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&Z-C-S .A-i-frrj! " ' Si t- .J fcr- ! 1--I.Z - "a ". -- -2U, - - ttctttt re,. - ss-v - 3 THE LAST LETTER. 7kkij I i In BaalelBtktokakaar taker Who was a wit taaear; akaaesarks data taajva ker, AstkaM tka kktketjMrta knee ! aiMi iii iiMimtrtn-r"" Aa raised a saadal cover, Tak ! ItnwlinrlimT itweraecaiU, rkaadawMecaaaaaal it be to the lips that Or Bed ik; Itaewrialdedaaser, Lest eej H ahonM If ttt a GmM Or aay word escape her. BtiB held the olden cbann He i Amid thai Time seemed imwuaaa; to The lore nervaded praises: Aad though a thcaad lovers lakjrt Have aaatcaed them all for f A poet were laspired to write la I . JYtaa -Daritag" slowly, word by word. Ska read tte tear staiaed treason; The xaMs by which her eyes were bhiiTNt Grew oat of udn and pleasure; Bat whenahe reached that cherished 1 Asa aaw the last leave taking. The mist a atorm of grief became. Her very heart waa brrarlngl X pot it back-tbie old tlaaa Bote, Which aeema Uke sorrow's leav " For ehe who read, aad be who wrote, Fleaae God, are now ia heaves. If lovers or today could wia 8uch lore ac won this letter. The world about ns would begin To gladden and grow better. Frank Dempster Sherman In Oentary. MR. MAX. It is like heaven to Greta, this quiet and rest with the dear Frau Mens and all the children, though ycu or I could see neither among that noisy crew of six four big boys, then Linchen and Hede, all to be washed, dressed, mended for and taught. But Greta loves children, and then there is Mr. "Star. Mr. Mas is Frau Men's brother, a big yellow haired giant, broad shouldered and kind, who frowns on the children when their spirits grow too high, threat ens to lock them up in his big press and call ogres to eat them; who is never too busy to 6ct an easy chair for Greta, pass her the knitting that is always at hand, and smooth all the rough places, till after a while it becomes second nature for Greta to turn to Mr. Max when she wants anything, and again when she gets it. Frau Men smiles but says nothing. Greta is a dear, love worthy girl, and will make Max a good wife. It had been a cause for dread that he might love some different girl, who would take him away and break up the sweet home life. Greta is already one of them, and when Max returns from America there will be a quiet wedding, the young people will settle down near them and all will go on as before. So it is with a pleased, satisfied smile that Frau Men greets her brother as he runsup'her steps the day before he sails, intent on securing his bride. He tells her she has drawn a pretty picture, but one not easy to paint. The little Greta may refuse him. Refuse him! refuse Mr. Maxl Then the ungrateful little coquette shall go about her business and the dear children grow up dunces! As if such husbands grew on every bush for a little governess to pick and, much more, till the swallows fly from the windows in terror. They flyback the next morning to help say good-by to the traveler and see Frau Men with her arm round Greta's waist Greta, who is trying to look unhappy, like a well regulated maiden parting from her betrothed. Yes, her betrothed, for there had been a half hour in the schoolroom last night, at the end of which- Greta found Max's ring on her finger and his kiss on her lips. And now Frau Men is promising to keep the little bride safely till he can re turn and claim her, and all the while Greta is perfectly sure she does not love Mr. Max half as much as he does her and that she will chiefly miss him when the children are unmanageable. Frau Mens is very tearful for many days after Max's departure, and 'often does Greta in her own heart congratu late herself that she does not love Max. Why, she would be worn thin if she laid awake worrying over every wind that blew, and wondering if the ship had not met an iceberg and been wrecked. She never lost a night's sleep not she. It will be time enough to think about Max when she marries him, as of course she intends to do, but for the present, she is not in love with him, and she is glad of it And now he is coming home, and the bride is thinking little of her husband, and much of her pretty clothes, and house linen. Frau Men has -been more than kind; but the generous gifts have been given with a wonder that so much is said of "my house," and .so little of "my husband," and just when the thought has made her thoroughly un comfortable, and disposed to be short with Greta, comes word that the vessel has gone down in sight of land, with all onboard. No! that is not the little widowed bride whose sobs are so heartrending. It is Frau Men, and she is crying her heart out on Greta's shoulder; she is telling every one what a dear brother he was. Yes, and you," she says, "have not shed a tear! you did not love him, my poor dead brother!" "No, I do no love him," says Greta, and goes quietly from the room. Quietly from the room, and quietly into her own, quietly closes the door, looks around, aits quietly down in her arm chair. Max - gave her the chair; she