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3 @eosesee eseseene eneeeese ANN BOWKER'S STRANGE GUEST. © © CYNTHY 2 BY FRANK PART I. “No, we ain't sot a hotel in Portland. We ought to have one, but we ain't. But there's my half-sister, Cynthy Ann Bow- ker, right across the road there. If she's in the humor of it, it lays in her power to git you up a dinner fit fer a king—er a benker.”* Sol amended his speech as the result of & process of unconscious cerebration where- by had been suggested the likelihood of this well-dressed stranger's belonging to the banker's guild. He was of striking mien, unquestionably a person of -tistinc- tion in whatever circle he moved, if mere externals counted for anything. But Sol, with worlily wisdom beyond the 2verage rustic, relied rot on mere appearance. He leaned on his hoe handle, eyeing the stranger warily. ©n second thought he found his ap- pearance to answer equally well n-wspaper descriptions of gamblers and cneenes | Tren. ‘The little dead-and-alive village was in an unwonted state of excitement that hot July day. An oceurrence the mosi improb- able any one could h ed bad lit- erally shaken the place. seven minutes past 1 o'clock the Chicago fast mail, which daily for months had not once failed to thunder past the little station promptly on Ume, never stopping, never so much as slackening speed, had jumped a switch, ditcht: t ‘ine and piling two mai! ears in r across the main track. A blockade cf several hours being inevitable, Various passengers ¢mprovided with Junch- eon were inquiring at private residences for dinner. But { ch as Portland had turned out en masse to view the wreck, their quest was for the most part vain. “Ef you'll wait here I'll st see what thy Ann says, ed. “Shi an old maid, an’ notional like them kind mos‘ly We've got to manage ind 0° by er she won't hand. You see now how she is: y jis’ crazy "boat the accident, an* a-runtin® to break their 1 an’ she woulda’t stir out o° the house er even look o” the winder, ef it was to save the railroad system from bein’ stove to That's the way she always was. kin fetch her.” hull inders s hoe against the fence, and, knocked the dusty street, ynthy Ann's door. “Its g on to 2 o'clock, ¢ middlin’ late fer cookin’ a meal he i ated, after stating th head disapprovingly. ver, only I felt obleege: kin’, seein’ he was so set. in’ hot day in the barga if a man wouldn't persame o stew over a cook st up a faney meal, when there's ried herrin’ to be had at Wouldn't encourage sech You. wouldn't see me tak- How can we tell but It's an’ a man en s. Uh-um. & to deci Cynthy Ann was at he’s a gambler, er one o° them bun- tellers?” Cynthy Ann was seated i tee, stitching on a crazy x a rocking iit. Now rit of stooping the toe of her ipper, as if to assure that it was still on her foot. Her ir was roiched straight back over ad and confined w res were he: her coun- bile. She half turned and through the siats of ihe shutters. ; in’ enough, Soi Adam: some trouble, it's a chance do a sufferin’ feller critter a goodturn,an’ 2 quarter in my pocket at the same I'm goin’ to do it. So you just move f and ketch me a couple o° puillets, I'll give him a taste o” fried chicken at‘ll make him own he ain't ever knowed before what fried chicken is.”* “You ain't goin’ to do no sech foolish ex- travasanc>, Cynthy Ann Bowker. Two fried chickens fer a quarter! What er yo a-thinkin" about! Now, you listen to me; you fry him one pullet, ef you're bound to he so contrairey, an’ you keep half o’ it fer your supper an’ mine. Then see here: you set out the other half fer him, an’ them cold greens left over from our dinner, an’ whatever you've got handy, and then you promise me you'll charge him forty cents an’ no hemmin’ er hawin’ about it, er I’ go straight back and tell him you won't be pestered with him. I as good as told him so before.” don’t do no such a thing, Sol All _you got any call to do is to let ow I'm tollable high chargin’, an’ leave me to ‘tend to the rest. I ain't a- goin’ to say what I'l charge him; depends on what sort o° luck I have cookin’. An’, X Fou sce that you don't bring him In is house fer a good hour to come. Chick- s has to fry slow. I ain't a-goin’ to be eve fer the President o’ the United ates, an” you kin tell him that, ef you want to. It's askin’ enough o' me to siay home a-stewin" over a hot stove whiie the hull town is out enjoyin’ the accident,with- out havin’ a strange man rockin’ an’ fan- nin’ in my settin’ room, a-fussin’ an’ fum "t hurryin’ faster with hi 7 you go ‘long an’ ketch me / two pullets, do you mind, er I'll go an’ hunt a cool place in the cellar an’ let your | Mr. Stranger hunt somewhere else fer a | dinner. But here: first of all, you take him | a couple o° cookies to kind o° stay his stummik, an’ you draw him out a bit, an’ | one o” the kind to be stingy “bout payin’. Ef he is, you needn't come oe jousty inspecting d canva: r. Now, money, you may depend,” said niidently. ‘Til ketch you the pullets