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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
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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
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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.