Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1888, Page 14

[ BRIDES 1 To A hurt ti-my part of the body by cone fusion, caused by coming in contack vio- Jently with some othier body, the contused Blood in the partinjured showing & dark mark to the extent of the hurt, is a bruise. to the effect of suth ln)uflmemtorumm. disturbed, the veins are impeded, congestion sets ature 18 impatient of uilar order tries in'and w?l ens impediment to its ‘oru the circylation tl ron!h i Kroper annels thus clogged and pain intensifies. It ay in minor hurta after longand painful ef- restore the functions an byllowdgr_eeg eal ftself, but pain is ‘its signal of distress, Lh ter the pain the louder jt cally - for help, and #o long as_pain lasts, it needs that help. What is thut help? Somethir that wxfl penetrate deéeply, stimulate an soothe, and by pplications sub- .‘due the congéstion. W nature’s aid it clears away the. obstructions, heals :the in fured tissue and restores. . How. ©an be done is sevn. inthe rapi ance of the black marks, and ¢ fic actlon, .the healing provess of St. ‘- Jacobs Oil,” ‘It is the thing needed and st what nature calls for in the .cure of bruises, ns.tliousands who ‘have tried it. But the conditions ‘in ¢ wounds are i littie difforent, althot principles of healing ure the- same. Th jues are KCpara rated and torn apart, ides being b d, and natyre's effort is ntensificd in "t together to 1 the ‘proce Hardly any one Would pour into a g here," which i Oil, used in accordance with directipns foe which accompany every bottle, will mage cally knit togethor these parts and confirng the action of nature by a perfect cure. WEAK, NERVOUS. 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MCMENAMY, Cor. 13th and Dodge St OMAHA, NEB. = ined troduced for Welts, ana Machine Sewed. LUDLOW'* 8tios Thus ‘M. D. " ORICAGO. ILL. AND BRIDECROOYS. Incidents of the 'Altnr—'ro Pop or . Not to Pop; ; A - MATRIMONIAL OUTBREAK. Overwhelmed by Tokens—Discarded But True—Winning a ‘Bride—A . Qelestial JLove Story ~The Sailor's Bride. Matrimony. P OF not to pop, that is the guestion, \\Pgethcr 'iis casier for a man 1o suffer In single bicgsedness the rubs of fortuna. Or ask some pretty pretty girl to share his troubles 2 And by proposing end’ them?—To .woo, to wed, No niore—and by a form to say he's free From all the little ills, a bachelor, poor man, Is piagued with—'tis & consummation Devoutly to be wished: - To woo, to wed— Perhaps a family)] Ah, there's the rub; For in the marriago state what cares may come ‘When he has taken to himsclf a- wife Must give him pause: thero's the réspect That makes celibacy of 86 long @ life. For.who could bear the the washérwoman's crimes, Thie bultonicss shirt, - the stockings full of holes, ; he pang of collars with o sawlike ede, Thndndglng keeper's sins, the cat's mis- ced, And stranige evaporation of his brandy, ‘When he himself might his q\liulnus;’mnlw. ‘With a‘plain gold riug! - Who would cham- bers keep And growl and fret a solitdry life But that the dread of endigss tradesmen’s bills (The honsekeeping expenses, from whose doom No Benedict escapes). puzzles the will And makes him rather bear the ills he has Than fly to others.that_perhaps are-worse. Prudonve mikes a coward of a.man, And thus we see most desperate flirta- tions On this account too often in smoke, And promises apparcntly of granite Are broken like the crust of appie pie, ‘And ludies bring-an “action,” A ‘Matrimonial .Qutbreaks Portland, Ore., -Special to.the St. Paul Pioneer Press; Ruby City is the principal place in-the Salmon river mining district in eastern - Washington® territory. It isa typieal mining town, and contains a hotel large enough to ac- commodade fifty persons, several restau- rants, anumber -of saloons and other stores.and houses, ‘including a school building. Recently the taxpayers elected three school directors, who in turn elected oneof their number,a hard, miner who has worked with the pick all over the world, teacher of . the school. He resigned at the end of a month on the ground that he did not’ possess’ the necessary amount of ‘‘larnin’” to.hold. the position. The dirgctors on- being put to the test of designating his suc- cessor, found that no one in town was competent to hold the: place. -A bright iden took possession of “the president of the board, a tall, slim man of ‘Bill Nye aspect, and he inserted advertisements in.the papers of Portland, Tacoma and Seattle ing for*‘lady teacher of ex- ‘perience; none