There Wm good ahd bad in the wayside ans On the highways of our lives And man can never be free from sins No matter how hard he strives; Yet even whem down destruction’s grade Our thorny pethways trend, In spite of a theusand errors made “It is never too late to mend.” CTOSSeS for men to are bear, There heavy + And passions to conquer, tf There are joys and woes that enc 00 share Before the journey But men may be poor And truth and right An “It is never too It is through for nonor fend, hope will never this promi ite tom too late by in the breast "Mis never For, It plants That wi A word of Will We must “H blessed grow kindness, hope always comfort y ive Tor ix is never t No matte Aud no m Even And I nt THE REDEEMING ACT. smell of pos tion, pref ous epithets stowed ups the counts not what He was not ¢ could no plead in extenuatie that the martial brother man wholesale immoral Dave cepted meekly condition imposed, no and Spivey being able to rouse of battle in his craven Before the strif was gathered to her final res out of =ight in the little sandy yard, with only the comment of the two remaining neighbors, And then and Sue toiled early and late in order to wring from the starving acres varied livelihood of yams, cornbread and bacon, more often the cornbread without the embellishment of potatoes and bacon, particularly during the weeks after a hungry foraging had passed that way One day Dave was working among the young poiato vines in an open arid field behind the cabin, when Bue ran out to him in troubled haste, “Oh, Dave, I'm pow'ful skeered!™ she punted, “Skeered of what? he asked, without fntermission of the bent labor, was cutting sarcasm 1 the i won ended Knee’ t wing prt grave ave an un 5 party the road, an’ they spoke to me like.” She hesitated, and Dave looked “Well what did they all say?” he de- “They 'lowed they all was a-comiw’ back." “Who was they, ennyhow uneasily, his face blanching in pation of the martial visit “1 dunno, They was five of “(ot back to the house shoulderpg his hoe, he trudged on “Don't " he continued, as they reached they om.” Sue” He on and, stolldly before you skeered, the yard, “1 reckon won't do nothin.” Of-the two It would have been mani “skeered”™ but he walked hed the house and Sue whis the worst on till they read ¢ ied out: “Youder tl all five : sallow her quickly Come Now blanched to a he pulled ' Bue asked cousin, but SOOT charact nothing his degradation, very pionacle of » called and shoot stood on the cabin hin a show: he's Sue clung to him Pave, don't; Don't ” ly backwai bolt the there's four to Le pusnuea bel into the room behind me!” he door said nfl wwe out d motionless in the center. of rave Mite ston vaiting for it to begin his gun COrner instantly weapons barked with one voice, ard hoa ¥ against the side of the enbin: then in- stantly the sharp, clear utterance of a fle answered the carbines again and carbine only 138 TOON and four itll the trigger of aid $e 5 i 3 turned tae Rue Iw something still again. ne open. A broad stream of yellow light aver a figure on its Knees that always Dave gasped his last breath. after the manner of a faithful dog to In the grave gray eyes that were i passing spirit trivmph- His lips moved smile that broke ready darkened them in the contortion of a “done “nid that toe purtec' yo' and wuthless life th'ow fi/ny mn an' 1 done hit” And Dave, with the erimson glory of “wuthless Mood from many wounds, passed to the judg. him from the begin. happiness 1 would life's" streaming ment reserved for The wren shivered out her fragmen. tary song to heaven, the perfume of the fad g day, and the setting sun, streaming though the cabin door, touched the still re of splendor rapping him in molten of a FHive, w figu though with the face ns dying god Poor Dave, thongh a ard all his had earned the reward of end {TOW long “Greater love tenn Io novded in no other His re. He tao loss of vision ns 1 Kable up death nian pons of hig in} Record, This Odd Man Duns Himself. “Mr. Ciark an office boy a= he entered the private in the Cable Tele where 1 was on busi wantg to see you,” said un of a lawyer h Building, 1 a Pell him I'm out.” answered the law. “Hang that man!" he continued, when the boy had disappeared He worries the life out of me. He owes me dollars, and called to tell me would pay it. Three years ago 1 loaned him the money, and the dav it was due he called to tell me how sorry he was that he couldn't pay, and ised it the pext Wednesday, When he met me on the street and made another promise, I have had to change my lunching place four times beeause he insisted ongitting at the table with we and telling bow it was he couldn't pay the eighty dollars just then and when he would pay it He called at my house when | was en. tertaining gentlemen at dinner, and anid he woldn't accept a gift of the money because he felt in honor bound to pay it. When 1 tried to get rid of him by sending bim eighty dollars, anonymously, so he could pay the debt, yer eighty } ] when li dnesday came for 4 couple of weeks, and when lie re For three years he has kept this thing up, ealling here and going out of his way to meet me, 50 as to dun himself and promise te pay the eighty dollars next