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Yet for the truth of this, my own, grieve not; Thy "coninig" in my life but changed my lot For better, and of evil brought no jot. "We c nnot bear the cro-ses of our friends." But with sweet words of sympathy, my dove. You light my lonely life till far above The power of pain my soul soars on thy love. "We cannot bear the crosses of our friends." Oh, would I might bear thine, ny dearest friend, 'Tis bitterness to know ny grief should trend Upon thy tender heart, its peace to rend. "We cannot bear the crosses of our friends." But 'neath the warmth of thy pure love, so true, My burdens lift as lifts the morning dew Oh, love, in lifting mine, may thine be lifted, too. #dtCub ttm. HTHEL'S HUSBAND. -0 EthelVane was a young beauty ,.-ighteen-a beauty of the most aWit blonde type, with eyes that ieemn's Mke liquid wells of bue ight,wa Sairof spun gold, and L complexion like a freshly-opened >leander. She had a neat little 'ortune in her own right, and she iad a very clear and well-defined dea of doing what she pleased with t. Miss Eudocia Eames was a mid Hle-aged second cousin, who had nore gentility than income, and 7ho eked out the latter by acting .n the capacity of chaperon and -ompanion to the saucy beauty, giv ng advice which Ethel never took, Lnd objecting on principle to every ~entleman whom Ethel fancied. But one day Miss Vane entered ier relative'spresence with very rosy heeks and a deep sparkle in haer ~yes which Eudocia had never seen ~here before. "Miss Eudocia," she said, "I am mgaged to be married." "Are you?" said Miss Eudocia, withi a little gasp, as if she were* wallowing castor oil. "To Mr. Harold North.'' "My goodness !" cried Miss Eu locia. "Why, it isn't three weeks mnce you ever first introduced to aim." "Oh, that's nothing," said saucy lthel. "I made up my mind that liked him in three days." --I think you are runniog a great 'isk, Ethel," said Eudocia Eamnes. 'I should never marry a man that didn't know all about." "Is that what has kept you 'rom matrimony all these years?" aid Ethel Vane, mischievously. Miss Eames tossed her head, and he tips of her cheek-bones and the mud of her nose became a degree nore roseate than usual. "Well,' said she, "of course you mnow you own business best; and C only hope you will never live to 'egret this precipitancy." But Ethel married Harold North n less than six weeks more. "I never could reconcile myself o such a rash step," said Miss sames. "Oh, well," said Ethel, there seems to be no occasion that you ~hould." "You'll liv'e to repent it,'' persist d Miss Eames. waxing venomous mnder the barbed sting of her pret .y young cousin's words. "Oh, no; I shall not," laughed ~thel. But in spite of this war of words, he young people had scarcely set lIed down after the honeymoon. be 'ore Miss Eames came to visit them, with a fearful array of Saratoga ;runks, bandboxes, and pircels atrapped up in brown paper. Ethel ran to the gate to welcome her. "I am so glad you come just now, lear Miss Eudocia," said she, bright 5y. "The rises are all in bloom, and Eden Villa is at its best. Wasn't it nice of Harold to engage it ready furnished for the reason -servants, carriages, horses and ill? And he can go in and out of the city every day, and I'mn working a pair of slinnes fnr Mm on ta sly; and there's such a delicio little cascade down in the ravii and a fearnery among the rocks, a a little lilac and-gold boat on t river-that I can row myself hardly bigger than a scallop she Do come in, and I'll ring for sor tea, and you'll have time for a ni long nap) before Harold con home." And the bride led Miss Eudoc Eames triumphantly into a pret little apartment, all paneled ro and silver, with a white velvet ci pet windows draped with musi and pink ribbons, and a tiny co servatory opening out of it. "And are you happy?" said Mi Eames, interrogatively. "Oh. I am the happiest girl all wide world !" said Ethel. Mr. North came home to dinnE presently-a dark-browed, corsai looking man, with one of those mly teriously handsome faces which i spire all school-girls with the idi that there must be some secret cha ter in his life. But he made himse