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Is my team plowing t
That I was used to drive, '
And hear Wn harness jingle,
When I Avas man alive 't
Aye, the hoi'ses trample,
The . harness jingles now;
No change though you lie under
The land you used to plow.
la my girl happy,
That I thought hard to leave,
And has she tired of weenin-;
As she lies down at eve? :
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JsiOWk HERE are different colors
y and degrees of falsehood,
just, as there are different
colors and degrees of
other .sins. ' There is,
.bluett viSC ol"
all. the malevolent hyno-
--crite and slanderer, who can twist
truth into falsehood, falsehood into
seeming truth. And there is the down
right liar, who falsities oS purpose to,
deceive. There is toother .Twurffi)fc
. liar nolt.guite so bad-flhe faWnies fvum1
.. a love of the maryehoi and a burning
desire to appear what he is not. Sbhie
.pe-QPle.li.e becauseJt is their dispo
. j sition to", deceive. Others lie because-
' they lack the "courage to tell the
.'.'truth.' And there a-fe other lies some
times called: "white lies" wh'ich'are
mere lies of convenience. In' their ut
terance there is ho evil intent. They
are told just as a man whisks an im
pediment from his path with his walk
ing stick. . They are told to save
trouble of explanation;, or, perhaps, o
avaklcprimrrnd. At'first'a lie of this
kind may not seem a very sinful thing;
but unfortunately for the misguided
mortal who entertains the pett3r sin,
it is one that does not improve upon
acquaintance. Like many other evils
which might be mentioned, it is likely
to grow to alarming proportions and
consequence. There is one safe ground
and only one Truth Absolute Truth
under every circumstance r.nd on all
- occasions. '
Sarah Towers believed herself to be a
truthful girl. She had not the dispo
sition to wittingly deceive. Had it
been plainly intimated to her that she
was a liar she would have been
shocked beyond measure; and yet her
rule of life in this respect was not
pure and unswerving, as we shall
see.
'"Sarah," said Mrs. Towers, coming
to the room on winter morning, where
her daughter sat, "did you see any
thing of a twent3'-dollar bill on the
mantel-shelf last evening?" Her voice
and manner showed that she was un
pleasantly exercised.
"A twenty-dollar bill," repeated
Sarah, with wide-open eyes. "Xo."
"You didn't see anything that looked
like one?"
"Like a twenty-dollar bill? Certainly
not."
"I certainly left it In the sitting
' room, on the shelf; and 1 know that I
set the large glass lamp down on it,
so that it shou'd not blow avay. - I for
got all about it until this morning.
Ch, I must not lose it!"
. "But, mother, twenty dollars is not
a large sum."
"Ordinarily, no, my child; but just
now it is considerable. Your father's
accounts do not balance so favorably
this season as he had anticipated. In
fact, Sarah, he cannot possibly spare
me any more if he is to meet his bank
paper. Where can the bill have gone
to? And I promised Mrs. .Tudkins ten
dollars to-day. Do you think it could
have possibly got knocked off and
blown away?"
I We may as well remark just here,
that Sarah Towers had been lying.
Falsehood was not certainly in the
'heart of the young and sunny-faced
'girl; but her tongue had spoken it
The. facts were simply these:
;- On the previous evening Robert
i.Veazie had called to visit-Sarah (Rob
ert was a clerk in the store of Towers
& Dunbar and was Sarah's accepted
lover, lie had displayed qualities of
head and heart which had recommend
ed hini to the favorable consideration
of her parents, and though he as poor,
yet he had business tact and energy.
It was understood by the careful
father there should bo no formal en-
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"Ay, she 'llesclowi lightlv. '
. Ske lies not dpwij to v ee;
Your" girl( is. well Contented,
Be still, -inyJlttd, fcnd sleep.
Is my friend hearty,
isov I am thin nd pine.
And' ha.y.hefoundto sleep in
Arfbe'ter.jVd tban mine?
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"ea, lad, I lie easy,
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man's sweetheart; ,
..Xev.g-ask me. whose.
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gagement at present. Sarah remem-
bei'ed'fliat she arid' Robert had sat to-
geker jipon .the .sofa ajid looked over
an illustrated magazine. While thus
occupied, it occurred" they would see
better, if the large lamp which stood
in the middle of the shelf were moved
out to the end; and she arose to dp it.
UpBh lifting the lamp she saw a-piece
of paper whirl out and circle down un-
Mfl it was drawn into the fii of the.
"grate directly beneath. -
"What was that?" asked Robert, who
had seen the whirlirfg" paper.'
"I don't know,-I'm' sure. It's burned
upt "whatever. i.-ns-,i'iri6wred. Sarah.
