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Show her dnuglit hack. liadboec the ltd the snap had gone from bent, and v ce. eyes to her o Somehow the loll reused heavier It might have than ever this morning. was early H'rmg. been because it and the air was full of that indefinable of sense of expectancy, that vague hm. would that rejuvenation, a rejuvenation fortouch everv thing except the Dar.ks the because was it tunes. And perhaps flour barrel was empty, hut whatever the cause. Mrs. Dunks turned from the doorwuv thoroughly wretched. Half an hour later Mr. Danks saunfoltered in with the water, the child three or two of lowing with a string fish. m a getting the pail dovyn, he said e "1 hev about way: deprecating oiler, with strue beyond these tears. HU T NAS51B A. 1IOSTFOBT. 1 Beyond these dreams and these hopes and fears Bejoad these wearyforyear thee There walu tears-Brwo- od A home, so wondrous fair, Fo sweet, so pure, the air Breathes anthems everywhere In harmony. Angelic creatures move. Through every balmy grove Whose constant theme ia love Id rapture eui.tr; And on their harps is wrought Those strains divinely taught; And every rvthm caught On roses hung. Till every pulse was filled W ith their sweet breath, distilled For tender chords that thrilled .Neath touches low. Where limpid streams pursue F.nehanted bowers through; And myriad drops of dew Resplendent glow. Where tranquil skies repose O'er every stream that flows. Whose crystal beauty throws A light sublime. No tongue can eer xissess The gilt to The matchless loveliness Of that fair dime. n-- reddened. t Im master hand at "I dont I tell you Malviny, but a livin', gettin fate is agin me. Jii't as 1 got a job across the river that felou come on niv finger, and when I had a chance on the bridge, out of twenty men. I was the onlv one the derrick hit when it fell. You didnt ought to be oustin it up a,rin me that 1 lied to come home; its fate. "Call if by w hat name you like, she answered bitterly, it's madj an old woman of me before my time. lie made no reply', bui went out on the doorstone, where the little girl joined him, and presently his wife heard him say: "Daddys goiu away. Is Capitola sorry? "Ileal sorry! said tho child; adding, "What'll you bring me daddy? "How. sitd ye like a.string of beads? he asked, after some deliberation. "Blue beads? cried (he child, then with the unconscious selfishness of childhood "will you go right off? Apparently he was hurt, for his voice quavered as lie asked, "Which would ye ruther liev daddy, or the beads? ()h, you! cried the child, throwing her arms round his neck and pressing her little face to his. So the hurt was healed, and they chattered quietly together till supper time, at wliicli meal there appeared live boys, the pattern of their mother. People said the Danks blood had taken a turn in the boys for they were as keen, tough limbed, energetic hoys as could lie loiuid in the county. The following Monday Mr. Danks started for CooptTville. As he took up his limp carpet bag, tie said, by way of feeble joke, "Ain't ye sorry to see me s pose Oh. spirit, why shouldst thou Bemoan and murmur now? la't not enough to know Beyond these tears. When earthly eenes have past With all the gloom tin t east, Tnere thou shall ret at last Through emit ss years? - Ah .oio Magazine. -- A I5IT OF DRIFT. IlKsl t; It Srt 'AUT. "Brutus ('as.sius Dunks! Are you going after that water or do you expect the spring to come to you? The man thus pointedly addressed el id slowly down from the fence where he was sitting, whittling, closed his huge jackknife hv pressing its point BV against the rail, and shambled toward the house. The woman in the doorway watched his leisurely npproaeh w ith an expression uriotisly mingled of indifference suul irritation. A small, stooping figure, with a weak 'Slope to the ('bin and shoulders; the flaccid face with a fringe of and surmounted by a sunburned straw hat; the loose, unshapely clothes which 'coined to have adapted thom-Ives to the wearer's habit of mind was this tlie trim young idiow who courted her lif teen years liay-eolor- a toith -- ju-- 11 Politics on the Bench. If a judge of the superior court is mentioned in connection with the governorship of his state, is it right that insinuations should be throyvn out by the press that, unless he resigns his office, he will employ corrupt means to further Jiis political aspirations? Is honorable Ambition to succeed by underhand methods only? Noyv, in casting about jl governor, each section has its especial pet. This should not warrant an attack upon some other good man, yyho may be mentioned, simply because he is an officer, and without the semblance of a charge to bring against him, expect that he is apt to take advantage of his position