: LIFE Gold glow of noon, and gloom of uttar night; Bleak, bitter days of winter storm and stress, And bland, bright hours of summer bloom and light; A voice that speaks strange secrets none may guess; An anxious questioning without reply; A wind that comes and goes—a song, a sigh! A dim, mysterious dusk of ancient trees, That ever stir with wild and wandering tone Of laughter, strife, old paius and prophecies; Deep breath of bliss, heart throb, and an- guishod moan; A narrow streak of sunlit path between; A bird's brief note, high, clear and keen! A message written in the shifting sands, Cloud forms that drift athwart the twi- light gleams, Stray waifs, far blown from unimagined lands; Faces that laugh or leer in fevered dreams: | Youth, flushed with flame of longing and de- | sire; Gaunt age, chill-fingered, crouching by the fire! Is it a masque of mingled tears ani mirth A shallow scene, a painted puppet-play, Made for the gods who sit above the earth Aud doze away the years! Ah, who shall say? The fruit grows ripe and falls; men come | and go; The end is death and silence —this we know. | ~Charles L.. Hildreth, in Belford, A PECULIAR CASE. I haven't a bit 'of patience with that class of men who are always shaking their heads in a solemn way and de- claring that many an innocent man has been sent to State Prison circum- stantial evidence. Such instances have been known, of course, but they are very rare, and it is then the fault of the accused. I am about to narrate the par- ticulars of a case which excited wide- spread interest in 1863, and I ask the reader to follow the situations closely, and to sce what curious combinations can arise through circumstances. James Stowe was a merchant in village of G-——, Illinois. He had been there fifteen years, He was a church member, had no vices. and while accounted rather close fisted, he was said to be strictly honest. A year before the mystery occurred he had taken a boy named Robert Lisle into his home, the boy being an orphan and his nephew. Bob, as we all called him, was thirteen years old when he came. He went into the store as a clerk, and a bedroom was made for him up stairs. I was a boy of Bob's age, and we same to be chums. It thus came about that I learned the cause certain welts and bruises on his legs and body. His uncle, while pretending to feel a great interest in his welfare, and while speaking to him mn the kindest manner before others, was beating him on the slightest excuse, and seeking to make the place so warm for him that he would run wway. Some bors would have gone, but Bob hadn't the courage to get up and face the world without a shilling in his pocket. On the afternoon of the 23d day of June, 1863, as was sworn to in eo urt, | was in the alley back of the store, and 1 heard Stowe whipping Bob in the store room. I heard arge Bob with stealing some mone ¥, but the boy vigor- ously denied it. After the whipping Btowe told three different customers that he had caught the boy stealing, but pressed the he had wi him. I saw Bob about an hour aft affair, and he made his denial in manner that I felt sure of hi I then advised him to run away, but as had no money to give him, and as he had not a penny of his own, he did not think it best to go. He wanted me to come and share his bed with him that night, as I had often done before, but a circumstance prevented, Stowe saw us together, and ordered me away from the store, At seven o'clock that evening a man named Chadwick arrived in the village from Chicago to visit a sister. He had $2000 iz money with him, and be asked Btowe to keep it in his safe over night. At eight o'clock the store was closed and Btowe went home. left home to go to the store, calculating to call Bob up by throwing pebbles against his window, a signal often made before. As I passed the alley I saw a man skulk away. I afterward swore in court that I believed this man to be Btowe. The sight of him frightened me, and I retyrned home at once. Next morning ‘‘the mystery” opened with a grand blast of trumpets. Bob Lisle had disappeared during the night, and the safe had been robbed of Chadwick's $2000. Investigation heightened the mystery, There was blood on Bob's pillow, A trail of blood led from his bedmde to the back door of the store. The sale had been opened in the regular way, and Stowe claimed that 8400 of his money had gone with Chadwick's. The town was at once alive, and the village con stable proved his enthusiasm and worth by arresting two stiangers. One soon identified himself as an honest man. while the other admitted that he was a deserter from the army aod a tramp. On searching him $120 in greenbacks was found in one of his pockets, He