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LIFE Tkat la why ! always aarreea with aa4 eiarrirsees Aceaia dsabl their .ilre iaeaata. Now is the tune to start. Wr!i" ELLWANGER & BARRY, Mt. Haiarlea, stacbaesar, N. V. fl'HK Faasuaa and the Semi-Weekly Pittaburi J. JoT at only 2.u0 a year. All lbs news. ""Hilt!' Write to T. S. Qumca. Drawer 130, Cbicagtx, Secra- tary of the Stak ACCIdkmI Comfaxt, for ' informatloa regarding Accident ' Insur ance. Mention this paper. By so doing yon can save membership fee. Ha paid oer .. for Accidental injuries. Be your own Agent. MO MEDICAL EXA-UINA.TION RKQCIUQ BI CHAKLE8 E. REED. "Madam. I need help; won't you give me something'?" The question was ad dressed to Mrs. Phelps, who had just entered her carriage. "No, I've no money to waste on lazy vagabonds!" was her sharp reply as the carriage door slammed shut. Mrs. Phelps, a wealthy youug widow, prominent in fashionable society, was in au unpleasant frame of mind. She had just visited three of the largest stores in the city in a vain search for a certain costly fabric, and now felt that she was an exceedingly unfortunate and most ill-used individual. Present ly the carriage drew up before another store, which Mrs. Phelps entered after instructing her four-year-old son to remain seated in the carriage until her return. Master Phelps was very obedi ent for about three minutes. Then his attention was attracted by something w hich appealed to him quite as strongly as to a less aristocratic juvenile the antics of a monkey under charge of a peripatetic musician. Standing on tip toe, he laid his hands against the door, which, having been accidentally left unfastened, yielded to the pressure and partly opened; and in a very short time the young gentleman was out of the carriage and balf-way across the street. Then, in an instant, there was a hoarse cry of warning, a woman's shriek and something graed the boy, swung him from right in front- of a runaway team, and laid him. frightened and screaming, iu his mother's arms. After she had soothed the child and put him into the carriage. Mrs. Phelps turned to the rather ababbilv -dressed man to whose agility her sou's rescue was due. "You have saved my Arthur's life!" h exclaimed. "Come to-morrow to my residence and name your reward. Meanwhile, take this;" and she handed Liu a $20 gold piece. Itut the man refused the proffered gold. "Why should you reward a lazy vaga bond? That is what you called me a bit ago when I asked you for some thing," he remarked. Mr. Phelps looked at him closely and recognized him. I wa out of humor," she explained. "Pardon what I said, and tell me how I can HHRiKt you." "Madam, you've Invitrdjoi. to come to your home. If you'd do tpe kindness, come to mine instead."' Mrs. Phelps looked at him in amaze ment. "I can hardly do that," she said. "I would much rather " "As you please, madam. I'm glad I w as able to rescue your child. I f you're glad, I wish you'd visit my home. It isn't much to ask." "What is your name, and where do you live?" He said his name was Jame.s Thomp son, and named an obscure street as his address. "After I've taken my child home. I'll call and see you." said Mrs. Phelps. "I'll be there by the time you are," he responded. An hour later Mrs. Phelps, accom panied by a trusty servant, having driven into a narrow street, entered a most uninviting tenement, and ascended three flights or rickety, filthy stairs, was admitted to a small attic room, lighted by a single window. The floor was carpetless. A cracked stove, an old table, a large box which served as a cupboard, a bed, and. two or three broken-backed chairs, were the only furniture. But though so bare and comfortless, the room was clean. Upon the scantily covered bed lay two persons a woman of perhaps 35 and a little girl of about six both evidently ill and both sleeping uneasily. "I asked you to come here because I wanted you to see this," said Tbomp-, son in a low voice. "This" with a comprehensive wave of the hand "is my home. You see all my furniture except what's at the pawnshop. I have no fire, and no fuel to make it with; no food, and no money to buy it with. I have a little medicine left by the doctor, but none of the comforts needed by my sick wife and child. This, madam, is why I asked you for help this morning." Mrs. Phelps covered her face. "How long have you been in this de plorable condition? asked Mrs. Phelps. "To-day is the first I've had to beg," was the reply; "something I'd have thrown myself into the river rather than do if it hadn't been for them. Hut I couldn't see them starve. I came to the city five years and more ago," he added after a moment's pause. "I had bad luck, for work