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MILLHEIM, PA.,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1884.
Tin: i:vi:xix call.
We live in tlte far \\\st, in a little
settlement called Sium Town.
My aiulf.ilher was named Ozias
Steel, and as he was a deacon in the
chinch, he generally leeeived thai title.
1 unsettled Hi** deacon's liu le Becky.
1 was HM ii i:i Maine, but when my pa
ti iits died ii.y graudla' ler c roast d the
continent, ami brought, me back with
him. lie curt fed me all the way iu a
ll.it basket, tilled with cotton bitting,
which he held on his knees. lie often
tolu me how lie walked into the hotels
or taverns where he stopp d with me
for luggage, and how much interest 1
excited, I was only three months old,
and I found a mother at every resting
place. Since I hen he had been all to
me, and as ! remembered nothing else,
I was perfectly happy. At sixteen, I
had my schooling,and had settled down
to be housekeeper, under the tuition of
our one servant, S.dlv Wells.
It was a still night following a beiu
tifnl day. As I sat at my window I
could hear all the insect voices hard at
work— cricket, katydid and locust and
the queer linle toad Away iu the
heart of the old woods a scr*ach owl
was hooting. Down in the town the
bells were ringing for evening meeting,
which they held on Wednesday.
Grandfather hart gone to church.
He had taken old Widow Glennings
and tier uaughter with him, and the
buggy would hold no more. So I stay
ed at home. Sally had gone to get
s me yeast cakes at the stoie,and I was
alone. I didn't mind it. I had neyer
known what it was to be afraid of soli
tude, though a crowd would have
fiightened me.
The room was our sitting room. It
was eai ly in Oc'ober and the windows
were op MI, lut there was a little log
tiie on the hearth.
A lamp, with a green paper shade,
decorated by a design representing
three little kittens eating a pound cake
stood on the table ; near !t my woik
basket. The chairs had rushbottoms,
with the exception of two B iston rock
ing chairs, with chintz cushions ; an
engraving of the Battle of Bunker Hill,
a portrait of Washington, and some
family photogiaphs hung on the wall,
which was cover-d with a pale grey
paper with a pink fliwer upon it. A
clock and two vases stood on the man
tl°-piece, rag carpet was on the floor,
and a secretay and book case combin
ed filled one recess. We had a best
parlor, which was dusted every Satur
day, but we never thought of using it.
I felt very lazy that evening, and
though I had a very pretty sort of tape
trimming, had no desire to take it up.
I looked at the stais that twinkled and
shone so biightl); at the splendid plan
et shining over the distant mountain
pea'i. I hard a bro k bubbling iu th e
hollow,and I fancied after awhile,when
the church bills had done linging, that
I heard some unusual sounds, men's
voices calling to e .ch other far awat,
and saw lights now and then iu ttie
fi inge of woods that coven d the hill.
Belated diovers, perhais, urging their
cattle on to a safe st pping place, or
wood cutters who intended to camp out
to be leady for work in the morning.
As I looked at the bright dots moving
to and fro, I heard another sound i ear
at hand— crunching of feet on the
stony road,and looking toward the gate
I saw a man open it and hurry in, and
come up to the door. I was not stir
prised that he opened it without knock
ing, for people were not ceremonious
there, hut I felt a little startled when I
saw that he was a stranger. He was
out of breath as though he had been
running. His face was damp with per
spiration, his clothes, which weie good
otherwise, weie torn, as though he had
made his way through thorny bushes,
and it was evident that he was listen
ing intently. 1, too, heard something
—what, I hardly knew.
As soon as he could do so he spoke.
"Are you all alone in the house,
young 1 idy ?" he said.
"Yes I" I answered.
"For God's sake tell mo where I can
hide I" he said. "The lynchers are af
ter me."
I knew what he meant. I knew,too.
that men were only lynched foi fear
ful crimes; but I had a woman's heart
Whatever he had done, he asked my
help.
Yet wnere conld he hide ? There
were five rooms in tl e house ; each lia 1
a small cupboard. There was no exit
to the roof, no secret closets, no large
furniture, and I heard them coming.
Suddenly a thought struck me.