must often be tired after teaching. Huthoughtf nines was always first for her. In her own home she will have the right to be first. Their own home! Dear heaven! there will be no home She sees Max the slay he sailed; she hears him say "Good by, little wife! when I come again I will take you for my own, and we will never separated again" Life with Max, his strong arm between her and every trial! Life alone, to battle for herself against the world, Max's tender admira tioa of all her hands have done a stran ger's, not Max's kisses. If Fran Men could see Greta now. She is face down on the little white bed aad her sobs are choking. There is no use living any more; she must be alone all her life. She would have been so proud of Max, his home would have been all that he looked for, and she so true a wife. He would have been so glad to come to her when the day was over; she oould see the cosy room in which she would wait for him. She would have ok a soft, warm dress, made as he loved, to show her white throat, and he would take her in his arms, hold her dose and Ml her his life is complete and, as the years go on, and they stand hand hi head by a cradle Ohlitis a girTs , aaafy picture, but dnw a sla aad a spsagw has been passed over it, leaving i blank, and wet, so that no other can be drawn there. Greta r,aaditisdeso- arewaystobe lived through be- days that Greta tries to hold on to the happy that wfli slip away from her rans through the fingers. So the spring time comes. It has been only two months since Max was lost, but oh! how long to Greta! Frau Men soon finds out bow, it is with the girl, and very day the two .grow more to each other. Sto begins to take comfort inner children, plans for their summer, and takes some of the good of life. Not so with Greta! there is always an ache at her heart, and a mist over her sunshine. She is in very truth a widow. One day she is sitting alone (Greta loves to sit alone' now, she can better think of Max). There is a sound of feet in the hall, a rush, aery from Frau Men, and her Max is at her side her Max, who was picked up after the wreck by a whaling ship and carried half around the world her Mat, who missed her so, and now holds her close as if he would make up for all he had lost. And Greta's heart that learned to know itself only when broken? The heal ing is all done before the physician has said ever a word. Translated for Cur rent Literature from the Berlin Tagblatt by Miss J. M. Burgoyne. TBe Old FaciUve Iw. The dose of the last session of the Sec ond congress on March 3, 1793, recalls an important act of that body which is lit tle remembered. The Second congress enacted the first fugitive slave law.which originated in the senate and was passed by the house without debate. This stat ute directed that in case of the escape from any state or territory of any person held to service or labor that the master, agent or attorney of the owner might seize the person held to such service and take him before the United States judge or local magistrate, and on proof, oral or by affidavit, that such person was a fugi tive from service the judge or magistrate was directed to grant acertincate to that effect, which certificate should be suffi cient for the removal of the fugitive to his former owner. To aid in the escape of a fugitive slave rendered the party liable to a fine of $500. Several north em states soon enacted laws forbidding local magistrates to execute the Federal act, which consequently became a dead letter until its revival in the famous fugitive slave law of 1850. Philadelphia Times. Befosed Pzeeideata. In a little village some twelve miles distant from Cleveland, O., there lived, some thirty years ago, two very attrac tive girls. To one of these President Hayes became a suitor, but the parents of the young lady vigorously opposed the courtship on the ground that young Hayes was poor, and gave evidence of , hardly sufficient ability to warrant risk- j ing then: daughter s future. The match was broken off and the lady is today married and well known in Cleveland society. The other young lady had re ceived many attentions from young Gar field, and was disposed to reciprocate them. Her parents, however, objected to their utimacy, giving as a reason for their opposition the poverty of Garfield and the anything but bright prospects of his future. The chief coincidence of these courtships consists in the fact that Bedford, where both these young ladies lived, contained at the time less than 600 inhabitants, and both refused two fut ure presidents of the United .States Be cause of their poverty. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Edacatloa aad Xaveatiea. Inventors have generally been led to their important- tasks by chance, and have picked up their training by the way. Here and there may be a mute and glorious Milton whose soul has never been aroused by educative influence, but for each great poet who has never learned to sing there are probably scores of men as able as Watt, Naymith or Edison who have not been aroused to their inventive powers. It therefore seems very desirable that manual train ing should bo made to go with such head work as will serve to stimulate the in ventive spirit of our youth. The means of carrying out such a project for arous ing the inventive capacities of yssag men and women will need to be created. It is easy, however, to see the way to a plan in which, as soon as the student has compassed a sense of the natural powers in their simpler relations, he may be set to work seeking to solve problems which demand inventive power for their solu tion. -Boston Herald. Waahiagtoa Society. Perhaps you think I exaggerate. I dont mean to say every woman makes forty calls a day or every day. But the congressman's wife above quoted said to me: "I often make thirty or thirty-five calls in an afternoon. The greatest num ber I ever made was thirty-eight. I think I could make more if I had a bet ter driver. I've heard of ladies making forty-five or fifty." Mrs. Fuller, the chief justice's wife, says she has made thirty-one calls between luncheon and dinner, and that she knows of a senator's wife who has made forty-eight in two hours. Mrs. Fuller could not keep up with her obligations, she says, if she didnt have four lively daughters to help her. She has 800 or more callers every Monday. The cabinet ladies have found it simply impossible to return calls, hav ing often as many as 1,500 cards in a day, and last Decciuber they concluded to give up returns except their calls of etiquette on the wives of the supreme court justices and senators. Washing- It is doubtful if anything in the "red tape" line can excel two instances re cently brought to public notico in con nection with the military, service of Eng land. So minute are the reports re qnired that Sir Evelyn Wood, commander at Aldershot, recently had occasion to record the momentous fact, with all the paraphernalia of imposing official docn ment seals and the like, the thrilling fact that a private soldier had fallen over a stone and skinned his nose. Another instance of puerile inefficiency is seen in the case of a soldier who, whOe in Egypt in 1884, had an overissue of rations amounting to seventy cents. This has been the subject of a vast amount of offi cial correspondence, involving reams of paper and rolls of red tape, and it has finafiy been settled by the discovery that the soldier held a certificate in full for the provisions in dispute, San Fran cisco Chronicle. The following are the latest statistics concerning the cataract. The outline of the American falls is about 1,000 feet, and the height about 165 feet The de scent in the rapids above the American fall is about 40 feet to the half mile. The outline of the Horseshoe fall is about 2,100 feet, the height about 158 feet, and the descent in the rapid above about 65 feet to three-quarters of a mile. The volume of water passing over both falls is about 15,000,000 cubic feet per minute, or about one cubic mile per week, or 64 cubic mjles per year. Buffalo Courier. Merritt Nice smoking jacket, Oat, Smd of your wife to make it for you. Young Husband Why, how da you know my wif e made ft f or me? Jteuitt I notice that the buttons are sewed down the wrong side. Wosaan's World. HER ANSWER. I sated fc, trwnliMBK to eay sager ripe; BaedUaet fatter. thoiNjfrker voice was low: She did aot look apoa aeewakaatprlat; snadMaotfneaaByaisaoaamrt her ayes; Bat ta her ekiika I aaw the r o Irlww. Aaaha with nialle Ih ami a aiuiil "Be," Bhe aaed ao trick or arueea with saa; ShedMaotatyaefctBrehiwoaldha, lad au imraalne did the laaldf shmr Ae to ayquutlua eke reapplied "Mo." 1Trnt wea my nafMia. leader! Letawtel; flhe Jaet had told eee that eke loved aw waft; leaked, "WM yoa e'er tore aaotaaraof ABdtothisometiOB twa atoaaaweredMH6.a LIFE'S WANDERER. .Otwedwaadererl Upoa thy loaebr way; Thoa aiaetaot pauae a TUlthecioatBcortheday. Out there upoa thy pathway. The lead ia white with aaow. Brit erer, ever onward. Thy weary feet muetgo. Why dot thoa ataad here, waaderer. And weep with bitter feart why doet thy not go bravely oa. Without a alga or teart ' Do thy not know, O wanderer. That Just beyond thy eight The soft, green grass ia growlag And the son shines warm aad bright? And when, at last, thou seeet Gold and purple in the west, Thou mayst lie down, O wanderer. To a loag, long, peaceful rest! And thou wilt know of grander things When thou wakest from thy sleep; Then, wanderer, thou wOt wonder Why it was that thou didst weep. Pass on, pass on. O wanderer, Upon thy toilsome way 1 Thou wflt rest in peace and happiness At the closing of the day. -ZolahLBoyla. THE DESERTER. It was jthe last year of the civil war a year full of anxiety, suspense and pri vation of every kind. Down here in Louisiana we were beginning to realize that our cause was hopeless, and that the Confederacy was near its end. I sup pose it was that knowledge which made people so reckless. Men had lost all sense of responsibility in the whirl of events, and acts were constantly com mitted which, in the light