to make friends, to the disadvantage of his black-eye- d s pink-chcekc- e tided to take up Badgers and go tip to operville. Site made no answer, and he continued: "If any thin slid happen, 1 could come home. "Oh, yes! she answered, "you could come home o:wv enough. T he man vv inced, and his sallow face trees torn ut bodily, 1 great n gBtts.. c.xvapl buildings and cattle. and lar-- e barn came ni.uh a hou- -, the above Inoju-- t lod the wa e is breakwater, r mad which hurlx.r th is the into bringing whirled, 11m formed all manner of wreckage. m- - o. bovs watched eagerly, specula laid at the amount of lire wood thus . , their door. one "Hi! That's a good one, cried like dusk something at t of them, as of tnc a lo appeared round the corner as though a moment, balanced barm mto undecided, and then swept round the little harbor. But it was getting too dark to see nnvthing more, so they bed. til yyvnt laughing and sou mg to nbdit long mother and children "the little house lulled slept qn:ctlv in waters. All night swift of rush the by the log poised harbor little lou iu the amf turned, now swepL away trout the shore, now draw it toward it, as though reluctant to go. In the morning, with whoop and shout, the bov s burst from the house, but in a moment were back again with white cheeks and chattering teeth, and could uttei clinging to tneir mother, but one word "Father. Ye-- ! Fate had again been too strong for him. Mr. Danks had come home. bruised They took up the poor body, and battered, but invested for the limt time in the eyes of those yyho knew it with dignity, and as they bore it across the threshold there fell from the pocket, a string of discolored blue beads. A little later they knew all there was to know of the pitiful story. His had gathered on the wharf Saturday afternoon after work to watch the freshet. One by one they scattered to their homes up and down the river, and a neighbor seeing Mr. Danks, called to him to come; but he shook his head, saying he was not going home till his work was finished. So they left him there looking down the river toward his home. One hour later the wharf was swept array. Mo one knew what had become of the solitary ligure save One. And as the poor body, without volition of its oyvn, was guided through flood and darkness to its home, who can deny that the spirit too weak to shape its oyvn course was borne on Infinite pity into the eternal home? Saturday Traveller. l, smo'.1' ri was a tliinkiu, Malviny, he said, taking the pail from her outstretched hand, "that a ketch of lisli would taste kinder good. We've had imtsli pretty goin, Malviny? Intel v." 1 sthhly It aip't Ml fifth my fault, . he rejoined Jowh, a- - though the fact occurred to bun for t lie iirs! time. .lust then a ldtle tow headed girl ran round tlte corner of the house. Where arc you goiu, daddy? she Called. Down to the spring. Want to go, ("joitola? he answered. SI e looked lovingly at him with her whinu-blueves, slipped her grimy little Jim .1 into his, ;,tU trudged off beside No! I s i also it. a'n't, e f, , ( 1 n v . way. so one June they were married, and ot to hotiskeeping in a little house the bank of the Ohio; and Melvina, lie strength of her youth and love, able to move mountains, but she si the gravitation of inherited too much for her. ie had done well for a time. The sottage was neatly fixed lip, and .a a year after the first baby came, his own hands, y oung father, with liioned for it a cradle that was the mler and envy of the neighborhood. heredity was too strong for him, a no though the cradle had six successits lir-- t coat of paint ive occupants, v as never renewed. Mr Danks had la vm- heard of Sisyphus. If she had would have found her task very much like his, with the exception that hei - was infinitely harder and more hi'l'i !rs. Whet was it? Mental or moral or t am. el weakness, or all throe? Or .i e fate, that whatever lie turned nenlto immediately failed? mime seemed an unkind fling of .ne. 11 s mother having attended, tly before his birth, the nerform-; some 'troll, ng actors, was so a 'impressed that the name of us Cassiu was waiting for him v. ho arrived upon tho stage here I. to play so iiisignitieant apart. 