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UFE’S COMPLAINT. «ome murmur wh«n their sky is clear And wholly bright to »lew iTX*?* 11 of dark “I-pear In their grent heaven of blue And some with thankful love are filled If but one streak of light, °Th r,l { fl " <l 8 S 00 * 1 mercy, gild The darkness of their night In palaces are hearts that ask discontent and pride nhy life is such a dreary task. And all good things denied. And hearts In poorest huts admire r l, °7. l0Te ha8 - * n ‘heir aid — Snch^* K 0t ev ? r 1 *eems to tire- Such rich provisions made. t The Foreman l of the f by chablis B. LEWIS, Jury, f As the Lake Hhore train «ast rolled into Toledo from the dozen years ago;, d^^^ irfelt tL V‘ Un<1,1Ct ° r Hnd make an arrest ordered over the wire an hour thlT*’ • A ‘ 1 ® tective wh< > ^as been in he business for a dozen years seldom a?tts ft X h,n * tbat f T priHe8 bita Mt as tins officer was asked to arrest a handsome, well-dressed woman on the eharge of robbery, he opened his eyes m amazement. There were two haml- was were sleeper, -the fourth heard of the case. As a juror I had Md for n th° aU ? WeiKh aU the evid *»ee, sat d im, h ? e d , ay8 the accU8ed ■at within ten feet of me. The evi- ence was purely circumstantial bat uo particularly strong as circnmstan! t*a. evidence. Mrs. Wickham had section No. 7, and Mrs. Taylor had see- Wi\^ 0, Both bad handbags. Mrs jewelry^uMh^ 1 .' 1 D ° thin,? a, « ut the iimtd K j U j. th ® ba g m which it stoied had disappeared. There on^J four passenger, in the rhe third was an old lady h^-dent of an eastern college ipsstE <w‘„T- vet * ueiense. If the prisoner preferred to fiKht the case out without reding her identity that was to her credit and could not be used against her As he did not know the contents of the shfl.Lw \ hOUl<1 8hebe tei npt«d? "he hml taken it what had she m« If done “(Ifficer this person has robbed -ni°r , ir , H rytothe vaIue >>{ *«ooo * nd . 1 wunt her arrested at once'” I he other looked at him in a ‘ cold haughty way and made a gesture of couteinpt as she replied: Oili< ei this woman’s charge is n se, and if you detain me it will be at your peril!” e “is Tr , Iv^ n . tinUed tbe fir8 ‘. cit v M r J h W,ckl,aQ, » of New York ‘ Ity. I am on my way to Chicago to sit relatives. This person boarded I the train at Buffalo, and we belme I q'lite friendly. I h at i the j oweJ in “ T“ ••tchel. Late last night or «e ‘L , ( ?f n, ; ,ni ; nK . Hbe obtained pos- tssien of it. I wish to have her ar rested and searched.” “If you dare to do it I will have yonjentto prison!” exclaimed the Here was a straight charge and a ‘plMsed" 1 detef5tivewa8 non plussed. If the woman had stolen the jewelry, she must have the plunder •bout her person or in her bJgglZ searelJall 1 her i ,f i 8lle Was wil,in K tl "be “N^t n«? nd "S® pron,pt, y replied: in order t 'i"' in ®» hut I demand it m order to clear myself. Afterwards ^ m 1 dea W1 th this woman!” The two ladies left the train and .„.. r .u< | to , bofa i Mrs W ««'I bam ld «“^* d h.r-1# M the wi/e of R ' ■ent • tele* Z lih it? She was perfectly willing to fcim" ‘"I 1 , “, ot !' i " K haJ lonuu. I he old lady might haw- taken it by mistake—even the college president might have been tempted Ihei e was the train conductor, the car conductor and the porter As tiofv ween 0 Vr e,1 Y OI ’ e i! lei1 l ’ y ^ ow ner be- . i N York aud Toledo, how coul'l sl,e swear that the jewelry was n it at Buffalo and bevond? ^Mrs Wickham conld only sav‘tli«t U ' « Mr, x.ylur the bag, and in all but one thing the prosecution made out a very poor Lie i he accused had persistently refused to reveal her identity T ! „ ye , th..t if ,1 ‘ueiiuty. Jt was argued that if she were an innocent woman abe won,d not do this. s he ,3 give no part of her history—say not^ “f e Wbnt0Ver exc «Pt that 'she was the ma,I. \ respectable and wealthy I had been made foreman of the 1 **y* and when we retired T i rt* 1 ' ‘‘“''i-lf b.t.c, , w „ O pi„? 0 ", d No lrK.1 proof" j bee „ . dv . n P “v “ r “" l,, '’“C. but if there shnnll ? g Wr ° ng about her why Hhould she conceal her identity’ f . ‘V belief tb„t ' was 1 h#r to once. «n adventuress, but vet T i.o.i no.irfo*' ,i,r „“"T ic ; be">v.‘ against such a verdict. 0”^ down u , tV.t“'.‘,, I bu e ! i 7‘' to shOwed'eight f< e . se c°nd ballot “Did yo, claimed?” “Of co “And is “Not at “Then “You self a gi I heard ho obstinate of thiuki opportune in a subs name, I hai w ho I am, wits, if a sharper. 