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1 w a word. A word, ud aU heart With Jay uaspeakaato a filled. A word, aad theta'a Man - - QaattdtnetaroBoraala ifeatOML A word, aad fait la wrecked And all life la Barred For aye! A. word, aad lore is decked la rainbow-hopes that area A sky I A word, aad hoeors stabbed, Wr.tbc. asoaaing, bleeds, wails out ' Its cry I A word, aad peace loac fled From some aad heart breathes la A algal - Words, patient, tercor. ie ' Kind, trustful, loving, trae, Speak such. What power ta tbem lies To beal aad help and blesa Aad touch. Words, angry, foolish, vile. Unkind, cruel, false, ah I Evil weeds That fester rank, by was Of Sataa blossoming la Fear'al deeds O! lips, God-made, to let The mnsio oat of Heaver's Wide gate. For hurrying crowds God aet A guard before thee ere Too late. Frances Courtoaay Baylor, in America. A MOMENT OF ANGER; "Tho History of Mr. and Brownlow's Quarrel. BY ROBERT BOTE. CHAPTER. VIL-CttBrnroBo. Mr. Parker's questions concerning; the old servant were put toiler, and this was fcer reply: The woman's same was Donnelly or Don ohue, or something like that, and when she was with ua she was about forty years old. She left as because, her mother had been thrown on her hands, and, as they bad a litUoproperty.they went off to lire together lor tho rest of their days. Dun or the first three or four years after she left us she -would return at long intervals to visit oae of our other servants, and at such times she always inqtfired after Leonora, aad the child frequently expressed great pleasure at receiving her visits. We discouraged them, however, because, as Mr. Champion fens indicated to you, we did sot care to have her associate with people of that class." "Do you know," askod Mr. Parker, where this woman went after she left xoxxl" "My impression," replied Mrs. Champion, "was that she went to Yonkers, but that Ar IMrKESSIOM is," rjud mks. cuampioh, "SUB WEST TO YOXKE8S. s a very vague impression, and it may have born in quite a contrary direction." Doyou know," persisted Mr. Parker, "ivJujthcrshe had any other relatives be--Wf- her mother in this part of tho coun- -irp, I think sho had none. All her other -relatives remained in Ireland." A few more questions ia the same vein concluded the interview, and Mr. Parker vrentaway feeling considerably depressed with the magnitudo of the undertaking which he had on his hands. He felt certain shut if ho could only find this Donnelly or Donohuc, as tho case might be, he should discover sorao clew to the whereabouts of Mrs. Brownlow. Tho moro ho thought it aver the more he became convinced of that theory and the more ho felt that he had ra&do a favorable start in his inquiry. His first step towards finding out where this woman was was to go to Yonkers. Hovis ;ted every family of cither name in tho town, but learned nothing whatever con senting the woman. Ho could not even dis cover that any such woman had ever lived there. It took him nearly two weeks to come to tho conclusion that in Yonkers there was no clew whatever to the mystery which he was endeavoring to ferret out Then he determined to visit in a similar -way all the towns along the river between Now York and a point from forty to fifty miles to the north. He began with the set tlements included in the city limits, like Spuvten DuyvU. From 8pny ten Duyvil he worked his way gradually'north, and when three weeks had passed he had scoured the river settlements and had found absolutely nothing. Then he returned to the city and spent a day or two ia rest and looking after bis business, which was suffenng sadly from neglect. When he began to think over the case again it occurred to him that be had made an egregious blunder; he had not taken into account at all the fact that Mrs. Brownlow's opera cloak bad been found ia the river. "What an ass I was," he exclaimed, im jntiently. "Here have I been searching on the cast side of the Hudson for four pre sious weeks, when the plainest evidence ia the case shows that Mrs. Brownlow crossed the river before starting elsewhere. Row, -whether she met her death while crossing the river or soon after getting to the other side, of course I caaaot say, but I shall not 3ake another stop ia the sutler until I con--sider what might have happened had ahe crossed the river." Therefore he set his an alytical powers at work again aad reasoned that if she had crossed the river, as un doubtedly she set owt to do, she must have Jual some point ia view to which she want ed to go. The hypothesis that she was going to secjude -herself at the house if her old serran stock ia Mr. Parker's head w spite .of hictMlf. -h mast'aaie hawwhr, he said Uf ihimself; "where ttusiromaa tired ; sr, if not ibis womaa, she mast havaknowa wfcere she was aoine. Ohi wiald not have x Anft'kRa.iiv! tuAmvem bm ar racevBPQa a acwvotiywwvi - -- . tnsw.