THE HURRYING HOURS.
TH6 BR0NZ6 BUTTON
How often the thought come« home to
me,
A» the moments hurry »w»y,
Of the many things I intend to do
Somehow, some time, some day.
There are promises that have not been
kept,
Though I always meant to lx* true,
Hut time is too short for all the thiuga
That a body inteuds to do.
1 will answer a letter, or read a book,
1 will write a bit of rhyme;
I will do the tilings that 1 ought to do—
Some day wheu I have the time.
So I look beyond, as 1 hope and plan
For the days that art* just ahead.
While the day that is here goes utlo the
grave
With its opportunities dead.
To-day is the only day we have, _
Of to-morrow we can't be sure;
To seize the chauce as it comes along
Is the way to make it secure.
For every year is a shorter year,
And this is a truth sublime;
A moment misspent is a jewel lost
From the treasury of time.
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ROMANCE IN A TRIAL.
M c K lu la y Lost M l . F lr a t Case In C o u rt,
b u t W on a H rlde.
President McKinley, as a young at
torney, lost bis tlrst case Iu the Com
mon Pleas court of Htark county, as
shown by the records, hut he won a
bride, lie was elected prosecuting at
torney during the trlul. This case was
tlrst heard before Justice Philip Loew,
of Navarre, Stark county, Iu 1W19. Loew
. is a rock-ribbed Democrat, lie Is still
i a Justice of the peace In the village of
Navarre, aud has held tin* office Iu an
uubrokeu Hue all these years.
I Johu ltoeetter, a farmer of Bethle
hem township, Sturk #eouuty, brought
action against Philip Sheets, bis ten
ant, to recover damages of $213.20. The
farmers had a quarred over some horse
breaking Into a wheat tldd. The plain
tiff caused an attachment to lx* Issued
to satisfy his claim, should he win the
suit.
Summons wus served ou Sheets
March 18, lSiitt. lli* demanded a Jury
i trial. Tills was grauted, and April ff
was flxed ns the time to hear the case,
j The parties were not ready, and the
case did uot come to trial until May 8.
It took three days to hear the evidence
and the arguments. The Jury dually
was directly Instrumental ta stopping
murder occurred In the Winter Palace,
wheu she heard a slight noise which
Indicated the preeeuce of some etran
ger In the Czar’s study. Without be
traying the slightest anxiety, ahe beg
ged her husband to come nnd apeak tu
oue of the children. He did BO. She
locked the door aud only gave up the
keys to a party of soldiers, who found
that someone had Just escaped through
tin* window.—Tlt lllts.
A Y o u n g I’r e e c t ie r 'e t r i u m p h ,
Aii Interesting Incident occurred ut
the time of the ordination of Hr. Newell
Dwight lllllis Iu Ids first pastorate. Mr.
Illllls bad already been examined Iu
theology anti lleenaod Io preach by the
Chicago Presbytery. Hut the Preotiy-
tery of Peoria Insisted on n second ex
amination. During the week following
his first sermon the leading clergymen
of that district gathered tu Ida church
ami were about to lieglu the quizzing
process. Hebrew was the tlrst subject
for examination. At the Inst moment
It was discovered that tlie Hebrew com
mittee bad forgotten to bring a Hebrew
bible. While Ute dismay thus occa
sioned was at Its height the yiuing can
didate who occupied an embarrassing
seat on the plutforiu before the divines
.....
E was a big, awkward fellow,
workiuf with some patient skill
iu an old-fashioned sawm ill, and
living ou the far outskirts of a pretty
village.
liis home was a gray old farmhouse,
where he dwelt with two maideu aunts,
one of whom was a weak, fragile in
valid. quick-tempered and querulous:
the other was stout and strong in body,
but Idiotic aud silent. Often he was
tempted to go away—to rush out into
the world and leave the old place to go
to the dogs and the old women to the
■workhouse, but a dogged sense of duty
held him. so he stayed and worked on.
