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VOL. 58.
Love's Victory.
The clouds were massed in crimson
glory in the west, and on them were
fixed the large, beautiful eyes of Lady
Florence Hammersley, who stood look
ing from one of the many windows of
her new home.
It was the eve of her weduiug day,
Scarce eight houl3 previously she had
sworn to love, honor aud obey Hugh
Hammersley, the wealthy manufactur
er until death did them part.
He it was who now occupied her
thoughts, and shut out the splendid
landscape, glinted with the glory of the
dying day. Natural enough for the
husband to fill heart and mind alike of
his bride,yet a frown contracts the low,
white brow, an ominous glitter shines
in the wonderful gray eyes,and a scorn
ful smile plays about the exquisitely
curved lips, while the little hand,grasp
ing the curtain, is tightly clenched.
A sound breaks her revery. She qui
etly turns, as the door of the room is
softly opeued, and the figure of a tall,
powerful man darkens the threshold.
"You fiud all to your liking, Flor
ence ?"he asks, and voice aud eyes
alike are tender as he puts the ques
tion.
14 A moment ago—yes," she replied.
"I was alone."
A shade darkened his face.
"Aloue, Florence ? Is my presence
really so distasteful to you ?"
She shrugged her shouldrrs, and
turned her face once more toward the
open window.
With one 9tride he had reached her
side, and laid his hand upon her arm.
"Answer me 1" he said ; and his
tone was a command. "To-d*y you
swore to make my happiness. I kuew
that the daughter of one of England's
proudest, if poorest, peei 9 would uot
have stooped to the plebeian hand of
the rich manufacturer's son,had it not
been that the fortunes of ber house
had sadly fallen ; I knew she was no
hypocrite, to feign a love she did not
feel. But I did not know she gave
scorn for love, or hatred for courtesy.
She was a woman, I a man. She
bridged the social gulf between us
when she became my wife. Florence,
do you already regret the step ?"
"Bitterly ! madly I" she cried, rais
ing her eye 9 to his, and letting him see
all the scorn and anger in their depths.
"You say I was no hypocrite. I was,
but I will be so no longer. You need
not talk alone of my ambition. What
of yours ? You had money, not rank,
not social position. The latter I give
you in exchange for your wealth. The
bargain is an even one—let ns cry quits
but let us have no talk of love or heart,
or sentiment ; let us bury these ia a
martial grave, and ou it uprear a mon
ument of distant courtesy. Leave me
my solitude, unless when the world de
mauds it otherwise. I will uot intrude
upon yours."
The young man's face was of an al
most ghastly pallor as she finished
speaking. His hand dropped from ber
arm.
"Though I may boast no title, my
lady," he said very slowly, "I claim
nobility's truest rank—the rank of a
gentleman, to whom the wishes of the
woman he has made his wife are law.
You have not spared me in expressing
yours. Allow me to offer you my
deepst sympathy for the cruel fate
which tempted you to make the sacri
fice on which the church this morning
sets its zeal, and which I, for the first
time appreciate. Happily, madam, the
home to which I have biought you is
not a cottage. When you wish for me,
command me. Otherwise I beg you
will consider your apartments your cas
tle, at whose gates Hugh Hammersley
will never knock, either as suppliant or
iutruder.
He bowed low as he ceased speaking
and slowly reorossed the room. On its
threshold he paused. Did he expect
her to call him back, or at least to soft
en her cruel words ? If so, he was
wrong. His hesitation was scarcely pre
ceptible. The door closed behind him
—the young and beautiful woman was
again alone.
An expression of surprise, of almost
admiration swept over her face, then
the old scorn blazoned there.
"At least he understands me now,"
she murmured, "but for a plebeian, ho
did it well."
Rank for money. It had been, a fair
exchange, the world decreed ; and
many a house, hitherto an unknown
land to the young inheritor both of his
father's fortune and the great work
shops which covered acres of space in
tha very heart of the great city, now
welcomed him to its fetes and its tables.
Fair women smiled upon him, and
men who once would have turned their
backs, listened to his opinion with at
tention which grew into respect.
If the young bride had expected to bs
ashamed of her husband, the ex:pecta
tion was destined to disappointment.
Ou every Bide she heard his praise, and
MILLHKIM, PA. THURS DA Y!*SEPTEMBER 11., 1884.
the frown vanished from her brow and
the scorn from her lip.