of a calmer day, seem the acts of madmen. New Orleans, in possession of the Fed erals, had quited down to a certain ex tent, but the country parishes were in a ferment, occupied as they were in turn by Confederate and northern troops. The ravages of irresponsible, plundering bands had become so terrible in some of the western parishes that, at the urgent invitation of Judge Maxwell, who was a distant relative of mine, I took refuge with him atBoscabel, a plantation in the Bed River country. This district, it is true, was occupied by Federal troops, but they were well disciplined and committed no outrages. After the terrors and uncertainties of the "debatable ground," there was a comfortable feeling of Becurityjin finding ourselves within the lines and not in danger of capture. Several ladies, friends of Judge Maxwell, had collected at Bos cabel, so our social life was far from dull. Beautiful Adela Maxwell was our host's young daughter-in-law. She had only been married a week when her hus band, who had enlisted in Gen. Taylor's army, was compelled to leave her. She was a lovely, irresponsible child a spoiled one, too. At 16 years of age she had married Theo Maxwell, who was not then 20. It was due to the reckless ness so common at that period that the marriage of the young pair was sanc tioned by the two families. Theo was grave and thoughtful be yond his years; brave, as were all the Maxwells, almost stern in his ideas of duty, and only weak where his beautiful little bride was concerned. Most southern women were brave and high spirited, ready to make any sacri fice for a cause they considered sacred, but Adela had not a grain of patriotism in her soul. She did not care a straw which cause conquered so that the war might end and Theo return home. Her standing grievance was that he had joined the army as a private instead of marching forth in all the glory of a gen eral's paraphernalia. At times she would give way to a per fect passion of grief, and eat nothing for days. Then the mood would change and she would be in the wildest spirits, laughing, singing, dancing. She re minded me of a butterfly I once saw lighting on the rim of a cannon the mo ment before it was discharged. One morning she burst in upon us in the breakfast room in an irritable and impatient mood. "I can't stand tbisr she cried. "I never closed my eyes all night thinking of Theo. I cant eat, I can't sleep, and I shall die if Theo doesn't come homel I must see with my own eyes that he is alive and well." "But how can you expect him to comer cried Dora Maxwell, the judge's daughter, a sensible, spirited girl, who had not too much patience with her sister-in-law's childish ways. "He is a soldier, a private, too, and they are not allowed a furlough every time their wives-happen to cry for them. With all this slarmishing going on around us you surely don't think there's any chance of his getting off? I do wish, Adela, you would try to be reasonable for Theo's sake, if for no other reason. "Look at Mrs. Rogers," she continued. "Her husband is in constant peril, and see how brave and cheerful she is! She says that is the only way in which she can imitate him." "Don't talk to me of Mrs. Rogersr Adela looked like a small fury. "Do you pretend to compare my love for Theo with hers for her husband? Easy enough to be quiet when she doesn't care a pica yune for him! Didn't she actually hurry him off last week, when he hadn't been with her for more than an hour? Don't compare us and set that cold hearted thing up as my model!" "I dont compare you," Dora said dryly. "Mrs. Rogers is utterly unselfish, a noble woman, to whom the honor of her husband is as dear as his life. She hurried him off because she knew if he waited until daylight his risk of being made a prisoner would be great. Besides, he had promised his captain to be back that night and he was in honor bound to keep bis word." Adela burst into a flood of angry tears. "Honor! honor!" she repeated, petu lantly. "I just hate the word! Honor made Tteo join the army and leave me here to be wretched! Honor keeps him away! Some day honor is going to leave him on the battlefield with a bullet in his heart. What will it do for me, if I lose him .rd like to know? Nobody here feels for me. Nobody loves Theo as I dor She hurried from the room,but stopped on the threshold and turned her pretty, tear stained face to us. "Theo shall come back to me in spite of you alir she cried. Dora sighed deeply as the door closed behind Adela. "Poor Theo!" she said, softly. "He always seemed to feel such a contempt for women! Yet that girl can make him do anythingP "She is such a childr I interposed. Tee, and that make her so unfit to be a wife. Wears sninc to have an op- only mows Enough to make him wretched, I dare say, for she wont spare him a.smgte tearofhera. Hell fancy her fining to death, and before night, I dare say , shell be laughing and singing." But for once Dora was mistaken. Adela complained of a violent headache, and after writing her letter went to bed, and did