One of the handsomest farms iu Scott
County had stretched its green Helds
about the old house twenty years ago.
but wheu Ralph Mydack's young wife
died aud left her baby boy, the hus
band, always reticent, had grown posi
tively gloomy. His two sisters seldom
beard him speak, but one day, wheu
the little Ral|di was 5 years old. his
moody father said, iu a strange, stern
way:
“I'm going to sell the farm. You two
girls can live here iu the old house, and
1 will de|Kisit enough in the bank to
keep you and the boy until I can send
ÎÀ K k s:
T H A T 'S C O I K T ia * . A I M T
IT ? ”
you some more. 1 shall go to Australia."
lluldah, the invalid, cried out pite
ously, but her brother paid no heed;
but Hannah, the idiot, stared stouily
aud spoke not.
That day the farm and the mill priv
ilege ou the little river were sold to a
large corporation that had been trying
for some time to buy it, in order to
erect a cotton mill there.
Ralph Mydack came home and pack
ed his trunk, but his motions were un
steady, his fate (Mile, aud before night
be was sick, very sick.
There was little that two helpless
women could do for him: the farm
bands were dismissed, all but Jared,
who was to take care of the cow, so
they sent him off for the doctor, but
when he returned Ralph Mydack was
•lead.
Ten bitter years dragged slowly by.
The little money in the bank was soon
exhausted, and |»artly on charity, part
ly by the few vegetables neighbors
helped them raise In the garden patch,
the two old women and the awkward,
sullen boy lived on.
It was well known that a large sum
of money had been paid to Mr. Mydack
for his farm, but the corporation had
failed immediately after, so nothing
was done about the cotton mills, nnd
from the hour of payment, when the
legal paiiers were signed, all trace of
the money disappeared as effectually
as though It had been dropped into the
sea of oblivion.
Lawyers searched the old house,
looked over the few papers that Mr.
Mydack bad evidently Intended to take
w ith him,.searched his wearing apparel,
and gave up In despair.
Little Ralph grew up a stout healthy
lad. and when he was 15 he asked some
of the neighbors to lielp him rig the old
saw-mill anew, that be might saw logs,
and thus eke out his scanty support
Everybody felt kindly toward hint.
“Laws sakes! lhat's courtin’ now,
and seasou after season, when the wa
ter was high, he would work night aud ain't It?” Aud as they neither moved
day among the fragrant pine and hem nor s|»oke she went softly across the
lock logs, earning quite an Independ floor and whispered: “Rulplile, boy, are
you goiu’ to be married?”
ence.
“Yes. auntie,” answered Gertrude,
It was here that Gertrude Kendennis
"and we waut your blesslug.”
found him one day early In June.
“But you want your money, too, don't
lie had seeu her bright face about
there the year before, but had turned you ?"
away from her pleasant words with a , “Yes. certainly; the marriage por
moodiness that was almost rude. For ; tion,” said Ralph, bitterly, brushing the
what had his weary, toilsome life to do ; tears from his eyes and trying to face
his lonely life once more.
with beauty or kind words'?
“Then conn* upstairs,” she laughed
What. Indeed? Aud yet she would
out,
in her queer, wild fashion.
not let him be. She went every day ami j
"Wliat
does she mean?” asked Ger
watched, as by a resistless fascination. '
that pitiless, great saw tearing its slow trude. wonderlngly.
"I do not know." Ralph answered..“!
way through the logs making them use
have
not heard her s|»eak so many
ful while seeming only to destroy them.
He was 20 years old at last aud she ' words at a time in ten years."
Reckoning them to follow her. she
was 19.
climbed
the worn old stairs up to the
She bad I teen fussing about the old
house, uiakiug gruel for Auut lluldah, dusty garret, where broken chairs anil
and trying to coax a smile on Auut long-idle spinning wheels made up the
Hannah’s stolid face, but really only furniture.
I)owu behind the big chimney crept
waiting for Ralph to return from the
the daft woman and drew out a large,
village.
He came in soon, and seeing her loose bundle of rags, in which was sly
standing alone in the clean, poorly fur ly hidden rolls of strong parchment.
