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LIFE’S TRODDEN PATH
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IBB SHALL bk hoiden with the
CARDS OF HIS SINS. ’
Ldall’s hand fell by His side, a
J look of defeated purpose re-
the rage of his oounieuanee
oking into Halford’s face, with
j v gue, he demanded in a
a8 ive tone:—“What is yonr
ess then”? And the gruff, wheez-
: oiue exultant over the effect of
„ powk r i «P° ke out: “ Put “P
-arms and I’ll then plaee be-
joa my plans.” Randall yeild-
the request and threw the re-
the draw whence he
hire
er in
it.
had
>’ said Halford, “I want no
I T-
which grew low down on his fore
head, almost touching a deep thick
set of eye-drows, which together
with a heavy growth of tangled
beard, now completely enveloped and
concealed whatever features there
may have been loft by which, a friend
or acquintance, might have recogniz
ed him. In fact, there was nothing
like his former self except the voice
and this he could so cleverly disguise
as to elude the possibility of identifi-
cation-
Halford sauntered out into the
open street aud walked briskly down
an alley came out into the main thor
ough-fare of the town. Across the
street from where he stood was a sign
ot your war-like maneuvers. I 0 f tb e «fl a£ r oa and cask.” A few
to you by night for the reason cheap chromos, representing bottled
I did not want to be detected beverages in art, were tacked up on
.niug with you. 1 have taken . window shutters, while there stood
y precaution to avoid any kind ^ out in bold relief, above the door, a
spioion. I knew that you were lettered sign, painted on wood bear-
and fully satisfied myself of j n g the familiar superscription: “City
Bar.” The Rum Seller had just ar.
mined to throw open his shutters
and was soon busily engaged refilling
the empty bottles, washing the glass
es and scouring up traces ot liquor
that had soured during the night. It
was this that the bar-keeper was
vigorously scrubbing off when Hal
ford eutered and called tor a “whis
key straight,” a swarm of intoxicated
flies mingled their merry, buzzing
flight back to the ceiling as though
these little intrusions were to be ex-
pected.
It was late when Randall awoke.
The short sleep bad not refreshed
him. He rose up and looked Into
every corner of the room-peered over
behind the bureau and searciied un
der the hed as though he bad awak
ened from some terrible dream. His
eyes, were dull and heavy; his cheeks
pale-his hand was unsteady and he
reeled as be walked. The prepar
ation ot his cases had been a severe
tax on bis mental and physical
strenght. It so appeared to those,
For, having been detected iu the who shortly afterward, observed him
omission of some minor etfeuse he conducting the trial of Ins olieut,
il fled, and gone no one knew Muller, charged with -the offense of
iere aud no one cared. murder. The court room was pack-
tbe catalogue of all his guilt ■ ed with eager listeners and others
present surro-udings vividly le- curious to see Muller, who sat in the
midst of a guard of bailiffs-his wife
by bis side and a bright, sweet faced
little girl restless in her lap.
The testimony had'been introduc
ed ; the state had already presented
iu accusation, liaudall seemed lost
in abstract thought, but now, regain
iug his poise, advanced to defend his
client, as he arose the confused buzz
of law, whispering voices suddenly
hnshed. He confronted the jury aud
ever hold down the curtaiu, for the
want of the true and unquestionable
principal of this terrible tragedy.”
More than once a tear stote down
the cheek of the able attorney, but it
was brushed away, in its sad humili
ty, as a thing mtagouistio to dignity.
But it did not escape the notice of
the child wh se sobs awakened in a
new burst of feeling, while the wife
sat like a statute of marble in an at
titude of gathering grief that must
soon burst through its tranquil
bounds. The arguments were finally
concluded after consuming the whole
of ths morning, a recess was granted,
and again the mill of the oourt re
sumed grinding out justice. Muller
was declared guilty with a reoem-
mendaiion of mercy. The prisoner
heard his doom aud sank in the em
brace of lus faithful wife. The ter
rible storm was spent, but the echo
of the minds still sighed and groan
ed through the wreck of these hearts.
ltandall held a mortgage on .Mill
ler’s home to cover his fee-it was
earned-he had saved his life, though
the evidence was overwhelmingly
against him.
TO BE CONTINUED.
identity before entering this
I have work for you to do,
i the hour is growing lale, I
pose we had better turn in and
Imeet you here, in this office, to-
Low night at twelve.’, The two
i softly stole into the bed-room,
ndall first and Halford following.
• guest was directed to a oomtorl-
, s ofa, while the host repaired to
| high-post bedstead that stood iu
1 corner.
Ilalford was soon snoring, lost in
Lful slumber that comes alike to a
lied conscience and a careless briau,
[ile his noble host tossed, squirmed
I started m a maze ot the most
[rowing thoughts. It was at the
ni of day when Halford awoke
; left the room, liaudall wassleep-
; soundly from sheer exhaustion
I did not know when he went.
