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A Ovetumtalitial Evidence,
•
And Englieh laWYea once sad that °haunt.
stientlea, eviaenee would. hang the King of
Eugland. While\ that wee putting it pretty
dams, it is samitted that a them of ow.
ouumtantial evidence has often sent men to -
the gallows. If a circumstance eau be ex-
Plainetl meaty', ita is but a ehadovv. If it
Demob be explained away, it becomes a
menthe te• the prate:ear's life. A without
may be bribed, abducted; or impeached. A
siteninstanee is a lion in the path demand.
Ing blood,
It has been often &seethed that inntment
men have been hung on oircumetentiel
evidence. There may baire been nob in -
themes, but they have been rare indeed.
In my own experience in law and detective
work 1 have seen some ourioue things about
oirounistantiel evidence. It is, in one sense,
bhe strangest chain which can be forged, in
another the very weekest,
About, twenty yeiars ago I was detailed on a
murder OEM in a Kentucky town. lt was not
to work up the case, but to save if posoible
the young mom arrested for the crime. When
I got the facts and details I felt helpless to
aocomplieh anything. Ile was a young man
of 23, named Graham, and was of respeot
able family. He had been engaged to a
young lady of the highest respectability.
but they had quarrelled about something.
• Common friends had brought about a
• Think on These Things. reconciliation, but a new suitor had appear -
It is Maui said that we are "the creatures" ed upen the ethane and Graham'e jealousy
of habit." Oar habit of thought hes a had Provoked another quarrel. He had not
great clod to do' with our °hamster and visited her for two weeks, when on the
irileence Our thoughts are, of mune,
determined by our natural disposition and
temperament, bub in regard to them, as to
everything dee, it is the truth that, con -
sideway or unconscionsly, we form the
habits whioh regulate thein. In the eitay.
going, pleasure.loving spirit which takes
possession of moth of us we are apt to
forget that there is going on within no
a silent foroefal growth of ideas and ten.
denotes whioh will gradually gain an as-
cendancy over us, and become the masters
of our lives. We are what our thoughts
are. It is therefore ot the first importance
that our habit of thought should be elevate
Ing, and that the subjects upon which we
dwell should be those which will raise rather
than debase us. The great letter -writer who
had the care of the churches upon him under.
stood this a very long time ago, and in his
Epistle to the Philippians he emphasized it.
It was a true love -letter that he wrote to
those people, in whom he had great ioy and
satisfaction and for whom he wished the
- best and highest blessings. There are 1380-
*, and Paul mint have known such., in
whom there appears, to us a homely phrase,
" nothing to begin upon," and it seems
rather hopeless to try to make excelient
cheese:tem out of them ; but to this class
the Philippiens did thrt duly not be.
long. Taey had proved themselves Chris -
Harts indeed; they believed in Christ and
suffered for Nis sake; •they loved Paul,
and he loved them so much that "in every
prayer of his for them, he made his request
with joy." They were indeed, so good that
in seemed possible that, they. shoald reach
the perfection which he desired for them;
and in order to this, he told them what sub.
jeota they were to choose tor their contem-
plation and reflection. "Finally, brethren,
whataoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are
jot, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of
good. report, if there be any virtue and if
there be any praise, aka the9e things "
Paul knew that if they did their whole lives
would, in consequence, be more beautiful,
more helpftel, more altogether Chrietlike.
