WHO WA TO HIM ITS. $5 him who waits amid the world's ap plause His share of justice, toiling day by day, All things will come dim and far away, To him who waits. now To him who waits beyond the darkness drear The morning cometh with refulgent light, Bringing assurance of aday more bright, To him who waits To him who waits, though tears may often fall, And Knees be prayer, All grief will end, and everything be fair To him who waits bowed in sorrow and in To him who waits and reaches out his hands To aid a toiler up life's beetling crags, Surcease will from that flags, come every ill To him who waits. To him who waits and st vain To overcome the evils that abound Within his breast, sweet the sound, will To him who waits To him throng Who sneer a ful eyes, But what of them, they ¢ flies, waits there COIes who nd scoff, aud look with To him who waits To him who waits there must pense For useful A compensati work, whatever m m reaching fa To him who waits, To the star nds, The restless ocean and the All things in nature speak an To him who wait To bim who waits true | come flering And lay an off shrine, Life will To him who waits the v cleer And sing his praise gates Will 61 open 1d season plainly a of the wo slates seemed neath them, for rose up f never aligh early Just ove be seen oak, too slight was rom to but t roof he were dar} 4 roasted the pigeons, projecting and there his tired of the hard slare of the roof. He could the t Dp of the tal : barred up and d but never hing within, for the window ever dusty, anc was dark bey But now and then he heard cries coming through ons 0 window in the summer time, an listened to them grow fainter and fainter, till they sank to a low moan- ing. and then ceased altogether In winter the roof was covered for months by ablanket of snow, which looked like a shawl of impacted wool evi blue sky hospi wn i and on a chain of eclrcumstantial evidence Louis Converse, the young Seigneur, was sent to prison for ten years for manslaughter. That was the compromise effected. Louis himself had said only that he didn't remember, but he could not believe he had committed the erime. Rob- bery? He shrugeed his shoulders at that—he insisted that his should not reply to the insulting and foolish suggestion. But the evidence had shown that Viget had all the winnings when the other members of the party left the two, and this very money had been found in Louis’ There was only Louis’ word that they had played cards again, Anger? Possibly. Louis could remember, though he knew they had quarreled. The judge himself, charging the jury, said that he never before saw a prisoner so frank and outwardly honest, but warned them that they must not lose sight of the crime itself, the taking of a human lite, whereby a woman was made a widow and a child fatherless. And judge sentenced pocket, not 80 with few remarks the yourg Seigneur and then hime- shaken and pale, | the court onverse's the the to ten years in pr 1 self, been his friend from boy- calmly, the jury and ined } 1] n't know wi have Suppose I'm guessed feel when You've known mq twenty years, at D was he he woman igely in the m now and came a part 11 was lived where he ons on the roof of the ho “She was sorry for » ha said mself He was he was shaken he rocked his bed, anda me many a time to h sorry for |} { y that mise with : ; to and fro as he sat on windows were spread with frost. But the pigeons were the same-—almost as gay, and walking on the ledges of the roof or crowding on the shelves of the lead pipes. He studied them much, but he loved them more. His expiation he found hinself more in touch with them than with the ward- ens of the prison or any of his com- panions. With the former he respectful, and he gave them no trouble at all; with the latter he had nothing in common, for they were criminals, and he—he had blundered when wild and mad with drink. so wild and mad that he had no remoem- brance, absolutely none, of the inci- dent by which Jean Vigot lost his life. played cards far into the night, that was the last “Oh, God, canst days of his imprisonment, Thou do everything but speak?’ Ahd again “That hour! the memory of that hour, in exchange for my ruined life!" But there were times when he was and calm. and he spent watching the ways of the pigeons. And he was doing this one day when the jailor came to him and said: ‘*Monsieur Converse, you are free. The Governor has cut off five years from your sentence.’ Then he was told that people were waiting without—Medallion, and the little chemist and wife, and others more important. ut he would not go to meet them, and he stepped into the old world alone at dawn the next morning, and looked out upon a still, And there was no one stirring in the place, but sud. peace again; that the others had left, an, who had watehied by the prison blurred, save for a vague recollection voice, ‘You are free at breaking had and had pocketed it. Then ful, a few feet away. He remembered her--the woman apon him he shook them off. When they did it again i fought them to the death had it hos been for his friend, tall Medallion, who laid a strong hand on his arm and said, ‘Steady, steady!” and he had yielded to the | firm, friendly pressure. Medallion had left no stone un- “I was sorry for you,” she replied. “But that is no reason.” “IT once committed a erime.” she “That's bad,” you punished?’ She shook her head and answered he said, ‘Were himself played detective unceasingly, ut the bard facts remained them, i “That's worse,”’ he added. “I let some one lee take my crime ' spon him and be punished for it,” she said, an agony in her eyes. “Why was that?’ he said, looking at her intently. “I had a little child,’”’ was her re- ly. ‘““And the other?’ ‘““He was alone in the world,” said. A bitter smile eropt to his lips and his eyes were all aufire, for a strange thought eame to him, Ther he shut his eyes, and when he opened them again discovery was in them. ‘1 remember you now,’”’ he *I remember I waked and saw you looking at me that night! Who was the father of your child?’ he eagerly. ‘““Jean Vigot," she replied. left me to starve.” “I am innocent of his said quietly and gladly, She nodded. He was moment. “The child still lives?’’ he asked She nodded again. Well, let it be he added. ""Butyouowe me five years—and ua lost reputation.’’ “I wish to God I could giv back, cried, te streaming down her checks for my child, he : It can’t be help and he turned Won't she said, asked ‘““‘He he jeath!”’ silent for a 80." @ them sie irs Wis 80 vO away asked Won't ba ACK menaningiy 8 biue sandst ‘olunsa County of Drake's 1579 rge W was unva n Fran Romance of the Billiard Ball. Interesting as is ti iard iatura tory of the bill ball, its romance is no less attractive A product of the most intelligent of animals, grown in the wilds of a tropical for- est, taken by the wily devices of sav- age men, transported many hun- dreds of miles on the shoulders of hapless slaves, the object for which battle and murder are done, carried round the globe by sail and steam, manufactured into proper shape by the labor of skilled mechanics, the means by which professional players gain their livelihood, by which ama. ters pass a social hour in the bil. iiard hall, on the private table, often at some period of its career in the pawn shop. finally. when its useful- ness as a billiard ball is ended, to be cut up into toys, there are few arti- cles of ordinary use, even in the midst of our extraordinary civiliza- tion, that can show a more varied history. His The Virtue in Oyster Shells, Ground oyster shells were pre. scribed by empirics in the olden time for goitrous, ricketty and serofulous children. In a communication to ‘the Academy of Medicine in Paris Drs. Mun*z and Chatin say they were right. Oyster shells were long ago known to contain lime, nitrogen, iron and sulphur. Beside these constituents they hold manganese, magnesia, fluor bromure, phosphoric acid and lodine—all excellent fot | feeble children. The bromure taken | from the oyster shell is a strong an. | tiseptic. Teeth, they say, would be { much improved were pulverized oys- ter shells given in food to growing children and to nurses. In contradistinetion to the bon. nets, which are small, the round [hata are larger than ever and most | pleturesgme, Wo THE BACHELOR. Treatment He Once Received at the Law's Mands. mn a proposal was made not so to tax the bachelors of as they were taxed in the days of the First Republic the fact recalled that Veit republics ally have gener. beeii hard upon the celi- The wise Plato the mer to a fi Sparta i were driven times to che Temple of the women, who there castigated them in condemned and in hates single ne at stated Hercules by drilled and true military hey cient their were who wore Romans, too, SE. bachelors \d, worse Veli y marry the had for th Roman Was exemdt 1d the } 1 1 DHCiies ii bred, as entertaining. ' persisted the snob Mrs. Stevens of now what I mean—who is Ms woman," retorted Mrs no more tell who Miss «ig than I could told those who asked me were when you first came port.” dear can have to A Devoted Cow. A Mr. Wood, who lives near Hood's Mill, owns a very peculiar milch cow She is just an ordinary black cow, but is much attached to Mr. Wood's children that she does not like to be separated from them. If the children are at home the cow will stay in a pasture with fence three feet high; but if the children are taken away she will throw down even very high fences in order to fol- low them. At different times when the cow would be in the pasture Mr Wood has slipped the children away from home, but when she came up and missed them she would get out and track them as a dog would do until she found them.