A
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
Call is seldom grit.
Perfect rest is death.
Our nature consists in motion.
Where there’s a will there's a con’ ost-
ant,
Noquestion is settled until is is seltled
right.
The best of prophets of the future is
the past,
cowardice,
together
A smart man can learn a good deal
from a fool.
People who think too little are sure to
talk too much.
You can tell by the honey where the
bees have been,
There is nothing improbable to a
Jealous woman,
The lightning is as full of mercy as
the gentle shower,
but love still more so.
burned up or buried.
nough of it is genius,
gels what it went after.
who give away the most,
ing"’ than not to see at all,
ing 18 to keep sliding forward.
is to make him more thankful.
than a mountain spring does.
his knees prays very little,
The first secret a girl keeps from her
mother is her first step astray.
Suffering is the surest
making us truthful to oursalves,
The man who 18 satisfied with himself
is terribly disappointed in other people,
to be necessary to run the social
3
gine,
alike; the blizzarl Is mostly for
I ks.
If a man is right he can't be too rad-
ical; if he is wrong he can’t be to con-
servative,
A man realizes that life isa burden
Poor
premium,
A man is a genius who can say nice
things to two different women without
repeating.
the chance.
ing money, and tha! is in giving it
away.
children too much and talk to them too
little.
Where there is the right kind of faith
there is sure to be the right kind of
works,
The woman who talks about her
neighbors is no worse than the one who
listens,
If an alligator could talk he wou'd
probably declare that he had a small
mouth,
The man who seeks for truth will
never find very much of it while walking
on stilts,
No man can work with all his heart
and soul for anything he does not believe
to be true,
The man who never ma kes mistakes
learn something,
Lelsare for men of business, and busi-
ness for men of leisure, would cure
many complaints,
The person who can
often most willing to give
piece of his mind,
others a
ity and trouble,
in the opinlons they form of us,
we do ourseives.
than
is not well bred and possessed of sense
to comprehend it
It is one of the easiest things in the
world to economically lay out the money
You never will have.
Woman hath this resemblance to
sugar, that the more refined she is the
harder it 18 to detect thas sand,
Be not too brief in conversation, lest
you be not understood; nor too diffuse,
lest you be troublesome,
There isn’t a man in ten thousand
who knows what kind of a man he
would be if he bad plenty of money.
About the only time some people
speak well of some other people Is after
th y ars dead and buried,
The man who starts out to he a re.
former had better be well prepared for
aii kinds of roads and weather,
If poor men knew how hard rich men
have to work, aad how little they get
or doing It, they would be better satis-
fled.
The difference between a wan’s sphere
and a woman’s is that the woman does
the most work and the man gets the
most salary,
The man who knows that he was one
kind of a fool yesterday very often has u
suspicion that he 1s some kind
a fool to-day.
A philosopher 1s a man who ean
a8 easy over lus own troubles as
over his neighbor's. There
osophers,
LIFE.
oi glow of noon, and gloom of utter night;
Bleak, bitter days of winter storm and
trem,
nd bland, bright hours or summer bloom
and light;
A volos that speaks strange secrets none
may guoss,
En antiovs questioning without reply,
A wind that comes and goos—n song, a =igh!
A dim, mysterious dusk of ancient trees,
That over stir with wild and wandering
tone
Of laughter, strife, 01d pains and prophecies;
Deep breath of bliss, heart throb, and an.
&uished moan;
A narrow streak of summ path between:
A bird's brief note, high, clear and keen!
A message written in the shifting sands,
forms that drift athwart the twi
light gleams,
Bley walls, far Lown from un imagined
lands;
Faces that laugh oreer 1m revered dreams;
Vout, Busbed with fameof longlug end de
wire;
Cannt age, chill. fingered, crouching by the
Qre!
To 1% 4 masque of mingle tears and mirth...
&. shallow scene, a painted puppoet-play,
Wade for the gods who sit above the earth
And dose away the years? Ab. who shal)
say?
aad go;
wCharles L. Hildreth, in Belford,
sss contigs
A PECULIAR CASE.
TI haven't a bit of patience with that
their heads in @ solemn way and de-
viwring that many an inoucent man has
beén sent to State Prison on circum.