- ..rtw la.viaa- her hoktiaaV The upshot of his reasoning was that he oeeared pcraafejoa at.ence to examine Mrs. SiSiZ. rs jourcey,(wiiioHfc.iBMfBK-pw.f!frr5-i. jzy eWfrtf Badfot,pen fwrnedjoAtUv wiiM h.H'LhM t sidewalk of her house came i . Ji. " " marks aad the handwritings on the en velopes. AU those that were postmarked from cities or towns at a distance were im mediately cast aside, aad of all those that came from points ia this immediate vicinity he did not stop to read any whose super scriftiaa was particularly legible or which shewed ia its. style that the writer was in the habit of letter-writing. After two or three hoars' work he had sifted from the mass ot letters a half dosea in different hands which he considered it worth while ;:c look into. The first one he opened was a begging letter from someone who had announced herself as a widow and aa entire stranger to Mrs. Brownlow. Mr. Parker proceeded bo farther, he threw that aside and took up another. This was an application for a po sition as a waiting maid from a girl who said that she had hoard of Mrs. Brownlow through some of her friends This also Mr. Parker cast aside, and a feeling of discour agement began to settle down upon him. The next one was another begging letter. The fourth be opened with the idea that he was simply wasting his time aad injuring his business by neglect for a merely Quixotic enterprise, but as he read the let ter his eyes began to open, his face lushed, aad perspiration started out upon his fore head. It read as follows: "Dbab Mas. Xjconoba: It is such a long time since i have seea yon. that i don't know yoa will remberrae. I take my pen to rite yon necawaiwoodllktonoBowyoaar. Ihaveaot but to the City for sorrel years aad 1 spose i snood not find my way. If 1 weak taer. i think otyoaa grate meny times aad wnnder if yon arasprllyasyoawerwea'aUttlegurL I hard that yju wer marid aad got yur addres from lizy, nie'GuM as worked for yon for a fue weaki Tut Spring, she cam np to yonkers to work sad I saw norther wen I went over to jetsam Staff from the Markett ldoantask you to aaser this letter beeawa yoa may Four- get me and ma not care earthing aboat me, bat I awlwas Lard, yoa when a little gnrl and waat to tel yoa how Glad t am that yon are hapy aad aoap yoa Will be so. "MABY DOHirKLLT." CHAPTER Vm. This letter, in a cramped hand, written ia pencil, was without date or any other evidence as to the place where it was writ ten. The postmark was badly blurred, but, looked at upside down, crosswise and in every other way imaginable, Mr. Parker thought that he could see that it was Yonk ers. He read and re-read the letter, and wondered how it could be that in all his patient searching through Yonkers he had not discovered any trace of this woman. It was evident that the letter had been written within a year, because it said: "I have heard that you were manned," and Mrs. Brownlow's marriage had not occurred more than a year previous to her disappear ance. So engrossed was the lawyer ia thinking over this phase of the case that he forgot for a moment that two other letters in the pile that he had laid out remained to bo read. Looking them over he found that one was in the same hand as that which he had just been reading, and on that the post mark was plain Yonkers. He seized it feverishly and opened it. That letter was asfoUows: "Dxar Mas. Lkoxora t am sorry to here that yon ar not aulwas hapy and 1 was so Glad two that yoa stood think so kindU o your oled sunrent as to rite a letter, i got it onely yes tarda becaus we nevr hav male hear morn wuns iatwoorthreweaks wen wo can ro for it and as Ididenttelyoain my other Icter ware to rito to its most fornit that i got it at all. butt did and I tak my pen agen to aay that If yon ever get Into trubblo ware a pare of strong armes caa help yon, i wish yond let me no for altho 1 am getting oled i am stll vcrry strawng and wood lik nntbln beter then to sea yon agin and glv yoa help, yet 1 hoap you will newer nead it it Every boddy els la the wurld snood go agiast you, you caa alwais depend upon your oled sunrent. Mart Do nelly." "Why in thunder," exclaimed Mr. Parker, when he had read this letter, "does not the woman say where she is and how to get there? But I wiU wager one hundred dol lars, if I ever get as much money, that Mrs. Brownlow knew how to get there, and did get there, and if sho did 1 can and will." Ho took out his watch, looked at it, con sulted a time-table of the Hudson .liver railroad and hurried out of his office to Uke an elevated train for the Grand Ceutral depot. An hour and a half later he was again at Yonkers. This time he went di rectly to tho post-office. Hi. had not omitted tho post-office in his former search, but no one there had been able to tell him any more about Donnelly or Douohuo than he had been able to find in his. patient search through the city. In response to his new inquiries the postmaster said : "Letters occasionally come through the mail for Donnelly. It is a common name, and none of that name has a box here. We always put such letters in the department to be called for, and, of course, pay no at tention to tho inquirers