other. need apply.” He received many applications and selected one. Three ‘wecks ‘ago to-day the stage that runs between ‘Spokane Falls and Ruhy City landed at the “latter place o medium-sized, winsome: young woman of twenty, with dark blue eyesand long, silkén hair. She was a typical brunctte, and as she was. the first - white woman. who had set foot ‘in the town she at- tracted universal attention. The wily Frcsidcmu the. board had permitted her' to ‘arrrivé uunheralded, and when she stepped out of the'coach he warmly .welcomed her, making the remainder of the male population: of the villige green with envy. He' escorted her in || triumph to the hotel, and when taking leave snid he wayld call that evéning to, confer with her concerning the school. He came according to “the agreement, but was thagrined to find the beautiful miss had bestowed her affections upon the forty-five year old proprietor of the hotel.. ‘When he broached the schoel topio she referred him-to her husband: that was to be. The piresident turned away with a sad heart, but. was present that evening at a little. marriage cere- mony in the hotel lobby in which the hotel proprietor and schoolmarm were the contracting parties. Taking resolution from despair the president went through the applications and chose one, the author of ‘which put in her appearance in Ruby City four days later, She was Miss Campbell, and she came from Spokane Falls, She had been in town only four hours when she promised to be the bride of the boss saloonkeeper. The school president felt discouraged and was not seen in the streets for four days. He had not becn idle, however, and towards the end of the week a Miss Wood arrived from Seattle to take charge of the school. She said she was twenty- two, but she looked to be thirty-six. She was about as ugly as Medusa, and tho president smiled to himself when he mused that in all_likelihood she would teach the young idea how to shoot some- thing else besides other people’s pigs, whereas her Venus-like predecessors had not been granted an opportunity. She never assumed the dutiesof her position, for tho proprietor of the gen- eral merchandisc store made her his wife two days after she arrived. The president was now reduced to the verge of despair and he knew not which way to turn. To save his life he could not securoc a teacher. Ever, came was married inside of forty-eight hours. He evolved a scheme in hisown mind, and last Thuvsday six good-look= ing young women from Portland and Seattle arrived in the camp. Five were married by Friday eveniug, the stage- driver, two saloon-keepers, a restaurant man, and a mine-owner being the lucky bridegrooms. Saturday morning the sixth wedaing took place, and the school president was the groom. He has deter- mined to make his wife grlncipnl of the school, to which no on objects, and mat- ters will soon be running smoothly in the camp. The only man of any promi- nence who did not get a wife was a pr pector named Jones. one that Overwhelmed by Mat rimonial Tokens. Sam Goddard advertised for a wife in a Georgia paper two years ago. Sam is a countryman who bears a striking re- semblance to the uncle of his country, though he is not so well dressed. His advertisement was about as follows: “Wanted---A wife. “I want a good, affectionate wife who will be a mother to my little children, She must be a good housekeeper and well disposed. I prefer thatshe be light complected, but no red-headed woman need apply. I have a home, with four children, 200 bushels of corn, and fifty bushels of sweet potatoes. “I catch ’possums enough to cook with the sweet potatoes,” This advertisement was published several times in Rome, and was copied all over the country and in several for- eign papers. The replies began to come in the second day from different parts of the state, then from adjoining states, and finally: from every part of the union. ‘After -a month or 80 letters began 1w - come from other ecountrics. A number came Irom England and Scotland, one or two {rom Germany, and one from New Zea~ la There were over 1,000 letters in ‘| earned her all. joyful, His spirits rose and bubbled over in sorts of ingenious demou- strations. There were locks of hair, miniature houquets, and once in B-w\ n_phnwirnph'.