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A PAPER FOR THE ROME CIRCLE
MILLHEIM PA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 16., 1887.
What She Dreamed Of.
'I tloii't see w hat ail* the girl !' *uhl Mr*.
I'oplcy, scratch lug her use with the ex
treme cuil of her knitting-needle. 'I H')MMM-I
she'll In- perfectly contented. Took out of
tin- very edge o' the work home-, a* it were,
and made sort of tow n folks here, with a
corner I**l-room to hcrm-lf sud a fringed
towel on the bureau, as a lady couhlu't hev
no nicer ! Aml hsrs shs is, a fri-itin' aud
cryin' half the time.'
They're a fault-fliidiu' set, anyhow,' said
Don-as Jones. 'Aiu't no use try In* to satis
fy them. I've giv' it up, huig ago. Hired
gals is hired-gal* !'
'liut she ain't a hired-gal !' protested Mrs.
Popiey. 'l've took her all the same as my
own.'
'More fool you !' remarked Mis* Jones.
llut she keenly olwervnd Marietta Tyson
(commonly culled 'Muritty') when she
brought lu the teapot, aud the plate of hot
biscuit for supper.
'A tall girl, with eyes as black as cher
ries, and cheeks for all tho world like they
had beeu ]tainted,' muttered she to herself.
'Hhe's pretty, I'll allow. I wouldn't take
no such hired-gal into our house, with Johu
Heury around. Men are so queer. 'l'd
ruther do tho housework myself, until I
dnp.'
Dorcas Jones's visit was rather prolong
ed, aud it was nine o'clock—a jMirtentously
late hour for those country wildernesses —
when at last the redoubtable John Henry
escorted his auut home, and Mrs. Popiey
caiue into tho kitcheu, where Maritty sat
moodily by the fire.
•Maritty ,' said she, 'is everything ready
to lock up aud go to bed ?'
'Yes, Mrs. Popiey.'
The old lady came to a dead standstill.
'Maritty ,' said she, 'you've beeu crying
agaiu.'
Maritty jumped up and threw her anus
arouml Mrs. Popiey's neck.
'I can't help it I' she sobbed. *Uh,I can't
help it. lam so unhappy !'
'What troubles you, Maritty ?' said the
old lady kindly.
'I—I waut to be a lady!' sobbed Maritty.
*1 want a house of my own, with a piano in
the Is-st room, and a carjK-t on the floor—
that's w hat 1 waut !'
'Hush !' said Mrs. Popiey. 'What's
that ?'
Maritty turned scarlet.
'lt's the wind rattling the old lay-lock
bushes against tho wooden shutters,' said
she.
•No, 'tain't,' said Mrs. Popiey. 'lt's
souieliody kin iking. Open the door, Ma
ritty !'
'lt's rats !' jiersistcd the girl, who was
now as pale as ashes. 'I—I often hear them
when I'm here, all by myself.'
'Nonsense !' cried Mrs. Popiey. 'Do you
s')m>*<- I don't know- rats when I hear 'ein ?
Open the door, 1 say,or I'll open it myself !'
And she did open it benM'lf, for Maritty
had sunk trembling on a chair,her face cov
ered l>y lioth hands.
A little old man stood then- under the
dt-w-dmpping lilac-bushes, his white hair
gleaming in the starlight, a certain implor
ing look in his faded eyes.
'Good gracious !' said Mrs. Popiey, 'lt's a
tramp ; and Popiey gone to the city !'
Tin- old man, however, did not seem to
hear her.
•Maritty !' he said in a faint, subdued
voice—'where'* Maritty ? I want tc peak
to Maritty.'
'I wonder,' said Mrs. Popiey, in a sudden
|ianie, 'if we'd better loose the dog ? Oh,
Marittv ! you'd better cut across the fields
ami tell John Henry Jones and his aunt to
0 une hack ! They can't Is- g ne far.'