1 “Then ress!” I “That n term,” she “And yo: “I took course. Y your own friend. Y her berth »nd pifea mine In divided $3 what you present yo I sat anil wide open, or dreamii cord from “Give will send row.” “My he: really stea pered. “Why o! plied. “And yo “Withou “And yoi you $3000 “Of co I’d let him do you? V I am one w rewards hoi think $500 and I will i| I arose a without sa out a look that I cou name if as ing around f Buffalo, as you pme Taylor?” vho you are?” yon proved your- my hour of need, night those four er to your way am glad of this my appreciation iner. 'As to my a dozen. As to ty living by my man I’d be called are an adventu- imably a correct ag of jewelry, of no doubt of it iu d yet you stood my le tbe bag while ig made up at uight o a good friend of xt car. The haul ween us, and for me I am going to $500.” I at her with mouth ring if I was awake she took a pencil aud icule and said: home address and I ney by express tomor- woman, but jewelry?” did you I whis- |rie I did!” she re ar adventuress?” ibt I live by my wits.” de Mr. Wiekbaw pay ges?” I went on. You didn’t suppose after all tbat trouble, is the address, please? fights her enemies and ends. If you do not fficient, please say so ase the amount.” * talked out of the depot ; a word in reply—with- at her—so overcome lardly have given my for it. After wander- an hour I went back. To niy grea ;elief she had gon**, nor have I ever leard from her since. —Atlanta i Institution. If raw's Fiithting Boy, Five Years I. IMiaved Like Veteran. wet ion. Z rac, I ,littala “d four for iklOlir makn like Father, like son. I Lord I'oeh Old Lord CoeMrane was one of the great est naval emmanders England ever had. While |ie was serving Chili as le was serving commafuler-in in of Hr harbor in the interest^ _ tnn JTZ lOCtiUCilJV 01 1110 min^ jewelry was found upon her, She gave her name as Mrs. Taylor, of Buffalo, and she hinted that her hus band would demand the fullest satis faction for the insult forced upon her. By the advice of the chief of police, Mrs. Wickhar attempted to get out of the affair as best she could, but Mrs. Taylor stood on her dignity and wanted $10,000 for her injured feel ings. She must either have $10,000 in cash or she would sue for $50,000 damages. Perhaps the two women might have reached some sort of a compromise but for the advent of Mr. Wickham. He heard his wife’s story about the loss of her jewelry, and realizing that he was in a box he tried a bluff game on Mrs. Taylor. He struck the weak spot at once by de manding her husband’s address in Buffalo. She refused to give it, aud her refusal aroused suspicion that something was wrong. When pressed to give her identity she positively re fused, and the result was a formal charge and her arrest in due form. When the alleged thief was ar raigned circumstances were so much against her that she was held for trial in the higher court. She continued to give the same address as at first, and added that she would see the case through without any assistance fn*in her husband. Her policy was one of haughty independence. She had a tine wardrobe, considerable Jewelry, and was also bound for Chicago. Her cash in hand amounted to less than $1000, but no sooner had she secured a lawver than money was sent him to make*a desperate fight for her acquit tal. Wickham was not only an aggies- sive man, but he had to convict the woman or pay damages. He therefore aided the police in every possible way. Buffalo was turned upside down •without finding a James Taylor to fit the case. Every effort was made to locate tne woman, but beyond the fact that she had taken the train at Buffalo nothing conld be learned. There were plenty who said she was an adventu ress and was guilty of theft, but there many also w ho contended that she be longed to some honorable family, and was seeking to shield the name from nu| 0 t tf/ true 01 them decided to come over to the majority. The other three vowed they would hang out till doomsday, and we put in a long night in the jury room. After breakfast the next morning I went to work at them in earnest. I am neither an orator nor a magnetic man, but I went over all the evidence and pre- acandal by giving a falseoneand with- information. She didn’t seem holding information to worry at all during her commitment, and when the case finally came to trial ahe was in the best of spirits. I am a quiet, steady man of family, not in the habit of reading the news papers much. If I had not been drawn on the jury for that term of court I doubt if I should have ever sented it, pro and con, in such a man ner that after we had been out about thirty hours a ballot showed that we w ere