HARD TIMES. The tines are hard, and hunger and cold Threaten and growl at many a door; The wolf's long cry is fierce and bold, Borne on the sullen night wind’s roar. But this is the hour for courage, Love, For daring the foe with nerve and skill, Meeting our carve in the strength of prayer, @ nd waiting and working with steady will. We greet each other with cheery signs As we set our hattle in brave array, Closer we draw the household lines, And gallantly meet each dawning day. Now ad then, as the dark clonds rift, i beautiful woman whom he loved with And, heartened, together a song we lift There's always blue in the upper sky. In the midst of his gloomy thoughts there came to him the sound of the found on the step an urchin gearcely tall enough to reach the bell. Would he come to see dad! Who was dad? “Mr. Bly, what lived in Green's Alley And so pres- Upa rickety stair he passed to find a man a miserable bed, and be- whose rags betok- tossing on And we tuck them under the coverlet When we reach the end of each struggling day, And the stars in heaven for lamps are set. Then, Love, we look in each other's eyes And the kindling light of triumph see, Oh! what does it matter that times are hard, When I have me you, Love, and yon have Itlizabeth Chisholm, in Harper's Ba NOBLESSE OBLIGE.” i of November, brought from rubies that he On the night of the 3 189—, James Carlt Faris two magifi had picked up at a and which considering I history were dirt cheap zt the price he paid for them. They tunate heen the shrewd dealer avail himself It was too lat wme to take then herefore, in the j John Carlton safe that stood bedroom. Over the hung two old ing them d one, laughingly events the report neighborhood. About two he was awaken sale had b Marie sold the unfor- and had of which wd been quick to longed to Antoinette 3 by a mi y 3 : stake, when } i § ! this and father 1 1 ' woe» 3 nantel} in 1 is room t 3 HOrse-pisto taK~ 3 Wn Lt: z wr 10 fonaeda bserving that at all would alarm the lack ¢} CIOCK Inn [ne d by Oy the sound of arms, ‘oll door. He that he ha him, and t someone rush across the h d try the front door: then he heard foot- steps on the stairs, and his son rushed into the r in his hand The +41 restiess WO slam; out for chair beside He h Dia nthe <n wed : i sind it gone oar found x ard nai an yom with one of the pisto & son's story was that he had a hat about two y'eloeck he heard some one moving about very i room, which room ¢ by a swing door. Pushing open he saw, by the | lamp, a man in the safe, and had from his surprise the fellow slipped quietly out of the room. Catel ap the pistol that lay on the chair by) his father’s bedside, he followed down stairs, across the hall and towards the kitchen, the of which open. When he challenged the he suspected of rubies turned and presented a pistol and young Cariton fired. It was a very clear, moonli night, and he listinctly saw the ti The next door slammed to, a: he reached it he found it io He then ran to the front found it locked and {he Hurrying ap to his father's room, he discovered him sitting up in bed as already de- scribed. He threw up the bedroom window, which looked upon the street and called Polic and when an officer came he found the back door locked and cfected an entrance by a window. : On exainination it that the keys of tl safe door, that th peared, and with sovereigns, When old Carlton went to bed that night, he remembered perfectly well that he had put his keys under his pillow. The most rigorous search failed to furnish any proof that the house had been burglariously entered. One of the pistols was missing, as also were the keys of the two doors, When Carlton senior reported the loss of the jewels to his two partners, the younger of them unhesitatingly declared that John Carlton, the son, was the thief, and refusing to accept the senior partner's offer to make good the joss, he took oul a warrant at once, Evidence was adduced to show that the young man was heavily in debt, and when it was further proved that he and his father were the only per- sons who knew the secret of the safe, he was at once committed for trial. - - * Dr. Castell sat in his snug study, + night, and t guietly in his father's mnected with hi this door ght of the ni i i 3 act of ¢! before he 0 door stood man whom en the having st wn ef staguer. moment kitchen when wd. and the vd ki door also Key or gone, or was discovered safe were in the e rubies had disap- them a number of ee » * » The patient complained of intense dle the doctor came across traces of a wound just above the hip. “How did you get this?" The man’s answer came enough. He had been handling an old pistol and it had gone off and wounded him and. although he lost a deal of blood at first, the wound had healed and he