declared that he found this money in on the of him ch fact that nnncence the alley nthe rear of Stowe's store | that morning about daylight, he having passed the night in a store shed further down the alley, It was believd by all that the right man had been srrasted, and the constable ad once be. came the hero of the hour, A CO detective, who happened in the town that same day, looked the ground over and dec At nine o'clock 1 | ~ AA AN I body, and every spot where it could have been concealed within a radius of three miles was carefully examined. It could not be found, but this fact only strength- ened the general belief in the desorter's guilt. He had, by the by, given his name as William Davis, and had vigor- ously and continually asserted his in- nocence of any crime whatever, A war. rant had been issued, charging him with robbery and murder, and inside of a week be had been examined and held to the higher court without bail, On the very day that this ocurred a Down-East Yankee with a patent churn arrived in town, and, of course, he soon heard all about the mystery. To every- body's surprise he declared Davis inno- cent, and argued as follows: ‘‘How was the store entered? As the doors and windows were all right, it must have been entered by one of the doors, with a key. How was the safe robbed? By some one who knew the combination and opened it. The boy was up-stairs-——the safe down stairs, {| What need to meddle with the boy at | all?” While the heroic constables and others were digesting the above, the Yankee was turning things over in his mind and preparing to add: “‘What object to kill the boy, or even to arouse him? And, if killed, where is the body! Why should the robber have carried it away at allt If Davis is the | robber, there must have been blood gpots on his clothing. What did he {do with the balance of the money? Where did he get his | How did he learn the combination of t safet" This line of reasoning upset everybody, and it no the ears of | Stowe than he arrest of | tl It was not h ue sooner reached suggested the 16 Yankee as an accessory. done, but the latter heard of it and re. | | plied: ‘Investigate Stowe, He knows more about this than the deserter does!” His suggestion turced public attention and suspicion in another direction, and it was not long before some curious re sults were forthcoming, I saw him in the alley wk of the night of the blacksmith came forward and said he saw the street half hour later, Stowe dodged past him and did not re turn his salutation. The hired girl at Stowe's house declared that he went out 2 o'clock and did not It s0 unusual for alone that in ng. Three ng. information that at about nine o'el crime The village him on that an and Just before n turn until him to go out of she particularly nol or four of us boys re ten. was evening his gol told how about that while the deserter was not re- leased, Stowe was arrested. His story was Bob pilfering from the money drawer on several occasions, and that on the day of the murder and robbery he had lald a trap for him and caught him taking $5. He said he had r when he got home that he had wae the safe door, and that he bad returned to make point. After finding that everything was all right he had st ypped to put up is left on the counter, and had then returned home, He denied being mn the alley at the hour 1 thought [ saw sting the blacksmith, 3 seare that he had caught a feelir neglected to Cit SOME gor . 3 H vigorous body, but no trace it During this time a citi pi lollar bill in the car of the , and everybody at once ared that the deserter must have told s truth. When the man who robbad fe went out by the back door he have lost his grip on the money, he wind had scattered some of it against Davis was dropped when called before the higher court, and was put on trial for robbery. Everybody now believed him guilty of the murder of the boy, but as the body could not be found included. Search was made high and low for the money, but it could not be found. The general idea was that he buried the body somewhere in the vil. lage, and concealed all traces. ’ of Case Mowe Just previous to the trial Mrs. Stowe | admitted that when her husband came | home his coat was covered with dust; he was pale and nervous; one of his fin. gers was bleeding from a cut, and that he sat up for an hour after she had re. tired, It was farther discovered that his business affairs had gone wrong, and | that two creditors were pressing him for payment of debts, good case was made out agsinst him, but | he had a surpfise in store for the public When called upon to plead he answered “‘Not guilty” to the charge of robbery, but desired to plead guilty to the sccusa tion of having murdered the boy. This took everybody aback, of course, and as they had no more proofs in the one case than in the other, the charge of robbery was dropped snd he was arraigned on the other. On the stand be told the story as follows: “I bad discovered that Bob was a thief, and times for stealing. 