Iiu Halford had figured iu mauy
Lk and foul crimes and had as
Ly times escaped justice, lie had
returned to perpetrate what he
Id years ago tailed to accomplish
In
llUu
to him the old Hutch peddler
oui he had waylaid, aud after
uting and robbing him started off
a run, but was pursued, caught
id brought to justice. He remem-
:ied the able defense Hugh liaudall
adu iu his behalf. Everythipg came
him, iu a moment, like a Heeling
unorama-how he had escaped while
s trial was iu progress aud stealing
s little daughter away by night,
d her through fields of waving ooru
•id on through the forest until he
as safe from the gaping cell. He
ad become bolder aud more dariug
ach deed of violence, aud proti-
cut as well, he had adopted crime
a profession. He lived aud moved
ius work with that keen precision
ad shrewdness which, had be di
eted in legitimate channels, would
ve distinguished him as a highly
tosperous aud successful business
nun. Iu height, he was five feet,
ue inches, with large muscular
ms, heavy set, aud tipped the beam
at a hundred and seventy five pounds.
His visage, however, was ihm. He
wore a haggard look and presented a
bedraggled appearance. His plysique,
herefore, was deceptive. This was
ireitly to his advantage as he could
uraw heavily ou his sinew and inns
e when emergency should require , .
t» use. Beneath a long black mus, ’ be wiped away ‘.-from the pale w n
Ucbe, bis lips barleued into a knot, cheeks of a loving, dependent wde
•omewhat expressive of the sinister and that sweet, innocent child, loo
thoughts and plans that moved aud 1 young, no to iea ue me < ita
< ""..’.ted win him. An old gray and irreparable scene which t o . hat e
-co..(vi , C.r., u ... air the |-.mrr to haw ei.act,,!, • . to f r
stretched his manly form to its full
est height. In the course of his
speech he said: “Thank God, I have
the privilege of defending an iuuo-
ceut man, and though his sins be as
scarlet, it is a great gratification to
kuow that the prisoner has also the
privilege of demanding justice at the
hauds of this intelligent body of men
In whose faces no man can fail to
read an unswerving purpose of duty
-whose countenances are bold in tne
truth of houest convictions; and
all the strenness of j stice there is a
heart throb that tempers with mercy.
Men wh > would rather sacrifice life
itself than to commit a mistake that
might stain their own hands with
the blood of the guiltless-can you
afford it geutlemen-I say, emphatic
ally, you cannot, and I tell you more
' there are other hearts to be crushed
aud broken; other tears that cannot
THE GIRL IN LOVE.
A contribution to Harper’s Bazaar
tells the readers of that lady’s jour
nal that the girl who fancies herself
in love with a man is deoeited unless
she is ready with the obvious answer
to the following questions:
What would you give up for him?
Would you leave your home, your
mother and your father.
Would you be willing to give up
your sister and your brother, and
never see any one of your friends
again, and go away with him to a
foreign country or out on a lonely
farm, or be banished with him to a
desert island, if you could not get
him without?
If he should lose the money he
lias and be crippled tor life, so that
lie could never earn another dollar,
would yon be willing to go out into
the world and earq both your living
and hiN, or die trying?
Is there enough of tno man him
self?
Has he a mind which would be
a storehouse for your mind in the
coming years.
It does not matter whether the
woman who asks these scarchiu ques
tions has ever answered them her
self in the affirmative. The great
fact, the fact of importance to men,
is that they have been bo answered,
and that they give expression to
woman’s ideal of love. Even in this
age of creature comforts, of increas
ing love of ease, of maddening quest
of the dollar, they are so answered,
and the greater is the wonder and
the mystery. It is not easy to
demand how she oau do it, but she
does it—bless her!
Even when the man has little
nothing to recommend him, and
when she is by contrast a paragan,
she is still able to do it—somehow.
The marvelous process is pictured to
the life life by Julia Marlowe in the
play “When Knighthood Was
Flower.” The person upon whom
site lavishes her tenderness seems but
a poor stick both as an actor and
man, and where the charm is nobody
can tell, yet when Miss Marlowe as
Mary Tudor tells us that, rather
than give him up and mary the King
of France she will see her father and
his whole court sink in tbe sultry
region that is unmentionable, we all
believe her.
Men should be proud. No won
der they are conceited, say you,
when they kuow that there are
thousands of good women who can
answer the questions slated above iu
the aHirmaliye. One might conclude
that even the most acute case of meg
alomania is partly due to some ador
ing woman. But no, strange to say,
i he love of woman tends rather to
take the conceit out of the man. If
there is any good in him at ail, ’tho
elated, he is yet humble, being in-
sp red with the desire to make him-
g._ f almost as tine a fellow as he is
regarded by the heroine who has
t, iv 1 him.— .M icit.i T« legiaph.
