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THE WEEKLY UBI.QK TIMEST^
*"^ k * I XIO C. II., 8QLTH C , I^tNA, I*KBRL AR\ 7,
I IFE'8 8T0RY.
BY Ol'.OIWlK ELIOT.
Two lovers by a moss-i rown spring;
The/ leaned no t cheeks together there.
Mingled tbo dark nml sunny hair,
And heard the wooing tbrushos Ring.
(> budding time!
O iovo'n i> -at prime t
Two weddod from tho portal stopt;
The holla uiade Ii ippv enroling?,
Tho nir was soft m laming w ngs.
While potato on tho pathway swept.
O pure eyod bridot
O touder brido 1
Two faces o'er n er idlo bent;
Two hand? abo ? tho hea I were looked ;
Theso pressed each othor while tliey looked!
Theao watched a lifo that love had cent.
<> solemn hour!
O hidden powor!
Two pirouts bv <bo oveniug flro:
The red li-_-lit Rhone unovo thoir knees,
Hui all the hetuls hy slow dogruoa,
J.iko b .ds upon the lily spire.
, i> pi t ont life!
... O tender eirifd 1 - - - ,W- ?
T7** Th, ??.-> aril! on? 1tSor?
lijj", Tlir r Jil llyht nliouo above their knocs,
Hut it I tlio lioiitlt by blow degrees
Ilad go.io itii<I Irft tlio lonely pair.
O Toyniie flint I
O vnnisliod past!
The roil Unlit altono aliovo tlio floor.
Ami Ufa tlio space betwcon them wide ;
They drew th <ir chairs up ttido b\ eiao ;
Iho.r' pnl-t cheeks joined, and said, "Once
nioro'/'
O nioiitorios'
TOIVE
DRYSO.n JfflE.
BY I K MAJOR."
CHAPIKR XXIV.
WHtT THE WRITING KF.VUA I," D
'JUeso words urn addressed to Mr.
Llmont. They nro written in the silence
of the night, when I nm alonu
with Him who judges us all. He
knowi that I have no choice: that I
Jk must lly, like a tliiof in the night, from j
tlio dear woman who has been ho kind |
to mo, from the noble man whose love |
W j would honor a i,neon, and which I 1
must now reject, one and forovcr.
The happiness that ho points me to, |
I cannot take. Thero is a barrier in i
the way that may not bo cro>sod.
I cannot bear the misery of saying n |
last. furowoll to these two; nor can I i
bear that they should think me uu- i
grateful, or oven cold. Nor do I dare l
to pour out my heart upon this inscn (
sale paper. 1 will in a few words tell
them why 1 must leave them forover.
I would implore them that they leavo
me to go my soriowful way in peace;
that they will not strive to find mo.
Hut the regret is needjes . They will
not wish -llandall Belmont will not
'w.gh?to see me, to hear iyugiit more of
"fold,' after this writing sha'l ho fully
y in a city. My reeoV'b". and
very distinct about it.
The snarling, nioro.se laborer whom
yo i knew im Turn ilrvson, and who has I
gone to so fearful an aecoiiut was tlio
misorable wreck of my nohlo fathor of
those old days, Newland Wendell by
name.
Misfortune overtook him in tlio city.
He fell from h s high position in bu iness
and society, ho lost his wealth,
lie was onco tried for crime. 1 never
know correctly tho truo Htory of that 1
Bofrowful time, l?ut I have ofton heard
my father bitterly say that ho was far j
more sin noil against than sinning, and '
that Mason I'elinont?your own father,
ltandall - wai responsible for liis ruin.
And I have hoard him say that tho
elder I'elinont was tho merciless creditor
who stripped him of all his property,
when a little forbearance would
have brought him his duo, and made a
man again of tlio poor, distrossod
debtor. ?.
You, II indall, may perhaps know
where tho truth is in all this. I do
not pretend to. I only know that our
misfortunes killed my dear mother, and
that my father and I became much as
outcasts.
I have told yon that I promised that
mother in her dying hour that I would
always bo faithful to niv father, and
ever love an 1 obey him. That is true.
And you have wondered how that
a promise could constrain me to give my
hand to I dgar Van Wyck, whom 1 did
i ?...i if ...
miiui iw*u ui?vi <*t I i \> imill
J^VvT ?liil love 'yea, I may ns well confess
it), at the bidding of my father.
You might Well wonder. The roa- 1
son I gave you was not tho real one. j
Not but that 1 have been true to tho
memory of that saint in Heaven, my
own dear mother! Not but that 1 t
wished to keep the pledgo I had will- i
ingly given her in lior dying hour!
Hut she never foresaw how brutified
o-- her once noble husband would become
with the years. She never anticipated I
that he could become so cruel as to re- !
ipiiro me to wed, and not to wed, according
to liis selfish will.
No! There was .notIn r reason for
what I so strangely promised to do
for what 1 have, with o pial strange- |
ness, declined to do.
I'o you remember, liandall, when
you met me in the old house last October?
How you thought you had met
^ me somewhere before- how I coldly
W told you that yo were mistaken?
In fact, I recognized you at once, j
When I last :>aw vou in the eitv vou
wore fifteen years old, and 1 had not '
forg\>tto)i you.
Hut I dared not tell you so. Jt was |
not only that I knew that my fat I. . !
wanted to eon coal our identity; there ;
was another reason!
, And now, as the shadow of that i
dreadful csplanation obscures Iho char- |
aiders I am trying to w , I a]>peal to
you, Jtand all, to do ino justice. i havo i
done no wrong. {Sometimes it has ,
seemed t > mo as if woman never a if- j
fered as ! have; hut my burdens havo '
been laid upon me by others; I am j
innocent!
t'n that day, last (letober, you eamo I
to tie- old lions - with the o'lieers of the
law, to ion h for ebw.s to h dp yen
find your Cutler, wle? lull i., u oih'i
disappeared.
tVour feet trod on tlio very brink of j
discovery, and yon never suspected it.
The robber alid the murderer eonduett
d you abo it tlie house, and you
did not know it.
You walked through the sittingroom;
the money for which your father
was slain was thorp, secreted in the
closet.
You went down intb the collar. Your
feet stood above his buried remains!
But you knew it not.
On the night of that dreadful storm,
last August, Mason Belmont came to
that house for shelter. I admitted
him, niul knew him.
I was ordered to go to my room.
Thero was that in my father's demeanor
that 1 saw, thut the visitor did not seo.
