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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-
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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.