THE DESERTED ROAD,
To the mossy wayside tavern,
Comes the noisy throng no more,
And the faded sign complaining,
Swings unnoticed at the door.
While the old decrepit tollman,
Waiting for the few who pass,
Reads the melancholy story,
In the thickly springing grass.
Ancient highway! thon art vanquished,
The usurper of the vale,
Rolls in fiery iron rattle,
Exultations on the gale.
Thou art vanquished and neglooted,
But the good which thon oh done,
Though by man it be forgotten,
Shall be deathless as the sun.
Though neglected, gray, and grassy,
Still I pray that my decline
May be through as vernal valleys,
And as blest a calm as thine,
OLD ANDREW AND ST, LUKE,
ples? This here’s a a fie country, old
man,”
“I shall not enter into a discussion
of individual rights. You may enter-
tain one idea and I may hold another,
I grant you the right and you should
not withhold it from me.”
‘Never mind your high-strung talk.
I ain’t got time to palaver. This here's
a business visit, old man.”
“What business can you have with |
“Lemme tell you a little story.”
“Thought this was a business visit,” |
“Well, airter the story the business |
comes, One time thar was a feller
what was a quiet sort o' man. One o’
the neighbors killed his son. Hedwdn't |
didn’t do nuthin’, Alrter |
the neighbors |
caused his wife to leave him, Hedidn’t
Some time airterwards his
mountain side. It was typical of its
rugged mountain side of life,
a strange man.
wonderful enterprise of the Methodist
at that time young Andrew, parted the
rank cane with the vigorous hand of
the gospel. He was never married. In
old and feeble to longer engage in ac-
fon was a large shaggy dog, whose
somewhat astounding cognomen, St.
Luke,
one occasion,
fmal’s name, claiming that it was irrev-
erent to bestow on a dog so saintly a ti-
tle. This request was not granted, and
it was hinted that it had something to
do with old Andrew's withdrawal from
active warfare with the world, the flesh
and the devil, St Luke very much re-
sembled his master. The odd fancy
sometimes indulged even by practical
people that men and animals can asso-
ciate so long
partake of each others physical,
say mental peculiarities, Old Andrew
had but one good eye; St. Luke
bad one. Old Andrew's chin shook;
8t. Luke’s under jaw was
Old Andrew limped; so did St, Luke.
Several nights ago, old An-
drew sat by his fire, nodding and
is
while
his
wild cat whisky.”
Old Andrew waited for a moment to
hear the conclusion of the recital.
Steve sat with his gaze fixed on the
“Well,
brother?”
“Killed him,’* and agam there was
a sluggish laugh like the murky slosh |
of swamp water
“What, killed his brother for so little
what did he do with his |
‘Zackley The greatest sin what a |
man’ can do in this world 1s to repo’t
‘he old man looked around nervous-
ly, and then began to search the wvisi-
He might as well have |
studied a shoveilall of earth,
“This evenin’,
uty marshal came to my house.
ed my gun through and
killed him, Then left, an’ as I was |
passin’ here, I thought I'd stop an’ tall
you bye, fur I've got to leave the
country, How old are you?”
“Seventy-eight.’
“It's bad that
“a dep-
I pok-
' said Steve,
the window
BO yd
* .
Ad you've TOL 8B
to die
vith a murderous
16er.
“My God,
kill me?”
“Oh,
man, vou don't mean to
no, wouldn't kill you. A man
snake what tries to
bite him.»