1 had punished him on this day. When I returned to the store in the eveming I wont up to his room to have a talk with him. He was impudent, and I struck him a blow and broke his neck. 1 then carried the body to the river and flung it in, and the rea. son you didn't find it was because it | Boated away with the current. I am very worry. I had no malice and no thought of hurting L.n. 1 struck the blow on the impulse of the moment.” When he came to trial a plea of ‘not | guilty” wae, of course, entered, but his | lawyer made little or no effect, and he | was pronounced guilty and got a sentence | of fifteen years. After it was over pub- lie opinion whipped about, as it generally | does, and every person felt sorry for the | man. He went to prison, saying that it {was a just punishment, and it was a yoar | and a half before the real climax came, One morning Bob Lisle walked into town as cool as you please, and when he had satisfied us that he was uo ghost key to enter? | I gave out the | Bob had | been beaten and misused, and so it came | certain on this | } Was | this charge was not | All in all, a pretty | had punished him several | AB ———— 5, — ——— A —— opened the safe and removed the money. He did not see Bob at all, but after hanging around for a spell loft by the back door, falling out of it as he went. In this way he got the dust on his coat, and at the same time let go of some of the money. Bob realized that it was a robbery,and suspecting that it was a put- up job to get him sent to prison, he de- termined to run away. He took two or three dollars left in the money drawer, bundled up something to eat, and when morning ceme was miles away. For up- ward of a year he had been running on a steamboat. One day he had heard two pussengers talking of the case, and when he discovered that he was supposed to have been murdered he at once started for prison to clear his uncle, Stowe was in Btate Prison, as you know. When told that the boy had returned alive and well, he was all broken up. When Bob was taken to the prison his uncle had nothing to say. Well, as a matter of course, steps were taken to secure Stowe's pardon, and it of trying him for the robbery, but various delays occurred, and his lawyers ad. | vanced various technical objections, and | the case finally petered out. He disap- | peared, going to Australia, and it was { two or three years later when the final particulars came to light. He had been hoarding his cash for three or four years, calculating to skip out. He had robbed | the safe and buried the money in his cel- lar, and he fully intended to accuse Bob | of the crime. He suspected that Bob had run away, and therefore accused himself { of the alleged murder to cover up the | other erime After he had skipped, | leaving his family without a dollar, a | great many of his dishonest transactions { came to light, and it became plain to | everybody that he was a rascal in dis raise, While I do not deny, as I told at the outset, that a you entirely inno- be sent guilty of it, it can scarcely hap. is an h man cent of a certain crime may to prison ns pen if he mn and above . His conduct must be against Circum the betraying guilt when to go a long ways where direct proof is lacking, and I think I am safe in man who nocent of the crime for which he mest man suspici hum as an innocent man. tances place of sted, satisfactory such as being seen near crime, Ce maxe saving that the has been found {ey in wal hung or sent to prison was guilty of some. thing else of a serious nature which seeking to hide the bf rik SHR. he is wa at time New The Reign of Fashion. If the power of publi opini mn dates { from the reign of George III. the reig: of fashion dates from the present de Twelve years ago who talked of tain flower or some one particuls: All flowers fashion when in season: 30 was stone that you YORE, But we | that, The chrysanthemum rage. We maint it on our screens, and embroider on our centre-pleces, and fill our vases with the natural bl ma to the neglects of A year ago it was the Before that it was sto were ing ‘‘the fashion?” ght happen to have changed all mi mi any DOs is the present I it my all others. carnation. the violet, The s also the stone sscred to r stone of to-day is the turquoise De reins the It ad Cartxinly it is the most easiest imitated A few seasons a rage for sapphires, which had in their turn su