BEHIND THE COUNTER. My first day at the store! said Carry Wallingford, with a carious thrill through her, as if an ice cold stream were trickling down the line of her spinal column. O, I wish I were a rich girl snd I didn’t have to work ? Work is honorable, my child, said old Unele Wolsey with his spectac’es close on his uose was trying to spell through the elegible paragraphs of the daily paper, muttering to himself that “either they didn't print as good as they used to, or else his old eye sight was failing. Yes, I know, fluttered Carry: but 1 am willing that some one else should have the honor this time. Uncle Wolsey turned his glasses with mild reproach upon his niece's pink and balsam face. 1 wish I could be as brave as you, Uncle Wolsey ! said Carry, as she tied the crimson strings of her little capote under her round chin, Old Wolsey Wallingford bad shel: tered his little pet lamb by his heart- fold all his lifetime until now. He was a jeweler by trade and had kept an unpretending store open as long as possible. But the tide of fashion went by, and left him stranded on the unfrequented side street, where the sign of the tarnished silver watch at tracted no attention. And one day when he had sat all day in the window with his magnify- ing glass, working at some impossible old time piece whose owner had died and never ca'led for it, the twilight crept darkly over his eyesight and his heart. H2: laid down his tools. All day long said he, and never a customer ! Well a day ! it is time for the old man to shut his store at last. He went out and put up the wood- en shutters, with a heart that was heavier than they, aod from that time thence forward the wooden %imi- tation of the silver watch had swung no longer over the door. Uncle Wolsey had been conquered in life’s battle, and bad laid down his arms, and now it was that Carry threw herself into the breach. How could she let the dear old maa starve? And Mr. Pickrell's fancy and dry goods store on Sixth avenue was really a creditable gtab- lishment, and Mrs. Pickrell herself had promised, from the severe heights of the cashier's desk, to “keep aneye” upon old Mr. Wallingford’s niece, and if her services proved desirable, there was no sort of doubt but that her salary would be increased in time. 80 Carry buttoned up ber sack, drew on her lisle-thread gloves and took the little basket, in which, wrap- ped in a napkin, was packed her lunch of apple pie and cheese, and went forth to meet her new career, little reckoning how brief it was tobe. At fisrt it was not very pleasant. The store was small and stuffy with gorgeous piles of cretonne aod chintz at the door, and festoons of laces, silks handkerchiefs and colored Jerseys flapping against the heads of the girls behind the counter, of whom they were three besides Carry—bold, high voiced damsels, who wore their hair over the hridges of their noses and giggled incessantly! Customers came and went, change was made and paper parcels expeditiously wrapped up. Mr. Pickrell walked the floor with his hands in his pockets, ordered away small girls whose nose were flat- tened too persistently against the win- dows outside and smiled beamingly at old ladies who stopped to examine the quality of the chintzes and flannel suitings, Mrs. Pickrell reprimanded the young women with the banged hair for giggling tos loud when there were customers in the store, and called to Carry to mind what she was about, when a box of ribbons fell off the counter on the floor. Oarry grew very weary, her head began to ache, and she wondered how long it would be before “shutting up time.” At last a tall, brown-oyed young man came io, wearinga foreign looking coat trimmed with fur, and somehow bearing in his aspect the indescribable stemp of belonging to gome other country, One of the banged hair nymphs was eating her lunch ; the second had rashed up the street to get change for o ten dollar bill ; and the third was engaged in bn for a young lady who was deter- mind oot io be pleased with any- thing. Carry? Bheilly Pickie!l. And cur bero advanced gallantly to the rescue. What can I show you? she asked timidly, of the new customer, Siik please, said (he young man. And when Carry perceived that be was considerably more embarrassed than herself, she took courage. What color ? said she. I don't know, answered the cus- tomer—that is—]I haven't quite made up my mind, Perhaps you could glirieked Mrs, suggest— “What is it for? Carry asked, with mild toleraiion of his evident be- wilderment ; and at the same time she eould not help perceiving that he was verv handsome, with wavy black