Never did he fail iu courtesy toward
her ; never did she express a wish left
unfilled. A cheque-book, with blank
cheques signed by his signature to be
filled up as she wished, lay ou her toil
et table. Hitherto her life had been
one of almost penury, spite of her ex
alted rank. A marrige <le convenance
had beeu the sole resort loft hor and
she had unhesitatingly availed herself
of it.
Her beauty unrivalled even with the
old shabby setting, was now enhanced
by exquisite toilets and priceless jewels.
She had all that tier fondest dreams
had pictured, yet day by day a restless,
unsatisfied longing was gnawing at her
heart, aud she looked about in yain for
the unknown something which should
satisfy it.
Once, as she and her husband were
driving home together from some bril
liant fete, remembering some remarks
concerning him which had reached her
ear, she glanced toward him.
"A wonderfully handsome man," a
woman high in rank had said, and his
wife was compelled to confirm the yer
dict.
"Hugh,are you not well ?" she said,
and laid her gloved hand on bis arm.
He shivered at her touch and drew
himself hastily away.
At that moment the carriage stop
ped and the footman threw ;open the
door. For the fist time ho permitted
the man to assist his wife to alight, he
following her up the stairs and disap
pearing within his rooms.
Sho mounted the steps slowly, and
when within her own apartments stood
stiM.
"He has learned to hate me," she
said to herself, "to hate me ! and I—"
The rest of the sentence was left un
finished.
**** * * * *
There was a great excitement in the
town. The men belonging to Hugh
Hammersley's factories had struck far
higher wages, and he had refused their
demand.
It was a principle of right with him.
lie was both just and generous in the
prices paid them, and he determined
Dot to be coerced into a step his judge
ment told him was but the first toward
proving that his workmen,not himself,
might hold the mastery.
The immense buildings were closed ;
the heavy looms were still ; the drink
ing-places throughout the city were
constantly filled with groups of sullen
men, who had already lost what the
advance would gain them in a year.
Days merged;in to weeks,and sullen
ness found voice, and voice merged in
to threats, and the threats directed
themselves against one man, the mas
ter of the works.
"It's all very well for him to ride in
his carriage while we starve," they
said. "Let him look to himself. Hun
gry men fire desperate."
At last these threats.reached his ear.
For the first time since that memorable
day, almost a year before, he presented
bim self at his wife's apartments. As
a voice, in answer to his knock, bade
him enter, he opened the door.
By a strange coincidence she wa3
standing in the self-same spot, but a
deep crimson flush mounted to her
forehead, and betrayed her surprise at
this most unlooked-for visit. She took
a step forward to meet him,but paused.
He was the calm self-possessed one of
the two. •
"I would apologize for my intru
sion," he said, "but that when I make
known its object you will understand
its necessity. I hear this morning that
the men are banding themselves into
rioters. My house will be the first
point of attack. I deem it best Jthat
you send your jewels and valuables to
the bank, and seek some place of safety
with any of your friends whom you
may prefer."
4 4 And you ?"
"I shall remain here."
"But there is danger."
"True; but no man hitherto,l think,
has suspected me of cowardice, and as
my post is here, here I will remain. I
shall take all measures for my safety,
then meet what ever comes. In case
of the worst—and doubtless at this
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juncture my life is threatened— I have
left all ray affairs in shape, and need
hardly assure you, madam, that my
wife's future has been my first con
cern."
"Thanks," she murmured, and bent
her head.
lie could not see that glis
tened on the lashes sweeping the lovely
cheek.
"I have thought of Lady Ripley," he
continued. "She, lam sure, will be
delighted to welcome you. Will you
choose her house ?"
"No."
44 Whose, then ?"
"I shall remain here."
"It is impossible."
44 And why ? Yon stay. A wife's
place is beside her husband."
lie smiled bitterly.
"This is scarcely the time, madam,to
remember your vows. Forget them, I
pray you, in this,as in all else. I must
insist upon your choosiug some other
shelter."
She shook her head.
"1 cannot," she murmured in a
voice so low that he could scarcely
catch the words.
"You cannot? Istheio somo rea
son, then I do not know ?"
"Perhaps, but one I cannot confess.
Respect it, however, I beseech you,and
let me remain."
"I could scarcely hope, madam, to be
esteemed worthy of your confidence,
neither can I use force in compelling
you to leave this house, but I must ex
ercise a husband's rights in demanding
your obedience. The danger is too oh -
vious to permit you to share it."
"Be it so, then. Within an hour my
apartments will be vacant."
"Shall I escort you to your friend's
house ?"
"No, I will go alone." She hesita
ted a moment. "You will promise me
not to run any unnecessary risk ?"