1, w a cldom, however, that he had of In' full name, for the ;i ( uity iu which be grow tip do- in abbreviations. But even t,.c r tough fainil.ar tv hcs'iated to call to his fine, so In was man "Brute a porp u il wire ttp-- i p. bi"d "Cash. i. him who rarely had any cash in his foikd. Against a'l these odds .Mrs. Danks had fought a good light; but in shift-aes- .s . - i o i . vv - -- ' 1 ! . enough. He straightened himself and said, with an air of decision quite unlike himself, "Youll not see me again until my work is finished; and so departed, followed only by Capitola, who went to the road with him, and called after him not to forget the beads. Mrs. Danks from her washtub watched him going slowly up the muddy road, and as she, looked her heart relented a trifle toward him the weak, exasperating little man. Hastily taking Iter hands t ho she from took a bottle from suds, the kitchen shelf and went to the door. Johnny! she called to the tangle of boys before the door, "your tin's forgot his liniment. Hun after him with it, for lie'll he sttro to get a lame back. With a parting thrust toward his hrolliu's, the boy snatched the bottle and sped away like a young athlete, chin up and elbows back.as he had seen pictures of runners. When lie overtook his father and delivered his in ssage. the latter seemed really touched. Though indifferent, apparently, whether his house fell to pieces or not. he was homesick outside his own gate, and now was going away sore hearted at the evident willingness of lbs family to part with him. The unexpected attention quite overcame him, and lie looked around for something to return in acknowledgment, but the fields were hare. Suddenly he spied by the roadside some pus-- y willows with their silvery, fuzzy buds, and cutting oil' a branch gave it to the hoy saving. 'Give that to your ma, and tell her sites the best woman in Meigs Countv. "Law! said Mrs. Danks. when the kind-hearte- r;n. The woman stood on the doorstone. looking: afti r them, "They are she thought bitterly. "One has about as much idea of getting a living as the oilier. she had not lacked warnings years ag for Malvina Frost, with her slim, s', t'.i'iy lit ligure and snapping black ey e, was th" likeliest girl in town; and I'o'inisof marrimjeahle sons had not - I, 'ted to enlarge in her hearing upon the "Dunks slnlticssness, reinforcing their ovv n opinions by sundry old proverb'. such as "What's bred in the hone Will come out in the flesh. and "Like i ther. like son." lbit Malvina only her black curls, and went her vvell-n.nitrf- ij She looked at him a moment, then said, eolith, "Youll be back soon said the woman, d, le burst in with his branch and mesYour pas getting silly in his sage, hoy old age. house. I don't want such truck in the But after the boy had gone she put it carefully in water ami set it on the kitchen shelf, and several times she looked up at it with a look on her face which Mr. Dar.ks would scarcely have recognized. That eentlenun's absence made verv little ddlercnee with his family except to Capitola. His wife, scolded a little less, and tin hoys, who looked lum very much as another bov upon one who liked to sit in the same only place too their works amt long-purs- ued sports as usual. But the Thursday after his their outdoor fun was cut short leave, hv a persistent rain. How it did pour! Hour alter hour, all day and no-li- t' Friday morning dawned uponsvveenin sheets of gray, and an angry, boilim! flood that crept, inch by inch np it! yellow banks, and night closed in on t he same picture. Saturday nmniiim the sun out bright ami clear hu! on w hat a scene of destruction, ivhat had been a river was a ru'hin which had blotted out after0 held and stopped at their owu -- ate, and jut wdiich carried oil its heaving surface m-h- i less favored opponent. How are xve to judge of the conduct or talents of another, except through the positions he is called to till? Those who have given the greatest satisfaction in the past are the men xvlio yvent up step by step, aud not those yvho came from the shades of seclusion. A judge of the superior court, or any other man occupying an oflice of public trust, yviil not risk His good name inque-tion-abmeasures, iu the very sight of higher honors being offered by an admiring public. Rather yviil "they be more guarded in speech and act, knowing that every word and action is sure to meet yyith the severest criticism. To resign is a tacit acknoyyJedgmeut to be a candidate for a higher office means trickery-- , bribery, and corruption generally. To remain in the field against such unfounded opposition shows true courage, and manhood. The newspaper that believes it can injure the reputation of a good man by advertising him as the judge of the superior court in politics, fall short of its expectations. Already such advertising lias redounded to the good of the cam didates and the mortification of nameless scribes. His case is strengthened, for the masses can see nothing in such a tight but vindictive persecution. It is the merest folly to resign anv oflice to become a candidate. If a man is pure he will employ honorable means to secure his success. If he is impure the public knows to well from past experience to what low and disgraceful acts lie will resort to curry public favor, and his asperations are nipped in the bud. As to selecting between