not make her appearance until late the next day. Then she wore a sub dued, rather frightened look, not natu ral to her. She appeared like a mis chievous child who had done something naughty and was afraid of being found out. For the two following day she was in a state of perpetual excitement almost hysterical She would rush from door to window, or to any place which com manded a view of the long front avenue. At any unexpected sound she would spring up, listen breathlesbly, and then sink back in her seat with a sigh. "I am afraid my little girl is getting nervous," said Judge Maxwell on the second evening, putting his arm affec tionately around her. "Come, it wont do when Theo returns for him to find a wife with her nerves unstrung. The women of our family were as brave as the men, and I cant have a Maxwell a coward." "But I'm not an out and out Maxwell," she answered with a hysterical laugh; "and I'm an awful coward. Oh, why dont Theo come home!" This was followed by a violent burst of tears, and she rung her hands as if in despair. "Dora, you had better take your sister to her room and make her lie down," the judge said, gently. "Adela, my dear, you must try to control yourself. Remember that your tears wfll not bring your husband back one day sooner. You are only injuring your health and for Theo's sake you must take care of that." After they left the room, tho judge and I sat silent until the lamps were lighted. Suddenly he sprang to his feet, for we heard the hurried steps of a man on the long veranda in front of the house. Then the door was violently thrown open and Theo stood before us. Theo pale, wild eyed, and covered with dust. He looked in our faces strangely, inquir ingly and uttered a deep groan. His parched lips strove to speak, but the words died in a gasp. "My son! what is tho matter?" cried the judge, taking his hand. "Adela, my darling! Is she dead?" the son managed to articulate. "Am I too later "Adela? Why, she is in perfect health never has been ill. She was in this room five minutes ago. The judge stopped suddenly, terrified by his son's look. He had grown ghastly pale and sank into a chair. He covered his face with his hands, shaking as if in an attack of ague. In a moment he controlled himself and tried to 6peak calmly. "Read that," he said, drawing a letter from his pocket, and handing it to his father, "and tell me if I could have stayed away?" Months afterward I read the letter. In it Adela told her husband she was dying and he must come to her immediately if ho would see her alive, but, ill as she was, no one should write to him but her self. If he loved her, come! The letter was written in faint, tremulous charac ters, as if the hand was too weak to hold the pen and the eyes too dim to see the lines. Judge Maxwell's face was very stern when he laid down the letter. "It was an unjustifiable deceit," he said, "but you must try to forgive her. You must not let it embitter your visit." "Father, do you not understand!" cried the young soldier. "I asked for permission to visit a dying wife, but the general positively refused. They expect a battle at Pleasant Hill, and not a man was allowed to leave. I came without permission." ."A deserter! you, Theo Maxwell!" cried the judge, looking stunned. "Yes, a deserter on the eve of battle," Theo cried, with a bitter laugh. "I've done for myself now, father." There was a hurried step in the corridor, and in a moment Adela was in her husband's arms, crying and laughing hysterically. "I heard your voice, darling," she cried. "Why hadn't I been called? Didn't I tell you all he should come back to me? And now I've got him! I've got sistl Pro got him!" hsr voice rising shrill and strained with excitement. But what ia the matter, Theo? Why do you look at me like that? What is the matter with you all?" "The matter, madam," cried Judge Maxwell, sternly, "is disgrace to my son and your husband. By your falsehoods you brought him from his post made him a deserter. Do you know what that means? A disgraceful death! Yes, that is what you have brought upon the man you professed to love." He got no further, for Adela'shcad fell back on her husband's shoulder in mer ciful unconsciousness. He strained her to his bosom and pressed a kiss upon her white lips. "Dora, take her to her room," he said. "Be gentle with her for my sake, sister. She is only a child and did not know what she was doing. I must get away rom here before she revives." He tight ened his belt and pulled his cap over his eyes. The old judge laid a trembling hand on his son's arm. "Theo, my son," he said, tremulously, "dont so back! There is a squadron of northern soldiers camped just back here in Miller's field. You can be taken pris oner by them, you know, and you'll be safe from, from" He stammered and choked. "I understand you, father," Theo said, quietly. "You mean if I am taken prisoner I will escape a deserter's fate. It would add cowardice to desertion' No, sir, I will get back the soonest lean, and bear my fate as your son should. I had to run