“FATEN™ In this dark belfry where wo toil and grope Toward the dim seen light of life within, Where barely, or with panting breath we win To shadowy glimpses of our dream of hope; If still ascending by the steepening slope With this small knowledge of our origin The what we were, plusall our sum of sin, What need is there to cast a horoscope? We are the angels of such destiny As shall o’ertake place Of temporary hiding, soon or late, There is no thought, word, deed of we, But moulds us unto grace, or to disgrace, Though men are pleased to call their scape goats “Fate.” us when we leave this such as ~James McCreedy. JUDGE REL. od ~’ .”" ACK RELF stood irresolute in doorway of the smoking -room. The all-night po- ker game, of which he had been A spectator for an hour or more, had just adjourned for breakfast, and the empty room with its colored cigarette smoke was uninviting at so early an hour. Hardly more at- trictive was the row of pallid iavalids— | Ly aus ; ! years before when in the pink and gray light of early dawn he stumbled over the helpless and shapeless in their heavy wraps—on the deck before him. demoralizing to see men so colorless and ! women so utterly regardiess of personal | istic. : | a horrid one. as his fellow of rougt » usual havoc, and although sea had become somewhat calmer us deadly i ion to the general had warning appeaiance passengers weather had swell, there was an insidis its effect, i dreariness [ Oi ilthough the cribe The nowey gAUZS curtains AT Pp AY were y translormation scene in a glare of Frecied vessel two pleces, perate y to the sight, and boss to ro out to the wreck i wad of cued y over the side wd of With the the time it took nterminable strangely wut the throbbing the engines, wal i 1 1 two in all, m appear ones, twenty and dis MOong & Cr gaping steer AQe passen gi the first m had been lost, the rs. except ste and Carpe 1% agey-headed crew of the Lizzie Jol unhurt, to a man io the neat b the Dah sleerayd hisi00 When they re were apparently white of the he aad a, they t 0 n wLYEs to ad mired an indif. ference ol experienced lions, They were a polyglot collection ~-German, Freuch, some sallow Portu : “mm qu toned and wita wortoy more guese, several Dutchmen and a sprink- | 1 | blood was up, Mr, Relt? | me with his knife, and well, | couldn't Ling of Americans, of whom the captain Was one, Rell took an immediate in terest in one young fellow--not on ac count of the man himself exactly, for his ! hada't back was turned, and he ¢ould only see that be was tall and well formed. It was more owing to the effect ths man | was producing on a tow-haired German | bead with the handle to make him let rirl who was tenderly bandaging his | . 8 y g ng | you ean see the marks of them yot." right wrist, She blushed furiously when he spoke and bent her head to hice hor confusion, Relf reflected that the man must be strikingly handsome or was saying unusually sweet nothings, and waited curiously until the operation should be completed, hoping to see his Ince. But when the giri gave a final pat to ber skilful bandage, the sailor made ber a funny little bew nnd went inside without turning round, Later 1a the day, when Relf was talk. ing with the eaptain of the Lizzie John. ston, and at the same time idly watching the picture of squalor the steerage af- forded, he again saw the young man of the bandaged wrist, stretched out in the sunshine, apparently asleep, with his tace concealed by his arm. He was on the point of asking the captain about him when a steward appeared on the prom: enade deck beating a Chinese gong for dinner. At dinner, at the supreme moment when tongues wag livelisst, when the or- chestra plays loudest, when every one is addressed Relf’s plate, looking cover wonderingly, and glanced down the half sheet it contained, upon which among other things was a smirch of blood, until his eyes rested upon the signature, “Richard Burns,” He stared at it so long and stupidly that the im- patient steward joggled his elbow, and the | strata of various | It was | chance been | | ared, dressed | | what his existence had never been so deeply moved, helped himself plentifully to | mashed potatoes. “Mr. Reif,” the ran, ‘when I saw you talking to the captain to-day I hid my face, but you will come again note and sce me anyhow, and I want to have | a talk give me | away. people have gone inf Richard Burns.” Relf shuddered at this note with its blot with you before you Can I see you to-night when the Very respectlully, of blood almost as he had shuddered two | H dead body of a servant on the deck of The shock bad been The gruesomeness of un i for whom with his his uncle's yacht. ding some one head could ever quite recover from; and row and fog had placed the 1 derer in bis hands when the police rast expenditure of money had fail to do know what 1m, 80 he lean waited for the other t the silenc2 that ) I NIOWE 3 any one ill at eas un to speak; but he uise and waited. ally plunged des lle of what he earer that he migh peratel had slowly spoken a ten “1 pever meant to kill Manderson,” “It was him that had the grodge against me. He usea to go out of his way to devil me--we never would have seen each other if be hadn't, -'? He broke off abruptly and wdded inn h peless tone, ** hat wasn't I was going to say first, for you won't believe that, if you're sharp, like they used to say you were. A knowing vg Burns began. | ehiap don't believe what's true.’ Please go on,” said Relf, dryly. “He worried me like a cat until that night I coulda’t stand it, aad hit him, You Muonderson when his He jumped at remember let him stick me, snd how would it ba' if U'd ba’ made » row! If it ba' been him it would ha' been me. But [ never meant to kKidl him, | got his koile and rapped him over the jooked go-=his tee'h were sunk in my hand; Relf looked with some interest at the great paw that was thrust into the stream of light from the musig room port. hole. “He loosed his grip.” continued Burns, “and [let him down easy, | didn’t know he was dead, but couldn't set him on his feet ausin sad his heart wasn't working, Well, I might ha' staged there, and sr'd then what I'm - but I didn't. My people was well SAYING DOW, are hard-working and raised, if I do say it. I'm only older than you by two years. I'm a common kind of a man, but everything is before me like it is for you. I couldn't give it all up. I can make something out of my life if no one knows who Iam.” His wittiest and no one else is listening —the | steward laid a rather soiled envelope, | in an unformed hand, beside | He opened the dubious- | Relf, who in the entire twenty years of | { dial piates are | { ference | face showed an instant in the light, and Rolf, who had always remembered it as something diabolical, streaked with sweat and coal dust, noticed that it was | clean and brown and eager almost as useful as hia own. Burns talked on and on, but Reif had ceased to hesr the words, only the earn. est tones of the man's voice came to him, Under its influence he was seeing his own praiseworthy intentions in an en- | tirely new light. He realized that he had in his power a creature like himsell——a | young and vigorous life that he was | about to—if not quite kill, at least crip- ple as effectually os the limbs of a Nea- politan beguar that are tortured into hideous shapes in infancy. Exactly why he was doing this he didn't know. Ob- not for the it was for the good of | the public. Then he reflected that this | was *‘rot,” as abstractly did in the least care for the goo 1 of the pul | and at any rate an honest life was of finitely more good to the world than any number of ignominious deaths, Was it thirst ref Was it merely to satisfy a prejudice! He thought of these other things, with his eyes viously it was man's own good, Perhaps he 10 for revet e black smoke that rolled from and, trailing cl to the the shim. "a0 water, struggled to obliterate mering path of moonlight there, The time passed with cruel sl fark figure at become slient, YW C88 his side, wh and was trying y had ounger man's large vagu idred A Cane Eleven Hu am KE. Yale, 8 wealthy DIOOKITA in Piece fy * i B i XVI. and Marie led. Mr. Ya Ich Care in coli He ys has been woic is § it to tor the | 0 the histor Il University whe Se ——————— St. Panl’'s Great Clock ta be Replaced. wk of 5i. Pa Ihe great cle ngiand, loity height and |} { mo has De era « YANGARIISI yd « Mf its WK, remarkanie w heels It « and the finen £300 to build, filt ne feet In circum the numerals two feet 24 The minute hands are inches long weigh h, and the hour hands are five feet nine inches long and weigh forty=four pounds each, The pendulum is sixteen feet long. It is an works. wt and inches in height. nine feet eight and seventy-five pounds ea great belli, which is suspended about forty feet from the floor I'he head of of the hammer weighs 145 pounds and and the clapper 150 pounds, «Chicago Herald, Familiar Exiravaganes, “It is a peculiar fact,” observed a cashier of a popular restaurant, *‘that most people help themselves to hall a dozen toothpicks alter each meal, when each individaal amohg them must Know, if he thinks about it, that he won't more than hall use one of them. Bat with most of them it is merely a matter of habit, They fell into it originally, I suppose, ‘by yielding to the idea that it is true economy to help yourself liberally to what doesn't cost anything, I often wonder what they do with all the tooth= picks they take away. Some people con. tract a habit of chewing