HOW TO fo should we live that every hour, May die as dies the natural flower, A self-reviving thing of power. LIVE That every thought, and every deed, May hold within itself the seed, Of future good and future mood, BR —— AN INTERRUPTED VERDICT. | HE lights turned low the courtroom, and about them | circled the foul, heavy sir, adding to the dimness Judge Green- goods had gone to his dinner, having slowly an in- re nounced his tention to turn at 9 o'clock | . unless sum- moned sooner by the agreement of the jury. The District Attorney had packed away the papers that had seen their day in his green bag, and, arm in arm with his assistant, had strolled away, pausing now and then to whis- per a caution to a bailiff, and to re- ceive in return more or less information. The prisoner had be en le d over the covered corridor—another Bridge of Bighs—into the jail, to await his fate | al- | in the cell where murderers were ways kept, as the great iron ring in the centre of the floor, for their better se- curing, attested. His counsel had accompanied him to the stairway, and then had turned into the office to have s smoke and a to with his friend the Sheriff, “Dubious,” said that munching on his CIZAr. was agin him from the jury seed 4 The with their tele I hone chat as prospects functionary, “The Judge fust, and the hurried Arrangin had first when verdie CRiis building, the wn and brought a : three or four attend crier, the further seats, itor of the Lived out of lunch «= ants, chair, the spectators’ and =a y these two + features se ing with WR sheht ! f | i from the wkness t brought, an onld have rested her head on her companion’s arm had not an unrecognized antipathy prevented. There and thus the y had sat out the day, the matron » the Finally girl “why door?” He is on gus that the jury are lested.” But why clerk, who hia his doz The latter ] SWAY i had shy hat through- ST this vo and wt maiden a reed ag said, wit that 5] ok “Grandma.” she does that man i wiiu rd, nished, snd confi cause them to change.” ‘*No, but discussion may “Then that uld be other influences than that , and that uld be omth the ¥ end h one was fi wi dence the Wi contrary to t00K Sor are sir others are weal proper that the should prevail.” ““But that wouldn't be their unani mous judgment then, and who can sa i BOT Besides they tired and eross And when people are cross they are unfsir. Oh, what a dreadful the be right? must be hungry and thing is IAW “What a murder. brother done to death by the Barlings I only wish the old days of drawing and quar- tering had returned.” “Ok, do you re ally believe." “Bel'eve! Don't 1 know? Hain't the Knowleses and the Barlings been st odds this fifty years? Didn't the boys quarrel at the tavern? Haven't we heered the detectives’ stories and this lad's slinission? What if the others did get away? He was there, and he done it as wuch ns them. And the jary will say ‘Swing,’ you mark me. ig “But there were tw believe his story “Them poor in the row? They dassent trust their feelings in the face of the others yon mind that racket? That will set tle their doubts in short order. Now you shut up, Patty, If 1 thought that one of my kin wouldn't rejoice in the death of an enemy, I'd turn her into the street without a shawl to her back or a shoe to her feet.” “Poor, poor Tommy!” ssbbed the girl, as she trembled before the india tinet sounds of wrangiing that came from above, Fatty Knowles shrank still further away from the stony bosom and the threatening arm, and tried to think, ns if thoughts could bring comfort. It wae all too awful to be real; she must be dreaming; yet why could she not awake? Was it truethat she, with her ginndmother, was awaiting in court the verdict which shonld shamefully . destroy their enemy, and that ene ’ ber old comrade, Tommy B ? Ah, there were substances, not ehad- dreadful thing rather is Think of vo ir « nly 0 who wm emed to eritters back own Do ows, about her; her mind in its peace- sul «lumbers had never imagined any. thing so cruzl! Yet he would be ae- quitted, how could she doubt, when the jurymen as well as she had heard his frank, simple story and had seen the candor of his beautiful face? Hal she not watched them and detected expressions of sympathy, of confidence, were | in | suthentie | on at least two of their conntenances ? And if these men had once "trusted would they dare to condemn? Then, who would slay for relief from cus | tody, from fatigue, or from fear of their nssocintgs? Oh, a dreadful | thing was this&law which beeclouded {the truth whef it evident! Was BO Hadn't Tommy explained that he was | removing the obstruction from the track when the “wildeat” so unexpect edly eame around the curve and struck | 1%, and was derailed? { Couldn't they understand why | had remained silent when asked { he happened to be there? Sure ly, any one could see that he had disc red his brothers’ plot and had striven to thwart it, but was now too loyal to 1m hi how ove plicate them her gentle, true-hearted Tommy, would connive to slay the only brother of the | girl he loved! And yet, when he had | refused to answer, the Judge, who | surely should be impartial in action as well as word, had swung around im | patiently in his chair, and the District ! Attorney