who seek for mail." Mr. Parker took out the second letter, in which Mary Donnelly had said that she bad not told Mrs. Brownlow where to write, and looked at it again. "It must be, then," said the lawyer, "that she used the Yonkers post-office and the Yonkers market, while sho lived some where else." Then, a moment after, "that somewhere else must be across the river." Ho looked out across the chilly waters to the bleak palisades on the other side, and could see here and there little bouses nestling against the rocks, widely separated from each other and apparently out of reach of civilization in every direction. In front was the wide river, across which no ferry regularly ran, and back of them were tho steep palisades, an impassable wall of solid rock three hundred or four hundred feet high. Ho went to the wharves and hunted up a place where there were boats to let. To the keeper he said: "Do you ever have occasion to take passengers across the river to any of those houses on tho other side!" "Oh, yes," said the man, cheerfully, "once in awhile. People that live over there have to come over occasionally, and when they do we take them, too." "How do you know," he said, "when any body over there wants to cross?" " Why," said the keeper, "if they haven't got boats of their own and have to come over here, they hangout a white flag from the roof, and if we happens to see it and we have time, we just rig up a boat and go over. That's all. Speakin'of that, there was a flag hung out this mornln'from one of those houses over there, and it was not more than two hours ago that we went and got a womaa as wanted to go down to New York." "I wish you would take me ever there," said Mc Parker. "We'll do it," replied the keeper, "but the water is pretty rough, and it's bo pleas ant tripi" "I, will payyoa whatever is necessary, no matter what the price is," replied Mr. Par ker, coolly, and he put a dollar bdl into the keeper's hand. The bdatraan started as aa if be had re ceive, pi electric shock. .asm Just wait bare about two seconds." tlA UU . Ill) ... a Iim km mrat ,rT''-""rirT!f'fSMTfC j i.'- k: fcWDaeconas;proveaiiOL oq sooui-iea i ivwcu jbx. rmfm.vr wn;ro ubuk i around" asain he 'slid z'uIa yoa know then me of the people wbolive overtherer" x o." he said, "lsm'i lraew these uv five i t that particular Jiowie, although taey hav? e therea Jeagtkae; I sever fcaf pew to Jn'tfuira, .bat perhaps, one of mjltjst street coraer roVTSSS u"10 -.,i I a ' V T' I me o hW,Uke.Va, uwoatB Me aaaio or that woman that you took over the other side this morning!" "Name!" drawled the assistant. "Donnel h, I think." "AU right," said Mr. Parker, "now you get me across to tho other side just as quick as you can." Bending his arms to the oars the boatman sent the smaU craft flying over the wintry waves of the nver, and Mr. Parker sat in the stern and held the tiller ropes. It was about two o'clock on the afternoon of the day that Mr. Parker went to Yorkers tho last time that the mayor of New York City, sitting in his office overwhelmed with DO TOO CVER HAVE OCCASION TO TAKE PAS SENGERS ACK033?" business, was told by the policeman who guarded the door that a woman wanted to see him. "What does she want?" asked the mayor. "I don't know, sir, but I suppose it is some complaint about a policeman or health inspector. She's poorly dressed and has a letter in her hand." The mayor looked at his correspondence and at his watch and said: "Well, show her in.'.' When the woman was presented to tho mayor she tremblingly laid a letter on his desk and said: "Mr. Mayor, if you will please to read this, I think you wiU see that a great injustice has been done that yoa can make right." Tho mayor opened the letter without a word. As he read his brows contracted and an expression of incredulity came over his face. This is what he read: "Mh.Matob: I bare just this day learned that my husband has been convicted of mur der; and, as I understand the matter, I am b'a victim. I am too ill to come in person to the city, but the bearer w.U tell yon where I am, and will take yon or an oOccr to me. She will also explain my story and circumstances. Re spectfully, LxoxottA Bkowklow." "Who gave you this letter, madamo?" asked the mayor, sharply. " Mrs. Brownlow, sir," she responded. " She has been stopping at my house, oppo site Yonkers, for a long time, and has been very sick. 8he came 'unexpectedly one night, or rather morning, for she had walked almost all the way. We never see the papers, and never knew what had hap pened until I heard some people in Yonkers talking about the hanging of a rich man as would take place soon." The mayor was puzzled. He did not be lieve the story at all, thinking it a shrewd invention of Brownlow's mends to gain time. Alter a few minutes' thought he summoned the district attorney, and to gether they listened to the woman's story. " It is a matter," said the district attorney, " that needs attention, at any rate. If it is a scheme concocted in behalf of Brownlow by his f