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lN A N N E S S a God for life! Life is sweet always, a a be heavy laden, hearts care full Unwelcome nights follow unwelcome days, And dreams divine end in a a a dull, Still its e, and liie is cause for praibe, This ache, this restlessness, this quivering me no torpid and inanimate thing me of Hi who is ol life the spring. I am alive and that is beautiful Than God for love, love a hurt and wound. Thoug set with sharpest thorns its rose must be, Roses are of winter, all attuned 'ust beth earth filled with a soft air and free, 4.nd warm ei dawns the rose upon the trees, Fresh eurients through my pulses run My heai has tasted summer, tasted sun, And I thank thee Lord although one Of the a 1 oses bloom foi me. Than God for deaths bright thing with dreamy name, W wrong with mournful flowers her pure still brow We heap her with reDroaches and with blame, He sweetness and fitness disallow. Questioning bitterly on the way and how calmly mid our clamor and surmise She touches each in turn, and eah grows wise, a by the light of her mysterious eyes I shall be glad and I am thaa ul now. —Susan Coohdge ALMOST OUTLAWED, AETMAN was by no means a bad man. Youth, love and opportunity made him a crim inal. That pockr lull of bank bills had been left in the I counting room. •There was no one present, and the young man had thoughtlessly seized it. All that had happened more than four years ago. Strange that no suspicion had fall en on him' It is true, he enjoyed the confidence and favor of his employer, but also a happy chance had a good deal to do with it. It happened that just at that time an office boy had been detected some misde. meanor and forced to lea\e. Naturally, of course, he was sus pected of bavins: committed the theft likewise An able 3oung lawyer had been retained to investigate the case and he was not a little chagrined at his failure to discover tlie prepe trator Hartman experienced a moment of relief, but only a moment, as a bur den as of lead seemed to weigh on him. Might not some new clew be found, some unloraeen occurence throw light on the mattei? The torture lasted for four horrible years. The very thought of it made the perspira fcion start on his forehead in the coldest das. W hy did he not invent some pre text foi going a broad? He was oiten on the point of doing so. but the fear of arousing suspicion by any singu larity of eonduct DI eventing him from putting this idea execution. So he In ed on with this threatening spectre e\er before lm eyes, unable to dispel it or to hide himself from it "The otheis"—he would not even tohirnsplf use a more definite expres sion—"are jail for their wrong doing—do they suffer more They are depined of freedom indeed, the blow has fallen heavily upon them with the sentence of the court, but afterwards there is peace around and within them To accuse himself7 That would be foolish Chance had favored him hitherto, why should it not continue to do so? So more hoping more trembling. Hartman had become by his mis demeanor, strange to say—a dilet tante matters of law. He had fur nished himself with a book on the criminal code and the criminal pro cedure, together with various com mentaries. These books formed his favorite reading after shutting his door at night. With a hasty eager- ness hede^o.ured their contents. As a dhess player would treat an 1 interesting problem, so* he treated *his case. Mitigating circumstances, 1 a ehanees in atrial,everythingpos 1 sible and impossible that a layman could extract from this juristic ma terial, were brought into action. More than once he caught himself de claiming a brilliant defense in a loud tone, and then lie would listen anx lously, somebody might have heard m. Hartman had also his favorite chapter, which treated of the statute I oi limitation. There he read: "The prosecution for crimes that are pun ishable with no more than three months' imprisonment must begin "within Ave years, etc." Although he knew the passage by heart, yet he read it again every day, as if its contents might have changed one D^ght. Four years and a half have passed six montte more, he will be iree, le gally free. The voice of conscience would soon, learn to be silent when the pressure*£f anxiety should be re moved. Six months—why should they not pass as a moment why might not a miracle happen, and time for once, just once, make a leap? The almanac became, from that time on, his best friend. He could sit bent over it for hours, counting first the months, then the weeks, then the days again and again. In the middle of the night the thought would strike him that he had made I-*$/•'/KJJM a mistake in counting the lamp was quickly lighted, and his work began anew. Time never passes slower than when one counts the minutes. I seemed to Hartman sometimes as if it stood still, or as if the minutes grew mali ciously to hours, the hours to days. If he only could spend a few hours in sleep! The thought