Hut Maritty had recovered herself all of a
sudden. She n>se and came to the door.
'No,' said she, tain't necessary to do that.
It ain't a tramp—leastways it ain't a tramp
that will do you any harm, Mrs. Popiey.
It's—my father.'
•Your father, Maritty !' gasped the good
old woman.
'Yes,' the girl doggedly answered. 'He's
on the town at Mudville, poor father is. I
told you, didn't I,' with a hard mirthless
laugh, 'that we weren't a very prosperous
family ? And they ain't very good to him,
nor he don't get any too much to eat ; and
so I've taken the liberty every night to give
him the sour milk, that was left in the pail.
Father's dreadful partial to sour milk, and
1 didn't think it any harm, and '
'Harm !' cried the old woman. 'Tell him
to come in—tell him to sit down right away.
Give him some of the raspberry short-cake
and a glass o' milk outen the night's milk
en*. But why on earth didn't you tell me,
Maritty ? Why did you keep this a secret
from me ?'
The girl looked up with glittering wet
eyes.
'Did you s'pose I wanted folks to know
how low the Tyson family hail fell ?' said
she bitterly. 'Father had a farm of his own
once, and he'd 'a hail it now ef he hadn't
underwrit for his brother and lost it all.
And that's why I want to be a lady, with a
house of my own—to give father a home.'
Old Mr. Tyson slept In the kitoben-cham
lx-r that night, rather to his own ltewilder
luent ; hut he had reached that stage of do
cile servility in which he accepted all things
as a matter of course, and understood very
little about it.
Maritty told him that 'it was all right,'
and he Implicitly believed her, and troubled
himself no further on the subject.
'l've a mind to let the jmor old creatur'
stay here,' said Mrs. Popiey. 'There's the
kitchen-chamber ain't never used for noth
ing and I shouldn't never feel what he eats
and drinks, and he might do odd Jobs about
the barn.'
Mr. Popiey, however, who had by this
time returned, shook his head.
'Maritty's very well, said lie ; 'but we
can't keep opeu house for all her people.
There ain't never no know-in' where tills
things' golu' to stop. I guess, Phcebe Ann,
we'd 1 tetter let hi in go about his own busi
ness, and tell Marltty not to feed him at our
hack-door no mora. I don't quite approve
of the principle.'
When Miss Dorcas Jones heard of this
new development she chuckled within her
self.
'Ain't I glad that Maritty Tyson ain't
our hircd-gnl ?' said she. 'I don t s pose
John Henry would fancy that sort of a girl,
but there ain't no accoutiu' for a man's
whims. And she has got a pair o' hand
some blaek eyes of her own—for them as
fancy black eyes. I prefer blue, for my
partwith a glance at the cherry-framed
glasf opjiosite, which reflected her own fad
ed blue orbs with painful accuracy.
That very day, however, just on the verge
of twilight, when the sweet fern thickets
wore iliHtilUiig their |i|oiuiaiitoat odora uinl
the yellow glow in the west was turning to
oriuiNoti,Jolin Henry June* met Marltty Ty
son in tho high-roml.
'Could you lend mo your one-horse wa
gon,' said she wistfully, 'for a couple of
hours to-morrow ?'
•Yes,' the young farmer answered, 'with
pleasure. Shall you waul me to drive ?'
'No !' the girl replied with decision.
'That would eoat too much ; I want to go
•-heap.' *
•Ob, 1 shall not charge anything for the
driver—or the team, either !' he said, shrug
ging his shoulders and smiliug. 'When do
you wuut to go Marltty ?'
'l—l don't kuow !'
•You don't kuow, Marltty ?' he echoed iu
a tone of surprise.
'Yes—ami no !' retorted she. 'l've got to
make enquiries lirst. I'm going to liridge
|iort to gel work iu the factory.'
'ln which factory ?'
'ln nity of them. It don't matter which.
They're always glad to get hands, folks tell
me.'
'But you don't understand factory work.'