Weve took a short rope from his
He made a loop at one end and
sal for a time turning the hemp round
pocket,
by a knock at the door,
“Come inl”
Steve Blue entered. Blue was
large, rough fellow, with thick, coarse-
grained skin, heavy eyes which looked
oh
expression of brutality and lack of
thought. Old Andrew arose and mo-
tioned the visitor to a chair. St. Luke
his effective eye a moment and slowly
closed it, not without an air of suspic-
fon. Although the old stage horse of
the church, as Mr. Lickney was some-
times called, and Steve Blue lived in
the same neighborhood, yet they knew
very little of each other, for in the
rough fellow, old Andrew, could find
nothing attractive, and in the some-
what intellectual preacher the dull eyes
of Steve could see nothing at all.
mutual lack of interest caused old An-
drew to regard the visit with surprise,
Steve sat down, and with his heavy
gaze fixed on the fire, remained for
some time in silence,
began to show signs of nervousness,
but whether they were observed by the
ure in such exhibitions, the unwilling
host could not divine. At last Steve,
removing his gaze from the fire, and
fixing it on old Andrew, said:
do me no vio-
with only
“For the love of God,
lence. 1 am an old man
*A few nore minutes, you mean,”
“I am unable to defend myself, and |
am at your mercy.’
“Don’t reckon I want you to defe
yourself, do you? I ain't the man
give a feller a stick an’ tell him
knock me down."
“Will you let me pray?”
**No, you've prayed enough in your
‘sides that, you might
pray for the marshals to ketch me,"
“No, I will only pray for myself, |
AL, Mr. Blue, life is sweet even to an
man, The young, with bright |
nd
to
I did you no intentional
your forgiveness, |
“Old man, life is as sweet to me as
is to you. ‘Cause you've read books
preached, don’t think that your
life is worth more to you than mine is
to me.”
“Yes, but I would not take yours for
If you had but ove hour to
it
er day, wa'n’t you?”
“Yes, 1 went down on business,”
“Seed
down
murky slosh of swamp water.
some o' them gover'ment men
thar, didn’t you?”’
The old man started, as though seized
by a sudden fear.
jury.”
“An’ you told ‘em that several fel.
lers in this here curmunity was makin’
wild cat whiskey, eh?"
The old man moved uneasily and re-
plied: “‘I was placed under oath and |
was compelled to answer the questions |
which they asked me,
to do it, wa'n't you?"
“It was no business of mine, and I
tion.”
us away. You want to see us drug oft |
starve.”
“The assertion is unjust, Mr. Blue.
ng, has been to alleviate suffering, in-
stead of causing it.
that you were an illicit distiller,
i
i
|
|
lawful business,’
“Unlawful business,” repeated Steve,
with a merciless grin.
do what I please with my co'n an’ ap
of that short time I would gain years
I would not lift a finger
You are yet a free man,
You may take my
“1 will take your horse—"
“Thank you,”
“After 1 have took your life,
“Oh, Lord, save your"
Steve threw the loop over the old |
man’s head and with a jerk pulled him
He fell on his knees |
and with his palsied hands, struggled to |
loosen the rope. Steve stood regarding |
lus victim with brutal fondness, He |
allowed the rope to slacken, for he seem-
ed to take a fiendish delight in hearing
the old man’s tones of agony.
“For Christ's sake spare me!" cateh-
“Spare me, and I will
pray unceasingly for you. Oh, do you
not know that there is an awful hell
where the murderer's soul cries out in
| the deep anguish of unbearable torture!”
“You'd better draw up a bench, old
“Oh, that you were a mourner!”’
“An' then you'd have the heels on
me, eh? To throw asde foolishness
an’ come down to business, you've got
to die. I'm going to drag you ‘round
He gave the rope a jerk, and the old
The old man’s
tongue came out, and catehing on a
sharp nail, was aimost torn from his
mouth, The old dog arose and was
gazing at the horrible performance.
Steve, In turning to drag the lifeless
body back toward the fireplace, stum.
bled over a stool and fell. The old
He sprang
seized him by the
AR
Bteve struggled desperately,
but his hands becoming entangled in
the rope, he was soon in a helpless con-
dition. His groans were awful. The
old man’s life was but a mere breath,
Steve's life was a storm,
relax his hold.
ghals entered the havse, A shocking
picture. The old man lay on his back
with his hands clasped. Steve’s face
was blue and his eyes protruded in a
ghastly stare. They all dead.