She saw the charred tinder like fragr
ments whisked up by the draft, and
ttBen she acfdedT "I' guesS it as. nothing
of importance. It wouldn't have been
there if 'it had been."
And after this she had resumed her
seat. Xow Sarah remembered all this
very well; in truth, the question of her
mother, had startled her; but she had
not seen, a, twenty -dollar bill. We can
imagine the amount of .mental reser
vation employed in this decision. Her
first impulse was to avoid a disagree
able exposure. If the bank-note had
been destroyed, as she now saw it must
hive been, it had been through no
fault of hers, and moreover the loss
could not possibljr be helped.
Upon reflection, when Sarah saw how
much trouble was upon her mother.
she was sorry she had not confessed
the whole truth at oncej But it as
too late now. She had taken the first
false step, and she could not uetract
without a disagreeable exposure.
"Who could have knocked it off?"
she said, in answer to . her mother's
last question; "and where could it have
blown to? I certainly saw nothing of a
bank-note."
Mrs. Towers searched in vain, and
at noon she told" her husband of the
loss; and they both searched, and Mr.
Towers questioned his daughter not
with the .thought that she had de
ceived, but in hopes that some for
gotten incident might occur to her.
But Sarah dared not confess now.
She lacked the courage; and she lacked
the courage because she was yjet to
realize hew very small evils can grow
to enormous consequences.
Mr. Towers returned to his store in
a thoughtful mood. He knew that his
wife must have left the bank-note
under the lamp upon the shelf, and
that it had been. there the previous
evening. She was not a woman liable
to mistake in memory of such a matter.
The only other person who had been in
the sitting room that tim besides his
daughter was Robert Yeazie, . Ter
haps Robert might have seen the note.
On arriving at the store he called his
clerk into the counting-room.
"Robert, did you see anything of a
twenty-dollar bill on the mantel in my
sitting room, last evening?"
"No, sir."
"You saw nothing that looked .like
one?" ' k
The young man hesitated and color
ed. Then with a forced smile
"Terhaps Sarah may have seen;it."
"No;. I have asked her and she knows
nothing about it. Shs saw nothing of
the kind." . "!
"I I certainly saw nothing, sir."
Mr. Towers was not at all satisfied
with his answer; but h would not
press the matter then. lie dismissed
his clerk, and sat down and reflected.
And his rejections were not pleasant.
That same evening Mr. Powers called
upon Mr. Selvidge, the tailor, to col
lect a bill for cloth. The tailor was
fortunately in funds and he paid the
bill. With the money he handed out
was a twenty-dollar bill o the Black-
stone National Bank, new and crisp,
exactly such a bill as Mr. Towers had
given to his wife.
. He asked Selvidge where he got it.
'Robert Yeazie paid it to me this
forenoon."
"For what?" x .
'For a now coat.'
Mr. Tower's went home and showed
the bill to his wife. She declared, in
a moment, that it was the bill she had
lost. Where had he found it?"
The merchant asked if she could be
siient and discreet for a time. And
when she had assured him that she
eould he told her how the bill had
come into his possession.
They were both greatly shocked
They had not believed 5such a thing
possible. If Robert Yeazie could be a
thief, whom could they trust?
On the following day Mr. Towers
called Robert into the counting-room
again. There was that in his em
ployer's look and tone that made the
youth tremble.
Mr. .Towers show.ed him the bank
not.iftskeittSrStiGlb) got it.
"Is that the bill I gave to Mr. Sel
vidge?"
"It js.
Robert did not .answer readily. He
stopped to think.- And "when he did
answer his eniployei'Vsertrching, sus
picions gaze oppivs&Sl hinr.
"Mr. Towers, I saw 'that baiik-ngte
in the .drawer with another 'ust
like it. - I happened to have, twenty
dollars of my own in small bills in my
.pocket, Ji'nd :l made the exchange,
taking the crisp, new bill, and putting
in its pla.ee my worn ones. Before the
money' waS deposited I think you. took
the other one."'
,; "Robert," said, the merchant stern
ly. "I did take a bank-note exactly
like this the only one I saw with our
money that day and I gave it to my
wife. She placed it beneath the large
ghss-lamp upon the mantel shelf in
our sitting room. She did this just be
fore sitting down to tea, and forgot all
about until the following morning,
and then it was gone. On that even
ing only you and Sarah were in the
sitting room. Sarah saw nothing of it.
Now what am I to think?"
"Are you siixa!t.Ui3f. ..Sarah., knows
nothing?:' .7igi:iUST.
"She declares . pd?itirely that- she
knows nothing' at all. atfout it! I- trust
you would not have me believe that
my daughter could "
"Xo, no no!'.' broke, in Robert, quick
ly. Then he gasped and trembled.