'I ean learn,' she insisted. 'And I've
father to care for now. I shu'u't let him go
back to that place. I've got all my wages
saved up, aud it'll keep me until I secure a
place iu the factory—me and father,' she
added. 'And the time shall come yet when
I'll be a lady, with a house of my own, and
a piano, and a carjM-t on the best room Hour,
and a cushioned rocker for father ?'
John Heury surveyed her with admiring
eyes.
'You're looking a long way ahead,' said
he.
'Perhaps,' with a shrug of the shoulders.
'Hut every day I live is going to bring it
nearer.'
'You'll have to work dreadful hard to get
all that!'
'I mean to work,and to wait. Can I have
the wagon, John Henry, at two o'clock to
morrow afternoon ? I think that time will
do as well as any.'
'I don't believe you can.'
Her eyes Hashed.
'I don't care for myself ; I can walk. But
there's father. No matter, though !' she
cried quickly. 'l'll go and see if I can get
Mr. Pratt's cart.'
'Stop a minute, Maritty !' said John Hen
ry. 'I alu't its quick of speqch as some
folks ; but I'd like to discuss tills 'ere mat
ter with you a little.'
'I hain't no tiiue for discussion, said Ma
rltty.
'Yes, you have,' said Joibu Henry com
posedly.
• • • • •
Miss Dorcas was slicing up apples for a
pie that evening when Maritty Tyson came
in. Kite viewed her with unsympathetic
eyes.
'So you've lost your place ?' said she.
'I have left Mn. Popiey—yes,' said Jfarit
ty quietly.
'Ami you are a fool for your paius !' de.
dared the uncompromising spinster. 'Where
do you expect to get a better place ?'
'Here !' said .Maritty calmly.
'Here !' echoed .Miss Dorcas. 'What ou
earth lie you a-talking of? I don't waut no
gal. And 1 wouldu't Lev you if I did.
Come, clear out ! Johu Henry will be com
ing directly, and '
'John Henry is here now,' uttered a calm
voioe at the hack of the irate old lady's
chair. 'And if anybody is to clear out,
Auut Dorras. it must be you ! .Maritty is
coming here for good and all. She's my
wife. We were married at the parsouage
half au hour ago. I've liked her this long
while, hut I never had courage to sjicak out
my mind before. And her father is coming
to-inorrow. We'll fix up the corner chamber
upstairs for her father, Auut lKtrcas. See,
.Maritty,' he added with honest pride,'there's
a carpet on the floor, just as you've always
longed for, and here in the parlor there's the
piano mother bought for poor Jennie, who
died la-fore ever she learned to play on it.
And you shall be a lady, dear, with a hired
girl to wait on you and your father, and
there's nothing money can buy that shall lie
denied you. Speak up, Aunt Dorcas !' he
went on, with kindling eyes and rising col
or. 'Kither welcome my wife or leave the
house ! And don't be long iu takiug your
choice, either !'
•Oh, I'm sure she's kindly welcome !'
stammered Auut Dorcas, with a spasmodic
click in her throat. 'Walk in, Mrs. Jones.
I>ay off your hat and shawl, and I'll get the
tea directly.'
And .Maritty, with her soft dark eyes flx
ed tenderly on her husband's face, smiled to
herself.
'.Me and father have got a home now,' she
murmured. 'With a piano aud a carpet
and all, even down to the cushioued rocker
iu the corner. Just what I always dreamed
of I It seemed such a long way ahead.
And yet all the time it was so near !
Why Uncle Mose Got Fat.
Tbe Rov. Whangdoodle Baxter re
cently met one of tbe male members
of bis Hock, and at onco addressed
him .-
'Why Mose/ be said, 'bow stout
yuse gittin'. Yuse gittin' mighty fat
an' corpulent in mighty fine order, I
tells yer. Par's nuflin' lean about
you, fizzically, but spiritually yuso
tbioncr dan a rail. You don' lean on
de Lord enuff'
'I kin 'splain all dat ar,' said Mose.