cht away; the cookies will keep, I reck- got discharged this mission, Sol re- leisurely to report to the stranger news of his success. you see me lean my hoe agen the -e, }ou may know it's a bargain,” he to Cynthy Ann at parting. “It's al settled, but you're not to go nigh the house fer an hour. She pintedly told me to tell you she wouldn't be drove fer the President himself. I had a wras'lin* match with her, you better belleve. Mighty nigh give it up, once. You see, she was gewin’ one o° them piece quilts she's so crazy about, ar.’ when Cynthy Ann Bow- ker is busy at work o° that Kind, it's about like tryin’ to whistle a hog out of a sweet rtater patch to git her to lay It down. Sut you see, I sort o” let on about the @nce o’ people comin’ round an’ p fer favors at unhandy times, an’ doubt! whether you'd got the price of a meal o” ¥ittles about you, an" things like that, till Yd got her a-pullin’ contraireywise. An’ now she’s got started an’ no stoppin’ her. She'll jes’ try herself, an’ fix you out with luxuries o” the season, from corn bread to Weddin’ cake, I reckon.” Sol bent himself, laughing tmmoderately at the droliness of this impromptu con- cert. Then, suddenly bethinking himself, he delivered the cookies. “She thought you mightn’t be able to wait,” he explained. (Copyright, 1896, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY ‘25, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, eee ae @ W. SAGE. See 2) SO The man gave a queer smile, but accepted the gift with becoming humility. Sol teaned his hee against the fence and stooped to remove an imaginary pebble from his’shoe. Then the guest-to-be retired to the shade of a towering sycamore on a creek bank near by to beguile the interval of waiting with a newspaper. “I don't properly recall your name,” said Sol, inquiringly, as he ushered the suppli- ant for Cynthy Ann’s favor into the din- Ing room. “Brown,” said the guest, simply, and as his hostess, heated and perspiring, came in at the moment from the kitchen, he bowed. smiling, before Sol could formally intro- duce him. “It's too bad to put you to so much trou- ble, Miss Rowker,” he apologized, glancing at the bountifully furnished table with a of appreciation which spoke at the ame time sincere concern for the labor it had cost her. “I fear I have imposed on your good nature. I really must apologize for allowing you to undertake such a task this warm day.” “It ain't the trouble, ef things was only cooked right,” Cynthy Ann replied, gra- ciously. The grim look of reserve faded from her features under the touch of his sympathy. “There's times when I'm that flustered, like I've heen since the accident, that I can’t cook fit fer a section hand. Speakin’ 0” that, I want you to tell me, Sol what ails them biscuit.” ious smile lurking behind the alr of stery which invested this query sug- gested that the solution of the problem would be found to shed light upon varfous indeterminate factors which operate fre- quently to baffle the cook's calculations. Being thus expressly challenged to pass ment, Sol seated himself at a respec ful distance from the table, buttered a bis- cuit and nibbled at it with a countenance composed to an aspect of profound ratioci- nation far removed from any suggestion of animal appetite. Mr. Brown and Cynthy Ann awaited breathlessly the verdic After a moment Cynthy Ann broke the s lence. “I see you ain't makin’ no headway, Sol. No, it ain't the lumps in the flour, ner the mite too much sody, though them faults I kin notice, if you’ can’t. Well, then, I reckon I'll have to tell you, men is such r guessers; it's the lower crust’s bein’ speck underdone. I'd ought to left the pan settin" on the bottom of the oven half a minute longer. Ef I'd ’a" had time I'd ‘a’ slung the whole batch out to the chickens an’ begun all over. But they'll have to do, so draw up your chair, Mr. Smith, while I fetch the sweet pertater: the meal progressed, Cynthy Ann, flattered by her guest's favorable comments on every dish, rehearsed her experience as a cook. from the earlier days when her Ity was universally recognized as a heaven-] towed gift to the present time, when, as she averred, but the merest sug- sestion of her former aptitude remained. nce I've taken up piece-quiltin’, I've noticed a stiddy fallin’ off, goin’ on four year now. But a body can’t be cookin’ all the time. So what will I do, Mr. Smith she appealed, plaintively. ‘There's nothin’ gein’ on in Portland the year round. Peo- ple ain’t sociable. The men sets on store boxes day in an’. day -out,- wastin’ their time discussin’ politics an’ such nonsense, an’ the women sets at home, mendin’ clothes an’ fussin’ with the children, It's turrible humdrum. Availing himself of her preoccupation wiile awaiting a reply to her perplexing question, and noting the fact that Mr. Brown ate sparingly of the chicken, Sol drew his chair closer to the table and helped himself to chicken and gravy, -and proceeded to eat after a grave, decorous