- The happy austic exh bited these trophies’ with undiguise: satisfaction, and’ all ‘went merrily with himthen. He was the most courtéd man in_America.. . By and by there came areaction. The great deeps of his heart were broken up a8 his ponderous and uncouth affections were gradually dissipated among o legian of admirers. He became despon- dent, and finally when the foreign let- ters imgnn to come in with twenty-five cents extra postage on every other one, he was sick at heart. The subject seemed to have Jnthered terrors with its numbers, and the peality ot 1,000 sweethearts was far more terrivle than the rosy anticipation that had preceded it. After two ycars deliberation Sam Eut all those loves aside and took unto C] d imself & wife of hishome n¢quaintance. This {8 a true story, and Sum Goddard now lives happily near Rome. A Decelving Bridegroom, Cincinnati Epquirer: Years ago tacre lived in the town of Ironton, O., a Miss. Josephine B. Schachleiter and Josepn T. Potter, He was employed in one of the many rolling mills in that iron manufacturing.town. She was left an orphan early-in life, and lived with her brother, . George Schachleiter, who' kept-a restaurant. She became profi- cient as a cook and genéral housékeeper, and was just such.a young woman asa laboring man - would. want ‘for a wife. The two had almost grown up together, and when they arrived at’ the maturity of manhood and womanhood they were married. ‘This was on September 20, 1872, They lived happily together forseveral years, and two children. werd.born to them. Potter proved to be a sort of shiftiess fellow. ' He ecarned good wages wheu he worked, but he would not work steadily. About 1881 or 1882 he left his wife for no reason other than that he took a notion to seek work in the west: She did not hear from him and knew nothivg about him. - She. came to this - ¢ity and living in _ restaurants as = a forewomah understanding the business very. well. Dur- ing 1883 she'met one John W. Bennette, who earned his living at various oceu- ations, having no steady employment. {e becameé enamored -of “Mrs. Potter. He paid some attention to her, and finally pm{)osed marringe. She told him of her husband, and said she had no knowledge whether he was dead or not. Bennette was equal to this’ emergency. A short time afterward he showed her what apneared to be a clipping -from ‘a Kansas City paper, detailing: the ‘death: by accident on a railroad of Joseoh B. Potter. paber that had been sent to him. She was not satisfied with this. - Not long afterward he éxhibited to her a.letter purporting to have been written by the mayor of St. Joseph, Mo., corroborating the story-as told in the printed slip. she had seen. ' This, convinced Mrs, Potter and she married Bennette on the 1st-of January, 1884, They had lived together but a'short time, when. one day Mrs. Potter’s daughter came home and said she had seen her father on the street. and talked to him. This was a stunner to the then Mrs, Bennette. Sheatonce left Mr. Bennefte: and would . not live with: him ' any - more. Soon afterward she saw her first husband,Mr. Potter, was thus eonvinced that- he was alive.and realized the step she had in- nocently taken. She made .some in- quiries and found-that Bennett had the account of Potter’s death printed on a card-slip-of paper and then pasted it on a card so0 that no one could see that the reverse side of the paper had 'no .print- ing on it and was not ‘clipped from.a newspaper, e She began proceedings for: a divorce from Bennette, soon after this. Sha had been deceived by him ‘and she ‘wanted to clear herself of any. appéarance of | wrong doing. - This case- was the one beard yesterday and Judge Kumler granted a divorce, She will now en- deavor to get a divorce “from Potter, who has again. disappeared, and get bnlc!k as far as possible to her original self, # Seéventy-Three Years, My grandparents,” writes - Mr. Thomas S. Wilkes to the Portland Ore- gonian, ‘‘are, I believe, the oldest couple on the Pacific coast. They live at Greenville, Washington county, Ore- gon. Peyton Wilkes was born in'1791, and so_will' be ninety-seven years old next May. He isone of the few pen- sioners of the war of 1812. His wife, Anna Wilkes, is ninety-one years old, and they were married in 1815, (in June, I think.) They came the plains across in 1845, and settled in Washing- ton county in 1846, They were both born in Bedford county, Virginia, came to Indiana about 1820, and to Missouri in 1839, So in following the star of empire they kept ahead of the iron horse until "he overtook them at the ‘jumping off place.” They have three sons living, twenty-seven grandchil- dren, forty-one great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren living. Grandfather is one of the boys yet; at least he calls my father the old man, and bids fair to reach 100,and I will say that if tho{ live to celebrate their diamond wedding the old pioneers of Oregon shall be invited, and we will make them welcome at the old home- stead. If there isan older pioneer in Oregon or an older couple in the United States we should like to hear from them.” A Celestial Love Story. San Francisco Examiner: Chung Ah Kow, a Chinaman who arrived in this city about six month ago from Texas en route to China with a pretty white wife and two children, was met at the ferry landing by a reporter as he was cross- ing the bay to visit some friends in Oakland, in company with his family and a servant. On being addressed by a reporter Ah Kow appeared so affable and willing to talk that the scribe joined him on the boat. When seated his eyes beamed with a sort of quizzical in- telligence as he remarked: “I'quite understand your curiosity. You have noticed thatI have a white wife and a pair of pretty little girls,and you want to know came by them. sn’t that so?” ““Well, I expect you have iuemd it,” remarked his companion, ‘‘but a poli officer at the ferry has already told me that you were a cattle king from Texas.” “A cattle king!” he exclaimed; ‘‘why, 1 have not more than 1,000, but } have considerable land.” “‘How did you happen to make such an investment in that country?” was in- quired, “That lady you see over there, my wife, was the main cause, and I'm not a bad looking fellow in American clothes, am I¥” he continued, straightening up. The assent was given that he was not. “Then you will admit that she was somewhat excusable in disregarding race prejudices. The whole story is that Xgived in San Francisco until that fool Kearney began to stir things ur. Fearing that members of my race would be molested sooner or later, and. not desiring to return to my native country poor; as I had run away from a wealthy father in' Hong Kong, I determined to seek a new lacality, Gatheringtogether wbout $500 1 drifted south and tontinued Atfirst Goddard whs blithe and | He said he had cut it from a° THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUN to drift through' Arizona and Colorado until I finally Iapdeéd in San Antonia, Tex. Then T/ openéd ,a Chinese bazaar and sold my ' goods at sich enarmoys profits that it was but a ghort time helore I had about #5,000. was admitted as. & member of the social ¢lub there and' bépame extensively ac- quainted. © Among my .acqualatances were many ladi¢s. Many of them gave gave me cause to think that my aften- tions would not be repulsed. To one of thesa I becamq ‘attached. Her name was Annie Freeie, Again, that's my wife. 1did not then know that she owned in her own name 1,000 acres of land not many miles away. It was what you would call a case of true love and t ran smooth.” At the cloding sentence the reporter looked up rather suddenly. ° “0, I'm'quite conversant with your literature, as is evidenced by my fond- ness of shnkesrnm and other authors whom, it is said, foreigners do not ap- preciate; - Well, to continue, I paid my addresses to her, Then & revulsion of 'u"“‘i seemed to take' place. I wasac- ceptable enough until Tdesired to marry one of their native dnufihwrs, though she was an orphan, by the way. D. T. McNear, her guardian, made it so warm | that we had to run away and get ‘mar- ried in anothér county by 'a justice of the peace. She was nineteen years of age, and T wds thirty at. that time. ‘We got married; though, all right, and returned to face the music. - It was .a cold reception that we got. I told her that it would be all right. that I had over $5,000, and ¢ould make more. ' It was then that she told me that she had 1,000 acres of land in her own. right,and’ a house and a lot in the city - She ad- vised me to buy cattle and “stock it,” I then closed out my business to: advan- tage; bought cattle and plodded along until I was able té purchase 5,000 addi-:| tional acres, and now we own 6,000 acres of good lund, and over 1,000 head of stock, which are fncreasing..” Itis’ all aid for.. The cowboys have tried -to ill me dnce or twice.” “Why did you go to China?” 7o see my father, whom I had- not seen for eighteen years.’, ‘*And you return. just .on the eve of your new year?” “That is the main reason T did return. I married a white woman and I desire to become & white man, or as nearly as possible. Furthermore, ‘'my business sadly needs attention.” ‘‘How do the pcople of Ban Antonio régarp you and your wife now?”’ “Things are all right now—jyou see I have some money; that makes:some dif- fereuce,” and Ah Kow winked. The imn.z arriving on the otlier side, the fat Chinaman and his vigorous and rosy wife bade the reporter: adieu, in- forming him that they would' take the overland train’ for their -home. this morning. . + The family ‘was the center of ‘attrac- tion on'the boat during the entire trip. Many personswill remember the no- toriety attaching to. the marriage of Chung Ah Kow'and Miss Freese, the latter being of &h old and eminently re- spectable family. The Sailor's Bride. San Franocisco Chronicle: " Among the whalers who arrived in this port a fow months ago with'a share of - the Arctic catch of whale and bone was one. who fell in love withitprobably . the homeli- est of Africa’s daughters t6 be found on the Barbary.coast. Tocap the climax of his folly, he espaused the dingy dam- sel aud assigned’ to her %500 yet due him, to keep the wolf -from the .door. until his return:next fall from a second cruise. . No sooner, however, had he weighed anchor and passed -outside ' the Golden. Gate thun the wolf,.or - rather twoof them, appeared at the door, in'the form of old lovers of the bride,and pro- ceeded to shape‘their course for & re- newal of their smiles and a dip into the sack where the #500 was stowed: awady. One is known a8 “Blind Dick” and the other as . ‘‘Scar-nosed Charlie.” The pair tried to sit each other out. This thing of alternating . in warmth’ of the dark-skinned whaler's' bride be- came irksome to the rivals and n-these cold days and nights was anything but pleasant. An end had to come of it sooner aor later, and it did come, on last Saturday night somewhere about the hour of midnight. While ‘‘Scarenosed Charlie was on the inside of the room door with the thermometer at blood heat, “Blind Dick” was on the other side of the room door, blowing through it like a cyclone. Then it was that “Biind Dick’s” patience gave out and lanting his mighty foot against the olted door, he bursted it in, much to the annoyance of ‘‘Scarenosed Charley” and his dusky companion, who were as happy as might be expected under the circumstances, having a pyramid of full beer bottles and an abundance of sau- sages and blue-moldy cheese on an old rickty table. The entry of Dick was the signal for a fight,which commenced instanter. The two rivals fought in the room and out of it, through the hallway where they rolled each other over and over. “Scare-nosed Charley” got the worst of the fight. He has been confined to his room since, taking care of his head, which looks more like a mashed pump- kin than an adornment to a human being, while ‘‘Blind Dick,” haying won the day, was most gracefully installed in the quarters of the whaler’s dusk; bride, where he is being tenderly care for and well looked after out of the whaler’s share of last year’s catch, Lady Agents Wanted for the Van Orden Corsets. Every lady wishs ing good health and a_ beautiful figure buyr them. Quick sales. Good pay. _Send fo, terms and circular. Van Orden Cor set Co. 12 Clinton Place, N. Y. e — THIEF AND BRIDEGROOM. A valuable estate at Sedgefield near Darlington, England,suddenly changed hands about forty years ago, the gentle- man then in possession quietly resign- ing his rights, if he ever had any,to the cousin of his deceased mother. The story attending the occurrence is very remarkable, and can be vouched for by the writer, whose friends were indi- rectly interested in the affair. The dwelling known as Sitchade grange, Sitchade being a corruption of St. Chad, stood in afine situation, about & mile from the present railway station. The land attached to it was valuable, yielding a rental of £7,000 8 year. In 1810 Thomas atham was the pro- prietor, his ancestors hnving held the estate for generations,probably from the time of Henyy VIII., when it was a pri- ory.. Nr, Leatham bml one daughter, Maria. She was then but twenty years of age, and a very handsome and ac- complished young woman, A young farmer named Topping was employed by Mr. Leatham to manage what was known as the Home farm, some forty acres of land which Mr. Leatham cultivated for his own use or as & matter of taste. Topping and Maria fell in love. The young farmer was a very handsome, stalwart fellow, and took the fancy of Miss Leatham. Doubtless they formed some pluns to bring about a marriage; but, hewever that may be, relations existed between them which were not