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, September 25, 18.79.
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- • THE. SAFEGUARD.
A baby crept to his father's knee, •
And was lifted up andlulled to rest,
Till the blue eyes closed, so tired watt he,
And his little bead fell peacefully— -
At ease on the ready shoulder there, - •
- While the baby hand, so soft and fair, • •
Lay likes shield on his father's breast.
Of old •twas said that when men drew neltr
To fierce temptation or deadly'strlfe,
And lost their way In a maze of fear,
Or periled their souls for worldly gear, - I ;
By a wag unknown an angel band
Would lead them out of the' dangerous land,
Into the light of a - nobler life.
• 1
The story is true for the world to•dsy
We see ,no lhlte-robed angels mild ;
But out of the.dark and - pail Ous way
Where men and women forget to pray,
Into the peace of a purer land -
They are led by a gentle, shielding hand,;
The hand of a little helpless child. '
—Elisabeth W. Dentrow in Sunday Afternoon
THE STORY OF A. VISIT.
PART I. •
What old roundabout Nays Cupid
chooses ! What queer little messen
gers' he dispatches on his errands :
W hat "innocent conspirators they
are li
Little Jenny. Joners did not , know
what she was about as she ' tripped
along the field way to Porley Grange
that fine Sune morning, between the
Many colored long meadow grasses
weighted with dewdrops, yet the
three-cornered note in her hand was
the match that was to set a-going a
long train of .
events and be the be
ginning of the end be delights in.
Jenny made her v:ay to the back
door, and, into the low, old kitchen,
and presently old Susan -put her
head in at the door of the breakfast
room. which in the mornings wa,s •
school-room, too, and said :
'Miss Ellice, here's a letter for you'
from Miss Furnival.
When Ellice had read it she got
up from her chair of office at the end
of thd -table.
'Now,Children, get on with your
there's dears. Jack, get that
sum finished before I come back ;
and Sybil, sit up, and hold your pen
right ; I shan't be I , llg away J'
And then she flitted out, into the
hall and through the tide open door
into the - garden, where the rose trees
Were holding up
: their bonny red
heads. and the warm! air was full of
the humming of bees and the scent
of woodbine.
Down the long walk to the left she
went,, where, among the red currant
bushes, a large-straw' bat was to be
seen bobbing up and down.
'Mother,:dear,' cried Ellice.l'here's
a note from cousin Mary, and she
wants us, 'girls 'to go and help her
this afternoon with a lot of library
books. I'll say, "yes," suppose ?
There's no reason why we shouldn't
(7o •
Mrs:Holt thought a'moment, and.
then said : 'No, certainly, go by all
means.'
Why don't' Grace and Belle come
and help'you gather those currants?'
'They are coming very soon,. my
dear.'
- 'l'd like to help,' said Ellice ; 'but
I must not, I Suppose,' and then she
went back through-the sunshine
. - -
The mother,. bending down to the
ripe, red clusters, had still the picture
in her eye of the lithe, straight, wt bite
robed figure, with the dark-haired
head so daintily poised, standing
against the background of 'the old,
red wall on which the apricots were
ripening. ! .
`How petty the ,child gets I ) .' she
said
. to herself, and .her mouth and
her eyes smiled, and . softened into
the expression that old .mothers'
faces' . wear.
A few hours afterward, amid the
cheerful cla•ter of dinner,,the after
noon arrangements were discussed,
as all other family details were, in
full conclave. Mrs. Holt, sift' with
her back to the open windowogainst
which the blind flapped gently. in the
warns breeze, her husband opposite ;
Ellice on one.side,, with lack and
Sybil on either hand, and Grace and
- Belle on the other.
Belle was next in order to Ellice,
and just back from school 'for good,'
a. bonny, healthy, 17-year-old lassie.
Grace was the orphan niece of Mr.
Holt—tall,‘fair-haired', graceful, still
in deep mourning garment for toie
loss of her mother. • , •
'Fifteen` loads.-my dear!' said Mr.
Holt, in answer to his wife. 'We
couldn't begin carrying till 10 o'clock
—the dew was so heavy. - I don't
think vie shall get into the long
meadow to-day. However, the grin
is very high and .I think we are in for
a long spell of fine weather. • I don't
remember a finer' haytime and I nev
er had a better lot of men than this
-year.'
'Father,' said Jack, 'may ToM and
Harold Friee come tomorrow after
noon and work in the hayfield?' '
'Yes, my lad, though I guess, its
more mischief than work that you'll
-do •
'May Beside come, too P pleaded ,
Sybil.
'You might call at the Vicarage,
girls,' 'said the mother, 'and -ask for
the children to, come and spend! a
long afternoon ,_ and perhaps ,you
could- manage •to take a basket of
currants. • There' are a good many
th.ngs for . you to do on yOir way.
You must take a-bundle of rags to
old Betty Freer and call and see
how that poor little Harry Caswell
• . •
'And there is. the Fortnightly to
leave at Mrs. Barrow's,' said Grace ;
'you have done with it, uncle, haven't'
you?'