"Go into that room," I said. "Do
not shut the door. Get into the bed
you see there and tie the handkerchief
on the bed-post over your head. Turn
your face to the wall. It's your only
chance."
lie obeyed me. I sat down by the
table, dragged mv work toward me,and
began to sew and sing. I heard many
sfteps iqwu the ruatf. Ttte gate Chang'-
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE
1 ed. I knew im ncane up the path and
peeped in the window. Then the door
opened. A rough face was llnust hi.
One man entered—another and anoth
er. I knew them all by sight.
"Excuse me, Miss Becky," siid the
leader ; "but we are aft?r a man, a
stianeer in these parts, who has done a
murder. We saw bin come this way.
We rather reckon li®d got you to hide
him by some lie. Have you seen him ?
Where's the deacon V"
"Try not to wakft grandfather," 1
said, "lie's not well. You can lo"k
under Iheb dif you choose. There's
no other pi ice to hi le in tu it, ro nn, as
you see.''
One of the men wont on tip toe
into the room and locked under the
bed, laughed sofily ami came out.
"You may go over the house if you
Uke,"said I, "and see i? you can lind
tii* 1 fugitive."
"He can't get away if he's anywhere
about," said the uiau. "The house is
surrounded."
They took some candles which I gave
them and went through the house.
They went to the siahle, fortunately
padlocked on the outside, to they did
not see that it was empty. They heat
the hushes and peeped into the chicken
coop and went oil together, furious at
their disappointment and I was left a
loue with the man they had spoken of
as that fearful tiling a murderer. I
st.ut the shutters and pulled down the
blinds, and lie came from his hiding
place pale lint calm, and stood looking
at me a moment.
"You will hear the whole story to
morrow," lie s.id. "Dni't think me
guilty. I should liaye been a black
hearted brute, indeed.if I had commit
ted the crime theychmge me with, but
lan innocent. Gid bless you for your
mercy —I cto save ruyself now."
He opened the door and daited out
into the night. A little later Sally
came home. Later my grandfather,
who heaid a lionibis story of a woman
muidered in the settlement beyond.
1 told neither of them anything. I
kept the adventure to myself for a few
da\s after the truth was discovered,and
it was known that another woman and
no man at all had committed the mur
der, and then I told grandfather.
A year after a parage Ctme to me
by -xpress. It was from California—a
little box of gold nuggets and a 'et
ter.
The sender, it said, was the innocent
ma i I had saved fro n Judge Lynch.
He had bee uin* a miner, had prospered
and was happily married, and begged
me to accept ihe little present offeied
by one who would he ever grateful.
There was no signature,but I was glad
to In ai again from one 1 bad nev r for
gotten and i.eyer shall.
How He Got Ha t.
"Oh, my child, how did your face be-
bruised ? Corae to mamma and
tell her al 1 about it.
"I l l was over 'cross the ro-a-d,
play iu' with Jfrs. Howe's little g-i-rl ;
boo-11 00-( >o-o< i-oo.''
"And did she hurt you like this
" Y-y-y-y-es."
"Wed. that was real naughty in her.
What did she do to little Georgie ?"
"Sh-sh-she knocked me d-o-w-n,an
an-and then she hit m-e w-wl-w-i-t-h a
b-r-i-c k and pounded me w-wl-with a
b-r-o-o-m s-t-i-c-k."
"Oh, dear, what a terrible child.
Well, don't cry any more, Georgie.
What were you doing when this hap
pened ?"
"Pl-pl-pl tying w-we w-a-s m-a-r
--r-i-e-d."—Detroit Free Press.
A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
A red faced man rushed up to a
quiet old gentleman aud said :
'How do you do, Mr. Jones ?'
'Excuse me, but you have the ad
vantage of mo.'
'Are you not Mr. Jones ?'
'No sir, you are mistaken,my name
is Smith.'
'Are you sure V
'Of course I am. You are mistaken.'
'Are you quite certain, Mr Smith,
that it is not you who are mistaken.
May you not be J ones after all, Mr.
Smith V
He Should be Grateful.
Old Judge Peterhy las been laid
up for some time with the gout. His
legi. are swelled to an enormous size.
A doctor,who is also a church member,
rebuked his impatience, and told blm :
'You should be grateful to the Al
mighty for his kindness.'
'What kindness V
"'Bis kindness in giving you only
two legs to suffer with. Suppose you
had as many legs as a centipede V
A father and son are both under
sentence of death in a Farinerdville,l4a,,
jail.