"No man should trifle with his life
it is Heaven's gift," he answered, and
abruptly left her standiug with clasped
hands aud heaving bosom.
4 4 What care he took to tell me why
his life was precious !" she murmured.
"Yet. do 1 not deserve it ?" Yes, but
not that it should be taken from me.
Oh, Heaven spare him ! spare him 1"
And she fell, in bitter weeping, on her
knees.
It was midnight when the mob at
tacked the house. There were loud
cries for the master.
"Let him speak to us, and we will
listen !" they shouted.
Within the barricaded windows
Hugh Hammersley heard and under
stood. He advanced toward one of the
windows, and began unfastenlug the
barriers. The foreman of the works
hastily seized his arm.
44 You are mad I" he said, "I have
despatched a messenger for assistance.
Show yourself, and your life will not
be worth a moment's ransom. It is a
trick to make you show your self."
"The master I the master 1" came
the cry.
"They are right," said Hugh.
"They respect—they used to care for
me. I will talk to them. If they kill
me, a mau cannot die in a better cause
than in doing his duty. My duty lies
iu proving my cause right. Let me
go-",
But at this instant a dress rustled at
the door. Hugh turned. His wife,
pale and beautiful, stood upon the
threshold of the room. Ere his surprise
could find words, she was kneeling at
his feet, her arms clasped about him.
"My love ! my husband !" she cried.
4 4 You shall not go ! Despise me, hate
me,as you will. I deserve it ail. But,
oh, do not cast away the life without
which mine could not exift I"
He looked at her as in a dream, then
motioned for the others to withdraw,
before he lifted her from where she
knelt.
"How came you here ?" he ques
tioned. "Poor child 1 the terror has
turned your brain."
"No, Hugh, no I I could, not leave
you. I said that I would go, only that
I might stay. I stayed because I love,
you—because I have loved you from
the very day I became your wife,
though I scorned and refused to ac
knowledge the passion which has mas
tered me. I know that I may never
hope to win that which I might once
have won ; but let me know that you
live—let me but see you, hear your
yoice, and even though you hate me,
yet I may glean some happiness."
"Hate you I" he whispered, "My
love, my wife I You have indeed
made my life a precious boon. But
listen, they are calling me, I must go."
"Then I will go with yo," she re
plied.
As the fastenings fell at the touch of
his hand, she stepped out on the bal
cony by his side.
A long, low murmur ran through the
crowd below. No weapon, no armor
could have piotected Hugh Hammersley
as did the presence of that young,beau
tiful woman, who stood with hands
clasped about his arm.
Silence fell as he spoke a few earnest
words. Ere he had finished the tramp
was heard of approaching soldiers, but
they were not needed. The strike was
ended. Calm had taken the place of
passion and reason of anger. But far,
far deeper than the external peace be
tween master and men, was that which
hud stolen into Hugh Hammesley's
heart—the heart where lay pillowed the
fair, haughty head, which like the rest
less dove sent from the ark, had found
at lust shelter and sweet rest.
How Cleveland Receives.
A Satisfactory Visit from John
Boyle O'Reilly of the Boston
Pilot.
From the New York Herald.
ALBANY, Sept. 2, —It requires con
siderable patience and general equan
imity of temper ou the part of Govern
or Cleveland to attend to his official du
ties and at the same time courteously
receive the hundreds of visitors who
daily call upon him. Such qualities he
possesses to a marked degree. There
Is no formality what ever about his re
ceptions. The entrance to the main
executive chamber remains open con
tinually. Cards are handed in or out as
the visitor pleases. When the visitor
enters if the governor happens to be
disengaged, he or she walks up to his
desk and is received with a cordial
shake of the hand. If the governor is
conversing with other parties, then the
latest arrivals advance in their turn.
No exceptions whatever are made.
The powerful politician, the million
aire and the poor laborer stand upon
the same footing as far as an interview
with the coming president is concern
ed. Your correspondent watched some
of their interviews with interest. The
governor does not practice the arts of
the demagogue, paying more attention
to the man with the soiled overalls
than to the sumptvously attired politi
cian. ne has the same genial, unstud
ied welcome for all. This city is really
fast becoming a Mecca for visitors.
The rush continued to-day, several
small excursion parties from the river
counties and the interior of the state
paying a visit "to the capital.
course the principal feature is a call up
on the governor,iu order to see him,and,
if possible,to enjoy a few
versation. Then the excursionists seek
the nearest photographers.and,purchas
ing a cabinet picture of the governor,
return home, feeling highly elated.