fashion, his eyes meanwhile being fixed with an expression of profound and ab- sorbing interest on the face of their guest. At this bit of presumption Cynthy Ann frowned at him indignantly from behind their guest's chair, unconscious of the fact that the latter’s countenance Save token of amusement, which was incompatible with the idea of possible offense. Despite her nods and grimaces, Sol sat unmoved. It was at a moment when Cynthy Ann, having removed Mr. Brown's plate, was in the act of placing before him a dish of apple pudding that a face suddenly ap- peared at a window. Across the front of the caller's cap was blazoned in silvered letters the single werd “Conductor. “We've got the track cleared, governor. The gO express is in sight, and will be here in three minutes. I'll hold it for you, if you want to finish your dinner.” cynthy Ann Sat tn Her Parlor, Pen in Hand. “Oh, don’t do that; I'll come at once,” Mr. Brown replied, rising quickly. I can easily hold the train, governor. Or, if you prefer to wait, we'll have another engine fer our train in an hour.” “['ll take the express,” and, with a hasty good-bye and a warm handshake and pro- fuse thanks to his entertainers, he was off before they could collect their wits. PART IL “Did you hear what that conductor called him, Sol? He said governor, didn’t he? Why, what ails you? Sol had started up, dropping his knife and fork, and stood aghast, facing Cynthy Ann. “By Jickity! Cynthy Ann Bowker, do you know who that man is? It’s Gov. Brown!” “Who's Gov. Brown, then?” A shade of rising apprehension ‘appeared in Cynthy Ann's tone. “Who do you reckon? Ozro I. Brown, the governor of this state!” Sol bolted to the open door. “Fiddlesticks, I don't believe it!” “Well, you needn’t if you don’t want to. I knowed I'd seen that man before. Wasn't I at the inauguration, -an’ didn’t I shake hands with him? Mighty strange I dido’t recall him. I'll warrant he knowed who I-was, all the while Them politicians never forget a face. Great Jupiter! Cyn. thy Ann Bowker, me an’ you has gone an’ done it this time, sure: a As if expressly to confirm Sol’s declara- tion shouts of applause resounding from the direction taken by the departed guest reached their ears, prompted by the piping voice of an urchin yelling vociferously, “Three cheers for Gov. Brown, that lives in the state house.” “There, didn’t I tell you?" satd Sol. “The land alive!” Cynthy Ann ejaculated. “Was I ever so plum beat in my born days! To think o’ me settin’ here so ca-am, in this old faded gown, an’ you loungin’ there cn a cheer beside him, eat- in’ as composed, without ary collar, an’ sweatin’ like a wash-bile: What's a- goin’ to happen to me an’ you, Sol Adams? What sort o’ account er we goin’ to give of ourselves?’ Rosny Ann’s voice was husky with emo- tion. say, you'd ought to rur after him an’ ’umbly beg his pardon, ef you're half a man.” “I ain't goin’ to de no sech a thing, Cyn- thy Ann Bowker!” Sol exclaimed, sturdily. “I say it was his part to ‘a give his full title when he introduced himself. Ef you feel as bad about it you kin write him a note. I ain’t a-goin’ to make no move in the matter. You know I'm about settled on.makin’ that Kansas trip soon, to see Miry’s folks. I'm lable to start tonight, in fact. You've been so contrairey about goin’ with me, mebbe this'll help you de- cide. Kansas is out o’ Gov. Brown's juris- diction.” “I wouldn't mind near so much, ef I hadn't kep’ callin’ him ‘Mister’ Brown all the while,” said Cynthy Ann, wiping her eyes. “You didn’t call him Mister Brown.” “T didn’t?” “No, you didn’t. You called him Mr. Smith every time you opened your mouth.” Cnythy Ann threw her apron over her head and dropped despairingly into a chair. Emotion seemed to have become paralyzed in_ her. “An’ you said some disrespec’ful re- marks about politics,” Sol reminded her, with a gleam of mirth. “I know I did but that wasn't half as bad as your a-settin’ there eatin’ like a harvest hand, an’ that without bein’ in- vited. An’ you never riz up ner hardly stopped eatin’ when he shook hands, on goin’ away.” “You sent him two cookies, like as ef he'd been a seven-year-old,” Sol retorted “What ef I dil? It was you gave ’em to him. Thank goodness they was crusted with my best granulated sugar, an’ not with brown. An’ he et one, fer I watched him. I ain't ashamea o’ them cookies. This is too solenin a case for quarrelin’, Sol Adams. We've got to think up what's best to do to clear ourselve: After further conference the case seemed to assume, if anything, more desperate features. “I don’t care!’ Cynthy Ann at last cried, defiantly. ““Tnere’s things to be said on the other side. I've got my opinion of anybody that'll a poor woman to stew- in’ over a hot stove an hour an’ more, an’ then run off after he’s et his fill, without offerin’ a cent o” pay. “Why, he didn’t either. to tell you. Here.” Sol produced two silver half dollars, and spun them across the table toward her. “You see, I made him pay in advance.” You didn’t! Sol Adams, I did give you credit fer havin’ some sense. What pos- sessed you to do that? What did you say to him?” “Why—well—er—I hold him you was the leas’ bit jublous about his looks. Cynthy Ann gasped spasmodicaily, then rose from her chair and dropped upon the lcunge, where she sat for three minutes with parted lips, and eyes fixed stonily on a distant church steeple, a picture of woe I plum forgot Then She Opened Alt the Shutters. unutterable. Sol carefully wiped away a drop of gravy on his sleeve. He had an air of having resolutely set aside, for a moment, the pressure of overwhelming tribulation, All unbidden, as it seemed, a gleam of mirth slowly overspread his countenance. “We come nigh forgettin’ about sending him word how you wouldn't be fer the President himself, Cynthy he suggested, with an air of im- partially arranging the worst features of their offense ,and having it over with, “Owdaclous scand’lous affair. Don’t see no possibel way o' patchin’ it up. Reckon ycu'd better take the Kansas trip with me. Desprit bad sera) I'm goin’ upstairs to pack my gripsa At noon the next day Cynthy Ann sat behind closed shutters in her parlor, pen in hand, arduously composing a letter. It was an unfamiliar task, and her progress was slow. Her eyes were leaden; she had slept little the night before. There came frequent knocks at the locked doors. Curi- osity to know just how she had entertained her distinguished guest was not sat with Sol Adams’ minutest rehear: particulars. Women coaxed through key- holes; children wantonly rattled the shut- ters. Cynthy Ann gave not the slightest heed io either. Even Sol Adams, return- ing promptly at the stroke of twelve for his dinner, pommeled vainly at the kitchen door. An hour later he returned and called fretfully through a shutter: “What ails you, Cynthy Ann, are you deaf? Lemme in, I say. I've got a letter fer ye. Cynthy Ann rose at that and peered through the slats. ‘Hand it in,” she said, laconically. “No, I don't,” Sol replied, masterfully; “you're goin’ to let_me in before you git your hands on it. It's got an official en- velope, an’ concerns me, too. I don’t make a doubt. I'll jist read it fer you.” At this threatening intimation Cynthy Ann cautiously opened haif the shutter, and Sol, clutching the letter guardedly, climbed in. Then he gave her the letter. “There's somethin’ stiff inside,” he said, as she snipped an end of the envelope wi her shears. In a moment she had _re- movede a photograph end the letter. This she read several times over; then, without a word, handed it to Sol, while she e: amined the photograph. Sol read eager! “State House, July 18, 18——My Dear Miss Bowker: Allow me more expressly to thank youYor your hospitality to a strang- er in distress, yesterday, and to apologize for what now seems to me a disadvant- age I took of you and of Mr. Adams in not revealing my identity, which must have been made known to you by this time. I had no intention of having my little joke at the expense of either of you. As a token of regard and friendship please accept inclosed photograph of Mrs. Brown, the children and myself. Very faithfully yours. ‘OZRO LL. BROWN. Cynthy Ann deliberately pinned the open letter and the photograph in a conspicu- qus place upon the parlor wall. Then she opened all the shutters and unbolted the doors. “I reckon wo might as well let the neighbors In, Sol,” she suggested, drearily. “They've been so pressin’ all the fore- uoon, I ain't intendin’ to be mean.” (Tha End) a WATER PURIFIED BY ELECTRICITY A City’s Supply Given a Shock of 30,000 Volts to Clarify It. From the Springfield Republican. The municipality of Lexington, Ky., is subjecting its water supply to a new kind of electrical treatment to secure absolute purity. Thirty thousand volts of electricity are being hurled through every drop of the city’s"water ere it reaches the palate of the Lexingtonian. It also runs the gauntlet of big magnets, and an electrolysis apparatus, This is belng done under the superintend- ence of two New York experts, J. Dean, jr, and John T. Harris. Mr. Dean, who re- turned last week to New York, tells of the matter thus: “The Lexington experiments have attract- your: ed world-wide attent{vh.