The dog’s eyes were closed, and in death
were
sassin’s throat.
cn ———————————]
Cromwell and the Boy,
There i8 no doubt but
Cromwell, the Protector, resided
time in Glasgow, about He
his dwelling in **Silvercraigs street,
the east side of the Saltmarket
site the Dridgegate. A
strange stories lingered in the last
tury and the beginning of the present,
as to the sayings and doings of Oliver,
It was said that he
with of
clergymen, and had many a tough argu
ment as to the
merits of Presbyterianism
trasted with independency, or,
were at that time called, Separate Sect-
The clergyman had the
fortitude to meet the Protector in dis-
{ pute was said to be Mr. Patrick
ple, then minister of the Outer High
Kirk. The Protector maintained that
under the system then in
Scotland the lower classes
that
for a
1658.
on
number of
one
con-
who
prevailing
were left ig-
To test the
day the Protect
took thelr
the
this,
ministerial
accuracy of one
friend
Saracen Inn,
It was agresd
wi
ho
and 118
i in the Old at
lads drove
coals fi
the
many
y
¥
ir Lhe su
in
14
nall 1
HLA calle
be
preg
put any question
Seri
uke's Gost
of En
was the }
the Son of God.”
atl the accurate 1
rewarding him with
was begged to become in his
interrogator, and asked :
thus answered
you be pleased Answer
80 ancien*; It is only
who was my father ?" The
was somewhat overcome
which was still intensified
inquiry at mine host al the
Head he was informed that
41 3 EET i veil
ul HE £2, an
HS
a golden
turn the
plece,
save fod
WOuld
It is
ne
Protector
with ire
when on
Saracen’s
the carter
Monklands,
age was hid under a
impenetrable obscurity.
Ee ———
your question
18,
to mine,
one not , teil
*
veil of
A Bachelor's Bower.
A dupper young man with
eves and a captivating moustache glided
softly and swiftly skyward in
smooth-run elevator of the big
building at Fifth Avenue ard Twen y-
second street N. Y. ng
the roof, stepped daint
hed Key ir
and
interior
ning
and 80.
where near iv on
Here neal i¥ ou
itted a polis a nchly penciled
walnut door,
view the
fairy-like
suddenly opened
§
magnificence of
apartments
tw
where a well
blessed
Cupid,
11689, A
naively
Wings
in sumptuous single
beautifully modeled
brot FA
r of
bands amorously pt the
Just above his curly heaa
a large crystal chandelier shed a sof
ly brica brace that were artistically
grouped about the sofa. Gold-framed
the heavy lambrequins
doorways and windows. Other
bronze figures filled the spaces between
the ebony sideboards, whose treasures
of silver ornaments and curiosities
duplicated and reduplicated in the be-
wildering reflection of polished Frenecl
mirrors of the mantel and alcove, Ad.
a curtained doorway is the
apartment to the aforesaid young bear,
with another collection of paintings and
bric a brac and bronze scattered about,
The bed is rosewood, the pillowcases of
cambric and real old lace, and the
coverlid soft old gold satin, superbly
efMroidered anda lined with swan
down. The dapper young man with
the captivating moustache sank in the
luxurious earpet at every step as he
moved hither and thither exhibiting the
treasures of the two rooms, This apart.
ment and another, and even more elabo-
rate one, containing $50,000 worth of
handsomest bachelor quarters in the
city since Mr. William Henry Hurlbert
broke up his bower'of art and editorial
comfort at the University building, It
is estimated that it cost the gay young
bear of Wall street something like $40,.
000 to indulge his artistic whims,
Show respect for old age. Youth
does not always last,
Is Life mawing Songer?
