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MILLIIEIM.PA., THURSDAY DECEMBER 1.1887.
A I'AI'EIt FOlt TIIK BOMB CIHCI.E
Friend Decker's Re
ward.
'The tlays are shortening,' Higluxl Friend
Docker, :ui lie folded up his speetai lew mid
replaced tliem in tlicir tin ease, 'or else my
sight isn't what it used to lie. Wellndny,
one l au't e.\|net to lie young always. Is it
tlice, I.eali ? 1 did nut look for thou so
soon.'
Leah Decker came into the room like a
breezy young whirlwind. She hod none of
the repose of manner which is at present so
much in vogue. Horn nnd lr<sl a Quaker
ess, there was Untiling of the Quakeress u
limit her, except lu-r quaint Scripture name.
'Yes ; it's me !' said Leah, shortly.
'Did thee go to Friend Anastasia ?' gentlv
inquired the old man, re-adjlisting the hig
pi lie logs so tliat they should hum hrigliter
for Leah's benefit.
'O yes, I went there."
'I hope she is better of her rheumatism.'
'Yes, she is Isdter. Hut—but —she will
not buy tlio apples, father. Mean, stingy
old thing !' cried Leah, wratlifully, ding
ing her coal-scuttle bouuet on the table.
'She says she can buy all she wants at .10
cents a barrel, of old Jacob Joyce ; so she
can, {M'rhaps ; wretched, knurly, wormy
knots, not tit for pigs ! Ours are apples !
She says thee asks an exorbitant price.'
Friend Docker slowly shook his bend.
'Friend Anastasia is tinder a misappre
hension,' said be. 'Eighty cents a barrel is
what they are paying at the cider mill. in
ly otie does not like to see such beautiful,
rare colored fruit ground into baleful spirits
to set men's brains on lire.'
'Much she would stop to think of that,'
said Leah, still rallied.
'1 am sorry,'said Friend Decker, mildly.
'I need the money much,'and 1 think she
would have been better satistl.il with my
apples than with Friend Jacob Joyce's.'
'And after all that,' flashed out lazuli, the
spirit of indignation rife within her, 'she
had the impudence to ask me for a jai of
plum sauce I made. She says Friend Mary
told her now nice it was and '
'And quietly intcrpoved her father 'thee
said, 1 bo|>e that thee would be glad to o
blige her.'
'No, 1 didn't,' bluntly answered la?ah '1
said that 1 gathered the wild plums myself
in the Crook and cookul them after
aunt Mahal. l'S recipe, and thai there were
four jars aud 1 waut.il to keep them for
thee : especially since thy health was so
poor and thy appetite so variable.'
'1 am sorry, dear,' said Friend Decker.
'Friend Anastasia is very old, and people
are apt to be merciful about tritles. More
over, she's our kinswoman, a degree or two
removed, perhaps, but '
'Then why don't she do something for
us ?' tiasluil out Ijeah, 'la-sides giving lis
good advice and tormenting us with her
fault-findings ? I didn't mean to mention
it, father, but she told me out and out that
she bad adopted Moses Sawyer, and that
she meant to take him for her heir.'
'Writ, .tiuuhter, why should she not ?'
COUllHisedlY UihuMmui^
'Because he is no relation to her at all,'
cried 'and the projierty caine from
our G rand-fat lu-r Lennox, thee knows.'
'Tin* attaches too much im|K>rtauce to
mere dress, Leah,' said Friend Decker.
'Thee must study the text of the lilies ot the
field in the Bible. We shall IHJ provided
for if only we can have patience to wait.'
I a'all bit iter full, r.il under lip as she
glanced around the sparsely furnished room
and uoticed her father's drooping figure aud
rapidly whitening head, but she made no
reply as she ts>k up the coarse pile of vests
on which she had been working button-bol
es for a neighboring clothing contractor.
'Father's a saint," thought she, 'hut 1 am
not, and lam afraid I never shall be. 1
should like to cut off Anastasia Akerly's
•sirs. If every one had their rights, half of
that big Lennox farm would be ours. She
gained |Hssession of it by the merest legal
quibble, and if father was like any one else
he would have gone to law about it long a
go and got back his own. And now to see
it deliberately willed to some once lse I'
And Leah's needle flew vindictively in
and out of the cloth like a miniature javelin
piercing the heart of an unseen enemy.
But the next morning when Leah had
gone to carry her bundle of vests home, and
get another hatch of work, Friend Decker
put oil his hat and buttoned his great-coat,
which was getting worn at the elbows and
shiny at the seauis.
