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A Grandfather For Sale.
*ll*B all very well for you Cabot, to
quote that trite lemaik about rank be
ing only the guinea's stamp. You
know as well as I do that the social
guinea—here in Boston, of all places—
must be stamped before it will go into
circulation. Society strongly resembles
retail trade in this one particular. Let
me offer a lump of the purest gold to
any small dealer as payment for the
goods I have bought of him, and he
would at once say he'd rather have the
dirtiest bank cote in town than my un
stamped metal ; wouldn't he ?'
'Well, I suppose he would. If we
were in a more primitive state of ex
istence the yellow metal, as it came
from mother earth, would satisfy our
greed. Now it has to he vouched for
as gold before it can take its.proper po
sition among the other circulating me
diums.'
'Exactly so ! And as we are not in
a primitive state, but a very 'highly
cultured 7 one, for example. Ineed to
have a stamp before I can pass muster.
All the wealth my Midas of a father
left to me will not take me more than
just so far ; yet 1 dress according to
the laws of to-day, I don't eat with my
knife, I know how to raise my hat to a
lady ; in short, I flatter myself that
I make a fairly good appearauce. But
I have no grandfather worth speaking
of!' And though there was mock pa
thos in bis tone, Maxwell Jennings
meant more of what he said than he
would have been willing his companion
shou'd suspect.
Edgar Cabot glanced at him a little
contemptuously ; then he allowed his
eyes to wander enviously around the
luxurious appointments of Maxwell's
rooms. Everything bespoke an abund
ance of both money and taste on the
part of the one who resided there. A
casual observer would never have sup
posed that a man who could appreciate
the engravings and books which crowd
ed the walls and tables was a mush
room of an hour, the son of'a man who
had amassed a large fortune by the
manufacture of rum and judicious
speculations in stocks and mines. The
moment that Tom Jennings's business
and all other possessions fell into his
son's hands, that young man sold the
obnoxious distilleries and went abroad
for three years to finish the studies his
father had sent him there 10 begin.
Old Tom Jennings had the sense to
know that h€ could never aspire to any
higher position in life than the one he
was born into ; but he was determin
ed to 'make Max a gentleman,' and so
far as cultivation and study could do
it,he succeeded.
'By Jupiter, Jennings, if I bad a
tithe of your money I wouldn't care a
picayune if I hadn't a grandfather 1'
sighed Cabot, whose bank account wa9
as short as his pedigree was long.
'And I, Cabot, would give a hundred
thousand dollars this minute if 1 had
one of your dignifi&J ancestors,' Jen
nings answered earnestly. 'Yes, I'd
give it gladly if I in any way I could
claim a great-uncle or grandfather of
note !
'A fellow has a perfect right to sell
what is indubitably bis own, hasn't
he ?' asked Cabot, thoughtfully.
'Of course he has.'
'I, as everyone knows, am the last of
my line of the Cabots. I am badly in
want of money ; you think yourself—
or, ;to be more exact, Dr. and Mis.
Randall think you—badly in want of
ancestors. What will you give me for,
say old Colonel Cabot ? The oue, jou
know, who was killed in King Philip's
war.'
MILLHEIM PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 21., 1887.
'What an absurd ideal' exclaimed
Jennings, with a laugh.
'Not at all absurd. The old codger
is now my great uncle ; if 1 sell him
to you, why, of course, he'll be your's.
Or, if you don't like him, there's my
grandfather. Judge Cabot—how will tie
till your hill V Now, Jennings, don't
look so amused. I assure you lam in
dead earnest. lam so haid up I'd sell
my soul—much more such a tritle as a
giandfather—for a hundred thousand
dollars.'
Jennings knew that Cabot spoke the
truth about his financial condition, and
being a good-natured fellow, who was
grateful to Cabot for several introduc
tions which he valued very highly, es
pecially the one to the aforementioned
Randalls, determined to help Cabot out
of his pecuniary quagmire by humoring
him in his ridiculous proposition.
