" CRAY AND SILVER. I had a love; dark-haired was she, Het eyes were gray. I'or sake of hey I sailed away, neross the sou Dearth, sleknoess All passed me With tempest and defear by: yeurs came fleet, And rich was 1. fortune, fair an Again for me the sup looked down Familinr skies: I found my love, Gray as her eves her locks bad grown ghed, fair,” heart.” 1 whispered low, “Alas!” No longer “I love thine “And net she si “Torget me, now thy hah C. E. TRIAL AND TRIUMPH. Tudor, with to fe. How do you plead not guilty?” A young You Support “George stand up. are charged neglecting your w guilty or mu more than thirey dissipated line A good face 3 with igh tor il i he vet old-locoking and hue of his One mtonr o an intelle i cheeks a and wife, (ermine credible started ir announce | man. { husband MC IMIR Ness portion “1 f gambling 1 nse 1 these hot repressible ev whole power of his will, ¢ he steadily and lower int h irk pa He swallowed: furni to buy sank lowes th of hope. less destruction. lost his posit savings ture himself were ROOD was sold food, and a } ‘ a loathsome wreck of his once ow fair manhood, his wife was living in a small, scantily-furnished upper room, eKeing out a needle, “Does he half-existence by hes not give you any money f Your support” asked his Honor. three mos gambles every cent he ear “She js harsh and cold, Khe ref uses with me,” said the man. in a husky voice, “While dobnsed he continues in his rather preset die woman shudder of condition | than asso would “ite with quickly interjected, disgust, him,” the with a “Still you insist that he shall support you?’ said the judge. “While I bear his name it is my righ to be supported by him. But all 1 ask now is that he will give me as much as will pay the rent of the room 1 occupy. I will struggle through to attain my own livelibood.” “But would it not be better to live to- gether, If he promises to provide for you: : “I lost faith in his promises years Ago. God only knows what 1 have suf. fered in the meantime. And I ask yon, judge, if you think a woman with any sense of refinement and self-respect could bring herself to live with a man who has sunk to the loathsome condi tion to which be has attained 7° Here the woman pointed a finger d rect at her husband's repulsive fn, and the man dropped his eyes anid cow ered in consclons abasement. The next moment, with a strange look of blend ed tenderness amd seorn, she added: at him as he Ix now, it brings a sense of shame to me to thin that 1 ace loved him with every prise of my heart. Now, if he will enable me to pay the trifle of three dollars a month rent until I may be in a pos tion to carn It myself, and keep away from me, I will not trouble hin: say more.” The promise being finally given, the woman, with set lips and the samme white, stern face, passed out of the eourt room, “George.” said a loafer comparsinn of | his, as they passed out into the cireet, “that’s p ety hard lines for a man 10 “Touking treats him as scornfully as if I dirt undo, her feet” “It's my own fault, Fonce, just Wis Bhe did oy And I made her serable one I wish I Vig tiie ax she said, | home a i dead!” No more slonate fervor with which the wisl uv words can express the Hite red, “Oh, well sald the other, In a care less, sneering volee, “it's pretty | xhe don’t eo are fLUcks for you now, =» somewhere and have a , 8he don’t eare for me any more, from the turned on his heel and walked away. H- the wharf, and a of times was tempted to jump lato the river and end the aching welght heart that pressed him lump of lead One aston the soe wottld let her see t of had so pitilessly Not another drink seed to come involuntarily baif-closed lips of George, ax he yin ! bled down by ore ot byl down 1} [53 He the <l1ing ng grew oud wife had cast at him that loathsome him glass of liquor would he mah hie was nol § shy din she bier lost « disgust sit down tn never next agnin would he gamble, in nerdy morning he presented hi had fori cleansing had not a man who qamiployed him, such a if lis person effected | yer before, “Mr. Truman,” he =) ated be in heen wint to I yon g 1.4% jodinrs And sow three who had car. his wife sou ANNOUNCE was lying seriou him,” and she did so him delirious had Jost Khe raving o i } ife he ntrse«d him The doctor At would have to suffer wife can gave but little hope of his recovers, least, he said, he a long, wasting before would be for the Mrs. Tudor bowed her head aud pn tiently fulfilled her wifely duties, Thanks to her tender care more than all other things, the crigis was passed as only a true Rok ness there any change better and he began the slow process of get ting well, By this time their meass were ox. hausted, and the wife set herveif 40 the task of earning bread for both, first re- moving to a couple of cheap rooms to away from the much of boarding. Friemls them to a few articles of Mirpiture and get very exXirs cost ass sted them, He pot only gave of his atund but busied himsel! 