led him to try opium, and now many a day and al most every night was passed in arti ficial slumber. A moment of relief came, when he awoke and realized that so and so many hours had passed. The continual excitement could not fail to undermine even such a powerful constitution as Hartman possessed. With every day that brought him nearer to the longed for goal, he grew feebler and paler. It seemed to him as if his limbs were lead, as if his head-were too heavy to bear. He dragged himself heav ily from the sofa to the chair, from the chair to the sofa. When pain in the back seized him he called a phy sician. "You are going to have a severe sickness," was his decision. "Of what kind? Be perfectly frank. I am alone in the world, and must make my arrangements." "Well the symptoms look like typhus." Hartman's face became even paler than before his eyes started with the expression of horror upon the speak er. "A slow fever, in which one does not lose consciousness is it not so, doctor? Certainly so "If my fears are likely to be realized I would wish the contrary. The fever begins violently, you are deliri ous at the crisis, and the worst is over, when you recover conscious ness." To be delirious! Hartman shud dered. To be delirious, not to be master of his thoughts and words, to betray his secret motives, in spite of himself to reveal that with which his mind had incessantly occupied it self—no, for heaven's sake, anything but that'—"I want no Sister of Mercy, no attendant, look after me at intervals of several hours," he said turning to the physician. He smiled at the notion. Hartman determined not to fall sick, he struggled terribly, and fought with all the strength he had left against the approaching foe. There he lay shaken by the fever, but still conscious. "That's the nurse, that's the chair, now I a stretching out my hand, I know exactly what I am doing," he repeated ten times every hour. "And if it turns out otherwise, would they give any weight to fever ish dreams? Nurses, who have to hear so many things, will not notice it at all. "I have not committed the theft I know nothing of it. That I will keep repeating to myself contin ually perhaps that will influence the delirium. They say the mind runs usually on things that are the farthest removed from the normal thinking, but my thoughts are still perfectly clear." Then a veil fell over the reality. In stead of the Sister of Mercy, the at torney, in his black gown and cap stepped into the room, took a chair and sat down be ore the bed. Through the sharp glasses the still sharper looks were incessantly di rected upon him. Like glowing steel, they bored themselves into his brain. You will be delirious my boy," said the attorney and nodded his head. "I shall not," thought the sick youth and clung to his bad. Day after day the tormentor sat there, staring at him, and listened. Then more and more of his colleagues came, also judges in their robes, and all seated themselves in long rows before his bed. Breathless they listened, one gentleman, old and hard of hearing, always kept his hand at his ear. "jNowhewillbe delirious," they whispered at times. There was a deafening ringing in Hartman's ears. He felt a terrible rage against the black assembly. He had a mind to put out his tongue at them and to call: "Wait, if you will, you fools, you will not hear one syllable from me I shall re main mute as the grave." But he controlled himself and remained quietly lying. The faces, in close array, drew near er and nearer to him. ]Sow the near est were already sitting on the edge of the bed, and now even on his body. They put heavy ice cold law books on his head, heaping them up to a crushing burden. One kept striking him with an invisible hammer on his forehead and crying out madly: "Won't you rave now, won't ou?" It became insupportable. He struek out and shrieked so that the landlord came hurrying up the stairs and looked through the chink of the door, and the attendant drew back in terror, and the physieian stood helping for a moment. With the greatest effort the feverish patieat raised himself and cried loudly and distinctly: "Wretches, you would think I would raveal and betray my self. Now, fust ±0 defy you I shall not do it. See, with a clear mind, to japoil your pleasure, I say it frankly: I stole the money from the merchant Helwig in his office the 25th of March, I, €onrad Hartman." As if relieved, he sank on his billow. From this moment a sensible im provement was noticed. The nurse told incidentally about the strange occurrence, the landlord spoke of it, and so it happened that the young attorney had the satisfac tion, before the expiration of th.e pe riod of limitation, of redeeming his previous failure. The first ealler which the con valescent received was the attorney. i^Wa?H^E Without surprise, cold and quiet, he received him and made his confession. Afterwards he tried several times to drink off his medicine with one draught, but he was