''What.- mojerAiva you to say, .Rob
ert?"
"Nothing, sir." -
"Nothing?"
"You can leave me."
And the roung man went out, pale.
bowed and stricken. The merchant
saw, and was sorry. It was a grief to
him deep and heartfelt. Later in the
dav he went out and told Robert he
might go home.
"I will send for you when I want
you."
"Mr. Towers!"
"What would you say, Robert?"
"Nothing."
"Then you may go. I will send for
you when I am able to see you again."
And Robert Yeazie went- out -from
the store; but he'tiared not go home to
his widowed mother. The fear that
came crushingly upon him was of
Sarah. Did she love him so little that
she could see him thus suffer and be
silent? Was it possible that but he
dared not think. He must wait until
these first overwhelming emotions
were passed.
That evening Mr. Towers and his
wife talked the matter over; and after
long and careful deliberation it was
decided that Robert Yeazie should be
denied the house, and, of course, he
must be discharged ; from the store.
They would not publicly expose this.
his first known crime; but they could
never give him their confidence again.
And they must inform Sarah. That
was the hardest part of all. They
would have it done at once. She' came
in and sat down.
"My dear child," said her father,' all
tendernes and compassion, "we have a
painful duty to' perform. We must
tell you cf Robert's entire unworthi
ness." She clasped her hands and gasped
for breath. What did her father mean?
He told her the story, directly and
clearly, of his discovery of Robert's
guilt; and he told how broken and
penitent the young man had appeared.
This latter he added by way of show
ing that the crime was acknowledged.
Tale as death and wit. eye? fright
fully fixed, Sarah asked if Robert had
not mentioned her name.
"He only asked me," said her father,
"if I had spoken with you if you could
not throw some light upon the missing
money. I answered him promptly,
that you knew nothing whatever about
it. His guilt was apparent from that
moment. His shame and re
morse "
' "Stop, stop!" cried Sarah, starting to
her feet. She stood for a little time
like one frantic, with her hands
clutched in her hair, and her teeth
shut. Then she staggered forward,
and sank upon her knees at her
father's feet. "Oh, father! .father!"
she moaned, "have mercy have pity
upon me."
"My child!"
'"Xo, no lift me not up. Let me tell
it all with my head here in your lap.
Oh, I. am a miserable, wicked girl! I
did it 'all! . I did it! Robert has suf
fered rather-than betray me."
' And when she could control her
speech she told him the story of the
burning- paper; and she tried to tell
how she had been led to falsify and
prevaricate.
That was not a time for chiding.
Toor Sarah .was like one whose heart
was breaking. She had come to think
now of. Robert. He would despise her
after this.
Mr. Towers looked at his watch,
presently he whispered to his wife, and
then arose and left the" room; and
shortly afterward left the house. In
half an hour he returned.
"Sarah," he said to his daughter,
who sat with her head upon her
mother's shoulder, "Robert is in the
parlor. Go in and s'e'ev-'nim."
There was '4 redrfJulJ,s5tfugJle but
the better genius eorrquered, and
Sarah went, to her injured lovelr.
Bj--and-by Robert and Sarah came
into the drawing room. . They had been
weeping freely, but they seemed very
happy nevertheless. Sarah came and
kneeled by her parent's feet.
"Father mother will you pardon
and forgive as Robert has done?"
"Yes yes, my child."
"Then I will try to deserve your con
fidence henceforth. Oh, I do want, to
be happy once more, and never,
never "
Robert caught her to his bosom and
held her there; and her father came
and rested his hand upon her head.
, "I know it is a bitter lesson, dear
child; but I believe blessing will fol
low it. It is possible that from this
time j-ou may be happier than you
have been." Waverley Magazine.
Fixing Atmospheric Nitrogen.
Foreigu investigators have been
studying the methods proposed by a
company located at Xiagar.- Falls for
the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by
electrical discharges. As is well
known, nitrogen is one of the most
valuable elements utilized in the com
mercial arts and industries, especially
in agriculture, and yet it is one of the
most difficult to obtain. From time to
time schemes have been proposed for
utilizing bacteria, and chemical and
electrical methods for fixing the atmos
pheric nitrogen, but the electrical pro
cess recently perfected appears to offer
the most economical and practical
means. The efficiency of the process
has been greatly increased, the cost
now being reduced to about 1.5 cents
per pound. Success is entirely de
pendent on the cost of electric power,
and probably current can be obtained
as cheaply at Niagara Falls as at any.
place on the face of the globe.
Siberian Cities Hard Up.
