a
THE MARRIED MAN.
Adown the street the married man
Starts off with hurried tread
But from the door tho wifely voice
Calls. Don't forget the bread.”
He smiles and neds, and turns to go,
The careless married man,
‘When loud the servant calls him, ** Gh!
You haven't got the can.”
He nods again in fretful style,
But pulleth down his hat
And lo, his sister, with a smile,
Cries, “ Won't you bring my hat?’
“Qh, yes, 'he shouts and truth to tell,
He need not shout so loud :
But shrill his son, with stunning yell,
“Theatre tickets for the crowd! ”
His daughter from the window high
Estops him with her call ;
She wants a fan, a pair of gloves,
And a new pink parasol.
He hears no more ; far down the street
His echoing footsteps fly ;
And all day Ay in mensure fleet,
He hums, “Sweet buy and buy.”
But when the evening respite brings,
And his day's toil is done,
Though told to get a hundred things,
He hasn't gota one.
SR—— SS SR
John Brisben, Nobleman.
em
Colonel! George W. Symmonds in the
Detroit Free Press, says the governor pAar-
doned John Brisben, a penitentiary con-
viet He was sent up from Bourbon
for fifteen years for forgery, and hadten
yoars yet to serve. Our readers sre fam-
{liar with the history of the case, and the
humane action of his exellency will be
generally commended,—Frandford, (Ky.)
Yeoman.
[ read this little paragraph, and my
mind went back six years, I knew
John Brisben, and I knew his twin
brother Joseph. I was familiar with
the details of the action that nlaced him
in a felon’s cell, and now when the sad
affair is brought back to my mind so
vividly I must write it out, for never
before have I met, in prose or poeury,
in real life or in romance, a greater
hero than plain,
Brisben.
station, between the present
ment on the “dark and bloody ground.”’
river. on Limestone creek. He was an
One of his
represented
able description.
win Brisben,
tucky in the federal congress.
he was the grandfather of John and
Joseph Brisben. Their father’s name
was Samuel, and he died when they
were little children, leaving his widow
|0ns
once Ken-
snug little fortune in stocks, bonds and
mortgages. The widow remained un-
married until her death.
most
each
idolized her twin boys. Like
twins, the brothers resembled
sther in a striking manner, and even
intimate acquaintances could not tell
them apart. But although the physi-
cal resemblance was so strong there
was great dissimilarity in the disposi-
tion of the twins. Joseph
very surly and morose,
Jrisben was
sometimes
a dreamer and enthjisiast | a man well
(which was seldom), a splendid horse-
man and a most excellent shot. John
tical, cared little for books, and,
did companion. He was a poor horse-
man, and I don’t think he ever shot
a gun in his life,
sapcomplainingly, that “Jodie” might
go scot free. His life was
of this loving adoration made
shabby returns for this unselfish devo-
tion.
They were 20 years old when their
mother died very suddenly. Joseph
made a great pretense of grief, and was
go hysterical at the grave that he had
to be led away.
John, on the contrary, never demon-
strative, took the great affliction with
fis customary coolness. He said but
little, and shed no tears.
The property left the boys was cons
giderabl2, The day they were twenty-
d, the trustees met and
. made settlement. There was the blue-
: farm, valued at $50,000, and
« $100,000 in well-invested securities,
which could be turned into money.
Joseph demanded a division.
“You can take the farm, Jack,” he
said. “I was never cut out for a farm-
er. Give me $75,000 in money for my
2%
So this sort of a division was made,
John continued on at the homestead,
working in his plain, methodical way,
and slowly adding to his share of the
money what he could raise out of the
farm. Joseph, with his
get up an estab
est town, and be-
life of
His brother gave him no advice
for he knew it would be useless. Jo-
seph spent his money with great prodi-
gality, and before he knew it he was a
beggar. Inthe meantime, John's $25,+
000 had doubled itself. One day Joseph
came to him with a full confession of
his pecuniary troubles.
“Jack,” he said, *I am not only a
beggar, but 1 am heavily in debt. Help
me out, like a good fellow, and I will
settle down and begin life in sober
earnest. With my capacity for busi
ness, I can soon make enough to repay
‘you. 1 have sown my wild oats, and
with a little help I can soon recover all
that I have squandered so foolishly.”
For an answer, John placed his name
to an order for the $25,000 he had
earned so laboriously.
“Will that be enough, Jodie,” he
asked. ‘because I have as much more,
which you can have if it is necessary.”
“This will be sufficient, old fellow,”
was the reply. ‘In two years I will
pay it back.”