It troubled me. Never had I seen him
look so wolfish.
1 < ame back to tho stairs, and listened.
1 heard him fiercely reproaching
your father for his misfortunes.
I wont to bed, but could not sleep.
Tho atmosphere of tho whole houso
seemed charged with violence and
crime.
I rose in the night, and partially
drewod myself.
U, Cod forgivo my wretched, mis- I
guided father! 1 learned of lib awful
crimo.
Spare mo tho painful rooitnl of all
that I saw and heard in those liiueous
hours!
At the peril of my own life (For I
knew that the murderer would have
sruck mo dead had ho deteetod me), I
saw lum burying tho corpse of his victim
; I saw him secreting the money.
And he never, to tho moment of his
death, suspected that I knew aught
of it.
Discovery was threatened, when he
learned that Edgar Van Wyek had
guided Mason I'elmont to the house.
Whother Edgar at any time suspected
tho crime, 1 do not know; but his silence
as to the presence of your fatlior
in that house on that night wus bought
by the promise of my hand.
What was I to do? To live with tho
dreadful knowledge that I had was
hard enough; was 1 also to aeo my
father go to tho hangman ?
That might have boon the penalty of
a refusal of Edgar.
Shall 1 spoak of the daily and nightly
horror of dwelling bonoath that
roof sinco that August night? You
may conjecture it; I <annot tell it.
Save for the tragic fate of the unhappy
being who perished in the destruction
of the house, 1 cannot regret
that it has been swept out of existence.
To mo it wo dd ever be a place of
horrors.
Now you know all. You know tho
life 1 have lately lived, the crushing
burdens I havo borne. You know why
1 havo avoided you, why I tiy from you
now.
Need I say more? Would you wish
for moro?
Well, let me go on. You are largo
of soul; yo a aro generous far beyond
tho power of most men.
Will you still ^irgo mo? Do yon re
yitcncc^WSi^tV "hnnM offer no
itamiull debuont, stop and think!
You conio of a proud and woaltliy
ancestry. In tho city where you live,
you are, or will be, known of all men.
You bolotig to its business, to its society;
high honors must bo waiting for
you in coming years.
Your wile must be one that you aro
not ashamed of; whoever she bo, her
history will be examined, questions
will bo asked and nnswerod about her.
And if 1 could occupy that place,
think how tho question, "Alio was
she?" must ho answered by tho horrible
lmt truthful word?, "She is tho
daughter of the man who murdered
his lather for monov, and buried hint
in tho cellar!'*
I'ecauso the story )nnst hocomo
known. < >ncc I thought that I would
keep it forever liiddeu in my breast.
But you seo why I am compolled to tell
you; and now, others must know it.
You luuit raciiyer the remains anil .
give them Christian unriul at your
homo; the wholo shocking story will
be known Umro.
Or, if not, how would it bo with
yourself? Would you 1 ke to bo face
to face, for life, with tho woman whose
father murdered yours? Could you
endure that?
r>o! more ib no escape irom llio j
conviction tlint, whoever olso may he i
joined together, wo two must ho for- |
over sundered.
Farewell, thon, forever! Yon have j
tried to make me happy, hut it cannot |
be. May God reward .von as you deserve.
I lov3 you too well to make
)ou wietched. Jessica.
(1IAPI Kit XXV.
CRACK
The stars were brilliant in tho night- j
sky of .Iune as she pursued her way. i
She took the roid away from A vies- j
worth, with the intention of making '
her flight as secret as possible.
She had formed no plans; slio had
no money. To put as much distance
between Kandall Jlehnont and herself
as possible was her eager dosire. He- 1
cause she had told him that she would
give him the final answer on the morrow;
that answer would be sure to
separate them, and she wished never '
to see his face after ho had read it.
In loneliness and weariness slio
plodded on till daybreak. Iter prog- j
ress was slow and painful; she was not j
really able to walk at all in this early I
convalescence, but her determination
Itnrn !?/?? 1111 and rtnvo !?*?? 1
...... .... ...... .V. ... . ..VMIU IIVH- ,
tious strength.
With frequent rests by tho way sho |
had at daylight accomplished about
live miles. She began to see then that
it would be impossible for her to con- '
coal tlio way of her escape. Carts ami
wagons on their way to Ayleswortii j
market frequently passed her. Some j
of tho drivers alio knew, at least by
sight, iwd she saw that there wore '
looks or\vdoniduncut at sooing her i
afoot and it. ?ne upon tho road ut such
nn hour.
When exhausted naturo within her
cried out for rol ef. she stopped bofore
a moan-looking houso by the sido of
the road. A h> dcrisli looking man
w! *4 l-'iMiog over the ga* , ?' - i |
I ?!"
"Can I stop hero a little while, ami |
get something to eat ?" she asked, in u i
hesitating way.
Ho stared at hor without removing
his pipe. |
"C'linno," he growled. "Who l?o
you anyway?"
Vl'lcftse do not ask mo, sir. 1 onlv
want, to rpfreau myself a little, and
then go on."
"Oli, you do?and you don't!" Bneered
tho man. "Got any money ?"* ^
She had to admit that tdie had none. ..
" Well, then, you go right on. Suspicious
characters without money ain't ?
my kind." c
'I'hn fnllrtw l.io 1?-?- r
* ?v?i V M ii?ii^iiv\i uv 1110 vnu i/i u
till it v, iind the distressed girl moved *
away. 1<
Sho hardly hnd tho eourago to ask '
again; but at the next house a pleasant
faced young woman, with three or /
four children at her heels, came run- c
ning out to her as sho passed, witli an fcj
exclamation of surprise and pleasure, h
"Why, if it ain't MiBsBryson! Where &
on earth are you going to at such a 5,
time of day? And on foot, too! Come
in, and tell me all about it."
Tho good creature had formerly been
hor nearest nei^Tibpr at the old house,
and 8lie reuiemborcd >uauj li?*lo t!
kindness that Jess'ca had shown her.
Tho wandoror went hi and rested *
herself, and nto and drank, wliilo the
woman nover ceased to ask her questions.
Tho girl evaded most of thein,
and such answers as she gave wore
very unsat sfactory to tho quostioner. |
"There's sotnethiug tho matter with |
yon, miss; I'm certain of it. You just
iako oil'your things, and stay with nie 1
awhile. * Somebody's boon trying to j
impose upon you; I seo that by 3onr
looks. Tell me who to send for, and
my .loo shall go and carry any messago
you want to send."