'llow does yer 'splain it, Mose ?'
'I did lean on de Lord an' ebbery
Sunday I listened to yer preacbiu', an'
I got as poab as Job's turkey.'
'But bow doos yer 'splain it f How
does yer count fer de transforma
tion V
'Why, doan'yer see ? You fum
isbes do 'ligion an' I does my own
fatten in'.'— Texas Siftings.
Why Poverty Reigns in Syracuse.
It is said that since her marriage
Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives all the
money she earns by writing poetry to
tbe poor. That's nothing ; so do we.
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It. O. DKIMINUEK, JUNE 2ND, IHM7.
Tin- first graud thought that calla atten
tion in the consideration of our Hiihjcct is,
that Goil in the one, al mighty creator of
the universe. This fact aland* out promi
nently in whatever direction wo turn. On
thia point both uature and the sacred script
ure* give abundant and conviucing testi
monies 'ln the beginning God created the
heaven aud the earth."(Oeu. 1 ; 1.) "Hast
thou not known, luut thou nut heard, that
the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator
of the ends of the earth, faintheth not nelth
ey is weary ? There is uo searching of His
understanding." (lsa. 40 ; 28.)
Aud as God by His sovereign power railed
nil things iuto being, so does He iu infin
ite wisdom aud tender mercy, govern and
control all for the good of His national
creatures. What we call the laws of ua
ture are in reality the laws of nature's God.
The wonderful, harmonious working of the
planetary system, as each moves in his own
grand cycle, the changing seasons, the gen
tle dews, the early and the latter rain, the
beautiful productions of the earth, the fear
ful storm, the dreadful earthquake, and o
ver and above them all—man, immortal,
with all his hopes and fears,his longings and
aspiratious, are all in the hollow ot His
hand, uuder the shadow of His wiug, who
"laid the fouudatiou of the earth."
"He ran create, aud He destroy."
"Thou even thou, art ,Lord alone ; .thou
hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens,
with all their host ; the earth, aud all things
that are therein ; the sea, and all that is
tbereir, and thou preserrest them all." (Neb.
9; 6.)
"Be plants His footsteps In the sea
And rides upon the storm ;
0 God. amidst the raging storm,
We're sale beneath Thjr care."
Since God ia the creator and preserver of
all, so is He the sole aud absolute possessor
and owner of all. His right and title none
dare dispute. He is the supreme, sovereign
Lonl of the universe. "The earth is the
Lord's, and the fullness thereof ; the world,
and that dwell therein."(Ps. 24 ; 1.) "For
every beast of the forest is mine, and the
cattle upon a thousand hilla."(Ps. 50 ; 10)
But while God is the common Father of
all mankind, it is the christian's happy
privilege to he God's in an exclusive and
peculiar sense. We are His by the right of
creation, by merciful preservation, and a
bove all by the glorious redemption wrought
for us through His only beloved Son, our
dear Saviour and Lonl. "We are his peo
ple, aud the sheep of His pasture."(Ps. 100;
3.) "For Thou wast slain, and hast re
deemed us to God by Thy blood, out of eve
ry kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation."(Rev. 5 ; 9.)
All this shows most conclusively that
God has the first aud best claim upou us.
Our time, our talents, our meaus, our all
are His. All other ties of wtelier kin
or friendship, are less sacred than our re
lation to Him ; all other duties and obliga
tions must he made subject and secondary to
what we owe our God.
The question then arises : What can we
do for God and the promotion of His cause?
We should give Our Heartt. It is uot sufficient
to be mere nominal members of the church
and observe the outward forms of religion
before the world, if the heart be a stranger
to God. The heart must be regene.ato.l first
and reconsecrated to the cause of God and
the work of the church, time and again.