week.” THE YOUNG FOLKS. FHUT EYE TOWN. Buby is going to Shut Eve town, Robed for the trip in her little white gown, Sheltered and safe and snug and Cuddied up close in her mamma's arm, She's on the way to Winkum. Wurm, Gazing about 50 baby wise, Now she closes her winsome eyes What cares she if the winds do blow, Or that the ground is covered wih snov She's passed the place called Blinktum Over the fields where the poppies g As mamma rocks her to and iro Her rosy pink lids are freighted down With sleepy seed by fairies sown Within the gates Shut Eye town Slathiem of delle Low HOW YOu wish 10 wetallic surface sliraigntl edge wil lay, ny let it nawer the purpose. weather hot or « ! not rain or the tiie Keeper AWay ite aimost as But, herewith is the only one to be of w litle sspma hout Ss Dumani« e doz pic that ym pan ions #0 far ns 8 known, 1 Lins Jr ny real service to his master say that the and is a It is perhaps needless to valued by his owner, money not buy sim. He mongrel dog, being more hegriy a sheep. herd than anything else. Na particular effort was made to teach him his duty He “picked it up”, from observa and it took few lessons to make him perfect log is highly would 0 jon THE MESQUITE TREE AND IT: UsES, It is a common saying, in the arid re gions of the Southwest, that the na ives climb for water and dig for wood, This, being inte preted, for drinking purposes is kept in 40 earthen jur, or olla, upon the top of the house, where, by means of the more rapid evap oration, caused by this direct exposure to the sun's ra «, the contents of the jar are kept continually cool. for wood 1s explained by the fact that the only timber through much of that region the mesquite, a iow.growing sbrub rather than tree, the very hard and make an excellent foel, For a whole winter I have been warmed by them, broken into little pieces, for is found that they give ont an amount of heat that is in undue proportion to their bulk, The mesquite groves are a striking fea. regions, peach orchards, only their vast extent precludes the idea that they are such. As timber a man accustomed to living among thought; but they are very much better than no timber at When in New Mexico recently 1 found that the tree had of supplying which is ull besides that fuel It produces a bean important article of food among the In. Y of scarcity with the The produced seven 10 nine inches Th y they dinns, and in times Mesicans as well, which are and of a but! color, 7 ian is long, begin to ripen in mi y of preventing thirst as well as thev are often of the to travelers through thy The Indians, who hes to go a long water if they can Ix summer, and, as hinve qunalit § of satisfy ing hunger greatest value iry do desert con thelr value not tale away from assured of a » ly of mesquite beans slong the When pared in arrangements with po 3 a number of hotel whereby their houses wer at bedtime t soiled and and hew may turn torn them to put eon they rise in the morning. A garments as gown As garments Jusy fingers go to work at once on his harvest, and by daylight, or the their clothee are seni thereafter, it the disposal of sion GWHeTrs, traveling salesman who cannot carry a wardrobe with him has a fresh crease in his trousers, and the man who acci- dentally eaught hix pantaloons on the protruding vail In the seat of his chair ix happy once more While thus far the plan has worked beautifullw, there always the danger that the collector may forget to or returning them LE return the clothes, pishing the 300-ponnd man with the trousers of a Spound boarder. It ———-—— A Frepeh prophet announces that the if it doesn’t come then he ean «till remain in the prophecy business simply by changing the date. W———— dono st a Greater New York consists of forty five islands, just as many as there are 1 His Pride in Crime. sooret Washington Hazen, chief of the came on from Ninger's twelve y hud beer The Lake Carrying Trade. +3 wt iw nn | it of 16 10 1X feet of the latest Canad Fe rs CAITY cargoes of 50.000 $« We Led 3 3 new vessels of the LOY . bushels r this week of SOT Kingston and Montreal Forwarding Company, names ty 47.000 bushels and lapwing and $0000 shields each, which Port Arthur, Lake Superior, vhere they load wheat at Fort William kingston. Toronto Monetary Times the Thursh, capa« the the io An Olid Woman Now, The venerable Mra, Harriet cighty-five years Rbe i= living with Ben odd her her on un in at. in Stowe was ane 13 last married daughters on Forest street Hartford, Conn, and is constantly by a nurse, Her condition that can receive no callers, and can give no attention to literature, but «he is able to walk ont every day th her attendant Tokens are par is this time. She held in loving remembrance by her J over the globe, though there « po influx of telegrams and jefters as i« usual on ber birthday. She is Jead- ig a life of absolute retirement. dis turbed only by the daily requests from everywhere for her astomiaph. Re cently a enst was made of her right hand, holding a pen, ander the direction of David Pell Secor. of Bridgeport. hie east will be placed in the National Museu at Washington, tended $11 wie cada paiverosus at Peders
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