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Happy and studious to eiiehanca The lor.V Of the great Lift'-GiVd', Launch not thy but to drift at elianee Where strong floods roll and wild waves dance On life's broad-rushing river. Live as a man and count it (reason To m.in to live divorce 1 from re.ison; Prove your ground and know your game. .4 ml ply your task with stout endeavor. Nor courting praise, nor fearing blame. Know your own worth and know in t less Your neighbor's weight and worthiness: And where ho works well let htm do The work that might bo spoiled by you. Make a good friend where er you can ; Not wise is lie who hath no ey s To know how fools may holp the wise; it it loving deeds bind man to in in, But noter shrink with blinking eyes From what they only leant who try: And though von stand alone, in si'rlit Of God he bold to hold tit' right . March bravely on ami if you stumble Never groan and never grumble; Riseagain with wise forgetting: WmintLs were never salved by L otting. Watch your chance and know your hour And let the moment feel your power; Shune your path and keep your rules With deaf ear turned to meddling fools, 'Ttsdull to wait and hard to stand. But God's time comes wit it high command, That claims the service of your hand. Let the wise farmer teach you knowledge, Oft sought in vain at school ami college; split the rock and turn the sod. With busy hands cast honest seed, Stoutly uproot each harmful weed And let the seasons wait on God! HALF A LOAF. "Half a loaf is better than no bread, Charlie." Little Mabel Castleton said this wistfully, her eyes, as she spoke, wandering to the cradle, where two curly heads were lying. "But when one has had the whole loaf, May, one doe 3 not exactly relish the half rations you mention," said Charlie, moodily. But his eyes follow ed his wife's to the cosy nest of the twin babies, "It is a bad time of the year to be out of a situation,'' said Mabel, after a long silence, "and many wnotn we know are idle. It would not bs very easy to find employment now." "You really think I had better re main with Mr. Mifilin ?" "I do. Tell me what Mr. Mifilin said to you." "The substance of what he said was simply this : Business is so very dull that he is obliged to curtail his expen ses, and he must discharge some of his cleiks. I have been with him ten years, and he was pleased to say that I am very useful to him, and he is very uuwilling to part with me. But ho can give me but half my present salary though he promises to raise it when business prospects brighten. I don't know what to do. We are none too rich at my present salary.'? "Yet you have saved something each mouth. Beside, dear, we have not tried to bo economical. There are many ways in which I could save." "And make a perfect slave of your self." "Not a bit of it. I have plenty of leisure time, now that May and Bella can amuse each other. Come, Charlie accept Mr. Mifflin's offer. You may hear of some thing better, even if you remain there ; but don't throw your self out of a situation in the dead of winter, for my sake and the chil dren's." The last argument conquered. Char lie Knew too well that it would be use less to look for a new situation, tor the whole town was echoing Mr. Mifflin's cry of hard times. The small nest egg in the bank would soon melt away when it became the sole support of four and so, kissing Mabel, he promised to follow her advice. But it cost her pride a very sore wrench. He had entered the employment of his present employer at seventeen, and slowly, steadily gaining favor ty dnt of faithfully performing every duty, he had won his way to the desk of head clerk. Not until he had acquired this position'and the handsome salary ac companing it would he ask Mabel to become his wife, furnisiiing a pretty cottage home from his savings, and giving her a thoroughly comfortable income for household expenses. lie was not extravagant, but it pleased him to see his wife well-dressed, to giye her an efficient servant, to have his twin girls ever presentable,h:s table welll appointed. All this had been easy enough upon his salary, and there had been something added for three years to the little btnk fund. lJut to do this upon half the present income was simply impossible. llouso rent must be paid, and the sum re maining each month would have to be carefully calculated to meet all the ex penses, leaving but little for pleasure or extravagance in dress. "Then what would Will say ?" Will Castletou was Chat lie's cousin, who had been his life long companion. Together they had left the schoelroora for a business position. Will entering the grain store of Harvey & Russell at the same time Charlie had taken the place in Mr. Mifflin's dry goods store. Shoulder to shoulder the young men had worked their way till this financial crisis had brought all businessmen into