The advice hi as good for ne as for those
members of the Philippian Mural), and quite
as nectheary to tzs as to them, for we, too,
need to watch our thoughts. Especially .to
those who are young and who desire to ruie
to the eminence which is truly Christian are
the apoatleie words to be eommended. "Bat'
some will perhaps say, "We cannot help our
thoughts," Oh yea indeed we can. All
sorts of thoughts may dash into the mind;
but the disciplined heart will so ignore those
which are wrong that they will soon pass
away. ,Guests will present themselves at
our doors, but we may either harbour them
or send them from us. Evil thoughts will
not stay unless they receive a welcome any
more than good ones will. We may choose
bhe inmates of our hearts and minds as cer-
tainly as we may select those who are to be
the inmates of our houses. It requires some
decision of character and energy of purpose,
eit is true, to think only of the things whioh
-are virtuous and praisdworthy ; but where a
mania mister of himself it can be mann.
eplished. • will elect to think good thoughts,
to be inberested only in excellent things, to
examine into the characters that deserve to
be imitated." •Whoever 00MOS to that reso.
lution asking for that help from the All
•Perfeet One which is never denied, will have
• "gotupon the up grade" in very truth, for he
will dwell moat ,Of all in the pretence ot the
• Christ who is Himself the personification oi
everything that is loaely and of good report.
Whv He:Li.ates Kids.
"I hate kids," he Field wibh & tinge of
bitterness in his voice and a look of regret
in his Gym,.
II why
"I think they ought to be locked up in
'nureuries or asylums until they are old
enough to take care of themselves. 11 15
hadn't been for a kid—well, it might have
been "—
"What ?"
" nova this kid's mother. She was a.
•'rich and beautiful widow and I was madly
in love with her. 1 was actually contem-
plating—in fact, I had just arrived at the
poinb of putting the deliethe quelition. We
were in the drawing -room. l'ihnever forget
' it. The kid Was playing in ti corner. For-
e getting all about that I pub my arms fervent-
vly arcelnd the widow's waist and implanted
a Via= kiss upon her lips, when the kid
started up and rushed at me. Don't yo0
kill my mamma,' heshouted, and ran scream-
ing into the kitchen calling for the eer-
tants."
" That needn't have"—
' What ? Marry a widow with a child like he Meant robbery, bub was fri htened off. I
evening of Saturday, Oct. 30., one of Gra-
ham's friends met him and said
"Your rival is up at Loasing's and seems
bound to out you out. Adele seems very
tweet on him:
Graham truly loved the girl, and this
speech made him wild. He turned pale,
trembled, and finally said:
"He is an adventurer and an interloper.
Let him look out for himself 1"
An hour later he started for Loosing's. He
'passed several people who saw that he was
exeited. The house stood back from the
road in a grove of trees, and was approathed
by two paths or drives from the front. Gra-
ham fully intended th enter the house, but
when he came upon the grounds his courage
failed him. • He Was afraid he might say or
do something rash in his present mood, and
very sensibly deoided to return to town
and defer his oall till the next day. • Next
morning his rival's dead body was found on
one of the drives, about half way between
the house and the fence. He had been
struck down with a bludgeon. Conclusions
are always jumped at in murder cases. Two
of the negro servants werceat once arrested,
but before noon they were set at liberty and
Graham was taken into custody. The chain
already contained several links. °them
were added the moment he was arrested. He
was dreadfully agitated, hesitated to ace
knowledge that he had been near the place,
and a blood stain was found on the right
sale of his vest. Before he had been in
jail one day even his own father believed
him a murderer. He Wa8 examined and
bound over, and it was only after that event
that he began to protest his innocence. The
girl who had been the cause of it came nobly
to his rescue. While she truly loved him,
she had been willing to make him jealous,
and when murder had ammeaefeltaras she
believed, sne felt terrible conscience stricken
and anxious to belkve in his protestations
of innocence.
let:, .arreated Ijm. entire/114M eith the ooSsrit *km'
crune, and he did not Ilia ova fifteen minute. His motive was robbery. He did not John Powers, of Midd1etowu N. TP# NO,
Intend to kill his victim, bob only to stun eleven, has become a raving Manion freiti. the
him. He had just etruok him when the (jogs effects of cigarette =eight&
barked greetiog to Greliatt, and, overcome The Weshington gorrespoedent of the New
by sudden fright. Foster dashed away and York " Herald " loelievee that no teriff
will pan the EMUS this session.