THK IIA IDIOT TEAK.
BY 11. S KELLER IN TEXAS SITTINGS.
Drip, drip, <1 rip t The golden leaves
lie in brow ti. tear palTMies upon the
pasture land along the edge of tin* grim
H'ladowo .vwlu All div long the sky
has Suing heavy and sombre ; and now
that nightfall is here ttie scurrying
clouds weep tears. And the trees,they
bow and lieud hef ire the storm, and
breaking, fall like stricken giants shiv
ering from root to bianchlet in the
last expiring throes. And the da.d
leaves, heavy and wet, pile up iu pitch
es along the rude fence of guailed,
twisted and distorted stumps.
"Ah I What a nasty night. I must
hurry home. Poor Satan w ; ll be scar
ed to death. Satan knows his master's
step ; lie understands me if all the rest
of the world does not. Good S4tan !
Patience, ray dear Satan. What's
that !"
The mumbling of tho hump-bick
man skiitiug the edge of the woods
was brought to a sudden stop. His
foot hit against something lying in his
path. It was not a stone, but some
thing soft and \feldng.
"Oh loh ! please don't hurt me. I
hain't d*in' any harm," came from the
dark, biindled-up obj'Ct at the hump
back's feet.
"Good heavens ! It's a child. Sav,
you brat, get up and out of here quick.
If the Squira c itches you here he'll sue
—it's a git II" ej icul ite I the ra iu start
ing back as a vivid fl sh of lightning
revealed a slim slip of a girl.
The long, black hair, wet and limp
hung about the sharp shoulder like
snokv ropes. Til" m rath was drawn
down at the corners iu a sorry droop,
and the eyes,groat hi tck eyes were sad,
so sad, that even the old hump-backed
miser felt a throb of pity pulsate
through iiis flinty heart.
" Wh > are you, gii 1 ?"
"A brat, o ilv a brat. They call me
that up in the house where all the poor
people live."
"Alt I A pauper brat."
".Yes. so-. Some calls me that. But
—oh ! I'm 'fraid. so 'f-aid," wailed
the poor little morsel of st >rm-tossed
humanity hugging up close to the old
.niser. This was a new, or forgotton
feature in human nature to the man
He hid been in a habit of being feared
and held aloof from by all. But this
poor waif, this a!i n slip of a girl with
sad eyes and limp lucks almost hugs
hi in for protection.
"Child, w' at are you afraid of ?
Thedarkne-8 won't hurt von—though
this damp ground isn't just the bed for
* girl."
"Oh, no ; I don't mind the dark.
I'm so afraid sometimes of—of the
growling, quarreling men and women
they keep in the cellar up at the poor
house. They're just like beasts. They
glare at me with their red eyes, and
shake their first, and bait a?ai isfc the
liars 'till they're all blood. I'm 'fraid
••f 'em. I want to hide away from 'en
I could almost dig into the ground iike
a woodchuck does, only to hide away
from 'eu."
"Poor thing I She's afraid of the
crazy ones. I—but will my darling
Satan like it if I take her home with
me— "
"Oh, sii,pleaße take me 'way off—off
somewhere where I can't see the peo
ple with red eyt-s who Dvw in I lie cellar
and eat like bents." Tne thin atras
almost encircled the short angular neck
or the old miserly hump back.
"Eh I yes ; onrae—c one with mo,"
returned the miser. Grasping the lit
tle hand in his, lie jigged on along the
quaint s'ump fence until he reached an
opening. Following a path leading in
to the heart, of the wo > Is, the piir fi
nally halted before a dilipi l tt.ad hut.
The door was pushed open. Off at the
other side of the room shone a pair of
green, wicked eyes. A loud purring,
then a spiteful spit, spit, and Satan
bounded through the darkness and rub
bed his inky coat against the old hump
back's ankles.
"Ah, sweet Satan, good Satan I
Glad to see me hick.eh V l '
The asheg upon the mud hearth were
raked away, disclosing a small pile of
glowing embeiß. The old uan knelt
down and pi!3d, some pine cones upon
the embers ; then blowing with all 'h' B
might, he s on had a blaze. Tossing a
couple of pine knots upon the ignited
mass,he chuckled as a huge fl uue went
roaring up the chimney.