'I declare, Cabot, if the thing were
feasible I'd accept your offer with im
mense gratitude. But suppose 1
should tell anyone that Judge Cabot
belonged to me, who would believe
me V'
'lf you were to buy him of me. you'd
give me a receipt for him,l suppose ?
Just as I would give you a receipt for
the money you paid me for him.'
'Certainly I should,' answered Jen
nings, laughing at the idea of giving a
receipt for an ancestor.
'Then you could truthfully say that
you had documentary evidence that
Judge Cabot was an ancestor of your
own, and that would settle it, as I
would be careful to say so, too, for
people rarely insist upon one's proving
that Soand-So is his 'kin' ; and if
anybody was still dubious you could he
justly indignaut because your word
was doubted.'
'I think if I buy one of them I would
like to have the other to keep him com
pany ; he might feel louesome so en
tirely out of his element. What will
you take for the two V asked Jennings,
seriously.
Cabot looked fixedly at him for an
instant ; then, seeing that he was in
earnest, answered :
'Oh, I'll not bargain with you in this
trade. I'll be grateful if you will give
me a huudred thousand for the two of
'em—the old Colonel and the Judge.'
'Are you sure that will satisfy you ?
Suppose I say a hundred and twenty
five for the two?'
'That will suit me still better, of
course,' said Cabot aloud. To himself
he added : 'The fellow is a bigger
muff than I thought. However, he is
a good fellow, and I will help him
swear that they are his kinsmen, just
to see how many gullible fools there
are in the world.'
'llow will you have the money ? In
bonds or real estate ¥' asked Jennings,
'or a happy combination of both ?'
'lf you are really in earuest, I would
prefer a little of both.'
'Meet me at the Suffolk Bank to
morrow, 'at ten, and I will turn the
'tin' over to you. It is an hour that
will suit you, I suppose, as you are a
man of leisure ?'
The hour and the whole tenor of the
proposition suited Cabot to a nicety ;
so the next day the transfer was made,
Jennings receiving, in lieu of a given
sum of money, a receipt foi 'all light
and title to the possession of the late
Colonel Henry Cabot and the late
Judge Frederic Cabot, formerly the
possession of Edgar Cabot, and to all
honors, rank, glory, etc., which may
accrue from the ownership of the
same '
A few days later Cabot proiiosed the
name of Maxwell as a member of the
very exclusive West End club to which
he belonged. At this proposition there
was some demur, and Cabot quietly
said to one of the objectors :
'1 know what you fellows are think
ing of. You fancy that Max has noth
ing hut his money to back him for ad
mittance here, but you are mistaken.
I happen to know-know, mind you—
that he can claim lawful ownership in
his excellency, the late Judge Cabot.
He has papers in his possession which
prove it.'
'Are you sure ?' was the amazed in
quiry.
'I am, I have seen the documents
to which I refer.'
'lt must have been on his mother's
side if there was such relationship.'
'Did |you never hear of my aunt,
Letitia, who disappeared so myster
iously ?'
'I thought she committed suicide.'
'Some of us Cabots are such lunatics
that we think suicide preferable to a
mesalliance,' replied Cabot, significant
ly.
So tbe story went around that Max
Jennings had just discovered that he
was a descendant of the old Cabot fam
ily,and when bißname was proposed for
election there was not a single black
ball against him. He was accordingly
notified that he was duly elected a
member of the Miles Standish Club.
As soon as Jennings received this
notification he hastened to the Recep
tion Committee of said club, and ex-
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
plained the whole matter to them.
Whereat, pleased with his frankness,
and highly amused at I lie nbsuidity of
the transaction, the club, at its next
meeting, unanimously elected him a
member 'Oll his own meiits, and not
those of his supposititious ancestors'
and also, equally unanimously, dropped
from its roll the name of Edgar Cabot,
'A man who could sell Ilia grandfather
not being worthy of the noble name of
a Miles Staudish Brother,' was the ver
dict.