"My son give me thine heart." (Prov. S3;
3fi.) The inspired writer here indicates un
mistakably the grxt and fundamental step
in the christiau course, and in the wonis of
the blessed Saviour as to which is the great
commandment of the law : "Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, aud with all thy
mind." (Matt. 22 ; 37,) we have the pro
gressive consummation.
Our Time and Talents. Christ's beauti
ful parable, recorded In Matthew 25 j 14 to
30, plainly teaches that each one is entrust-
a talent, "every man according to his
fcveral ability." My talent, your talent,
may he hut the single one pound, but we
have no more right to bury even that than
had the unprofitable servant, who for his
sins of omission was cast into outer dark
ness, where shall he weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
The Church of Christ in her various de
partments of work, has need and room for
all. The congregation the, church council,
the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the
Bible class, the missionary society, the mite
society, the quire, all need men aud women
who for the love of Christ and immortal
souls will freely give their time and talents
to the cause of God. No one has a right to
to refuse work In any place or position if
regularly called by the voice of the church.
There is yet another line of unofficial
church work, much neglected, rarely refer
ed to from the pulpit, in other religious
meetings, or in the social circle, that de
mands our time and talents. Do yon antic
ipate to what I refer ? Ask yourself the
questions : When have I visited the aged,
the Infirm,Jthe frail ? When have I read
the sacred Word of God, so full of richest
consolation and promised, or prayed at the
lied-side of the sick and dying? When
have I visited the poor, the downcast and
distressed, and ministered to their material
or spiritual wants ?What have I done, by
precept and example, to bring others, and
especially the young of ray own family, in
to the fold of Christ ? Do I "occupy" with
the pound entrusted to me, or did I bury it,
like the unprofitable servant ? Do I
give my time and talents to God and His
cause, or is my pretended christian life a
fruitless one ? These questions, so import
ant and direct, deserve our most serious
and prayerftil consideration.
Our Means. The obligation to give our
means for the cause of Goil. although readi
ly admitted, is yet very imperfectly, under
stood. People are slow to learn this parti
cular duty. With many ir is a real burden
instead of a pleasure, as it should be. If we
view the matter in the plain light of the
Bible, and conform ourselves to its precepts
we will learn to regard giving to God as a
a high privilege, and not as a harsh duty,
as is too often the case. We give not our
own, for in an absolute sense we own noth
ing, but of that which God entrusted unto
us as His Stewarts. We may be faithful
servants to our trust and received the prom
ised reward both here and hereafter, or we
may barter away our soul's salvation for a
little filthy lucre, which we can enjoy but
| for a short season at best. "Will a man
rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye
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H.iy, Wherein have we robbed "tkoc? In
tithes and offerings." Olal. 3;H.) In the
light of eternity and of our HOUIH' eternal
welfare,how itiqxtrtnut that we should have
clear,sound,scriptural understanding of this
im port ant subject, seasoned with the graco
of God in the heart, to prompt us to Uo our
whole duty.
We thould yire cheerfully, liberally,scn*on
ably.
Our duty to give is a duty wo owe to God,
and for that reason moos sacred and bind
ing than all other obligations of tbW kind.