Orders heve been issued on the Pennsyl.
vania railroad that no freight, except perish,
able, shall run in future on Sundays.
dared not return. He thought he had only
to keep still to render himself safe, and, but
for my being present when the eaddle was
foutd, he might never have been suspected.
Graham was cleared and Foster WAS hanged.
The change had been brOught about by the The people of Missouri on Monday voted
foudling of a dog, on a constitutional amendment, giving the
The second case occurred ip Obio, in a Legislature power to establish lotterleo.
town not fer from Cincinnati. A young man, Many members of the Vietnese aristoorsey
Frank Meyero, had beeome infatuated with a have been swindled in buying braes filings
doubtful woman. The affair created a than -
dal, and his father and Mende made every
effort to break it up. The young male was
finally brought to see the error of his ways,
but when he attempted to sever the tie the
woman tiought to hold him by threats. This
angered him,
and he indulged in ROM hard
talk of whathe would do in oese she further
annoyed him. Thus matters stood when he
set out one evening to see her and make it
lath attempt to settle. It was a summer
night, and they were seen walking in the
eaburbs of the town. They were overheard
in angry talk. She defied him. He return.
ed home pale and exoited, his olothing dis-
arranged, and his face bleeding from
wretches. An hour later she was found
dead, choked to death.
• Young Meyers was arrested at midnight.
He did not even assert his inumence. It
was only on his examination that he protest-
ed, and even his own father believed. him
guilty. I happened to be in the town, and
the way I came into the case was by relating
the inoidents of the one I heve already sear -
rated. The prisoner hinmell sent for me and
bold me this story :
"1 mob the woman Mrs Albrightby
appointment. We walked out on Clark
avenue to be alone. I told her that my
mind was firmly made up to see her no more,
and she WM very angry. I should have
returned with her, butat the little bridge
she ordered me to leave her, threatening to
do desperate things if I did not relenb by
the morrow. I did not return by the high-
way, as our meeting was a secret one and
I did not want it known. I crossed a corn-
er of the graveyard, fell off the fence as I
did so, and there my face was scratched by
the briers.
"But you hardly denied your guilt," I
said.
• "Because I was confused and stunned by
my arrest, and because I saw no me of it,"
he replied. "1 have told you the truth.
I want pm to help me prove myself clear."
I left him with the feeling that he was ly-
ing to me, and that nothing could be done
in his case. Ten or twelve days had daps.
ed, but there had been no rain. I went th
the bridge, crossed the creek at the point
he told me th, and soon came upon his trail.
At the graveyard fence I found a broken
rail and the spot where he had fallen. I
found the briers broken and mulled, and
from the thorns I gathered several small
fragments belonging to the suit he wore.
Furbher on he had stepped into a ditoh
where mud was soft at the time. It had
now dried hard and preserved the print. I
measured it, and when I returned to town I
had begun th believe that Meyers was
eithera good talker or an innocent man.
His story Was all right in one sense, but al;
wrong in the other. Did he make the teal
while leaving the woman alive or dead?
An old saying always goes with an arrest:
"If he didn't do it, who did ?" Somebody
mud be held responsible. After two or
three interviews a oh young Meyers and his
parents, I doubted if he could have choked
the woman to death. He was frail and in
poor health, and she was robitt and strong:
She had scarcely struggled at • all, proving
that she had been attacked suddenly and
that the grip was a terrible One. Her neck
was discolored as well as her throat, proving
thin) two large hands had been employed.
However, no suspicious characters had been
seen in the neighborhood, and the murder-
er, if other than Meyers, had made his
escape. I was completely blocked, and
could only hope that accident would help
me out.
Ib had been said that the body had not
been robbed. The only theory seemed tio
be revenge. 11 15 was not Meyers, then
it was some former lover, and I went to
Cincinnati to make inquiries. On the way
up my watch stopped, and my first call
was at a jeweller's. • I had nob been in his
place guy seconds when in walked a stout
strong fellow, who laid a lady's watoh on
the showcase and said:
"lam going away, and 1 want to sell thia.
