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"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.
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"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.
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of deaths." I lo .i. ' lit I. though at-v knl
vva- j.t f.-rai. !. I.. I n,g .n.i t.. r.-d .u
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lotjk Oil Ol. 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.
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