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Circumstantial Evidence.
And English lewyor once eaid that eiroum.
etantial evidence would hang the King of
England, While iamb was puttingit pretty
etroug, it is admitted thn i chain of pin
ournetantial evidenoe has often on men to
he.gallows. If a oircuinatanoe can be ex -
°Mined away, It hi but a shadow, If it
cannot be explained away, it becomes a
menace to the prisoneraz life. A whiney
may be bribed, abducted, or impeached. A
eirounistanoe ie a lion in the path demand-
ing blood,
It has been often asserted that innocept
men have been hung on circumstantial
evidenoe. There may have bean such in -
stemma, but they have been rare indeed.
In my own experienc) in law and detective
work I have mien some ourioua things about
circumstantial evidenoe. It is, in one sense,
the strangest chain whioh oan be forged, in
another the very weakest.
About twenty years ago I was detailed on a
murder ease hoe Kentucky town. 10 was not
to work up the case, but to save if possible
the young man arrested for the orime. When
I got the feats and details I felt helpless to
accomplish anything. He was a young man
of 23, named Graham, and was of respent.
able family. He had been engaged to If
young body of the highest respeetabilicy,
but they had quarrelled about somebhing,
Common friends had brought about a
reconciliation, but a new suitor had appear.
ed upon the eoetuae, and Graham's jealousy
had provoked another quarrel. He had not
visited her for two weeks, when on the
evening of Saturday, Oat, 30., one of Gra-
ham's friends met him and mid:
" Your rival is up at Lossing's and seems
bound to outyou out, Adele seems very
aweet 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 P'
.An hour later he started for Leasing's. He
passed several people who saw that he was
exalted, The house stood book from the
road in a grove of trees, and was approached
by two paths or drives from the front. Gra-
ham fully intended to enter the hone°, but
when he came upon the grounds his courage
failed him. He wan afraid he might say or
do something rash in his present mood, and
very sensibly decided to return to town
and defer his call till the next day. Next
morning kis rival's dead body was found on
• one of the drivea, about half way between
the house and the fence, He had been
-truth down with o bludgeon. Conclusions
are always jumped at in murder oases. Two
of the negro servanta were at once arrested,
but before noon they were set ab liberty and
Graham was taken into custody. The chain
already contained several links. Others
ware added the moment he was arrested. He
was dreadfully agitated, hesitated to ac-
knowledge that he had been near the place,
and a blood stain was found on the right
thie of kis vest. Before he had been in
jail one day even hie own father believed
him a murderer. He was examined and
bound over, and it wan only after that event
that he began to protest hie 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 come of it, as she
believed, the felt terrible conscience stricken
and anxious to believe in his protestations
of innocence.
ly. I arrested him, charged him a ibis the LATEST FROM EUROPE,
crime, and he did not hold oub fifteen min -I
utes. Hie motive was robbery. He did not ,
intend to kill his viobim, bub only to dun'
him, He had jeab struck him when the doge The '"" Oaso—Affairs on the Conti -
barked greeting to Graham, and, overcome
by sudden fright,Foster clashed away and nent a Storm Brewing in the
to keep etill to render himself safe, and, hub The collapse of the London " Times's
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dared not return. He thought he had only Balkans?
for my being present when the eaddle W105I oiteo has nob been brought about without
found, he might never have been euspeoted,„
dieetheions ineide the circle of its legal
Graham was cleared and Foster was hanged, I "1''''er
The change had been brought about by the, promoters, Sir Henry James, who had
fondling of a dog. I managed to preserve better relations with
The !second oath matured in Ohio, be a kis tomer colleagues and to keep open a
town not far from Cincinnati. Ayoung man, I
Frei* Meyero, had become infatueted with a safer lino of retreat than any other promi.
doubtful woman. The affair mooted a seamlnenti Unioniat, is furious now with the At.
dal, and his father and friends merle every tooney•General for dragging him into midi
effort to break it up. The young man was l a ruinous those., and it is believed to be due
finally brought to see the error of hie waye,1
but hen he attempted to sever the tie he
to his vigorous protests that it has been de.