tempoiary difficulties of greater or less magnitude. Will had expressed the warmest in j dignation at the proposal made his A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE cousin, strongly advising him to throw up his situation and "see how old Mif ilin would get along without him." And Charlie before seeing Mabel, was ready to follow his advice. He knew that Will vvoul 1 think him mean to remain upon half salary, and vet Mabel was right. Half a loaf was better .than no bread. And while Charlie Castleton vyas thus weighing the pros and cons of his decision, Mr. Mifilin was listening to the counsel of his old I'iiend and chum, the senior partner of the firm that had been Gardner & Mifilin, and who though lie had retired yeais before, was still the friend and frequent advisor of his former p irtner. "It is a mistake, Mifilin," ho said. "You had better send young Castleton about his business and engago an en tirely new book-keeper, You will find that half pay meaus half service, mark my word." "But I might search C from cud to end and not find a clerk competent to take his place." "Then pay him full salary." "I cannot do it unless I reduce the number of salsemen, and then I am short-handed now. There is but one way to keep my head abovo water. You see Clark's failure involves me very heavily, and—" And the worried mau of business entered into explanations of his difli culties not nacessary to repeat here. {A touched Charley Castleton very when entering the counting house to announce his determination to remain in his old position to see the face of his employer biighten. And as Charlie the large eyes grew brighter,and he smiled pleasantly as lie said,— "Thank you, Charlie. It would have caused me serious embarrassment to lose you, and I am heartily glad that you will stay. I trust you will not long be obliged to hike a small salary but ciicumstances compel me to econ omize." "You have been a kind employer to me for ten years," replied Charlie, "and if I am really of any moro value to you than another would be iu my place I will not desert you. " And looking into the careworn face that trouble was marking more deeply than sue, Charlie resolved to serve Mr. Mifllin more faithfully in his per plexities than in his more prosperous days. It was not long before the old gen tleman felt the sympathy of his young clerk and looked to him as 113 never did before, foradvice as well as for ser vice. lie admitted him to confidential relations, explained to him the difiicul ties caused by the failure of other firms, some heavily indebted to the firm of Joel Mifilin, others upon whom he had depended for goods obtained up on ci edit. Day by day as the harv, trying win - ter wore away the two friends grew faster, and so far from lessening his work Charlie found himself willingly lifting some of his employer's burdens upon his own shoulders. lie gave more time to business, and he was gaining an insight into it, of which an opportunity had never been given him. And Mabel, at home, was bravely taking her share of the ditni nished loaf with a smiling face and a cheerful heart. As far as might be she kept from Charlie a knowledge of the domes tic economies, but some of them were apparent. The woman whose competent aid de manded high wages was dismissed, and a half-grown girl was engaged to tnind the babies while Mabel cooked and washed and ironed and sewed, meeting difficulties with a courageous heart. She had never been a drone in the world's hive having been a busy little dressmaker before Charlie Castleton won her heart and took her to preside over his putty home. But for three years of her married life she had been much petted, and there were many pleasures to be put a side, many dollars well weighed before they were spent. It was with a heart full of pardona ble triumph that the young couple at the end of the year of reduced pay found they were still out of debt and had not touched the nest egg in the bank. "You see, Charlie, we made the half loaf go round," said Mabel, as they went carefully over the year's expense book. "There are no crumbs," be said, with a rather weary face. "Never miod that; it was a great deal better than idleness." "You are right ; and there was more than tliar, Mabel. I have been able to help Mr. Mifflin more than I could have done in our old relations to each other. His perplexities made hira long for some one to whom he could speak confidentially, and when the ice was once broken he took me fully into his confidence. I could often suggest away out of a difficulty that had not oc cured to him,and even when I was with out actual use to him it was a relief to pour out his troubles to some one who was in full sympathy with him." "But you have worked very hard, Charlie. I never saw you so tired as you often have been this year, and vour face is more careworn than it has