sanctioned by law. The consequences of this familiarity soon became apparent, and the father— he was & widowar—-ak Jength communi- cated: his .She.admitted that she wae in & condi-" tion to become & mother, but positiively refuged to disclose the paternity of &e - ohild ehe borq, Mr, Leatham wag ¢ie- tradted, a-‘.’x xon ed nns tntruu& is only child to tell him the. name' of her betrayer, s0 that, if he should prove to be in her owg conditjon in' life, mar- rlnft might rémove the dreadful stigna hich would otherwise rest upon -her and himself. But she was obdurate and deqlared that she would meot death bather than do as desired, unless her retrayer consented. Mr. Leatham look around in vain for “{ one on whom he could fix as the f“ 1ty rmn. No. man, to his know- edge, had ever visited ‘hll daughter, and no inquiries, made judiciously, could throw any light upon the subject. That someonhe was or had been in the habit of vhulng his daughter secretly he had no doubt, but how or at what times he ' could not comprehend. He determined, however, to keep & watch, and for that purpose took all’ necessary measures, About this time three: highwaymen=— Kendrick, . Jones and ' Ullathorne—in- fested the roads between Darlington and Newcastle, They had committed many depredations with impunity, and at length the sheriff of Durham. with a. posse of constables, took them in hand and captured Jones and Ullathorne near Chester-le-street. Kendrick escaped, and, going round the city of Durham, went up toward Darlington. There he met a seryant .carrying a valice of clothes to his master;” who was in the neighborhood. ‘He took the valise and mado his way. to the small town ' of Yarm, where he put up at a hostelry, representing that he was going to visit s married sister in the neighborhood. He was out of funds, howeyer, and had to devise some- schemo. to raise money. Attiring himself in the stolen garments and altering his appearance as much as possible he went to Darlington. There, to his - surprise, he came across Jones, who had escaped - from. his captors. Joues returned with Kendrick to Yarm, and was eriabled to change his attire hnd otherwise diguise himself, and then the two sét about concocting some plan 1o replenish their exchecquer They rightly conjectured that the officers: of ‘the law would take it for granted that they. had made théir way south, London being the invariable refuge for highwaymen in those days. They, felt themselives, therefore, com- paratively . safe... Riding through. the by-ways in the neighborhood, they fixed vus:on Mr. Leatham’s residence as ‘a likely place to.rob, and at- once. began to lay ‘their ' plans., Having recon- noitered.the place, they fixed upon the rlxlight of Octaber 19,1810. for the rab- ery. Leaving theirhorsesin asecure place, the{ entered the grounds about .mid- night, and approached the dwelling. Jones stayed under the shadow of the treees and Kendrick went. toward the house to find a suitable window by which to enter. To his - surprise he. found a window open, and, having listened to be :} sure that no one was around, he was in the act of climbing. in ~when he . was seized from behind and drawn back by a powerful hand. *I have.caught you: at length, you scoundrel,” said Mr. Leatham,. for he was the personage who unexpectedly in- terrupted the burglar. -“If you move or offer any resistance. I will shoot you through the head.” - Kéndrick had a ‘pistel in his posses- sion, but he was dazed with wonder, and a8 he lay on his back upon .the ground, with his assailant smndi% over him Ho‘mting a pistol at his head, he judged iseretion was the better part of valor. So he held his peace. Jones, however, discovering the turn which things had taken, fled as rapidly as possible, . Mr. Leatham disarmed Kendrick,and with a tight grip upon. his throat lea- him to the entrance and into the dwell- ing.: Then conducting him to the study, he thrust him in and confronted 'him. “Yau, then;” said he, ‘‘are the scoun- drel wha has seduced my daughter and ‘brought ruin upon us all. you, sir, and I don’t want to know - you. If T served you right I would put a bul- let through you and throw your bod¥ into a ditch, -~ As it is, however, I shall ‘spare you,in order that my daughter’s disgrace may in a measure be abated. Who are you, sir?” Kendrick saw the situation in-a mo- ment and determined to profit by it, and remembered that the stolen - clothes were marked ‘‘Melton.” Assuming an air of dejection and shame, he said: “My name is