They opened them there In the
nished room he weut straight to her.
changeful
light that flitted through the
and. taking both her bands In his, he
time-stained
window.
said;
There was $4.000 in gold—the price of
“Now, Gertrude—Miss Kendennis—
the farm lands. Not a great fortune.
you must uot come here in this manner.
It Is true, but a fabulous sum for the
People are talking of It down in the
young people, who were married ere
village, aud If your uncle should hear
long, to the great wonder of the village
of It he would send you to a nunnery
folks.—New York News.
aud kill me outright.”
“Oh, you do uot want me here," she
A C a b a n M i lk m a n .
said, trying to speak playfully, but
“How many cows there are about
with a little moan iu her voice.
the streets!” somebody exclaims, and
"I do—I do,” he answered, putting his then he Is calmly Informed that the
arm about her, holding her close, aud morning's milk Is simply lielng deliv
touching her lialr with a quick, caress ered. A bunch of cattle and their
ing motion. “God knows it Is worse driver stop liefore a house, and the
than death to send you away, but, my portero comes out with a cup for the
darliug. see the loug. weary life morning's supply. It Is seen then that
stretching before me. See the work to the cows are being milked from door
be done here aud you hovering like some to door by the dairymen, for this Is the
bright bird Just out of reach. Could 1 way the acute Cuban housewives have
drag you down to share this poor old taken to assure for their tables a lac
nest? N’o. no, it would not be right. I teal supply which Is entirely fresh and
have served duty too long to dare de absolutely pure. Otherwise the gnlle-
sert her now.”
lovlng vender might dilute the milk
“But you are so young,” she murmur before delivering It to his customers,
ed, leaning her face on his shoulder; and craftily stir into the watery fluid
he could feel her breath against bis the Juice of the sweet potato to color
it up to a duly rich and creamy cast.
cheek.
,
His heart beat so fast he thought it Even with the cows milked before the
would strangle him, and that moment ' ’door one must continue to watch the
of rapture paid him for the suffering of milkman, for I have even heard of
their having a rubber bag of water con
years.
"So young and so ambitious—and cealed under their loose frocks and
there Is the Invention down at the mill connected with a rublier tube running
down the Inside of the sleeve, Its tip
I am sure that Is going to work well.”
“Yes; but I have been to the village being concealed In the hollow of the
to-day for the last time trying to raise milking hand. Only a gentle pressure
even $50 to pay for the patent, and I upon the bag of water within Is needed
can not do It, Nobody has any faith In to thus cause both milk and water to
it; they think it is a boy's scheme, and flow Into the cup at the same time.
The milk venders of Italy and India
I'm quite discouraged.”
have also learned their trade to perfec
“Oh, If I only had my money---- ”
tion, for they practice this Identical
“Yes, but you have not, my darling; trick.—Woman's Home Companion.
nor would 1 touch one penny of It If
you had. No, you must go back to your
O p p o s e d t o W a lk in g .
relatives. I shall never marry, dear,
Most Chinese mandarins pass the
but 1 shall cherish your memory as my whole of their lives without taking a
one blessedest gift. Now, don't feel single yard of exercise. The late Nan
king Viceroy (father of the Marquis
badly—don't.”
They were both sobbing together by Tseng) was considered a remarkable
this time; she put her arm up around character because he always walked
his neck, and their two tear-wet faces 1,000 steps a day In bis private garden.
nestled against each other like two Under no circumstances whatever Is a
mandarin ever seen on foot In hie own
grieved children.
Aunt Hannah put her white, flabby Jurisdiction.
face In at the door to say that dinner
Wise Is the man who acts as If he ex
was ready, and, seeing the yonng peo
ple standing together there, she started pected to lire a hundred years, but Is
prepared to shuffle off to-morrow.
nervously and exclaimed;
'SQUIRE LOEW AND 1118 COURTHOUSE.
gave Judgment for the defendant. and many of his parishioners—came to
Sheets, amounting to $130.85. McKin the rescue by offering to rcp<*at In the
ley's client was uot satisfied with the original the tlrst chapter of Genesis, the
committee meauwhlle to follow him
issue of the case and took an appeal.