It belonged to my wife, who is dead."
"We don't buy second-hand we.thhes," re-
plied the jeweller, but he carelessly picked
the watch up, examined it and then said:
• "This is one of our watches. I remember
selling R two or three months ago."
"Fes," replied the man, reaching out for
"Let's aee the mote," continued the jew-
eller as he went for a book.
" Never mini," replied the man, "11 you
don't want to. buy, very well. I'm in a
hurry,"
"Sold th Mrs.. Albright of Baia the
jeweller, as he handed it over.
"The woman who was murdered 1" I said
to the stranger. "Were you her husband ?"
"N—,yes 1" he stammered.
"And you have nob been near--? That is
strange 1 You will go with me in the pol-
ice."
He tried to draw his pistol, but I was too
quick for him. The police recognized him as
a bully and a degraded character, and inside
of half a day I had established the fact that
he was formerly talover of the murdered wo.
neat. Then I trued him to the depot and
on the train to the village, and later on found
two villagers who • remembered seeing
him there that night. When I had got him
reasonably sure 1 confronted hint with my
fedi, and he broke down and and made a
full confessone He and the woman were
bleeding young Meyers. He had come out to
see her that night, and he had found her on
the bridge and quarreled with her. She was
desperete and defiant, and in a fit of passion
he had choked her to death. Re had stand
the watch but left all else, and so the Cor-
oner's jury lead been mieled.
When I came upon the ground, the State
had its case all worked up, and when I went
over it to look for a Raw 1 could find none.
I had to acknowledge that I Was without
hope. Indeed, I believed Graham guilty.
His own expleatationa rather strengthened
Shat belief. Lossing's house faced the east.
The highway in front run north and south.
The lawn was twenty rods wide, and one
drive led in from the north and the other
irom the south end. Graham approached
from the north. He would naturally turn
in at the firth drive, but he olelmed to have
gone on to the second. He followed it to
the house, tmesea easure paiyed for two
or three minutes with the dogs, and then
circled about the fish pond, and took a short
out across the grove and struck the road,
not hittirg the north path at all. •The dead
man had come from the village as well, soil
on foot. He had oozne and attempted to
return by the north drive.
If Graham was innocent, who wes guilty?
• Not the slightest suspicion had been direcia
ed elsewhere. Di 'seemed hopeless to look.
I questioned and cross•questioned him, but
he amid not give me the slighted foundation
for a ohm or a theory. What I got mune by
accident. I asked to see the blood-stained
clothing, and 1 found it to be e single daub
of blood on a white vest. It was a curious
mark, such as I had never seen before and
when I quietly investigated further f dis-
covered that the murdered man had been
struck on the back of hie head and fallen
forward 011his taco. 13e had very thick hair,
and while the blow had crushed the skull,
he had bled but little. The blood would nob
spurt from such a blow. The body had not
been lifted, and so how did Graham get that
blood stain? Accident gave me the know-
ledge. I was looking the ground over at
Lossing's for the foutth or fifth time, when
one of the dogs came and leaped upon me in
O caressing way. Loosing observed it and
remarked ;
om Pan was always very fond of Gra.
ham, and I believe she mimes bim. • Here,
Fan, let me look at your paw. Ah! it's
about as well as ever, isn't, it ?"
"What ailed her paw ?" I asked.
"She got a terrible cub on a piece of glass
a few weeks
"About the time Graham was arrested ?
di
"Then it was her bloody paw that made
the mark on his vest that night 1"
"Good heavens, tat it Must have been I"
I had a due and a hope. Eveeything
ofianged in an hour, and I now believed Gra-
ham innocent and went to work to secure
proofs. I poeted up to Louithille and exam -
hied the pollee records for arrests.
lowed a score or more of eases to their Well,
but got nothing. It was my belief that a
white mate committed the crime, and that
for Russian gold duet.