.Icssica rose in alarm.
"Tliero is no trouble," she said. "I
tliank you for your kindness, anil will
bid you pood-morning."
. Against the good woman's urgent
protests she went on her way.
Walking on until sho was too exhausted
to move, sho obtained a rido
with a farmer in a springless wagon,
wh eli hardly rolieved her fatigue, but
whi )h brought her tbreo miles further
on hor way.
Tho sun was now high, tho day was
warm. Until near noon sho wont on, I
weak, dizzy, feverish. She saw a i
spring by the roadside, and went to it j 1
to rolievo her thirst. Sho sat down j 1
upon a stone, intending to rest for n 1
few moments. When she tried to rise, t
alio fell helpless in tho grass. t
She could do no more; her strength j f
was utterly gono. Sho dosed her oyos, ' (
and wished that sho might ?lie hero. ] (
Tho clatter of hoofs in the road ,
caused her to open them. Tho vision |
of a great black horse appeared to her; |
she heard an exclamation, a sound of (
hurrying feet; an arm was passed about f
her, and she was held up a rainst ban- '
dall Helmont's knee.
"How cruel this is of you, -Tessica!" 8
iio said. "It is cruel to me; it is '
doubly cruel to yourself." 1
"How did you liud me?" sho asked,
heard of you all along the way, when I
l unoo got on the right track. Now I
shall take you over to that large house i
there, and havo you made comfortable i
till I can got a carriage and tako you
back to .Mrs. V?n Wyck's." (
"No!'' she said, sitting upright.
" You did not read what I wroto to you
last night,"
"Indeed I did; every word of it."
"And can you, after that, continue j
to seek nio?" I '
"Why should f not? Dreadful as '
tho story is to mo, shocked as I am to
hear the truth, why should you sutler I 1
more because of it? You are iuno- '
cent, as you wrote; you are all to me, 1
and more, that you ever wore."
ller resolution wavered at last. Yet i
she still resisted. | i
"You do not think of yourself; you
uiu nju (juiiciuuB, i?i nooio. .1 oil | J
would overshadow your whole life ]
with 1110."
"This is the last timo of asking, Jes- ,
ui?ui," Iscs iiuiil, with tleop Bolomuity# j
"I know mvself; no change was possible
in n>n iowai-J you ; nothing tiint j
you liavo told mc has cliunged you the ,
slightest in my eyes. Now, I will take !
my iinai answer from 3'our own lips. 1
Is it joy ? - or must it be woe?"
A senso of rost camo over her as sho
heard him. His arm held her up; she 1
lool.ed into his kind, serious eyes, and
saw there that which rejoiced her more
than the sight, of the green oasis re- j
joices the traveler in the desert sands. (
Sho saw a new lifo bofore hor, with all '
that happiness that lie had often pictured
to her; and she could no longer
refuse to eall it hers. And so she replied
:
"It is joy, dear Itandall; joy and
peace!"
itiik en .?j (
Smoke ami Ashes. J
l'ipo lines ?< >do to tobacco.--I'iflsbnryh
Chrunic'e T< Irgraph. 1
Ity legal decision now cigars aro a 1
drug. Well, sonio of tliem ure much
worse than any medicine to tako. ? !
I-as ton- Post. |
Jay Gould says he never smoked but j
ono tignr. We don't blame him if it '
was a two for-live. ? Hurling ton Free j
/ Ve.su.
It is assorted I hut smoking produces
selfishness. We always wondered why
a cliitnnoy was so "stuck-up."?Uraki 's
M It J <12 inc.
One of the hardest things which
youth lias to boar is a whipping on account
of tlio smell of some other fellow's
cigar in his elothos.? lint'liinjlon
Fre Pv< sx.
"Uavo a cigar, I'rcd? There's something
I can recommend." ".Inst so;
but, if it's all the same to you, 1 prefer
something you can tmoke."? Ponton
Trnnxrrijit.
N<> trait of character is moro valuable
in a femalo than the possession of
a sweet temper. Home can novor be
mndo happy w.thout it It is like tlio
tlowers that spring up in our pathway,
reviving anu cheering u?. l et a man ;
go homo at night, wearied and worn
by the toils of the day, and how soothing
is a word dictated by a goo 1 disposition!
It is sunshine falling on his
heart. Ho is happy, and the cares of
' '< !< c
SovK people *ce iu.i in .
Other people go down tlio lull lust,
enough without getting on a slide.?
S'tvici viII" Journal. (
Notiiino is over done beautifully '
which iH done in rivalship, nor nobly 1
which is douo in pride. I
THE NEWS* ]
Daring a quarrel on a farm near Spring*
leld, Mo., Franklin Davis shot and killod J-j
Suoi RusielL? Northern Iowa la threatmad
with a coal '-famine. Honry Bosh, a
Ireman on the northern Pacific Railroad, T
eceived (49,000 damages for Injuries sueained.
Miss I,aura Linton, a maiden
?dy of Camden township, Ohio, was snot
or a burglar while walking in har sleep.
?The Motboiist Episcopal Church of ^1
Lmerioa has dot I do I to build a sectarian C(
o I lego in KanssB City, Mo. Albert Paul p<
mith, manager of the Chicago Clearing- ut
ouse, fell dead in a street car. Qottlelb
lutur^a civil eiginoer in Newark, N. J.? cc
oininidlk suicide during a fit of iusanity J'j
roduce<^hv the InQuenzrotts, the no- m
>rioo9 u.TMoinei "lejrcber^WM sjntoncod Bt
j three years in ths igiiitonUsry.?ilirrr ,n
[cCrno>"--?? <-?
rith highway robbery X-j^/ |?ossibfe murder, br
scaped from the Bloomiagton, III., jail. eo
he United States spugoing torpedo boot No. jM
was launched at Bristol. R I. In Co- o,
jrabus, Ks., a boiler exploiod, mortally pi
rounding Albert Etrfe, the proprietor, aid llj
laybury. the engineer. Five desperate 'J
haraolers, charged *vth the murder of Cou- |n
table Long and wife iu Ghiyandotte, W. Va, is
rrrc captured in Kentucky. Tho National
Vomau's Christian Temperance Union, a jn
on-partisan organization, was organized iu gn
Cleveland, Ohio. Wilkes, the antl-Lithunian
loader au 1 his followers, who created
' riot in the Polish cemetery at Wilkcsbarre* pi
invo been arrested. The buliotin of the ^
American Iron oud Steel Association shows
, gratifying increase in the production of w
>ig iron, especially In the Southern States. Ui
lurry Pellzer, of Reoding, Pa , was struck q(
n'.the head wiih a h itchet in Steubenville, fa
Ohio, and killed. -While lirin ; at a target d?