Charles Melton. I have been umying in the neighborhood for some time.” “How did yon make the acquaintance of my daughter?” “I would rather not say, sir:” “Well, sir, though I know nothingof your connections,you will have to marry my daughter, so that her child may not be born a bastard.” Mr. Leatham was a magistrate, and in those days magistrates usually had in their houses what was known as the strong room, where offenders were con- fined, if necessary. To sucha room Mr. Leatham conveyed Kendrick, or Mel- ton, as he will henceforth be called,and there locked him up. Without a word to his daughter, Mr. Leatham next dly went to Durham, and from the bishop’s surrogate procured a special licemse. After Mr. Leatham’s discovery of his daughter’s condition she communicated the fact to Topping and urged him to make an admission, believing that under the circumstances her father would consent to their marriage. Top- ping, hewever, was greatly alarmed, and resigned his place, informing Mr. Leatham that he was going to accom- pany his uncle to Canada. Soon after- ward he left the neighborhood, a fact of which Miss Leatham was duly in formed. The day after the capture of Melton, Mr., Leatham announced to hisdaughter that he had in his custody the man who had ruined her; that his name, he. had discovered, was Melton, and that he supposed he belonged toa North York- shire family of that name, which was hithy respectable, “!More than that,” he said, ‘' I have procured a special license and the cur- ate l‘l, here at this moment to marry you. Maria’s astonishment was naturally very great, but she was afraid to say anything, She knew that Topping had deserted her in her extremity and that soon her disgraee would be known to the world. Her father’s statement was, of course, & perfect mystery to her, but she e up her mind in an instant to do just what he desired. And s0, meeting for the first time, the woman, glad to coyer her shame and the man glad to meet such a ha Fv deliver- ance from arrest and the ows and to fall upon a comparatively easy lot as he believed, the two were united in mar- riage. After this Mr. Leatham took little notice of either of them. They had their own apartments, and attendants to wait upon them, and Mr. Leatham made his daughter a liberal allowance. How the newly wedded couple settled it between them may never be known; but they cer- tainly lived amicably together, and the husband, who had considerable tack managed to assume the bearing of a gentleman with some degree of suc- cess., It e0 happened that in his earlier ears he had been conversant with farm- ing, and as soon as he became somewhat familiar with his new circumstances he I'don’t know. |’ FERGUSON FURNITURE CO., ~———DEALERS IN-—— i Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, Etc: .SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS. 716-717-721 N. 16th 8¢, - ; Below are afew of our prices whére we furnish houses from cellar to garret every day: A HANDSOME WRITING DESK FOR 88, A NICE EASY WILLOW ROCKER $3.60 A NICE HANGING LAMP FOR $2.60 AN EASY ROCKER CARPET COVER $2.80 AN ELEGANT OENTER TABLE 82, A LARGE 8I1ZE MIRROR, WALNUT FRAME, A SMYRNA RUG, 8I.' A Spléndid Plush Parlor Suit 825, Equal to those advertised by other housep * % at 875, Parlor Suits, ShefMencers, Wardrobes, Dressing ing Beds: ‘A Bedroom Suit for$14.95. Equal to those advertised by other houscs nt 838, Cagas, Book Cases, and Folde 2 car loads of ¢onsigned goods just received,_"' i which we will sell at slaughter prices. HILL & YOUNG, 12il and 1213 Farnam Strect FURNITUR Carpets, Stoves, House Fumishing Gons, WEEKLY AND MONTHLY PAY- © T MENTS; FURNITURE. A magnificentdisvlay afeverything useful and : ornamental in the furniture maker’s art, -.at reason_able prices. O H. CURTIS, Pats. y LeaTheER gorro® J. HURD THOMPSON; 8¢0. a Totkts HA RUBBER CO., MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN BOOTs AND 8BOE® COTTON LINEN & RUBBER HOSE RUBBER COTTON.. LEATH BELTING, OIL. R A 4 GOS* DRUG~ ER CLOTHI! GISTS' RUBBER SUNDRIES HARDWARE 4 SPORTSMEN'S' TOY AND STATIONER!S AND EVERY KIND OF RUB3IER GOODS. NAM ST, OMAHs, NEB, Kountze Place Kount: on very desirable terms. inducements. to be built this this addition, Telephoné No. 185. Between the two grand drives—Sherman’ Ave. & Saunders §t., under speciul arrangements w,_‘i: I dm_enabled to offer this splendid prope: No other agent can olter Prices from §1.600 up.. 100 more ho ; cable line axnd street .cary re cts and deeds trom