Such instagces have
accused I am about to namato the pare
aod to sce what curious combinations
Tan arise through circumstances,
James Stowe was a merchapt in the
village of Ge, Iilinois. He had
years wis a
He
A rear before tha
boy being fa orphso and ‘his vephow,
Bob, as we all called him, was thirte f
years old when be came. He went into
wade for him up stairs
I waa a Loy of Bob's age, ana we came
to be chums. it thus came about that 1
learned the cause of certain welts ‘and
bruises on his legs and body. Hisuacle,
pretending to feel a great interest
in bis welfare, and while speaking to
bim 10 the kindest wanner before others,
was beating him 60 the slightest excuse,
and seeking to make the place so warm
for him that be would run away. Some
boys would have gone, but Bob bado't
he courage to get up anil face the world
Without s shilling io his pocket
Ou the aftergoon of the 234 Gay of
June, 1863, as was sors to in court,”
was io the alley Lack of the store, aod |
Beard Stowe whipping Bob in the store.
toom. I heard him charge Bob with
plealing some mooey, Lut the boy vigor-
ously denied it. After the whippag
Btowe told three different customers that
he had caught the boy stealing, but sup
d ghee fact that be had whipped
. 1 saw Bob about an hour alter the
ffir, and he made his denial ig such 3
manner that 1 selt sure of his Innocence.
rn Vin rom away, but asd
money to give bio, and as he
w selelsnd Lin
think it best to go.
come and share his
night, as I bad often
He wanted me fo
bed with him that
dens before, but a
Stowe saw us
away from the
together, and ordered me
store.
At sevowr o'clock that evenrug » men
the village
from Chicago to visit a sister, He had
Iz money with him,
over might,
the store was closed and
At nine o'clock 1
left home to go to the store, caltulating
to call Bob up Ly throwing pebbles
against his window, a sigual often made
before. As I passed the alley {saw a
man gkulk away. I afterward swore in
court that I believed this man to be
Btowe. The sight of bim trightened mo,
ead I retuned home at once. Next
‘‘the mystery” opened with a
San at Joba
uring night, and the
safe had been Yobbed or wicks
82000. lavestigation heightened the
mystery.
There wis blood on Bob's pillow. A
L of ‘blood led from Bis bedmde to
back door of the store. The safe
beén opéned in the regular way, and
Talmed that $400 of bis money
had gooe with Chadwick's, The town
and the village con.
utissm aod worth
two strangers. One soon
imse!f as an honest man,
other admitted that he was a
from the army and a tramp,
searching him £120 in greeabacks
found ja one of his poe
At eight o'cloék
| was no doubt that both deeds had been
accomplished by the sétno hand. Every.
It could
miles was sarelally examined.
this fact only strength-
pot be found, ba
{ guilt, He bad, by the by, given his
( pame 88 William Davis, and had vigor-
(ously and continually asserted his ine
| pocence of suy crime whatever, A war.
{ rant had been issued, charging him with
| robbery aud murder, and ioside of a
| week he bad been examined and held to
| the higher court without bail,
On the very doy that this ocurred a
Down-East Yankee with a patent churn
arrived in town, and, of course, be soon
heard all about the mystery. To every.
body's surprise he declared Davis {avo-
tent, and argued as follows:
| “How was the store entered? As the
| doors and windows were all right, it
{ must have been cpteted by one of the
{ doors, with a koy. How was the sale
{ robbed? By some one who kaew the
{ combination and opened it. The boy
| was up-stairs—the safe down stairs.
| What need to meddle with the boy at
ali?”
White the heroic constables and others
were digesting the above, the Yaokee
| was turning things over in his mind snd
| preparing to add
+ What object to Kill the LOY, OF oVeD
{ 0 arouse Bim? And. if killed, where Ie
| the body! Why should the robber have
carried it away at all. If Davis is the
tobber, there must bave bean blood
tpots on his clothing, What did he
do with the balance of the money?
Where did be get his key to entert
How did he learn the combination of the
mie?”
snd it no sooner reached the cars of
It was hot
the Yankee as an NOCOMOTY.
of it and re
i Gone, but the latter hear
| plied -
‘Investigate Stowe. Fe xnows more
about this than the deserter does!”
His suggestion turned public attention
| sults were forthcoming. 1 gave out the
| information that I saw him fin the alley
| at about nine o'clock of the night of the
‘crime. Tho village blacksmith then
| came forward and said be saw him on
{ the street half an hour later, and that
| Stowe dodged past him and did not re.
{ turn his salutation.
| Btowe's house declared that he went out
| just before nine o'clock snd did not re.