ever been before." "Well, it is some comfort to know that business prospects are growing brighter. By closest economy Mr. Mifilin has managed to meet the obliga tions he was afraid would ruin him, and there is a good lookout for the coming year." "Will lie give you a whole loaf yet, Charlie V" "Not yet, I think. Never mind. Wo will not despond yet." "Despond ! I guess not. I am go ing to have some of these crumbs you were speaking of next year. I have learned some valuable lessons in saving which I mean to make use of." The second year was certainly not an easy one to Mabel. A wee baby, in ad dition to three-years-old twins, kept the mother's hands busy, while theie was no decrease in the household work. Many articles of clothing and house keeping, too, that lasted well one year, were past seivice in the second, and it was not easy to replace them. Often Mabel feared the saving for a "rainy day" must be broken in upon, but she kept all such fears shut up in her own heart and always had a bright word of cheer for tired Charlie when he came home at night. She never told him that the lato breakfast that she had planued to let the babies sleep while he ate his early one, comprised none of the tempting dishes of his own meal, but was Utter ly bread and milk six mornings out of the seven. Site never let him know that the reason she suggested his lunch down town, to sivo the long walk home, was really to save the price of that meal toward the dinner, the d tin ty little parcel he carried never cost the price of a regular meal for the.n all. She did not tell him that she was cuttiug up her old dresses to clothe the twin gills, and sewing busily every leisure moment to keep all the little ones tidy. And yet there came a day in June, when six months of the second year were almost gone, when she spent tin last dollar of the weeks money whi'e the week was but half gone. Charlie had given her, long before, some sign- Ed checks to meet such an emeigenpy, but it was her pride to think that not one of them had beeu presented at the bank. She took one from the desk where they had lain so long and spread it be fore her, calculating with puckers on her pretty face how small a sum she could stretch over the necessary expen ses. "I hate to begin," she said, half a loud ; "if once we break in upon that money't will melt away like snow be fore the sut)." There was no alternative but debt, and Mabel knew that Charlie would never be willing to owe any man a cent while he had a cent with which to pay him. So, with a great sigh, she dipped the pen in the ink to fill out the blank check. Before it touched the paper, howeyer, she paused, listening. There was a step in the hall that was not that of the nurse or her charges, a voice ringing out full and clear, calling,— "Mabel ! Where are you, May ?" "Here in ray room," she answered. "Oh, Charlie, what is it ?" For the face at the door was so ia diant that all traces of care seemed to have slipped from it forever. "Good news, May 1 And yet—per haps I should feel sorrow, too, only I did not know him." "What are you talking about ?" "Did you read this morning's pa per ?" "Yes." "Did you notice the death of Amos Gardner ?" "No ; is that the Mr. Gardner who used to be Mr. Mifflin's partner before you went into the store ?" "Yes ; he was a batchelor, and he has left his whole estate to Mr. Miffl'n, except a few legacies. The store will be closed till after the funeral ; so wo have a three days' holiday May." "I am glad you will be able to rest." "But that is not all. Do you guess the rest ?" "You are to have your old salary a gain." "More than that. Mr. Mifflin took me to his house this morning and told me all his plans. He will enlarge his business, and take on bis old salesmen who are willing to come. He has giv en me permission to offer a position to j Will Castleton, who has been nearly a year out of employment because lie j would uot accept your theory of 'half a j loaf' being 'betier than no bread.' " I "I know. Poor Will 1 lam afraid Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. tlujt. Maria had a worse year than ours has been, Charlie." "Nor is that all, May." ".More good news still ?" "More still. Mr. Gardner, Mr. Miflliti says, did ine some injustice some time by supposing that T would proportion my work to'the decrease in my salary. To atone for this he has left me five thousand dollars." "Oh Charlie !" "Hold on, little woman ; he also advised Mr. Milllio in their last inter view, to reward ma for my faithful, disinterested devotion to him in his late dillicuhies by taking ine as a part ner in the business." "Charlie ! Oh, my Charlie ! I must either laugh or cry," said Mabel al most hysterically. "Laugh, then, by all means I The new firm of Miffiin & Castleton must not be christened in tears, even happy Ones. Hurrah ! who says after this that