He went back to town, drew his
money, paid his debts, sold some of his
horses and discharged several of his
servants. Twenty thousands dollars
was left out of the loan, He invested
this in business, and for a while seemed
John was en-
couraged to say:
“Jodie will come out all right. He
is smarter than I, and in five years will
be worth more money than I could
make in a lifetime,”
In less than three years Joseph Bris
ben’s affairs were in the hands of cred-
itors. and sheriff’s officers closed out his
business, Again he turned to his broth-
er for help and sympathy.
“] own that I managed a trifle care-
lessly,”” he said by way of explanation.
If you come to my assistance now I can
soon recover myself."
jrisben placed his
name to a check payable to the order
of his brother, and Joseph entered into
Once more John
business again. In two years he was a
+1 shall never succeed in business,
Jack,” he said.
farm. I shall succeed as a farmer.”
t took all of John Brisben'’s hoard
to pay his brether’s debts, but he made
He
no complaint, uttered no reproach.
gether.”
So Joseph took up his residence on
country.
John Brisben had
fallen in love, end the daughter of a
neighboring farmer, Compton by name
was his promised wife.
of strict honor himself, and having full
confidence in his brother, he did not
object when Joseph began to pay his
affianced very marked attention.
“I am glad that he likes her,”
thought.
that 1 have
In the meantime,
little
One night Joseph came to him just as
the shadows of the evening were begin-
There was a triumpant
“Jack, old boy,” he said, holding out
I think
ised to be my wife.”’
He was too much engrossed with his
new happiness to see the effect of this
man’s hand trembled in his own.
“Is it true, faltered John at last.”
“Why, of course it is. Are you not
glad ? We love each other, and shall be
“We love each other and shall be very
happy,” repeated John mechanically,
and all the sunshine of his life sunk be-
hind the heavy clouds of despair. ‘Yes,
Jodie, I am glad, and I wish you long
years of happiness.”
He turned away, and staggered,
rather than walked to his own room.
He did not stir all night. Once a deep,
sobbing groan struggled to his lips,
and the moonbeams struggling through
the window fell full upon his face, and
surprised two great tears stealing down
his pale cheeks. He brushed away
this evidence of weakness and sorrow
and when the morrow came, no one
Jooking inte his calm, serene, eyes
would have guessed how hard was
the battle that had been fought and
won in that lonely chamber.
They were married, and the man re
jected by the bride and supplanted by
the groom was the first to congratulate
house on the farm was fitted up for
their reception and John Brisben’s
money paid for their furnishing.
“Hereafter, Jodie,” he said, ‘‘we
will divide the profits of the farm. I
don’t need much, and you shall bave
the larger share.’
and keep in comfort the large family
which the years had drawn around
him. It had been pecessary to mort
gage the old homestead to raise money
to pay Joseph's gambling debts, for
of late vears he had played heavily,
and had invariably lost.
One day—it was in 1871-a forged
check was presented at one of the
banks of the shire town by Joseph
Brisben, and the money for which
it ealled was unhesitatingly paid over
to him. He was under the influence of
liquor at the time, and deeply interested
in a game of cards for high stakes,
which was in progress. The cheek
was for $2500, I think. Before day-
light next morning, Joseph Brisben
had lost every dollar of it. To drown
his chagrin, he became beastly drunk,
and while in this condition an officer
arrived and apprehended him for
forgery and uttering a forged check.
The prisoner was confined in jail,
and word of his disgrace sent to John
Brisben,
and a mist came
over his eyes. He
ble shock.
“She must not know it,” he said to
himself, and he made instant prepara-
tions to visit his brother, When he
reached the jail he was admitted to
the cell of the wretched criminal. The
brothers remained together several
hours. What passed during the inter-
view will never be known. When John
Brisben emerged from the jai! he went
straight to the magistrate who had
issued the warrant for the apprehension
of Joseph Brisben.
“Squire,” he said in his slow, hesita-
ting way, "you have made a mistake.”
“In what way, Mr. Brisben?" asked
the magistrate, whe had a high regard
to his visitor,
4
“You have caused the arrest of
innocent man.’
“Buat—'! began the magistrate,
brother's in-
of
gtant release, He is
intent to do wrong, [I forged!
InnoOcen
i
| ‘Issue an order for my
{
| of Charles Ellison to the check
| he uttered. He did not know
| was a forgery.”
“You!” cried the astounded
i
i
i
it
that
trate. ‘You a forger
“Nothing is impossil
impossible.’
le in these days,
old man,
My brother
| sir,” said the white-haired
sternly. *‘I alone am gulity.
is innocent.’
| the forger that the magistrate
the jailer for the release of
Brisben.
