Tempered With Mercy

] he M Louis (rlobe-Deoiocrat relates thefollowing touching incident oí" a father's pitiful appeul : .Johnnie Meyer, a boy 13 years oíd, was yeaterday arrosted for stealing scrap-iron trom the eotton expresa cotnpany. II,. the son of a hard working Hollander a painter by (rade, living in the neighborhood, who carne to get hiin out of jail as soOD as he heard of the arrest. Father and son carne before Jadn ('ady, the boy with bis head hung and his cap over bis eyes, the father with the ieir.i pourinj; down bis cheeks. "Tell thejudge, boy," said he, husküy, whether I or jour mother raifed yuu to steal. Tell him whether you mean to kill her and .horten my lite by gomg on as yon have begun. You steal a few oents and you break your fatber's heart, and disfrace alwayn your little sister. Tell the judte f your mother don't send you to Sundiyschool and try to niake a good boy of you, and tell him why you are not." The boy hung his head but said nothing. " Take hiui home," said Jodai l'ady, " and don't beat liini too much ; keep him until Weduesday, and thon we'll sou about him." The court was touched almost as rauch as the fat her, and it is safe to predk-t that justice will be tempered with mercy.