° The municipall- ty, since it inaugurat&2hem, has been in receipt of letters framijall parts of this country and from an cities. The upique nature of the agatem of purification, combined, I presume, with the added nov- elty of a whisky center taking so much pains with its water, edenis to have excited international curiosity, The pumping sta- tion 1s about three and’ a haif miles north- east of Lexington, on theMne of the Louis- ville’ and Nashville ratrbad, and on the banks-of the Ohio river, whence the water {s obtained. The resgrveirs are two miles from the station ahd “about the same distance from the cit¥ ftself. The pumps have been recently evacted, and in all my experience I have newer iseen a finer or a more powerful plant.i/The daiiy consump- tion of the city is about 24,000,000 gallons. “The experiments in which I have been assisting dealt with purification of 150,000 gallonc. Mr. Harris, whorls my chief, has been working on the problem of water purification by electricity for many years. This is the first time that he has put his theories into effect en a large scale. The experiments so far have been entirely sat- isfactory, apart from a mechanical difti- culty connected with the imperfect insula- tion of the purification tanks through which the water had to pass. This ts a defect which can be easily overcome, and which in no wey militates against the system as a whole. “The principle involved is this: By sub- Jecting the water to a sufficiently power- ful current, electrolysis results, this mean- ing the resolving of a portion of the water into its elements, hydrogen and oxygen. A portion of this freed oxygen assumes that molecular form which is commonly known 48 ozone. Now, ozone is one of the most powerful disinfectants known to science. It exercises its beneficent powers by com- bining with harmful sukstances, thus oxi- dizing them and rendering them powerless for evil. Nine-tenths of the popular disin- fectants owe their powers for good to this ‘oxidizing’ process, which is dependent on the presence of free oxygen.. The nitro- genous substances found In drinking water nd which are ia the main responsible for disease and sickness are tackled by this ozone and instantly rendered harmless. “Animal refuse, decaying vegetabie mat- ter, sewage, the exuviae of sick persons and the like, all come under the head of nitrogenous substances in this connection. The passage of the electric current also liberates a quantity of free oxygen, which is absorbed by the water and which ren- ders the fluid sparkling and healthful. ‘Dead water,’ from which ‘free’ oxyge has been expelled, not only cannot support such life as is fourd in water, but, in addi- tion, is not fit for human consumption, It is for this reason that water that has been hoiled and from which tie oxygen has been expelled is flat and tasteless. Physicians are pretty well agreed that most form: microbes and bacilli can be destroyed by a sufficiently powerful electric current. Analysis of the treated water shows that practically no microbes pass through the crdeal. “The apparatus in brief is this: The water flows through a feed pipe into a porcelain- lined receiving tank three feet square. Peles from a Rubmkorff coil enter this tenk from opposite ends. ‘There are ninety en miles of wire on the coil, enter this with the aid of a sufficiently powerful dy ramo, 10,000 volts of electricity are inter mittently dicharged through this wate: The water, through the medium of a dis- charge pipe, then enters a second vat, which is three feet in diameter by seven feet in depth. This last chamber is made of iron, lined with india rubber and is pear shaped. The lower end connects with a waste pipe, by means of which the refuse and other matter precipitated during the process may be drawn off. At the top of this chamber, and also at its lower section, are a series of wires connected with an- cther dynamo, which supplies a continuous galvanic current, this giving the secondary escetrolysis. nthe top of the chamber is a large electro-magnet, surrounded by a series of smaller ones. The water, by pressure, is ferced past these magrets into a second vat er chamber, similar,,to the one first pamed, and again descends into another pear-shaped vat. The process Is repeated in a third ease, s> that the water has to run the gauntlet of, three preliminary cham- bers and pear vats. In all, therefore, it receives the discharge from three Ruhm- koctf coils—30,000 volts—to say nothing of the treatment to wHletr tt is subjected i th dary vats. An water when it finally issue deal shows that cally pur crystaline in appearance sparkles, oxygen and 1s abso- free trom odor or taste.” Dean asserts that the process has t one-third cheaper any other purifymg method now Known. The urly thing nevessary to suc- is to see that the dynamos are kept in good running order and that the waste pipes are turned at stated intervals. coe — from Steas practically its or- chemi- It Rained Dogs. From the Loulsville Commercial, “Once in my experience man in a musing to: when it actually rain: 3. The shower did not last more than five minutes, but they came very lively while they were com- ing. The way St caine about was this: “We thought we would play a joke on the mayor of the town in which I lived. I say we, 5 mean the board of The mayor had been heard to wanted a dog, and along this line we work- ed out our joke. We resolved ourselves in- to a commitiee of the whole to hunt down all the dogs in the town. There were a good many dogs in this town, a good many that seemed to be ‘thelr own dogs,’ so we collected ihem together and placed them all in the mayor's room one night. He was a bachelor, and had chambers over the first