To be told that under proper condi
tions we ought to live 100 years, and
| that the discouraging doctrine of the
{ influence of heredity in shortening 1ife
is only true in a limited sense, 1s inter
Su, also, the
| esting to most people, 18
that much may yet be done to prolong
our lives, The late Dr.
| seription of the march through
1,000,000 children, has fol
Nearly 150.000 will die
52,000
life
given the
lowing results:
in the first year,
0) in the third year, and
| 4,000 in the thirteenth year.
tend of 45 years 500,000,
have died. At the
i 00 years 370,000 will stil
second
tha
in the
£0
5 4
less
At
one half
or iA
beginning
1 be living
90,000;
| will
at BS
2.100
the beginning of 80 years,
years, 58 000; 05
and at
At the beginning of 100 years
be and at 108 years 1,
| lifetime of both
years,
there wil
The
England
years ago to be 40,558
41 years, Mr. Humpkreysha
that in the 5 years, 1
n age of death
i), being
Ti has within 20
ey
rd
sexes in wa
calculated some
or nearly
el
shown,
to 1880
*
however,
the
females
*] years.
wit}
Wwithst
mea was 49
ot a gain of nearly
th rate,
u
gs suddenly grown
anding an increased bi
density olf population, and the nsani-
tary condition of town
, more than 24
added to the life of
England.
“What is
y
increasing?
large vears have beer
{
every inhabitant of
the kind
Are
mature longer, or
ive | Or are
I ambo
the gain
life; that wh
of
we You
oid
we only i
which is
wonger, or
Dao
i 1 1
little =
iife
ing
Wie
onger,
hat
in dying?’ ind to admit t
ne of t
Ar
26808
in early
¢
life at birth is
we?” Dr. Farr has
{oliows; Boyhood, 10 to 151
15 to 25; manhood, 25 to 15;
75; ripeness, 75
» and upward,
In taking the
I follow ing the
Peron
Sorta :
tion children born, we fi: '
ter this age and 161.124 leave
f
x8 of
d th
Disease of the brain, heart and |
31.400 die of old
umber that enter the
161,124
the number that leave it alive
His. About 125 500 die,
bran, heart and other
Nearly 50,000 die of atrophy,
und old age. Some writer says he has
met few or no cases of death from
ge, everybody dying of some recognized
It is trus that the
disease become obscure |
i th. \ t Sty Tey
aie LUE NOS common; «
ee he n next
fecennial-—75 to RS and
-Are
ale
chiefly of lung,
diseases
debility
local
old
liscase, symptoms
n old age,
ia and othes
¢
Of
many cases of pueumon
fammations escaping recognition.
¢ also true that many deaths
ed to disease ate mainly doe
; slight injuries, cold. bs
attacks which in early
have been shaken off, Of the
with which we starts 2.135 live
223 to 100, Finally
age of 95-
£ 3 ies 4
ge of 108 one solitary life dies.
$
ba,
Years
A
Hallways in the Desert,
Genera | Meigs, the greatest authority
way construction in the
shows that the Mexican
Railway has been laid at the
of nearly a mile a day, and asks
yy the British Government cannot do
as well, or even better, between thé
ed Sea and the Nile. They would
wave to do much better than this in or.
der to rescue Gen. Gordon, The dis-
tance from Suakim to Berber is 250
and General Gordon cannot be
expected to hold his ground 250 days,
One thing, however, must not be for
sotten. The news that the British
were building such a raliway would
travel fast. Be ore the first section of
ifty miles could be completed, the
soudanes on the Nile would be con.
vinced that the British were in earnest,
and they might be disposed either to
declare for General Gordon or to dis-
perse quietly,
General Meigs says nothing about the
climate of the Sondan, which would
probably prove a greater obstacle to
railway construction than the engineer-
ing difficulties. Major Clarke, who has
nad great experience in raflway build.
ing in India, ridicules in the London
press the idea that the project is 1m-
practicable on account of the heat. He
has bullt rallways with a mean monthly
temperature of 02 degrees Fahrenheit,
night and day, and Jaughs at the excuse
that it will be too hot during the sum-
mer to proceed with this work in the
Soudan, Wellinformed exports in
England are confident that such a line
would not only prove of the utmost im-
portance in a military sense, but would
ultimately be a profitable enterprise,
since 100,000 tons of freight already
Hi military rail
wi
miles,
finds their way down the Nile
Boers ana Bushmen.