It is alleged that the Armor of Afghanistan
is beheading 300 persons daily for interfer-
ing with frontier traffic.
One American manufacturer of baseball -
employe 000 hands and keeps 40,000 dozen
belle in molt.
A diamond of wonderful purity, weighing
210 carats, was sound at the Jagersfontein
mine in South Africa, on Christmas Day.
The greyhound Happy Hirondelle 18
thought to be the best dog seen in England
canoe the memorable wonders Master Mo.
Gratehwssinnd thembigiPchurches in New York
have averaged ten per oent. higher this year
in the re -renting.. Salvation is free," but
fitelsionable religion comes higher.
"1 have an account) of a big lancielide'" said
the new reporter. "What head shalt I put
it underV' Put it uuder the 'Real Estate
Transfers,' "replied the Saake Editor.
oopoia Pevt.soff is about to start to take
up the exploration of Thibeb, in which Prjev-
alski lost his life. Joseph Martin, a French-
man, will soon attempt to enter Thibm from
the side of Pekin. •
There aoe nob over 100 men in England
who follow the Prince of Wales in any
fashion of dress. Indeed anything and every-
thing is fashionable nowadays anywhere,
and nobody is obliged to follow.
The gilded rooster on the tower of the
First National Bank building in Portland,
Me., is the same bird bk at served aS a weath-
er vane on the top of the old Portland Court
House over one hundred years ago.
There is a National Foot Path Protection
Society in England. Its object is to resist
attempted encroachments on footpaths or
roadside land. It has fifteen branches and
a membership of several thousand.
The New york "Herald" says: "The
word 'pants' should be annihilated; every
mit-respecting person should India on the
nee of 'trousers' instead." All right—when
a dog getswarm he trousers.
that 1 But the worst came a few nights
after, I called at the house. There were
several ladies there, and the kid was being
petted all around. Of comet) the widow
was all right, hub that cionfounded boy ao-
Iiberately turned his book, 1 didn't mind
Shat, but the mother, th be nide, said t
" I Yon darling child, don't you know Mr.
Smith f"
"'Oh, yes,' said the imp, with devilish
impertinence, Oht Teo, / know you ; yous
are the man that bitedmamma the other
night.' 1 need not—could not desmibe the
effect, What's the reason I hate Icicle,"
The St. Clair Elver Open,
SAnAgAf Idaroh 14.—Navigation is now
open the Whole length of the St, Clair river,
The Atriericat paesenger steamer Mary, of
the elver line, left Pott Huron at five o eloek.
Sattitday afternoon fee Aigonao anti way -
/Mete, atid will oottinue to make her dielly
Apo, leaving Port Hetet at 8,30
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Mr. Macdonald, manager of the London
Times, has resigned.
Rev. C. 0. Johnston, late of Hamilton,
has been invited to take oharge of the Meth-
odist Church at Calgary, N. W. T.
Many French anarchists have removed to
Geneva, and their presence causes the au-
thorities considerable uneasiness.
Rebt. Johnson, B. A., of the Presby-
terian College, Montreal, has accepted the
coal from St. Andrew's church, Lindsay.
returned to the village audio° ed everybody
over, but got no satisfaction. The day of
the trial was coming and I was in despair,
but accident came to my aid again, I hap-
pened into the hotel barn as the landlord
pulled is lot of rubbish out of a stall. Aid -
den away veal 15 was a fine Saddle, and as
it was brought to light the man exeleimed
"Bless me, here ie the dead man's sad-
dle 1"
"Was it missing ?" I asked.
't It Was stolen on the night of his murder.
That% the reason he event down to Lossiog's
on foob."
Who stole it ? What for? An °Molder,
Who ethic the game for its worth would
have carried it off, An inskler only. would
have stored 15 10 the stall, Who wait ttnside
A white man and two negro Resiiiitints.
Within an hour 1 had atieertabied that the
white naafi Whose name was Alder, was
absent for an hour on the evening of the mur-
dee, and 5105 since 10 bad acted vorY queer.