hair, and dark liquia eyes, lcng lashes and pleasant to look upon. For a dress? A uress? But is it for a young lady, or an old one? I don’t know, acknowledged the gentleman—young—that is, not old, She can’t be over forty. To tell you the truth—and he smiled in spite of himself—I've never seen the lady, but she is a cousin of mine, and I want to make her a present. Yes. I understaad, said Carry. It is to be black or colored. What would you advise? said the stranger, blindly clutching at Carry’s feminine council as a shipwrecked mariner may be expected to cling to a floating spar. Black would perhaps be more suit- able, seeing you don’t know the lady's age or complexion, remarked Carry, But blue and pink are such pretty colors! pleaded the dark haired young man, longingly lookiag at the piles of lustrous fabrics on the shelves, Yes, said Carry, growing interested; but they are only suitable for a very few occasions, while black is always appropriate. I thought that only ladies wore black silk? Young ladies do, also, calmly as serted Carry, If you were selecting § dress said the stranger, in desperation, which color would you choose. I would choose seal brown, said Carry, after a second or two of deliberation. Eh? should you? Show me seal brown, then, please, said the custo mer. Its a little grave, perhaps— surveying the folds, but its pretty, yes, it's very pretty | How many yards now does it take for a dress ! I should think, said Carry, after a second interval of reflection, that ff teen yards might soswer if it was economically cut. I don't know anything about economy, said the young man ; I want a good allowance. Then I should recommend eighteen yards, advised Carry. Cut me off eighteen yards, said the gentleman, promptly ; and pat in the linings and trimming and all that sort of thing, please; you'll know what I need better than I do myself, And I Say Bir? said Carry, as he hesitated, Have you anything that would make a nice present for an old gen. tleman, do you think ? A silk mufler? suggested Carry, her eyes running across the shelves of the store, or a pair of furlined gloves? Capital ! said the customer. Put them both in the parcel. Thank you sir, said-Carry, Where shall we send them ? Nowhere, answered the customer, Pll wke them along myself, and then I shall be sure that there is no mis take. I'm a fhousand times obliged 0 you, Miss ! Not in the least, suid Carry, with dignity. Bo the dark eyed stranger with the furtrimmed coat departed, and Mrs. Pickrell praised the young shop gil for the good sale she had made. You will be a valuable hand in time, said she, It isn't often we get a chance to sell a silk pattern like that Folks most likely go on Broad- way for their expensive dresses, she added, with a sigh, Carry was tired when she came home in frosty October dusk, The store did not close Gail ten, but the girls took turns, two by two, to stay after sunset, and Carry’s matching an impossible shade of rib | tho ne home Uncle Wolsey had the lanp lighted and the keiile boiling for tes, and was slicing off some canoed coro heef, and “miodiog” the toast before te fice at be same time. It Jooked chesry and pleasant; §Carry drew a long +g" of relief. How vice it is fo be at home, Uncle Wolsey ! the cried. Do '¢. we make ihat toast | Aod ob | i+ hasa’s been a very bard day, aller all. And Mrs. Pickrell says I've made the best nale she has made for a week. Soech a baopdsome young man Uncle Wolsey, and he treated me #8 if I were a princess instead of a work- ing girl, and— Stop, stop! said Uncle Wolsey, pausing with xoife still in his band, I’ve had a good-looking young man, here, wo, Carry. Needn't thivk y u've got a monopoly of that article. What do you thiok of your mothers cousin from the seal-fur fisheries in Alaska? And what do you think of his bringing these things here as a present for you and me—eh ? Uncle Wolsey laid down the knaife, and carfully dostiog his hands on the towel-roller, drew forth from the bureau drawer a seal-brown silk dress pattern and a pair of fur-lined gloves, wrapped around with a spotted silk neck muffler, Why, Uncle Wolsey almost shriex- ed Carry. What's the matter ? said the old man. Ain't they pretty! Oughto’t I to bave taken them ? It's the very man, said Carry. 