iear Bjrdner killed a !"
nan-..u 1 w
arnitr, living noui i Jot^borg, N. C? was u
bund murdered on the tyirhway. In Chi- ai
ugo Nicholas Mayer shothis wife and then
lommitted suicide. Henry M. Jacksou, o
,he paying teller of the New York Sub-treas- tl
iry, who ran away with $10,003, was s?n- ^
enced to sit years' imprisontmnt and to
>ay a tlno of $10,000. -Mrs. Maggie Clarke, c
,ho wife of Valentine Eugeno Clarke, a noted 1
info blower has appealed to ths Chicago '
jourts for a divorce. Tin libol suit e
jvor the grave of Mary Washington ended i
wit'.i a verdict for tho defendant. Adam J
h'orepaugh, the groat showman, died in Pail- l
ide'phia. A boiler ozploMon at Murdoch- I t
ri It*, l\i., caused the death of Mrs. Burns. ?
ruree others wjro terribly scald id. In (
Morwnlk, Ct., Mr. nnd Mrs. George Com- (
stock, nnd near Chicago Mr. nuu Mrs. bred- *
?rick I'ayng were killed while crossing tracks (
it thosi jointr i
Geo. Louusbery, ^cashier of the New York ,]
PostofflcekUte^tig^^lf^^i^^counts^weir^j ^
killed andV$tyMk?4ftlly injured. Jen.
nie Dean Re>iioils^yln actress committed
suicide in NewT^oi*. Miners in the anthracite
region have determined to demand
twenty per cent, increaso in wages.Jas.
G. Hetz.-l, of New York, was arrested in
Philadelphia on a charge of bigamy.
Louis L. Bromwell, president of the Cali- (
fornia .lusurauce Company, was shot and f
badly wounded by George C. Pratt, manager
o* the company, in San Francisco. Oyster ,
packers at Laurel aud Seaford, Del., and |
CrisHeld, Md., And it diAlcult to get oysters (
owing to the cold weather. John Brockert |
and Elward BrowD, Ililtiinoreaus, with i
long criminal records,pleaded guilty ut Pitts- 1
burg to eight chargos of burglury and one of j
felonious assault. Their crimes are enough t
to 6end them to the penitentiary for seventy- >
Ave years. Two Chinamen and a woman *
named Mamie Sweeny wore found dead in a i
laundry in Biugliamton. Death was caused t
by inhalation of cblorino gas. The Syra- 4
j \
noted since the arr_ ^9fl**ho oold wave. I
Gio. \V. Shepherd,thx'^Atndant in the Mary ' |
HI?Ul .... I
?? uauiugiuii truvo case, uas presented the i
ground in question to tho Mary Washington ?
Monument Association. Tho Ohio legislature
has adopted in both Lraucbes a joint J
resolution iavoriug Chicago for tho World's t
Fair. Col. J. Cirrington, proprietor of 1
tho Exchange Hotel an i liallard liousi in
Richmond, Vd., is dead. Ex President j
Cleveland wrote a letter to tho Merchant 1
Tailors' Convention r.-luting to the turilL '
WORK AND WORKERS.
Xn liana farmers nro organize], au.i do?i ,
with one store, ullowiug ttio o.uier 10 pei 1 ,
cent, prolit. I
Buffalo newsboys struck because tha penny i
evening papers ruis.d their price from 00 to t
1>J cents per 100.
A bill to increase the day's hours of labor '
aud one to nduca them have been intra- '
duced lu the .Ma?saclnnvi t? J.ogiumture, '
Tho Working C? rTs Club of Jersey City
has cl issue in the study ot dress-iuakiug,
millinery, cooking, music, dauciug unJ
embroidery.
In Chicago an orJiuai.ci has been proposed i
for the lionising of engineers. It provides i
that t.ley sliuh Ue ixiiniiiod in the trade, |
an I must have habits of sobriety. i
New York Central engineers get 33}{ cents 1
par hour, conductors tio cents uud brunciuco *
10 cants. Too switcbman item in | 10 cents 1
per hour lor work over twolvo hours per j (
day.
San Francisco molders got $3.5J for a tenhour
day. The union scale for iimo hours is '
$ 5 One Ann tried to have them work
nine hours for l.V lint hist, n ? '
?- - - - - 1 ? n"'?U) uuu
tho ton-hour ilay was adopted.
A concern in Now Orleans which msnu- | ?
fac urcs lur^o quantities of ico has oir -red ts i .
furnish uriilLnal ice to Naw York, provided i ^
tho winter continues s> in.Id us to make ths i f
natural ice crop a failure. j ''
In England printers average $10 a week in {<;
wages; hi Oermany tuey average $1(5) a li
week. 1 i Knglun 1 the,city laborer, not a 1 ft
skilled workm in,^.yW;es $1,60 a week; in ?
France, $l.S?; in ><*? ?^?y, $1.
The c ilorod lulorsftTound Athai?-r
liavo struck. Tue wbiM^jeopIe have securod
no labor fur the ensuing>*ear on their fnrins, ?i
und the situ ition isbagtciing to look tqunlly
for thein, as thi negroes say they have no j i
intention of going to work for the whites. I c
Tno Central Trades Council of Western | ^
IVnnsy.vania will ssnd a special circular to \ .
all local uulons of American Flint (ilatd ,
workers not yet represented in that body. .
In the Ohio valley toe lliut glass workers arc
among tho strongest hud best locals attached
to the Ohio Valley Trades Assembly.
i
William Oiwell Tjfvingatono,third and last
b irvi viiigso.i of tho fOamousAfrican traveller,
died recoutly at 8b Albans, Englan 1, shortly
alter lie had diotated\a congratulatory letter
t > S anley. Mr. Livingston* was born in
you h Afr.c?,
1ESTITDTI0N IN DAROTi
lorrible Suffering in Nineteen
Counties of South Dakota.
honiianilii of People In Weed of the
Unreal Wpenstnrle* of MTr on Account
ol Poor Crop*.