If we have a debt to pay on a certain spec
ified time, we are very Solicitous to redeem
our pledged promise and maintain our busi
ness reputation. We make onr arrange
ments to suit the caae, and collect our duos
if we can. If all other means fail wo re
sort to borrowing in order to cancel the obli
gation. Our credit and financial standing
must !>e saved at all 1 wizards. But do wo
manifest any such promptness in discharg
ing our obligations to Cod, our greatest
henefhetor and creditor 4? If the contribu
tions for God's cause were given cheerfully,
liberally and seasonably, what world of sor
r iwful labor it would save the church coun
cil. What an amount of Importuning,argu
mentation, even downright begging would
then be as nnneccesaarjf as it is now com
mon aud discreditable. What agony and
worry over deficiencies and bstancjn dne
would then be avoided. Then could we lift
"up holy hands without wrath and doubt
lng,"(l Tim. 2 ; .) and "pray for the peace
of .Jerusalem," Ps. 22 ; fl,)for the prosperity
ofZion." And how graciously and boun
tifully would the Father in heaven answer
such prayer 1 ,
"We thould renumber (he poor." (Gal. 2;
10.) How often Is this divine command
neglected, forgottesor ignored—not only by
the congregation oollectively, but also by
the individual members of the cburcb. How
little does our religion manifest itself in
practical works of charity to the poor. Onr
own wants, both of necessity and luxury,
must be satisfied to the full, but the pour we
leave to themselves and to God. Our alms
houses and jioor laws are a standing re
proach to the church. The state la compell
ed to do from sheer necessity, what the
church should do,as a sacred duty ; and our
giving is very incomplete according to the
Bible standard, until as God's people wc do
more fpr God's |Kor. This command is
more full of rich promise than perhaps any
other in the sacred Scripture. "Blessed is
he that considcreth the poor : the Lord will
deliver him iu time of trouble." (Ps. 41;
L) He that hath pityiupnn the poor lemletb
to the Lord." (Pa 19; 17.)
"Inasmuch as ye have done It unto one
of the least of them, ye have done it unto
me." (Mat. 25; 40.) "J*ure and undeflied
religion before God ami the Father is this,
to visit the fatherless and widows in their af
fliction." (Jas. 1;27.)
A Story About a Successful Man.
Here is a story about a well-known
railroad man which a Chicago rail
roader, who used to work with him,
relates. It is about William M. Cle
ments, who leaves the Erie Express to
become general manager of the Balti
more & Ohio Bailroad east of the O
hio River, and is from the columns of
the New York Sun :
Clements' career has been a remark
able one in many respects, and he eer
tainly is a remarkable man in every
respect Prior to the war he was a
freight conductor oo the Baltimore A
Ohio, and he first met John W. Gar
rett, then president of the road, near
Wheeling, W. Ya. Three rear cars
of Conductor Clements' train were de
railed one day near Wheeling, and
Clements took the red signal and
went back to flag an express, which
he knew was following. He sent the
engiaeer and fireman ahead to stop all
trains coming from that direction and
to get assistance, hurriedly calliog out
to a stupid brakem&u : 'Pull the train
ahead about a hundred yards.' The
rear cars had commenced to buru from
the broken stove in the caboose, and
Clements wanted to save the valuable
freight in the others. The brakeman
climbed aboard the engine, but was
too stupid to opeu the throttle. The
whole train was burned, causing a loss
of over $73,000.
When Clements returned to the
scene with some of the passengers
from the express which he bad stop
ped half a mile away, he looked at the
burning cars, and, stepping up to the
stupid brakeman, floored him with one
powerful blow. A stout quiet-look
ing passenger walked up to Clements
said: 'Why did you desert your
train ? You could have sent that
mau back with the flag and saved
these cars yourself. It seems to mo
that you don't know your business.'
Clements is a broad shouldered six
footer, and when he glared at his au
dacious critic many people suppesed
there would be another knoek-down.
'Why, you d— fool 1' he replied, con
temptuously, 'do you suppose I was
going to trust that man. I knew he
was a fool, like yourself, and that's
the reason I let him monkey with the
cars while I went back to look after
human lives.'
'Conductor, do you know who I
am ?'
'No ; and I don't care a d—l'
'I am John W. Garret.'
'Well, I don't care if you are. If
you value freight more than human
Ijves, I don't And I burn up a doz
en trains before I'll let one of your
Cheap John brakemea kill a few dozen
people.'
Clements stalked away and busitd
himselfdirectiug the wrecking crew
engaged in clearing the track. Old
man Garrett looked quietly on with
out uttering another word. The fol
lowing week Clements was made a
passenger conductor, whereas every
one supposed that he would be dis
charged. He rose steadily until he
became master of transportation of
whole road.