very agreeable, and Miss Eudo began to relent in her opinion him. The next day she was beginnir an elaborate piece of worsted woi in the pink-and-silver drawing-rooi when the maid knocked at t door. '-Please, ma'am," said Phebe, a perturbed manner, "ishe will con in! And she won't send up I card ! And she won't wait in tl little green reception room for r me to go up to my mistress! Ai please, ma'am, here she is on t stairs now !" "Phebe,' said Miss Eames, "wh on earth do you mean?" At the same minute Ethel Nor came softly in from an opposi door, and found herself faced by tall apparition in black, with a du ty crape veil, haggard eyes, at hair originally black as a raver wing, but now thickly streak4 with silver. "Ah !" said she, as Ethel look( at her with surprised blue eyes. " it's you, is it, that have married n husband?" "Married her husband !" Ethel could only gasp out til words after her in breathless amaz ment. "Yes !" uttered the other woma with a chuckle of malicious sati faction. "But don't think that vc are to keep him, in spite of yol blue eyes, and -yellow hair, ar pretty pink cheeks. I was pretl once, in these days that are paz I have the fir!t right of him, at I mean to have him. I've followe him half over the world, and I' traced him out at last. Where he? I say, where is he? Ethel looked at Miss Eudoci and shrank behind her like a frig tened deer. "lHe is in the city," said Mi. Eudocia, bewildered andl hesitatin; "HIe has not returned yet," "Then here I wait untill he do< return," said the wowi~n, seatir herself upon one of the pink d: mask chairs. "Yes, you may well stare at mt rags; but it is his fault. Hie ce dress you, you p)itiful doll-face thing," with a jerk of her head t< ward Ethel, "in silks and jewel while I am sl.abby and neglecte< But never mind; we shall see wht: the law says to this. A man can have two wivt s. I'll wait-yes, 1' wait." She laughed derisively as si spoke. Ethel caugl.t at Miss Eudocia hand, "Oh, come a way !" she faltere< with tremblin.A voice and changir color. "I-I am afraid of tih: woman." And together they took refugei the library beyond, locking th door to bar themselves effectual1 from all intrusion. "Miss Eudocia." whispered Ethe as pale as a ghost, "what does mean?" "it means, my poor child, th: you have been cheated and d ceived !" groaned Miss Eudoci '-Didn't I tell you so? Didn't I sr you would live to regret your ras precipitancy? Oh, Ethel, I nevi liked that man's face ! I alwa3 knew that there was a dark my tery in his life." "What shall I do? Oh, deal what can I do?" gasped Ethel; at Miss Eudocia. could feel that h< hands were as cold as ice." "Get your things !" said the 6] maid. "Come home with me Leav'e him forever ! ' "But I love him !" wailed Ethe -'More fool. von !" cried Mi: Eudocia fairly losing patienc "What! after he has trifled wil you-deceived you-blighted yo whole life? Come home with me, say ! Don't let him gloat ove the ruin he has wrougL" But even as Miss Eudocia plea ed with the young wif'e, who s; there pale an I drooping as a bro en lily, the blinds of the open wi: dow back of them were cautious1 raised and a rubicund face look< in. "Ladies," said the owner of' ti ~rubicund face, in a whisper, "dor be alarmed. There ain't no occasio jBn isboh here?" us "Who?' exclaimed Miss Eudoci ie, who was the first to recover her sel Ad possession. be "M rs. Nokes ! Escaped from th - Private Lunatic Asylum, three mile 11. down the river, this evening. Tal -e lady, in black. Talks about he ce husband. as she thinks is mar ns ried to another woman !" 'Yes,'' cried Ethel, springing t< ia her feet. "oh, yes-she is here tv She is in the other room.