During the trial of the case McKin closely and correct any mistakes. 11«
ley had become engaged to marry Ida then began, uud recited verse after
Saxton, the belle of the town of Can verse from beginning to end of the
ton, aud, while the case was pendlnng chapter. Meanwhile the faces of the
between Hostetter and Sheets, McKin committee presented a curious study.
ley was getting ready for the wedding As the young minister imslestly con
tour. He was married'In January. 1871. | cluded and resumed his «eat one of the
Ills Interest In this Important event of committee was ou his feet Instantly,
Ids life Is shown In a letter written a moving that the Hebrew examination
short time before bis marriage to Judge lie ended. The "aye” that followed was
Ambler, of Salem, Ohio, then congress heard a block away. Ho the examina
man from the district.
The young tion went on, to the continued surprise
Canton attorney sent a letter of In of the examiners.—Woman's Home
quiry to Congressman Ambler at Wash Companion.
Ington and Informing Mr. Ambler of his
approaching marriage.
B u t t e r f ly C o n s u m p tio n C u r e .
The visit of William McKinley and
Frederick It. Knight, of Venice,
his bride to the national capital was an Fla., is here to carry ou experiments In
eventful occurrence In the young bride an alleged consumption cure. The
groom's life. Another Important event basis for the cure Is the bodies of dead
in the life of McKinley that caused him butterflies pulverised to a |*owder.
to delay the case of Hostetter and Knight says that It has long been
Sheets was his canvass for prosecuting known that the fever weed whleh flour
attorney of Stark county.
He was ishes in Florida lias been a great stimu
nominated, partly as a Joke, for the lant for mnlarlal and consumption
county had been strongly Democratic. cases. Tlie thought occurred to some
The opposing candidate was William oue that tlie peculiarly bright butterfly
A. Lynch. McKinley won.
that in its first stage lives off the fever
Here Is another strange thing clus weed might be used Instead of the
tering about this period of McKinley’s weed Itself. The Idea was tested, and
experience. The opposing counsel In has pro veil efficacious in many cases.
the Hostetter-Sheets case was also this A company has been formed to manu
same William A. Lynch. McKinley facture the cure.—Denver special to
won the election, and his bride; Lynch Chicago Chronicle.
won the law case. Two years later
McKinley nnd Lynch were again op
R o u n d N e t t o B e O u td o n e ,
posing candidates for prosecuting at
When President Kruger was last In
torney. This was Lynch's turn, and he England he received a visit from the
defeated McKinley.
The presiding Duke of Abercorn, In the course of
Judge In the case, the parties to the which bis grace informed Oom Paul
suit, and most of the Jurors are dead. that he himself had been for yenrs a
The little house used as a court by J u s member of the British lower house,
tice Ix>ew still stands near bis grocery and that his father had been lord lieu
stores and serves as a small store room. tenant of Ireland. The president evi
dently considered that his guest's pres
A W a t c h f u l W ire .
ent rank was a great rise In life, for
Twice the dowager Empress of Rus he exclaimed, hastily, “Oh, that Is
sia has saved her husband's life. One nothing; my father was only a shep
day, when in the Emperor’s dressing- herd!”
room, she observed that on his dressing
table lay a curlouR-looklng Jewel case.
B u t e n E m p ty H o n o r.
Something about Its appearance arous
A member of Parliament tells a
ed her curiosity, aud, taking It up, she charming and touching slory of the
became aware that It was extremely Queen nud Lady Itotierts. When Lady
heavy. Without saying a word she Roberts was at Windsor a few weeks
went Into her room ami placed It care ago the Queen handed her a small par
fully In a basin of water; then, send cel, saying: “Here Is something that I
ing for the prefect of police whose have tied up with my own hands, and
duties kept him much about the palace, that I beg you not to open uutll you get
she begged him to have It exnintucd, home.” On her return home Lady Rob
and It was discovered to be one of the erts found that the parcel contained
most marvelous Infernal machines ever the Vletorln Cross won by her dead
invented by the Ingenuity of man. The son by his gallantry at the tlrst battle
second occasion on which the Empress of Colenso,