Vac Wranx I.e|.
There was an eminent sergeant at law
some years ago who hml a cork leg
that was a triumph of artistic decep
tion. None but his Intimates knew fot
certain which was the real aud which
was the sliaui limb. A wild young wag
of the "outer bar," who knew the ser
geant pretty well, once thought to util
ize this knowledge of tbe sergeant’s se
cret to take In a given, newly Hedged
young barrister. The sergeant was ad
dressing a special Jury at Westminster
In his usual earnest and vehement
style, and tbe wag whispered to his
neighbor:
"You see how hot old Buzfuz Is over
his case. Now, I’ll bet you a sovereign
I’ll run this pin iuto his leg up to the
head and he’ll never notice It, he’s so
absorbed In his speech. He’s a most ex
traordinary man iu that way.”
This was more than the greenhorn
could swallow, so he took the bet. The
wng took a large pin from his waist
coat and. leaning forward, drove It up
to the head iu the sergeant’s leg. A yell
that froze the blood of all who heard it,
that made the hair of the Jury stand ou
end nnd the judge’s wig almost fall off.
rang through the court.
"lly Jove, It’s the wrong leg! I’ve lost
my money.” exclaimed the dismayed
and conscience strlckeu wag. quite re
gardless of the pnin he had Indicted up
on the learned sergeant.—London An
swers.
To JnilRC the Age of I.nee.
In fixing the approximate date of
nuy given piece of lace It Is well to re
member that machine made thread was
not used till after the beginning of the
eighteenth century. Before that time
tile threads run In lengths of about
twenty luches, for the worker could
stretch no farther than her distaff and
had to break off and Join again, so that
after unraveling some twenty-five
Inches of thread no Joint Is found the
lace Is surely after the Introduction of
machine made threud. The "bride’s
ornee” alone are enough to go by. In
the fifteenth century the bar had only
a knot or a dot as ornament. In the
sixteenth a double or single loop and
In the seventeenth n star. The edging
also helps. A sharp angle In the scal
lop fixes the date In the middle ages,
the rounded scallop came In with the
nineteenth century, with the seven
teenth u dotted scallop, and the eight
eenth century one Is more elnbornte, a
large alternating with a small scallop
and dots along In the center of each.—
Connoisseur.
Some Tyrolean Epitaph*.
A Gennnn traveler has discovered
some quaint epitaphs In a Tyrolean
cemetery.
On a tombstone In a valley of Tux
was this Inscription: "In pious remem
brance of tbe honest widow Auun
Kriedl, forty years long."
A miller Is thus remembered: “In
Christian memory of H , who de
parted this life without human assist-
ance."
A farmer whose Initials only are
given and who appears to have been
the author of his own epitaph has this
memorial: “Here rests In God F. K.
He lived twent.v-slx yesrs as man and
thirty-seven years as husband.”
On the tomb of a man who fell from
a roof and was killed are those words:
“Here fell Jacob Hosennkopf from tbe
roof Into eternity.”
This wall of a desolate husband caps
the climax: "Tears cannot bring thee
back to life. Therefore I weep."—
Household Words.
She Needed Them.
"I wish, John,” she said regretfully.
“I had had sense enough not to destroy
all the letters you wrote me during the
year and n half of your courtship."
He smiled In a gratified way. "1
knew you would regret that some time,”
he said.
"Indeed I do,” she replied. "I need a
little change the worst sort of way,
and the men who buys rags and old pa
per was here today. How wasteful we
are In onr youth I”
He looked at her repronchfully. and
almost Involuntarily his hand sought
his pocketbook. It Is .seldom Indeed
that a resourceful wornmi has to make
a direct request for money.—Chicago
Post.
Laneli Fnma anil'Dinner Prim. '
Any oue who will take the trouble to
compare the lunch qnd dinner menu
cords of some of the leading restau
rants of New York will make a rather
surprising discovery. He will ascertain
that the prices on many dishes are cut
on the dinner card from 10 cents to 20
cents.
A gentleman whose curiosity was
aroused by this singular practice to the
extent that he went to the head waiter
tor a mor i satisfactory reason tlinir the
table waiter could advance was given
this explanation:
“You see,” said the waiter, “the gen
erality of men don’t care for a heavy
lunch. One dish and a glass of milk or
a cup of coffee, with bread aud butter,
are sufficient for them; consequently to
prevent them from getting o!t too
cheap we have to put up the price of
single dlBbes. At dinner time it is dif
ferent. A man wants a number of dish
es for dinner, and so we can afford to
make our moats and fish cheaper.”
