further that the 9th being a red letter day in my life being
the day on which my dear wife passed away
and I have understood that all those over 60 year of age was
exempt from these things. So I shall be extreemly obligid if
you could free me this time answer by bearer will oblig
your respectfully
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[Illustration: AFTER A BAD DAY'S GOLF.
"HERE WE ARE AGAIN."]
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CONTINENTAL INTELLIGENCE.
An extraordinary domestic tragedy is reported from a remote
province of Poland. A beautiful young woman, named Vera Alexandrina
Polianowski, who had been married only about two years, was expecting
the return home of her husband, a sailor. During his absence of five
months a mournful calamity had befallen her in an affection of the
larynx, which threatened to deprive her temporarily of the power to
articulate. Realising her impending affliction, she had taught a grey
parrot, which her husband had left with her, to exclaim repeatedly
from just inside the door of her cottage, in joyous accents that bore
no inconsiderable resemblance to her own once melodious voice, these
touching words, "Enter, dearest Vladimir, and console me for my
misfortune!"
It chanced, however, that before marrying Vladimir Polianowski, the
sailor, Vera Alexandrina had had a lover in poor circumstances named
Vladimir Crackovitch, whom, with the thoughtlessness of a beautiful
young girl, she had encouraged to get rich as quickly as he could
in America and then return to claim her as his bride.
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