————————————— a — There was a man in our town who thonght himself wondrous wise Said he, “What costly frumperies the gy- erage husband Luvs! Now Fi cut out all the ‘Household Hints’ and give them to my wife, And she'll furnish the house on nothing at all, you better bet your life!” Bought some ancient newpaper files, and his wife got on her knees And began to manufacture things with clegance and ease, No ho She gathered a lot of barrel staves and made a window She thought of a new canary cage and a hoopskirt was her meat; She painted old shoes with liquid gilt and hung them over the wall: She eovered a keg with turkey red for hatrack in the hall; She made some beautiful picture frames of her husband's cast-off socks, A nd built a table and sideboard out of empty dry goods box. seat; She hung the coal! scuttle over the door fiwas lovely, so she said); She turned a hideous hen house into a handy folding bed: She out new mantel draperies out of old plaid underskirts; Nie meade some parlor lambrequions of her husband's flannel shirts; Nhe planted a palm in his old silk hat and tied np his vane with bows, And what she didn't finally do, the Lo He only knows! The finsband puned and pined sickly grew his soul, Ae Be saw her making a standin a pitcher and step g curtain poie, slow and his ew wah f ree Japanese Cime dlny she heg the n And swallowed poison. ent his threat abot his New York Press. If and died THE QUEEN'S PARDON. I be ®n she heights of Portland cembew mists, still undispersed by sun the , yey 1:4 - 1 go + ow rise, bung thick, obliterating all «f the prison buildings from the where geveral Sowuardron ny His straggling base of the prison Maelf mn the which 1) Miendtonously REY be eclls the with the pres nf nneongon eceuapant, a spite of prison i the ray his hed awake Lv Httle hae stored in the land ity hard prononn mare t voice, COISe] him, court 1 old lady, as though last a warder touched ang tl} «ry of “0, Tom! Tom! fo to der, Ie game Ke you away from me! in the eonrt. over late afternoon w blotting out the at all in turned round something t nnd then, shed) down ti} hich a to fe know 0 hol bode, by land ®omvict Prison as “No, i 1t hy v 1 UY varia s numbers Fhe sense of innocence brough contrary to all preconceived n. of fiction ion; it merely fille ate wrath and blackest early period of hi be fonnd Lin writers 00 mead « 8 gol! self « day ett with the legions of hour before he conld he migh thirds, maybe af seernds cael ot an anppreeial pars of life: hundreds of leaden footed with le thousgnds of ) ench ahe filled ninntes poignant d¢ wor Hear san At iron thie Kk. kor under the ve bef Breigng prisoners, in the presence of his chains, | From 15¢ came almost an inanimate machine, a Hivre in the round dai tofl and poison discipline, At first atiacked the stone as though he wore revenging Lis wrongs upon human Hoss and blood, at last he tooled it with the unthinking regularity of an antoms ton It takes a year or two to trample the | haman element out of a man of Har borde’s type; but the effect of stone walls. silence, and brutalized Comm fons, If slow, is nove the less gre, Only in his enge he became an automaton in tead of an aninal, Through the long Decembo: night. 4 while the mist enshronded Portland and restricted the range of the Highte nt the Bill to half a mile or less, and whilst the sirens sounded frou; the light-house gallery almost continuously, answered faintly by others from vessels far ont To sed, or booming harshly from of hers | near at hand, Harborde lay awake eeck- suing the weeks, dars, hours, and min i a possibly dangerous ma i he eos w hoe) of he © ify utes which comprise the remaining two years of his term. He had but just dropped off into a half-sleeping condi tion when his cell door opened, and fu stead of the hard Governor and chaplain, with the ward er in the background, What could it mean? He sprang Hp, knew what was happening the Gover nor had told him In a few tha he had recelved the Queen's pardon, words and then proceeded to read the same What did it all tuean? thought germinated in dull brain Free go where willed] walk out of the return within the had