'lt is a bright, clear morning, albeit a
tritie frosty,' said lie. 'I think I may walk
as far as Lennox farm without aggravating
my cough.'
And under his arm he carried a neat par
cel.
Old Anastasia Akerly was winding blue
yarn before her tire when lie came in. She
greeted him without a shadow of suspicion.
Had he couie like a spy into the enemy's
quarters ?
'1 hope thee is well, Friend Anastasia,'
said he. I have brought thee a jar of my
daughter's wild plum sauce. Perhaps it
may tempt, thy appetite.'
'I ain't of no consequence,' said she. 'I
dunno as 1 care so much about
Only there used to grow a wild plum hush
on the lulls at home, and mother used to
boil the plums with molasses. They were
drefi'ul sour, but there was a flavor about
'em 1 hain't never since tasted. And when
Mary Moore told me how good Leah's was,
I kind o' notioned I'd like a taste o' 'em-
Uut licali said she hadn't none to spare.'
'Leah Wiis mistaken,\said Friend Docker.
'ln our house there is always something to
spare for an old friend like thee.'
'I didn't know that you looked on ine as
a friend,' she said sharply.
'Thee ought to have been certain of that.'
'There was ugly things said übonttheway
the Lennox property was managed,' said
Miss Akerly.
'Nothing was said by me, Friend Anasta
sia,' observed the Quaker. And as far as in
me lies I am anxious to he at peace with all
the world.'
'llumph,' said the old woman. 'Well,
there ain't 110 use making up to me ; my
will was drawn up long ago, and Moses
Swayer is my heir !'
'Thee is welcome to do as thee likes with
thy own,' said Friend Decker, calmly set
ting down the jar of wild plum preserves
and glancing wistfully toward the cush
ioned arm-chair by the tire for his limbs
were enfeebled by age and he walked a con
siderable distance.
But Miss Akerly did not ask him to sit
down and rest, so he took [a fresh grip of
his knotty cane and started on his home
ward tramp.
"Good morniug to thee, Friend Anastasia.
'to wlilcli the ol<l lady only responded will
an articulated grunt.
Hut Wlu'll 111' WUK out of sight she uu
screwed the lid of tln< jar, and with an ohl
spoon, worn thin wilh long usage, shetested
the HTT'itt MOSS of the contents.
'Jest like them mother used to boil down
with molasses when I was a gal,' she said.
'1 could most fancy 1 was a gal ag in, in
the old plum tiiuu a-cnttin' across the lots
with my sun bonnet hitched on by one
string, and the red dog caperiu'at my heels.
Waal, waal ! It don't seem like 1 was clone
on seventy years yf age.'
Miss A u astasia had some of the wild |duiii
sauce with her scanty dinner, it gave it a
relish. Shi' ate some more with bread and
clieese for her supper.
'1 never did taste notbin' that went to the
right s|ot like them plums,' said she. 'lt
ain't cause they're relisliin'—it's cause they
make me feel like I was out iu Wisconsin,
with the sassafras leaves turuiu* yaller,
aud the wind blowin' in my face.'
'Leah did not kuow until a neighbor's
boy brought back the jar neatly wrap)ied iu
a newspaper, what a treat she bad afforded
lier neighbor.
'What is it, Willie ? she asked the boy.
'lt's the jar that bad the wild plum sass
iu it," said Willie. '.Miss AVeriy says she's
much obliged—ami she gave me a ginger
cookey for bringing it back, she did.'
'Father,' said Leah, reproachfully, to the
old man, 'this is thy doings. Thee isalways
thinking of some one else.'
'lt has done me more good than if 1 had
eaten it myself, Leah,' said Friend Docker,
ujiologetically.
Leah ran to him and gave him a hug.
'Thee is an old darling, father,' said she,
'and thee makes me ashamed of uiy own
temper sometimes.'
She put the jar on the top shelf of the
little pantry, ami never thought anything
more about it till one day when she wanted
a jar to put fresh cranberries in. She was
iu a hurry for Miss Auastasia Akerly was
to be buried that afternoon. She died us
she had lived, sitting aloue before the fire,
and this was the day they had a pointed
for her funeral.
Friend Decker had expressed a desire to
attend the obsequies of the kinswoman, w ho
had been so little to him, and Leah was liur.
ryiug through her work so she might brush
the well-worn suit and take a much-needed
stitch iu the coarse worsted gloves.