ceeded cat's-eyes Last had more than « igh of the moonstone. What is to follow! The diamond always holds its own; and the ruby is for the few, as it appears to have been in the «Philadelphia Record, . A —— Car Horses Mind the Bell. | “Did you ever notice how street car mind the bell!” asked the old driver of a Star reporter the other night. { “Well, they do then, better than they {do the sound of the driver's } When the conductor rings the bell once [it is a very stupid team that will not all luckiest is said to be azo there was year we not days of Solomon ! — : horses Youice | slow up and stop, but they are just as ready to start off again as soon as the | bell rings twics for the ‘go ahead. "The | driver does not have to say a word to | them. Last week, you know, when we { had the heavy snow that made life so { miserable for the horses lots of cars got stuck going up hill. If you had been much {on the notice you would have observed that when the driver had exhausted all his stock of language in trying to get the car started he would get the conductor to ring up a couple of times, and the horses realized that they had to get that car on the move or break a collar, If the conductor had rung once all the talk- ing the driver could have done would never have started those horses, but two bells was too much for them." Wash- ington Star, RRS. A Curious Little Appetizer. As the lamb with caper sauce came on at a club dinner the other day, 1 asked my vis-a-vis, a man learned came from. ‘‘Thoy are cultivated largely {in Southern France,” mid he, “espeoci- [ ally in Savoy, but many come to us from the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterra- nean, off the const of Spain, where they grow wild. The vines clamber over the rock in a very beautiful manner, and the berry, which is the seed vessel of the plant, is gathered by the peasantry. Capers are publicly sold in the market places of Balearic towns and shipped to Spanish or French ports for exportation,” New York Star. —————— -— The Incubator Process In Egypt. The number of chickens anually hatched in Egypt by the incubator pro- L000, and would, under and it w so simple that one man and a are jt a an bul & boy His oulf Sud on in many | | things, where the curious little appetizer | | or the little hotels by the way. It would | be incongruous for a missionary bishop ' without churches. i | stateliness. was soon granted. Then came the question | . | ance at a place. i A JOURNEYING CATHEDRAL THE NOVEL IDEA OF A BISHOP IN NORTH DAKOTA. A Car With All the Characteristics of a Church-8Side Switched While Services Are Held, Many of the little hamlets in W Jishop Walker's diocese in North Dakota are In order to minister to the spiritual wants of the people the bishop conceived the original expedient of a car planned for cathedral use. In their Chicago shops the Pullman Palace Car Company have carried out the idea of so absolutely unique a construction in proper form. Although not without dignity and elegance, this novel type of cathedral, Bays a writer in Harper's Weekly, will depend for popu- larity on its usefulness rather than on its The work in connection is broadly planned. tho bishop will send placards ten days or two weeks in advance of his appenr- These will be posted in the depot and in the postoffic e, iy this means will be that the bishop will hold service at the village in the car, which will be switched The announcement upon a side-track at a certain hour, that he be ready to administer holy baptism snd the holy communion placard will also announce and confirmation; also that ordinary services of the Episco- pal Church will be held preached, and a sermon A necessity for dealing wit material questions has been much success by this iogenic the first in the his ory of labor tolic origin to hs h mn t with we invented @ of sctical civilization his cathedral with him when go ng forth to preach t such aistinctive character and pr importance to vogress of as that of a plan for taking we Gospe ] among men I'he problem of lo- comotion was easily solved through the { he milway eo ally ag 1 to oa Reneromty « MOPpAnIes, ) w hich cheerf put a shoul train. remarkable tion is thus formed, earth has never hithe the bishop rea lily per r expr to switch to be made for services, The proj r of the plan erary temple ¢ Xpoects iL Wo be ex useful in the « undertake inas much as he will be able by this means to reach hundreds of families to whom otherwise iid not mivister If able, ns hi for an additional use re 4, i Lrains « the cathedral, vedingly PRE he «¢ sacred things hopes, of the « ar, it social gather He expects to bring with at such times some musicians, wh ), at any little