{ turn until ten, ‘Jt was so uowsval for
| him to go out of an evening alone that
satisfied us that be was no ghost Be 1613
| his story as follows: |
On the night of tlie
bardly got to bed wheo he had nose.
| opened the safe and
| He did got see
removed the money.
| bangin
back door, falling eut of it &s he wens.
Io this way he got the dust on his cont,
end at the same time let go of some of
the money. Bob realized thst it wes a
robbery, and suspecting that it wasa pat-
op job to get bim sent to prison, bie dee
termided to run away. He took two or
threo dollars left in the woney drawer,
bundled up something to eat, and when
morning came was miles awsy, For yp-
ward 'o
steamboat. One day he had heard two
passengers talking of the case, and when
be discovered that he was supposed to
have been murdered he at once started
for prison to clear his uncle, Stowe wad
in Staple Prison, es you know. When
told 1bat the boy had returned alive sod
nothing to say.
Well, as a mater of course, steps Ware
pardon, end 13
question
taken to secure Btowe's
was soon granted. Then came the
delays occurred, and bis lawyers ed.
vanced various techniosl objections, amit
| peared, going to Australia, and it wm
| two or three years later when the final
| particulars came to light, He had been
boarding his cash for three or four years,
calculating to skip out. He had robbed
lar, and Le fully intended to accuse Bob
He suspected thst Bob had
run awcy, and therefore movused himself
| of the alleged murder to cover up the
| other crime. After he had skipped,
| leaving bis family without eo dollar,
| great many of his dishonest transactions
| everybody that he was a rascel in dis.
While I do got deny, a3 I told you
at the outset, that a man entirely iano:
cent of a certain crime may be sent wo
| prison as guilty of it, it can scarcely bap.
| pen if be is aa honost man acd above
| swspition, His conduct must be against
| hii as ao lopocent man. Clreumstances
| =such as being seen pear the place of
| crime, betraying guilt when accosted,
swers, ole. —go a loog ways where direc:
| proof is lacking, snd I thick I am safe in
| saying that the mun who has been found
| innocent of the crime for which be was
| bung or sent to prison was guilty of sarge.
thing else of a serious nature which he
was seekiog to hide st the ti se.—Nw
York Sun,
robbery he bad lald a trap for’ him and
caught hin taking £5. He sald be had
a fecliog when he got home that be had
neglected to close the safe door, and that
be bad returned to make eortain on this
point. After finding that everything
was all right be bad stopped to put v
some goods left on the counter, and
then returned home. He denied being
in the alicy at the hour I thought] saw
bim; or of meeting the blacksmith,
A new und more vigorous search was
ofade for the body, but no trace of. it
rea picked up a tea-dollar bill in, the
rear of the store, and everybody at once
declared that the deserter oust have told
the truth. Whea the man who robbad
the safe went out by the back door he
must have Jost his grip on the money,
aod the wiud had scattered some of it.
The case agalest Davia way dropped
wien called before the higher court, aad
Slowe was put on trial for zobbary.
| hverybody now believed him guilty of
| the murder of the boy, but as the body
| could not be found this charge was not
!incloded. Search was made high sad
How for tho money, but it could not be
found. The general ides was that he
! buried the body somewhere 4u-the vil.
| lage, sud concedlod all traces,
admitted that when her husband came
home his cost was covered with dust;
ho was pale and nervous; one of his fin.
gers was bleeding from a cut, and that
he sat op for an bour after she had re-
tired. It was further discovered that
his business affairs had gone wrong, and
that two creditors were pressing him for
payment of debts. All in all, 8 protty
good case was made out against hix, but
be had a surprise in store for the public,
When called upon to plead be answered
“Rot guilty” to the tge of robboty,
but desired to plead guilty tothe accuss-
tion of having murdered the boy, This
took everybody aback, of course, snd a
they bad no more proofs in the obe case
than in the other, the charge of robbery
was dropped sad he was arraigoed on
the other. On the stand he told the
story as follows:
thief, and had punished him severs
tiroea for stealing. 1 tad spntahed 1
on fhis day. When I returned to the
store in the evening I went up to
room Yo have a talk with him, |
mmpudeat, and I struck bim &
broke his peck,
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where the various conveniences for wrid
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ran between:
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by EBoclid 2300
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THE JOKER'S BUDGET,
JESTS AND YARNS BY PUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Perfoctly Straight — Making Himsel
Bolid—Missing Data—A& Gracefu
Compliment. ete,, ete,
PERFECTLY STRAIOH?