half a loaf is no belter than no bread ?" A Woman's Curse. "If you want to hear a strange sto ry," said a gentleman to a reporter of the Alta, yesterday, in Golden Gate Park, "engage that gray haired man in conversation aud get him' to tell you his story. It will repay you for your time," and he iudicated a perraature aged man with a sad face setting in tne sun on one of the benches of the park. The reporter needed no second invita* tioii, and was soon seated by the man with the strange history. "I am told," said the seeker after facts,"that you have a life story strange in the extreme,and that you ure notad verse to relating it." The eyes of the man were turned on the speaker a moment, and then fold ing his white hands in bis lap, he said : "Yes it is a story, lam a murderer and a reformed gambler ; but you need not shrink so form me, for the murder was not intentional. Ten years ago I owned the largest and most popular gambling parlors in the city of Chicago,and on Saturday nights I dealt my own faro game, in which business, of course, I made a great of deal money. Many unpleasant incidents grew out of my husines, but I always excused it on the ground that men did not have to play my games any more than they were obliged to drink poison. I finally git to noticing and expecting one young man in particular, who always came when It was my night to deal. At first he played boldly; and as a con sequence, lost heavily, but as he grew more familiar wftli the game he phyed carefully, and acted as though fife de pended on his winning, which in fact was the case, as it afterward proved, I got acquainted with him, addressed him as Brown, but knowing that that was not his true name. I think he fol lowed the game for months, winning a little sometimes, but generally losing heavily. At last he came one night, and I saw by his flushed face that he had been drinking, although lie looked apparently cool. IJe sat down to the table, drew out a small roll of money, and, laying it down before him, said, "There is in that little pile my fortune, my honor and my life. I either win all or lose all, this night. Begin your game ; lam ready." Others joined in at first and played for a while, but fi nally withdiew from the game anu watched the strange young man at my right. He played to win, but fate was against him for he lost, won and lost a gain, and finally after about two hours of playing, evidently in the most fear ful suspense, he lost his la3t dollar. Leaning back in itis chair, with com pressed lips and face blanched to a deathly whiteness, he looked me in the eye a moment, and rising said : "My money, honor and happiness have gone over that table, never to return. I said my life would go with them, and it shall. Tell my wife I had gone too far to return." Before we could prevent it he put a derringer to his breast and shot himself through the heart falling upon the table that had been his ruin and death. "His wife came, awful in the majes ty of her grief, and after satisfying herself that her husband was dead, she asked : "Where is the keeper of this dreadful place ?" I was pointed out, and, striding up to me so that ber finger almost touched my pallid face, she exclaimed in tones that are ring ing in my ears yet : "Oh, you soul less wretch, with heart of stoue I You have lured my husband from me, sent him to perdition, widowed me and or phaned my children. You are his murderer, and may God's curse rest upon you eternally 1' 'Oh,my husband 1 my children I' she fell faiuting on the corpse. "I lingered for weeks in a brain fevei, that curse seeming always to be the burden of my mind. On my recovery I burned the fixtures of my den and closed the plaoe,and have devoted most of my time to travel with the hope of escap- NO. I- NBWSPAPER LAWS > If mibwribers order the discontinuation of newspapers. the pnnHshers may continue to send tlu-in until all arrearages are paid. If subscribers refuse or ncjHfci to taSc their newspapers from, the ofllee to Which they aPC Sent they are held responsible until they have settled the bills and ordered them discontinued. If subscribers move toother places without In forming the publisher, and the newspapers alo siit to t lie former place, they arc ivspomible. ADVKKTIdINU HATES. 1 wk. 1 mo. Jnios. 