nends or Lawyer Parker, we must dis cover who is responsible and bring him or them to justice." Then turning to the woman, who said her name was Mary Donnelly, he said : "I will have an officer accompany you to your home." Instead of sending an officer with the woman, Mary Donnelly, to her house, she was locked up in tho House of Detention as a witness, and two officers were sent on the errand without her. The poor woman pro tested in vain against this treatment at the hands of tho law. The district attorney and tho chief of police thought that the matter was altogether tc3 important to allow such a witness to escape over the borders into another State. The officers, instead of go ing to Yonkers to get at Mary Donnelly's house, crossed tho ferry into New Jersey, and after a short railroad ride engaged a carriage to take them to that point of the palisades that overhangs the nver near Yonkers. There, after crossing private grounds, they came to a path down the cliff made up of stone steps and patches of wooden stairway that zigzagged hither and yon across the rocks until it reached the bottom. There they were within a few feet of the river, uud a short walk along the banks brought them to a low white house nestling against tho rocks. Their knock at the door was immediately an swered by no less a person than Mr. Henry Parker. He was not surprised to see them, and directed them at once into one of the few smaU rooms of the house, where the of ficers, to their intense astonishment, found Mrs. Brownlow lying weak but conva lescent upon a couch. The story of her flight and remarkable disappearance was soon told. After her quarrel with Mr. Brownlow upon the even- WHEBB OFFICERS, TO THEIR ixtensb ASTOXISBXE3T. ingof the 14th she had gone to her room in a desperate frame of miad. It was her latent to go away for a few days and com pel her1 husband to sue for her pardon. She looked through her letters aad found three from her old servant Mary Donnelly. One of them, containing the woman's address aad the description of how to reach her 'house, she put ia her socket. The others sue jeib iu acr mumu, ; .. &.; suDssqutBUysfoand them. With these and a iiMall sum of monev ia her hand she started 'but of the house, but she had not goriexnore 4tmn?hfeck;befQC she realised that ahe was ill preparea ia areas lor anew a jour ney. ' Not knowing what to do she stopped - m . -- , . ait.; Them she was approached by a poor- It ff P essm.sT f9 tdLlMJ wMyL 7TTTlSk iv Jh I I I l V i A- IPt TBS lytlresscd woman who begged for charity. On the impulse of the moment Mrs. Browtf low exchanged her costly opera cloak for the woman's cheap but large shawL This garment so disguised her that no one whom she met on the journey suspected for a mo ment that she was really ia fuU evening dress. The cloak afterwards found in the river may be accounted for in any way that suits the reader. The police believed that tho woman to whom it was given com mitted suicide, and it is probable that the body found and identified as that of Mrs. Brownlow was in reality none other thaa that of tho woman to whom the cloak had been given. Mrs. Brownlow, arnving at the railway atatioa nearest to the point where Mary Donnelly lived, bud not ventured to take I carriage. She felt lika concealing her re treat and bad already become somewhat startled and ashamed of her course. So she walked a long and dreary tramp through the night, and it was not untU early morn ing that she finally found her way down the steep and rickety stairs of the cliff to the house where Mary Donnelly lived. The strain and exposure consequent to her flight bad thrown her into a distressing ill ness, and tho scanty means for providing against such a calamity in tho house, and her absence from her husband, tended to make her recovery all the more slow. Still, she absolutely forbade her old aervant to notify Mr. Brownlow or any of her relatives of her situation. It was her intention, aa soon as she should recover, to make ner way back home and explain every thing. Time had passed, however, day after day, without substantial progress being made, and as the people under the cliff never saw a newspaper and rarely met any body from the outside world, no news came to them of Mr. Brownlow's arrest, trial and conviction. It was when Mary Donnelly bad gone over to Yonkers one dsy for provisions that sho heard conversation on the street regarding the matter, and, making further inquiries, she learned the whole history of the case. On the foUowing morning she had setout to New York with a letter from Mrs. Brown low to the mayor. The detectives were soon satisfied that this was indeed Mrs. Brownlow, and they set out on their return to New York with strange feelings of defeat and humiliation, not altogether unmingled with satisfaction that an innocent man was not to be made the victim of their mistakes. The news was not taken directly to Mr. Brownlow. He knew nothing of the discovery until his at torney, Mr. Parker, told him of tho circum