Dr. Randall, in common with most
of ttie suns of the first settlers, was a
member of this same club, so he natur
ally told his wife about the transaction
between Cabot and Jennings. She an
swered ;
'1 am sure it evinces a very proper
teeling on Mr. Jenuinga' part to want
a grandfather ; hut surely he must
have known that such a sale was im
possible. What better off is he for tbe
nominal ownership of Judge Cabot ¥'
Does it give him any of the Cabot vir
tues ?'
'Has the actual ownership of such a
grandfather given Edgar Cabol any of
those virtues ? Do you think the
Judge has much to be proud of in such
au heir ?' asked her husband.
'You kuow, my dear, I never had
any love for Edgar Cabot, and I liaye
still less for him now. Do you; sup
pose that Mr. Jenuings had any idea
that this purchase would enhance his
value in our eyes ? He has certainly
been very attentive to Olive lately, and
I have feared that she liked, him too
well.'
'That will never do P exclaimed the
doctor emphatically. 'I cannot have
one of my girls marry the son of that
old Tom Jenuings, a most disreputable
old creature who possessed hut one vir
tue, that of generosity, so far as I can
hear. No, no ; that must not be ! I
have nothing against Max Jennings
himself, hut 'blood will tell,' you
know.'
'As it has done in the case of Edgar
Cabot,' said Mrs. Randall, dryly. She
liked Max, and she more than suspect
ed that Olive returned the lore which
Max so evidently felt for her, and she
did wish that there could be some way
devised by which he could he trans
formed into a suitable husband for her.
And then his wealth, too 1 Poor Olive
had not all the pretty things which
girls of her age ought to have, the
mother felt.
'There are exceptions to all rules,'
said the doctor conci3e'y, 'and Edgar
Cabot is the exception to thi9 one.'
'May not Max Jennings be also an
exception V suggested Mrs. Randall,
Inr husband made no reply, only be
came suddenly very much interested in
the evening paper.
A little later, in all about two months
aftei the purchase of his ancestor, Jen
nings called on Dr. Randall's family
oue evening,and Olive's younger sister,
an irrepressible girl of thirteen, named
Pauline, said to him. somewhat ab
ruptly :
'Oil, Mr. Jennings, is it true that
you have bought Mr. Cabot's grand
father ?'
'lt is true that Judge Cabot now be
longs to me—that he is my grandfath
er,' was Max's answer.
'Since Pauline broached the subject,
Mr. Jennings,' said Mrs. Randall, 'I
must own that I am a little curious to
know what gave rise to this remarka
ble story which is going around about
you and Edgar Cabot.'
'Oh, it is very simple. Cabot was
hard up. and I traded off a few dollars
foi an ancestor or two,' replied Max
lightly.
'Do you really mean to claim those
dead Cabots for your own ?' asked Dr.
llandall, a little testily.
'I do. Why not ?' was Max's query.
'ls not what you pay for your own ?'
Dr. Randall could neither say yes nor
no. While ho was hesitating for a
suitable answer which should cover the
whole ground and yet not hurt Max's
feelings, Max continued :
'You know, sir, that you value de
scent above money. Let us suppose a
case: If a man had a daughter, and
two men were to present themselves as
suitors, the one with a good name but
a poor purse, the other in exactly the
reverse condition, to which would you
advise her to give an affirmative an
swer ?'
Dr. Randall appreciated the full
meaning of this question, which was
even harder than the previous one to
be answered. He could not collect his
thoughts as quickly as his older daugh
ter did, however. Before her father
could frame a reply, Olive said deter
minedly :
'I think it would be well to let the
girl have some voice in such a matter.
I think that the characters of the two
men ought to be taken into considera
tion. I don't believe any girl would
want a man who could sell his grand
father. She'd be more apt to see wor
thy qualities in one who didn't con
sider money the only thing worth hav
' ing.'