¥OOD FOR THOUGHT,
——————————
The Bushmen are the lowest type of | We consider the man undone who is
aborigines in Bouth Africa, and in their | insensible to shatoe,
wild condition are a curse to the farm- | a Sore condemning:
|ers, by their thefts of stock and | Say a a
their aversion to work, Consequently | and those
there is an open enmity between Boers N ever
{ and Bushmen, the farmer engaged in
when ‘they get a Our true acquisitions }
Bushmen retaliating | cHarities: gain as
| sometimes fatal as
ied the
government maintains
nted which pat rol
, but owing to its
nature of th
dilic ult for the
in restraining Boers
| the
| In last June,
niece and
search for cone
Hitle as possiliie
ar toy
on
of yourself
nea iti.
i indulges in levit
| are worshin,
and :
# shooting the
| latter
{ the
chance,
by
results,
Boers,
force
firing,
their
The
of
we we give
with Every man
POIBOT arrows at minstrel end
™.,
i HG
Lior}
Agi
TAVS
, Are col
ih
i mon the dis-
1 Lrict
| tent
poiice,
@normous fie]
whic
of
10 Giseony
6 country; pleasure
’ A
y fs ad Men
police |
KN Xious
and the
| Is very
| sither arrest]
One Saturday evening
a Bushman, wi!
# 1itr ia shi > 63 TE i a var 3 %
a little child, were seen In nd a true delicacy is solid
sore titstenl tio 3 $n
occupied Le Beau WOTrKe
cates both the holder
than
wine-i
| porarily by three brother®of and the be
jof Steyn. This was about 30 miles
{from a place called Kanhardt, They
made a fire and encamped by it for the
night. Before daybreak
ing shots were
the name
There i8 no begfar so des
who can afford nothing
The certa
fancy one’s
others,
to |
a5
in
self
WAY
Sunday morn- more cur
heard, the man and the
| two women were found killed by
wounds, the child’s head giving the
pearance of having had it dashed against
a rock, There
ag three
brothers
As charity covers a mult
before God, doe
man.
Old age has deformiti
own, not add to it the
Yice,
The
prove
toy
bullet -
80 13)
16 ap-
Wis Strong do
ainst the
whic
be the ]
They in
morning with their guns, the cartridges
picked up corresponded to
by them, and it was sworn
‘had made provir
guilt. It
that there were {
{ that
{ the
| witne
| or
been out company
most will
used Ol.
they
ig their
ed
those
>
Every base
sharp in its practice, and du
other,
Try to be hs
moment; and
¢ Line to come,
How mdny people
occupat
that }
admissions
WAS, Lowever, also pron
wow in this
APPY In thi
put
WIR
Very mornit
murder
wes for
Hottentot
1g be
Tic
Lid
i
thar
Vilall
the guilty
vices, "tis ingratitude
Often the world dis
} We Gouln vit a foul crim as cow moral worth only
mitted by some among the seven farm tins nearly destroyed |
Perfect valor consists in doing
we shoul i he ¢
before the world
A man’s
at ie
JUSLICe
whet in
Hn
present he three prisoners
were rightly acquitted the evi-
dence presented to the court.
die scene, g with
capable
+
a
} Ate wl
ont witnesses all
of doing
Live what you have; live if you
can on less: do pot borrow, for vanity
will surely end in shame
Nobody i» perfect; 1 but t &
and iove do much to softer
hard edges of existence.
The weakest living creature, by con-
centrating his powers on a single object
can accomplish something
As no man can expect a continual
train of prosperity, he ought not to ap-
| prehend a constant adversity.