Ur. Meier, the founder and manager of
the North German Lloyds steamship line, is
dead.
It is stated that Sir Edward Meld, British
Ambassador at Berlin, will represent his
Government in the Samoan conference. '
The weaving departments of 50 mills ab
Fall River are poetically. closed and 6,000
weavera are idle.
The Qaeen has approved the appointment
of Sir Julian Pauncefote as British Minister
to the United States.
A boiler in the Cleveland rolling mine
exploded, killing two men and injuring a
number of others. •
Miss Eliza Prosser, of 100 Manning aven-
ue., Toronbo, was struck by the C. P. R.
express at West Toronto Junction and in
-
steady killed.
Albert Wilson shot and kiled Miss Sarah
Marshsil near Watford, because she declin-
ed to accept his escort.
A landlord of county Clare named Creagh,
and his sister were shotat on Sunday byun-
know parbies. Both were bit, the lady's
nose being shot off.
The completion of the C. P. Re through
St John, Nt B., is to be celebrated by a
great display., in 'which athletic games will
bays a prominent part.
Dangers of Electric Wires.
The question of telephone and eleotrio light
Wires to becoming an important one, and our
°Rio euthoritith are with in their evident de- injures the digestion, impairs selteion-
sire to give it a full consideration. At Bal-
timore the other day a telephone wire purred, trol, deranges the temperi enfeebleo the
and ono end in failing was °aught on ee whole nature, unfite a man or woman frona
decade light wire, over vvlfieh it hung sir; making to the beet effect thole:, efforbs which
pendect. nearly rethithig the pavemenb. wo aye necessary to rescue them from the very
Some ono wrapped ft , omoumstances which are the bane of their
get it out of the way
around an iron owning pod, soon after existence and under the stress of which they
wards two clerks, employed in adjOinirig
are so apt to say they "cannot help worry -
stores, met and were conversing near this
The Bin of Worrying.
One of the hardest lemons in the, school
of life is the avoidance of worry. Some
scholare learn ib much faster and more
thoroughly than others do. Indeed they
NM to have been born without the capacity
of worrying, a,nd those who have not been
so forbunate are sometimes disposed to deny
that suola beingeare etibitled to any oreclib
for their philosophical behaviour. Oilers
never seem e,ble to learn the lessonat ell,
bub have to wear the dunce's cap for their
obtusenees to the Sad Of the chapter. The
LATEST FROM EUROPE
The " Times" Case—Affairs on the Conti-
nent —Is a fitonn Drawing in. the
,
The collapse of the London Times's"
CASS hes not been brought about without
bitter dissensions inside the °hole of ita lege
promoters, Sir Henry Jarmo, who had
managed to preserve better relations with
his former colleagues and to keep open a
eater line of retreet that any other promi.
nent Unionist, be furioue now with the At.
tonney-General for dragging him into mph
O ruinous fitioco, and ib is believed to be due
to his vigorous protethe that it ha o been de-
ckled to bripie the ease to a conelusien.
Although it OPAGOil he said that an actual
war ootgO Provoail on 'the Contaueut, King
deeertiou of his poet in SerVia has
created an excitement) which inorethee
rather than diminishes. As the ()risk which
his aob had produced is studied, it meana
the return of Nathalie in triuraph and the
restoration of the PareSlavist Metropolitan,
Michael, aod the oomplete control of the
Russian party. St. Petersburg papers in
exultation declare that Prince Ferdinand in
Bulgaria, and even King Charles in RIO -
mania, must be similarly cleared cub with-
out further delay, and, in truth, it looks aa
if both would have diffieulty in riding out
of the Slavic storm whit* has suddenly be-
gun to rook the Balkans.
So far as Europe in general is ooncerned,
the most immediate. point of danger is Bos-
nia, which the Summits regarded as belong-
ing to them and in whith it is only too like-
ly that a state of turbulence will be created
whioh Austria will have to quell by foroe.