"1 heard some one say that Wall siree
was crooked,
“Well, is it 1
“Why, no; it runs in » straight lin
from Droadway to the river,” —[Mup
soy's Weekly,
MAKING HIMSELF SOLID.
8 little girl, but I've forgotten all abou
the game now,
He (gallaotiy)—~What!
soon?
Forgotten so
MISSING DATA.
Though history much thef's ancien’
brings,
It nowhere gives the date of birth
Of two most widely mentioned nl
Old Father Time and Mother Ear
— [Chicago Herald,
A GRACEFUL COMPLIMENT.
Miss Robinson—How do you think
this dre suits me 1
Miss Tangle—First rate. You look
charming in it. Why, I bardly knew
you. —f West thore
MISUNDERETOOD,
Bbe (as he places bis arm srouna be
waist) —8lop right where you are, sir!
He (taking a firmer hold }— Willingly,
my dear, | wpoch.
AXD THR MEXR.
She (ladignantly)—1 don"t L.ox you
give the girls credit for thinking of any.
hing else but dress.
He (suavely)—Oh, you wrong mer 3
do give you credit for thinking of more
than dress,
Bho Of what else?
He —Bonaets. —{ Epoch.
A POINT WHERE ALL AGRER.
A man may be a protectionist,
And although he may enrpeatly insist
He'd tax every hriicle on the lst
And brag and blow aad harp, it
2 safe to say a= he walks at night
ith a baby that's howling with all itr
might
And steps on a poiot that is keen sod
brigh
He's opposed to the tacks on the car.
pet. wf Chicago Post
HIS TRUTHFULNESS DISCREDITED
Lawyer— Well, sir, we won the case,
but it was a pretty narrow vietory
bed as until you showed that their pria-
cipal witness was a fisherman, —{ Munsey's
Ww wekly,
STHL IX TRE RING,
"Ho you were a soldier? Did you go
clear through the rebelliont *
"No. | married daring the war ana
have not got through the rebellion yeL”
HE WAR KOT LA®r
Saagsicy nas some reputation as a wit,
other eveping he attended a private
theatrical, to which he felt obli
bored. As he entered the vestibule the
hostess said to him re wroschiully
“Oh, Mr. Bas Iy, how late you are!
"Has Mlle. Bchroschirini sung yet?"
“Wo, but she is just about to.”
“Then I am not late,” said Soagsley,
“7 am premature.”
SHE OUGHT 70 BATE KNOWN.
“0, Mabel, have you séen the latest
thing in spoons?”
“No, Amy; what is it
“lee cream. "| West Shore.
WASTED,
Stern rFather—Son ¥ - yOu three
dollars 8 month ago, and now is
is gone; how did you spend ii
Son (reflecting on bis recoat Jt bya
summer girl)—I—I fear it bas all boeg
Miss-apent. —{ Chatter,
A TRIUNPE OF ART.
“There is one very dramatic situation
my new play. itis where the mort.
gage on the old farm is foreclosed and
the hero can't pay it off.”
“Does it affect the audience much ™
“Oh, mg! Why, last night a million.
re In ous of the botes was so affected
he wrote out & Shick Sou $10,000,
to pay mortgage
aro Dut of difficulties
THE WAY THE WIND BLEW.
Teacher (after explaining the pore
the a, 1 step to win.
dow tell me if smoke is coming (row
of the chimneys,
ohnaie (at the window) — Yes, marm.
Teacher—Now, tell me which way the
wind is blo A z
Johonie c'lar. “= [Boston
Herald.
A HEAVY WEIGHY OX TOP,
Mrs. Younghusband (putting the fash-
stringlew Scrap gu hur head)
don't see what will keep
Me. Younghusband {shopping with
at the ticket price,
rey Bo,
A ROOF OVER WIN.
Johnny shouldnt rau out in the
witht yo ot du,
JUMPERS ARR ATHLETRS.
“What makes think thet Mim
is an 1" added Mr
“Why,
I don’t know that I ever mid
A R———
HOEBSE NOTES,
~— Place mutuals on
paid $257.25,
~Liom Angeles 18 not
last season’s form,
Morrow has quarter-cracks
mt feet,
Blitzen recently
yet up to her
- Judge
in both fr
~Hamilton, Oat,
trotting track,
~—Pittsburs’s Grand Circuit entries
close on July 6,
is to have a mile
~The Algeria stud yearlings
sold,
— Lillian Wilkes, record 217%, has
been bred to Blamboul,
will be
~ Firenzi is not likely to be seen 1m
publ ¢ for some time,
Jockey Fitzpatrick has signed to
train and ride for 1B. A. Bwigert,
~May B., by Baron Wilkes, hasfoal-
ed a bay colt by uy Wilkes, 2.15%
—The Dundee track is now used by
the members for pleasure driving.