about. Soon, how- ever, he felt intense pain whenever he tried move, and bad. The doctor's practised readily wis able to get to now was mortal fingers SOON found a swelling on the man’s buaek what he had learnt from | to the 0 : swelling putting heard and manipulation, 1 ciusion together what he he under that came that the pistol had that the charge tained. He h back a . TPL pringing chloroform could home, and und wife soon relieve her husband. It was had length his urried \ pocKel case explained to the that he however, a lopger task than anticipated when at on the for- and forceps closed eign found it of such size body he he rier 1 i rove had to enla Then laid iat the primary 3 } lee x » openi had drawn t out, and wound lay another hard 1 This the ext me he little n raction hia t 4 he supposed 0 be hem toOK them bullets, he dipped t water, but when he hey were still red ¢ dipped them agair and rubbing th i blaze 1. brought The al i 4 1 § hi him almost took away his hes ere jewels. i even and very vaiue- With treme as the int and from the de- were rubies given by the elder Caritor vy jewels that had disap- n the night of the 83d of Nov- - ome where he had ight with had ever Let him hold hig peace be | Then might not his Wo and Carlton ty 1 wotiid st to socie for years perhaps as time went b fevotion be rewarded? id that proud girl unite herself o a man who had been publicly wed as a thief, and would take to herself a dishonored name? Little by little the tempter's whis- i louder, until they swelled into tones that were likely to drown for ever the i { § YOuOe Of science,’ bra: she DErs grew still, sma con And so the struggle swayed on all through the long night nobility of soul triumphed, and humble imitation of Him who had once been so sorely tempted and had «0 gloriously conquered; Frank Cas- tell ! And the until at last in #11 cast Satan behind him first rays of God's sun shone athwart the room and rested tenderly on his bent head, while from each of the jewels that lay on the table there flashed up an answering ray as it were of triumph! * 4“ * * » * The court-house was crowded. The jury had retired to consider their ver- diet, and none doubted what that verdict would be. Hush! Here they come! “Gentlemen of the jury,” the clerk was beginning, when there was a sudden bustle at the door of the court. Then voices were heard and a man was seen pushing his way to the front. It was Castell, A ramor went round that unexpected evidence had turned up, and the rumor was minutes later the doctor was standing in the witness-box. This wns his evidence: First of all, he pipe of peace, but the troubled look on his pale, handsome face betokened an unquiet mind. He was thinking before had refused him, and that, too, i i the morrow, would most assuredly be branded as a thief, ‘What would she self, and as he sat there turning it over in hi¥ mind, the answer came to nim, as surely us one noble nature can answer for apother. Bhe would be true to her promise through good report and cvii report, and would wait faithfully for the man whom she believed innocent natil he came buck to her from prison. Nol there enuld court hung upon his words, Talbot and James Carlton had believed the prisoner guilty. lessly they listened as the story went on. In a clear, steady voice that could be heard by the farthest listener in that eager crowd, the witness told how he had gone back to Green's Alley and found the man dying; how never safe. At this moment Bly noticed the pistol on the chair, and, stooping over, secured it and hid again behind the curtains. Then James Carlton took up the night lamp, and when its light fell upon his face, Bly POCO nized that he was walking in is sleep. Unlocking the safe Carlton took some- thing from it, and stohd apparently Suddenly he walked to the mantlepiegs, took up the other pistol, and oing to the dressing- table wert through some movements as theugh he were loading it. Then, witfiout returning to the safe, he came /o the bedside, laid the pistol he was carrying where the other had been into bed. Bly waited a few to the hurried and got minutes, went sovereigns and room. He had taken the secure the keys of both doors. When he was challenged he presented the pistol, but before he could fire, he heard a report, and felt himself hit, He was able to out and lock the door raped What really happened whilst James the pistol Can but it is cer. snfe, from get and 8) O81 (Carlton was handling never be exactly tain that he tl the pistol, and fired, he fired them into William Bly. know in en put thi John ( n rubles into ‘arlton f Ol wher the body It was useless for Silence!” when the was given, and. perhaps, on crowd went guilty y n all that home One man 1 ii witha hea Frank Castell will i vy heart remember Alma’s f marriage augnt kiss on the morning intil time shall Bits. be a him. Tit A STRANGE PEOPLE. The Queer Race Known as the Ainu in Japan. applied t themselve Budget. nher Land: trav “i DRCK Siu idle. at Nit 8 ballad armed ane » of the placed severa raw floes] losh which | removed from t ying anima As | had long! Japanese food of 1 heart's content i ¥ " the funa, wh me with its round the weight that - back to my digestive up, leaf and ail from fell on the t had been carefully and the mas wreteh "> alive Horrible!’ I cried. vi ing away the table and walk people present, who expe revel in thedeliciousn f the ag of th These hairy peop © and mustaches attained the allow to grow 1.3.3 ) which having f (511 anes age manhood, they and never 10t being touch favored by nature ornaments, endeavor to make up for the deficiency by tattoo- their lips and women, 1 with such ing a long mustache on cheeks The Ainu process o painful one. The tattoo marks are usually done with point of a knife, not with t needles, as by the Japanese. Many incisions are eut wvearly parallel to each other. These are then filled cuttlefish black. Sometimes smoke-black mixed with the blood from the incisions is used instead. On the lips the opera- tion is so painful that it has to be done by installments. It is begun with a small semi-circle on the upper lip when the girl is only two or three years of age, and a few incisions are added every year till she is married, the mustache then reaching nearly to the ears, where at its completion it ends in a point, Both lips are surrounded by it; but not all women are thus marked. Some have no more than a semi- circular tattoo on the upper lip; others have an additional semi-circle under the lower lip, and many get tired of the painful process when the | tattoo ix hardly large enough to sur- | round their lips. The father of the | girl is generally the operator, but oc- | casionally it is the mother who “dec- |orates’’ the lipe and arms of her | female offspring. Besides this tat. f tattooing is a £3 Lae attooing with ence of a reliable witness, William Bly had entered the Carl- allel to it, runs across the forehead. The tattoo could not be of a coarser kind. A rough gecantiical drawing to the father's bedroom. was standing in the shadow of the bed curtains when suddenly the old A piece of clean tissue paper is the best whic " apectacies, h to clean THE GYPSY MOTH. How an Entomolog’st Set Loose a , Deadly Enemy to Trees. very a scientific Massachusetts who had never bad tho with a gypsy yus creature had the old Bay State word to a friend inn the home the ¢ Plonse send me a gypsy moth right away: I want to look at him; I want So the friend, who Not 80 long ago pleasure of meeting moth the frivol« since not journeyed into the time nt far-away land insect, aut “i y svi of seyving garden, and with no trouble caught a encamped ther and had eaten about everything in the neighborhood, except the house fence ventilated the and toughest part the and he put Of i f him in a box entomologist rived safely at the with mot! scientific hig jack- HY Jack fisentomb him he easily stood d hig hind legs tail f eat hers has cost sver S200 (6d) int] he Sta mipyt » Bay sft or i} Eek Daper § IRN) (ENS of 46,000 egg clusters, all belong and over 1.000 (xX) same journal appropriati to find and and it fight to the il the g h is asked 10ice tween constant n, and the loss the of something like $1,000,- § on 0K) yearly by the FAvALOS of the pest. - New York Sun Canaries by the Thousand, town called St, Andreas. Saxony, some 700 families are In a small entirely engaged in the tatk of rearing and educating good canary singers, A great proportion of these singers are sent abroad, far or near—to Lon- don. Australia, and to the United States, where one single firm ships 100.000 birds each year. These ca- narics are the infesior birds, the schreir, as they ate called in Ger- many, on account of their notes. These schreir, says the Popular Heience News, which are bought for 70 or 80 cents in the Harz, are sold for $2, £3 or $4 in America. The best birds are kept in Germany, where they are call:d hohlroller. A good hohlroller cannot be had under $8 or $10 (in the Harz), and $29 or $25 are no unusual prices. But such birds are certainly splendid singers. The Germans have quite a number of words, each of which applies to a dif- ferent sort of tune, or intonation; the huelrolle is in the minor key; klingerolle, applies to silver tones: koller, to a warbling which reminds one of the murmur of water; gluch- rolle is similer to the nightengale’s notes, and one may say that every de- tail of the canary’'s song has been named, and that for every one there is a standard of perfection which the expert fancier knows perfectly well. The song of all canaries is not exactly similar; each race has its special ints, and while the one is great on weudrolle® for instance, it is weak on gluchrolie, while the case is reversed with another race. . 