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woman sought to hold him by bhreate. Thisaided to bring the vase to a conolueion,
angered him, and he indulged in some hard Although it cannot be said that an aotaal
war ware prevails on the Continent, King
Milan's desertion of his poet in Servla has
created an excitement whioh increases
rather than diminishes. As the oriels whioh
hie ad had produoed is studied, ib means
the return of Nathalie in triumph and the
restoration of the Pan-Slavist Metropolitan,
Michael, and the complete oontrol of the
arranged, and his face bleeding from Russian party. St. Petersburg papers in
exultation deolare that Prince Feidbnand in
Bulgaria, and even King Charles In Rou-
mania, must be similarly cleared out wibh-
out further delay, and, in truth, it looks as
if both would have diffioulty in riding out
of the Sleek, corm whioh has suddenly be-
gun to rook the Balkans.
So far as Europe in general is concerned,
the mese immediate. point of danger is Bos-
nia, whioh the Sermana regarded as belong-
ing to them and in whioh in ie only too like-
ly that e state of turbulence will be created
whioh Austria will have to quell by force.
Once this step is taken all the fat will be in
the fire and the Madan legions will be set
in motion forthwith.
The very fact that for the firth time in
five years we have got into Marob wibhoub
any war alarms may turn out to be a part
of a shrewd Muscovite plan for a huge con.
quering stroke. For the moment ib is euffi.
tient to indicate that this is a fundamental
change in the situation. Whereas, up to
the present the preservation of peace de-
pended on Russia's 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 Slavic up-
riaing within her own borders so as not to
give a warlike pretext bo Russia,
talk of what he would do in ease she further
annoyed him. Thus mitten stood when he
set out one evening to see her and make to
last attempt to settle. It was a summer
night, and they were seen walking in the
suburbs of the town. They were overheard
in angry talk. She defied him. He return-
ed home pale and exalted, hie clothing die.
scratches. An hour later she was found
dead, ohoked to death,:
Young Meyers was arrested at midnight.
He did not even assert hie innocence. It
was only on his examination that he protest.
ed, and even kb own father believed him
guilty. I happened to be in the town, and
the way I oame into the case was by relating
the incidents of the one I have already nar-
rated. The prisoner himself sent for me and
told me this story :
"1 met the woman, Mrs. Albright, by
appointment. We walked out on Clark
avenue to be alone. I told her that my
mind was firmly made np to see her no more,
and she was very angry. I should have
returned with har, but at the little bridge
she ordered me to leave her, threatening to
do desperate things if I did not relent 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 °reseed a corn-
er of the graveyard, fell off the fence as I
did so, and there my face was soratohed by
the briers.
"But you hardly denied your guilt," I
said.
" Bemuse I was confused and dunned by
my arrest, and because I saw no use of it,'
he replied, "1 have told you the truth.
I want you to help me prove myself olear."
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 hsd elaps-
ed, bat there had been no rain. I went to
the bridge, crossed the oreek at the point
he told me to, and soon came upon kis trail.
At the graveyard fence I found a broken
rail and the spot where he had fallen. I
found the briers broken and crushed, and
from the thorns I gathered several small
fragments belonging to the snit he wore.
Further on he had stepped into a dish
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 to believe that Meyers was
either a good talker or an innocent man.
His story was all right in one sense, bub all
wrong in the other. Did he make the trail
while leaving the woman alive or dead?
An old saying always goes with an arrest:
"If be didn't do it, who did 7" Somebody
When I came upon the ground, the State must be held responsible. After two or
had its me all worked up, and when I went three interviews with young Meyers and his
over ib to look for a flaw 1 could find none. parents, I doubted if be could have choked
I had to acknowledge that I was without the woman to death. He was frail and in
hope. Indeed, I believed Graham guilty. poor health, and she was robust and strong.
His own explanations rather strengthened She had scarcely struggled at all, proving
that belief. Loosing's house faced the east, that rho had been attacked suddenly and
The highway in front run north and south. that the grip was a terrible one. Her neck
The lawn was twenty rode wide, and one was discolored as well as her throat, proving
drive led in from the north and the other that two large hands had been employed,
from the south end. Graham approached However, no snapioious characters had been
from the north, He would naturally turn seen in the neighborhood, and the murder.
in at the first drive, but he defined to have er, if other than Meyers, had made hie
gone on to the second. Be followed it to escape. I was completely blocked, and
the house, paned around it, played for two oonlnt only hope that accident would help
or three minutes with the doge, and then me out.
oiroled about the fish pond, and took a short It had been said that the body had not
cut across the grove and ;brink the road, been robbed. The only theory seemed to
not hittirg the north path at all. The dead be revenge. lf ib was nob Meyers, then
man had come from the village ae well, and bb was some former lover, and I went to
on foot. He bad acme and attempted to Cincinnati to make inquiries. On the way
return by the north drive. up my watch stopped, and my first call
was at a jeweller's, I had not been in bis
plum mixes, saccade when in walked a stout
strong fellow, who laid a lady's watch on
the showcase and said:
" I am going away, and I want to sell this,
It belonged co my wife, who is dead."