"Child, come here," he said, turning
toward the girl, who was tiying to
stroke Satan's fur. But Satan was
coy of all advances, and leaped beyond
her reach each time,
"Aieyou hungiy ?" asked the mis
er.
"Yes, sir."
"Then eat. There's a crust of bread
upon the table "
The waif gnawed the crust as she
sal down on abl >ck of wood near the
fireplace. Thb flames roared up thfl
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chimney. The soft, sleepy purring of
Satan kept on, and in a few minutis
the black eye* were veiled by the bine
vetnod lids as the little head leaned
back s.gainst the wall.
"Asleep. Poor thing ! A pauper
brat. Afraid of the pauper lunatics.
Satan seems to take to her. That is
strange. He always spits and huinps
his bac a, in t'tes a cat hump-hack
of himself, when strangers come. J Folks
don't like me. They say I'm a miser.
I lovu Satan and my gold. Satan un
derstands me, and I undeistand my
gold. Am 1 growing solt hearted?
Why did I bring this pauper brat here?
flow pret'y she is. I've got enough
gold to make a tine lady of her. Would
she (urn away from me I wonder after
I'd made a fine lady of her ? Ah ! she
wakes/' The great black eves of the
gii 1 ojieiiel. They we fastened upon
the old miser in a strange look. The
thin lips parted as she rose from her
scat and came toward him. "I —I,
please sir, may I kiss you fust once ?"
Her hands were stretched out to the
old man appealingly. He had be
friended her. The old man felt
a 6tanger dart pass through his heart.
What did she mean ? Why did she
want t > kiss such a grizzly old hump
back ?
"I—well, yes, if you like," came
from his lips falteringly.
He closed his eyes as the girl's thin
arms wound ab >ut his Then, as
he felt trie sift. w inn pressure of her
pure lips upon bis a great wave of hu
man affection came over him, and he
hugged the pauper brat to his breast.
When be opened his eye< again, the
thin pathetic face was lifted up to
him. Upon each 1 iwer eye-lash flitter
ed a tear.
Eicli tear as it rolled down the pale
cheek fell upon the flinty heart of the
inner, and melted away the ice and
hardness of it.
"Why weep, girl," he asked.
"Be.'ame you are the only oue I ever
kissed."
"And why kiss me ?"
"Because you are so good tu a pauper
brat, that I love you.'
The sweet-faced old m in who, years
afterward beamed s> lovingly upon a
fair young mother, felt in his heart,
that the maiden's tear had brought
ihe fullest returns that heart could de
sire.
NOT A BE3QAR.
How an Impecunious Fellow
Raised the Wind in Detroit.
"Gentlemen," he began in a smooth,
molasses sort of voice, "I am dead
broke but no )>eggar. I want to raise
about three dollars, but I shall do it in
a legitimate manner. Now, then, let
me ask you to inspect this."
He to. k fiom lits pocket a piece of
iron chain as large as his thumb and
com lining six links and passed it a
r<>und. After it had carefully been in
spected by each of the party he contin
ued :
"I want to bet my overcoat, which is
certainly worth $lO, against in cash
that none of you can separate oue link
from the others."
The piece of chain was passed around
again to be moie closely scrutinized,
and finally one of the party, who was
a machinist, returned it with the re
mark :
"And I want to put up that sum a
gaiiißt your overcoat that you cau't do
it yourself."
"D ne i" said the stranger as he
pulled off liis coat.
Coat and cash were put up iu the
hands of a stakeholder, and the stran
ger the gioup to f .flow him. lie
walked across the street and into a
blicksmitn shop, and picking up a
hammer and cold-chisel he deliberate!)
cut out a link. The crowd stood
around like so many pumpkins at a
county fair,but when the stranger neld
up the link anu claimed the stakes the
machinist recovered his wits sufficient
ly to exclaim :
"Sold by a professional deadbeat !
The money is yours, old fellow, but in
ex tc'ly thirty s-courts after you receive
it I shall begin to kick, and you had
beiter le twenty rods off I"
"Thanks—glad to have met you—
good day I" repl'ed the stranger,and he
was out of sight iu seven seconds.—De
tioit Free Press.
A Western Farmer.
Portrait of the Big Farmer Who
Raises Food Enough for Thous
ands of Throats.