stances. Then, for the first time, the iron nerved man yielded to the pressure of his emotions, and tears came freely to his eyes and his voice was too choked for utterance. In a few days his wife had recovered suffi ciently to be removed to the city, and when the officers of the law had actually seen her and heard from her own lips the story of her experience, there was no delay in bring ing the unfortunate affair to a speedy ter mination. The district attorney himself moved m chambers for a new trial, it was granted, and the foUowing day set for its occurrence. The prisoner was brought before the bar, and in a speech in which he fully exoner ated him from any evU intentions towards his wife and all suspicions of such, the dis tnct attorney moved that the case be nolle pressed. This motion was granted by the judge, and the prisoner was dismissed. The meeting between him and his wife was most affecting, and they resumed their domestic relations with every augury for happy relations in the future. Both seemed to take to heart the severe lesson taught by tho result of one short moment of anger. THE EXD. CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS. The Xaveatioa of Bwr. Mr. Fetors, Bt Knowa aa "Lying Peters. What are the " blue laws? " Newspapers are full of reference to them, sometimes with a bit of detaU as to the forbidding of kissing Sundays, or the Uke. The references are well understood, for every body knows that the queer rules referred to belonged to Connecticut in the old times, and yet not one man in ten, within or without newspa per offices, dreams of the truth about the matter. The fact is that the "blue laws," the most famous in their way of any stat utes in the history of this country, were purely imaginary. They were given to the world in a form so very far removed from probability as to be grotesque; were, of course, at the time taken for what they were properly worth, and yet have come to be believed in much more firmly than many well-established facts in history by perhaps the mass of the people, and are in every body's mouth as a ndiculous outcome of Yankee Puritanism. It is worth while to recall just the way in which tho laws came into existence. They were the invention of Rev. Samuel Peters, best known in his day as "Lying Peters," and first saw the light in London. Peters was born in Hebron, Conn., in 1733. went to England to be educated, and finally became pastor of a small Episco palian church in his native town. He had a good deal of smartness, pushed himself, and came near being made the first Bishop of Vermont, but failed in that attempt and in his Ufe because of his disposition, which may be described as the converse of that of the Father of his country. He could not tell the truth. He lied in conversation and in all he wrote, generally without purpose, so far as could be seen, about every conceiv able thing and in the most extravagant way. He was a rank Tory, and during the revo lution the Sons of Liberty drove him away from Hebron. He went to London in great dudgeon, and there, in 1781, published "A General History of Connecticut," which takes high rank among the curiosities of literature. In the preface Peters gravely declares that, "though Connecticut be the most flourishing, and, proportionately, the most populous province in North America, it has hitherto found no writer to introduce it, in its own right, to the notice of the world:" and he cocson to give an account of the colony which would have made ! Munchausen green with envy. The sim plest geographical facts were distorted in the wildest way. A great part of the lies could not possibly have had any motive, and even ia the parts where it might be supposed that he was trying to "get even " with his persecutors, there appears a whim sical good nature, and sometimes the stories sound as if the lying had some parpote of humor in them. Toledo Blade. Poor BOIy. "What arc you crying for, Lena! And why are yea ia mourning!" " Haven't you beard. Miss Pailp? Didn't you know that Billy was dead I He died so suddenly, poor little fellow." "I didn't know there was a William is your family. This is the first I have heard ofK. Was it ia the papers?" "Yes, Miss Philp, there was a column in the Journal about it. I thought every oae read it PoorBiUyl" "What was the matter with him?" "Well, yoa see, Billy was our Maltese goat.. We called him Maltese beoamse he roUedaaAhebhie mud so much that he was aiwfr f, fhe color ot a Maltese, cat We call TiimBiUy because that wastes name. Well BiUy get mad yesterday afteraooa at' .1 .LU. ..A k. ).r.tl 1 . - - hhj e .ryuwi ti, eM 'wymwu't fvfoi JgStiSFX H .,, -r ... THE FAITHFUL CLOCK. Although my hands are oa ray face. And all the time 1 ga tick; Tract me, aaiae is a wertav ease. The slow may think I am tee quick. But fast aad slow at once may see At any time good works ia me. Good hours from day to day I keep; Ifo one dowa early, none np late. Bas eTer caught me fast asleep. If I inn down. I lose my weight; If I should take a