" We don't buy seoond.hand watches," re.
plied the jeweller, but he carelessly poked
the watoh up, examined it and then said:
" Dela is one of our watches. I remember
selling it two or three months ago."
'hes,'replied the man, reaching out for
" Let's see the name " continued the jew-
eller as he went for a liook.
'Never mind," replied the man. "If you
don't want to buy, very well; rm in a
hurry."
"Sold to Mrs. Albright of —," said the
jeweller, as he handed ib over.
"The woman who was murdered I" I said
to the stranger, "Wars you her husband ?"
"—,yes I" he atammered.
"And you have nob bean near ---7 That is
strange 1 You will go wibh ons to the poi-
ioe."
He tried to draw hie pistol, bub I was too
quiok for him. The police recognized kine as
a bully and a degraded character, and ineide
of half to day I had established the fact that
he was formerly a lover of the murdered wee
man. Then I traced 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 bad gob him
reasonably sure 1 confronted him with my
facts, and he broke down and and made to
full csonfemon. He and the woman were
bleeding young Moyers. He bad come out to
see her that night, and he bad found her on
the bridge and quarreled with her. She was
desperate and defiant, and in a fib of passion
he bad choked her to death. Ete had seized
the watch bub lei t all else, and so the Cor-
oner's jury had been mieled,
If Graham was innocent, who was guilty ?
Not the slightesteusplaion had been direct-
ed elsewhere. It seemed hopeless to look.
I questioned and oroes-queetioned bim, but
he aould not give me the alightest foundation
for a clue or a theory. What I got came by
accident. I asked to see the blood.stained
clothing, and I toned it to be a 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 I dia.
covered that the murdered man had been
'brook on the book of hie head and fallen
forward on his Mae. He had vary thick hair,
and while the blow had crushed the skull,
be bad bled but little. The blood would nob
spurt from such a blow. The body had not
been lifted, and so how did Grail= get that
blood stain ? -Accidenb gave me the know-
ledge. I was looking the ground over at
Lossing's for the fourth or fifth time, when
one of the dogs same and leaped upon me in
a caressing way. Leasing observed it and
remarked:
" Old Fan wae always very fond of Gra
ham, and I believe she miens him. Here,
Fan, let me look at your paw. Ah 1 it's
about as well as ever, isn't it ?"
"What ailed her pow ?" I asked.
" She got a terrible out on a piece of glass
a few weeks aro."
"Abut the time Geaharn was arrested
rt ,gest,
"Then it was her bloody. pew that made
the mark on hie vest that night I"
"Good heavens, but it must have been 1"
I had a clue and a hope, Everything
ohanged in an hour, and I now believed Gra-
ham Innocent and went to work to theme
proofs. I posted up to Louisville and exam.
'Med the police records for arrests.
lowed a acme or more of oases to their finiah,
but got nothing. It wag my belief that a
white man committed the mime, and that
ho meanb robbery,but was frightened off. I
returned to the village toed looked everybody
over, but got no aatiefaotion. The day of
the trial was coming and was in despair,
but accident oame to my aid again. I hap-
pened into the hotel barn as the landlord
pulled a lot of rubbish out of a oboil, Hid.
den away with it was a fine saddle, and as
it was brought to light the man exclaimed :
"Ideas me, here ts the dead man's sad-
dle 1"
" Waa it miesing ?" I asked.
"3b was stolen oro the night of his murder.
That' e the meson he went down to Lossiog's
on foot."
Who stole it ? What for? An outsider,
who stole the saddle for its worth would
have carried it off. An insider only would
have stored it in theetall. Who was inside?
A 'white man and two negro assie.ants.
Within an hour I had ascertained that the
white man, whose name wee Foster, was
abeent Mr an hour on the eyeteeth' n' the *nu.
der ,and thee edam he had acted very queer.
At Harvard photographs have been ob.
Mined of the outer satellite of Mars and of
all the satellites of Saturn and Uranus ex.
opt Mimes.
The electrodnagnetio theory of light Ratko
factorily explains why the waves of light and
heat have transverse rather than longitud-
inal vibrations.