A gentleman who baa just riturnod fiom the
ortb west, brings with him a tale of horrie
suffering and destitution in nineteen
unties of South Dakota, gathered from
oplewhobut recently bavo been eye wit?sses
of what they so graphically describe.
The stricken area includes the following
iunti?s: AlcPber.-on, Campbell, Wallworlb,
Jmunds, Potter, a part of Brown, Spink,
yde, Iiatid, Beadle, Ciark, ICtngbiiry,
iner, Dividson, GeralJ, Fork, Hughes nud
lllv. K. E. I'jxtoi. a w.-ll-tn-ilo hiiiiiiniu
an of Cuiea^ii, who has spout soma d iyi iu
ie f HI cted distrio, says;
is reduced FRose fnrnierty~welT-TlN"iIi)*f6TC
in lllion of direst distress. Many Ihousunds
f mii ilios are entirely without rn-uns of any
nd. They lack the wherewithal to purchase
u Uecetsiries of life, whilst tho ominous
acard confronts them in every storo where
ley oiico had credit:?No trust given, goods
Id for c ish osly
Mr. l'axtou dehcril od the condition of tho
lople iu the Kingsbury and Miner count es
Inart rending. In the latter county they
ivo uo 11 ?ur ; iho st ipie of life being n budly
ound corn men!, an I there is a deplorable
sufficiency of that. Every farm is mortiged,
In mauy ensog for more than a saie
idor present prices would realise. Most of
io stock has been levied oil an 1 sold by tho
leriff at public auction, tho ridiculously low
ic s obtained being eloquent, not only of
le starving condition of lUo cattle, but the
arcity of uioans in tho community?cows
tchiug as low as $? each, horses $8 to $10,
hile s'icup and pigs are simply unsalable,
lere being nothing to feed th un with.
One mau had a few miserable chickens left,
I what, two years ago, was a woll-stocked
irm. The worn in and children bear evisncos
of t'lo liardships they have undergone
i their pinched and meagre faces. In many
stances they are unprpvided wiih clothing
lib WhtcU to witbsiutid the rigors o: wiu(i?
what thmy uo ? ^
n<i worn-out condition. 44At one placet 1
ud Mr. I'axton, "I taw two children wulkig
with their te. t wrapped up in pieces of
Id blanket through the snow. They told mo
tiey had uo shoes for many months. I lifted
he youngest up?i girl of 7 or 8 years?she
a lillle bitter thau a skeleton.
' The raili oads are naturally doing ad they
un to keep people iu the country. Tboy live
n hopes that a good season will set many on
heir leet again. They have done much to
bloviate thesulleriugsof ihe people from the
ixtreine co d, by tho gratuitous distribution
if coal where it has been most needed. In
nuny instances iue nanus uisouuve lurouun
0 foiclose mortgages out o: slieir pity.
Provisions of any kind. Just now, would be
1 godsend to thousanis who arj in u semiituivinir
condition. Unless relief is given
with a liberul hand this \N inter in South IXatota
vou will hoar of many deaths from absolute
starvation, and the reports will undoubtedly
have foundation in fact.
Mrs. A C. Cevelanl, of lt?uiond, S. D.,
i> mil run Mr. Pax ion's story of the widespread
Jest tution prevailing, luis lady is now in
Minneapolis, where she is making heroic oiler's
in behalf of ihe sufferers, uuu says llour
..^.iri will try and inuucs
FLOODS FOLLOW THE SNOW.
Rivers Overflow Tlicir Uauks?Sec?
lions of'California Iiiuudutesl.
The warm lams that have ialiuu in XS'orth;ru
California for the past two days buve
melted a large amount of snow in the Sierra
Nevada and Siskiyou Mountains, aud caused
the streams and rivers to overflow thoir
junks. The ruin ou ill j mouutaius bus now
reused. The damage will not be as great as
eared. Tbo quick risa iu tbe waters bus
tvashed out uiuuy of the railroad bridgts,
ailed the cuts and caus.'d laudslides, aud the
railroad tratiic ou ail the lines in tue uorthrn
portion 01 the stale will be impeded lor
itv.rul days. A number of Hooded poiuts
eport taut while tuo individual loss will be
;reut, the overflowing of ibo lauds, by which
teveral inches of r<cli sodim.-uts is lo.t oa the
arms, will add greatly to its valuatioa. At
die city of ISiu Jess the \vtiler is higher thau
>ver before kuowu. At Santa Clara the
jrinciple thoroughfares are covered with
<ues of ra Iroad operate between rtuti Fran;ibCOan?J
n Hi Juar, no ir?*inn ?ro ai>iu to uiavv,
iwiug to uio wuauouts at Santa Cruse. 1 he
,vuter reached ills highest point ever tnoivu
md ovei flowed tout portion of the city ueiovv
B ui o I reel. At immigrant Cap, in tlie Sierra
Neva la Aloun a in, wuere luo two through
rains are imprisoned, tlie ruin began lading
ibout noon but ch uiged to suow during tuo
ngnt. Tne W'estei'u Union lineman report
,bat the deepest s low is in the vicinity ot
1'uinarck. For more tbun u mile not a teie{rapb
pole is 111 view, und it was necessary to
lig a trench tnrougu tne snow more tnun
.wenly feet deep in order to tree ilie wires,
t'roVisions are Very scarce at Uinigruul Uup,
iil l it tlie road is i.o; opened, it will be neces>ury
to bring up supplies on snow-sLioes.
At Cnico, ui t.ie Sacramento Valley, the
sncrameiito river is over its buuks, ana it is
1 Hiding tao entire country lying near it. It
s estimated tual it is lltleeu teet higut-r than
t wus uuritig the last llood. At It Hiding nod
It d lllulf, near Ilio headwaters ot the Sucameuto
river, the water ha. begun to submit*.
Severn! sections of Alexandria Valley
bridge, ill* largest bridge in tlie county,
mvo beouswi p; uw y. 1 berivir sproao over
in area tf live milts ill width. At a point on
Urv Crock it j iins tUe ltissian river. '1 hreo
lines south o. llealdsuurg it became n lor eiit,
11 loinig the it,j Creek vain y lor many
lilies. It lief parties were out in ooats, rescuing
people iroui their houics. Two houses
icar tlie river bank, were swept uw.iy, one
ireaking to pieces i.s it struck lli-e rauroid
iridge, while tlu oilier, a two-story bundii.:,
is lo l?e 1 against tuo bridge. At Kuigiil's
Kerry, on Stumslaus river, forty nines soutii
if Stockton, the in-oplo began moving out of
beir houses, in the lower j o.tiou o1 tbo town,
)wii.g to tbe 11 jo J.