all for acquittal. This was the verdict announced in court, aud Mrs. Taylor was at once discharged from custody. Within two hours Mr. Wickham had compromised with her for $3000 in cash. As the days went by that verdict bothered me. Mrs. Taylor had gone to a hotel as soon as discharged, and Mr. Wickham had hired a detective to watch her. It was determined to discover her identity, if nothing more. The woman probably suspected that she would be watched. After a few days she went to Chicago, visited a lawyer’s office, a bank and two or three other places, aud then bought her ticket for Buffalo. The detective had dogged her every movement, and she had made no sign that she was aware of his espionage. He saw her leave the hotel in a carriage for the depot, and as there was plenty of time he took a street car instead. When he went through the train she was not to be found. The man worked on the case for a week without striking her trail and was then hauled off. When this instance came to my ears I was conscience-stricken over our verdict. The woman must surely be a sharper, and we ought to have strained a point and given her over to justice. Two months had gone by, and one evening I was waiting in the union depot at Cleveland for a train. I sat reading a newspaper when a woman dropped into the seat beside me and smilingly asked if she was mistaken in thinking I was Mr. So and So, of Toledo. I replied that there was no mistake, and then recognized her as Mrs. Taylor. “I am so much indebted to you! she said, as she held out her hand and let her smile broaden. “About your case at Toledo?” “Of course. The prosecution had a poor case against me, but my lawyer was fearful of a verdict of guilty, be cause I refused to reveal my identity It of course looked as if I had sometbing to conceal.” “But you didn’t have?” “Didn’t 1!” she exclaimed, as she laughed heartily. Ijady Cofthianft had to come from San tiago to Valrparaiso to see her husband off to the war. As she was looking out of the jwiiidow of her house a d listening to the gun that was summon ing all hamds on board for the last time she sa* her little son in the arms of the first lieutenant, waving his cap and shouting “Vive la Patria” as hd was carried to the beach. The sea lion’s cub bad insisted on going with his father, and before bis frantic mother conld reach him, he was in the boat under way to the flag ship. Lord Cochrane could not de lay the fleet to send him hack. It seems probakle he was glad to get him,for, if tha first lieutenant had not had a pretty (mod notion of his mas ter’s desires,Imw would he have dared bring the boy iboard? The youngster was without o her clothes than those he had on, nv l he was rigged out in suits made of anvaa by the delighted sail maker. Before the f st engagement Lord Cochrane loc ed his son in the after cabin, but the lid was not his son for nothing. He formed himself through the quarter bis father on may seem, w He stood there shipman’ftunifi tins up and Presently a s next him, aud blood, but he r father, crying: “I am not hu not touch me. not made that After that h and carried awa tory ran in the he got on deck a to stay there till —Philadelphia E llery window, joined k and, strange as it Unwed to stay there, u his miniature mid- m and handed powder wn to the gunners. killed the marine e was covered with shed instantly to his papa; the shot did ck says the ball is kill mamma’s boy.” was ordered below creaming, but vic- ■ Iy,so to speak,and 1 was at last allowed e last gun was tired, sss. Tricycle f Berlin has star or “Heydt” cycl inventor. The steerer,” and b wheels is a < seat for the p driver works th rear. The new s has met with mud these tricycle cab the German icle. Practid “What is a d| grandpa?” “Getting down pockets for a doll heathen.”—Brookll Piety. itional attitude. ACRICULTURALjrOPICS. Good Bara Cats. To make a cat a good mouser it should never be allowed around the house. To lie near the stove and be fed, without doing anything to earn its living, makes a cat lazy, fat and good for nothing. There are always in the barn enough vermin to give a good cat constant employment, aud she will rarely need other food than what she can herself procure. Such a cat is easily worth $10 to $20. On most farms it will make big interest on these sums every year iu grain and grain bags and fruit which a good cat will save from being destroyed. Do Not Destroy the Birds. It is said that an ordinary caterpil lar increases 10,000 times in bulk thirty days from the time it is hatched; that the food it grows on is