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MILLIIEIM, PA.,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1884.
A LACONIC WOOER.
Mis. Abigail Widgin, n box tin wid
ow of f.uu and foity, sat. .sowing in
lhe winter sunlight which fell through
the stand of geraniums and petunias
before her sitting room window. A
cheerful wood lii" burned on the
heart!., its tl tines nil vte lin Hie glis
tening br.tss lire dog* glistened stilly
less brightly than the sunbeams them
selves.
Mra W'diiin was a mly poly Utile
woman, with snapping black eyes,
cheeks like Baldwin apples and hair in
which onl* a few white threads disturb
cd ilie raven gloss. Tliere was an air
of determination, it is true, in her th in
lowei j tw, hut this was so overshadow
ed bv the general posiness and jollity
of her face as to he hardly perceptible,
and even a close observer would have
pronounced Mistress Abigail, a3 she
sat placidly sewing in the afternoon
sunlight, a dame as gracious as she was
cornel v.
The clock in the corner ticked mon
otonously, the Cat on the hearth rug al
ternately slept, and then, awakened by
a sudden snap of the fire, awoke to
purr lustily until drowsiness again o
vercame her. The widow sewed on
with peifeet composure and scarcely a
firmer cu ve of the ra >uth betrayed the
fact that she was keenly debating same
important matter in her mind. Only
from time to time her glance w is rais
ed to the dial, and when at length the
sound of footsteps crunched on the
snow without was heard, the quick,
comprehensive survey which the black
eyes made of the room indicated some
desire that everything should be right,
and trig for the coining guest, and
showed, moreover, that the newcomer
had been exacted.
A moment later and Tilly, Hie trim
maid, had ushered into the room a dap
per little man with a markedly legal air,
shrewd, twinkling eyes, and a shining
bald spot on the top of 11is head.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Shatperson,"
the widow said, briskly, rising with
hospitable alacrity. "I began to fear
you were noi c uning."
"Good afternoon," the gentleman
returned, allowing his hand to be sha
ken vigorously.
"Sit down by the fire," pursued the
widow, bustling about with the desire
of doing something, yet not quite
knowing exactly what to do. "It must
he a cool day for all the sun. The
snow crunches too much for one not to
know that. You found it so, didn't
you?" she concluded, knowing by ex
perience that nothing short of a direct
question was likely to elicit a response
from the taciturn lawyer.
"Yes." be answered briefly.
"Uncommon cold, I should say."
went on Mrs. Widgin, sealing herself
opposite her guest and spreading out
her plump hands to the blaze as if
talking of tlie temperature made her
more sensible of it. "Colder than us
ual for the season, don't you think
so ?"
"Perhaps."
"Ob, it certainly is much colder."
No i espouse.
"But then it is, after all, the time
of year,when one expects se>ere weath
er."
S' ill no reply.
"'Th9 days begin to lengthen,' you
know the proverb, 'the cold begins to
strengthen.' "
Still unbroken silence on the part of
the lawyer, ana the hostess was forced
to abandon the weather for a more
promising topic.
"You brought the papers for me to
sign, I suppose, Mr Sharperson."
"Yes,"
"Of course, you ki ow that they are
all right. I trust it all in your hands.
I never did know anything about naort
gages."
It was in Mr. Sharperson's mind
that for one who knew nothing about
legal documents the widow had manag
ed her property with remarkable
shrewdness, but it not being his cus
tom to waste superfluous word* by
putting his thoughts into speech, he
made no rernai k.
"I will sign whatever you tell me
to," his client continued with really
touching confidence. "It is hard for a
woman to have nobody but herself to
lean upon. I'm sure you don't know
what I should do without you."
Again no response.
"I quite depend upon you."
Still no reply, unless a faint sniff,
more or less scornful,might be so con
sidered.
"Where are the Dapers ?"
Mr. Sharperson rose with great de
liberation, and from the green biize
bag whicn, on entering, he deposited
upon the table, produced a small pack
age of legal papers. He turned again
t the widow and fire, his eye dwell
ing appreciatively upon the cherry pro
portions of both, as. without speaking
he handed the documents to Mrs. Wid
gin.