If trade begets wealth, Holland premieres
to become the richest country in tbo world.
A Swiss financial journal, in publishing three
interesting sbatiatice relative to the trade of
the different countries in Europe, maws that
Holland does the largest amount per head of
population. The extent of the average Idol.
wader's commeroial operatione during the
year totals up 1,012 franca. After Holland
domes Switzerlaud, with 310 frame per head
of population. England, the nation of shep
keepers, comes third with 421 trams, white
Frame and Germany average about 100
fames each.
How Jim Misjudged a Stranger.
"Yes, rm in mourning," said the man,
as be carefully removed his hat and gazed at
the piece of orape which hid the band. "It's
for my brother ,Tina who was planted about
five menthe ago.'
" Siok long 7"
"Not a minnit."
"Accidentally killed, then 7"
You might call it accident, but 10 wasn't.
It was a case of misreading human nature."
The man tenderly brushed some duet; off
the crape, pub on his hat, and after getting
good and ready started the with :
" Me and Jim had a ranch on the Repub.
litho River, out in Kansas. I didn't amount
to much, bub Jim was a dandy. Could judge
o hoes or a steer a mile off. He oould size a
up a man as quick as you can halve an apple.
Didn't know what fear was, and the Injuna
was as afraid of him as death. I've put up
a $300 monninent at hie grave, and you can
judge by that he musb been a prebby good
man."
" Well 1"
" Well, late last fall, when we bad a
stook sate at the ranob, a sort of tramp came
along and got in Jim'a way, Jim run over
him and they had Borne words. The tramp
wanted to fight, and the boys put Jim up to
skeer the liver out of him. I'm free to say
1 didn't like the feller's looks. There was
sumthin' back of kis everyday look, which
had a gleam of danger in it. Jim sized him
up for a runner, end when T said the chap
would fight Jim whispered:
"Pete, ye never knew me to be wrong.
111 skier him till hie hilt loosens at the
roots."
"To make a great spread of it, the boys
faobeioed the two together by their left arms
and gave each a bowie knife. They thought
the tramp would back water when ib oame
to the tying, but he didn't. He was thar'
and didn't even turn pale. It was agreed
that they should fight at the word, and the
word was held eve minutes to let the tramp
wilt, He stood like a rook, and Jim could'uti
baok, you see, wiehout losing character.'
"And they fought 7"
" It wasn't much of a fight Jim was as
handy with the knife as any man within a
hundred miles, but los stood no show in that
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' waan't but one
lick struck."
" And—and what 7'
" Nothing, muob. The tramp ontied his -
self and walked off, as 000l as a bar'l of ioe,
and we planted Jim on a knoll back of the
mule pen."
" Whab did the crowd say
"Said that my brother had better stuck
to reedin' the character of mules and steers,
and let strangers alone, and I agreed. rm
in mourning fur Jim, but I allow that he
bit off more'n he could thaw, and he
shouldn't a done it. Crape looks well on
moneemolor, don't it 7 It's a reminder that
in the midst of life we may bark up the
wrong tree."
Both In Hard feu&
This story opens on the third floor of 00
magnificent Harlem compartment houee.
Rs had been twisting about on hie chair
trying to find words to express hie undying
devotion, and had already begun to hem
and how, when a voice oame from the floor
below:
"Miss Candlewick," it said, "I love you
passionately—madly: bid me but hope. and
alb bhe dark milers of my life will ohangel"
This wee a bonanza for the young nun
above,
"Miss Clara, darling," he said tremulous-
ly, "ohemat my sentiments."
Then another voice oame from below :
"No Mr. Goatee, I cannot bid you hope; I
love another,"
"And them'a mine, Mr. le...onto," remark.
ed Miss Clara.--(Harperai Bazar.
Four Foolish Boys Burned.
MARCH 22, 1889.