15 secure a finer class of needlework from his lady Acquaintances than could be acquired at the stores, alee, learned of the struggle her hushand | more tenderly cared for. Never their first days of happy prosperity to secure his comfori finement, she had never been called op to lift her hand to any menial or labors ons employment and through all the latter period of their poverty had ar rays clothed herself as became a lady. hier wan: Now sie “ne «rll arrayed Lor. humblest garnets, Ho Khe sake, whiia well as It Woln for the first self in the very She did it her huashaad, she had done it for hi that the sun shone above his head, t, and tie fool flint for nuls Dre would not 0 OW Is wis a new revelation of a true ans heart, such as not in a lifeti.ne of prosperity would be have ever known, It nlm the graud woman in such humble garb, but it thrilled him with ecstacy to his soul He himself ®al propyl up on his pillow watching the beautl- ful face bent over ont to heart 10 soe this suld to as i Hework “] never really knew Lier 111 now He told the truth More than thar, his wife had not really known herself, either. The had brought ont the i 11 her (py touchstone of suffering caer qualities of womanhood lier ¢ refined gold from the furnace: and it is com f the tin that at no felr ow period o prosperity had she 80 much of tranquil happiness as when the battle of Life for daily was at its hardest She that =» husband to t bread knew uad m back he tene nobility of his Ww that he was no lon this aded being her soul woth » full reqquireinents ee, degr volted at, a4 man after hold himself up 10 ti but who of manhood's in muinal Surely God had ss struggle for thelr nt } ! wring them toget husband th erring in wl woman = BLOODTHIRSTY TURKS. Murderous dgpeon-Man Streets yf Constantinople the Dy faces seared, as by n ignorance of all OCIS BAR On angry men, Con » of them of them seldom used yRwanrd might fjuesiions the police were called to ir falling armed «. Carrying axe- clubs, to Arrest CivViiian=s on wf reed he helves, pil like broken that K-anxe handles, heavy baseball bats, jagged fragments of carrying anything crush the skull of man, this horrible rabble the of all Christian quarters of the eity, like an all-desolating tidal wave, silent but Their silence by day was almost as terrible as thelr howls by night, They would be seen going along the street, when they would meet an Armenian who had ventured to at tempt to reach his home, Without a word they would break his skull and go on their way, entirely unmoved, and hardly having spoken a loud word. If resistance was offered they had only say. "The Ginours resist!” amd a horde of their fellows would cone run: ning from all directions to destroy one who had proved his seditious quality by daring to resist a Mussulman. scantling: ean flooded #ireets irresistible, to First Geography. The first geography printed in this ecotutry was compiled by Jedediah Moss, and published in 1780, for the nse of schools. The attempts at maps in this publication were extremely erude, and gave a very imperfect idea were supposed to represent. It is said that only twenty-five or thirty copies of this work are pow in existence. Boston Globe, The Connecticut Humane Society has awarded a medal to Eugene Walker, of Hartford, a lad seventeen years old, who, at the risk of his own life, saved a man from drowning last September. THE RIFS HAVE PLUNDERED VESSELS FOR CENTURIES, France Has Determined to Wipe Them Out, and Incidentally to Change the Map of Africa It no Is generally posed that pirates in the lurid small boys, This France has just fitted out longer ex opt literature sold to a mistake three warships for the purpose of wip and ing out a nation of pirates, help France Spain stands ready to help be needed The pira fos if any the I daw: 8 of Moroeo« f the Chris pirates unre Long before the tian era these they are to day tury people wi , and ust ns business much ia the fis ever Century after cen plundered and of Os 14 they have and have been aml Ol sed land, none POW i'd on them and bring them to ternix This is all the more strange reason that the modern the English Gibraltar econld almost Jectile acre ¢ the st country inhabit by the pirates Lif ol Ki mounted on the Foe tnrow a ” ia it and into means language, and nominally Moroceo, them a Alas Her he Sultan nt Axa IN French in danger of ng the Europea Kingdom. asx ons would } to interfoq in his behalf » hile VV and Russia ar Not the least Riffians ix that tively nothing x not Iw attache curious thing abot or «¢ nothing Oot ix Known about ountry is Southern Europe than although the any Northern The reason iz their ots cruelty and The pever travel a venture Two or three to all strangers most ventur some tourists into territory, as such would lx men hy certain death, disguising themselves as Moors have within the past twenty years succeed ed in making some investigation of the country, but nothing of a certain amd extensive character has been gleaned, It that the population of the Rif country ix about 105.006, They are not but Berber, or aboriginal stock. They an Mohammedans, but they would mur der one of their own religions bellef as soon as they would kill a Christiag They are divided inte countless ijrle hen {hey have nothirz fight” among themselves But on a threatened invasion by the regular forces of the sultan they flock together and present a united front to the enemy. The Rifs are well armed, and know how to use the modern munitions of war with