Among the late callers upon the gov
ernor was Jolm Boyle O'Reilly, editor
of the Boston Pilot , accompanied by
his friend Mr. Sigourney Butler, of
Quincy, Massachusetts. This was tlie
first time Mr. O'Reilly had ever met
Governor Cleyeland, and lie enjoyed an
hour's conversation with him. The
primary object of O'Reilly's visit was
to inquire into the facts relative to the
freedom of worship bill. The letter of
Assemblyman Peter F. Murray recent
ly published, explaining the nature of
the bill and now it was defeated in the
legislature, was commenced upon. Mr.
O'Reilly expressed great satisfaction
with the governor's statement of the
case. Mr. O'Reilly further stated that
there had been a great clyinge which
\va,s highly favorable to Governor CI eve-,
land within the last two weeks. It was
noticeable, too, that public sentiment
was rapidly concentrating all oyer the
oountry upon the New York governor.
Mr. O'Reilly, with his friend, left this
evening for a few weeks' canoeing on
the Susquehanna river.
Terms, SI,OO per Year, in Advance.
picKim
Crops in lowa are said to be in a very
line condition.
The electric railway at Brighton, in
England is a success.
The plague is carrying off hundreds
of people in Asiatic Russia.
Since 1845 Artie explorations have
cost the lives of 180 men.
Ben Butler will be sixty-six years of
age the day after election.
Florida grape growers count upon an
income of SIOO per acre.
The average number of persons to a
family in this country is live.
A great many New Yorkers are said
to be pawning their diamonds.
Nearly everybody in Washington
either boards or keeps boarders.
The Georgia cotton factories are re
ducing the wages of their operatives.
The son of Jem Mace, the pugilist,
holds evangelical services in London.
The value of the minerals exported
from Australia last year was £2,438,828.
Nearly 38,000,000 barrels of petrole
um is stored in tanks in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Mary Osborn,aged ninety-eight,
is the oldest inhabitants Portland, Me.
$l5O more has been added to the U.S.
Treasury fuud by a conscious-stricken
tax payer.
No less than 15,090 persons are lock
ed up in the jails and prisons of New
York.
The first English woman to reach the
degree of Master of Arts, is Miss Mary
C. Dawes.
During the last six months there have
been sixty-two suicides in San Francis
co. ,
The New Hampshire Republican
State Convention will be held at Con
cord, Sept. 2.
Lieutenant Greelv has a little son
who was l>orn soon after his departure
for the Arctic.
Nearly all the branches of trade are
dull in Eng'and, and there are many
strikes on hand.
Counterfeiters have been working off
spurious five-cent pieces upon country
storekeepers.
Some of the medical professors of Vi
enna are delivering lectures in the En
glish language.
The crops in Washington Territory
are being destroyed rapidly by crickets
about an inch and a halt long.
Ingenious Church Robbers.
A Thief Carried Into theOhanoel in
a Coffin by Hie Confederates.
A letter from the City of Mexico
says This] town, the scene ot many
peculiar crimes, is just now agog over
the performances of a thief, which are
generally submitted to surpass anything
on record. A few days ago several men
went to the priest iu charge of the San
ta Cruz Church in this city and asaed
permission to hold fuueral services over
the remains of a deceased friend at 4
o'clock the next morning. There was
nothiug unusual in the request, for
many people in this country bury their
dead early in the morning before mass,
and the priest gave his permission, a
greeing to be present. The men then
said they would like to leave the corpse
in the church over night, and to this
the clergyman also assented. Some
time after dark the men appeared at the
church bearing a colli u," which they car
ried up the main isle and deposited in
front of the) altar. They then with
drew, promising to be there early the
next morning.
About midnight the sacristan was
awakened by the barking of his dogs,
and feeling that something must be
wrong, he dressed hastily and .stepped
from his room into the chancel. A dim
light was burning near tiie altar, by
means of which he could see a figure
moving slowly on the other side of the
chancel. Making up his mind that rob
bers were in the church, he ran quickly
to his room for a pistol, and then made
a search of the church. No one was to
be seen. On the altar he found every
thing safe, but when he came to exam
amine the images of the saints he soon
saw that the costly jewels with which
they had been ornamented were gone.
He then redoubled his efforts to find
the thief, but after half an hour passed
in searching every nook of the great ed
ifice, he was more mystified than ever,
for he not only could not find the offen
der, but he could discover no place
where he could have come in or gone
out. Just before he determined to give
the alarm he thought of the corpse ly
ing down below the chancel rail in the
shadow, and the idea came to him that
perhaps there might be something
wrong about it. Lighting a candle, lie
stepped soft'y to the bier and peeped in
to the face of the supposed dead man.