DOWN A MOUNTAIN, A MATREMATIO AL WONDER.
itnidd and Exciting Descent Muth
Them is an indefieable exhilaration in rue Ignorant Old TOM, (Illbb14.10 and ills Aston.
felling Fatbje whit Figures,
Itougher than Tobogganing.
pia motion, toe every eohool.boy knows, There died at Woodville, Va., some time
else why should he tug up hill, time after ago one of the most remarkable ohmmeter§
time, for the Bake of sliding down again ? the Blue Ridge country of Virginia ever pro -
But an Englishman, touring among the Alps, domed. Old Tom Cubbage, as he was known,
desoribes a meeting exploit of two ladies of was the mathematical wonder and tho pride
kis party, which, however intereeting for of the Blue Ridge people. His heath at Bu-
enos, would hardly have been voluntarily urea end kb calculations were indeed won -
repeated. In a small way, and with some derful, and like Blind Tom, the musical
differenee of method, it reminds ane of the prodigy, his powers were inbuitivo and in.
common practice of sliding down the Mount nate. Old Tom did nob know a figure or a
Washington railway on a board. The par- ; letter and never went to school for an hour
by had finished, olimbing, and was ready to in his life. HO was a rough, ignorant and
descend, but then came the question how uututored native of the hills and yet he
the dement should be made, t could motto, thumb in a moment, any problem
We might lawn on foot, of course, but read to him from the text hooka or from the
that would bake two or three hours, and be. papers and give the correct answer, He
sides, that was not] a ba mode, For all who would add a column of liguies of any poesi.
oan pay for it there is a peculiar contrivance ble length, subtmob, multiply or divide, and
of &isnot, which, Booth to thy, had been do it so quickly ae to surprise the sobolar
who tested hie remarkable powers.
His answer sometimes will include a
dozen or more figures, and knowing absolute-
ly nothing about the numerating of ttern
he would give the figures beginning ab the
right, and if a mistake had been made or
a wrong figure purposely introduced by the
person taking down hie amber, old Tom
would discover it at once and give the cor-
rect one. He knew nothing of the notation
properly you should go down, like a streak of number°, and hie whole knowledge was
of lightning, on one of them. It seemed a limited to the giving of hie answers, figure
queer and nervous operation, as the sledge by figure, ae fast as they could be written
marks were visible down the steep oreeb for from the right to the left. Parsons of fair
some distanee, and then pitched round a education, who tested old Tom, say they
oorner into unknown space. There were, could never stump him, though they hunted
moreover, bub two men available just then, for the most difficult problems in the books,
so that our party must be divided,
and believe be oould give th e correct answer
The two ladies at last oonsented to try
and all the little colony of the hill assembl- to any possible sum. Problems involving
square and cube roots, completing the equare
ed to see them packed. The priests enured of equations were as readily solved by him
us of their safeby, and that they would reaoh Re simple addition, and yet were you to
the bottom in twenty minutes. One portly ask him what aube root meant he would tell
old fellow, with a trombone of a voice, was you he didn't know. No ono knew the
not only emphatic in hie assuranoe, but put. way old Tom did these things, indeed he
ting a hand on the shoulder of each of the could not tell yeu himself, He was simply
men preparing to deaf:tend, warned them to ani genes -re and the only one of his kind ever
take special care of the two English ladies,1 known to the people of the Blue Ridge,
Yet you should have seen them as they Old Tom went to the University of Vir-
were tilted over the edge 1 A small pillow ginia upon the solicitation of some of hie
tied on each sledge formed the seat- two, admirem, with a PIM' to his education
crooked pegs were all there was 00 hold by ; I there in his particular line, but after oaten -
the feet were preased against the runners, ishing the profaners by hie greab gifts and
For precaution, a string gathered in all having done all the HMS given him by the
habiliments lob they should catch against ( students, he declined all proffers made him
land returned to his but in the Old Rag and
The men putting themselves between the to the company of his doge and his rifle.
handles in front, and leaning well backward. 1 The greatest work of Ibis strangely gift.strut& theirspikes into the ground. In a
minute they were
one of the attractions of the mountain,
though whobher or not to avail ourselves of
it, was a
MATTER OF 000000 DISOUSSION.
Standing about the house were two or
three men with long spikes in their shoes,
and leaning against the walls appeared oar.
talc light wooden frames with long handles.
These are sledges, and to do the mountain
BEYOND SHOUTING DISTANCE;
n a minute mare they were shooting round
the shoulder of the hill, and whether for bet.
ter or for worse, our wives were gone I
As we (zooid nob know the result till we
reached the bottom ourselves, we made hur-
ried adieus bo the friendly priests, and set
off at our besb epeed down the path, reach.
ing Saifnitz in anhour and a half. We met
two or three sledges coming up carried on
heir drivers' backs, but could not learn the
face of those in which we were interested.
At the door of the inn, however we 8 ied
ed man was the oaloulations and aomput-
ations for a hundred -year alznanao, made
entirely by himself and reduced to writing
by one of his neighbors. This work woe
done by him mentally, and Included all the
eclipses as well as changes of the moon, and
was calculated epode. w for the part of the
State in which he live It was never
published owing to the outbreak of the war
at the time of its completion, but those who
have compared the manueoript with other
published almanacs say it is a perfectly
correct one.