aiazle drop 'Twould break me, and my works would A maa wound up is ta a fix. But wind me up and I can ge. Though hard the times. I play no tricks. And yet it is oa tick I do The constant work of my two hands' A task the workman understand. I sometimes strike, but only hit The a?;urds who are out too late; And some of them have little wit. And skulls so thick that if my weight Upon their stupid heads should drop. They would not know what made tbem stop. George W. Bungay, in Harper's Weekly. A NOVEL TRIAL. How a Fonr-Footed Criminal Wan Brought to Justice. Some years ago a very novel trial and execution took place in one of the rural New England towns. If not strictly legal, it was yet conducted ac cording to certain forms of law. The judge, lawyers and jury wore boys, and the criminal was a dog. To term a dog a criminal may seem to many readers a contradiction ia terms, or at best a whimsical tue of the wocd. For, of course, to be a criminal implies on the part of the accused a knowledge that the act committed is wrong, and prohibited under penalty. The legal use of the term, to be sure, is not quite so far-reaching, since a lack of knowledge or information as to the penalty does not excuse the wrong doer. But, certainly, to be a criminal implies the possession and use of rational powers in a normal condition. But I shall even attempt to show that this particular dog was entitled to the distinction implied in the ordinary use of the word. At the same time the reader will do well to look to it that he is not misled in forming his own opinion. He was a large dog. part Newfound land, part Mastiff, or Saint Bernard, or Irish Setter; there is some doubt on this point. His name was "Brown." The offense of which he was accused and found guilty was sheep-killing, nod he was shown beyond doubt to be an old offender, no less than twenty cases of ovicide being laid at his door during the trial, which was held on a Satur day afternoon at a small district school house. Sheep-killing is considered a capital offense on the part of dogs in rural communities. It can scarcely bo classed as murder, for murder is the unpro voked slaughter of one creature by another of the same species or variety. But I believe that the boys who tried and condemned Brown, charged him with murder. However, this point does not greatly signify, since it did not help Brown's case. The trial brought out a great many curious facts, for the two boys who took the parts of prosecuting attorney and of counsel for Brown exerted them selves to their utmost, and there were not less than twenty witnesses, pro and con. It was shown that Brown had always been a, dog of good reputation in the immediate neighborhood where his master resided; that he was a general favorite with every one, that he had performed a number of meritorious ac tions, and that he had never been known to barm so much as a lamb on his master's premises, or oa those of his immediate neighbors. The scene of his crime was the sheep pasture of a farmer. living three or four miles distant. That he should have 6pared all nearer flocks and gone to this distance from home, to gratify his hankering for illicit mutton, was one of the worst features of the case against him, oa the score of moral de linquency. For it was argued that he would never have slipped away by night to such a distance had he sot been fully aware that what he did was wrong and subject to extreme penalty. Several similar cases were cited to show that when once dogs become sheep-killers they wax abnormally fer tile in tricks to avoid the suspicion of guilt. It was in evidence that, unlike maay other instances where two or three dogs band together to kill sheep. Brown had never been known to take another dog into his confidence, but had stolen away from home alone; also, that having once throttled a sheep in this distant pasture and made a meaL he kept away from the place for a long time afterwards, evidently under the conviction that this was the safer pro cedure on his part. From this piece of caution and good judgment it had resulted that several innocent dogs had lost their lives. For the irate farmer in whose pasture Brown had chiefly committed his depredations, had repeatedly set traps and laid poison in the carcasses of the slaughtered sheep, which had pur posely, been left exposed. He counted on the marauder's return, and hoped thus to capture him. But Brown had resolutely kept away from all tempta tion to indulge in a second meaL but several innocent .logs, smelling the quarry from afar, had been lurea ta their death. In a-number ef cases their sorrow ing masters had been able to testify that, on the night when the slaughter took place, their dogs had been at home chained up. Ib the course of six or seven weeks, when: the excitement and vigilance .routed by' the former fbrav-kadaiibw tttt 7 flock another visit. He tbrvttled but one sheep at a visit, and even in this particnlar evinced more prudence thaa manry such peccant canines exhibit. A great deal