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