1 sold them to him this aftervoon. Hey ? said Uncle Wolsey. At the store, said Carry. Ob, Uncle Wolsey. And is he really my cousin? I am so glad. Gled of what ! retorted a strong, cheery voice and in came the myster- | ious stranger himself. Why I de-| clare, be cried if there isn’t the little | girl who sold me the things to day. Glad you are my cousin, said Carry with a mischievous smil: and a low courtesy. Because—becausel thought you very pleasant and xind— And I thought—said the stranger, But vo, I won't tell you what I thought. How do you do cousin ! I am so glad you choose the seal brown silk | demurely observed Car- ry. What should I bave dove with a blue or a piox silk ? It would have looked very well on you, ssid the cousin meditatively eye- ing ber; blue would have matched your eyes and pink your cheexs. Just my sentiments, chuckled Uncle Wolsey. Come, young folxs-—come; tea is ready and the toast is getting eld, Not until the visitor had taxen his leave did Uncle Wolsey, smoking his pipe before the fire, impart to Carry an additions’ piece of news. What d’ye suppose Mr. Lenox told me he come down 0 the States for, Carry ? I am sur: I don't know, said Car. ry, mooea 1; To get a wife ? said Uncle Wolsey. Oh! ssid Carry shading her face from the fie. l'w sure I hope he will be successful, The bavged-bair young maidens at Pickreli's Emporium subscribed to buy a Bobemian glass cologne set for Carry Wallingford's wedding present; but they murmured among themselves because their golden stratum of luck had not come to them. We're just as pretty as she, said they; and “much prettier some folks would say. "And why couldn't the customer have fallen to our lot. There are some questions which Cupid alone can answer. And he the winged rogue, is obstinately si- lent. W.0. T. U. QOLUMN, AMEW, O.T. U, MEETS EVERY THURSDAY AT 4 O'CLOCK IN THE ¥. M. C A HALL. Ba ee A — A FEW TERRIBLE EXAMPLES, Rev. T. De Witt Talmage deliver ed a very stirring sermon in the Tab ernacle Bunday morning, in which he depicted and deoounced the evils of gambling in no uncertain tones, His sermon bristled all through with il- lustrations and examples. He quoted John Borack, who was seat as a mer. chantile agent from Dromen to Eog- land snd this country. After two years he was a defaalter for $587,000 of which umount he had lost $29,000 profession, and died in a lunatic asy~ lum, Mr. Porter once owned one of the finest estates in Eogland. He gsm bled it away in ove year. He thin put up his horses, carriages and his town house, and lost, Then he bor. rowed ten guineas from a friend, with wach he wou £20,000. At last he died a beggar. “The ten gaming houses” continu. ed Mr, Talmage, that once were au. thorized in Paris passsed through the banks yearly 325,000,000 francs, How many railroad agents and cwshiers and trustees of funds it has driven to disgrace, incarceration and suicide. Witness many years ago a cashier of the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, who stole $103,000 to carry on his gaming practices, Witness the $40,000 8 olen from the Brooklyn bank within the of many of you, and the 8180,000 taken from a a Wall street insurance com- pany for the same purpose. These are only illustrations on a large scale of the robberies committed for the pur | pose of carrying out the desigos of gamblers, A man in London, keeping one of | these gambling houses, boasted that | be bad ruined a nobleman in a day ; but if all the saloons of this land were to speak out, they might utter a more infamous hoast, for they have destroy- ed a thousand noblemen in a year. A young man in London on com ing of age received a fortuneof $120, 000, and through gambling in three years was thrown on his mother for sapport. | An only son went to New Orleans He was rich, intellectual and elegant in maoners. His parents gave him on his departure from home their last blessing. The sharpers got hold of bim. They flattered him. They lured him to the gambling table and let him win almost every time for a good while, and patted him on the back and said ; First rate player. Bat fully in their grasp they fleeced him, and his $30,000 was lost. Last of al! he put uphis watch sod lost that. Mr. Talmage then proceeded to de nounce what he styled ecclesiastical gambling. Do you wonder, he asked, that churches built, lighted or up- bolstered by such processes ns raffles come to great fioaocial and spiritual decrepitude! The devil say, I help- ed to build that house of worship and I bave as much right there as you have, and for once the devil is right. We do not read that they had a lot- tery for building the church at Corinth or at Antioch or for getting up an embroidered surplice for any St. Paul. The gambling spirit has not stopped for any indecency. There transpired in Maryland a lottery in which people drew for lots in a burying ground. The preacher's text was taken from Act 1,19: Aceldomg, that is to say the field of