There was no mistaking the signifl
cance of Olive's tones, or of her (lushed
face. l)r. Randall loved his children,
so,saying to hitmelf : 'Max is at heart
a gentleman, in spile of his extraction ;
perhaps there was good blood on hi
mother's side,' tie pretended to make a
jest of the whole matter, and answer
ed :
'Ah, Max, you see what a minority I
am in ! My wife always agrees with
Olive, and even Pauline echoes her, so
1 dare not dispute a word she says.'
Max looked pleased, and Mrs. Ran
dall positively beamed en her husband.
But fancy the feelings of all when Max
said :
'The most singular part of the whole
affair is this : One of my—of old Tom
Jenning's friends heard of this bargain
between Cibot and me, and put me in
the way of proving that Tom Jennings
adopted me in my earliest infancy out
of au orphan asylum, where 1 had been
placed by my mother just before her
death. She was in consumption, and
as her last few hours drew near she
made a confidant of Turn Jenning's
wife, and told her that ahe had been
deceived by a false marriage between
herself and the father of this Edgar
Cabot. As the years passed, and Tom
found that the Cabots were not, as a
rule, dissolute men, he thought he
would investigate the so-called false
marriage. He did so, and found that
it was a genuine one ; that my father,
Edgar Cabot, Sr., had of
deceiving my mother, but haying died
suddenly before my birth, had kept the
marriage secret only for fear of bis
father's wrath, for my mother was a
plain farmer's daughter, poor but hon
est, as ths phrase is. Old Tom had
become fond of me, and Knowing that
the Cabots had nothing to bequeath me
except the name, he legally adopted me
as his son. So, you see, I purchased
my ancestors of nay older half-brother,
Edgar Cabot. I came here to-night,
Dr. Randall, to tell you this story : To
morrow—'
'Max, was your mother's name Ra
chel ?' Dr. Randall asked, abruptly.
'Yes ; Rachel Dennison, of Weston
Mills.'
'I was present at your birth, boy,and
your mother told me this story. I in
vestigated t for her sake, and found it
was true, your father having been a
widower before he met your mother.
When I next saw her she was dead aud
the baby had vanished, so the whole
thiug went out of my mind until this
moment.' Here the doctor had to
pause to rub his spectacles,and Pauline
took advantage of the brief silence to
say :
'Now that you've got a grandfather
of your own, I suppose you and Olive
will be getting married, and then you'll
be my brother Max, will you not ?'
New Style of Salutation.
During his first visit to Paris, M.
Lasalle, a distinguished German pre
sented himself at the house of a well
known lady, to whom he had sent let
ters of introduction in advance. When
the servant opened the door and re
ceived his card she conducted him to
the boudoir and told him to be seated,
saying:
'Madame will come immediately.'
Presently the lady entered. She
was in deshabille and her feet were
bare; covered only with loose slippers.
She bowed to bira carelessly and said'
'Ah there you are good , morning.,
She threw herself on a sofa, let fall
a slipper, and reached out to Lasalle
her very pretty foot.
Lasalle, naturally was completely
astounded, but he remembered that at
his home in Germany it was the cus
tom so metimes to kiss a lady's hand,
and he supposed it was the Paris mode
to kiss her foot. Therefore he did
not hesitate to imprint a kiss upon the
fascinating foot so near him, but he
could not avoid saying:
'Thank you madam, for this new
mode of makinga lady's acquaintance.
It is much better and certainly more
generous than kissing the hand.'
The lady jumped up, highly indig
nant.
'Who are you, sir, and what do you
mean ?'
He gave his name.
'You are not, theD, a corn doctor V
'I am charmed to say, madam, that
I am not.*
'But you sent me the corn doctor's
card.'
It was true. Lasalle in going out
that.morning had picked up a card of
a corn doctor from his bureau and put
it in his pocket. This, without glanc
ing at, he had given to the servant
who had given it to her mistress.