was dull. From hav ing a little house by ourselves, we were obliged to move here, and then my wife, who was a good seamstress, succeeded in getting men's trousers to make at Id cents a pair." "Eighteen cents a pairl" exclaimed Mrs. Phelps. "Yes; but the price soon fell to 15 cents, and as I was out of employment, I helped with the sewing. By working from early morning till late at night we managed to earn enough to pay our rent and buy sufficient food to keep ns from starving. But the rates went down, down, down, to 13, to 12, even to ten cents a pair." "What! Ten cents for making- a pair of trousers? Who is mean enough to pay such wages as that?" "The great clothing firm of Phelps & Co., madant!" "Phelps & Co.! Impossible!" "The firm, madam, of which your husband was the head. I wonder if, when he gave largely to some library, church or hospital, he ever thought of the poor wretches-who toiled day and night, summer and winter, with aching eyes, weary fingers and hungry stomachs,'- that the' mtlPwtnt'b' ground out his money might turn him out a good-sized grist! I -can -take you to half a dozen families in this very house who make trousers for Phelps & Co., at the same prices, and' who. like its, have ' finished coats at from five to ten cents each, and make knee pant at 16 to 18 cents a dozen pairs." "Eighteen cents a dozen pairs! You don't mean that?" "Yes, madam, Tdo. When Phelps it ' Co. pay ten cent for making a pair of trousers which sells for five dollars, is it any wonder that; the firm prospers exceedingly, and that your husband was able to give away his thousands ?" "This is a revelation to me," said Mrs. Phelps. "I call not see how you man aged to exist at all." "It's been a hard, hard struggle," re plied Thompson. "With the aid of our lit tle girl for sha has beeu sewing ever since site was four years old we were occasionally able to earn a dollar in a day; but that was seldom. We had to pay a dollar and a quarter per week for this room, and hardly ever had more than four dollars a week to feed, clothe and warm the three of us. P.utfortue last six months the cluld has been ill. Ten days ago my wife took sick, and be cause of having to wait on her and the child I was able to do so little sewing that the foreman got angry the other day and refused to give me any more work. Besides, we have been falling behind with the rent, and only yester day 1 received notice that if I don't ay up by the end of the week I and my sick family must leave." "Outrageous! Who is your land lord?" - Thompson took a paper from his ocket, and, remarking that it was his last receipt, handed it to Mrs. Phelpt. who, after a single glance, started, and then stood staring at it in open-mouthed astonishment. For her own name w-xs affixed to the receipt! "What!" she ejaculated, as soon as she could find her voice. "This house mine?" "So it seems." "This is my agent's work." said Mrs. Phelps, half to herself. "And he would have turned you into the street! Hor rible!" She oeiied her tocket and took out some bills. "Mr. Thompson." she said. "I thank you for iuxiating that I should come here. You have opened my eyes to some things I was blind to Is-fore. Takethix it is only a very small art of the heavy debt I owe you. Buy fuel, food, clothing, furniture, medicines what ever you aud your sick family most re quire. Spend it freely, but pay no rent; this room shall never cost you anoiher cenU" Uod bless you, mada me!" Thorn son exclaimed, his eyes filling with tears. "I take your gifts now with a glad and thankful heart. I felt sure that all vou needed was to see and understand. Itut. oh, remember that there are others in this house almost as badly off as you found me." Upon reaching home Mrs. Phelps went to her room aud shut herself in. Her visit to James Thompson had in deed been a revelation to her. How had she discharged the re.ssnsibility w hich the possession of great wealth carries with it? By lavishing money on flowers, music, rich viands and the like, w hen so many were lacking the neces surieii.of life. And. most- humiliating thought of all, much of the very wealth which she enjoyed bad been earned for her by those same starving iu-. Theirs it- was not hers if justice wen done. In her humiliation she knelt an 1 offered what was. perhaps, the first real prayer that had risen from her lips for a long time; a prayer in which she craved pirdon for the thoughtlessness, selfishness and frivolity of the past, and consecrated her wealth to the serv ice of Christ and of those concerning w horn. He said : "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto Me." A year has passed. James Thompson with his wife and daughter, both of whom have been