place ed, will furnish music for the entertzinments of the hard. toiling farmers, who, the bishop finds, have little or nothing ” ATTA will provide for ocx ings of AKI00A] the pe ple seioct to relieve the dull, ead-mill monotony of their strugg work-duy life. “I mys, ‘‘that thus a my of from time to time their dreary, trite lif iy iz ir uog, he sunshine might in upon musical have thought” » be rely ress treats will be ent Ihe ear may be used To this ¥ outline otherwise, as ft Cason ures : ten s definite] Am ar by way of j ng different tit) ipatetic church, the “roamin Dakota The bishop is the *‘Church of the Advent This is painted in appropriate form of let tering on the side above the windows On the space beneath the windows is traced in gold and red the additional lescriptive term *' Cathedral Car of North Dakota.” The car is sixty feet long, snd ar. ranged with what has been known to the manufacturers as a “‘stato-room” st one ead, In the center of the exterior on either side is an elevation with sunken panels to give in degree the cathedral appearance, finish is in wh and g some The oak, and the car is equipped with double | windows on account of the cold country in which it will be used. warms this moving house of worship. Toward the rear end of the car is the chancel, with its altar, lectern and font. A cabinet organ provides the music, The seating space is filled with portable | chairs to the number of about eighty. The room partitioned off in the rear is | ten feet long by about nine feet four | Its two-fold use as vestry | the | “In it 1 can put on my | inches wide, and bedroom is best signified in bishop's words robes, It will also be a dormitory for me when the people of the hamlet will | not have room to shelter me, It will be | simple in decoration and in Its equip- ment,” “It is not my intention,” he futher | states, ‘“to have a kitchen, or a cook, or | a porter. I expect to get my meals as best | can in tarm houses, section houses, to go about in a luxurious and pompous way. The object is in a simple way to proach Christ's Gospel and administer the sacraments of the church to many who have few or no opportunities tc avail themselves of these spiritual com. forts. It will be pure missionary work adapted to modern conditions. I expect to be my own sexton-to trim the lamps, and arrange the seats, and sweep out the ear when ncoessary. 1 expect also to be my own organist very often.” A Bee Sting Remedy, of the beo is so peculiarly if yoo pull it out, in In arranging his tours | made will | Various | A heater | [ A Balloonist's Fright. ! H. Hennequin, of Paris, France, whol has had some experience in aerial nava.: tion, arrived in the city yesterdsy from San Francisco on his way home, and) during his stay in Chicago called on Mr. Grand Pacific Hotel, Mr. Hennequing was in Fontenay at the time Tissindler and Gower had their startling adventure in a balloon. The traveler is an intimate friend of Gower, and tolls the ito v of their fall of a mile as the balloonist re- lated it to him, “They nmscended from Tissindler's house in Paris, and floated off toward Vincennes, and as’ the wind was some. what strong from the northeast, the two men soon disappeared from the view of Paris, having risen to a height of about 1500 feet. When they had reached Fontenay, they were fully 6000 feet above the earth. They sailing along smoothly, watching the scenes be- to fall down were low, when suddenly they seemed into a hole in the they itmosphere and went at a terrific Riand ed the was traveling mr filled their ht their wd hap ned to the : rate, (rower I the with at neeagie 0 It A re ug fu verticie Beale, id fer hitling cars, ana both had come. ’ pre d, men Nothi It seemed to the ng balloon. was in perfect condition there Ho air to hold it u Tis sindler desperately threw or bags were | und ne disap peared above them, seine to De rushing at them wi pie Ie breath ir orders SWRI pS, ~ A man wh \ y sz ah t jours ought what be says Messrs, § have been is the most pop for boils, pimples, Because, while it cure, It acts gently, Pennington, of airship fame, at they | His Unique Sign. | A striking signboard may sometimes ‘be the tenns of making its owner's fortune. There are plenty of places in New York where old umbrellas sre mended, but the west side mender who put up the sign “Umbrella Hospital” itruck an idea that none of his rivels had thought of. People laughed at it, took + second glance at it, looked at the lace, and told their acquaintances about it, thus advertising the umbrella hospital and sending customers to it. Unless the signs fail, that signboard will yet enrich its inventor. 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