Oath this step is taken all the fat will be in
She fire and the Russian legions will be set
in motion forthwith.
The very fatit that for the first time in
five yens we have got into Mooch without
any war alarm may turn out to be. a part
of a shrewd Muscovite plan for a huge con-
quering stroke. • For the moment it is suffi-
cient to indicate that this is a fundamental
change in the situation. Whereas, up to
She present the preservation of peace de-
pended on B,ueshas unreadiness for war, it
will henceforth depend on Austria's willing-
ness to pocket affronts from her little neigh-
bors and her ability to handle a Slavio up-
rising within her own borders so as not to
give a warlike pretext to Russia.
• •
'How Jun lidleladged a Stranger.
"Yee, I'm in mourning," said the man,
as he carefully removed his hat and gazed at
the pieoe of crape which hid the band. "It's
for my brother Jim who was planted about
five months ego.'
"Sick long ?"
" Nob a !Mania"
" Acmidentally killed, then ?"
"You might call it accident, but it wesn't.
It was a 0088 of misreading human nature."
The man tenderly brushed some dust off
the crape,
pat on his hat, and after getting
good andready started out with :
"Me and Jim had a ranch on the Repub.
Roan River, out in Eames. I didn't amount
to innoh; bub Jim was a dandy. Could judge
a hearer a steer a mile off. He could size a
up a man as quick as you can halve= tipple.
Didn't know what fear was, and the Injtuis
was as afraid of him as death. I've put up
a 8300 monument at his grave, and you can
•judge by that he must been a pretty good
man."
Well 1"
"Well, late last fall, when we had a
stook sale at the ranch, a sorb of tramp came
along and gob in Jim's way. Jim run over
him and they had some word& The tramp
•wetted to fight, and the boys put Jitn up to
skeer the liver out of him. I'm free to say
didn't like the feller's looks. There was
sumthin' baok of his everyday look, which
had a gleam of danger in it. Jim sized him
up for a runner, and when T said the chap
Would fight Jim whispered:
"Pate, ye never knew me to be wrong.
I'll skeer hitn till his he'r loosens ab the
roots."
"To make a great spread of it), the boys
fastened the two together by their left arms
and gave each a bowie knife. They thought
the tramp would back water when it came
to the tying, but he didn't. He was thee
and didn't even turn pale. It was agreed
that they should fight at the word, and the
word was held five minutes to let the tranip
wilt. He stood like a rock, and Jim eould'im
batik, you see, withoue losing character.'
"And they fought?'
• "15 wasn't much of a fight. Jim was as
handy with the knife as any man within a
hundred miles, buil he Stood no show in tbat
rumpus. The word was given, the tramp
made a lightning motion, and the next
thing I see was Jim, dead on the grass' his
head out almost off. Thar' waen't butone
lick struck." •
• "Ansi—and what 7'
"Nothing, much. The tramp ontied his ,
self and walked off, as cool as a bar'l of ice,
and we pleated Jim. on a knoll back of the
mule pen."
" What did the crowd say
"Said that my brother had better stuck
to reedit' the ohmmeter of mules and deers,
and let strangers alone, and I agreed. I'm
in mourning fue Jim, but I allow that he
great minority of men and women manage bit off more% he could chew, and he
to learn the lesson more or less perfeetly shouldn't. a done it. Crape looks well on
after ,spending more or fewer years in the mouse -color, don't it? It's a reminder that
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admit that there cannot be any intellectual Both In Hard Luck. •
and moral condition that le eci tebtiolutelY •
melees, That it never made the future a This etoryopeete on the third Boor of a
bit brighter if it loeked gloomy, nor in the raagnificent Harlem compartment houee.