A PAPER FOR THE IJOMK CIRCLE
"Are there four of tliein ?" she ask
ed, with some appearance of surprise.
•M only expected three."
"Four," he said, but ho volunteered
no further exclamation.
The widow unfolded the papeis while
ihe lawyer watched with professional
narrowness, and as she looked them o
ver the color flushed yet more in her
somewhat florid cheeks.
"Did you succeed in lelling that ttn
acre lot to Mr. Woodhofliir V" she ex
claimed. "How peifectly splendid!
Why, Mr. Sharperson, lam positively
getting to be quite an heiress. Isn't
there some mistake ?"
"No,"
"And the sale is ically made ?"
"Yes."
"For three thousand ?"
"Yes."
"Mr. Sharperson, I have the greatest
mind I ever had tu the world to kis*
vou."
"Do."
The widow was so astonished at hav
ing elicited a monosyllable of such a
character from the bachelor that she
almost foi got to bridle, but fortunate
ly remembered in lime what was ex
pected of ner sex.
"Really," she simpered, "you are
positively dieadful ! I wouldn't haye
b. li. ved it of you !"
She paused to give him an opportu
nity of adding something more, but
Mr. Sharperson had already exceeded
the ordinary limits of his habitual re
licance, and by a not unnatural recoil
was now more silent than ever.
"I sha 11 soon begin to look out for
fortune hunters," remarked Mrs. Wid
gin, archly. "I hope you'll protect me
from tliem when thev come."
Mr. Sharpersoo's looks expressed
such entire willingness to uudertake
the defense of his fair client that he
evidently d;d not feel it necessary to
put it into words.
"I don't know," pursued the widow,
gazing abstractly into the lire, but I
shall have to look about for somebody
to take care of ine. What do you say
Mr. Sharpersou V"
"I ?"
"Certainly ; you You know my
business affairs perfectly, anil cm ad
vise me better than 'anybody I can
think of. Now to be perfectly frank,
what say you to my being married a
gain V"
"Nothing."
"Oil, you think I ought not to talk
so plainly about it. Well, very likely
not, but you'll at least all w that there
might be circumstances which would
make it best for tne to marry again."
"Y e 3."
"I've been a widow five years, and
if the right man turned up "
She poised with the secret desire to
shake tlie gentleman opposite, to see if
by that operation his taciturn tongue
might not be 1 oose.ied.
"If," echoed he significantly, as she
paused.
"Why, of course," she retorted,"you
will allow that there must be a right
man somewhere,if one could find him."
"Yes."
"And perhaps," continued she, a
mischievous smile revealing to the
lawyer's eyes a quite new dimple,
hitherto wholly unsuspected, in her
cheek, "and perhaps you would even
let me come to you for legal adyice in
my choice, if I paid well ?"
"Certainly."
"Well, then, advise," cried the wid
ow desperately.
She hid been perfectly sure for two
or three months that Mr. Sharperson
was longing to propose to her could he
but get the words over his tongue, and
she had said to herself that this after
noon he should do it if feminine wit
coulu devise away. Anything short
of deliberately proposing herself she
was prepared t) do and she began now
to fear lest she should be forced to e
ven that extreme measure.
Now when everything had been so
admirably worked up to a speaking
point for him, instead of uttering tbe
decisive word tbe lawyer only smiled
and was silent. To tell the truth he
was as eager to get tbe important ques
tion asked as the widow, could lie but
overcome his natural laconic habit and
the bashfulness which just now exag
gerated it. Mrs. Widgin's mouth set it
self H tiiflc more firmly than before.
"That is always the way if one really
waus advice. If I didn't you'd proba
bly be ready enough to give it." This
was so obviously absurd that they both
smiled, and both, pretending to move
nearer the fire, moved their chairs a
little nearer together.