6 tnoju 1 yea 1 square #hii ♦ •>< #• no 14 '• 700 10 (X) ir>oo 30 00 40 cu 1 " 10 00 15 00 25 00 45 00 75 CO One inch makes a square. Administrators and Kxecutors' Notices *1.50. Transient adver tisements end locals 10 cents per Hue for llrst inset lion and 5 cents par Hue tor each addition al inset tioii. Ing that woman's just curse,but I can't. I believe it is on me forever, and I feel that I was that man's murderer. lam licit, and my first attempt wis to get the dead man's wife to accept an an nuity from me. hut she refused all aid and tried to support herself by her own labor. I relieved my mind to some ex tent, however, by setting a certain sum on her aud her children, which passed through her father's hands and osten sibly cunies directly from liira. Her children arc receiviug a fine education by this means, and my will, safely lock ed in her father's office, bequeaths to her and her children my entire wealth, some SIOO,OOO. My life,"concluded he, "is devoted largely to visiting gambling dens, where I meet young men who are on the highway to hell, aud waru them of their danger. Thanks he to God, I have succeeded in many cases in saying them ; and now, young man,'remember this story,and let it always stand up as a while spectre between you and the gambling table. See to it that the poi son does not enter your veins and he pulled his hat over his moistened eyes' and strode silently away. Three Marvelous Shots. A Series of Short Stories of the Sort to Make the Trigger Finger Twitch. From Forrest and Stream. One day I followed a doe's tracks from J1 a. in. till sunset without hav ing obtained anything like the merest glimpse of my game. I was fast loos ing hope, as but a few moments of day light were left to me, when, on coming to the edge of a flat, covered by heavy yellow birch timber, and terminated on the further side by au abrupt bank, like that of a river, I saw the old doe stand ing half way up the bank,broadside too, the fawn below hor,its slender neck up stietched exactly in lina with its moth er's shoulder. At that distance (93 very long paces) the neck looked about the size of a hoe handle, but I took a quick look through the double sights and fired. The fawu went down like a stone ; the doe gave one convulsiye bound, ueaily twenty feet, to the top of the bank, dropped dead in her tracks and rolled back across her fawn. My next shot, purely one of chauce, I think can be classed as wonderful. I was following the tracks ot a doe and fawn. Within twenty rods of where I struck the tracks I suddenly saw half the neck and the head of the fawn* which was lying down, partly turned from me, placidly chewing its cud- A shot tit rough its neck stretched it life less, and, with my rifle held ready for a second shot, I advanced cautiously, ex pecting to see the doe; but, nothing stirring, I concluded that she bad got away uuobserved in the thick spruce growth. So setting away my rifle, I began to dress the fawn, which proved to be a very large and Lit one. Iu do ing this I had changed my position, so that on rising I caught full sight of the doe lying dead, twenty feet away to the left, and right angles with the line of Are. Half stupifled with amazemeut I walked up to her, and found the warm blood still trickling from a bullet-hole in the centre of her belly, and saw that she had died in her bed without a kick. On going back to the fawn to investi gate, I found that the bullet [a pointed one] about four feet beyond the neck of the fawn,had passed through a hack matack sapling two inches through, a little to the left of the centre, tearing the left side out aud cutting the tree nearly half down ; then turning at a right angle, it had struck the doe as mentioned, passed directly upward be tween the kidneys, cutting off the big artery and burying itself iu Abe spine. The deer was as safe from a direct shot as though the Rocky Mountains had interposed between us. At another time, when following a big, fat doe in a feathery snow, which adhered to everything, on coming to an alder run, about eighty yards across, tilled with these bushes from the size of a knitting needle to oyer an inch through, I caught sight of her black tail hanging down motionless. There was about one chance in a thousand of getting a bullet through, but I always took all such chances,aud fired without a moment's hesitation. The tail dis appeared instantaneously and, fixing my eyes on an object iu range, so as to advance in a direct line, I followed the path of the bullet. Half way across I found an alder about as big as a pipe stem cut off clean; half way from there, to where the deer stood, and fully ten feet to the right of the line, I saw a nother alder fully an inch in diameter cut off not more than a foot aboye the ground and thrown three feet from its stump. "That settles it,"l said to tny self and started rapidly forward to take up the track again. Oa reaching the spot I found some black hairs lying on the snow exactly as if cut out by a bul let and the first bound of the deer was nearly twenty feet. This looked like a wounded deer, but smiling at the ab surdity of the idea, I pressed forward and within ten rods came upon my game stone dead, with a bullet exactly through the centre of iis tail. To have struck the deer at all after being deflect . ed ten feet out of its course would have been sufficiently remarkable, but to go exactly to the spot aimed at was a sin gular chance.