toothpioks, It would be far better for them if they chewed tobacco or even gum, for the fire of the wood often lodges in the throat or gets into some plece of internal ma shinery, where it plays the mischief,” <«New York Herald, | The Elephants, | interesting { the 1 thers, are the best stock t { sidering that most eight-day clock, striking the hour on the | THE ANIMALS OF CIKCUS A FAMOUS SHOWMAN TELLS SOME MENAG _R1E SECRETS. Lions and the Bpecies the Best Stock Handle~Monkeys Are Delicate, AMES A. BAILEY, the foremost showman of this gountry and the Are to Cat | | principal owner of the Barnum & | Bailey Circus, gave the following facts 1n regard to bls menay. erie, to a New York Tribune reporter, er day’ **The lions and the SPeCios, such as tiyer 0% animals of the cat leopards and pan« o handle, Con- them the « our climate remark bly well, As a they wil live a doze snd ol they stan some the tropics, INNES n years in captivity often mu { of Lions to Live In or tairty ron i. They As for chim DAVE the they are great from whom we can buy n of sail I would not Thi one in panzees, menagerie, for, attractions, they are far too delicate t make it profitable to invest in them. No, hard to keep alive that the wise showman contents himsell with aithough monkeys are so letting rare species alone. “*An animal the people like to see and that is good stock for the showman, is the kangaroo, They are In Aus tralia there are still huge droves of them, and the patives capture them very easily, with dogs trained to seize them Dy their long tails, The kangaroo's tail, you know, is lus rudder and balancing pole. Without 1t his huge hiod legs are likely to carry him auywhere exc:pt where he waats to go. So when a half-dozen of these Australian dogs get bold of the kangaroo's big, flat tail he is completely at the mercy of his captors, Toey live many years in captivity and reproduce go often that we have to rell ol the stock occasionally, “Onv of the best animals for show purposes is the giraffe, but he is the most delicate animal we carry around. Ihave only one, but it is worth $6000, as isany good specimen. Colds and stomach troubles are the giraffe's ailments. When it in sick it refuses food, The antelopes are expensive animals, but, with the ex. ception of the eiand, they are a hardy lot and will live around the circus until they get toothless and blisd. cheap. | | will reproduc 1 Is raised, {de | from | “You would peraaps think that an | ostrich, the hardiest of be the easiast all birds, would to keep in captivity, but You know they i» i to a plece of lead pipe. Well, they are al. winys getting their stomachs out of order, and when they are sick if you do not roll food up in balls and cram it down their throats thew will starve to death. I bought eleven of them for 88300 each, We trained run races, but they died off. I have only one now, *‘On the rhinoceros and the hippopot. we surely as we can in awhile they themselves them to AMmus CAn count as ym the elephants, Onc but the young are so sus [ ceptible to cold that it is very rarely one If my hippopotamus should do not believe I could get another in this country, They sre getting mighty BCArY “BD a8 good sto | buy, i thus often causing diseases dangerous to | | impurities which the | deep that the water will come | toward | Journal A WISE WOLDS, ry Was Nati His he **Marse turn tauy nal ittie " HIALSEO uring a Cold th the surface of he ¥, there the skin, is a network of lood vessels, finer than the When ym these capillary vessels into the interaal organs, pro- | i] wi wing mflammsatio re 0, At lu nflammation or congestion, and pumerous little closed and all The mouths of sweat glands are violently glands earry off are drivea back to the blood. Just as soon as a chill is felt which closes the skin glands, steps should be taken to As soOUn as Any one feels that he has taken cold, he should put his leet into hot water as hot as can be borne, and containing a tablespoonful of mustard, “Have it in a vessel so up weil knees,” urges the Boston Commerce. “Throw a blanket over the whole to prevent rapid evaporation and cooling, In from five to ten minutes take the feet out, wipe them diy, and get into a bel on which there are two extra blankets. Just be. fore or after getting into bed drink a largo glass of lemonade as hot as Jrosske ble, or a glass of hot water containing a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, with a little sugar if desired.” os sparingly of plain, simple food. Bake other fruit, bread and butter, pm and milk, milk toast, baked potatoes or raw oysters may he eaten, ile, open the giands, the of fin. | one is chilled, the blood | ordinarily | | Vryvee Trip te Chis nyo. 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