floor of the house which was known as the Town Hall. The president of the board and myscif !:ad collected the dogs, and while the other counciimen took the mayor to help them decorate the town a bright vermilion hue, we slipped the ani- mals into hls room. We then joined the rest of the council. With due respect we Il saw the mayor to his home at about 0 o'clock the next morning. The mayor was able to walk alone, if it was so late in the morning, so, letting him go by himself up the steps to reom, we stood unde the wit.dows to watch what would happen next. “Soon we heard a struggling sound, then a door banged to. A light showed in the windows. The windows were thrown up with a crash. Amid a chorus of wild yelps and muttered curses the shower of dogs began. “Look out!’ shouted the president of the board, wio was the first to get control of ughter, as the shower commenced slackening, ‘he will begin to shoot!” “The warning came none too soon, nor scarcely soon enough I thought the next day as I examined a builet hole in my hat. There was a glitter of bright steel in the window above, and then that Gatling-gua sound, which only a Montana man can make a pistol produce. “The council adjourned.” said a Montana ‘I can remember eg gee a Laminous Printing. From Popular Science News, Posters and announcements are now printed in lumivous inks, on the same prin- ciple as lum‘nous paints, that can easily be read im the dark. Zine salts produce a greenish L:ne which Yists® two or three } hcurs. Calcium throws a yellow light, and, when containing a small quantity of bis- muth and treated tn.a glowing heat, will also give a violet light, and. if exposed to sunlight for a short time, will retain it fof thirty-six hours. Thé duration of the re- flecting power renders’ the, latter the best substance. cording to the color desired, hewever, will be the migter{al used. The scorcher’s ghost.—Life, CAUGHT AT LAST. Must Answer for a Crime Done Six- teen Years Ago. From the St. Louts Globe-Democrat. The sequel of a strange story of love, at- tempted murder, a trial and conviction and escape has come to light in Harrisburg, Pa., and a man sleeps in Dauphin county jail who will be taken to the state of Iowa to serve a sentence for a crime committed six- teen years ago. Garrett Light lved in the town of Monticello, Iowa, sixteen years ago, and had for a sweetheart Annie Ricket, a maiden who, it seems, loved not wisely but too well. When she reproached Light and wanted him to marry her there was a. quarrel, during which Light shot her. Af- ter lingering for some time at death's door she recovered. Light set up in his defense that it was not he that shot her, but ah- other man, but he was convicted, and was about to be sentenced, when his counsel took the case to a higher court, pending a oe from which Light was released on ail, The higher court sustained the verdict, hearing which Light fled. He went some- where near Pittsburg, where his father had just cied, and in the settlement of the es- tate he was awarded about $1,500, with which he bought a small farm near Harris- burg. Here he lived for fifteen years, mar- ried and has a family. By some means the sheriff of the Iowa county in which the crime was committed got a trace of Light’s whereabouts, and sent a letter to Sheriff Shellenberger of Herristurg. The latter :s well acquainted in the lower end of the county, and at once located Light. This afternoon the sheriff, accompanied by an officer, went to Light’s house and called him out to attend to a matter of business. Light went with him, and when some dis- tance from the house he was informed that he was under arrest, and the reason for It. He at once admitted that he was the man wanted, but protested that he did not com- mit the crime. He was taken to Harri: burg and placed in jail, and as soon as a uisition can be secured from the gov- ernor of Iowa he will be sent back to be sentenced. His wife and family are as yet ignorant of where the husband and father is. Light is a prosperous man, and it is said every effort will be made to have his tence made short. e 7° The Safest Way. mn ‘Treth, “But why do you not print a card and deny the accusation?” inquired the poiiti- clan's wife. “Deny it?” then have them prove f? it with contempt.” F howled the politician, “and No, I will treat SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Fi DREA} y private cottage of a iilliopa rooms and. ful porches, Iuwn and table unsurpassed, lina Mrs. HE 19 ooooo—_—[[==={_{£_£_{z_*_—*—B<&{_ZR——E SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY WN. J. ATLANTIC CITY, N. 3. Hotel Traymore. Appointments and service first-class. ac23-tt D. 8 WHITE, Jr., Propriet SUMMER RESORTS. : SEASIDE—MISCELLANEOUS. OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. HOTEL SHERWOOD, Rates reduced to suit the times $2 per day; $10 Ber reek, dlcalthiest spot in America. Fishing, ting, Bathing. GEO. BOOKER, Owner & Prop: 4yi3-1m* HOTEL EDISON, Michigan ave. ucar Beach, Elevator. Steam heat. fel-156t Send for circular. J.C. COPELAND. THE BERKSHIRE INN, Ocean End, hai refitted, will JUNE 1, Props. GEO. 1896. VIRGINIA AVENUR, ving been ‘thoroughly renovated and for the reception of guests gr MARSHALL & THLOTSON, A. ROCK, Manager. myl1-3m ASBURY PARK, N. J. THE BRIGHTON, ASBURY PARK, NJ, TENTH Be Hotel enlaiged, refarnished. One block from ocean. ‘Terms reasonable. Syl1-tm? Mrs, HAMILTON HUNT. THE LAFAYETTE, ASBURY PARK, N. J. Capacity, 300. é Orchestra @aily. 408-20 ted for meena Rpnablet — The Victoria, ASBURY PARK, Located from beach; ne om lent table and appoint guest? 