“My constable will be in soon,”
up both the papers.
“1 will not trouble him,’ he said. “I
will execute both the papers.”
And did. Handing the
he
i thus :
“They have made a mistake.
is innocent.”
Accordingly Joseph Brisben was re-
remained at jail a prisoner.
extraordinary affair
several prominent citizens offered to go
on the accused man’s bond, but he
would not accept their kind offices.
At the trial he pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to fifteen years hard labor
in the penitentiary. Joseph came to see
him before he was removed to Frank-
fort, but their interview wasa private
one,
Joseph Brisben remained at the farm,
but he was a changed man. From the
day of his release from jail down to
the time of his death, he was never
known to touch a card, and a drop of
liquor never passed his lips. Last
April he died, and his confession, duly
sworn to before a justice of the peace,
was made public after his burial In
substance, it was this, That he was
guilty for the forgery for which his he-
roie brother was suffering a long im-
prisonment.
“It was my brother's wish, not
mine,” reads the document.
sisted that he who had no ties of blood
or marriage, could better suffer the
punishment and disgrace than 1
who had dependant on me large fam-
ily.”
Noble John Brisben ! Of such stuff
are heroes made, — American Rural
Home,
PoraTo BaLLs.—Wash, pare and
soak as many potatoes as you think you
will need. Usually, allow two for each
salted water for half an hour, or until
tender , drain them and, if they are
small, put two at a time in a coarse
Kitchen Economies.
VEGETABLE PORRIDGE, Scrape and
peel the following vegetables: Six carrots
3 rnips, six onions, three heads of
Gelery and three parsnips. Slice up all
these very thin and put them in a two-
gallon pot, with four ounces of butter,
8 handful of parsley and a good sprig
of thyme, and fill up with water or pot
liguor, if you happen to have any; sea
son with pepper and salt, and put the
whole to boil very gently for two hours,
At the end of this time the vegetables
will be done to a pulp, and the whole
must be rubbed through a colander
with ‘a wooden spoon, and after-
ward put back into the pot and stirred
over the fire, to make it hot for din-
ner,
OATMEAL GRUEL. Two tablespoon-
fuls of coarse meal and a pint or a half-
pint of milk or water, according as
the patient requires thick or thin gruel,
or may take milk or not, Stir the
meal smoothly and thoroughly into the
milk or water, and le it steep for two
hours : then pour off the top, leaving
the coarse sediment asrefuse ; boil up
| the grue! thus obtained ; then cover it
closely and leave it to seethe for
about ten minutes; add salt or sugar
to taste. This is the best mode ol mak-
ing.
|
|
| CocoaxuT Pounp CAKE. — Beat one
{ pound of pulverized sugar with half a
| pound of the best butter, to a nice
| smooth cream. To this add the grated
| yellow rind of one fresh lemon, a gill
| Stir and beat
| at well together, then add one pound
{ of sifted which have
| thoreugh'y two heaping tea-
spoonfuls of Heckers’ baking powder,
and add
| and stir lightly in the grated meat of
Bake
tered and papered pans in a good
of cream and four eges.
flour, in you
mixed
| Beat all well together, then
{ one fine fresh cocoanut,
oven,
LA cit CAKE. —One coffee
i ¥
i cup Of
Youre *
butter,
Ae &
wo cups of flour, the whites of
five eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder ; flavor with ranilla. Take
| from this one large tablespoonful ;
*
of flour and of molasses ;
nloveas i tig +5 ve gnor la 5 if
Cloves, Ana oOhs winegiass ol
Put
a"
frostin
the
pulling
Bake this in one layer.
¥
WE £
with soft g,
the fruit layer in the middie.
| may be frost or not, as you please.
[cine For CHOCOLATE CAKE, —Take
| two ounces of prepared chocolale
ti Wl
w=
do
| pot grate it, but put i unbroken
pie-plate or in a shallow basin, and set
is «51% 14 1 le . q
| it will melt slowly, Of course
| be
and kept
i
burning.
watched carefully
When it is
four tablespoonfuls of milk, two of
all
| water
thorou
utes,
_ and let it boil for five min-
aa tha rake 1 Gri
M; tl § 3
Make the cake after any good
ake recipe, When the
.
ghiy
| layer cake is
| and on the top of the cake, and set that
in the oven to harden.
Kerri Hoxev.—To keep honey
the year round, let it run through a fine
sieve, to separate it from the particles
of wax, then boil it gently in an earthen
vessel. skim off the foam which gathers
on top, and cool it in jars. Cover tightly
and set in a cool cellar.