the on the bench and the common judge politician, who yvdl be apt to measure his conduct by the rules of propriety, the man vxho has a reputation to uphold, in accordance xvllli the dignitv of nis position, or the one who IVeis no restraint and waits for the incumbent, whom, perhaps, death may have removed, to ho carried from the presence of his associates, ere he hies himself away to elbow the powers that he, in his interest and behalf. Courtesy, as yvell as necessity, that where a judge is m his own circuit, some one disqualified of his tts- -, soeiaf.'s shall pr 'side. If it is true that these rounds develop judges into politician-. then then is not a court of equity m the Mate. Vuthhert (la.) Appeal. j , Tea vcuri ago the people of Morrow county, found it a very hard matter to tret wa: r cuMittli even for cooking purposes. Now tfie water is abundant. Canyons which were tin n (1a now abound with little rivulets of the surest water. Ori'ci, HOtV HE GOT THE BLUES. tl':it ,M filin'!, reTd the F. after Weeks nf , n M. Holm absent artj1(! V x'eyy spa per Man's r.xperlence as a oaihrf ; the VI unulucturcr of Indigo. Tirr Oh. Fleet' is An A'tu reporter was chatting on the tiemmemeiit, r? invited put iiUll;;. Jacobs OilOakland boat itli a friend, the other packed mad lit, when the chatter said to him: "Did anotlnr,. The Indian? blonde a uni CUT see remnant of ,li: there yvas admitted once hundred pum,.!, i;;isiD tens c reporter for V in, thing he bad not seen, lingering lake ,:a rrangetu-r- on the admi-sio- n long enough to give had beep vy,te ind'oul while the . the angel of record a vli:uk at the at the other enf deck his the across cident. 1ointing t!ie j"ior ni,ln. tall, friend indicated a tou of j man, yvlm, .sure enough, in his clopej jnl) w nortd doe ia mOYin,t features, yvas a perfect image of Black ally met the in chemist a re,t juig fchley, Hawk, chief of the Baes and Foxes, alIF' beat him ad Lodge, . lied he was blonde, and sandy as the was all the 5h Cure a pe: him? "Iviioyv of an invo,tuien;,,,et 5 tem-- n typical Scotchman. second the puriy of the ai part. cisco Al (t. vexations, i "No? Why, thats Jim Woodard, who A Brazil n 'I na'i hr ('i ivi did more to give When was the ; by his. "Jay hawker ed and m what letters than Gath luis done by his 130,009 to J tumblings in the same paper. given currencv Sanl Woodard is now the San Francisco made rubticin. Atri popular,, to Wabash road, trying agent of the yvith obnoioUS of. !dihe tact for losses. recoup liim-cThe reporter's fancy was roused by fore t'apt. Boiec" jenth etree 73,040 the statement that a "neyvspaper man his house l.v the 1150,000 ever had anything to lose, and there- enm.ty lie had ' Inna State fore drew out this tale, which began on ostracism" the boat and yvas successfully finished in lands had , been ear he First f a California street cigar store while eentl t Brazil is of the lighting two of the "stinkers period: ;;; In many respects Woodard is a re- likely to resort to Jt on New markable genius. He is the product of in the second rs: IIis d Warren county, Indiana, from whence century it had lationa! B New 5 he yvent to war in the union cause, and thorough one. . ps., TJ.V infor, it yvas during Ins service in the field knoxvn gentleman, tana! Bank that he developed, in his correspondence business often Ui fid dollars to local papers, those marked characterheard in Havana cd Thursday " (I,A istics as a neyvspaper writer yvhieli suban extraordinary d",w sequently made him a somewhat fa- cili?', of, fc,. .py-- "'! mous character in the journalistic proagainst rehjrton au! He somehow got an undefession. count of a Ion" served reputation for being a studious He tried haul t0Vp UX and uncompromising liar. Those most but without avail ;tf familiar with him are sincere in believ- days past, yvhen b TL'1' L ing that Woodard yvas honest and con- from a paper will;: ai - T rill of much his in which, scientious work, It is in Spanish. H1C however, sensational, yvas usually found a translation of it: 6 to he truthful, and yvas never gossipy Tho official p.tv or scandalous. Next to neyvspaper Morelos copies tb T-'-6 work, Woodard had a weakness for published in lsji ?? lTnts' railroading, and for a number of years j, iisthanas, cmp.rec. v,,. five TO TIIB past he has had more or less interest in various enterprises of that kind. After DeiaktmentofCf the close of the war Woo lard went to Considering that tt H's a poo Tennessee, got into polities, and ulti- has not acted rightly ( mately into the legislature. By one ince and town; tk h e has cu deal and another he had managed to whole of last car r save up something like 5.000. About shower, and that showed a balance in the time his spite of the relij those by figures a mysteri- venas, and prayers, w