blood, and he said. The money that Jodas got for surrender- ing Christ was used to purchase a graveyard. As the money was blood money, the grounds bought by it was called in the Syriac tongue Aceldamg, meaning, the field of blood. Well, here is one word I want to write Lo day over every racecourse where wages are staked, and every pool- room, and every gambling saloon, and every table, public or private, where men or women bet for sums of money, large or small, and that is a word in. carnadined with the life of innu merable victims—Aceldamd. The gambling opirit, which is at all times at stupendous evil, has ever anon sweep! over the country like an epidemic prostrating uncountered thousands, There has never been a worse attack than from which all the villages. towns and cities are now snffering, “This crime is no new-Born sprite, but haggard transgression that comes staggering down under a mantle of curses through many centuries. All nations, barbarous and civilized, have been addicted to it. Before 1833 the French Government received revenue from gaming houses. Iu 1567 Eog- Inud, for the improvement of her har bors, instisated a lottery to be held at the frout door of 85. Paul's Cathedral, Four huadred thousand tickets were 10,000 | soldat ten shillings each. The British ‘Massum and Westminister Bridge were partinlly built by similar proced. og | ures. Fhe sucient Germans would Hundreds of thousands | of dollars every year leak out without | observation from the merchant's till | ioto the gambling hell, COMPARATIVE WORTH or BAKING POWDERS. ROYAL (Absolutely Pure)... EE GRANT'S (Alum Powders EEE —,—_—_—— Paonronns (Phosphate) fresh . EE | HANYORD'S, when fresh REDHEADS. .....c..onisins a CHARM (Alum Powders AMAZON (Alum Powders CLEVELAND'S CONGRESS. ....ooovvvrnrnrsn vs HECKER'S GELLET™S ..ooovvnvivarivnnirnnnd “aa HAXFORD'S, when not fresh... . INE ANDREWS & CO, (contains slum (Milwaukee) 'Hegal."# BULK (Powder sold loose) ew RUNMPQRD'S, when not fresh. . Si JE REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS As to Purity and Wholesomeness of the Royal Baking Powder, ™ #1 have tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which 1 purchased in the open man ket, and find it composed of pure and wholesome fugredients, It Is a cream of tartar powder of a high degree of merit, and does not contain either alum or phosphates, or other injurious substances, “It is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Powder is absolutely ure. E.G. Love, Fal," ‘H. A Morr, PAD.” “1 have examined a package of Royal Baking Powder, purchased by myself in the market. 1 find it entirely free from alum, terra alba, or any other injurious substance, “Hexsy Moros, Ph.D., President of Stevens Institute of Technology.” 4 “1 have analyzed a package of Royal Baking Powder. The materials of which it is com- posed are pure and wholesome. “June 23, 1882. —We have made a earcful analytical test of Royal Baking Powder, pan chased by ourselves in the open market here, and in the original ! eream of tartar powder of the highest degree of strength, con “Joan H, Waignr, M.D, “ Aveert Memxeri, MD, ingredients some, and used { { RL “B, Dasa Haves, Blate Assayer, Mass.” kage. Wefind tto be a noting but pure, whole t Analytical Chemists, 8t. Louis,” The Royal Baking Powder received the highest award over all competitors at the Vienna World's Exposition, 1578 ; st the Centennial, Phlladelphia, 1576 ; at the American Institute, and st State Fairs throughout the acuntry, No other article of human food has ever received such high, e ment from eminent chemists, physicians, scientists, and Boards Kore. ~The shove Diacnaw illustrates the comparative worth of various as shown by Chemical Analysis and experiments made by Prof. Schedler. powder was taken, the total leavening power or volume in each can calculated, the result This practical test for worth by Prof. SBchedler only proves what every each being as indicated. hatie, and universal endorse. Health all over the world. Baking Powders, oO A one pound can observant consumer of the Roysl Baking Powder knows by practical experience, that, while it costs & few cents per pound more than the ordinary kinds, it fs far more economical, and, | besides, affords the advantage of better work. A single trial of the Royal Baking Powder will convince any fair minded person of these facts, # While the diagram shows some of the alum powders 10 be of a higher degree of strength than other powders ranked below them, it is nof to be taken as indicating that they have any waive, Rl Sim powdems, Bo matter how high thelr strength, are 