a cordon of Federal troops coming here, and I fear it will be hard work getting back through the lines." "But Gen. Taylor is my friend." The old man's speech was growing inarticu late. "I will write to him, I will go to him. He must listen tome. No court martial could condemn you under such circumstances." Theo smiled sadly. "I hope for little leniency. I left on the eve of a battle, you must remember. Farewell, father! Be kind to my poor little wife. Dora, dont unman me." She was clinging to him and sobbing convulsively. "If you love me you will go back to Adela. Do not tell her what .may happen to me. I leave her to you all as a sacred charge," he added, solemnly, and before any one answered had gone. "I wfll go myself," stammered the judge, trying to rise from his seat. "1 wfll explain to Gen. Taylor. My boy shall not be sacrificed!" A convulsion passed over his face, his feet refused to support him and he sank back in his chair. We knew well what was the matter. Ayearbeforehe had had an attack of paralysis, a slight one, and his old enemy had him once more in its relentless grip. For three days and nights we watched beside him until the end came. A week afterward our cruel suspense as to Theo's fate was over. In trying to the Federal pickets tie had been "Thank God!" sobbed Dora, "he was fines today, ana Heaven what Adela wfll write to ' santaa me ignotniutatM"aioTa I thmk he wanted to be killed.1 Adela grief at first wa aoonretarned to her father's house. In afawatoathslsawberthere m lovely, asinesponajbleandasgayasif alas had not caused the diegrace and death oftne man who bad loved heri duty. Marie & Williams. A CROON ON HENNACUFF. Unto "Bo, gossip! for There be corpse Cawk.oawklthe ArawaHowiagiatkena, Bo there's a Horary old dame aad "Gawk! naffer! thou art The shore hath wreckers aoU. Would read the yelling seaawa lYoea the clutching billows' hold! Cnrkt cawk! they'd bound for booty. Into the dragon'a doa. And shout 'For death or duly r If the prey were drowning aaaa." Loud laughed the listening surges At the guess our granuaai gave; You might call Utem Coancrges From the thunder of their ware! And mockery followed after The seabird's Jeering brood, That tiled the skies with laughter From Lundy Light to Dude. "Cawk! cawkr theassid the raven; "I am four scorn years aad tea. Yet never in Bude Haven Did I croak for rescued mea. They will save the captain girdle. And shut, if shirt there be. But leave their blood to curdle For my old dame aad ma." So said tbe rushing raven Unto bis hungry mate: . , "Ho. gossip! -for Budo Haven! - There be corpses sir or eight. Gswk! cawk! the crew and skipper Are wallowing in the sea; Oh. what a dainty supper For ray old darne and me." Kobert Stephen Hawker. EVIDENCE BROKEN. An English lawyer once said that cir cumstantial evidence would hang the king of England. While that was put ting it pretty 6trong, it is admitted that a chain of circumstantial evidence has often sent men to the gallows. If a cir cumstance can be explained away, it is but a shadow. If it cannot be explained away, it becomes a menace to the pris oner's life. A witness may be bribed, abducted or impeached. A circumstance is a lion in the path demanding blood. It has been often asserted that inno cent men have been hung on circumstan tial evidence. There may have been such instances, but they have been rare in deed. In my own experience in law and detective work I have seen some curious thingB about circumstantial evidence. It is, in one sense, the strongest chain i which can be forged, in another the very weakest About twenty years ago I was detailed on a murder case in a Kentucky town. It was not to work up the case, but to save if possible tho young man arrested for the crime. When I got the facts and details, I felt helpless to accomplish any thing. He was a young man of twenty three, named Graham, and was of re spectable family. He had been engaged to a young lady of the highest respecta bility, but they had quarreled about something. Common friends had brought about a reconciliation, but a new suitor had appeared upon the scene, and Graham's, jealousy had provoked an other quarrel. He had not visited her for two weeks, when, on the evening of Sunday, Oct. 80, one of Graham's friends met him and said: "Tour, rival is up at Lossing's, and seems bound to cut you out. Adele seems very sweet on him!" Graham truly loved the girl, and this speech made him wild. He turned pale, trembled, and finally said: "He is an adventurer and an inter loper. Let him look out for himself!" An hour later he started for Ixesing's. He passed several people, who saw that he was excited. The house stood back from tbe road in a grove of trees, and was approached by two paths or drives from the front. Graham fully intended to enter the house, but when he came upon the grounds his courage failed him. He was afraid he might say or do some thing rash in his present mood, and very sensibly decided to return to town and defer his call till the next day. Next morning his rival's dead