represented ous individual came to Memphis, rentdrop, and m ed rooms, and with dosed doors and single 1,0 of chestnuts, on blinded yvindoyvs he pursued some sort is dependent fur t IT yP of investigations and ex- been lost: 'ni , periments, about which the curious 11'snlred, 1. That : a manifested much interest, hut could L term of eight 'j1 stiimi ,c learn nothing more definite than that ory after the little which they cleaned from the my rain does publican.: not fall sterious stranger s frequent visit to yviil to nia'Sorsi't,"i ' go VV drug stores and his purchase of divers 2. That if the dp in compounds. ce V:rii more days In the course of a few weeks Wood- eight nr, rut and chapels will ard was taken into the confidence of missals and rosaries c:. Hun the weird alchemist, w ho told a fairy will ject of devotion n s y, v story of yvliat he had finally accom3. That if finally i.t plished after years of patient toil and a third term of ei;i v a forindustry, and at the sacrifice of a monks, tune yvhich lutd been left him by his denes, women will be paC, father, then deceased. In brief, he had ample times? ' discovered a process for the manufac- present count their to body ture of artificial indigo by a combina- and that description, tion of chemicals and minerals, by Maker yviil certain!' which the cost of production could be whom He has to deal ft t reduced to a mere bagatelle. The Re This plain avowals j alchemist v:us plethoric follow in the event eh of statistics and pregnant yvith visions to have had tU of untold profits. But lie was broke appears i, hu clergy to re and wanted a partner to help turn the ing thethere is no , as for discovery to profit. The sincerity and sale killing of these Jj" enthusiasm of the man had turned the is supposed head of the shreyvd and worldly jour- ligion it and the town v- ,t. nalist, and for the first and probably opened with slw an. a the ontyr time in his life he yvas a drenched Herald. A a Li He visited the rooms of the chump. chemist and inspected the process of A manufacture. lie yvas yet skeptical a certain of and cynical, but the man agreed to the severest tests. Provided yvith a formu- singularly lacking la, Woodard himself yvent forth to the of tenderness and t druggists, lie spent 50 cents in the rived at this trying purchase of compounds yvith strange source of infinite Latin names. With his oyvn eyes he to their family and 3 witnessed the alchemist throw these have no Thcv into the hopper of his machine. There and3 r they know the F was a rapid turning of a crank, a sound thing tells A lady of crushing rolls and cogs and of the .. things, illustration and a minute later a receiving-bo- x at fested by a certain ho' the rear of the machine held two ft of general pounds of lump indigo, which had been s flout- a time of his faniv j members ed from the bowels of the odd machine. : "The family wa oodard was astounded with wonder. ' j' the lady. Ilis stranger friend, with a look of saysolder daughter K; an proud satisfaction, appeared wise, but died suddenly and r said not a word, his I expression convey- house to see if I ing more eloquently the famous remark tance. I of Daniel Webster. "There she found the entire stands; "I look at her. IV oodard was half conof a M. ,, . verted already. He took the indigo exception the most to way to a chemist of established t repusuch a tation and had it analyzed. It proved yvas when l heard to be the genuine article, so he said, myself After nearly llie tly neyvspaper man yvas captured. reeded in qult'tm0ty Hie production of the indigo cost 50 and about to , cents a pound. Tho market price was aWa.rlof 2. Hundreds of thousands of pounds her tsrlcrc:' vyere consumed It looked (uuci annually. llie corpse like a sure fortune in J . He hassight. Oh. my For to tened to clo-- e a contract for a referred bov indi by the payment of 1,500 to the clenched his serious and inventor, iL v who took him in yvith the understanding that lie should share equally in the profits, but should not possess himself hey? ,, of the secret of the invention. Two up adn, reproof a llis days were then spent in the manufacstarted up w ture of indigo at the rate, of about tyy'o was to calm her forts huiuLed pounds a day a profit of ;() aming famdj a day, 150 dean income to each partTree 1 Detroit ner c cry twenty-fou- r hours. The imtourWi1 pecunious journalist was wild with de1a arwl tfllk light. J. lion the senior partner disapo the money yyfiich Woodpeared; ard had put into the firm, lie found xx - " . clo-e-kn- it, busi-nos-li- w k s -- 1 top-loftie- al to lf !r &S' . N-- I 1 , J W-!o- I d bank-boo- k ' wb- ; ; -- star-chamb- er s ac !h . t- -t i A solemn-visage- d , j- t s Hearties-Boy- a. ia f e- X. 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