restored to health, are living in a neat, pleasant house, the gift of Mrs. Phelj.w, through whose in strumentality Thompson has procured lucrttive employment. The year ha witnessed some other changes, too especially in the real estate owned by Mrs. Phelps. Very promptly she called upou her agent and gave-t hat individual some instructions which fairly took his breath away. She obtalnad from him a list, of all tenements owned by her, and then set to work to systematically visit each house and the families occu pying it. Such poverty, squalor and degradation as she encountered! As a result of this inspection, she ordered a general reduction of the rents, a thorough cleaning of all the houses and numerous repairs, while some crazy habitations she ordered to be de molished. Phelps & Co. no longer pay starvation wages to their employes. Mrs. Phelps husband had bequeathed her a controll ing interest in the firm, and one day she startled the other partners by propos ing a heavy increase in the rates paid for making up clothing. They de murred, and said that such an increase would bankrupt the firm. But Mrs. Phelps persisted in her demand, and finally induced the senior partner to aecomany her to the abodes of some of the people employed by the firm. They had not visited many places when he said be had seen quite enough. "How do you suppose the patronage of Phelps or Co. would be affected," asked Mrs. Phelps, "if our customers were aware that their new garments had been lying a few hours before on the dirty floor of a tenement or on the bed of a child sick with a contagious disease?" Being unable to answer this question satisfactorily, both partners quietly submitted to the inevitable. The wages were raised, and, far "from becoming bankrupt, the firm of Phelps & Co. is more.'prusperoAs than ever. And Mrs. Phelpa U!-day is a very cheerful, happy woman far happier than when she was a -devotee at the altar of fashion. For she knows that she has the smile of Him to whom sbe has consecrated not only her wealth and her time, but iierself. X. Y. Observer. Th Haar-fM-thta-a Woman. What a curious manifestation of van ity it is w hich prevents a near-sighted woman from wearing glasses. One such woman was a memier of a party that took a trip over the Rockies. She heard the others exclaiming over the beau ties of the landscape through which they were passing. Not w ishing to be behindhand: "Look! look there!" she presently exclaimed, "isn't that exquis ite? What a picturesque ruin!" The "picturesque ruin" turned out to be a stable or a barn painted with: "Use Pain's Painless Plaster, etc." Unde terred by one such error she raved iu ecstasy over the loveliness of some "stunning woman," until a kind-hearted companion checked her by pointing out that tlie fair one w as an antique guy w ith a w ig N. Y. Herald. IX THE QUICKSANDS. BY If. IKY INK LVMIS. We were all sitting around the coy fireplaee in my friend's study, tilling hunting exjioriences. The wind was blowing outside wit h just enough frc to give the windows a ghostly tattle, and make the blaze roar up the chim ney in a way that lent an added charm to stories into which the element of danger largely enU-red. We had all dutifully told some old time adventure with certain additions that seemed absolutely nece-osa ry un der the circumstances all except t.ur host, who had Ihtii given the lat phice on the list, so that the series might close robed in tlie richest coloring. He was a hunter of wide and vari-d exjerience and a man who had gi u a great deal of intelligent thought tn the mysteries of woodcraft. Conse quently, w hatever he said upon the sub ject was always listened to with defer ence. We therefore settled down a little I more comfortably in our chairs as he j l-egan: "In jny younger days I s-iit more time in the woods than I !.. mm. Not that I like hunting less. It has as jrn at attraction for me as ever, the odr f tlie w tools is as sweet to me aj. t he -'iit of powder is to the old war Inirse; but many things claim my time im and keep me from wandering. "The little adventure 1 am al.m t.. tell hajijo-ned in Nova Scotaa. virs ago, w hen I w as quite a v uung 11..1 u. "It is not grnraMy known tint ter rain I art s of t be prnv int tt.nl 1 11 oin. of the finest hunting groiiiuN uii.ii.-ii..i-l.le. Miles and iiul.-i. of virgin f.r -t. acres of spruce and pine av-rat'ii - f ') feet in height, crowded t.i.-t-t !.-r on ints-green groundwork, aliu.t -)-unough to shut out tlavli'ht. I !i.