prevented from doing so. So he was able, after a few weeks, to exchange the sick chamber for the prison cell. Ho A a am Lincoln a a a Dollars. Mr. Waite Talcott, sitting in the great, old-fashioned room of his old fashioned home, told the writer ar interesting story about how Mr. Lin coln got the money which enabled him to stump the State with Douglas. It was in the days of the rivalry between Cyrus H. McCormick and John H. Manny in the reaper busi ness. McCormick claimed that John H. Manny had infringed upon his patent. Mr. Talcott, Jesse Blinn and Ealph Henderson were partners in the Manny concern. McCormick sued the Manny company in the United States District Court in Cin cinnati, Justice MeLain presiding. A Mr. Watson, who had gone out from Kockford, was a Patent Office official in Washington. The Manny concern sent for him and he examined the papers. After having done so he said to Mr. Manny: "There is one lawyer in this coun try whom we must not have against us." Mr. Manny asked who the man was. Mr. Watson replied: "Abraham Lincoln." "Then send him a retainer. Here is 11,000," said Mr. Manny. The money was sent. The case was tried and appealed to the Su preme Court. There Edwin M, Stan ton was employed to assist Mr. Wat son. Beverdy Johnson was one of the opposing counsel. He met Mr. Lincoln and asked him if he was go ing to make a speech in the case. Mr. Lincoln replied the negative. Mr Johnson said: "A man of your reputation as a lawyer should not keep quiet in a case like this." Mr. Lincoln replied, with a twinkle in his eye. "That's what they are paying me for—to keep quiet." The case was argued. Three months after a decision was given. It was against the plaintiff. The de cision reached Rockford one day be fore the deatli of John H. Manny. The costs of that suit were $75,000. When Mr. Lincoln, as President, felt the need of a man of iron for Sec retary of War, he tendered the port folio to Mr. Stanton. Mr. Stanton, came to Washington and had a con sultation with Mr, Watson. At that, time Mr. Stanton knew very little about Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Stanton asked Mr. Watson if he thought Mr. Lincoln had the backbone to go through the ordeal. Mr. Watson said he had more backbone than his party. Mr. Stanton replied "I will accept the place on one con dition—that you are made assist ant." This was reported to Mr. Lincoln and the arrangement was made. Mr. Lincoln knew men at first sight bett ter than Stanton. He had seen Stan* ton in the lawsuit and had "sized him up." So the great lawsuit of McCormick vs. the Manny Reaper and Mowing Company threw these three men toi gether and the result was as has been shown. Soon after the second inaugura tion of Mr. incoln, Mr. Talcott call ed on him, and in the conversation Mr. Lincoln, referring to the suit of McCormick vs. Manny, said: "That $1,000 sent me by your firm enabled me to make the canvass with Doug las." Mr. Talcott is of the opinion that it (the $1,000) incidentally made Abraham Lincoln President.—Chi cago Tribune. Russia Military Discipline. the Cincinnati Commercial. It is a eurious fact in connection with the Russian army—that while it had often met defeat, it was never routed though beaten and driven from the field, it never became a panic stricken mob. This coherence under defeat was due to its splendid dis cipline and rigid obedience to orders, which were paramount to all other considerations. A Russian force was moving to the attack of a position that was impregnable. A superior officer asked 'the commander where he was going. "To attack the po sition in front," he answered. "But it is folly—madness." "I know it, but I have my orders." "Oh, you have orders move on, then!" the of ficer coolly said. This incident takes a good deal of what has always been regarded as exaggeration out of the story that is told of a Russian army surgeon on his professional round. On entering a ward the officer in charge gives the eommand, "Atten tionr' when each inmate at once takes the position of a. soldier. "Tongues out!" is the next order, fol lowed by the instant projection of that member. The surgeon, accom panied by- an attendant, then pro ceeds along the line, examining eaeh tongue and giving directions us to treatment. When the inspection is over and the medical officer takes his departure, tike command "Tongues in!" releases the line from its un pleasant and ludicrous position, and "In place rest" allows the men to re sume their cots. And yet military writers admit that the soldier who thinks always gets away with the .human machine in battle. I S 8 A an S a Story, Bud Brown who resides a short distance north of this place, had an exciting experience a few evenings ago with a huge serpent. Bud, it ap pears, was on his way home along the Missouri, Kansas & Texas track, from this burg, and had just reached a point about one and a half miles north of Holland, when he heard a queer bplowingsoundsimilar to thafa made