There was nothing to do but laugh ov
er the joke.
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance.
Brußqueness and Want of
Tact.
Tbe Rev. Mark Pattison, who died
somo months ago, and who was a
typical Englishman and scholar, was
once appealed to by a violate Ameri
can girl, as to whether be thought she
could write a book, 'I had to disap
point her, poor thing!' he writes. 'I
told her she was the "most ignorant
woman I ever met.'
Another 'young woman who had
written some clever essays was aston
ished by bis unasked criticism to tbe
effect that bo 'considered her conver
sation extremely feeble.* White he
was dying he comforted his weeping
wite with the remark:
'Oh yes, my dearl No doubtl No
doubt! But you'll soon marry again.
I've arranged that you shall be com
fortable until you do.'
The lady soon, by the way, fulfilled
his prophecy.
This brutal frankness is the trait
wbich most widely separates the Eng
lishman from his American cousin.
The American is more sensitive and
quick in sympathy. He is too, taught
consideration for his neighbors from
his cradle, and however candid
he may be, learns to keep
unpleasant truths affecting himself or
others. But if the English boy finds
a hole in his poorer schoolmate's shoe,
he will harry him incessantly with
coarse chaff about it. Why not ? He
would not hide a hole in his own shoe.
The same brusqueness and want of
tact is apparent in every rank of life.
A noted English author, while trav
eling through this country, appeared
at a large dinner given in his honor in
a flannel shirt and business suit.
Glancing round the table, he muttered:
'Ah, evening dress! The custom at
home. Quiteso! Quite so! But I did
not know that you dressed like gen
tlemen here.'
Canon Kingsley, while in this coun
try, stunned the chairman of a literary
club, who was welcoming him to a re
ception in somewhat tiorid terms, by
staring at him curtly saying.' I con
sidered your remark in a very bad
taste. Then turning his back on him
he walked away.
In none of these instances, prob
ably did the Englishman wish to
offend, nor was he concious of offend
ing. The lack of that nervous sensi
tivenecs which he ridicules Id the A
merican, makes him unable to see this
defect in his own good-breeding
Youth's Companion.
Playing Fool.
An industrious young shoemaker
fell into the habit of spending much
time at a saloon near by. One by one
his customers begau to desert him.
When his wife remonstrated with him
for so neglecting his work for the sa
loon he would carelessly reply, 'Oh,
I've just been down a little while play
ing pool.'
His little two-year-old caught the
refrain, and would often ask, 'ls yon
goin' down to plav fool, papa?'
Smith tried in vain to correct this
word. Tho child persisted in his
own pronunciation, and day by day,
he accosted his father with 'Has you
been play in' fool, papa?'
This made a deep impression on the
shoemaker, as he realized that the
question was being answered by the
tailing off of his customers and the
growing wants of the household. He
resolved again and igain to quit the
pool table, but weakly allowed the
passion of play to hold him a long
time. Finally he found himself out
of work, out of money, and out of
flour. Sitting on his bench one after
noon idle and despondent, he was
heard to exclaim:
'No work again to-day—what I'm
to do I don't know?'
'Why, papa,' prattled the baby,
can't you run down and play fool
some more?'
'O hush! you poor child,' groaned
his father shame-stricken. That's the
trouble. Papa has played fool too
much already.'
But he never played it again, and
to-day ' his home is comfortable and
happy once more.
An editor having read in auotber pa
per that there is a tobacso, which if a
man smoke or chew it, "will make
him foreet that he owes a dollar in the
world," innocently concludes that
many of his subscribers haye been fur
nished with the article*
NO. 16.
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dome of the Last Public Opinions
of a Great Man.
Neva York Correspondence, Cleveland Leader.
One has a most excellent opportunity
to study "man" as represented by the
average New Yorkers. Among the
wealthy classes, very many of them
have the waxy skin, dropsical flesh,and
"puffed eyes" that are indicative of
serious kidney affection. "Bright's
disease" is "plainly written on their
faces. Since General Logan's death
the subject of rheumatism i being dls
cussed.by the medical profession.
