The wringing process may be avoided by the use of two tin plates. After the bag is ready pour alittle vinegar into one eee the stove and lay the bag in it. Place the other plate on the top to keep in the steam. When the vinegar has all evaporated inwo the hops add a little more and turn the bi Ina few —— ge = ahora but not ‘ipping. ee] a to be considered wien the orponite of | —" bat 1890—TWELVE PAGES. » AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAYS. EREMPTORY SALE OF FINE BUILDING LOT Sasa arene Auctioneer, P oN BIRD s it NEAR PENNAY akin AVENUe AND NEAR C SikELT NORTI, —_ Oo THURSDAY AriEnAOoN, “Yrbnt any ' CATALOGUE SALE Re rel elt the premieon, port OF AN UNRIVALED CULLECTION OF frow 23 fort om 3a street ana back to an Ki s joper'y is well lecatet meu mene! JAPANESE scction of the | cls. Jocine eae Peunas ys ted ayenient to strret care. chur! baste PORCELAINS, BRONZES, Copier, ove of the f-w vuimproved lots in chis eect ae fexais: One-thitd cash, Qalance in on Fears from day of sale, notes to bear intrest cent per aubusa, and socured by deed of trust on AM! cash, at ontion of purchaser, c bean 00 required ot CURIOS, SCREENS, EMBROIDERIES, ARTICLES OF VIRTU, The whole forming a Most Important Collection of faulting purchaser after Japanese Art, taf sheh = tog oli Washingtot, DC. Tithe good ‘aud TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION coy oS ieee aT MY Medea DUNCANSON BROS., Auctionrers e Ovi POSTPONED ON ac. ART Rooms, sel at te wcaiber auth TUESDal. MAMOH count of the weather FOURTH, 1890, ai sane hour and pluce mere DUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers HOMAS DOWLING, Auctroucer. TRUSTYTS SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY ON NOLIHWENL CORNER OF NTH AND K STREETS NOKTHW EST “artue of adeedod trust dated [oth day of Sey T, 1984. and di med in Liver N: Tolle 475 et seg. of Columbia, ai thereby, we will well ag p on CURSDAN t-PAST PO jowing-described real estate, eit Weshingtom, 1. to wit: (20) feck ‘11th st and Pennsylvania ave, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MARCH FIFTH AND SIXTH, 1890, At ELEVEN A.M. and TREE P.M. EACH DAY. The Collection will be on view Monday and Tuesday, March 3 and 4, from 9 am. to 6 pan. _@24t __ THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Cusarer SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED HEAL b> daATE ON IT si T BeTWeEN EIGHTEE NTE AND NINETE : don HWE NO! ‘T, KX s BEING THE VATE KESIDENCE HENRY K CKAIG, U By virtue of s decree 30). improved by a ling, with store, and a brick Ml cash, balance in one aud two th interest.and secured by a deed of trust OF all cash. Couvesamesue apa tecord District of Columubia, in equity cause No. | steve o: quickest. A depouit of S200 wall be oe ie; Hors an’ Henry | Guired at tune of wale, © . um) 127-d&ds OC GREEN, eran UNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers, IKUSTERY SALE OF UAICK HOUSE AND 10 OS NINTH SIRLET BETWEEN HAND T TS NOKTGEAST, BEING HOUSE | "K my in vi wud Kuewn wx io 22) Im aquare number b routing numbered amare. and five L0a),f forts (40) fee : = hing buck that wigia an avercge