How this unlettered man could understand
the movements of the earth and the heaven -
y badiss is the strangest of all his surprising
them, propped against the wall ; and within I achievements, and must remain one of the
doors were S— and A—, hardly yob , mysteries known only to Him who created
knowing, lb seemed, whether they stood on man fearfully and wonderfully, and breathed
their heads or their heels. , into him the spirit of life. On one occasion
They described their unwonted flight as he was asked if he could tell the contents of
a shorb agony,—which it must be also for a pile of broth by some person who thought
he eledgemen themselves, who were steam. to rig him, and his reply proved Old Tom to
ing with perspiration, and looking moth ex. be at home where figures were concerned.
helmeted. The men either ran wibh the " Yes," Raid he, " pub ib in water aiad
sledges, guiding them round many turns, measure the water it displaces and you will
and palling them lightly over obstacles ; or,
when the descent favored, suddenly seating
themselves in front of each occupant, left
the sledge to ite own momentum ; then
down went driver and sledge, and lady and
all, stem velocity which took away the
breath.
Ii a cheek occurred, or the ground varied,
bhe spiked feet were struck out in a noo
have the solid contents."
His measurement of land by simply walk.
ing around b, no matter what its shape, and
making hie own calculations, have been pro-
ved to be correct, and there are those who
would take a survey made by Old Tom in
preference to one made by compass and a
regular eureeyor. Outeide of kis peculiar
gift, Old Tom Cabbage was a sad failure,
mint ; but what with the speed, the shaking and he died as he had lived—as poor and
and the fright, poor 5— and A--- shiftless as his mountain neighbors. He did
were aching all over; and though glad to not even own the small piece of land upon
have had the experienoe, were not inclined which his hub was built, save by bhe rights
to repeat ib. of a equatter, and work to him was an un-
known and en unsolved quentity, Yet he
was a quiet and a oontented man, and was
never better satisfied then when copiously
supplied with applmjaok or mountain clew.
lie would do the sum given bim by way of
pay for the liquor.
The Sin of Worrying.
One of the hardest lessons in the school
of life is the avoidance of worry. Some
echelon learn it much father and more
thoroughly than others do, Indeed they
seem to have been born without the eepeoiby
of worrying, and those who have not been
Not Obedinoe but Soap,
Toe scholars in a girls' primary de orb.
00 fortunate are sometimes divested to deny mint of a certain public school were in the
that such beings are entitled to any credit habit of bringing small bottles of soap suds
for their philosophical behaviour. Others
never seam able co learn the lesson ab all,
but have to wear the dunce's cap for their
obtuseness ta the end of the chapter, The
great majority of men and women manage
to learn the lesson more or leas perfectly
after spending more or fewer years in the
effort, , and after experiences more or less
bitter. Bob even the moat chronic and am
parently hopeless worryers will willingly
admit that there cannot; be any intellectual
and moral condition that is so absolutely
useless. That it never mode the future a
hit brighter if it looked gloomy, nor in the
slightest degree atoned for the errors of the
paid, is admitted by all. Indeed no mane
person could deny it. And yet how prone
most of us are to indulge in it more or less.
Our reason tells us it is foolish and even ein.
ful, that it ie vain and profitless, and yet we
indulge in it 1 Nowhere surely oould a more
convincing proof be found of the weak and
unnatural condition to which man haa been
radon:led by sin. For certainly in its essence
worrying be either an evidence of entire
forgetfulness of God, or distrust either
of his willingness or hie ability to help
us and provide for us. Worry is al.
ways weakening. Ili fevers the brain,
njures the digestion, impairs self.con-
trol, deranges the temper, enfeebles the
whole nature, unfits a man or woman from
making to the beat effect those efforts whioh
are necessary to ratans them from the very
einumstances which are the bane of their
existence and under the obtuse of which they
are so apt 00 007 they " cannot help worry.
ing,"
An Enlightened DOTI.,
to school to use in cleaning their elatee,
The thing soon became a nuisance. The
children neglected their lessons and spent,
their time in shaking bottlee of suds. The
teacher forbade them bringing any more.
A few days afterward the bather oanghb
one of the little girls with a bottle which ahe
was shaking.
"Didnt 1 tell you not to bring that here
again ?" the demanded.