Swiss Carnival Cakes —DBeat up
three eggs with half a pint of milk and
enough flour to make a stiff batter.
Let it
| enough flour to roll it out very thin.
| Cut it in strips or any other fanciful
shape, throw them into hot fat and fry
a very pale brown.
Lemos Custanrbd.—Twelve eggs;
twelve cupfuls of sugar; six lemons
one tablespoonful of flour; two table-
spoonfuls of cream. Grate and squeeze
the lemons, mix the sugar well with
them. add the well-beaten yelks, then
the flour, the cream, and, last of all,
the well-beaten whites. Bake in pie-
plates, lined with rich puff paste,
LonstER SALAD, ~—Pick all the meat
from the body and claws of a cold boiled
lobster and chop it fine ; chop separately
the white part of a head of celery or
lettuce and mix with the lobster meat.
Season with pepper, salt, four table-
spoonfuls of vinegar, five oil, three of
thick sweet cream, and the finely
minced yelks of four hard-boiled eggs, a
tablespoonful of French mustard and a
few capers,
Fresi MACKERAL.—Clean the fish |
scald a bunch of herbs and chop them
fine, and put them with one ounce of
butter, three tablespoonfuls of soup
stock ftito a stewpan. Lay in the mack-
erel, and simmer gently for ten minutes.
Lift them out upon a het dish ; dredge
a little flour, and add salt, cayenne,
a little lemon juice, and finally
two tablespoonfuls of eream ;
these just boil, and pour over the
BorLep Toxous.—If the tongue
is not hard soak it not more than three
hours, Put it into ® stewpan with
plenty of cold water and a bunch of
herbs ; let it come to a boil, skim,
and simmer gently until tender;
peel off the skin and garnish it with
parsley and lemon. If to serve if
cold fasten it to a board with a
fork through the root and another
through the top to straighten it; when
cold glace it and dress with tufts of
parsley.
A Devicious cake is made by beat-
ing five eggs very light; beat the
whites and yelks separately, and if the
yelks are at all lumpy strain them,
Beat three cups of powdered sugar
and one cup of butter to a cream;
add one cup of sweet milk, four cups of
sifted flour, in which you have mixed
one teaspoonful and a half of baking
powder, and the juice and the grated
peel of one lemon. Put the whites of
the eggs in last, Bake in a moderate
oven in one large, round loaf, or in two
long narrow tints,
——-
About Women.
know a woman wondrous fair--
A model woman she —
Who never runs her neighbors down
When she goes out to tea.
She never gossips after church
Of dresses or of hats ;
She never meets the sewing school
And joins them in their spats,
Bhe never beats a salesman down,
Nor asks for pretty plaques;
Bhe never asks the thousand things
Which do his patience tax
These statements may seem very strange
At least they may to some ; :
But just remember this, my friends,
The woman's deaf and dumb
—A ™ontreal girl turned in and
whipped a tailor who only paid her 40
cents for making a coat, the agreed
price being $2.50, and heartless magis-
trate fined her 20 cents and remitted
the costs,
—The first person appointed to office
under the
Mary F.
new civil service rules was
Hoyt, of Connecticut. BShe
in her examination, She gets a clerk-
ship in the treasury department.
Dr. Holmes thus stands up for the
“There is no such thing as a
punster. 1 never
heard of one, though 1
A Woman
WOoHen ©
female knew nor
have once o1
i
make a single
£
L rs 8 har
Ruown a hen
A Philadelphia woman who was ar-
ve in a hand-
and elegantly furnished house,
table, owned a carriage,
when ;
Her
eleven and
and, except begging, wore very
f clothes, four children,
the youngest three
As caps in some countries denote
stratus of the
hair-dressing in Japan tells of the lady’s
There, a girl, at the age of
nine wears her bair tied up in
femenine wearer
condition,
a red
of a couple of
When she is
she combs her
makes it
locks, one
of
hais
side. mar-
for-
the shape of a
butterfly or fan and decorates it with
gilver cord and balls, A widow who
ward, up in
hair around a tortoise shell pin, while an
inconsolable widow cuts her hair short,
These last are said to be rare.