*? se And she fell, hysterically laugh r- ing and sobbing, into Miss Eudo in cia's arms. n- "Mum's the word, then," said th( man with the rubicund countenance ss disappearing from the window a! miraculously as he appeared. in And presently they saw him es corting the tall lady in black dowr r, the carriage drive, talking to her r- as they went. in the most persuasivt - manner possible. u- "Oh, yes'm," said he. "He's :a a doctor Fitching's. waitin' for you [)- He's been there this long time, anm If we couldn't think where you wa ia gone. le's thrown all the othei >f wives overboard and come back tc you. Oh, it's all right." g Ethel North looked at Miss Eu -k docia. Miss Eudocia looked al n, Ethel North. ie "What geese we have been ! cried Ethel. radiantly. [n "But circumstances did look ic rather suspicious,".said Miss Eame. r blankly. ie '-I believed you're sorry yet thai ie you can't say, '1 told y.u so.' id laughed Ethel, as gleeful as a clih le "No, I'm not, my dear," and Miss Eudocia, bursted into tears at And she really actually meant it for Miss Eudocia, old maid thougl It she was, had not a bad heart.-Pop te ular Honthly. S A NOBLE REVENGE. d - 3o The coffin was a plain one-s Y poor miserable pine coffin. Nc flowers on the top; no smooth rib bons about the coarse shroud. ThE e brown hair was laid decently back, e- but there was no crimped cap witil neat tie beneath the chin. The , sufferer of cruel poverty smiled in - her sleep; she had found [read, rest ti and health. ir "I want to see my mother,'' sob. d bed a poor little child. as the under. y taker screwed down the top. t. You cannot; get out of the way d boy; why don't some boly take the d brat? - "Only let me see her one minute ! s cried the helpless orphan, cluching the side of the charity box, and as l, he gazed upon the rough box, agoil ized tears streamed down the cheeks on which no childish bloom ever is lingered. Oh ! it was painful to ;, have hinm cry the words. Only onlce let me see mother, only once !" s Quickly and brutally the heartless g monster struck the boy away, sc - that lie reeled with the blow. For a moment the boy stood panting y with grief and rage-his blue eyes n (distended, his lips sp)rang apart, fire d glittered through his eyes as he )- raised his little arm with most un s, chil aishi laugh and screamed, "When I Fm a man I'll be revenged for Lt that'. 't There was a coffin and a heap of II earth between the mother and the poor forsaken child-a mon ument .e much stronger than granite built in the boys heart the memory of the s heartless deed. 'UThe court-house was crowded tc sufi'ocation. t--Does any enn appear as this man's council?" asked the Judge. There was a silence when he had finished. untii, with lips tightly ypjressed together, a look of strange Iinteligence blended with a haughmty treserve upon his handsome features, a young man stepped forward with ta firm tread and kindly eye to p)leac for the erring friendless. He was .a stranger, but at the first sentence The splendor of his genius enhanced -conv ia1ced. 'r The man who could not find .a friend was acquitted. s- "May God bless you, sir; I can, not," he said. !"I want no thanks," replied the d stranger. to "II- believe you are unknown d~ "Man, I will ref'reshi your m2mory --Twenty years ago, this day, you Istruk a broken-hearted little boy 1away from his dead mother's coffint sI was that boy."' e- The man turned livid. h mr "Have you rescued me, then, t Stake my life?' r"No, I have a sweeter revenge.. have saved the life of a man whmose brutal conduct has rankled in my breast for the last twenty years IGo, then, and remember the tears of a friendiless child." The man bowed his head in shame dand went from the presence of mag nanimity as grand to him as it wat incomprehensible. .The greatest of faults, I shouk ay. Is to be eananlona nf' nones ills REVENUE HOW TILE OLD SQUATTER GOT EVJ WITH TIE JUDGE. r Some time ago.-Judge Graphra while holding court at an obscu town on his circuiL, was troubl, by an old squatter who had be, summoned as a witness. The o fellow was so evasive. s.owii slih a disposition to shield one his friends, that the judge tfin, him for contempt and sent him' jail. Several days ago the juT while en route in a buggy to ho 3 court at the same place, lost the ro and wondered around in the wood Night came on and to increase t: perplexity of the situation, a hea rain began to fall. After wand( ing around for an indefinite leng of time, the judge discovered a lig glimmering among the distant treE Turning his horse in that dirE J tion he soon reached a small ope ing in the forest, and then stoppi when the wheels of the buggy grg against a fence, lie called "hello nAll right,' answered a ma opening the door of a cabin ai coming out to the rude suggesti< of a gate. "Have you got enough room your Louse for a man to stay night?' asked the judge. "Oh. yes." "I'm very glad to hear it. I a lost in the woods and any accom dation that you may offer will I thankfully accepted." "Yas, but I ain't said nothi 'bout commodations." "Didn't you say that I could st: all night with you?" "Noch." "You said that you had room f, a man to stay all night." "Yes, but I didn't say two me I've got hlenty o' room fur one ma but I am the man myself, stranger "Look here. my friend, I-" "It's so dark I kain't see yer, i whut's the usen lookin' thar?" "I say-" "I know whut yer say." "Well, now, my good man-" '-Jes'ez wall now ez any time." "You evidently don t understar me. I have lost the road and a in a pitiable condition.'' "Whar did yer lose it?" "I don't know." "Better go out and find out." "Then it's too dark now to tc where I lost it." "It's too dark to tell when you find it?' "How far is it to Blakeville?" --Do yer wanter go thar?" "Yes, but as I tell vou. I've lo! my way. Is there a straight ros from here there?" "Wall, part o' it is an' part o' ain't." "But can you direct me so that will not lose the way?" "I mout ef it wa'nt for one thing "What's that?" --It's too (lark." "D)o you think, however, 'that can find my way there?" "You can find it if it it's thiar." "I mean will will I have an~ trouble in finding my way?' "I don't know whether yer will< not. Don't war.ter fling no obstici less in yer way." "Come, my good man-" "I'm er good man but I can come." "Well, as I am not likely to fin my way, can you let me stay a night here? ' "Oh, yes." "Well, i'll unhitch my horse an come in." "You may unhitch yer hoss, bi yer needn't come in," "You said I could stay all night "Said yer could stay here, bi didn't say yer could stay in thar. "I see y'ou have no accomodatic about you. Tell me which way1 r?ive and I'll ieave you." The old fellow gave minute dire tions and the judge drove on.Pr ty soon his h'orse stopped, and de pite persistent urging, refused go forward. Finally the bugg became tangled in underbush at could not be b)acked. The jud! got out, and was tugging at a hii wheel when some one called: "Say' over thar !'' "IIello ! That you?" "Reckon it is." "Glad to see you, for Ilam stuck "Yer mout be stuck, but yer kair see me." "I :uean that I am glad to knc you are there." "An' I'm glad to know yer a thar." "Look here !' "Kain't see yer if I do look." "Say !'' "Say y'ers'f!'' "I want to get out of here." "Wall, git then." "You are a. miserable houn that's what you are." "That's all righit podner. I a the judge in this here case, an' I sock it ter yer fur contempt. Dor recolleck me, I reckon. New mine payin' the fine. Jes' stay jail awhile. Good night. Ef y want anything, call fur it. Jail may be hard ter wake, but call hi: cap'n call him. May not like t Ifare, but call the jailor, cap'n." ..4ramtei'J r4t'le SEE HERE, BOYs. N Just wait a minute untill I talk to you for a little while. I know all about you, every one of you, and that is why I want to speak. I know the old saying that "boys will be boys" no matter what comes and goes, and I wouldn't have them n to be anything else for they are I dear with all there faults. But there are a few things in which they might improve, generally speaking. One of the main faults is lack of o consideration for the feelings, love and tenderne.s of our mothers. d hink of the sacred relation which d you bear to her alone of all the s. world; you owe everything to her loving patience and care. Think of the weary days of helpless infan cy, when she cradled you upon her warm bosom, sang away your baby ariefs and pains, watching every s. breath you drew to guard you from c- sickness and danger. Then the period of learning you t talk and walk, the launching of your little bark upon the great tide of human ity. She steered you clear of n, breakers and quicksands until you id had learned to paddle your own can"c. Even the commonest moth in ers have done this, but many have wrouht the work with prayer and hope for your noble youth and manhood. What return are