MARKETS.
Bai.timouk? Flour?City Millu.extra, s 1.3.1
14.50. Wheat?Southern Fultz, 7S.i>-0:
>>rii?Southern White, Chilli cts, Yellow
U! Oats?Southern aiuB Pennsylvania
Mudlct*.: llyo? Maryland X Pennsylvania
IVa.WcUi.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania
? 50af Id 00;Straw- Wheat,7.50a$5.f>0;Buttor
Cistern Creamery, 'MaSB&c., near-by receipts
JagOctx; Choose-Eos tern Fancy Cream, 10 V
11 cts.,? Western, lOalOJ^ cts; Eggs 14
15; Tobacco Leaf?Inferior. Iaf2.0d. Hood
'ntfro ro.i.oulli; frw^^Hing.fiaT.OO Uood j
NKW ,Y"H^.7r^^wS-NorW>?it5ft"*
"iciitC state 67a0P Corn-Southern
s ?gras!22S32f
J,a4.75: VVliettt?Feniwylvainft im'l
BAI.TIHOnB?HMf, 45l?4 7J,8h?P
75,7 (?;8h?,p-?4 50
a4fi0;Hogs?*3.90n4'20. . 8hoop?
Fast LiBKRTT-Boef?m 35a4 50, When
|5 70*5 00; Hog*?M Wo4 10.
ADAM FOKEPAUGH DEAD.
The tircnt Nhvwiimn Ntic?wn?b? to
I'ltviuiioiilii. ^ p
Adam Foropaugh, thi veteran circa* mannger
baa just (lied at li s residence In I'blla- 13
delphia. He lias been ailing for some time,
and was attacked u week or two ago with A t'n
tlio prevailing intluetiz-1, which tbreo or four n I
days ago developed into pujumonia. Ho
leaves a wife and 0110 son, Adam, Jr., who A f.
his been assisting him for several years, and Wilki
who will succeed to his immense circus prop- Lunili
erty. to di^
cut til
Adam Forepaugh was barn in Philadcl. u(
phia on February 'JS, IS1I, and liogau lite ns .
a butcher boy at a salary of # I per month rott
and his board. At the age of sixteen he ran two k
away from home aiul went to work for John (je?
Butcher, a butcher in Cincinnati, where lie . ..
remained for a year aud n-bulf, receiving '*
$50 for the first raonih, and $100 a month the aolgs
dealer, and, rctuiii.g to Pbiladelph a, he was from
in tte butcher business up to lSfs, when he wliicl
embark d in runu ug singe lined, and eoa- wind
tinue.i therein up to 1874. TUi
While in tho omuilms business, Mr. Fore- piece
pnugh dealt in horses and cattle, mid bought u ow
ami sold in one year ns tunny as 10,000 horses. sky w
Jn lHtil he told to John O'Brien, who was aud,
running a small wa.on show, sixty-two drop]
horses tor $0,000* and took as part payment groin
au interest in the show. At that time lie u(0.i
had no idea of embarking in tbo busimss, injur
but visiting O'Brien's show in Pittsburg, he p use
purchased the same, at the same time ouy- | ugon
ing Jerry Malilo's menagerie uud combined \Vliei
ti e two, forming the tiueleui of the grout diggi
Furopuugh show. This cost him $4-5 000|and i.nd t
was del v.-red ti him on th; day of tiu as- Ke|
sussii at.cn of Atrulum Lincoln. is the
Mr. Forep nigh was an eminently practical
man, giving his personal attention to his 1
vast businets. Tho minutest thing did not C-i
escapo his attention. Oi tin two huudrtd jealo
horses used iu the procession and in tbo ring, nn?l <
he kuew thorn all, and cou'.d boll at a glance Chici
when and where they were purchased and culm
the amount pi 11 fur the same. Wealth did tie
not allay his ardor nor abate his Industry, erna
for ho worked early and late as hard as any ioair
JHniw^nLu.V*ifti-in.i.. ai I
bis establishment, and seemingly kuew overy his
part of the paraphernalia and lis proper Intel
place. It was his lioi 8t that he owned and . mini
exhibited more will animals r.nd possessed lenri
more show property thin any other siugld goin
person or firm in the world, ami it is a ri? pure
J murkablo fact that ho neversufiVrodu finan- enle
ci*l reverse, but during the p ist twenty five who
years has steadily inarms Ml liis fortune. Is was
is supposed that ho was worth over $1,000,000 shot
liis real estate possessions footing up over the I
a-half u million. I>ed
nur ii * nr?\/ rnIt n! rc moil
i nvr. nrtrri tuurLt-o. r.vu
K r.
Tlioy .Mot nt One Allor lo Kzctinnjte Jf8u
'1'lioir nnrrlAjfo Vow*.
A reiuarknblrt quintuple wedding look
place a St. Alpboiuo'd Catholic Church, in T?
Davies county, Kentucky, at nine o'clock tha ^
other morning. The contracting couples wore
Mr. W. B. Hall and Miss S trnlt Ho'tiiison, two
Mr. (1.L. McDonald and Miss Mutlie lirogun, I jojj
Mr. Ivo V. Thompson and Miss Dora Bland- j( t
ford, Mr. Thomas C. Aslier and l'ladgio mcr
B andford, and D. M. Coonihsand Miss Mti . ^us
'^rffifrfcg1BbJitn.r nj a tfotnUimme^
all neighbors and intimate frlonds. Tho |
Misses Blundford are sisters, hut otherwise
there wero no relatives uinoiig the live cou- ...
pies. The parish priest, Father \V. J'. Mc- j ^
Carthy, was called ujon to olllciate, und u'm
learning that tho young people expected t) t|le
marry at dates near together he made the .j yo
proj osition that one gran I ceremony lop r '
lormed. The idea was a pleasing una toad }of
Ihi young ladies, ami, of course, was accepted
with many blessings upon the gooJ priest \
w ho had suggested such a rout iittic plan of , j
celebrating tlieir nuptial <. Tito hail us were
accordingly read out tit the little | ar.sh
church and great was the am iz inoniotMiiost ^jtl,
of tho congregation when tho live announce- .pue
meats were made together. . oj'f
The day ua>u beautiful one, mild and clear, ^||4j
and people canto from fur and near to wit* frol
uess the ceremony. opol
The live brides, all dross-d alike, c una in j^r8
ono carriage and the live grooms in another. ^ q
Th re wore ushers hut no bridesmaids. All ?|e,
took thoir stations before the alter uud after rool
I uud unusually long and impressive coretnony tj10
had boon gone through with Father McCar- (u0
ihy celebrated nuptial high mass attd blessed sjau
tho kneeling couples.