body was found on one of the drives, about half way be tween tbe house and the fence. He had been struck down with a bludgeon. Conclusions are always jumped at in murder cases. Two of the negro servants were at once arrested, but before noon they were set at liberty and Graham was taken into custody. The chain already contained several links. Others were added the moment he was arrested. He was dread fully agitated, hesitated to acknowledge that he had been near the place, and a blood stain was found on the right sleeve of his coat. Before he had been in jail one day even his own father believed him a murderer. He wad examined and bound over, and it was only after that event that he began to protest his inno cence. The girl who had been the cause of it came nobly to his rescue. While she truly loved him, she had been will ing to make him jealous, and when mur der had come of it, as she believed, she felt terribly conscience stricken and anx ious to believe in his protestations of in nocence. When I came upon the ground the sSsts hzd Hz cs3 si! rrcrked up, and when I went over it to look for a flaw I could find none. I had to acknowledge that I was without hope. Indeed, I be lieved Graham guilty. His own expla nations rather strengthened that belief. Lossing's house faced tbe east. The highway in front ran north and south. The lawn was twenty rods wide, and one drive led in from the north and the other from the south end. Graham approached from 'the north. He would naturally turn in at the first drive, but he claimed to have gone on to the second. He fol lowed it to the house, pawned around it, played for two or three minntes with tbe dogs, and then circled about the fish pond and took a short cut across the grove and struck the road, not hitting the north path at all. The dead man had come from the village as well, and on foot. He had come and attempted to return by the north drive. If Graham was innocent who was guilty? Not the slightest suspicion had been directed elsewhere. It seemed hopeless to look. I questioned and cross ques tioned him, but he could not give me the lightest foundation for a clew or a theory. What I gotcame by accident. I asked tosee tbe blood stained clothing, and I found it to be a single daub of blood on a white vast. It was a carious mark, such as I had never seen before, and when I quietly favtathmterl further I discovered that the murdered man had been struck on the hack of his head aad faUmfoiwardonnisface. He had very thick hair, and; what the blow had crushed tae skua, be had hUd butlittla The blood would not spurt from such a blow. Tbe body bad nc been lifted, aad so how did Grahamgetthat blood stain? Accident gave me the knowledge. I was looking the ground over at in, for the fourth or fifth time, one of the dogs came and leaped upon me in a rsrsnang way. Loaung ob served it art ramarked: "Old Fan was always very fond of I llllllllllllldltMlhlw' Ah! irsaawaaaeweaiaaevar.iantitr' Ii atarnMa cut on a eaknsarA.a ef ar- "About the tana Graham "Yea," her bloody paw that a his vest that nightr "Gkml heavens, butUmust have been!" I had a clew and a hope. Everything changed man hour, and 1 now believed Graham innocent and went to work to securo proofs. I posted up to Louisville and examined the police records for ar- I followed a score or more of to their finish, but got nothing. It my belief that a white man commit ted the crime, and that he meant rob bery, but was frightened off. I returned to the village and looked everybody over, but got no satisfaction. The day of the trial was coming and I was in despair, but accident came to my aid again. I happened into the hotel barn as tho land lord pulled a lot of rubbish out of a stall. Hidden away with it waa a fine saddle, and as it was brought to light the man exclaimed: "Bless me, here fct the dead man's sad dler "Was it missing?" lashed. "It was stolen on the night of his mur der. That's the reason bo went down to Lossing's on foot." Who stole it? What for? An outsider, who stole the saddle for its worth, would have carried it off. An insider only would have stored it in the stall. Who was in side? A white man and two negro assist ants. Within an hour I had ascertained that the white man, whose name was Foster, was absent for an hour on the evening of the murder, and that since he had acted very queerly. I arrested him, charged him with the crime, and he did not hold out fifteen minutes. His motive was robbery. He did not intend to kill bis victim, but only to stun him. He had just struck him when the dogs barked greeting to Graham, and, overcome by sudden fright, Foster dashed away and dared not return. He thought he had only to keep still to render him self safe, and, but for my being present when the saddle was found, he might never have been suspected. Graham was cleared and Foster was hanged. The change had been brought about by the fondling of a dog. New York Sun. Oariaal Li a country church the curate had to give out two notices, the first of which , was about baptisms and the latter