—Strathmeath, Pessara and Snowball
have arrived in the East from Chicago,
~— Trainer Henry Howard ha severed
his connection with The lore Winters,
~JockeyF red Littlefield is slowly re-
covering, and will shortly be seen in
the saddle,
— The July trotting meeting at Nar.
ragansett Park, Providence, R. L, has
been dec'ared off,
—Sehuylkill, Potomac's brother, is a
Very uncertain perform *r, snl wiil on ly
run when he feels so inclined.
~The Board of Control have decided
that the claim of Labold Bros, upon
Fred Taral for second call has not been
established,
—The fast filly Maj ram, owned by
Miller & Sibley, Frankl n, Pa., wand-
ered into an old building a few days ago
and broke her jeg,
~The value of the Great } clipse
568 to be run in England will be
75 In 1800 it wus worth $55,500,
<3 $52 2X
—Kingston added to his viclorious
career by wi Coney Island
stakes recently. He has now won four
slraight Faces,
tiling £3
nning the
~The American Derby has been wou:
four times by California horses, viz
Volante, Silver )» H, Todd and
Emperor of Norfolk.
~Even with weather drawbacks of
bo trifling kind the recent St. Louis
running meeting was the most SUCCES.
ful in the history of the club
- Hon. Burt Chaffee, of
N.Y. has
Springville
sold his brown horse Star
4, by Almonarch, dam
Jones to Albany parties for
~Nelly C,, 226 by Ben Butler. who
won eleven races in 1800, has been
bought by Dr. F. C. Fow er, of Mood.
us, Conn. The consideration was $3000
and another horse,
~ Financially the Coney Island Jock-
ey Club meeting has not been a great
success, probably because the publie,
lost so much money on Tenny and Tea
Tray in the Suburban.
-W. R. Allensays that Kremlin will
not te matched with Edgemmk this
season. Ed Bither thinks such a mateh
race would be tco severe on such a
youngster as Kremlin,
~The gray gelding Walton Boy,
2.24%, vy Wellington, bas been pure
chased for $3000 by Buckingham Lock.
woul, President of Norwalk (Conn. )
Driving Park Association,
—Borque Bonita trotted two miles
four and one-half furlongs in 6.44 (rate
2.38% per mille) at Neuilly, France, re-
cently beating Mollle Wilkes Watts
and four French horses.
~80 elated was the management of
the Washington Park Club with the
last American Derby that it has fore
mally announced the guaranteed value
of the stakes for 1803 to be $50,000.
~Old Maran, dam of Emperor of
Norfolk, El Rio Rey, Rey del Rey, ete, ,
has a suckling bay colt that is said to
be as promising as any of the family,
He has been named Yo El Rey—*1, the
King,
—Leopard Rose, 2.15}, was badly in.
jured in a railroad accident near Bowk
ing Green, O., recently, and will be re
tired from the turf, at least, for this
year. It is said that she will be bred to
Allerton, 2.134.
&—The directors of the National Saddle
Horse Breeders’ Association have decid
ed that animals must show five distinot
gaits, viz: (1) Walk, (2) trot, (3) rack,
{4) canter, (5) running walk, fox trot or
slow pace,
~While Green B. Morris’ Strath
meath was winning the American Der
by at Chicago, worth £18,660 to the win.
ner, hisJudge Morrow was capturing the
Sheepshead Bay handicap, worth an ade
ditional $2360.
~The principal winners of the $84.
500, which was raced for at Chicago
Racing Association's spring meeting,
were as foll ws:
E © , $17,985; J. J. Meraffer.
ty, $6060; Ruddy Bios, $4845; J. M,
Brown & Co , $3525; T. Liealz:, $3050,
~A new race track, to be known as
South Side Park, the old site of the
Brotherhood Baseball Park, will be
opened at St. Louis. The purpose of
the proprietors is to have racing during
the summer, and during the winter on
such days as the weather wll parmit,
~Cope Stinson has resigned his
ion as trainer at Prospec. 1111 Stock
Farm, the resienation
sho was,
li
chance to get
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