you making her m for all this? Do you ever wound 0- her sensitive soul by unkindness, ye by disobedience, short answers, seeking bad company, or any of the countless ways in which you may plant a thorn in her heart? Better ' you had never opened your baby eyes upon the light of this lovely world. Think how soon the day will come, even at the lonaest, when this best and truest friend will be ' taken from you. Then, indeed, as ' the years multiply and you learn the hypocrisy and falseness of the world, you will know what a price 1o less treasure you have lost. Some one has said, and truly, that "the boy will tramp thirty or forty miles in one day on a rabbit hunt and be fresh and limber in the evening. hut if you ask him to cross id the street and borrow Jones' two n inch augur, he will be as stiff as a meat block'. And he will go swimming all day an-i standing in the water three hours at a time, and splash and dive and paddle, but if his sis 11 ter asks him to wash his face he takes it as an insult. And he'll d wander arcund and cut initials in every bridge for miles, but will nearly die if abked to cut a little kindling. And he'll turn a ten it acre lot upside down for fishing .d worms, but looks disconsolate at . the request to spade up the onion it bed." Now all this is true, lamen ably so, yet we love the boy, and I his whistling music, for we knew ,that the day will come when he will be a careworn man with no fountain of fun in his nature. But you who have mothers, from this day forth I resolve to do everything in your power to save them a heartache. You do not know how they lie, inI y bed and listen for your comingI when you are out late, and how many ~r morningrs their cheeks are pale from ~'the vigil. It is the fashion to sneer at the ' old woman" who prays and watches over your welfare. See t that you try to repay her in some measure for all that she has wrought d and suffered for your sake.-Mrs. 11D. M. Jourtlan, in Carl Pretzels'. Weekly. - THE OLD MA'S Lbsoiu.-An it old chap who lived up in Vermont in the years gone by was left a piece " of land containing about twentyI it acres by the death of some relatives. "It was ~valued at about $200, and in about the first thing the old man 1 mo did was to raise $24 on a mortgage. W hen this money was gone lie put c- on a second for the same amount t- and by-and-by he found a third in s- dividual willing to lend him $15 ~o and take a mortgage. The last ot y his money had just disappeared d when the old man fell and broke e his leg. The person who first reach .d ed him called out: "Poor Uncle Billy ! What will you do now!" "Is my leg broke?" "Certainly it is." ." "And I'm a cripple?'' 't "You are." "Well," said the old man, as a w look of resignation came to his face, "I reckon i'll slap on another ir mortgage.'- -Wall Street Neu-s. "Pap, how old was Adam when he was born?" "Adam wasn't born. Hie was made by the Good Man, and he was made a young man." "WVell, I'll be dog-goned if I jwould like to know why the Good Man didn't keep on making 'em myoung men when they're borned, 11 then a feller wouldn't have to rock tthe baby every time he wants to go er out to play." er "Father," said a cobbler's lad, er pegging away at an old shoe, "they 'A say that trout bite good now." he "Well, well, replied the old gentle. - man, "you stick to your work, and tha won't ait. yoan? ADVERTISING . RATES. Advertsements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertior, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertior, Double column advertisements ten per cen', on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribatca of respect, same rates per senare as ordinaiy advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 Cent perline. Advertisements not marked with the nuame ber of insertions will be kept in till forbia and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers. with liberal deductions on above rates ---:0Z JOB PRXTIAG DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. A DIET VICTIM REDUCED TO CISTERN WATER AND CHEWING GUN. The Galveston News man thus relates his experience : About a year ago we had discard 2d every thing that we thought was langerous to the health, when we were startled on learning that syrup was adulterated with nitric acid, ind that miasma lurked in the dead. ly folds of the boarding house bat er cake. Figures were given to 5how that the dreadful batter cake was spreading, and prophecies were made that it would eventually ruin -he constitution of the strongest de. votees and reduce the nation to a vast hospital of flapjack invalids; io the batter cake was scratched 3ff our list of ebible fruits and next ent the codfish ball, because it was said to produce cold feet. 