had smiled, oh, so ironically, | and shrugged his shoulders and said: “You see, gentlemen, See?” The case which had the Aberdeen Oyer and Terminer for the past week, was, as the District Attorney had said in his opening, “awful in the simplicity and directness of its proof.” At the further end of the county, the arid sand plains. th. the Knowleses had occupied farms for many The ran in front of their dwellings, and the voung men had grown up half oCen pie d amid Jarlings and adjacent Years railway farmers, half linemen, gleaning the occupations livelihood and reereat There had 1 1 Ad Deen i Con from two families trivial two some forgotten bitterness younges of Patty ne evening the elder Barlings at illage tavern, and a gn had ensuad It “wildcat two srrel and a was the follow ing day that a train, of which young Knowles was engine led and he thrown fr I'h Barliz in was derail mas lisappeared, es, incited by lil arrest ol ke w] the track. His presen certain incoherent words whic uttered on uted the main p His defense had been nec vouth, wee, his flight, his terro h he his his apprehension, ¢ ints of the case against sarily good story slightly | that h had been vin th obstructions, him remo whe n the bn he had n tha m existencs ind Ire th question there silent Solemniy courtroom beat out the dragging mo ments he bailiffs droned stories a The cle scribbled back of papers child] i VRWI i rk sleep of oman y ARNO : pl 3 ' 4 i culminati burning desires Perhaps she could explain that ancient feud; haps hen that had been der and that arm softly re inuiry to her 8 to past now pond per ten ive tu bosom spons CAT CRses, been the Perhaps the for expe ctancy spent, but not dead, emotions, tainly little Patty, face growing grimmer, dread, for in its nes she read ven Tommy and woe for her beauty had th of this future returned to her hath its panoramas o an dragon as she saw the grin grew faint with upon geance uj 14 seit. There was a sharp, demanding rap the door of the Ita drowsy guardian spraag to his feet and unlocked it. There were whispers, and more the the shot, the sentinel sat at his Onee more, but with & differ The man no longer lolled Hq the conscionsness that upon him, big in the possession of a secret which he had no right to know The great clock ticked warningly, for the hours of excitement are mo ments, It was nearing the time for the Judge's retorn The clerk =aet dockets and pen and paper in order, Fhe bailiffs shut windows and opened doors, and turned up lights and took their stations. There was one whose post was by the door at the end of the gallery leading to the jury room, which opened upon the main stairway of the building. The guardian of the 1] room. jury then one door closed, bolt post, ence WAR was big with Overy eve Was jury room was his friend, aud, as he | The | passed, whispered a single word, bailiff stepped to his place and beyond. He leaned over the rail and gazed down into the gloomy corridor, front door swung open, a dignified form entered. He recognized it, and in su instant was leaping down the stairs. And in soother instant Judge | Groengoods knew at what verdict the jury had arrived, knew that the solemn words which he hold mentally arranged during his walk thither had not been marshaled in vain, Many sharp eyes had noticed the passing of that single word from officer to officer, and ere the crier had begun his sonorous proclamation, bailiffs and at s and Sheriff and prisoner Knew that the verdict was “guilty. indeed, were not they the murde rers | The idea that lommy, | The | Patty knew it, too, for she had watched | that guardian at the door ns if he held | the portals of her happiness, Patty | knew it, and a great sob swelled in her | heart and hardened into a resolution, In this moment of extremity, when human sand Divine had conlesced against him, she would be by her old playmate’s gide to comfort, to She looked at her That changed powers | | | | | | sustain, to bless ! | grandmother, expectant [ had not yet into trinmph. { “1 will go a little closer, so that I enn find out," the old lady nodded an eager approval, Down the narrow iron stairway along the the jury hesitating, stuttering, Patty leaned the little door of the railing divided the courtroom, thus gonts of spectators from she said, and will enme SWAgZEering, nninst which separating the the shoep of the bar, and studied the they passed. Stolid, movable for the most part ; but there that worried and and they were the faces of the ha i put her trust Why hind they not preserved the courage of their convictions or why had they put them frint faces wn Hn were two seemed dubs US, Ww kom she two men in Oh, cowards! selves in ® position where heartedness 18 a crime? The jury took their seats, these two men 1 they had occupied during the trial, Nos. 7and 8 in the rear row, directly behind the foreman. From the anteroom Tommy, and sat by his lawyer along n the places which CRITIC side of the table in front of the Judge's How but how possible bench pale he was, how quiet, ! Was it that those hips which had ever curled uld be so firm? Why one afraid of him, that him hs she did! Patty from her cheek as she #lern mn smiles C might by who didn't love brushed gazed : it seemed as if he were already