As she tore off the newspaper wrappings
she stopped suddenly. .
'Father,' she cried 'here is a piece of thick,
yellowish pajier rolled up and put inside
this jar that came from Friend Auastusia's.
What does thee sup|s>se it is ? Father it is
aw ill !'
She ran eagerly with it to Frieud Decker.
He looked dubiously at the outside.
'Thee is right, Leah,' 'said he, 'Friend
Auastusia's heart has softemsl towards us
This is doubtless the will she mentioned—
the w ill iu favor of Moses Sawyer. She has
sent it to us to destroy. Nay, daughter,
nay,' as Leah eagerly caught it up and
hastened toward the tire. Give it to me. It I
is not for us to make or meddle. If Friend
* ,, Mll ■ ■ Manual 'Jig will deal roved sljc_
should have done it herself. I shall ialte it
hack to Friend Johnson, the executor.'
"Father," cried Leah, thee would not give
him the w ill ?'
'Does thec think it would lie an honorable
thing to destroy it, Leah."
'lf she wanted us to do so, father.'
'Hut we have no right to presume any
thing of the sort, daughter,' reasoned Friend
Decker, buttoning it up under his coat.
I 'Nay, nay, do not fret.' For Leah, over
come by the sudden blaze of hope, and the
after blackness of despair, had hurst into a
flood of tears, 'it w ill he well with us, never
fear.*
Judge Johnson, the great man of the
iieighliorbood, received the papers with soine
surprise.
'December sixth,' he read. •Hum,' this
is the latest document she has executed.
Oh, yes ! I remember it very well ; I drew
it up myself. Hut why did you bring it here
Friend Decker.
The ohl man hriefiy related the circum
stances.
'Old people are apt to be capricious,' said
he. 'Doubtless the trilling matter of the
plum sauce pleased her and she sought to
reward us. Hut 1 should never take ad
vantage of Friend Moat-s by burning the
will.'
'But why in the name of common sense
should you burn it ?* said the judge. Are
you in the habit of having estates left to
you every day, that you dispose of them so
readily ?'
'I don't think I quite understand (liee,
Friend Johnson,' said Decker.
Hut Leah's face brightened like a rose.
'1 sec ! I see !' she cried 'Father, Friend
Anastasia has done right, late though it be.
She has willed the Lennox farm to thee."
And Leah sjioke truly. The dead woman
made tardy reparation in her last legal pos
sessions of what should long ago have lieen
their own. No amount of reasoning or ro
inonstrance hail availed, bat one of those
sudden touches, which, "striking the elec
tric chain wherewith we're darkly bound,"
sway the 'soul with disproportionate force
had induced her to perform an act of justice
at last, and the jar of wild plums, with its
train of associations, had Iteen the most el
oquent pleading of all.
BE CAREFUI, WITH FIREARMS.
A Sensible Man Never Fools" With
Either n Gun sr a IMstol.
Never handle fire arms carelessly. I used
to do it but of late years it makes me
boil to have anybody point a gun or pistol
toward me. Two events in my life have
done more to inspire within me a whole
some respect for firearms than anything
else that ever happened to me.
When I was about 15 years old, I bor
rowed a shotgun of a clinm.
"Is it loaded ?" was the first question I
naked.
"No," was the reply, and I, like a goose,
believed what he said.
On the way home with it, I met another
hoy who began dodging behind the shade
trees as I approached, Indian fashion. I,
of course, must do my part of the tragedy,
so cocking the gun, I began to skulk too,
until, when we finally met, to show that he
was plainly in my power, I put the muzzle
of the gun up close to bis nose ami pulled the
trigger.
T thought no more of the circumstance
until evening, when I began cleaning the
gun, and found that it was clogged up, so I
could not blow through it Procuring a cap
I placed it on the nipple, and going to the
to the front door, pulled the trigger and a-
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance.
Ii way she went, with a report that awoke the
uelghlNtrs for blocks around, anil tilled the
i- leave* of a cherry frit* near ly ns full of
>1 holes as a skimmer.
>1 Then 1 thought of Tom, into whose face I
had sn:ip|N-i| the gilii. The fact that the cap
11 had become damp alone prevented the gun
I. frcm being discharged and blowing Tom's
II head into smithereens.
s Though his after life was a lizzie, and he
r tilled a drunkard's grave at MII early age,yet
how my life would havohlighttd if, through
is my boyish carelessness, he had lieeu killed.