'hen we learned that the sad faced ind cohesive biscuit was a synonym >f indigestion, and the unostenta. ious kraut but a name for rheuma. ism, so the biscuit and kraut had o go; then we found out that cas or oil contained the germs of in. rostatic molecules, whatever that is md we were, therefore, forced to .ive up the use of that hilarious medical beverage. This thing went on until we had cut off every. ;hing from our bill of fare but cis ;ern water and chewing gum, and we found ourselves no stronger or iealtier than when we were hasten ng to the tomb from the effects of ,orging ourselves with a heavy line )f assorted poisons three or four ;imes a day. About this time a nan came along with a magic lan ;er and showing us that every drop )f cistern water contained an aqua. -ium of hideous marine monsters with wiggling tails, and a druggist ~old us that the habit of gum chew ng was a fruitful source of cancer. ~ext thing we did was to swear off )eing an infernal fool on the diet luestion, and now we eat any thing md every thing that our teeth will nasticate or our palate commend, md we can work ten hours a day md see to read small print with out spectacles. HOMIE! SWEET HOME? Where? When the dear old nother runs from her arm chair rith a smile to greet you. WVhere the true hearted father :laps you in a warm hearty grasp. hVhere the bright faces that cluster round you are full of happy re nomibrances, and every heart hrobs in unison with your life and abor. Where, when the bustles and hur y and strife of living are over, he weary hands and aching ,eart can lie down a while; lie down Lnd wait a little and look into the ar off Celestial City, just beyond he billows that touch our feet. TVhere some one will miss us when ve've crossed to the other shore, Lnd loving eyes will look wistfully brough the surges and the mist that ies between them and us, and their ove will bear us on almost to the ortal where Heavenly messengers vait. God pity the poor wanderer who an never know the joy of this earth y resting place. This little glimpse of heaven to he heart so long a stranger to the ender accents which fall from loy ng lips, or the gentle touch of fath rs, mother's or sister's hand with he warmest solicitude smooths our vay into the valley of the shadow >fdeath. Poor stranger ! who in a far off and, amid sickness, poverty and vant, can only dream of the home me may never reach. Uncared for, mnloved, alone. Alone save the weet administering of God's an ;els, who come to the beggar, the mungry, the sick, the homeless, the utcast of the earth, who take them n all their poverty of body and ~oul, far within the pearly gates hat enclose the 'Father's mansions.' HELP YoURsELF.-Learn to help Rourself, and you will enjoy perfect udependence. Men who can defy dverse circumstances, and can earn a living in any quarter of the world in which they are dropped lown; who can roll up these sleeves mud set to work at almost any. ;hing that offers ; and who even sew on their own buttons, and nake themselves a cup of tea when leprived of help of womenkind, are he ones who are really independent. rhe most helpful women are kind. ist; and as for a man, never trnst iim in any capacity if he has not with in him the true spirit of nde )endence, without which neither strength nor sweetness may be ioped for. In the battle of life :here is but one way to succeed ight it out yonrself. "Many a young lady, who objects ;o being kissed under the misletoe 3as no objectlons to be kissed un ler the rose." A careless compos tor made an error in the above, rendering it, "has no objection to da kiusoai undar the nlOMe?