dead, and that his cold gr iy shade that now “Call the roll, i, one a tear 1 was appeared Mr Greengoods, an ary obeved, each then he o« t officer at the id stood 1 toward the lian angel performis upraised her face th Ig his head and kissed her tremulous | “We have,” answered the “We find the prisoner but here arose afuston. From the tounehi r f ht of love, sand oremnan ng tablean rward on either neoherent, snd iwiteh YAnoing “Sileu Judgs and the The Greengo rapping suary erier revtersted bailiffs rushed tht the and command posts, (ne at the little forced her back: another fre ntly | Inced Patty ina chair, but she leaned against the prisoner and clung to his hand annotnted it with her tears. Once more the silence of suspense prevailed “We find him guilty, your Hohor,” blurted the foreman. ‘Or at least I thought we did, but these two gentle wen seem to object yi Then again there was confusion. The Distriet Attorney, his lefendant's counsel were on his to their CR grandmother pate nnd assistant, the their feet together and talking at ones “Sit down |” thundered Judge Green “Mr. Clerk, poll that jury.” “Guilty,” answered the foreman in to his name, and ‘guilty’ answered the succeeding five. Then oame No, T's tarn. Hesprang forward, apoplectie with determination to ex press himself and for onee unconscious { of his own personality. *‘Not guilty,” he screamed, ‘and I've been trying to say 80 ever since we retired.” Then No. 8 deliberately set each foot ia place and arose. ‘Your Honor,” ho said, “I am thoroughly convinoed of {the defeudant's innocence, and I un. derstood that we wll were, 1 am =» man, sir, not apt to be mistaken, and there must be some chicanery at work hore. 1 solemuly protest against the verdict as given by the foreman, and I beg to say that J am prepared to main. tain my judgment for the rest of my natural life.” goods response prisoner's counsel, ‘that there has been a mistrial, I would ask that the jury be dismissed and the defendant released on his own recognizance, un- loss, indeed, my learned brother will gnze | “It is evident, your Honor," said the | sgree to an order of nolle fo “Never,” exclaimed the District | Attorney with oa oratoriesl swing. “Never. 1 have a duty, sir, a sacred | duty that I owe to the people of this great which sustains { me,” | “There, there!" interrupted Judge , Yof course, of course | jury and continue the cus ‘unto the next term, The prisoner is remanded without bail, Adjourn court, Mr. Crier,™ and with avery dis- satisfied expression contorting his reg- ular features honor” hastened away to his club, The Sheriff led his The lights great building was of and the And little Patty driving home with her wrathful grandmother dared { through her tears, But before the next term news of of the violent death o Ider Bar- f the eld ling bovs lun § commonwealth Gree. dismineg se. “his prisoner Awey, turned and the left to the ghosts of were out BOTTOWH echoes sobs y ne CRI and of their their " oregn land prior confession and assertion of brother's innocence. Yi ded up its captiv nd his nature Impotent rage increased the vears until they the mother into her grave Ie feud be- tween the two familios was buried with her, and over their joint farms Patty rs I Kris Jenn where murders Knew no more graud | 4d | ashi | Barling now presides as a happy mis- tress, = New York Times, cn — WISE WORDS, Hasty Harri Rolf re spect wee seldom proveth well wornerstone of Virtus There 18 no thie renegade DOSSEREOS 8 On a A An Incident in Edison's Early Life, In tel KRAVE h he had , the greater whicl arents Now elegraph og DEegRn WHE were his gry, and shel 1m of his duties ke ilse to experin Wf work One praise . ie WAN rned adrift Pe rhaps his mo feat was perfor: vke the at bir ntrolling len that ithe val He had an 24 the whistle blasts of the into wonding to egraphy minded over wot, oot-1lo yo 0ot toot, Hallo-o, Sarnia! whistie nn and the shi ad dashes of Inan nt the whistle the river: Toot, toot. toot toot, toot Do vou get me “Do vou hear what 1 or LE I FONE we Ku § 4 No snswer “Do you hear what A third, fonrth, and message went acr sponse I say, Sarnia fifth time receive no re Finally, the operator on the other side understood, Answering “tools” came ches rinlly and the connection established, St. Nicholas, | tae we, to nck, was ———————— - Cared by Laughter, Laughter has often dissipated dis ease and preserved life by a sudden effort of nature. We are told that the great Erasmus langhed so heartily at n satirical remark that he broke a tumor and recovered his health, Ina singular treatise on “laughter,” Joubert gives two similar instances A patient being very low, the physician, who had ordered a dose of rhubarb, countermanded the medicine, which was left on the table A monkey in the room jumpiag up, discovered the goblet, and Be tasted, made on terrible grimace. Again putting only his tongue to it, he perceived some sweetness of the dissolved manna, while the rhubarb had sunk to the bottom. Thus emboldened, he swale. lowed the whole, but found it such a nauseons potion that, after many strange and fantastic grimaces, he ground his teeth in agony, and in a ! violent fury threw he goblet on the ‘floor. 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