'No use keeping it for me,' said
Mr. Ugh. And so the programme
"was made out, and when dinner was
over the girls went up-stairs to change
their 'dresses and make ready for
their walk. •
It was always a pleasure to them
to go to 'Cousin Mary's.' Belle had
long ago announced that she meant
never . to be married, but to be 'just
like Cousin Mary.'
'As it you could be,' bad sneered
her big, schoolboy brother Tom:
Miss Furnival was it - tall. graceful
woman, with a tend6r face , framed
in hair which had early lost its , color
and turned gray. She lived in 'The
ChuVoh House,' where she had been
borne, 'POW matt utothvri biota
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MOPING, DECEMBER 1, 1881.
and sisters, had departed and she
was alone; and yet were its 'ambling
passages its quaint parlors, its old
fashioned garden, bright and pleasant
places, shone upon by the mistress'
serene eyes and made merry by the
voices of the children and young
folks she delighted to beim about her.
Mr. Holt of Dorley Grange was her
cousin, and to his children 'Cousin
Mary' was the 'fountain of all good
things. She was to them the grand
designer of Christmas games and
charades, thogiver of charming press
ents. the organizer of picnics in the
pleasant Summer time, the best'of all
nurses, the kindest of all comfolters.
She it was who drove Ellice into
Middleham every week for singing.
lessoON she it was who was keeping
Tom at school for another year.
There was no end to Cousin Mary's
kindness.
So the girls were as merry as larks,
and as happy -as queens (if - that old
expression yet means anything); that
sunny June. afternoon as they bovered
the .• village library books, and told
Miss Furnival all 'the home news.
Grace and Belle were doubling 'and
fitting the covers, - and Ellice, with a
big apron over her pretty pink dress,
was 'pasting.'
They had been hard at work • fur
tro• hours, and -the piles of clean,
tidy
.books - were . almost complete,
when handmaid Jenny opened the
door.
.'.A. gentleman, please, ma'am, wants
to see you. in the library he is,
please,. 'm,' and she handed Miss
Furnival a card. The mistress loolied
at it wonderingly, and then left 'the
room and crossed the - ball, holding
it in her hand. Who could John,
Cohn Canter n, M. D.,' be ?, • .
A tall you ig mad standing by the
window turn 41 as she entered -and' :
boWed,and slid with a smile, as he
gave - her a lesi4on—. •
.• • - • .
'This will exp'ain my intrusion,.
, -
madam.'
' bliss Furnival read—
My hear Old Friend Mary Famiial:
1 hear by a side wind that you are
still living at „Polley: . Long years
Have passed sint'm we met - but it is
to me an impossible thing, to _think
that my school sweetheart, Mary can
have cast out an old affection. In
this faith I have desired my ;pod
son-to ca'l upon you. -I want:to - hear
about you. and I want you to know
him. You ; will like him for his own,
worth, 1 well know ; but. at first!he
kind to him for the sake of
Your old friend, !.
'MARGARET. BLAKE CAMERON.'
Miss - Furnival put out het band
with cordial earnestness: -
Is - a pleasure tome, Dr. cam
eron 1 Pray come into the other
room, and have tea ivitl s rme, and tell
me the history of all 'these • silent.
years.
_lt is so long since heard of
your- mother that I really did not
recognize your name, I am sorry to
say.'
So the young man stooped : his tall
head through the two low dOorways
and followed his hostess into a long
quaint room, ,smelling all of roses.
Well it might,_ tOr there were roses
on the mantle-piece, roses looking in
e;t the open windows, roses in the
middle of the tea-table, which stood
there ready, covered with dainty
white damask and delicate old china
and shining . silver, and heaped-bp
ripe red strawberries.
When the ceremony of intrixinc
tion bad been
was
performed, and
the Doctor was talking to Miss Fur !
nival, he glaneed_AxiwzAnd then .at
the three pretty girls whose acquaint
*nce he had so suddenly made. One
was in white, , another in black, and
Another all pink, like the roses I
Poor Ellice!' it was embarrass
ing to be in this .trim, covered • tip
with one of Susan's great, kitchen
aprons
Hostess and ; guests were all. sorry
when 'the next hour was passed.
Colin Cameron had been so entirely
thrown into the society of men, only,
since his settlerneilt• Middleham,
that this daintily•apliointed board
and thiti.group Of fair women seemed
to •him like getting a glimpse into
the 'House lfeuutiful' in Bunyan's
allegory, while to his fellow-gu. sts
the impromptu addit'on to their par- •
ty of this intelligent, world-experi
eagsff man gave a pectiliar interest
and 4iquancy to .Cousin Mary's al
ways pleasant entertainment. When
tea was over Dr. Cameron rose, and,
with a courteous expression of regret
at leaving such good company.; said
be must go on 'see to Dr. Main,
the village doctor, who had asked
him to come over and Consult with
him. on a difficult case. Sai he was
initiated in the easy ' geography of
Darley and went his way.
