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SUP—mm . Ofm*■..... • |-f »>U •vl* , sL .Jo THE LIFE’S TRODDEN PATH —OR— - FATAL * WEB # WE ^ WEAVE. ■ -t- 'i- -i* i' 'f' 'I- ^ f 5 r s ' 'h -r- -t- chapter ni. 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~