"I see," Mrs. Widgin said with an
air of mock despair, "I shall have to
make it a catechism. Do you think I
had better get married ; yes or no ?"
"Yes," lie replied, with a significant
smile.
"Have you any idea where I had bet
ter look for a hus))and„
"Yes."
"Good I Now we are getting on.
Wharre is it ?"
"Here."
"Here in Westerly ? Oh, very well,
Mr. Sharpen* u, but who 1* there in
Westerly f>rme to marry '■ I assure
you I wouldn't Ihnik of M . S either*,
with his live small cliildr n ; I never
c >uld endure Mr, Orem the tailor;
I'm sure vou don't mean me to marry
Mr. Church, the butcher ; and Mr.
Stinciitield is too odius for anything.
You see, don't von, that 1 can't marry
any one of them ?"
"Yes."
"Well, who i* there ?"
"Me."
"You !"
"Me."
It was done at 1 st, and if the law
yer could but have so far conquered I lie
habit of half a century of bashfulnoss
as to follow up his advaiitage,everthing
would havb gone on swimingly.
He was, however, aim >st stupefied
by his own temerity, and while th e
widow on her side of the fireplace cast
her eyes down coyly, believing that,
now at least he would take the initia
tive, Mr. Sharperson on his bide none
the less aliased his glances out of sheer
baßhfnlneßs.
"Heavens thought the widow, slily
reconnoitering out of the co not of her
eye, "have I got to get up and rush in
to his arms? Was there ever so ag
gravating a man created ?"
She coughed softly, she patted the
hearth with her trim slipper tip, secre?
ly determined that nothing short of
the most absolute desperation should
make her break the silence this time.
At length when there seemed an em
inent prospect that the pair would con
sume the lemaitider of theii mortil ex
istence in staring wordlessly into tne
coals, and just as the widow reached
that point when she felt that she must
speak or go mad, Mr. Sharperson did
renew the conversation.
"Well ?" he queried.
"Well" she echoed.
"Eh !"
The liwyer was wholly unprepared
for having the burden of the talk
thrown up in him, and beyond this
rather incoherent exclamation could
say nothing. The widow looked at
the hre and looked at her taciturn
wooer.
"I must say," she ohseiyed, with a
touch of sarcasm in her voice, "that I
have seen more ardent lovers."
Mr. Sharperson looked rather abash
ed at this and indeed began to fe d that
if his suit for the rich widow's hand
was to have any chance whatever of
success it must be urged with more
vigor. He aroused himself by great
eff ut and wfth some warmth :
"That showed it more."
"C 'me," the widow thought with
some complacency, "we are getting on:
it is something to elicit a speech of that
length from him."
Aloud she said :
''Very well, that showed it more, if
you will. How am I US judge," she
continued, smiling, and glancing up in
a manner which no man with blood in
his veins could have resisted, how am I
to judge but by what I see ?"
For re ply Mr. Sharperson commit
ted the most remarkable deed of his
entire life. lie rose from his chair
with the utmost deliberation, took a
step acrhss the wide hearthrug to the
side of h's hostess, threw his arms a
lound her with great heartinessand ap
paient satisfaction.
"Mercy 1" cried Widow Widgin,
making ineffectual eff >rts to disengage
herself.- "Who gave you leaye to kiss
me ? I never saw such impudence."
But the other, having once tasted
the sweets of her lips apparently enj >y
ed them far to well to abandon the
feast so easily, and proceeded with unc
tion to kiss her again.
"I declare," she exclaimed, yielding
with good grace to what she evidently
could not help, "by the way you go
on one would actually think we were
engaged."
Whereupon the lawyer gazed at her
with great satisfaction and proprietor
ship shining in his twinkling black
eyes.
"We are," he said.— Boston Courier.
"I HEAR you called on your girl last
night, Earl," said a down-towu youth
to one of Avondale.
"Ys, I called," he asnwered, in a
billious tone.
"Have a nice time ?"
"No,"
"Did you see lier."
"Yes, saw her laaving the house
with another fellow just a9 I turned
the corner two squares away."