—-Savénnah (Ga.) News sO Popularity of the Telephone. Berlin and Vienna were connected by telephone only about a month ago, and already there is business enough to need another line.” The line has been connected with Trieste at one end and Hamburgh at the other, making a total length of 900 miles. It is expected that Be reegh will soon be connected with Copen- hagen, which Is joined to the Swed. ish system, extending 850 miles north, when it will be possible for northern Sweden and southern Aus. WORDS OF WISDOM, A new sled will push a boy up hill, It never rains exactly when it ought to. Fine feathers make fine sofa cush- ions, When the rack is empty the milk pil leaks. best sauce and asks Hunger is the LO sanecer, Too many cooks spoil the corner policeman, Mean well and do ill and self disliked, get your- One dyspeptic stomach ean sour a whole family, It is easier to win applause than to make converts, s the Killing time is commonest kind f fool suicide. of Man has a reputation to make, wo- man but one to lose, The world cannot afford to do with- out reasonable pleasures. If you would be a sage among fools never expres Be in influence than your money. 8 An opinion. more cantons “Handsome Fashion cares less abont ciothes, its character Read whi eold, and it. Bought the Ship That An the 1 wl Wuo Him, of Brought interesting aneod Captain T eurred w past Some time ago Captain Julius went over to a shipyard in C 1 2 inte godore 6 death o thin tl week, take a look « awauda, wh il barge. perticular interest in the ol of his having served intoac cause aboard her in he stood While old vessel, f total approached him, and asked: “Isn't vou Julins? The Captain replied in the affirmative, “You were a mate i ship in the summer of 1863% ' said the Captain. ‘Yon don't remember me, continued thestranger, “but I remem ber you ve I was a steerage PIassen awanda at that this coun- the early sixties. watching the stranger The Egyptian Lentil, It is in Egypt that the lentil crop is of the most value, for in the lend the Pharaohs the lentil forms one-sixth of the food of the people, besides being extensive ly exported to other countries, It is well snited to the goil and climate, as it requires little irrigation save what Nile pro- vides. The Egyptian lentils are re- puted the best and most nutritious in the world. From Cairo to As souan, the farmers of the Nile Valley regularly rotate the crop with whest or maize, it in about the end of April, Every peasant grows enough for his own consumption, making it into porridge, which he finds both wholesome and sustaining, and the cheapest food he can obtain, In Cairo, Alexandria, Ismailia, Suez, Port Said and the other towns the consumption in soup is very large, Most of the export goes to London, there to be converted invalid or “patent” food, under some fanciful name at a fanciful pri —Chambers’s Journal, of the gathering mmto —— - What a Hanging Costs, The will be fixed, the Lehigh Cot Fran} 17 price of hanging a 13 i} aii prov 1 - * ¥ inty Cour lg : lin Bower demands swung eternity, but the pose to give him sheriff to-day notified tors that would smaller sum and 1 asked approve the financial stater 5 for 1804. The audi- investigate the matter and ment will not get their tures fo h time at least. Harry Johnson, the murderer, was } roung n who threw his little the Lehigh River and Vas hanged during er, and Sheriff Bower thinks ) was not too big a price for The commissioners regarded .B8 as the proper figure for a few } tecord Blane. Youn mn minutes’ work. —Philadelphia 50 Window Gardening in Greenland, Al member of the Peary relief ex- edition has described in the Brooklyn d-Union a visit made last July f Governor Almqnuist, i, seventieth degree In the southern windows mquist had geraniums in full fuchsias, mignonette, cacti, piant and all the common vatie- of the temperate zone, while a pical palm showed every evidence and vigor. The Governor ¢alled attention pen-air gar- len,” a patch perhaps twelve feet long six wide, in turnips and le were beginning ti with enith which cir Ho) PAT LZA% alicwad } ntipn woman nevis in th yanilia, It keeps ruc Public Eye Today. 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