151 for June. season at thts resort. 8S. KEMPE HOTEL BRUNSWICK, ASBURY PARK, N, es; fifty yards ~ : BS Directly on the beach. The leading hetel tn every respect. El COR. SEVFNTH AVE. A! One block from Terms reasonzbl eon min airy ers for it near the sea. Now open. Special low rates for June and Sept. Jeo-t,th,s, 2m i A i “OCEAN HOTEL, ASSURY PARK, N. J. Largest and leading hotel. 122-30 _GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS _ BEACH HAVEN, N. J. The Englieside, Beach Haven, N. J. Open until October 1. Many ne improvements since last year. ‘nd for new illustrated book. _mvis-livt ROBT. B. ENGLE, Prop. CAPE MAY, N. J. Stockton Hotel. x. CAPE Open from Jui elegant and: Spa and requisite for Eueyts; private plumbing Kan's ‘celeorazed orchestra of cigater nd for illustrated — Looklet. KE, Prope. ©. "Ist ave. ator. MORGAN & PARSONS. jol-3in WEBB ST. the ocean, ASBURY PARK, NJ. Gyl1-261) MISS J. LY “THE PASSAIC.” THOS. NOGLE 3b HOUSE pds unobstructed view; wid. rooms; hair mattresses, Sept. CS. NU! MAY, NEW Grand Atlantic Hotel. nit y new, mantle a: N. J. “apa u hath r anude, COPE, ALL 2 Props. d The Algonqui FORMERLY Tit MANS Will open J ment. ‘The f ny Jessy » TRA NNES same “man and from beaen during bat La S for th B. AVE, +d. Steam best,” sun For terms aud other tn OCEAN ar 2 RICHMOND . Atinnti lors, eleva address PUCK S t to Beach. Pi ‘Terms, $1.50 to 0D Weekly rat f. NORRIS, I Hotel Reyai, ! guests. Service and cuisine the best. and special to parties making pr Gelv- eS House screened. First-class table and Home coinforts. GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, Right on the ocean front. “Europe: can plans, $19 to $15 week. Liber Jy3-32t EM THE HOTEL and New Jersey aves., Atlantic City, N. J. 1 , 1706 Summer dyl-lm* Pacific hiladelphia THE ORIOLE, 2120 Pacitic ave. Open all the year. c. T. BU Terms, $7 LITTLE BRIGHTO: . Carolina ay BEW'S HUTEL, Mliaots ave. and Beach, modern convenience, including elevato, cold sea water baths. Perfect service. American ard European plan. Ge2 vy RICHARD BEW. THE ALBEMARLE 3 Virginia ave., close to N. J. Lccation’ central and a! plete with all exceliencie highest standard. Capa booklet mailed upon applic: reasonable, c Je’ City, ive. Hotel re: Cuisine and service trated THE CASTLETO: 141 Ocean avenue. Newly furnished. Cholcest table, ‘Two minutes to bot baths and surf. Jei-dit E.G. LINDS. THE CLIFTON.—CORNER ATLANTIC AND. heeticut aves, Homelike, wide plazaas. Ente tains 150. Terms, $7 to $10 per week; $1.50 to §2 per day. Cireuiar mailed “Mrs, BM. COPE. Je1)-G5t ‘NEAR THE eerful family rates moderate; circulars free. JAMES BRADY, The Lelande. Xow open, On the beach. SAM'L WAGNER & SOD ‘ocean—Alry and pl house; good bourd; Jeltosel HOTEL ALDINE, gan and Obio aves. Enlarged, rej Ule bells ond other Improvements. $14 per week. Send for booklet. Iny2-7St H. D. EASTMAN, Prop. Extrem: ocean end Kent Sun parlors. Elevator. E' HOTEL STICK: Beach; 100 fe table 2 nuusie; excellent per a: he 1s hoy "LW. STICKNEY. ire Inn.) 3 $10 a week and M. A. HOECK- THE (Originally the New York ave. and the upward; everything first LEY, Pro end for iny28-T04t Carisbrooke I arisorooxe inn, VENTNOR, ATLANTIC €O., No J. Delightfulty situated” on ocean front. AN moad- era improv » clectric bell 10 minntes b Atlantic City! ~ Rates, $8 t booklet. J . Ventnor, Ne Je avenue near the heach, Atlantic cuy, Nod S$. OREM, Proprictor. SEI AND ARK. aire from Reading depot an clectrie lights and clevat Mss, It, J. OSBORN HOTEL DENNIS, N. Veach in water, $2 to $3 per day. 5 I_rates “or season and 156t G. TA FONTAINE, Ocean ond Kentucky ave. New management Sun parlor. Steam heat. Open all the yea! ial family rates. EDWARD C. CLARK. KENDRICK, 3-33.00 to $1 ee | Con Opens Saturda. 