Where the people are well educated,
the art of piloting a state is best Jearn-
1 from the writing of Plato
reply. Good counsels observed are chains
“How grace, which, neg lected, prove hallers
“4 or p | strange, undutiful children,
“Why, 1 fell short of my estimate of | yoii0 loves truth so well that :
stock by about $3,000." rarely admits of g. Conceit
“And you don’t know how to is to nature what paint is to beauty.
ures come out even?’ The repentance Seared til
id age, is but
y inability of comunti
up 20 per cent, Good breeding .
Gineral Jackson!" gasped the old | fles, or the preference
tid ourselves in the
‘but I kicked around in bed for! life.
three straight nights and never thoug!
of that. That's
and up goes the price
flat-irons.*’
upon
v
-- on
Caliker and Fiat-1rogs.
uary last a good
dry goods,
wire, and pretty much evervthing else,
in the centrai portion of the State
cided to take an inventory for the first
time in twenty-one Abeut
time was completed a commerci
traveler for a house in the city happened
along and asked him how came
out.
“Well,
1.1
. .
old-fashioned
In Jan
dealer in
rbearanoce
irritable
groceries, hard. the
de
Yours, the
it al
ne
it’s kinder dubious,” wag the | ©
0
0
Boss rials bs
gourisiin
make
that 1s
too often ;
your oi
“] contess I don't.”
¥
11
“We
\ ng more sins
LAS 5
iN
+ all you
21 is benevolence
«
everything :
Of (
daily occurrences
man;
i Takeaway from mankind their vanity
| and their ambition, and there would be
i | but few claiming to be heroes or patri-
ina,
| The firm without pliancy, and the pli-
i ant without firmness, resei! vessels
| without water and water without ves-
Countiess ws every | sels,
knows, arise from the use of matches, Good nature is the very air of a good
To obtain light without employing | mind; the sign of a large and generous
them, and without the danger of set- fo rors peculiar soil in which vir-
ting things on fire, an ingenious con- {| Sport * ani
of Pans in ali the magazines where ex- a ery hour lost now, is a chance of
plosive or inflammable materials are | future misfortune,” ’
kept. Any one may easily make a | As ceremony is the invention of wise
trial of it. Take an oblong vial of the | men to keep fools at a distance, 80 good
whitest and clearest glass and put into | | breeding is an expedient to make fools
it a piece of phosphorus about the size and wise men equals. :
of a pea. Pour some olive oil heated | al nodes: Perign 0 Adon full to gain
to the boiling point upon the phospho- ita because nobody envies a rosin
tous; fill the vial about one-third full | who does not appear to be pleased with
and then cork it tightly, To use this
himself.
novel light remove the cork, allow the| Good breeding is the art of shawing
air to enter the vial and become lu.
men, by external signs, the interna
minous,-and the light ebtalned will be regard we have for them, It arises
equal to that of uiamp, When the light
from sense, improved by convers-
grows dim its power can be increased
ing with good company.
cot will bold the bulk
by taking out the cork and allowing a A tage not y
freash supply of the air to enter the
furniture amd sumptuous accommoda~
tions of the mansion, but, if God be
vial, In Winter it 18 sometimes nec. | there, & cottage will hold as mueh hap-
essary to heat the vial between the pinness as might stock a palace,
hands in order to increase the fluidity] The chief secret of comfort hes in
of the oil. The apparatus thus made [not trifles to vex us, and in
may be used for six months,
sss
cultivating our hndeigranth
of pg since
Pump Walls,
the way, of co
of caliker
Apo
Eubatituies for Matches,
accidents, one
at YE ew
These men who destroy a healthful
constitution of $ Salt by Sempre intemperance
SRd an deregules
kill themselves as a Un MaftwLy or
poison, or drown themselves.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a
legacy, let him be never so in
all look upon him in
to be than a maven that
watches & woak sheep only to plek out
its eyes.
Pictures hanging against a damp wal
should be packed with lead paper suck
as is found in tea chests, or they should
be held clear of the wall by affixing ¢
cork at each corner of the frame, Eithe:
of these means will protect the pleture
from the bad effects of the dampness
Silence never yet betrayed any one.