Nik STEER = and forty (140) feet te a pubs a and is i ved a ded of trust, duly recorded in Liber b ine with Dascnent ad a "folie G0 et soa the lad records for ys Laae nett. eief Colun MERSDAY f the mont | select loca us 7 the supervision o: the iate Gs cuutatls 4 lunge salvon paror 19 tee: by mt brea tas: rooin and thee Way's, cane! thereto belons Say of wale, uu sold, or all cash, purchaser eli jeposit of wall | Te SOON as Pru ert complied with within teu days he property will be reso ating purchaser. Ali cwn- taxes and assess it cost of the defauiting pu Vertisement in Lewsy trict of Columbia, JOUN WALTER, Jn.) f24-dkds JOUN L VOuT, © 5 n hauser after hve days’ «: per published iu the Dis- Trusteca, DARLING Aneiioweer. PIANOS AND ORGANS. AS PTE ans SRNR, $e] FIND THE “KRAKAUER PIANOS EXCEL caTaLi , fh ‘ard CHOICE PARLOR AND we and repairing. Sey CHAMBER FURNITURE, | Fyranixc Lxsreuments. BRONZES , PORCELAINS, cprin ete BRIC-A-BRAC, ARTICLES OF VIRTU WEBLK OLL PAINTINGS AND WATEE COLORS, ca PIANOS. ELEGANT CANDELABEAS, DECORATED DINNER AND TEA SERVICE, IVEKS & POND ESTEY ORGANS. ESTEY ONGANS MODERATE PRICES. EASY TEMS. ELEGANT ENGLISH AND AMEKICAN SILVER Ol4 lustruments 42 pert payment, Tuning rit, =ase ‘Teiey hone 629, A SMALL LOT OF KARE CHINA FROM THE CHINA CLOSETS OF IHE GREAT EASTERN. SUPERB WINDOW HANGINGS, MOQUET, SMYRNA AND BRUSSELS CARPETS, AND OTHER AKTICLES OF VALUE. TO BE SOLD AT THE ELEGANT RESIDE No. 1447 MASSACHUSETI's AVE. N.W. on TUESDAY MORNING MARCH FOURTH, 1890. COMMENCING AT HALF-PAST TEN O'CLOCK. SANDERS & STAYMAN, O34 F street uorth went, . Charles st., Baltimore, Md Maw st., kichmoud, Va. xv Oncasisrs. Magnificent ESTEY ORGAN, unas, solo scale of 3) pedal notes, powerful im tone, with many beau titui solo effects: suitable for church, Sucday schoo, organist or student, Will be suld at moderate price anc ob essy terms, & STAYMAN, street northwest, S UPRIGHT PIANOS, Tan the ace; superb im tone, touch no SANDERS 4 The house will be open for inspection ior to ale” ° ban eth = Bud activa, elexaut sew sy ty Justallavent, JRA TCHEFE, DARE & 00. Auctioneers Be wai LSU MAL. SLI Oth stu IMUSTEES' SALE OF FOUR TWO-STORY AND Ss TT N RER RFF rrr BASEMENT ‘BRICK DWELLINGS, Nos. 703, 7 HE 705, 709, 711 SIXTH STREET NORTHEAST. Sas, toe rr ke certain deeds of trust, duly re- Oss £ Ht Eee §§ F - dial . 200 first premiums, indorsed by over 100 music schools aud Colleges for 3 t ¥ 1 exchonee. Theouly rict of ‘ oluumbia, und at the request ot the party se- | @urabulity. Old Pisnos takem in ex cured thereby, we will offer fur male: public auction | LpFaght that can teke the pleceat erat, | in front vi the respective premises ou 1UESDAx, | @=1-6m FrkIFFER & CON a4 oe ELL.VENIH DAY OF MAKCH, A.D. 1590, at FIVE BEE KER P.M, ull those certain pieces or parcels of ho. OF nown aid dintiweulshed ae and PRE OEE being Lots numbered Ove Hundred and i wenty-touz BOE GC nd T ty-five i25), One hun dred and i wenty~ roe ee sears ed s ‘iwents-eight« onal Capital Lavest= 30 8 ment compasy’s sub Lots ib square umber- E, TOUCH, WORKMANSELP ed Ei. udred and Fifty-nine (350), a8 the same Lary is du. din