shut bit in from the outside world, though world ot than that contained within them exist No otheg his Free to Never vhich to he gaol gates stone walls ns surely as Ho hey (l. The prison bell clanged. startling into a The | Governor had finished reading the of ficial-looking paper Ww the | clusion of the formal part of his duty added a few Harborde seemed him state of wakefuluess, , and ith Con lie of words congratulation have no Hi ed standing in the center of the narrow | At made him understand the import of the document over to him “Free! Pree! to compre hension of their meaning remain | cell speechless last the which had just been read lalmed, nud he bed ina ing kniel worsted sto im now! iis ovdl, on t 3 h done innumer himself from 1.1 hiesilences ti in on e%, When imenced fo read !' He vsed to He hie 1} “Noy red to Know noth yo Ww names confront Names of those | bority, nates of Wiis } 1? He was con- | fowns, names. i “ feotitst pies wax Mashona Ps ind Matab Ho ros fdelicions new Low good it t las his eye caught a small para away at of coluinn on pa fae He read it and reread It over again “Her Majesty graciously pleased to Harborde, wha convicted of forgers Westelhes. | Yonars ago and graph stowed the bottom the thin ge six of i over i pit per fh has been i ws pardon Thomas nt the or Ausizes sotne ten f= ¢ Years’ penal servitude at Portland, | Harborde will be released this mrn- ing. The step has Leon taken In conse (quence of the dying confession of a man Iristol.” Nothing mere! Now he Aud Tilwell It was : 48 4 1 ¢ taken Fdward of justice, had hands hardly fair of death. denth i $ i i The porter enme up whistling to tell | i the wi) ni of ira the train would start in ten nin. utes. He got up, thrust thie paper into the man's hands, pointing to the arn: graph, “That's me.” “You Thomas 'iarhosde™ exclagaed tie man. “Then all U've zo! te say it's - IA a coacl-aud-six for you. Lets your hand, man, to wish you good luck. Got a misgis? No? 80 much the bet ters poor soul, if you had it cut her up terrible.” “No"sald Harborde, as though speak { ing himself, “I was to have been fmarried; but that's years ago now. and 'm an old man.” “OMA Interjeceted the porter than fiveand-thirty, I'N You do look older, to be sur io | No { bail but | wait till you've been out a bit, you'll bit nore soon rub off them lines and look more appish,’ The engine at the end of a hort {rain of Portland line after becoming too thoroughly out of date for even the Somerset and Dor Weymouth and Dorchester, gave a thin, squeak, and Harborde, inn fever of ap | prehension lest it should tumbled the came handy, ticketless, The porter came to tne door me a ' carvinges relegated to the set local service between wintry start without { him, into first carriage batt { that 4 § +} Lot LICKe?: and I'l get It for a shilling to Wes no Here, give you Hook woth” “Yes, his pocket for the “Now, claimed, returning a couple of minutes n said Harbords fumbling in money You're nll right,” the porter ex later: “there's the tie ket No Nn Crom) by mate, and good and the cha thanks; you want all you've luck to the ir He paper w roaps they wonld not bellovs i and Thomas Harbaorde men were one and Applebury ie agen the gintion Fliers place with Christ Kee Mey of the shops now 1 =f revt sw bad large plat ind of Ww Me In more countryficd fronts it i i i otherwise mu For a mome fit and down ¥ the paseors-hy Fars ded b ti he fo grocers up } curiosity remeniiered that he wonld | go along the ndow vard into the footpaih, turn down ¢ iy and then again the road leading to his home Int te. ‘He had ran part of the could not ma net the whose w projected a h ft root turning take i en minutes ho reached the ards n Ra now he aml Ke up his mind Zo up the drive to the What they were all dead? Ile grew sick the very idea iloor ir at ! There was a light ip his | as 8 the front ili perhaps dying him t he carried th pt ronind up drive, which little front in a He heard the boli tinkle shrilly back of the like home, All at once ne remncuibersd | how, years ago, he haa bas : a long handled 84 11 aguinst jis feliows on either The streamed out on to the on He lawn