50 AAI exeontiots in Mexico are hy and taks place in the prison | I'HE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. At the Menagerie--An Egotist--A Tender-Hearted Man-+-The Only Causes, Etc., Etc CLEAVING TO AND CLEAVING FROM Mas Backbay — What a solenn thin, it is for two people to wed; te ’ piso AAAS § IAs 05 Ho AOI suon - Parke — Jan't it mignty glad that folks meiry on any such cast srs. Jac though ® 14 don't Yee 3. nowadays, — Indinn- nom Jit oop AT THE MENAGERIE, i ‘Step this shout to WAY =——We ro als “*Ah! don’t t " (Le 11 thawr ks, awfully you | don’t y I've hand me-—ah-——dinnah.’ Pa & Hoe = AN EGOTIST. 0 Se “i TO ENFLAIN, Ths trawy with a proached the asa with Jor kr’, Please, sir,’ rive new gag ap money in his hs tad will something you $ Ap Mahmemonric Miszs Gussie Riverside — an. val I'd be 80 j Dudely Miss (russia Canesucker — Don't sil v 1 a nat Yon wob me of A TENDER HEARTED MAN, Customer—Why for mound ma 13 you do for a sixteen pound pig? dutch } is it that you ‘harge as much a Bix ng spThe 16 WOrse 5 ol to feelin THE ONLY Mrs. Dobson—Bridget id Mrs, H mornit ps0 ¥ ir Partner-—Az FE Pron ABSORBING Pagh #115 RELENTLI Gotrox—You os + mite § aes here for you to try it Dismal Dawson-—il)is air mits [dis is a accordion don’t g up two Two Little Girls in Blue 9i{ Puck hones ive here. See FULLY OCCUPIED that when ¢ famous st Lb yr How in it writes one a man wry he seldom Merritt—Becanse he rest of his life to tellin came to write it. — Puck how he WANTED TO ASK BOMEBODY WHO KNEW, Under ordinary circumstances he was a man of prominence—but he aacended the of dence, very early in the morning was as evident that he desired t as much otherwise as ax steps his resi- possible cabby was lingering near to see his charge was safely disposed of for the night. The door opened before the man on the steps could get | key to work, and he was met with tl question “John, where have you been? {Silence.) ‘John, where have you been? He turned to descend the steps ““Are you going to answer my ques- tion?" “Yes'h my dear, 1 am, his From ‘a I'm goin’ to the hack.” desired inf'mation, ask the man that drives wf Life, DANGERS OF THE BOTTLE Fogg-—There's an example of the bottle working a man’s ruin Fogg—Humph! Whiskey? Fogg—~Nop; ink. Jury awarded the girl $560,000 damages in a breach of promise suit on the strength of the letters he wrote, and it took every cent he had to pay it.-{Buffalo Courier. CURTAILING EXPENSES, “Never knew such hard times, old boy. We're economizing at our house now just like other folks.” “You were always an excessive smoker. I suppose the first thing you did was to cut down the number of your cigars?’ “Well, no; not exactly. You see, wifey does the household work in stead of hiring a girl, and that's where the economy comes in.''e Judge. Who's Mahmemosic?'' asked the gentleman It's Indian, afraid-to-ask-for-a-dime That's all but I never heard of Mahmemosic before The tramp assumed a look of amaze- ment, ‘What he heard of Mahmemosic? No: never did “Did you ever hear of Abraham Lincoln? somewhat puzzied, gir, for Man- right exclaimed ; never Lincoln? #1 the queried gentiemasa? he? The tramp igne Perhaps you terant? was his first Creorge ton ‘* No; I never w The mw posed bene Well he ho never dos iramp 1? i he was & man w you are doing now in great shape,”’ and the tramp noe was the Jackson-—What t na tween yOu a arming”? M rx omp! Commick-Oinly ¢ gint.—{ Hallo BY WEIGHT Md eve ie ia Publisher—I tell you, we s of our rs PY mammoth edition last week CynicHow got] Hallo much a pound did you PURELY BUSINESS, That Lord Bronson who married Jenny an awful boor He was married actually in a business “init “Well, why not? The wedding was a pure matter of business so far was concerned,’ —{ Harper's Simpson was as he Bazar CAUSE FOR INDIGNATION “Bir, you have insulted both of { us “How? ' { ‘You said we | other.’ =| Hallo. resembled each HIS GEOGRAPHY. Teacher—In what State is Chicago? Pupil—New Jersey. “Wrong. Where River? “Rises in the Rocky Mountains | and flows to the Gulf of Mexico.” “My goodness, child, you must have been reading a London news paper.” ={ Good News, A WIRE DOCTOR. “Doctor, 1 have a frightful cold in the head! What shall 1 take for ity’ Doctor (after reflection)=A hand. kerchiel.—{ Texas Siftings. NOTHING STRANGE ABOUT IT. Ethel—He hardly knows me yet and he has proposed. Don't you think it strange? : Clarissa—No, 1 don’t see anything strange in his proposing if he knows you. LIKE SAMPSON, She—You have such a curly heal! Ho—Yes; that is my-—ep—wonk is the Hudson point!
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