" Yes'm," was the answer.
"
Wall, is that obedience 7" inquired the
teacher.
" No, ma'am."
"Then, what is it ?"
" Soap."
The teaoher bit her lip to keep from
laughing, while the other scholars joined in
o general titter.
Motherly Solioitude.
" What a fine little fellow 1" said the
patronizing old gentleman who had been
sleeted Representative for four etheeseive
times from his Congressional distriob. His
remark was addressed to a kind -faced lady
who held in her arms a little fellow who
blinked gravely ab all that was going on.
"Tut,' replied the lady, "Rio father
and I set a great deal of store bybim,"
"Well, he's a bright•looking little fellow.
Maybe he'll be a Congressman some day."
"Maybe he will," said the mother.
" But," she added, earneatly, "I'm going
to do my besb to rodeo bim right."--1.Mer.
chant Traveler.
Truth in Time of Danger.
They were seated very close to the water
nide, and he was gently toying witn her
"Little Golden Looks," to her sister'a afil. hair and speaking in that low tone which
mooed who is waiting in the parlor: eery comes after nightfall and before bed-
"Goci loves me more than he does Marie." time.
"How do you know, little one, that he " My dear," he whispered, "10 this all
oyes you morer' your own hair ?"
"Because he gives me golden hair for Shyly the returned : "Yes, George, of
AKRON, 0. March 1.4.—Jolan Greely, nothing, and she has to rub hers with eome mune."
John Cotton, Will MeGinnis and 'hired stuff in a bottle and sit ever so lotog in the Just then a splash was hoard, and elle fell
shralk, aged about 113, stole some bleating sun to make it like mine. That's the reason into the water,
powder and started into the .0ountry to ex. 411°4 " 1"g "ming "'"'" "Look out, George," she screamed in
plede it. On the way lb °aught from frenzied tones, as he seized her desperately
matches in the pocket of Ono of them and by tbo hair, "look out for my hair ; much
exploding, frightfully burned all four. Gram The ReaSon Why, of it le owning loose."
loy woe fairly cooked from the walat down The gullet was a sprightly youth,
and the flesh hung in Shreds. He Will tile. "Why would a barber rather shave three
Fred Shralk's arm was baked and torn, hie Irishmen than one German ?" asked ho.
tilde was blistered end his clo thee burned "You give ib Up ? Of course you do. Well,
from bim. Be le in a oritioal condition, beeenee beq get fottY.Ave 'lents from the
The other two aro not fatally injured, al. throe Iriehmen and only fifteen mite from
though tleetior urgers terrilblaw, the Gotmen,'•
The late Dr. Dio Lewis said The truth
is, the medical profession stands clued and
helpless in the proem of more than ono
kidney malady," He also daid: "If X found
myself the viotim of a thrioue kidney trouble,
I Would nee Warner'e Safe Cure."
Think on These Thinge.
It Is often said that we aro "tthe (gestures"
of habit." Our habit of thought bas a
great deal to do with our character and
influence Our thoughts aro, of amuse,
determined hy our natural disposition and
temperament, bub in regard to bilem, as to
everything Wee, lit le the truth bloat, cow
eoiously or unoonacionaly, we form the
habits whioh regulate them. In the they -
going, pleasure.loving spirit which takes
poeseseion of moat of our we aro apt; to
forget that there is going on within as
a ailonb forceful growth of ideas and ten.
denoiee which will gradually gain an as-
cendanoy over us, and become the meters
of our lives, We are what our thoughts
are, It is bherefore ot the Grab imporbanos
that our habit of thought ;Mould be elevat.
ing, and theft the subjects upon whioh we
dwell should be those u hitt will raise rather
bhan debatte us. The great lebter-writer who
had the oarso! the churches upon him under.
stood this a very long time ago, and in his
Epistle to the Philippians no emphasized it.
Ib was a brae love.letter that be wrote to
those people, in whom ho had groat joy and
sabiefaction, and for whom he wished the
beat and highest blessings. There are pee.
pis, and Paul must have known such, in
whom there appears, to ue a homely phrase,
" nothing to begin upon," and ib seems
rather hopeless to try to make exceleent
characters out of them; but to this Masa
the Philippians did cart anly nob be-
long. They had proved themselves Chris-
tians indeed ; they believed in Christ and
suffered for lie oaks ; they loved Pan',
and he loved them so muob that "in every
prayer of his for them, be made kb request
with joy." They were, indeed, so good that
it seemed possible that they should reach
the per:motion whioh he desired for them;
and in order to this, bo told them what sub.
jeate they were to choose tor their content.
phetion and reflection, "Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are
just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whateoever things are of
good report, if there be any virtue and if
there be any prefect, think on these things,"
Paul knew that if they did their whole lives
would, in consequence, be more beautiful,
more helpful, more altogether Chrietlike.