semi-cirels, nt the honge, The sannd seemed red i with | janzied wile Hood of light gravel, It weal A strange face and the fact sent an fey | shock to Lis heart. Far outside himself | he heard a volee he did not recognize as | his own asking if Dr Harborde were | A year seemed to pass before the | servant said “No” adding, “Did You wish to see him particulars” ’ “Yes” “He'll be tn broom it thoy opened A in half an hone “Isis Mrs. Harborde my Je she alive?” sald the man at the door, throw. | ing the words at her when once his tongue hind consented to fmme them, “Why. lor bless me, yes! Come, none | that!” But it was no use. The man she nad ust noticed had suspiciously short hale . strange, wild-looking face had pushed past her, thrown open the sit ting-room door, stumbled Into it. and thrown his arms around a sweet-faced old lady, who rose in alarm at his sud | den entrance | “My son! my sou!" rang out through “Mother! mother!” { The girl stood rooted to the spot, then | she ran to Jane, and the two of them came out into the passage, In the aif ting-room with ite pink-shaded lamp a | Woman was seated Kissing every line in her Ine that the long years had written. And he stroked the | hair that still lay thick, though white, | the house, son's face—every i ina coll at the back of her head, Suddenly the man started up. “Jess? he asked, huskily Some one who had lain, balf-stunned with Joy, In a wicker clini of | the range of the lamplight came into his ! : well out | vislon “Joas!" he arms whilst the | Jesu!” From! eae the “But 1 am old.” said “And 1, ith the i loneliness of walting ind I nm young again.” The voice of the eldes folding her in root swam round his "My cried, HREwer he: “sa old also, w sadness and NOW -—TIOW woluan hroke | the silence after a moment For this, my son, wag dead and Is alive again.” And they began to be ni ry London 1 Ww ack and hit Wizard with the W hip. Austro-Hungarian, named Pisks on in Vienna dA Bersa Hard ball of inns I's nl Commercial Travelers Home, The commer are grea N imporia ney edge iravelers f (wenn ie yt * tte t hie Ow one's tradq : nads nat are lef oping of of the irl and familie it = all that offers between g In on anjmny affinity buyers The late campaign in the wml discerned to solvent Hay attent paid ativg community EEE od [yea is wernt The building a for worthy indigent familie plete thi that Commercial Travel held in the Madi it began on the 15th “Mth. and through aspire to raise 8150000, fair, full of novel shows by people of enterprise “IN MNejuare Ga and closers ony the i the travelers it and managed No doubt it ide ix 8 great will meet with the soreess that it Harper's Weekly SETrveR Prentice's Advice. Once when George 1). Prentice, of tlic FLouiaville Journal, was coming ont of 1 public building in Louisville, he was to pass through a doulde door which opened both ways, He started A young man coming from the opposite direction was pushing at the game door, own left. Prentice lost pas tence, and throwing himself again the dour. it flew open, and the young than wen! sprawling on the floor. As. sisting the youth fo rise, Preftice re- marked: “Take my advice, my son, keep to the right in your way through life. and you'll never rou againet any- body but a blamed fool, and you needn't apologize to him” ft wont to push at the door on his right his The Difference. “Professor Glacler's leeture lasted until midalght.” “That's the timie mine usually com- mences.”~Cleveland Plain Dealer, —-— AS ET ——— A man wie has a «ilk hat has as much to keop him busy as a woman «ho has a baby. An Instance Which Fhows Armour to Be a King Among Men, Phil Armour, of Chicago, Is not afraid of a big thing, and he is ready to fight i hold his own. An Instance of this, writes Frank G. Carpenter, occurred in the spring of last year. time the graln brokers in Chicago had hoped to be able to down Armour They had tried it a number of and falled At last it was discovered that bad bought 3,000,000 bushels of whent to be delivered in May. market was in such state that he to take 11, Vatlors were times he Line The Chicago ¢l sleeves when they thought of A having all anon him and