Miss Middy Mergan, the live-stock
reporter of the New York Times, hap-
pened to be left inchargeof a cottageina
New Jersey village, where she was vis-
iting. a few days age. To her appeared
two villainonsdooking tramps, “Well,
have you anything for us, old woman 7"
asked one of the fellows. “Oh, yes,”’ was
the answer; *‘just wait and I'll bring it
down.” Miss Morgan went quickly up
stairs, and in half a minute returned
with a seven-shooter firmly grasped in
her right hand. ‘“This is what I have
for you,” said she. “How do you like
it?" The tramps did not wait to an-
swer the question, but got out as fast
as their legs could carry them,
S——-— SE ———
~The electricity generated by the
machinery in one of the great Harmony
mills, at Cohoes, owing to peculiar con-
ditions which are not perfectly under.
stood, has of late so charged the atmos-
phere as to affect the employes un.
pleasantly, Various attempts were
made without result to remove the
nuisance, but at last a network of wires
running through the mill has been suc-
cessfully employed to collect the elec-
tricity and conduct it to the ground.
Sissi MY
~Many weird tales have been told of
seeds found in the hands of Egyptian
mummies being planted and growing
into some flower of wonderful beauty,
but with so dead a perfume that it de-
stroyed the lives of its wearers, Itisa
fact that an English market gardener
tivating and sent him some flower seeds
which had come in like manner from
the tomb
WISDOM.
Se
RICHARD HB. BTODDARD,
—
Not in what the schoolmen write
But in simpler leaves than theirs
Look for wisdom ; in your sight
It is lurking unawares
Bos yon bush, aflame with roses
Like the burning Bush of Moses
Learn what wisdom there discloses,
Listen there, and you shall hear
What the schoolmen never knew ;
How from out it, soft and clear,
God is speaking (hark 1) to you
: Learn the wisdom of the roses
That on sunshine live, and dew
They have never ssked what Moses
Thought was wisdom. Why should you?
Sc ssosna—” ——————————
Jocose Clips.
—A3overnment pastry—A mint spy.
~The provincial press — a cider
mill,
~— It never perspires but it pores,
— An echo is a halloa mockery,
—Outward bound Books,
-=A forbidding profession—The auc-
tioneer’s,
~Pound marks are always found
with pugilisis
— Very few brass bands in a military
parade can play as many airs as the
drum major puts on,
~A man whose best works are ale
ways trampled under foot—A carpe
manufacturer,
— When a man does not get up with
the lark in the morning, the presump-
tion is that he was out on a swallow
the night previous.
—“How sensible vour little boy
talks I” exclaimed Mrs. Smith, “Yes,"?
replied Mrs. Brown, “he hasn't bees
among company yet,’
~—An exchange speaks of a man who
‘is but one step removed from an ass,”’
He'd better
The animal
ward,
make it four,
back-
three
long
OF
has a reach
Satire can no further go thaa when
Sam Johnson said to booby, “If
1 that you
humbly crave
of the ocom-
a
have
sisi arnt
understand,
said anything
sir 1
the pardon of the rest
pany.”
Judge Walsh, of Chicago, has de-
cided that it is pot cruelty to attach
damaged tinware to the tail of a dog
This would seem to indicate that Judge
Walsh does not keep dogs and his neigh-
DOTE do,
in order to make the animal beat
~The addresses of a cestain young
young
“How
said
of the first call,
“You have got the same hair, and the
same forehead, the same eyes—'’
“And added
quickly. He has stopped calling at the
house,
— Well,"
man having been declined by a
much you resemble your sister,”
he, on the evening
and
the same nose,’ she
remarked a young M. D.
just returned from college, ‘1 suppose
that the next thing will be to hunt a
good situation, and then wait for some
thing to do, like Patience ms =~
““Yes,'' said a bystander ; “aid
be long affer you begin
fore the monuments will be on the pa-
tients.”
—The windows of houses in the Pail-
lippine isles are made of pellucid oyster
shells, which admit light, bul cannot
be seen through. It is not explained
how the woman, who sits up till after
midnight to ascertain what hour the
beau of the young lady opposite leaves,
overcomes this difficulty.
Ou a
ment.’
it won't
LE -
—An Englishman shoooting small
game in Germany remarked to his
host that there was a speck of danger
in shooting in America. “Ah” said
the host, “you like danger mit your
sport ? Den you go out shooting mit
me. De last time I shoot mine brudder-
in-law in the stchomack."
—*“May I leave a few tracts asked
a travelling quack doctor of a lady
who responded to his knock. ‘Leave
some tracts? Qertainly you may,”
said she, looking at him most benignly
over her specs; ‘‘leave them with
the heal toward the house, if yom
please,’
«1 understand you have rented
another house,” said an Austin gentie-
man to an acquaintance. ‘Do you
like the location?” “Yes, quite a
number of conveniences. There's &
livery stable on one side, a lager beer
saloon next door and a land factor
right aeross the street. Everything
seerns handy enough, as far as I can
see,"
—A father of the high school girl
draweth out the thread of his
bosity finer than the staple of
argument.” “Well,” replied the