Tho young couples afterwards were given
* grand reception and then went to their rewooing
t. without i paf- Col
Itol In the hitterv of tho Htate. and th? met
Hint all felon - Wg-ooj "rannllM of el>o ooui? '
Condition cl life of vtv remarkable. &l
1,1 an i
MR. RIDDLEBERGER DEAD. t.bi
? rubl
' 'lie I.ns( Hours in tlic Kx.SriiH(or'<i lJju
Event till I.IIV. Woa
Ex Senator li. 11. Hidd.obergor died atU .'l) j,u0
o'clock in tins niorn.u^ at Ins bo no in Wo id- com
stock, a. He was > own town for tlio lust time ruin
tli'o Monday before Christmas. He was then bivi
taken sick, un 1 took to bis beJ, from which
lionevtr arose. E irly in bis sickness there mon
was evidently a marked f uluro of tlio bruin, at V
and when not unconscious entirely bis speech bogs
was incoherent. Ho was attended by Dr. I'ot.-i nier
Jlelew, his iatiier-iii'luw, and 1).-. Arthur "'C >
lielow, his broiher-iu law, both oi Klniburg, i uiii;
live nidos south of here. Mr. K udieborger pom
was greatly prostrated in the beginning ot nil uury
sickness, and torn week preceding Ins deatb tra i
whs entirely unconscious. tb ?t
Harrison H. Kiddieberger, of Woodstock,
j Yn., was b >rn in Elenuurg, Siieiiundouti | u?t0i
canity, Va., on October 4, 1311; received a j ?r 1
j coiiiaiun school educ itio i, mid Hud u lioius ; H""
preceptor lor two year.-; served llireo year# atel
in tne Confederate States Army as si-con J
. mid i.rst lieutenant of infantry an las cap- able
1 tain ot cavalry ; was u lawyer ny profession C tu
' serve I as coiinnoiiwealth's attorney of lui uicr
county tor two terms, uiso two terms of two
! years > ach in the House of I > dog a es and oil; O1 i
| term of lour your* ill Hie JCato o-.*n it ; sine j ' nud
i 1870 ho has been oilitor o; ' > newspapers. Tht will
'y'riil/i //i'i/wii lli('8;r'iiiiiuluali /li'iiiyci'iiliiinl ! port
j J'he \'ii<jint in; was a inoino-.-r 01 too .State j C'.ii
I coinuiilkoj ot tuo Conservative puriy until [ i"_|s
ls7o; wus u ITesidontuI elector on ttio Djon | 1,7j.
eratic ticket lit 1870, and the ssitu on the I bust
KeudjusU-r ticket tit 188). l i the yeur 1881, ! Tot
while serving us commonwealth's ultorney j
juid .Stuto senator, ho was eleclc 1 to tbs j aim
(Jutted Kates S_>uutj m a Ko.uljustor in p act j ^ 1
ul John W. Johnston, Cons rvulive, und took j csln
Ins pout o:i iJecCTubor li, 18s3 JI is term of oi- ' und
lice c.tpireJ on Muicb 4, iss'J. j uur
' ? I wen
ONE HATFIELD CONFESSES. *? ?
Wlul
Dlllton MiOiiitN Nnys Hp iVns <'ouij?lled free'
to Murder Aleiere )lc< oj . lied
Ellison Mounts, or llatfleld, as be is bettor oc.*u
Itaowo, one )* JJattleld gang of t
outlaws, is J~ni
the murder of XlefcMMc?,9y!wMomWeHIIC**-ir ,,0"?
New Year's night, 1888. He has professed | Tl
r iligion and bus written a 1 tter to one of the 0(1( ,
newspaiHTS here, confessing his horrible ( lluI1
crime nit I deoloiing that lie was forced to ( 8tc ,
| commit murder by 'Hal ' ho -ie 1 C?
During the attack on th> McCoy home ,lll4J
stead, in which the girl was killed, her aged bpo>
father and mother were wounded and left for
dead For inontbs th y lingered between life
and death, hut thoy llnnlly recovered and will
witness the infl.ction Of th punishment upon Co
* at least one of the men who tcox the lives of hei
I l'""tloniits'is< Hit ignorant wretch and did not dw
leurn to read and writ? until after h? was put
,n jail Ho relate, a ptUHl ?tory of bis no- va
' glocmd life.
OYER THE WM
Vemature Explosion of a
last Kills Five Laborers,
bluet Mnhrr'a JciiIoiim.v Kml* In
Idiiblo TrnKcdj-.tnnlbt'r Suirltlv
Duo to tlio 4,rl|?.
itnl l)lnst explosion has just occurred in
;s county, N. C. For so.no weeks on?
roil lalorers have been at work trying
; down n small mountain nnd make a
irough it for tho Wilk -sboro extension
i Cap j Four and Yadkin Valley It dlThey
cau.e upon a big rock and placed
;ega of powder in poutiou to blast it.
wgo lleudlcy was adjusting the fuse and
isamstimo carelessly putliug away on
wolte. lie was almost ready totouob Ore
^o^l|[Mett)'i!id IpilWii tho powder,
li in an instint sent up an explosion
i jarred the earth for nines arouti 1.
> rock was sent dashing up it. a thousand
s ai d an ? nliro si le of tho mountain was
n up. Several men were sent whirling
rJ, riding on pieces of tbi broken rook
falling, they were soon buried by the
ping mass. Some were knocked to the
ml mid killed by rocks and dirt falling
llieiu and some escape 1 without any
y. It was twenty minutes alter t.io ex>n
hef'.<? *? the smoke p is-ed away and the
/.ing cries of tho dying were heard,
n tl.ot- wbocsatip -d unhurt got to work
ng out the dead it was lound that live
leeli killed.
ports say tliirto n are hurt .muong whom
i siip r.iiteudent.
til I led Ills Wile mill lllmsoll'.
rried away by an apparently senseless
usy, N.eho:ns Meyer murdered his wife
ben took his own I feat their home in
sgo. M-yer was "7 years of age uud a
letinuker by trade.