book 16, page 85, one of the land - recoris in the survey ur's uflice of the District. of Co- luuubla, together with ali the ca~eueite, horedite- ents and appurtenanees to the same belouging or in wise appertainins. ris: Que-half cash, balance in six mouths, secured by deed of «rust on the prem for which the notes uf the purchaser, DaRPiuK utero trom the day of sale at the rate of §' per cert per au- nuin, Will 0¢ takeu, OF ali cast. at the option . If terms of sale are not complied with in le the trustees 1 p the right the risk and cust of the de- five days’ public advertise yles,’ TIVE Al Manos for rent. AND PIANOS. —A largo assorument, val i taake in the u eh re SPECIAL IN DUCEM A Prices abd iu termeywhich wil! be arranced ob EASY MONTHLY ANSTALMEN TS when desired. WAL KAABE & CO, as. S17 Market space ~ fish KY, > Creer aan i regule tn acne urwebaper Dublnie th FAMILY SUPPLIES. ry 7 ~ A jlenoelt of ex : Lied a Sees - = > — cording at Duschawer Cont eyancnuc sad re | Paper Resverox Is Prices WALTER E WIGHT, § Trustees, N. A. POOLE’S CASH STORE _f27-d&ds 810 F st. n.w, Granulated Sugar, Gige. 7 Ibe. Oat Meal, 25. a + Best Laundry si Cabfornia Haius, 8c. . T HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. IMPORTANT SALE ELEGANT THREE-STORY DOUBLE ‘Terms cash. N. A POOLE, BRICK RESIDENCE. WITH FINE STABLING, No. 1736 N STREET NORTHWEST. WEDNESDAY AFTE! ELFTH, 1590, AT THREE 0 ‘OON, i. MARCH in trout of 1KER & CO, feet. £26-6t 9406-45-50 La.sve, dhree-stury Double = 6 rooms, Bot including _ MEDICAL, &e, DISEASES OF |S CRET const: Gentleman - Di udur) (formerly assistant physician to Prof Dé. icon of Pari. Oilce ord pr: chy. dious aud perfect abd trots ou root alley. The residence will be open to iuspection three days prior aud up tou to4 p.m. ysician in Terms: $ tive years, or | an be consulted daily, + loner if di bearing interest at oper cent per ts. 2. pt treatment, Cousuliation strictly contiden- Pro: tial. Sevarate reins for Ladies. Medic AULUM, Payatie semi-suuually wad secure. by decd eel age '+ier of trust on the pr perty sold. All conveyancing and recording at purchaser'scost, $1,000 deposit will be | $1. Officealwaysopen, . Tequired ut the tuue of sale. TA0MAS DUW LING, KOF GAKBEK \LATE OF PHILADELPIA), = a | eeanreli ey ee dineseecncaineeee ee = ———___. —-—— | ceasruily trea the different modifications 5 FR ATLIPFE, DARK & Co. Auctioneers, tricnty, "Nervous, Stomach and Chrouic Diseases s Ly 920 Pennsylvania ave. mow, | specialty. Charves muderate. +m 80 = i 2- Lm" NEARLY NEW THRE: TORY AND BASEMENT Te bee BRICK HOUSE, WIT! DERN IMPROVE- WHO KEQUIRE THE SERVICES OF EX- 2 GST! ic 5% Tr, e! ‘emale Physician ehou.d consult Dr. = FS aed 302 GSTKEET SOULHEAST, AT hire Wii , T105 ¥ 5 2a. Daween Be. On MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH THIRD, a | G,i.hihfud 12th eta, me Fen oa ony. Kemody $0. HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK, we wili offer for sale in ernie - front of the premises ME. DE FOREST, LONG-ESTAVLIFHED AND Part of Ed 16, Teliabie Ladies’ Puy: be conpulied Square 796, age ye eye ‘Olice hour frow Improved by a nearly, ew {lsree-wtory