I vowed a vow at that time never to becaro
i less with. Hrearin*.
t One more circumstance occurred after I
1 bad grown to manhood. 1 was standing on
a pile of lumber busily engaged in uieasiir
• ing lumber, when, hearing a "click" be
t hind me, 1 turned, and there stood a hoat
man poiuting an army musket squarely at
, my head, ami sighting along the barrel.
The muzzle of the guu was only six feet
from my head, aud he just snapped it at uie.
s lie will a man 50 years old, aud, under the
i first angry impulse that came over we, I
I said :
"You old fool, you ought to kuow better
thau to snap a gun at a fellow's head in
i that careless way."
i "Aw, phaw !" said he "iti su't loaded."
"How do you know that ?"
"Ik-cause it has been lying around ray
boat for more than six months, and 1 know
i it isn't."
That's just the reasou you dou't kuow
anything about it," said I.
"Wall, now, you're makiug such a fuss
about it, I'm going to get a cap. and show
you. Here hold the guu till I come back."
While be was gone I ran the ramrod down
the barrel and found that it was loaded.
When he returned with a cap 1 removed
the old one aud replaced it with a new one.
Pointing the gun upward I pulled the
trigger, and a rc|ort followed the recoil
from which nearly knocked uie off the
lumber pile and raised the boatman's hair
on end.
"What do you think'uow," I asked.
"Well," said he, "that's the last time
I shall jioint a guu at anybody if I live 100
years."
A damp cap alone saved me that time,
and though I should not have beeu to blame
yet this event would have blighted my life
still mors effectually than the first one, for
it would undoubtedly have blown my head
off my shoulders, ami a man who finds
himself in that condition can but ac
knowledge that his life is, in a measure,
blighted, and his future plans and pros
pects somewhat interfered with. I
Don't fool with firearm*. If a gun is (
loaded, and everybody knows it is Joaded,
there is little danger. It is the gun and the 1
revolver which is not loaded that goes off
and kills folks, or maids them for life. So
the only sale way is to handle them at all
times as though they were loaded.
(Jet into the liahit of so doing, then it will
become natural and easy to you, and you <
may Is* spa ted the agony of gazing upon the (
I mangled form of some friend through whom
you have let daylight.
point the muzzle away from other people. I
The Joker Outjoked.
From the St. Paul Globe.
A thrilling though true story rela
ting to a prominent merchant of St.
Paul,but who is now visiting the lake
has just leaked out. The man in
question had attended a fashionable
dinner party and bad imbibed rather
freely of champagne, so much so that
on returning to his office he felt an ir- 1
rcsistable impulse to play on somebody '
a practical joke. His quick wit soon
came to his rescue. Managing to
reach bis telephone he called up an
undertaker, and representing himself
to be tbe Coroner, ordered bim to
come immediately and remove a dead 1
man. lie telephoned to another un- 1
dertaker the same message, and still
another. Not satisfied yet he called
a fourth —urging them to hasteD. He
then threw himself on a sofa to await 1
the fun.
He soon, however, went to sleep,
and when tbe undertakers came be
was dozing away in a half-drunken
stupor. The undertakers soon under
stood tbe situation and whispered a
short time among themselvea
A few minutes after they were seen 1
to carry one of the boxes into tbe of- *
fiee, and soon returned with it, lifting (
it with much exertion into the wagon. 1
When tbe man awoke he found him- '
self stark naked on a marble slab in a
dissecting room of a prominent estab
lishment of St. Paul. 'Let me see, ;
said a thin, gaunt young fellow, who J
was sharpening a scalpel, 'shall we cut s
out bis left lung first or his right ?' i
The intoxicated man began to doubt t
whether he was dead or alive, Tbe <
cold sweat began to come out on his (
forehead. He found himself unable to (
move a muscle or utter a word. t
'Oh, it don't make much difference,' 1
answered the person addressed, a still t
more gastly-looking specimen, who 1
was wiping a long dissecting knife i
near the bead of the doomed man. £
'We can sever the jugular first and J
then decide what to do,' As he spoke 3
bo put his cold wet hand on theshcul- c
der of tbe man and held the knife as if 6
about to dissect him. The man ad- j
rnits that tbe sensation was peculiar ;
tbe touch of the band, however, acted
like au electric shock and with a pierc
ing yell, the 'dead man'jumped sever- 1
al feet away from his persecutors and
reached the outside of tbe door, only
to hear them roar with laughter as 1
they shouted to hiui, 'Hold up, Jim, t
it's only a practical joke, you know ; v
better come back and get your vest
on.' I
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been set out. Tbey were telegraph
poles at first but, shortly after they
was put out, although tbey were dead
when tbey were put out, tbey com.
menced growing and tbey just bad to
take tbe wires off 'em an' let 'em rip.