had to do with a new hymn book. Owing to an accident he inverted the order, and gave out as follows: "I am requested to give notice that the new hymn book will be used for the first time in this church on Sunday next, and I am also requested ; to call the attention to the delay which ' often takes place in bringing children to ; be baptized; they should be brought on the earliest day possible. This is par- I A .w . a aj j.a w ucuianj pnuuvu wa mouieiB woo rave young babies." "And for tbe informa fion of those who have none," added tbe rector, in gentle, kindly tones, and who being deaf had not heard what had pre viously been said; "for the information of those who have none, I may state that if wished they can be obtained on appli cation in the vestry immediately after service to day, Limp ones, one shilling each; with stiff backs, two shillings. London Figaro. Oat la Sectleaa. One of our county physicians, who Hrss st Tszewe!!, wss called to see a very tall gentleman who lives in the neighborhood of' Brantly, and who was sick with the measles. On account of the exceeding height of the man the doc tor advised him to paint a ring around his body with iodine and he would pro ceed to bring the measles out on him one end at a time, as' it would be impossible to accomplish the whole-job at once. Our informant states that the ring was drawn and the measles brought out in sections. Buena Vista (Ga.) Patriot. Sweet H The western farmer, with his hun dreds of acres of new and fertile soil, looks with contempt upon the small and often sterile farms that are to be found in some parts of New England. The owner of a western farm of 800 acres, nearly all of it under cultivation, who was visiting in Maine, sent a letter home in which he expressed his mind freely as follows: "Hire in this country they call two acres of ground, six hens and an old rooster a farm, and half the time one acre of tho ground is graveyard. Give me old Kansas every time." Youth's Companion. Am Old Vaaally. Mr. De Pink My dear, Tve found a husband for you. Miss De Pink Does he belong to an old family? Mr. De Pink Yes, indeedy. All his brothers are over 80 and he's gray headed frimoglf Philadelphia Record. Taeasaads of Dollars ere spent every year by people of this state for worthless medicines for the cure of throat and lung diseases, when we know that if they would only invest $1 in SANTA ABIE, the new California discovery for consumption and kindred complaints, they would in this pleasant remedy find relief. It is recommended by ministers, physicians and public speakers of tbe Golden State. Sold and guaranteed by Dowty & Becher at fl a bottle. Three for $50. The most stubborn case of catarrh will speedily succumb to CALIFORNIA CAT-B-CTJBE. Six months' treatment forll. By mail, SLIP. People who need whisky to sharpen their wite are -hardly worth the cost of the grindetone. Am Akealato Care The ORIGINAL ABBBTINE ODfi MENT is only put up in large two-ounce tin boxes, and ia an baeUte care for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all kinds of akin eruptions. Will positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for the ORIGINAL ABITTNE OINTMENT Sold by Dowty A Becher at 25 cents per boxby mail 80 cento. mar7y Long hair is no more an indication of brains than big feet are of muscle. Fngl'ah Spavin liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from horses; blood spavin, curbs, splints, aweeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swolen throats, coughs, etc. Save fob by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by CL B. Stillman, druggist, Co mmon, o-iy What can be thinner than a thin au dience. Beat give ap my poor, sick friend, While ttwraVuwtksra's kopaus said; to yea'r BTK This advice be wise aad heed- Taka the O. BL D. aad live. Those letters stand for "Golden Medi cal Discovery" (Dr. Pierce's), the great building-up, purifying, and disease-expelling remedy of the age. Dont hawk, hawk, blow, spit, and dts djaywat everybody with your offensive breath, but use Dr. Sage's catarrh rem edy aad and it. 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To thb Editor Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently enred. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my reme dy bek to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Bespect fally, T. A. Suxnm, M. O, 181 Pearl street, New York. 30y UMari HEAP.fr yjM TrytheCurep sedallr has it proven it efllcacyjn carina 1P 1 etappid, ki 'Taky" Sup. HESBA8EA FAMILY : JOURNAL. A Weekly Newspaper issned every Wediesday. . 32 Calms tf reaaiiff "alter, eaa- sistiigaf Nebraska State News IteM, Selected Stories aid Miscellany. fcB" Sample copies sent free to any address.' Subscription price, SI a ytar, ta Uwaict. Address: M. K. Tukner Co., Colnrabus, Platte Co., Nebr LOUIS SCHREIBER. BlacMaiiWasoiMir. All kills af Reaajriig deie Sitrt Natiee. Biggies, Wag- isf etc., Bade fa erser, aid all work Oiar- aiteed. Alia sail tat wwM-faaaeti Walter A. 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