>yer is said to have had an almost angovbio
temper, and this, aided U a morbidly
klUL diMUUMilion. freiiuentlv threw III in
MM giWT Ii?M?
wife of rclitioiis witu other mon, and
y he bec.ims so suspicious tli it he deter-d
to waloti her. lie did so. and what be
ncd will never be known, but instead of
g to work, be weut to u liaril ware store,
ha-e?l a revolver, and went home. Meyer
r. d the house uu 1 weut into the kilckeu
e lli iio was iu worn, wnue uer i u;k
turned to him, ho drew tho w?a|ioa ami
h r. Tho bullet struck tho wotnuu near
left our, going Into her hruin. tilio dropto
tho lloor and nevor *|h>'co uiruin A
tent inter Meyer put tho muzzle of the
Ivor to his left eye and pulled the trigA
hole was blownulmost clear through
i tad, and h dropped dead near tho form
is murdered wito.
t'iro Wipes On I a Village.
lolittlo town of Utiou, Id., numbering
) people, which wus so usarly *?ipjd out
Iro last Muimnur, was again visited by a
it 11 LUi st ol II mi TLvo lire started ut
o'clock A. M., burning with groat fury
several h >urs. 1 no dimes broke out iu
gliliu's bai bor shop, and, before tho villi's
were fully awakened, had spread with
edible rapidity, etivolop.ng ibo entire
nets district, lluildings mat had replaced
ruins of a few months before burned like
wosE shie' oH'n"?tre'jt"was a' siee?of
uo<. Tlio (Iro department, unable to copa
h such a vast calamity, stood powerless,
could do nothing but send to O.tawn and
alio for uid, which coul 1 not, arrive in
e to save much that I a 1 b on attacked by
11 mice, winch were dually choked olT uc
o'clock. Six now busiuesi blocks, erected
n the embers of tho disaster of Ju >t sumlie
in ruins.
nntlicr Suicide Hue (o the <>rl|>.
ottlicb Mulzer, u civil engineer, of iN'ow,
N. J., committed suicide diiriug a tit of
porury iiiittnity, produced by la grippe,
z a 's body present id u ghastiy spectacle,
inau lirsl made an atlumpt to kill himwitti
a razir, but failed. Au hour later,
while a physician was present, he sprang
n bud, seized a table knife mid hacked
a the wound, which had been dressed. A
. 8chussier, who was present, attempted
isarin tlm crazy inau, and u torriblo strugsiibued.
Dr. W. 11. C. Lee was also lu the
u, but failed to render any asdstauce to
WittiiMii Tint Hi) ir i\* f hit ir) irii in w'tinli
tragedy occurred resembled that of a
filler-bouse.
state"of ? r
d Weather Produces ? Improved
bpncrnl .Moventi-nt In NtMplm.
iscial telegrams to lirurtitroet'* report '
inproved demand for staple goods, noV
dry goods, grocerios, toots and shoes,
bor goods and clothing at Cuicugo, He.
is, Kansas City und Uinubu, due to colder
tiler. Saoiv blockades on the Central
tile and other railways on the l'ucifio
>t for ten days past, with continuous
is in that region lor a month previous,
u seriously checked general trade there,
loroisodyu fuiriy active crop movet
in ih S null, coiilinu d decreased shipts
uy planters being reported. Lumber
/csleru centers is s!ow. l'rtcos of Jive
i aro reported higher ut Kansas City on
ease 1 ileiuand, but lower ut () naliu und
sj jis ou increasing rec ipts. The volot
g uieral trade lor J aim try at many
its is not expected to (quid tbat of Jan,*,
IS*'.!. At .New Vorii, ilio volume of
u in l.irm products this mouth exceeds
in January, 1 iho uiovoiiieut 01 boots
slices aooiit equaling that ot a year
Willi tru to in ouiur lines r<i| ortud ie?s,
iiusp-Citied. i'lie iiiovoiiieut of goods
ru.iy is fuir. Collections aro modery
satisfactory.
in weekly report to J! mil si reel's of availgr.nn
stocks in the U<oiod btules und
adu, ivnl of ilie Rocky .liouiiluins shows
easisol l.'.blo/.IJ.'i bushels ot Indian corn,
lb bushel* of barley un 1 ti. lbj bushels ot
decreases ot I,Jib,dbO ousiieis of wheat
JSI,bl7 bus io.s oi oits, as compared
i U.-couioer three Weeks ago. iSx*
,s o. wiieuI {ma II iur us wheat) uoin the
l... I Sir . r..^ .... I l I.. . - ... -
u??>v<> U<?1 v/iai.i.uo I<v/a i/j uiiui kv/ja?,
week aggregate1,SICJ,.00J bushels, against
l,,tMi busneis lust week and l.SJl.lVij
iojs in tiio third week of January, 1.VM.
I exports J uly 1 last, to dule equal 00,K7
Lush.-ls uguiiist .07,000,000 bushels 1U
;o portion of i v5S 'fyj.
cry heavy blocks oi Hour in Now York,
ii a tod ut iroin t>Jj 00J lo 1,01/0,000 barrels
kicks with indnf.ront iioin > uuti loreigu
kots, depressed prices. Wheat options
i oil % iI%j on irregular cables, Heavy
is mat Kcw and the weather favoring
Ler wheat.
ill in corn has sulTorcd depression from
uioveiueiit au l light deiuand, but ralon
unproved export request and lower
n freights, closing Jj'a^o .ower. Oils
up ou brisk uouie and foreign 4
-" i Hii-rfiruur Wstsb rn markets...NqW S
h^jpdu.fa ,n '?.JVU,Wd O|IV.UK>ui?Q
i, siig.'r iinirket hnl'W^I
uiougn oil a smaller voiume of irauaacs
111 r-fliued, uud prices remain ubout
,iy. Tuo week's advance in the prices of
o is aoout >Bo., tucro liav.ng ooen nil
/roved movement in private ouaiiue s. In
;uialivo linos trading lell away.
1 An-it Cloo" I^inzton, of Now Hartford,
an., the huinblo but patient anil ojjjjjj.
of a story that was populur
v schools and religious societies years ago,
!d la,t week of the prevailing ^
e was l.oru in 1812. ??'. bet-am , an m
lid when sho was lft Veins old ai l ro
lined bedriddcu all her diys. tor 0i >oar?.