by alligators in the dead of night. He looked behind him, and, shure enough, saw a sight that for the time being rooted him to the earth. About 100 yards in the rear he could plainly discern a snake of mon strons size. The reptile approached him at a rapid rate, coming so close to him, in fact, that Bud, with a shriek of terror, jumped from a high trestle, landing in the soft sand be low, escaping, fortunately, with only a sprained ankle. Luckily for Bud, some cattle were grazing along the track, which the big snake at once attacked, making away in a jiffy with a calf and disappearing in the tim ber. Bud, who is a worthy citizen and temperate withal, estimates the length of the snake at 42 feet, with a body as thick as a telegraph pole. He also avers that the monster was adorned with two formidable fangs, and, in addition, was equipped with horns about a foot and a half in length. Recently farmers in this vicinity have missed calves, sheep, and pigs, and it is now thought, and with some reason, too, that they have been gobbled by the horned monster. A posse of brave young men, well armed, has been organized, and they will scour the woods until they make mince-meat of the thieving big snake. —Holland (Tex.) Corr. St. Loui Globe-Democrat. A Association the Providence Telegram At his lecture on "Ministers and Preaching," last night, Dr. Andrews told some amusing stories of minis ters of the past. One about Dr. Jeter was especially good. Jeter, when he became worked up in preaching, and was the most eloquent, had a habit of putting a whine into his voice which as near resembled tears in the voice as possible. Once when the tears were especially strong during a sermon the good old Doctor noticed a lady weeping in the audience. As soon as the services were over he hastened to o\ertake the lady and ask her what part of the divine" word touched her to tears. '"Twasn'tthat," said the lady. "Have you had some deep affliction in losing family friends?" said the Doctor. "'Twasn't that neither," said t*he lady. "Well, what was it?" asked the Doc tor. "Well, Doctor, we had a mule and it was a good one, too. We all liked that mule, and he died, and while you were preaching your voice sounded so much like that mule's that I couldn't help crying," 1 toi he a Advice A friend recently wrote to me thf for thirty-five years he was troubled with insomnia, and for ten years thought himself lucky to get twenty minutes' sleep in twenty-four hours, and thinks,that hot water has cured him He says "I took hot water— a pint, comfortably hot—one good hour before1 each of my meals and one the last thing at night, natur allv, unmixed with anything else. The very first night I slept for three hours on end, turned round and slept again until morning. I have faithfully and regularly continued the hot water and have never had one 'bad night' since. Pain gradu ally lessened and went, the shattered nerves became calm and strong, and instead of each night beinr one long misery spent in wearying for morn ing, they are all too" short for the sweet, refreshing sleep I now enjoy.-— Dr. Day. O Didn't Get he Salvage Two years ago 300 whales were driven ashore on the estate of a Mr. Bruce at Sumbnrg, in the north of Scotland, and they were killed and sold. Mr. Bruce at once demanded that a third of the value of the whales (£100) should be paid to him, in ac cordance with an ancient custom, by which the "laird" of this property was entitled to claim "thirds" of all salvage. The sheriff opposed the claim on the ground that Mr. Bruce had taken no part in the capturing of the whales, and the court of ses sion* has upheld the sheriff. The judge intimated that although the landlord's demand was justified by precedent, it was based neither upon principal nor upon justice, and it was time for a new rule. he Lan of There are more ducks in the Chi nese Empire, says an authority, thau in all the world,outside of it. They are kept by the celestials on every farm, on the private roads, on the public roads, on the streets of cities, and on all the lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and brooks in the country. Every Chinese boat also contains a batch of them. There are innumer able hatching establishments all through the Empire, many of which are said to turn out about 50,000 young ducks every year. Salted and smoked duck and ducks' eggs con stitute two of the most common and important articles of diet in China. Bismarck's weight is 1 7 5 he a in once weighed 2 4 5 N W I S in And that to in the shape of the heartburn abominable of aeiditiesl) after eating, if indigestion, in itB chronic form, as on in its clutches. Neither, if it has, can expect immunity from biliousness and consti pation its pleasing colleagues, the hideous tri each with each to render life more miserable. Get Hostetter' to a Bitters at once—insist on the genuine In glass—and use it with rational persistence. 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