10 be avoided as dangerous. sometimes pot up themselves and families as prizes and suffer themselves to be bound, though sironger than the persons who won them. But now the laws of the whole cin. lized world denounce the system. Ensctments have been passed, but only partially enforced, and at times not enforced at all. The men inter. ested in gaming houses ard in jockey clubs wield such influence by their numbers and affluence that the jodge, the jury and the police officer must be bold ind.ed who would array themselves against these infamous es tablishments. The House of Com- moos of Eogland actually adjourns on Derby Day to go out and bet on the races, and in what are called bigh circles of society in this cuuntry to-day are many hundreds of profes sedly respectable men who are so knowledged gamblers. Whatever my hearers’ age or eall- ing, the subject of gambling, about which I speak today, is pertivent. Many years ago, when an association for the suppression of gambling was organized, an agent of the association came to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society, He guid : “No, I can bave no interest in such an orgsvization. I am in no wise affected by that evil. At that very time his son, who was his part. per in business, wasone of the heav- jest players in Herne's famous gamb- lingfjestablishment. Another refussd his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that hisfirst book-keeper, though receiving a salary of only a thousand dollars, was losing from fifty to one hundred dollars per night. The President of a railroad company refused to patronize the institution, mying: That society is good for the defense of merchants, but we railroad people are not injured by this evil; not knowing that, at that very time, two of his conductors were spending three nights of each week at faro tables in New York. Directly orin- directly this evil strikes at the whole world. It is estimated by an English wiitet that one-fourth of the busines iti London is done dishonestly. What- ever you expect to get from your neighbor without offerivg an equiva lent in money or time or skill is either the product of theft or gaming. Lot. tery tiokets and lottery policies come into’ the same oategory. Fairs for the foanding of hospitals, schools and churches conducted on the rafling system come uader the same denomi- nation. Do not, therefore; sasociate gambling wécesdarily with any insten- ment or game'or time Or place, or think the principle dépends upon I whether you play for a glass oi wine or 100 shares of railroad siock. Whether you patronize auction pools, Freoch mutoels or book-mdking, whether you employ faro or billiards. rondo and keno, cards or bagateolle, the very idea of the thing is dishonest; for it professes 10 bestow upon you a good for which you give no equiva lent. DANGEROUS COMPANIONS, When a young fellow has made up his mind to walk on the edge of preci- pices for the sake of seeing prospects, he always finds plenty of company. There are abundance of people with strong heads, who having walked these paths till they are quite certain of their foot-hold, are to go out with giddy new beginoers. If they acci- dently lose their heads and fall over, whose fault is it? Not theirs, of course. They never fali. They look where they step, and their heads do not tarn. It is not drunkards and thieves who are dangerous companions to the green boys just from the city-- ob, dear no! Itis your respectable young men that have learned to sip discreetly in all sorts of forbidden fountains, and nibble here and there carefully of the f rbidden fruit. They are held up as patterns. They drink | but are never drunk. They have ex- actly the knack of seeing and know- ing all there is to be seen and known in the ways of wickedness, and yet keeping even step with the righteous, Some of them are church members and Sunday school teachers; some are shrewd, regular business men. They are never going to burt themselves, they tell you, but they believe in a certain freedom, They mever could sce the sense of temperance pledges, For their part, they don’t need them; and if there is anything they do abominate, its your radical, straight laced people, who keep always in the dusty turnpike for fear of the preci pice. Harrier Bescner Stowe. Book xB1 pixa—=We are now pre pared to do all kinds of book binding at rensonable rates and wid guarantee All work. Send in your books, papers Lagatiaes; ele, and have them bound Grol Stab Normal site for caval gwen , 0d JAMES ELD(ON, A. M., Priocipal, Jwck Haven, Pa
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