-i. there are j.arts overrun with h'gh maples, birch and lo-e-ch. "Many a day have I crept tl.roiirh the deep, shady glades and over the ItMitr. sloping hills. Hut I aiu rather wandering from my story. "I'll just show- you where my adven ture happeiHil." liaising, he took down an at la from a shelf. "Just here at the north." be con tinued. "SVe that headland? That's the. place. Twicf a day all the water in the basin seems to rush around that (MMiit. and aw ay up into t he mainland. "It is marsh land along there, and the joiint is called Minudie marsh. It is a very Icrge tract of land, said to tim tain 5.00(1 acres, shut in from the s.-a by nine miles of dyke. It is o-rfeclly level. lotted all over with barns ami I1.1v stacks; and in the autumn ;Jmi with men and horses, busily at work cutting "broad leaf" or marsh hay. "tne not acquainted with the place cijuld easily ticeome lost, for the barns and haystacks, extending in every di rection, are ail alike :n sie, shae -nd color. It was near this marsh that I had located myself for the hunting sea son, 011 account of the excellent sirt which it afforded in tlie sh:iic of almost every kind of water fowl, ami ai.- he cause not many miles away were vv tools "in which moose and caribou were plen tiful. "The autumn that year had leen very dry, so that there were, cotnjiaratively sjieaking, no birds on the niarsJi. With out knowing this, however. I one day set out for a few hours" shtntting. "I traniMtl the best part of the aft ernoon, without success, and, as I did not care to go home without bagging something, I determined to shto.t jeep on the mud fiats. "I rolled up my tronsers to tlie knee and started, sinking fully six inches in tlie soft mud at every step. I walked aliout for some time, get ting a shot now aud then and wandering far out umii the flats, until a rushing noise behind made me turu quickly around. "The lore was coming a bank of tumbling, seething water, quite three feet high, tearing aliout as fast as a man could run. 'Time to Ik1 getting iKick. thought I. 'It w ill not take long for the tide to cover the flats. I stood and watched the tidal wave for a moment, then started quite leisurely for the dyke, shaping my course directly for it. "After having gone 50 yards or so. I came to a gully, between eight aud ten feet wide, at the lHttom of which flowed a little stream. It run nearly parallel with the dyke, ami in order to reach the marsh I had either to cross "it or go away up and around. Not. car ing to lengthen my disagreeable t ramp for it was no fun dragging one's feet out of the mud at- every steji I decided to hold myoriginal course. The sides of the gully looked soft and treacher ous, but by taking a running jump I thought 1 could clear the dangerous part. "I steped back a few paces, and. firmly grasping the gun. staxted. I had miscalculated the effect the bad ftwting would have, and saw my mistake tlie moment I sprang; but too late! "I landed on. the other side of the stream, in what seemed to me the soft est part of the mud. My weight and the impetus of my jump drove me into the mud knee-deep. "At first I was inclined to laugh at my plight, but that feeling Seedilv gave way to one of anxiety, w hen 1 real ised that I was swiftly sinking. "I endeavored to draw my feet out, but when I tried to lift one the other went further down. A cold sweat broke out on my forehead. I was in a 1 ed of quicksand! "1 struggled with all my strentrth. but it was useless. There seemetl to Ie an undercurrent of sand that was con tinually slipping away from my feet. Against that terrible.jioweritwasu.se less to fight. "I bail heard and read of jieople dy ing in this horrible manner. tut never liefore hail the chilling awfulness of it struck nic with any degree of force. Now. as I thought of lieingdrawn slow ly down, down inch by inch, in imagi nation I could feel the cold, wet mud creeping, like some gruesome reptile about my neck, higher, higher over my chin; over mj- tight ly.-closx-d lips, until my breath . I tell you a man's mind rushes when he gets so near the border! "I shouted for help, in the hoie of attracting some one, but it only ex hausted me. and my struggles caused me to sink faster. i- , 11 i- r.... i,.! "In extreme agony of mind, I threw r.iseif tm my fai-? I hal not sunk le-lo-v my wai-t and clawed the Kink in a frantic endeavor to draw m self out. My lingers slipped through the s ft mud a tid touched some hard, smooth substance, buried about three inches 'm-1ovv the surface. "I struggltd to grasp it, but it was tiwi larre f..r my linger togrip. It w as a tree that had proin.blv grounded on the flj.t lonir aro. and the tides had gradually drifled the sand over it. " heu one is in a H.:tion of gre.it loolily danger, events succeed one an other much more rapidly than they can Ik- afterward told. The t liiiifr of this has taken a gn-.it d.