As be looked he noticed that the eye
lids of the "corpse" twitched nervously
under the light, and at the same in
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stant his own eyes fell on some of the
jewels which lay beside the man in the
coffin.
Oyerjoyed at. finding the thief, the
sacristan thrust his revolver into the
face of the "corpse" and ordered him
to get out. The cold steal on the man's
forehead convinced him that the order
must be obeyed, and a most extraordi
nary resurectlon took place then and
there. VV hen the man had gained his
feet, the sacristan, still covering him
with his pistol, gathered up the jewels,
and then marched the culprit to the
priest's house.where he was turned over
to the police. Several soldiers were
then stationed in the church, and when
the thief's confederates arrived in the
morning they were taken into custody.
At first they denied all knowledge of
the conspiracy but after a little while
one of tlietn confessed and told the
whole story. He said they intended to
go through the forms of a funeral cere
mony, and then carry their friend out
to the cemetery, and, after letting him
out of the coffin, bury it, and leave the
country s speedily as possible. They
will be severely punished.
The True Meaning of O. O. D.
A man who had not been long in this
country was employed as a domestic in
a family, and upon one occasion he was
sent to the express office to obtain a
package. He was about to leave with
it when the clerk called his attention to
the three letters CJ. O. D.
Pat had no idea what the letters
meant, but he cleverly guessed at them.
"It's ail right," he said ; "theowld
man's good for the money."
"But do you know what these letters
say, Pat ?"
"Indade I]do. Call On Dad. It's as
plain as me nose on your face."
There is almost a pathetic truth in
the understanding conveyed in this old
story. Many a man is hounded to
death by the unseasonable calls made
upou him by the members of his family
who are educated up to this very end
by himself, at first in that fond, slavish
spirit of indulgence which the Ameri
can father displays towards his off
spring, as if it was some kind of an un
thinking meclianical pet, and after
wards on the unfailing principle that
they who sow the wind will reap the
whirlwind. *
Call on dad.
Business is dull, notes must be met,
but appearanees must be kept up. Mrs.
Shoddy is going to the seashore. *Our
girls' must go, the money is to come
out of 'Dad.'
At first he refuses firmly, but as one
reason after another is brought to bear
ou him like a battering-ram of persua
sion, he gives awayi New bonnets and
dresses are bought, a railway journej 's
expenses defrayed, and that is only the
beginning. Incidental expenses are al
ways the straws that break the patient
camel's back. They accumulate in
heaps, stacks, and at last rise to the
dignity of a monument, under which
lies a pale, peaceful mau, no longer per
sued by the legend; "Call on Dad."
Your Calling.
"I am, sorry I was not trained to
some commercial pursuit," said a pro
fessional gentleman to a successful bus
iness friend in Detroit.
"See here, young man," was the re
ply, "do you really think you are sorry?
Aren't you doing well enough ? Come,
now, would you voluntarily give up
your present calling ?"
"Too old to think of a change now."
"Nonsense ! Never too old to correct
mistakes. But in your case I suspect
you want to make a mistake instead of
to correct one. I made a mistake in my
early life, and I'll tell you how it was :
My father was a lawyer. There were
three boys of us, and every influence
was thrown around us when very young
to stir in us the ambition to enter pro
fessional careers. We had a fine library,
the tone of our home was refined and
cultured, and before any of us grew up
we were well grounded in polite litera
ture, We had sense enough to see that
father would not listen to any objec
tions to a professional life,and so,under
a sort of compulsion, we ]went the old
gentleman's way. I was too good to be a
preacher, and had too weak a stomach
to be a doctor. The law was the last
resort, so I took it up. After I was ad
mitted, 1 whacked away at the dry and
unproductive stuff for fifteen yenrs. It
was the martyrdom ]of drudgery. Fin
ally I made a break, went into business
and have always been prosperous and
happy from that day to this. You see I
had found my niche,and I can say with
truth that I find more pleasure iD mak
ing a good sale than in pocketing the
profits of it. My business suits me; 1
take pleasure in it,and I long ago mad&
up my mind that my boys should follow
their inclinations in the matter of a fif*
occupation, no matter whither they
were led.
"The successful and great editors and
writers are those who love with all-con -
quering enthusiasm the thorny and dif
ficult road of journalism. It is so with
our merchants and all maimer of men."
—Detroit Free Press.