Every intelligent person, with any
knowledge of the human system, is
well aware that if the kidneys are in
good condition all unneooessary mater
ial is regularly carried off by them. If
not, various acids, such as uric acid,
one of the chief causes of rheumatism,
are left in excess,creating deposits that
cause all sorts of chronic organic dis
eases. It would seem, therefore, that
rheumatism, like dropsy, is not a dis
ease, but the result of a disease, and it
is safe to say that if the stomach and
kidneys are kept in heaithfni condition,
there will be no deaths from rheuma
tism.
General Logan was well aware that
his'disease was of the kidoeys,aod once
expressed himself in indignant terms at
the folly of doctors treating him for
rheumatism, when it was the kidneys
that caused his attacks. Tbe high liy
ing and the excesses in all things, pre
valent among wealthy men in large
cities, especially in New York, is tbe
chief cause for Bright's disease, and
the aristocratic trouble known as
rheumatism, even as insufficient and
improper food being about the same re
sults among tbe very poor.
The aboye article, which we repro
duce because of its general interest, is
very significant. Tbe public believes
that rheumatism is an effect of diseas
ed blood, this disease being caused by
uric acid of kidney poison. Enough of
this is developed daily to kill several
men, and if it is not removed by tbe
kidneys as fast as formed, it gradually
ruins the nealth.
This fact is a scientific demonstra
tion.
If doctors jdo not admit it, it is prob
ably because they do not wish to attract
attention to the menace deranged kid
neys offers to the general health, since
they have no authorized specific for
these^organs.
General Logan knew what his real
trouble was,and he recognized thelnon.
sense of treating the effects—the real
seat of the disease was the kidneys.
Senator bittig, of Illinois, whose vote
elected Logan senator after four months
of balloting, tells as that Logan often
complained to him of great distress in
his kidneys. Disease of the kidneys al
ways produces rheumatism,and besides
that, it caused paralysis, apoplexy, im
potency, stomach and blood disorders,
brain troubles, female complaints and
countless other diseases which would
almost never develop if the blood was
kept free of uric acid or kidney poison.
These facts the public recognizes
even though medical gentlemen for
very evident reasons, will not publicly
acknowledge them, least, perchance,
some proprietary medicine, like Warn
er's safe cure, which is sold by all deal*
ers and is now admitted to be tbe only
scientific specific, will get tbe benefit.
Fie on such bigotry 1 It has been
authoritatively stated time and again
that there can be no real sound health
if there is any false action of the kid
neys. Insurance companies refuse
millions of risks on this ground alone,
hence it is that there is such universal
popularity given to the great prepara
tion named—a popularity that is based
upon intrinsic 'merit.
Too much dependence upon profes
sional advice, especially in matters
over which medical men? admit they
have no power, too often results very
disastrously, but of what use to the
victim is experience gained by fetal dis
aster 1
How much better it is to be guided
by an unprejudiced public opinion in
such matters.
Had Logan been so guided he might
haye been spared many years.
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Set Fire to His Little Brother.
LEBANON, Pa., April 14.— During
the temporary absence of Mrs. Robert
E. Shay from her residence in this city
this morning her fourteen-year old son,
Raymond, drew a burning splint from
the stove and pointed it at the face of
his little two-year-old brother who was
sitting at the table. The little fellow's
clothing was set on fire, and before tbe
flames could be extinguished nearly
every vestige of clothing was burned
from his body. Dr. V. H. All weir was
quickly summoned, but on his arrival
it was evident that the child's injuries
would terminate fatally, which proved
to be the case an hour later. The
burning created great excitement.
UNCLB JUMBO was caught with a
stolen chicken bid in his hat, and when
asked how it came there, be replied:
"Fore de Lord, boss, that fowl * must
have crawled up my breeches leg."