-ul lorger time than its act u:il occurrence. A few min utes only had j.acd siiu- I started tt w rd t he tlyke. "The sound of the ti.'.e now rushing over the lovvvr part of the tiul calh-d i;.e to a -ciim" of new danger. "Kvt-n if 1 vvn ahif ;- keep from sink ing for a littie while, the ted water would sio.'i ri- mi r t!.c p'a.'- t.f mv iiii.ri-iiii!ic i.t at 1 c..ti ( l.-ie w ltat the iju icI.n.. in! ja 1 wiMin ' !o g 11 ti. " "iro lung l -.ii.! :.. t ll,ir,u.,r-l of deaths." I lo .i. 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C h. .1 1 W.'l.l . l.tl. t lull. t. if M v w.re i.j. t!.. r-- v L.-n g ..r me to lie. I 1 tl 1 It l.. 11: T. d that la full- I v :i ih ad 1 tun,. 1 I- inn .. l ! ""1 Mi. in-1 gli.'.V at the t ! i .1 ,g h t o f eV-atu.g thtm. i; :t. it t lit v tain, lo -fore" 1 1. i n. 1 1 . i . I f.-;t l.riuv kin ft-. I could ket ji ' t i l l ..:T w it h tl. M k Ii i ft T Like a lla-h .: ; i. the tl. ugl.t that it v on. I ! a in an- ot h m hi . "The clt. lid td f..:icii set Incd to lift from my. i.r..i... With tun i.lmg lin g rs. I h it rri.-i ; 1 ! ; it out and opened it. t ua I lie s : d 1. now n aiiioiigchool loyv a 'tii.i'i-u.iila'r,' -tout ..ml strong. "liojo-fuiiv . til one hand. 1 felt for tlie tr.t-; but 1 liad sunk so tar in the mud that it wa.- now lo voml my reach. A groan biir.-J through my clenched teeth, as my last bojo- lied. "It seen. til :is if I iu u.-t give up. P.ut life is suit't t sweet to one alo.iit to l e it. ( tin- more effort, tlieti a re qt:ieiii chanted by the wave and tiling landward by the winds. "Making- a v it. lent struggle, I thru-t my hand that held the knife as far for ward jl.-. 1 could and stnuk down with all my strength. "The tnv must, have laeen Iv ing obliquely along the sides of the gullv, so that my left hand bad not lati-n able to macli it: but my right, in which was the knife, had found it. The blade sank into the soft, half-decayed wotol. Sii -ping my hand down as cltit ly lo the tree as oible. mi as not to pull the k nife out, and placing my left hand over ivv right, to give myself gn-ater pur chase. I pulled. Slow ly. almost inier ceptiblv. the dreadful sucking niwer was lessoned was slopped! SIowlv my arms Wnt 1 was gaining! Wrench ing the knife out. I drove it in farther up the trunk, n-peating t his again and ag-uin, for I wjui able to draw liivseif ouly a lew inches at a time, until I finaJly lay my length over tlie tree sa ved ! "I hal thrown the gun high up on the flat when I first found that 1 was fu-t. Uncovering ' now. I gained the dyke, to fall weak and 1 n iublingon the grass. I lay t here until tlie tide had risen to the dyke. Then washing the mud out of my clothts 1 spread thcui in ihe sun to dry. Wh.-n I ban liuished it was fl.ool tide, the water was still and i i th as a mirror, except w here here and there mounds of amber-colored foam or a piece of drift wtmd broke the surface. "1 shuddered as my eyes, draw u by a strange fascination, sought out the sMt. now covered bv many feet, of water, where a short time Wfore I bad narrow ly escaped a tt rribletleat h. "When I reached my ioiarding hou.-e, tiled and hungry, the harvest nioou was hhining brightly. 1 thought with a shudder of the cold w bite glitter of t he wet sands, and how- nearly that nigiit her Warns had rested on my grave." (iohlcn Ihiys. ON THE EUROPEAN STAGE. Toole's theau-r in London is to W torn down to make room for an addi tion to t'liaring Cross hospital. Italy is more celebrated for its thea ters than any other couutry in Kumpc. The theaU-rs at Naples. Parma and Milan are tin- largest in Kurojie. On Mardi (Iras, with a ma tinea pria granime made up of Moliere's "lies Keiiimes Savarites" and "M. tie I'otirce atiguac." the Ctiinetlie Uraiieuisa took in s.s-J5 francs, the largest bum for one iterformance in its history. Salvini rei-ntJy made a reapjtear auce on the stage of tine Teatro Valh at Koine at a Wm fit for dramat ic art ists. The play was "Ot Wilo." the great tragedian, who seemetl to have lost, none of his jower. act ing the juirt of the Moor to the lago of Krmete Novelli. "Crosse Fortune." Henri Mcilhac's new comedy at the Theater Krancais. has had only a suo-es d'estime. It turns on the efforts of a young wif; Uv win lu-k her husland, who hives Iier. but lias gone astray on account of suddenly coming into a great deal t.f money. Aaron Burr resigned fnmtne prov- ncial army by rca-san of ill health in 179. In isH he and Jefferson each nad seventy-three electoral votes for Lb. ottico of president of the I'm l.tl states. The choice was thus left to .t ingress, which, on the thirty-sixth ballot, chose Jefferson for president and Burr for vice pn-sidcut. f
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