considerable skill. Within | the past year they have plundered | about a dozen vessels, and the crews | of these have reported that the pirates | had rifles of recent make. They wear | body sashes holding many knives ani | pistols, and in boarding vessels always use short swords, or daggers, n pres. | erence to firearms, ! The last venturesome explorer to suc. | coed in getting a partial glimpse of | the Rif country was an Englishman | named Harris, Disguised as a Moorisa trader, with his legs and arms stained a deep brown, be managed to avoid detection for some months, He spoke Arabic fairly well, but deemed it Wiser | is estimated Moors, come of to pose as a deaf minute, He w panied by an Arab {of the talking nnd Ax Become did all who ovedst a val boy, who able axe Thin tr wis made 1M8K, “int in fav which run along the This explorer found that Vilas 451 Mountain country parallel with splendidly for Rif nat blacksmith the ooasi were tiled th cannon, Every Vie something of a and priegrer, understand § how to monld bullets, mg They ing te pow 1 by in and Bpanish ports, and it Is Lo repair arms buy their Al Freee making secret journeys to Heved that they exchange their plun th for feed, Customs o break up the traf the Riffians, them so badly ler w certain traders Moorish ive endeavored whatever ey officers and thereby the of they pleased It French f pple Les} they have ntti Wors latter vears done as bye with remains to French Toulon Admiral Gervals, Mediterra- will do the hax been ordered he RIf con pmmander of Hiker irom and the rench an squadron, has, under orders from ger Tro IV iberville to WILHELMINA OF HOLLAND, She Is the Idol of Her Nation and Has® Mind of Her Own. y Ilorin nnes credited daught Datel gi Jusi ng for some SON language, ‘Bat Holland » nobleman Holland, “Then, them t own daughters to me ak do ne “Ihe not born in English, . HO NOt sen wrathfully. i with Duted understand their for vel s sake ed W have O me, ithelmina, nothing to do ido not i Wao owe age.” "Literary Ingest. Efficacy of a Counte Colonel] Gillam, = gn. th the Mid was OCCups Tennessee Regiment, g Nashville during the late war. bh and patrols in all ipal streets of the city an Irishman had wen Jong enlisted was put on duty at a prominent crossing, and he Kept a nd faithful watch, Presently a n came Along. “Halt! Who goes there? ‘A eltizen” the Ady and give the countersign.’ “1 have ” replied to indignant citizen, “and the demand this time and place an- © taiiosed sentries pring he any the who ant sharp was response, Bee ! not the conntersig fi’ fess t ot is Hatinl’ “Well, begorran! until ve ve don’t pass this was Bunker HilL” The gppreciating the situa tion, smiled an advanced to the sen and cautiously whispered the say eclitzon, try. Jpht! Pass on™ and anake sentinel resumed Harper's Round Table. the wide his beat - British Postal Savings. One of the greatest bankers in the world is the British Government. As a bank it holds nearly £500.000,000 in on call, aud pays interest at the rate of 2 1:2 per cent. per annum to its deposi tors. Last year the deposits increas. ed £50,000,000. Ran Francisco News Letter. Some of the large life insurance com- panies are considering the advisability of establishing a colossal sapitariom for the care of consumptives who de | Motor and Misery. Compressed air as a motive power for #root ratlways will in timo wuperssde loo. trie wires and the trolley, Keacewsity and in vention make rapid changes, but oid. thods will hold good for vi ire the electric wires em, and often “jasgls out as when neuralgia slips the tro ny of the system and it grinds and grosns with min, The old motor for the cure of fain, Bt, Jacobs Ol, will always aot as electric in. fluence on the pain stricken nerves, ana will send 4 current eure through the disor. dared wires, und bring about » porivet resto ration, Nothing new can impr upon what is known to be the and surest io the treatment of painful disess es, The loss painful than #elves FOG sure, unfailing me ail time, The of the human By of tune” of Ive brersst ne us by others oft do violence de that which EY “1 Wi “ our rpring VlantUog. 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Pink- ham's “ Vegetable Compound” is the unfailing for It strengthens the proper muscles, and displacement with all its horrors will no more crush yon, Backache, dizziness, fainting, *‘ bear- ing-down,” disordered stomach. moodi- ness, dislike of friends and society-—all symptoms of the one cause—will be quickly dispelled. and you wll again be free, this trout cure Experience has proven conclusively that better grapes and peaches, and more of them, are produced when Potash is liberally ap- plied. To insure a full crop of choicest quality use a fertilizer containing not less than 10% Actual Potash. Orchards and vineyards treat ed with Potash are compara- tively free from insects and plant disease. All about Prrashthe results of ite une by scraal en. periment on the best farms in the United Saates—is told in a lathe book which we publad and will gladly mail free to any farover in Anverica whe will wilte for i, CERMAN RAL! WORKS, oy Nassan St, New York. velop the disense after insuring.
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