and, basement 5: wil ‘only. praain brick dweli-ng. contain roout, wi mod: | 8 ee. - ern conventonces. This cule presmute a eaeelinar oc J ASHO0D HESTOKED BY USING A porTLR portunity to secure 8 home or for an investment. or twoot Dr. BKOTHEKS" Invigorating Cordial, ‘Terms: (Over and above an incumbrance of wv cure any caseof Nervous Debility and ios of which has three years to run from July Ts5¥) | verve power. “It uuparts vigor to the systema cash. Terms to be complied with in fifteen days from | Mi w Peuale, BOG B st sw, f-Las' day of sale, otherwise the right is the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting pur- chaser ufter five days’ public udvertisement in some newspaper publ.shed im Washington, D.C. A deposit of $100 required at time of sale. All conveyancing, 5 at pure ‘cost. RALCLIFFE, DARR & CO., Aucts, vy tee mg READ AND BE WISE —DK BROTHERS. 006 B ST, Perea bef fe ame and madr oath toat be ta the Oldest Hstablisued Kapert Specialist iu thiscity. Siu will guarantees cureiu allcascs of private ctmen and furmieh mediciue, or 10 Hon and udvice free at any Lour of te tay. Sub- 5 & S: bd 5 ii Feribed aud ‘sword to belore me by Dr. BROTHELS, POLED, Acqoneer. PANCRAS Notary Paulie tad for the — ietrict eee Aude Ga aay of LDS THE ENTIRE STOCK OF DRY 600) fi-im* _ sis NOTIONS. Ke, ATNED. cin - SEVENTH STREET NOW T235, SEER BEEN OONTRADICTED THAT SOLD at atc IN Dr. BROLPREES is thee oldest-eatablished elvercin. FEBRUARY 1 WENTY-¥ inw Ladies Piysiciu in. thse you can TEN O'CLOCK, AND DAILY 2! Cobfueutly cousuil Dr. BOLLS, G00 Bat. awe srye monk consiets ee ort ge illowe: itis ¥, =. married oreigio ‘Porgy years experience. Jock couststs 1 part as fo . or Plushes, Cashiuere: Tine Dress ‘Cloth a ti-lm* Cusnincres, Flaunela, Furs, ‘Table " Napicus, Sheetings, Biankets, Comforts, | Spreads, Underwear, Hosiery” and Glovox, Corsets, Hamad ul fs, Casal Rubber G derseys and Cs tts, Bateens, 3 Fereous in waut of the above tentioued will @o S WEAKNESSES AND ss Dr mat, Se .Anp THOM, =73 N. Bxeter, for nun-residenta, to.ateud this sale, aa the goods must be ‘sold without | A * TEM ALL OTHIEES #477, CONS! Feseive, in cousequeuce of @ change iu busines. $20 B. 15th ot, Cine aati oh. Pudlateigtie 21b-21 POLEY. Auctioneer, aimee riage ay me NHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. po worst Saac gi Nervous Compeints, Bicod Volassr ALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY, No, ite, Tctchen Eroy totam Catarri Ulcers, Sore, FROSPEOT AVERUR, enogEtows, Dc ° reves urocach, Rites diene = SE Ee I palesce Pree On TUESDAY, MARCH FOUTH, 1890, at sentment Ghul homkaeeek Seas taagunee we wt out ot fe wie tart = ae Mat: peas i , E wr qonstion side of Prospect ave, botwcen Fasette and Tivews ay ead wd + alee, Pets? Uy a devil of 110 tect, improved by a nearly new - 4 Br.ck Dwelling’ No. 3516 pect ave.. con- si i a DENTISTRY tb notes bearug ‘interest and secured by & ye ing or afcueas option of puretasce ae | ID * Sxil'StRiquox axp pexvzer, Pout of $100 will be st tue dine of sale. All ‘Q st mw, Solias bowLiNG, Ty a PARSONS, DENTIST, 9TH fia Gan tnd etuer given. Dick noe