Wonderful country aint it V
'Yes ; by tbe way what will yon
take for your place ?
•I'll sell it to you cheap, considering
tbe fack that tbey are abont to lay off
a town on it You may have my
fifty acres for sloo.'
'That's certainly cheap.'
'Reckon ft is. What do yon say f
'lt is suspiciously cheap. Wby are
you so anxious to sell ?'
•Wall, as I tell you, tbey are goin'
to build a town bere an' I don't want
no noise and confusion about me.
What do you say P
'Don't believe I want to bay.'
'Say take it for SSO. I can't stand
noise, recolleck.'
'No, I don't care to invest'
'How will $25 strike you.'
'Not very welL'
'What would you say to sls P
'No. I'm obliged to you.'
'Wall, git outen bere now—git 1
You would paralyze any boom the
country ever saw. Bill,' calling his
son, 'fetch mj gun here, and if this
fellar is in sight three minutes from
now I'il take a crack at bim. Git !'—
Arkanmxo Traveler.
A Lumberman Paralyze* a Spirit.
A pretty good story is told on Dave
Reynolds of Reynoldsville. Dave is
a droll genius and loves s joke as well
as Christ Miller, while in New York
a few years ago, Dave stopped at tbe
Continental Hotel with some other
gentlemen from bis native town. Bills
of fare were placed before tbe guests,
and soon all were supplied except Dave.
But be still sat there contemplating
tbe outlandish French names on tbe
bill of fare and trying to figure oat
what it all meant, until the waiter,who
stood behind bim, began to get tired
aDd finally asked : 'Well, what will
you have, Mister V Dave straighten
ed up a little, looked tbe waiter in the
eye, and said in distinct tones; 'Bring
me a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
please.'
One Cashier that Is Safe.
"I see you have a new cashier," remarked
the president of one bank to another.
"Yes, we set him to work yesterday."
"Had any experience ?"
"Lot's of it."
"Under heavy bonds, I suppose. Oar man
is under $150,000.
"Well, no ; we did not require big
bonds."
"Great heavens, man, he'll run off in two
weeks with the whole bank."
"We have every confidence in him."
"Well, you'll pay dearly enough for it.
He'll be in Ctnada inside of a month."
"J think not. You see, he has just run a
way from a Canadian bank with 5200,000. I
think he is safe enough.
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1 Great Advantage.
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' Tbe 'boom' spirit has taken sach
possession of tbe west that people
who are looking for locations baye
become accustomed to high exaggera
tion.
'Do you want to sell your farm V
was asked of an old fellow.
'Wouldn't mind it.'
'Land rich ?'
'Cream's poor compared with it.'
'Healthful neighborhood ?'
'Ain't anybody ever died here yit.
Cal Gruder's son died some time ago
in Texas, and they fetched bim home
to bury bim, an' dinged if be didn't
get well before tbey got through tbe
funeral sermon.'
'lt must be bealthfuL
'That's wbst it is* See that feller
goin' long yonder ?'
•Yea'
•Walks pretty well, doa't be ?'
'First rate.'
'Wall, 1 know something abont him
in connection with this here climate
that will sound sorter strsnge.'
'W bat's that.*
>Wali when that fellar come here be
bad only one leg.'
'You don't mean it!'
'Yes, I do.'
'I have beard so much concerning
this part of tbe country that I am
now prepared for almost anytbiog, but
I must coolesß that you astonish me.'
'lt'sa fact all tbe same. Only bad
one leg wben be come bere, but putty
soon another one commenced to grow
ovV
'Grow right on tbe stump of tbe
old one, eb ?'
No,sir ; never bad a stump. Was
born with only one leg. Do you know
thai there ain't a man in this country
that drawß pension from tbe govern
ment ?'
■No ; is that a fact ?'
'A flat-footed faok. Their arms
and legs have growed oat ti!l tbe gov
erument has refused to give them pen
bions.'
•Good frnit country ?*
'Well, tolerable, but it ain't very
good fur apples, fur tbe trees grow so
higb that tbe yocng apples die of tbe
cold. See that long row of big trees
over yonder ?'
Yes.'
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