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!