no place to put it expected he would have 1 it they conld buy it at thelr own Pp he wis rmaonur that wheat dumped dow to sel and that would lose a fortune i This Ist of April called in hig architeet Lie gd have w elevators built large 3,000,000 bushels of wheat the «i about the tm uation Mr and builder, 8aid day t that i must thin enough to tore sald the architect replied Mr. Ar “It can't be done.” must be done’ a physical impossibility ¥. BD. ARM “We might LAD in EM: § of thelr = ANTI-FAT CABIN. Experience of the *mith Family Hut Apparently Haunted. A strange aod near ago Mr. and Mrs of whom k winners house had years, and moved Into 1! they } and shrink away son red upled f time after Zan to grow got before inne nE-room hrank away to a sive. we frightened fam her honse, and 1) to the stock stayed in it nto moved was turned open farm, and they BECAME WALKING SKELETONS, nights and siormy weather. As soon as the family moved they began to get fat again, but the stock that took shel ter in the cabin fell away so rapidly that they became walking skeletons. Smith was fattening hogs, and these slept in the cabin, and try as he would he could not feed them enough to make them fat. In desperation he shut the stock out and then burned the cabin. A A — Never Ate Solid Food, Tommy Horton Is one of San Fran. cisco’s freaks. Though 23 years old he has the faculties and physical Appear ance of a boy early in his teens, He is by no means balf-witted, for he bas a the wits of a boy of 16. But at 3 his | mind naturally should have developed Until three weeks ago hie hos pent all | of his time at home, but now he bas ou | #ituation as errand-boy for a dealer in microscopienl supplies. This work has taken him to scientists and through them his condition became publie, Tommy, though born healthy, tad | early in life all the Infantile disenges. Besides, he had stricture of the stom ach, ag a result of which his digestive strike, and has Then ward bad a apparatus went oa an remained out of work ever glnee he was ruptured, and after severe attack of asthma Never in bis life solid food, and, for the greatest jit iy 1 stomach « Fie sometime lias he eaten a it orf a time, it was only with hits ik and fonds, ould water tak and i an ounce of nour thou Consequently his brain haxn in n lamentalil honesty innocent of ] York Pre CW ! MADE A GREAT SUCCESS. An Editor Who K the Business, but new Nothing About Made Money. Was 1 badd § ia pri ri Ole ’ of year he 1} i tie id not do a thing toward running fhe aper except making contraets for for hig strony eo yuiiiy advertis le aesepted 5 atont ga patent med printer had fires n, wood Onee ie ront doo of dperetin frre Most die Nation. sry way ieally fivids af-the «t lets his leases ta Ans countries it ¥ 5 ‘ eR LBAraiy ‘ween Spain nstitutional wi and a magnifs to make jife Morkex natural of the real Turkish iyzed hoy ane the are para ba thls 1040 into idleness hs 3 the Laks near of £ worth having whieh hy official nren larg: dark most indness, wv parching stomach. all ayer t » 3 fey ov } ' . { Es 1d HO8 auag finalls Luther's Wedding Ring. Luther's wedding ring was a mest elaborate affair, containing representa tions of all the articles used st the crucifixion! the ladder, the cross. the rope, the nallg, the hammer. the spear, the thorns, were all shown in the eir cumference of this peculiar plece of Jewelry Early W Watches were first called Nuremburg eggs. some of them were five and six inches in diameter, as large gs the small-sized cheap clocks now exhibited in store windows, They were firet made in 1447, Life of a Theater. The average life of a theater Ix twen- ty-three years. From 1561 to 1887 in- clusive, 187 theaters were burnt down, and twelve every year since has been about the average. “What a remarkable man Monoels is: so farsighted, you know.” “Yee: and yet he's so nearsighted that he can't see two feet without his glasses’ Philadelphia North American. Every one is the object of some body's suspicion, and should regulate his conduct with that thought in ming. A mar who enves bis words, usually saves his mosey.
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