Siberian cities are in straits on ac
count of the war and the interrupted
import of commodities. Nikolaievsk.
at the month of the Amoor River, is
out of oil, gas and tallow, and pretty
nearly out of coal. Other and smaller
towns are in similar extremity, with
the outlook for lhair replenishing not
so promising ir, it might be. Night
in those towns and regions lasts all
winter when it sets in, and lack of
oil would be a situation not to be
thought of with anything like compo
sure. War risks on Shipments there
in Hamburg and London are twenty,
guineas per cent, and tke under
writers still not thinking them high
enough. What little business is being
done in war risks to Japanese ports
shows no advance in rates, the situa
tion being comparatively favorable
in fact, about as good as it is on an
average. ,- ,
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Its New President.
The 'Academy of Sciences of Taris
has elected Trofessor Barrois, of Lille,
to fill the vacancy left in the section of
mineralogy by the death of the illus
trious Fonque. This recognition of the
claims of one of the most distinguished
geologists of the day will bo welcomed
Car and wide. . - ' : '
" TOOK PUNISHMENT BY LOT.
Condemned Soldiers Who Drew From &
Kat to See Who Should Die.
In the armies of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries the custom
of casting loJ.s to decide who should
be punished for the offense of all was
common. At Winchester, Eugland, in!
lG-io, complaint was made that after;,
the surrender there nad been unfair
plundering. Six soldiers were tried;
and found guilty ,and it was decided
by lot which oi-e of the six should be
hanged. At i angier in 1GG3, and again
in 10G5, two soldiers had to cast dice
on -a drumhead, and he who threw the(
last was executed. Thomas May's
translation of Barclay's '"Icon Ani-"
morum" gives a curious story of this
sort. Speaking of English courage,
he says that during the war in the:
Netherlands some soldiers of the Span
ish army were taken prisoners by the
Dutch, who decided to make reprisals
for the previous cruelty of their ene
mies. Out of four-and-twenty men
eight were to be hanged. "There were
lots, therefore, thrown into a helmet,"?
says May, "and the prisoners were
commanded to draw their fortunes
.whoever should draw- a black lot .was
to be hanged presently. t
"They were all," says May,, "pos
sessed with a great apprehension o
their present danger, especially 6ne;
Spaniard. Their pitiful wishes and'
tears in some of the standers-by did!
move pity, in others laughter. There
was besides in that danger an English
man, a common soldier, who with. aJi
careless countenance, expressing no f ear
of death at all came boldly to the hel
met and drew his lot. Chance favored
him; it was a safe lot. Being, free
himself from danger he came to the!
Spaniard, who was yet timorous and'
trembling to put his hand into the
fatal helmet, and receiving from himi
ten crowns, he entreated the judges
oh, horrid audacity! that, dismissing;
the Spaniard, they would suffer hira
again to try his fortune."
May further relates that "the judges
consented to the madman's request'
who valued his life at so low a rate1
and he again drew a safe lot." May
seems rather to regret the second;
escape of the foolhardy Englishman
whom he denounces as "a wretch un
worthy not only of that double but
even of a single preservation, who so
basely had undervalued his life.'- .
Chinese and Christian Morality..
To the Chinese' we are always the?
barbarians and they themselves are the
refined. Their civilization is far more
complex than ours. t
The ethical basis of the condition;
that modern Europeans and Americans
consider civilization is based on the
Christian precept ordering men to do
tinto others as they would be done un-
to them.
That system means the revolution
izing of our brute nature from the out
set, because nature is selfish. I
The Chinese moral code seeks not
such rude reversion of the natural or
der. It recognizes the instincts of men
and lays down rules to regulate those
instincts. The rules thus rendered!
necessary provide for almost every)
contingency in life save the possibility
that the good instincts in the heart
may be stronger than the vicious ones.,
Their extent and universality, how:-'
ever, are stupendous. They are momu
ments to the perseverance of the Chi
nese philosophers, and the modern ChU
nese think them more praiseworthy
than our basic rule, which obviates thei
necessity of regulating conduct in alB
emergencies by any special regulations.-'
The Chinaman is probably far more
careful in observing ninety-one out ofi
every hundred of his own complex
rules of life than we are about our sola
basic maxim. World.
How an Italian Obtained Microbes.
When in Rome, it is said, we should
do as the Roma'ns do, but some of them
do such odd things. There is Dr.
Casaguar, who lately hired a number;
of women, presented them with long
skirts, and bade them parade the
streets of the Eternal City for ttoi
space of one hour. On their return he
examined the garments, on which he
found innumerable bacteria, including;
the bacilli of influenza, typhoid fever
and tetanus. London News.
An Aid to ingestion.
'A curious reason for the Tope's in
novation of having guests at his table:
has been givrn to our Rome corre
spondeut. When alone? His Holiness
cats too fast, it appears, and the pres
ence and con vcrs:. tion of other people
leads him to take longer ove hi food,
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