Mr, Koun| JAMES STOCKDALE, Special Agent, = 113 N. 16th Street | CRICHESTER'S ENGLIS SAF EAWAYS RELIABLE. TO LADIE! INDJSPENSABLE.SOLD BY ALL lik““lfll. ASK FOR DIAMOND BRAND, IES Amw&ncm SEE SIONATURE ON EVERY BOX . ATER CHEVCAL GR Wi PR MADISON WRITTEN TESTIMONIALS AND ENGI Dnlzfinfigflb BRAND N orfl'&"fi&'s‘s‘mfi“l‘gni ASK DRUGGIST FOR (HICHESTER'S ENGLISH DIAMOND B RA NDTAKENo OTHER, Ps) YinE o veRy' fron BaRTicULEy | ADISON SR, A Face elonaTygEon EVERY 80X’ N over.rRowLADIES Who RAVE usED JOND BRAND PENNYROYAL PILLS WITH SUCGE3S. interested himself on the home farms and finally took entire management of it. After the birth of the first child three ethers followed. Mr. Leatham become reconciled to things as they were, and at last his relations with his son-in-law were almost cordial, In the meantime all but the eldest child had died, and in 1846 the mother followed them. The eldest son was then known as George Melton, and thirty-five years of age. He had been married for ten years and had children, Mr. Leatham died a month later, and George Melton succeeded as a matter of course to the estates. Mrs. Melton hav- ing a coursesy title in them. All these years Mr. Melton had con- ducted himself with marked propriety, and had won the respect and esteem of the neighboring gentry. Nothing had ever occurred to bring tolight his early career, and after the first year or so no one manifested much curiosity as to his antecedents, Soon after Mr. Leatham’s death, how- ever. trouble came. The gentleman’s nephew, Thomas Wilshire, laid claim to the property, alleging that the eldest son of Mrs. Melton was born out of wed- lock, and could not thercfore inherit, On the trial of the action it was proved that the child was born & week or more after the marringe, but very unexpect- edly a fact came to light which proved fatal to George Melton's title. While Mr, Melton was attending the trial in London he was identified on the street by his former associate, Jomes, though so many years had elarrcd since they parted on the night of the at- tempted burglary. Melton endeavored to deny the identity, but Jones was per- sistent, and learning the nature of the trial in progresss, and that it involved the very property which was the scene of thelr unlawful acts ‘on the night of October 19, 1810, he threatened Melton with exposure unless he paid him a sum of money. Melton absolately refused to pay anything, and persisted in denying that he was Kendrick, Then Jonespro- duced the woman to whom Kendrick had been married in 1806 at Marylebone church, London, and by whom he had two chfldien. This made his marriage to Miss Leatham a nullity. Other evidence of his identy rapidly accumulated, It was shown that for two years, just previous to his lawless deeds n the north, in 1810, he was confined in a Dutch prison, and that he had becn branded on the shouldeyr, the mark of which still existed. The story of *his robbery of the ser- vant-man and his. assuming the same name as ‘that on the stolen linen also came out,and finally George Melton, THE L. CL A La Persephone French Hand-made CORSETS! Highest standard of Corset ever introe duced into this market. They impart tha} graceful figure and fine form which any' well dressed lady would be justly proud, especially when obtainable without i i ious tight lacing, etc, Indorsed as the * Paerless Corse By leading dressmakers of Paris, London and New York, and for sale in Omaha b’ N. B. Falconer, - Thompson, Belden & Co. And other merchants, 1 WaNT) for the VAN OR| COR! , B lady wi RDY sy, bt wij% wre buys them, RGENTS i, & for terms and clro 0. PRINOLE & CO., 18 Weat 131 88., Zansas City, disgrace and contumely, retired from the legal contest and "yielded up the estate. Then, in 1847, as already stated, Sitchade Grange changed hands. Melton, or Kendrick, always ans ticipating and dreading some exposure, had managed to save several thousan: unds. &‘hut he was not a thoroughly Egd man is manifest from the circume stunce that he took up his abode with George Melton and his lulnil{ and mainly supported them, Mrs. lulto); having a small income of her own. Mrsy Kendrick, well stricken in y amply provided for by her never molested her husband, e ——— No need to talke those big cathart! ill Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver an ) Pillets are move agroeable an eflective, So far as we " cars all over the country, subjected to & most severe and trying winter, arc doing rather than expose kimself to fovther 1 very well