He had been twisting about on his chair.
slightest degree atoned for the errors of the trying to ono wards to express his undying
past, is admitted by all. Indeed no eerie devotion, and lead already begun to. hem
person could deny ite And yet how prone
most of us are to indulge in it more or leo. and haw, . when a voice. came from the door
Our reason tells US it is foolish and even sin- below:
ful, that it ie vain and profithise, and yet we "Miss Candlewick," it Said) "I 10VO you
passionately—madly: bid Me but hope. and
indulge in it I Nowhere surely could a more
convincing proof be found of the weak and anTtieetiaalt aq°1bOrnflaonfzelnyfolifethwe iyllounh:ntageet:
unnatural condition to which roan has been
forgetfulness of God, or dietrust either above.
reduced by sin. For certainly in its eMence iimiga okra, darling," he said tremulous-
' f i i Pl
Worrying is either an evidence o ent re iy, ocher, a my „otim„to.
Then another voice mime from below:
of his Yeillingness or bis ability to help "No Mr. Goatee, / cannot bid you hope; I
us and provide for toe Worry is al,
ways weakening. It Reim the brain, love another."
"And them's mine, Mr, Dearth)," remark.
ed Miss Clara,—(11arperis 13aZar.
poet, and accidentally came in contact with
With tile reoult that berth wete knodked
doWn lay unconecione on the Sidewalk,
The Rt3aSen Why. ,
The citerist Was a sprightly youth,
" Why Would a bather tether ehave three
Four Foolish Boys Burned.
Aknole, 0. March 14,—john Greely,
John Costigan, Will MeGinnis and Prod
Shralk, aged about 16, stole some blatiting
powder and started inth the oeuntry to ex-
plode it. On . the way it caught from
matcheo in the pocket of one of them and
explodirigi frightfully burned all four. Otte.
10110 ley was fairly cooked from the waist down
and it was fully tWci hours before they re= and the 'tie& hung in directs. tte will die.
covered their senses. Surely there is enough Irishmen than one German ? asked he. Fred Shralk'ii arm was baked and torn,
of preventive talent among our electrical • " Von give it up? Of (mum% you. do. Well, side Nova blistered and his clothes burned
engineers to eteelee ieniee mane by which the beeause he'd get forty•ilve cents from the from him. He is in a oritioal condition.
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A Starved Life.
I mean the child who used to come home
from his pkiyiellowd houses, bright with
chrysanthemums, and watched by some dig-
tified, devoted dog, when the tail of the
pet bird rang out between the i games, and
entering, his own staid, well -kept home, ask
piteously' of his mother, " Why can't we
have dowers and birds like other folks ?"
"They are too much care," was always the
•answer, and the poor little life grew up
starved for want of pretty things, a cross,
unlovely. ohild and yonth. When means
came to his hands, however, to upend • for
his naturally good testa the change was
notable in his looks and disposition. The
soured face reflected something of the beauty
with which he surrounded himself, the arch
of the bre* lifted, the eye beamed and ex-
panded, graciousness taking the place of
dissatisfaction. •
' You can not put human nature under en-
tinuil strain and denial, to, have any hetplth
or beautytrom it—least f all in a child.
Hamper children,cross their personal lik-
ings only wi
hen mperative. If poseible,
make their likings your own, so far that
you cross your own pleasure in (ironing
theirs, and lot them see that you do. If the
girl sets her heart on a blue and gold Long-
fellow edition in place of the white vellum
you prefer, grant her choice graciously, and
let the boy wear high -colored neckties in his
teens, when crude color delights his untam-
ed eye. They will gob over these immure.
cies of tad° soon'but they will not get over
their confidence in the love that WAS indul-
gent of their whitne.
Parents wide a fast link to a child's heart
when by preocoupation or carlessness they
lode the chauce of sheltering him from fright
and plebe Children suffer terribly from
imaginary fears when Mono or in the (lark,
atel the °rugby whioh laughs at them. or
thole thein over to their thereto unfeeling,
is never forgotten. Never to show them
anything frightful, in nature or mt, ohould
be Of one of the cannons of a fami1. The
way their fanoy reduplicates anything hor-
rifying is akin to dolirliiin.