20. Hot Ye ott lawn concerts by Sime Grand Orchestra, ‘acco Brexton Villa, Beantiful verandas. lear ocean ¥ gress H all, IE M. & EPWARD KNIC CAPE MA Now. op: ‘un parlors with 0° Trate for spring. J.A. TR. WILSON, chests 12 weekly im. 300; $¥ L. MADDOX. THE ALDINE, COR” COLUMBIA AVE. AND T catur st. Cape May. Greatly enlarged and re far cuisine excellent jel. HOTEL DEVO: TREO. MUELLER. Now open. Cheer ful, homelike. Hotel near beach and railroad stations. Cool On the beach. CAPS MAY POINT, JeI6 oo89t veraudas. KING & MARCY. COLONIAL, CAPE HOUS Terias, $5 and uj OCEAN GROVE, OCE as rectly on the ocean front; porches on three ean view from all rooms: electric lights and Dells; send for Loo! JOSEPH WHITE. Je10-52t AVENUE, Exeelient beds ft rates. For cireviars address T. PRENTISS, Prop. Je10-m, wks, ARL. OV INGTON HOTEL, E, N. J. fxine ir in the _SEASIDE—JERSEY COAST. Directly on the Beach, ‘Thoroughly renovated. EM. RICHATDS MELRC 15. WM. C. CROWELL BELMAR, ans ISE-ANN-ON-THE-BEACH. _A. HAVERSTICK. CH AT WIL Ty room has an oc se. 100 rooms, h pleasant room: information at Jy24-6t PLIMUIM 0 Md 1 al and ‘Trust bidg. SEASIDE—NEW Ars, ALL. ‘opp. post offic sivodd board; mods Room 20, McGill bldg Crawshaw), as OCEAN CITY, MD. ATLANTIC HOTEL. Modern; cuisine on A’ breezes; el con cellent ‘sewerage “and sanitation perfect; pu in Water, fhowis six thousand gallons per moderate no malaria; no mosqii- yachting. sed. aatiy, 30 PINEY LOINT 1H of 1896 SATL peake bay. Potomac; 0 turday P. jock p.m. For circulars,&e , call on WASH. B, WILLIAMS, th and D sts. “nw. For further THOS. W. WILLIAM: Pincy Point, St. 4 POTOMAC TiOTE! address Jel —Open Juni $8 per w St. Ma INIAL BE Iendings; furn’ Board by the day, week or menth. ee nog | OCEAN i Ocean View, Va. ‘Tke hotel will guests. Ocean Husorts on the Atlantic coast. The 1S per- fect ant without danger. An ideal place for ladies aml children, Music by the Portsmouth Navy Yard Band. For terms, booklets apd further particulars, my2T 8m,12 a.m, 2) pi hour “trip. UXENT BEACH CO. 8 furnished that you will find at an: -class hotel. pienson & Bros” wharf, foot of ES at 5 o'clock "p.m., Point (to stops). 4 1. Sicamer Potomac leaves Sundays at 4 wharf, Address ADA’ mp finest service and best tantic’ coast; swept by oc eh 1 and bells; POU tirst-« ter! - to families.” Among the EL POINT is the fact that nd that it HOTEL OF + best salt t on the ing, fishing, erabbing and other Steamer Sue le direct on Mondays at 4 o'clock y's $ CH COTTAGE FOR RENT. aebes: cool, 11 ty. Table the best. River front. M.'L. GRANVILLE, Propzietor. VIEW HOTEL, open May 30 for the reception of View is one of the test delightful B. BR. THORNTON, Proprictor. SPRINGS AND BATH: THE BERKELEY SPRINGS open for the sea.on. ‘The baths of for ful—-pure an HOTEL IS NOW these celebrated springs are noted the cure of rheamatism, Rout kidecy. tro Mes and nervous diseases. ‘The climate Is del fresh mountain air. ight- Sprig ROCK-ENON 6:30 p.m. Cool and dry. Pool. First-class table. RATES TO Adare y23-tt WHITE SULPHUR Si resorts in ; modern hh 1 Waters and lh sports; music; and post office a for illustrated ci « Gy ur 50th Season. ISTORIC f the largest and Be SPRI The popular mountain resort. » Miveral springs, All Doubling Gap RIN GE ALBERT Pn “tan*) HACK Woop HES, WA. Trip, 12 noon to kinds of db orstans, iT THE TIMES, A. 8. PRATT, Proprie chester ret ring ; Hotel, Blue Ridge Mountains. DRY ATMOSPHERE. 1,500 FE EL VATION, Elevator and all modem improvements, OPEN JUNE 2 TO OCTOBER 1, Address W. REAMER. Manager, Buona Vista Springs P. O., Western Md. IR, my? 3m ONLY 36_MILE baths, For ci 1 FAUQUIER Wur jylt-im* CARROLL BEDFORD si NL TE Bedtord, ¥ The Carlsbad of Ame ot 0 Washington count TPARIOM, for tuvalids FOREST don the B. and Q. ten miles from and this pap sent WR ALSIP, Manage, akoma Springs Hotel. Formerly Hotel Takoma —N dane Delightful resort. Special 4: wr of Special’ Sanday GbO. Hi. Prop. FREDERICK CO. VA. WITH facnouim- healt mineral ar | ns; 10 mites from KM ion, ae in RR fare: terms mol-tate; write lone: free delves giv a N THE MOUNTAINS. » Wadeayitte: Garke Co. Va "AURORA HOUSE. pen. Finest I tes. Superis * lawns mo-«juitoes. Wraps JeS-ten Ith ~ Mt. View House. One of the best places of resort in the entire range of the Allegheny m ¢ Mountain View Hovse at Aurora, W. air is pure, the scenery is grand beyond compare, the ace medations ere first-class in every respect, an A, le. For particulars address JUMN A. 1. NTS, Proprietor, Aur W. Va. in MOUNTAIN HOUSE In the heart of the Alleghanics, now open; no pl for Wealth. Terme” amnderates ax Now open. WTS HW harlestown, St OF THE ALLEGHENIES 1 PEL W. Va. . Eglon, Preston co, W. Va. N, Prop, moderate rs HL WM. H i myl5-tt beds: s __ Poin’ THE SUMMIT 1 Va. tain, 56 and mou Fort William Henry Hotel, LAK Most h to above HARDE h season MAY er re ress for booklet, terms, ete, jyl 3 z -OLEL, Mourtain Lake Park, Md. Summit Opens June 15. Circulars and prog: HARPER'S 1 sort Is open; frst-rla: boating, dancing and ‘fishing telegraph in house. SE, MARI 211 with greatly nest EE until June 15, ant Yennis court; bow T. 8. LOVE Mi is and table; lecular airy rooms, Ndross i. Atieghanies. SH Improv ed to give M. J ON B. AND Most dtelight- BOLLING, 1225 Lin- myi2-tf Atlan lights: ie fine ting, ur POTOMAC RIV ER BOATS. rt In America. W Buashwod is aud arrives at ¥ Vriday morni m., for Sean and Yeooom ‘at V creck, ry Steame for Lowe at 4 pm. L river fre dations boar of sailing. A. REED & ©0., is, Alexandria. GRO. O. CAKPINTER, Ge R Propr vl BRO. Tat LINE Wharf, IN & Washington, D.