" 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.
It ie , it
Rpring's Vie
first thing
nlogus of
iu de, put
Known
wenidd for
age Oo
ment, whi
none 100 on
ihe
fo whe
ve oflers,
there
feel trust
ams in A
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ALG
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Hood's
Sarsaparilla
flood Purifier
f IRksihie
the best - which eu
The best the Ove Tr
LHe
Hood's Pil's cure nau
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enia
a b A
Jules Simon's Modesty.
By f intellect 1 nobility
of } late Jules Simon, the French
statesman an ph hropist, raised
yet he re
a sim-
Nis DOWer o an
himself
1 ¥ life
mained 10 1} fe
nodest
Odd
some in the
shops, and
* ReYer-Ceas-
ly food.
to the same physical
from
same phy
sical dis
turbance
there is
serious
derange-
ment in
the womb
Lydia E. Pink-
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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
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plant disease.
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