of the evidence against Brown was largely circumstantial, and although altogether it made a damag ing mass of testimony, the boy who acted ns his counsel would probably have cleared him. but for a single wit ness which the prosecuting attorney wns able to produce. This witness was a boy about four teen years of asre. who had set a lino of mink traps along u brook, in a woody valley between Brown's home and the pasture where the sheep hud been killed. The lad suspected another boy of robbing his traps and very early one morning had hidden himself near the brook to lie in wait for the supposed pilferer. Unwittingly he became the agent of Brown's detection, for as he lay con cealed, he saw a large dog come down the hillside from the direction of the sheep pasture and approach the bank of the brook. It was not so early and dark but that he could distinguish that the animal's paws and mouth were red with what seemed to be blood. But in a moment, he asserted, the dog bounded into the brook, and began to rnn up' and down in the water, sousing his nose and entire head more thaa twenty times, and indeed, continuing in the water for ten or fifteen minutes, till not a stain was left upon him! The lad was very sure that the bath hod not been taken for the pleasure of the thing, sinco the morning was so chilly that, as he lay watching, his teeth chattered from cold. He identified Brown as the dog which he had seen at the brook. So positive had he been that the dog had been killing sheep, that later in the morn ing he went up into the pasture, and found a freshly torn carcass, as he had expected. Brown's counsel being quite unable to shake the adverse strength of this testimony, tho case went to the jury. The judge charged them that as the accused had shown himself fully as shrewd and tricky as a boy could have been under such circumstances, ha must be held accountable for bis crime. and that no plea that he had acted "merely from iastinct" would be al lowed in that court. The jury re turned a verdict of guilty and the jud ire formally sentenced Brnwatobe hanged. Brown, who had willingly and of his own accord accompanied the- boys to the school-house, snowed signs of great uneasiness, it was- said, before the trial had progressed far. and would havo escaped had he-not been held in the witness-box, tied with a rope. After the court had adjourned, they led Brown away to a back pasture, and hanged him to one of the lower limbs of a wide-spreading beech-tree at th edge of a wood-lot. Two years after, as it chanced. I taught the winter school at the little school-house where the trial had tokea place. Late one autumn afternoon I was returning homeward across- pas tures and forest land, with a string of partridges, when my attention was rested, suddenly, by what seemed te a very singular spectacle. It had grown rather dark the opaque gray dusk of a cloudy November even ing was setting in. 1 was just emerging from a tract of woods, and directly in front of me was a large beech, the dry leaves of which, were rustling with a chilly sound. Beneath those-beech limbs and leaves stood an object which, in the dim light, resembled a shadowy skeleton form, standing as if awaiting my approacb- I stopped short. I shall not attempt to describe what a strange and fearful sensation stole over me, at the- sight of that thing with its dim. white bones! As I stood staring. I plainly saw that it moved, that it turned half around. I imagined that it started forward as if to approach me. And Well. I did not remain there- any longer to observe its movements. I moved myself tangentially, sotospeak. My locomotive powers were- good in those days, and I arrived at ray board ing place, shortly afterward much out of breath. I had sufficient sense to. resist my first strong inclination to teU of what I had seen to the people of the house. for it occurred to me. that for tho school-master to see a ghost was not quite the proper thing. Next morning, immediately after breakfast, I provided myself with a club, and set off to reconnolter tho scene of the previous evening's appar ition. After a cautious approach, I dis covered that what 1 had seen was tho whitening skeleton ot a large dog. hanging by a cord ta a limb of tho beech tree. Upon subsequent inquiry, I learned the story of Browa, substaa tially as 1 have give it. The reader will not wonder that it made a rather lasting impressio upon my mind. 5i A, Stephens, in Youth's Companion. Tho Decay of "Spanking,." Among the geod oM customs wbich are falling into disuse that of spanking the coming generation into behaving itself is leading tha procession. There, are no such spankings now aa) there used to be in my time, and I am sorry for it. Things in the spaak lino are certainly degenerating along with the drama, the flavor of strawberries and phenomenal weather, as the years go by. Children just watering the heated base-burning epoak to spank hood bow have 4BervejT' and must be humored. 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