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In a Panther's Claws
A Bombay shikaree narrates how
he once actually fell into the claws of
a panther, and lived to tell the tale
After describing the incidents of the
hunt up to the time when the beast
broke cover, he says :
"I had -to wait until the panther
was within a tew feet of me, and I
then put my rifle down to his head,
expecting to roll him over like a rab
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other occasions,J and then placed my
second bullet pretty much where I
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report when the hammer fell ! The
next moment the panther, with an an
gry roar,sprang on me. Hanging on
with the claws of one forepaw driven
into my right shoulder and the other
around me he tried to get at my head
and neck, but I fortunately prevented
this by raising my ♦eft arm, which he
instantly seized in his huge mouth. I
shall never forgot his slarp, angry
roar, the wicked look of the greenish
yellow eyes within six inches of mine
the turned back ears, his foetid breath
upon my cheek, and the feeling of his
huge fangs closing to the bone
through my arm above the elbow.
"I endeavored, by giving him my
knee in the stomach, to make him let
go. Those who have ever kicked a
cat can imagine what little effect this
had. It was more like using one's
knee for a football than anything else.
The panther, with a roar, gave a tre
mendous wrench to my arm, hurled
me some five paces down the side of
the hill prone on my face, bringing
my head in contact with a tree. Stun
ned and insensible, I lay some sec
onds on the ground, and the brute,
thinking me dead, fortunately did not
worry me, but, passing over me,went
for the retreating police constable,who
had brought me into difficulty. I re
member when I came to, raising my
head from the ground, leaning my
forehead against a tree, and smiling
with a certain feeling of satisfaction,
when my eyes caught the retieating
torm of the constable and the pursue
ing panther down the hill, and I
thought the policeman's turn had
come.
' The civil surgeon of the station
probed the teeth wounds in the arm,
and found that at the back of the arm
ran right to the bone and was an inch
and a half deep. The two wounds on
the inner side.in orclose to the biceps,
were, one an inch and a quarter and
the other an inch deep. The claw
wounds on the right shoulder were
not serious, and had fortunately just
missed the large artery near the collar
bone, injury to which would have re
sulted in my bleeding to death in a
very few minutes.
Some years ago an emigrant from
the United Stales kept a small restaur
ant in u town situated in one of the
greatest stockraising districts of South
Australia. lie was presumably the
only Yankee in those parts. There
was an enormously rich old stocsman
who came into town from his lordly
cattle ranche at intervals, whose na
tionality was a matter of doubt,though
he usually passed for a taciturn and
uncommunicative bachelor Scotchman.
One day this wealthy but solitary old
cli ip entered the restaurant of the man
from the states. When he left he look-
e d hard at the proprietor, and simply
remarked :
"American, arn't you ?"
On being answered in the affirma
tiveAhe millionaire cowpuncher walked
away without another word.
Regulary once a week he reappeared,
silently ate a hasty lunch, and made
the same sterotyped inquiry, receivin/
the same emphatic. "Yes, siree I" in
reply. At 1 ist there came a time when
the eccentric old customer did not re
turn. A mouth went by -two. At
last a wagon stopped at the door, and
the old fellow, pale and wasted with
sickness, was helped out and supported
into the saloon. He called for his us
ual steak with \ weak but dogged deter
mination, ate a morsel and then totter
ed up to the counter. As he paid his
bill he whispered, hoarsely :
"American, aren't you !"
"You bet," replied the proprietor,
pleasantly.
Stretching out his shaking hand, the
odd customer said :
"Shake I So am I I"
Then he tottered away without an
other word. Three days afterwards
a lawyer came into our voung country
m in'g place and told him that thequeer
old g'y out on ihe Tho upsou range
hid died aud left htm a cool $1,000,*
000.
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Two Americans.
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Santa Olaus and the Mouse.
One Christmas Eve, when Santa Glaus
Came | u certain house.