The Buffalo Express says : He was a
tail man, with rather sandy and long
hair and an iron-gray chin whisker. He
wore a black suit of steel-rnixed and a
yellowish-brown slouch hat. There was
a red buttonhole boquetin his coat lap.
el. His stand-up collar w tt s surround
ed by a black tie. An ordinary every
day watch Chain htrtfg Max kettond
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al Insertion.
buttonhole of his vest. As he vtnlked
up from the Western Union main office
he joggled along carelessly, looking
naither to the right nor the left, but en
gaged in sort of communication with
himself. The man was Mr. Oliver
Darlymple, the most extensive farmer
in the United States. Mr. Darlymple,
although he lives in St. Paul, Minn.,
con dues his fanning operations to Da
kota, where in Case and Trail counties
he has a two-thirds interest in 75 000
acres of as line wheat land as the sun
ever shone upon. The product, as indi
cated by that so far threshed, will be a
bout 600.000 bushels this year. Mr.
Dalrymple employs in his farming op
erations 1,000 men,Boohorses and mules,
200 self-binding reapers and 30 stearn
threshers.
"I h-iye lived in St.Paul thirty years/
said Mr. Dalrympie, "and seen it grow
from 10,000 to 100.000.' When asked
relative to his age he said : "You may
tell them that I have not yet got to the
gray-haired, broad-shouldered man of
sin. My visit here is for the purpose
of seeing if I can make favorable ar
rangements with Buffilo elevator men
tor the storage of this year's
crop.''
An Excellent Spine.
In the Scriptures it is related that
Daniel was preferred above princes bc
cause he had "an excellent spirit" in
him. A boy being asked, in his Sun
day-school class,why Daniel was thus
preferred, replied * "Because he had
an excellent spine in him." This boy's
blander on the word "spirit" is amus
ing, but yet bis answer hit the nail
square on the head. Daniel got on
because he bad "backbone" enough to
stand up against corruption.
There was never a time in the his
tory of the world when "spine'' was
needed more than to-dav. Fiaud
seems to have crept into ever}* line of
business. FQrmerly it used to be said
that "corporations had no souls." It
was raeaut by this that when men u
□ ited in associations, and worked un
der a President and directors, they
would do things as a body which
they would be ashamed to do as indi
viduals. But to-day it looks as if the
old proverb had lost its peculiar force.
Men have let down the bars more and
more in business, till it sometimes
seems as if any trick were thought
justifiable if it led to making a dollar.
It is difficult now to buy anything
that is not adulterated. Dealers do
not hesitate to misrepresent—or lie
outright. Speculators are not partic
ular whose money they use, or how
they get it. Men hardly dare trust
their dearest friends. And all this
sort of thing is tolerated, so long as it
brings success.
Thus it is that the boys of to-day
need a doubly stiff backbone to stand
up against dishonesty. Respectable
asage leads them into temptation at
every step. Fraud is gilded by wealth
and young eyes are dazzlod. Almost
above all else, what youth needs to
cultivate is an "excellent spine."—
Golden Argosy.
The Masher Mashed.
I was riding out one evening in a
car in which were two lovely, laugh
ing young ladies, when a young man
entered and took his seat, says a St.
Louis reporter. He seemed to bt very
much taken with one of the girls, and
soon began to make delicate endeav
ors to get up a flirtation. His efforts
became bolder, and I noticed a signific
glance passed between the girls, fol
lowed by a whispering conference.
Presently I noticed that the girl who
had mangled his heart had her eyes
calmly fixed on the young man's feet
with a meditative smile on her lips.
He glanced down at his feet to see
what was wrong several times, tried
to draw them under him and moved
them about, but the steady gaze of
the young lady continued to be fixed
on his pedal extremities Restive
would hardly describe the condition of
the would-be masher. His face became
the color of a boiled lobster, and final
ly, after twisting about uneasily, be
hastily jumped up and left thi car. As
soon as he had left the girls were
nearly convulsed with suppressed mer
riment. I happened to know one of
them, and she explained the whole af
fair. She said she had often heard
that men were very sensitive about
their feet, and that a prolonged stare
at these members would throw the
boldest of them into ' embarrassment
and final rout. She had tried it sever
al times with unvarying success, and
bad hit upon it as the beat way to get
rid of a mtt&bet