vegetable, and that 10,000 caterpillars could de stroy all the grass on an aero of ground. The insect population of a single cherry tree infested with aphides was calculated by a. prominent ento mologist to be 12,000,000. Cultivated country districts are, supposed to con tain from 700 to 1000 birds to a mile, each of which consumes hundreds of insects each day. If not wantonly de stroyed, the birds will keep the bal ance between plant and insect life. Trouglia In AYlntcr. During the summer the water-foun tains are the best utensils to employ for providing water to the fowls, but they should now be stored away and water given in woodei^roughs. Foun tains will break when the water is frozen, but the troughs cannot easily be so injured, and can also be cleaned. The water trough or fountain is the most important utensil used by the poultrymen, and demands daily atten tion, as it is the source from which all contagions diseases are spread among the members of the Hock. The best method of providing water without in curring such risk is yet an unsolved problem, but cleanliness will prevent many diseases. Seed Slain* in Celery. We have never seen an explanation of this by the experts which was satis factory to us, but we think it is caused by some check in the growth at au early stage. We have had a similar trouble among beets and carrots which were sown so early as to get hurt by the frost after they came up, while tho same seed sown later gave a satisfac tory crop. But a more probable cause in many cases is that it was sown too early under glass and was forced too much, making a rank, spindling and tender plant, which was not sufficient ly hardened when set in the field to ^ on and grow at once. When it be- f 1 ^ ^nnil rrr—ninatii and beets tnat had been put badK Tty tho frost, its natural tendency was to begin as a bionn ial plant would that had been wintered in the cellar, to make its seed crop. We have never seen a biennial plant making a seed stalk the first year which wo could not account for satisfactorily, to ourselves at least, by some check or break in the early period of growth.—Boston Cultivator. L flow to Fatten Poultry. I have fattened for the market this season over 100 cockerels and have settled on this method as best, writes Clarissa Potter, in the New England Homestead. They are confined in a pen, given plenty of room aud air, but where drafts can not strike them. Low roosts are provided, a dust bath, though I have never seen them use it, aud boxes of grit and oyster shells. I make low benches of overturned soap boxes on which I place their pans of food and milk, that they may not readily be soiled or spilled. I feed three times a day. A warm breakfast of boiled potatoes, pump kins or squash, crushed when hot and thickened with corn meal. This is seasoned with salt and pepper. A noon feed of the same on alternate days. The other days they receive tho same as at night, whole, bright corn. Nothing musty, soured or solid is allowed in their feed pans. The pen is kept dark except when the fowls are eating. This is accom plished by hanging a thick covering over the windows. The pen is so dark they move about but littlo between meals. At feeding time the curtain is lifted and they are fed all they will eat but no more. A pan of sweet skimmed milk is kept before them, and the pen floor is clean aud supplied with fresh bedding. I discourage scratching and crowing all that is possible. A erod ing bird fattens slowly, if at all. Light encourages crowing. The corn is fed in pans, or scattered, and the curtain is dropped as soon as it is eaten. Cut green bone aud meat whets their^ip- petitesand should be given every tnird day. I fasten from nine to thirteen days since following this plan, secure quick sale, being plump, firm and yellow with fat. If, for any reason, Jsome cockeral fails to fatten in this time, its flesh feeling lean and flabby, it is turned loose in tho yards to run with other fowls two weeks or more, and then the fattening process is repeated. WORDS OF WISDOM. There is no education like adrersit; —Diaraeli. The greatest remedy for anger is d I lay.—Seneca. Happiness cannot be bought at bargain counter. There is only one real failure in life aud that is the failure to be true toth best one knows. When you think you oughtn’t, thei you want to; when you know you can’t then you’ve got to.—New York Press Evil thoughts swarm only in uuoc cupied minds. Be busy about nobh things, if you would be saved from the ignoble. No matter what his rank or position may'be, the lover of books is the richest and happiest of the children of men. —Langford. It’s pretty hard for some people to distinguish between what they think they know and what they know they think.