The advicie boas good for us as for those
members of the Philippian Church, and quite
ea necesseary to us as to them, for we, too,
need to watoh our thoughts. Esnectially to
those who are young and who desire to rise
to the eminence whioh le truly Christian aro
the apostle'a words to be eommended, "But
some will perhaps say, " we cannob help our
thoughts." Oh yea, indeed we mon. All
aorta of thoughts may flash into bho mind ;
bub the disciplined heart; will so ignore those
whioh are ,,wrong that they will soon pass
away. ,Gueets will &retreat 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 ohoose
the inmates of our hearts and minds as cer-
tainly as we may select those who are to be
the inmate° of our houses. Di requires some
decision of character and energy of purpose,
it Is true, to think only of the things which
are virtuous and praisdworthy ; but where a
man is master of himself ib can be acoom.
plished. "I will elect to think good thoughts,
to be interested only in excellent things, to
examine into the characters that deserve to
be imitated." Whoever comae to that reso-
lution'asking for that/ help from the All
Perfeet One whioh is never denied, will have
"gotupon the up grade" in very truth, for he
will dwell moot of all in the presents of the
Christ who is Himself the personifioation oi
everything that is lovely and of good report.
Why He:Elates Kids.
"I hate kids,'' he mid, wibh a tinge of
bitterness in his voice and a look of regret
in his eyes.
"I think they ought to be looked up in
nursuries or asyluma until they are old
enough to take oars of themselves. If it
hadn't) been for a kid—well, it might have
been "—
" What 7"
"I loved this kid's mother. She wan a
rioh and beautiful widow and I was madly
in love with her. 1 was aotually contem-
plating—in fact, I had just arrived at the
point of putting the delicate question. We
were in the drawingmoom, l'll never forget
it. The kid was playing in a corner. For-
getting all about that I put my arms fervent-
ly around the widow's waist and implanted
a warm kiss upon her lips, when the kid
started np and rushed at me, Don't you
kill my mamma,' heahouted, and ran scream -
leg into the kitchen calling for the ser -
meta "
"That needn't have "—
" What ?Marry a widow with a child like
that I Bub the worst came a few nights
after. I called ab the house. There were
several ladies there, and the kid was being
petted all around. Of course the widow
was all right, bub that confounded boy de-
liberately turned his back. I didn't mind
thab, but the mother, to banjo, Bald :
"1 You darling child, don't you know Mr.
Smith ?"
"'Oh, yes,' paid the imp, with devilish
impertinence, ' Oh, yes, I know you ; youo
are the man that bited iny mamma the other
night.' 1 tweed not—mould not describe the
effect. That's the reason I hate kids."
Sharp Thrust.
Some men who pass for very respectable
citizens, and who really are nob without
good qualities have a habit not only of find.
ing fault with their wives at every least pro.
vooation, but of doing it in terms suoh as no
gentleman would ever think of applying to
any lady exoept hie own wife, or possibly
bis own sister.
There is a story that ouch a man came
home from the shop one night and found kb
wife much exalted over the outragethe be.
havior of a tramp. He load begged for some
thing to eat, and not liking what the woman
gave him, had abused her in the roundest
berme.
Joh11
nny, said the mac, thoroughly
indignant, "when you heard that cowardly
rascal abusing your mother, wily didn't yon
run at once to the store anii let me know ?
I would have made there work of hiM,
Didn't you hear ?"
"Vee, pa, I heard. I wee out in the barn
and heard what he said about the victuals;
Bub what ?"
Why,pa, I thought it was you Boolding
mother. Ho used the very same worth] yoti
do when the dinner docent suit you. I
didn't think anybody else would dare talk
to mother in that way.'
Not for Sport.
Grocer (to olerlt)...."What aro you doing
there, Beery 7"
Efenry—"I am pioking the dead glee oub
of these dried currants."
Grober—" You just lot 'cm alone, Do
you suppose that I am running this Mud.
noel 10r fun Do you think that I come
down here early in the morning and toil all
day juet for the spirit of the thing ? You
166 those Wee Mono."