“But do you think that Is exactly”—
“Honest? Why not? It Is always
honest to take what people are willing
to pay you for wlint you have to sell. Is
It not?”—New York Times.
Wkr Hindoos Don’t Oo Mad.
Why are there so few lunatic asy
lums and so small a proportion of In
sane persons In India? Thnt to a ques
tion which many a traveler has won-
dorlngly asked.
The Hindoos regulate their lives en
tirely In accordance with their religion—
that Is, their working, eating, sleeping,
as well ns what we usually regard as
our “life" In the religious sense of the
word. Everything Is arranged for them,
and they follow the rules now just ns
they did 2,000 years ago. This constant
observance of the same rules for twen
ty centuries has molded the brains of
tha race Into one shape, as It were, and
although their rites are queer enough,
yet there Is but an occasional example
of that striking deviation from the
common which Is callpd Insanity In
countries Inhabited by the white race.
They are fatalists too. With them It
Is a case of “what Is to be tvill be”
carried to the extreme. This 1ms In
time given them the power to take all
things calmly and so freed them from
the anxiety that drives so many white
men Into the lunatic asylums.
Met HU Match.
That well known historical person
age, Augustus the Strong, elector of
Saxony, has furnished the subject for
many a tale of Ills wonderful musculnr
power. We need refer only to one
characteristic story In which, however,
he met hls match. On the occasion In
question be entered a blacksmith’s
shop. To show hls suit bow strong he
was, picking tip several horseshoes, he
broke one ufter tbe other, asking tbe
blacksmith whether he bad no better.
W’hen It cumF to paying the bill, the
Elector Augustas threw a six dollar
piece on the anvil. It was a very
thick coin. The blacksmith took It up.
broke It In half, saying, "Jflardon me.
but I have given you a good horseshoe,
and I expect a good coin In return.”
Another six dollar piece was given
him, but he broke that and five or six
others, when the humiliated elector put
an end to tbe performance by handing
the blacksmith a lontsd’or. pacifying
him by saying, "The dollars were prob
ably made of had metal, but this gold-
piece. 1 hope. Is good.”
Furniture Polish.
A recipe for a very superior furni
ture polish given by a dealer In musical
Instruments to a housewife as the
cause for tbe shining surfaces of the
pianos In hls rooms consists of four
talilcspoonfuls of sweet oil. four table
spoonfuls of turpentine, a teaspoonful
of lemon Juice and ten drops of house
hold ammonia. This polish must be
thoroughly -thnken before using and ap
plied with an old flannel or silk doth.
Rub briskly and thoroughly, which ts
at least a third of the merit of all pol
ishes. Use a second cloth to rub tbe
mixture Into tbe grain of the wood and.
a*third for the final polish.
Searching Poe a Bool.
Before the astonished eyes of a num
ber of Parisians a singular funeral cere
emouy took plaeo tbe other day.
A resident property owner 1n,tlie Rue
Mnlte-Bntn had Just O’.ed. On the even*
lag of hls death, vvticn darkness, haik
fallen, hls relaUcns, five or six hi num
ber. each provided with a lantern,
slowly made the circuit of tlj» gftrden.
as If they were searching for something;
In the walkH. When they came to a
large heap of stones, they, turned each
ono of them over and then riveutercU
the house.
This curious procesalon Is an old Nor
man custom The dead person was a
r.ntlve of the country near Gtsors. Be
fore InQprrlng the dead It I*, necesenry.
according to the tradition, to Investi
gate and see that the sonl of the de
ceased Is not concealed In a corner of.
bis property or under some rubbish.
Eng*- ot Crabs ami Lobsters.
Crabs anil lobsters are hatched from
eggs, resembling upon birth nothing so
much as tbe antmalcntre shown by tbe
microscope tn a drop of ditch water.
They are as unlike the shellfish they
are to become In mature life ns a grub
Is unlike a butterfly. In the ease of
tbe crab the egg dusters are attached
beneath the animal after extrusion,
while with the lobster they become
fastened to tbe tall, which, by Its fan
ning motion. Increases tbe stream of
oxygenated air through aod among tbe
ova.
Earing n Pineapple.
A Florida fruit grower states that tbe
nntlves of the pineapple district never
I think or cutting a pineapple across.
| They pare IL cut it lengthwise, slice It
| or not. and, with the trimmed crown as
| a handle, cat It much as a New Eng-
j lander does hls green corn, rejecting
j tbe core. This, tbe writer states, not
I only Improves the flavor, but lessens
the strings of fiber that get In the
teeth.
One Kind of Confutation.
“What Is a conjunction?” asked the-
teacher.
“That which Joins together,” was tb»
prompt reply.
"Give an illustration,” said tbe teach
er.
Tbe up to date miss hesitated and.
blushed.
“Tbe marriage service,” sbe said at.
isss.—.-v~