—Puck. “God bless you” is the old-fashioned summing up of sincere affection, with out the least smirk of stupid civility. —George Eliot. The world is full of men with no other possession than experience, who would be glad to sell it for less than they paid for it.—Puck. Minds of great men may run in the same channel, but somehow the chan nel seems never to become over crowded.—Philadelphia Press. Why We Do Not Live a Hundred Years. Almost all persons die of disap pointment, personal, mental or bodily toil or accident. The passions kill men sometimes even suddenly. The common expression, “choked with rage,” has little exaggeration in it, for even though not suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten life. Strong-bodied men often die young, weak men live longer than the strong, for the strong use their strength and the weak have none to nse—the latter take care of themselves, the former do not. As it is with the body, so it is with the mind and the temper; the strong are apt to break, or, like the candle, run; the weak burn out. The inferior animals which live temperate lives have gener ally their prescribed term of years. Thus the horse lives twenty-five years, the ox fifteen or twenty, the lion about twenty, the hog ten or twelve, the rabbit eight, the guinea pig six or seven. The numbers all bear proportion to the time the animal takes to grow its full size. But man, of all animals, is one that seldom comes np to the average. He ought to live a hundred years, according to the physiological law, for five times twenty are one hundred; but, instead of that ■»—'■* fuui - times the growing period. The rea son is obvious—man is not only the most irregular and most intemperate, but the most laborious and hard-work ing of all animals. He is always the mort irritable, and there is reason to believe, though we cannot tell what an animal secretly feels, that, more than any other animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it warm, and consnmes himself with the fire of his own reflec tions.—New York Ledger. Luck Follows Misfortune. That seeming misfortunes are often blessings in disguise was proven con clusively to one of the guests in a Chestnut street hotel a few days ago. He lost a valuable diamond stud in the waste pipe of the bathtub in his suite of apartments. On hearing of the loss the proprietor allowed the pipe to be taken up. at the expense of tho loser. A plumber did the job for $10, and the guest not only recovered his stud, but also found in the bend of the drain pipe a diamond ring. Being an honest man, he gave the ring to the proprietor, who advertised the find in several newspapers. As no one came to claim the ring the proprie tor, with an equally commendable sense of honesty, returned it to tho finder. Needless to say, the loserlpf the stud was highly oompeusated for his trouble, as the ring was valued at $150. The fortunate man gave the plumber a crisp $20 note extra, as the brilliant find was partly due to that worthy.—Philadelphia Record. n Snrre**. d the tricycle cab, o named after its chine is a “rear- 11 the two front ortably enshioned leuger, while the, . ,, achine from the ^d the carcasses em of locomotion favor, and 500 of ire now in nse in ■London Chron- |to your trolls'" 1 to send to the Life. Tobacco-chewing members of the Methodist Church in Albertsville, Ala., have been levied upon by the stewards for a special tax of $10 a year. Steam-Heated Baru. The new barn recently completed for Colonel Blees, Macon’s millionaire, is one of the most expensive buildings in north Missouri, and undoubtedly tbe finest barn in the State outside the largest cities. More than 80,000 feet of the best lumber that could be pro cured was used iu its construction. The roof required 56,000 shingles, and iqpre than 22,000 feet of ceiling lum ber and nearly 30,000 feet of weather boarding were used. The inside is finished with hard pine and is oiled and varnished, the floor space is nearly all covered with granitoid pavement, and the entire building is heated with steam and supplied with all modern conveniences.—Kansas City Journal, Railroad Franchise Fees. The Metropolitan Street Railway Compaty recently paid into the New York City treasury its annual car li cense and franchise fees, amounting to $200,000. The company pays $150,- 000 a year, says the Electricar Re view, for the Broadway cableroad franchise.