To fill the children's stockings there,
He fouiul a little mouse. ,
"A merry Christmas, little friend,"
Said Santa, good and kind,
"Tne same to you, sir." said the mouse I
"1 thought you wouldu't mind.
"If I should stay awake to-night
And wateli you for a while."
"You're v.-ry welcome, little mouse,"
Said Santa, with a smile.
And then he filled the stockings up
i-efore the mouse could wink—
From toe to top from top to toe,
There wasn't left a chink.
"Now. they won't hold another thing,"
Said Santa Clans, with pride.
A twinkle came in mouse's eyes,
But humbly be replied:
"It's not polite to contradict,
Your pardon 1 implore,
Hut .it the fullest stocking Thero
I could put one thing more.
"Oh, ho J" laughed Santa. "Silly mouse!
Don't I know how to pack?
By filling stockings ail these years
1 should have learned the kuack."
And then he took the stocking down
From where it hung so high
Anu said: "Now put in one thing more;
I give you leave to try."
Th® mousie chuckled to himself
And then he softly stole
Bight to the stocking's crowded toe
And gnawed a little hole!
"Npw. if you please, good Santa Ciaus,
rve put in one thing more.
For you will own that little hole
Was not in there before."
flow Santa Claus did laug and laugh I
And th*n he gayly spoke:
-Well! vou shall have a Christmas cheese
For that uice little joke!"
Christmas Items.
The best Christmas presents are
those that will beautify a home for a
life-time.
Christmas is the only holiday of the
year that brings the whole human
family into common communion.—
Charles Dickens.
It is good to be children sometimes,
and never better than at Christinas,
when its mighty Founder was a child
Himself.—Dickens.
The only time in the long calendar
of the year when men £nd women
seem, with one consent, to open their
shut-up hearts freely.—Dickens.
The Christmas cards this year are
beautiful, and it is a pleasant custom
to send them to friends, but the best
card we know of, says the Mobile
"Register," is one tied on to the leg of a
turkey, with the name of some deserv.
ing poor man or woman written on it,
who is not able to bu v any Christmas
eheer.
Watching the Children.
Each mother or teacher is an agent
of Divine Providence,says a clergyman.
Now, what is said of Moses holds good
of any child. Each child is a great
trust, and "she who guards and pre
serves one soul saves a whole world."
Each mother and teacher, each tender
guardian of a child ought to act as a
messenger of Divine Providence, and
who knows what influence she may be
destined to wield by the task assigned
her ? Who can tell but she may be
destined to mould the soul of a genius,
who is to flood humanity with new
light of Heaven, or to Kindle a flame
which is to reveal to the world new
summits of bliss and rectitude V In
order to perform their duties, parents
and educators ought to manifest two
chief angelic qualities. First—Patience
in waiting and watching the child's
progress, and, second, kindness and
sympathy in penetrating and following
up the nature of the child. Few moth
ers know how to deal with their chil
dren. The more love they feel for them
the less patience they show. They
want to mould and fashion them as
though they were a piece of wax and
had not a soul, an image of God, with
an individuality of its own, which re
quires to be studied and found out.
The chief fault in training lies in over
doing,in having rules and perscriptions
ready to shape character, life, purpose
and destiny of the child. Your cast
iron moulds harm and ruin all genuine
greatness.
A CANADIAN, meeting in Canada a
gentleman from Louisville, kindly ask
ed : "How is your health, and how
did you happen to leave so flourishing a
place as Louisville ?" "Well," said
the exiled Louisvillian, "it was very
unfortunate, but I blame myself en
tirely. Instead of getting a city offlcs
I went into business. My necessities
compelling me to steal,l stole. Then I
had to git. If I could have got some
place I could have stolen from the city
I might have been at this moment a
happy man, at home and in the bosom
of my family. Stranger, it you eyer go
to the United States, don't go into bus
iness ; go into politics !" The Cana
dian was so touched that he imme
diately loaned the gentleman from
Louisville $5 and turned away to con*
ceal his emotion.
Scholars are frequent to be met with
who ar iguoiant of nothing their
ftwn fgworaucb.