Soon afterward Grace and Belle
set off homeward, having a Call to
make on the way. while Ellice Stayed
t% help Miss Furnival number the
books,,' ; ' le correspondence with the
catalogue. She would go home by
the fields, she said, later.
Colin Cameron was . walking home
to Middleham in the dusk by the
field, way from Dortey to SHIM,
which is on. the highroad.- The
moon, nearly at the full, wits ;rising
clear and golden ; the air Nval full of
fragrance from a blossoming bean
field ; a nightingale was singing
. in
the larch spinhey.
Colin leaned on a gate, listening,
enjoying the loveliness of the time
As he. stood, drinking in the sweet
influences about him, his mind turned
to the case he had been talking over
with Pr. Main, and to an operation
that was fixed to take place to-mor
" d
row, an With these thoughts mingled
a vision of a dark-haired girl with
kind i-eyes and little brown clever
hand a. Ellice, they called her—a
prat:). name. She was about the_age
Mary would have been if she had
lived; and then the young man sent
a tender thought toward his &ugh.
terless widowed mother in her tiny
frugal home in the North Country.
;The bird music ceased, and Colin
strode cal But he suddenly stopped,
startled, as, on the other side of . a
high stile. he saw a figure seated on
the grass
'ls anything the mattet ? • Can I
help you ?' and then, as he recognized
the white face in the twilight.. in
quite another tone he said, ',What, is
tille ImamDtir 8011
/-
REGARDLESS OP DENITNOLL TION:PROR ANY QUARTER:
Poor little Ellice • had been very
brave till then but the sudden friend
ly yoke and: helpful presence over
came her, and she bunt into tears,
and said brokenly—
'Bow stupid.; am! but I thought
nobody would ever come, and my
foot hurts so badly.'
Before the words were said the
doctor was down on his I nees beside
her. feel'ng what was amiss.
'Will you please go and tell them
at home, Dr. Cameron, that some one
may come and help me.? Opr house
is only a few` fleldit down there to the
right.'
'I had better help you myself, I
think,' said Colin. 'Can you manage
to walk ?'
He helped her to rise, and they
went a few steps, but be felt the quiv
er Of pain that went through 'her-as
the hurt foot touched the ground,
and sopped.
- '‘You must let me carry you. please.
You won't mind'? can, quite eusi-
There was as much command as
request in' his words, and - in a mo
ment Ellice was lifted in - his , strong
arms.
Through two fields they_ went.
Then through the dim silence the
gate ahead swung to with oa bang
and Ellice said quickly :
'Oh, please set me down, rfr. Cam
eron. That.' is my father, I expect.
come to look for me,.andhe will be
so frightened.'
So Colin placed her quietly down,
and in a minute up came Mr. lielt's
stalwart figure. .
Ellice had been afraid of her lather
being alarmed, but 1 can't say his
alarm was removed when he saw his
Ellice "'standing in the field ahead.
with a young Mellow beside her le
did not know from Adam.
She cries]. out as he' apppiehed—
, • 'Do be frightened, papa; I have
or Iy turt 'my foot, and Dr. Cameron
has been so good as to bring me
home.' - --• ,
4t. , nd who the deuce is Dr. Carver-
on . was Mr. Holt's first thought;
and it was with some stiffness that
he made hiis acknowledgments, and
remarked that he would now relieve
him of his charge. "
fear Miss Holt's foot - is rather
badly damaged, sir, and ought to
have immediate attention: said
_Col
in's honest, kindly voice. •I am a
doctor, and shall be glad to give my
assistance, if you will allow me?
So there was nothing for it but to
say 'yes,' and between her two help
ers Ellice at last got home. The
foot was found to be badly sprained;
the doctor band t sged it carefully, and
then strode off to. Middlebam.
He had thought about Ellice Holt
at the beginning of his evening walk,
and now, after this small adventure,
what wonder that be thought more ?
His profession made , him • keen in
readirg character, and this little
glimpse of the girl had.sbown him
much. 'Courageous she must be, and
thoughtful for others. and what
.a
good sort of a . home she seemed to .
have! When the young man got
back to his lodgings and found every
bod.t. gone to bed, and his prim ugly
room darkness. the place looked
very..,dreary •in contrast with that
flower-scented lamp-lit parlor at Dor
ley 41 -range and its gentle hOme pres‘
ences. He would certaifily - respond
to the , bidding Mrs. Holt had given
him, and go again. How gratefully
Ellice had said •Thank you,' as she
bade him 'Good-night,' and how pret
ty she looked as she said it !
After this, though Dr. Main look
ed after the sprained foot, Colin
walked over to the Grange not un
frequently. He playtt lawn-tennis
with Grace and Bell v,nd cricket
with the school-boy brothers, while
Jack and Sybil were especially de
voted to him.
Gne afternoon, while Ellice was
still obliged to lie- on -the sofa, the
children were hanging about him,
Sybil on his knee and Jack examin
ing a wonilerful knife with all sorts
of tools combined with it, when Sybil
said suddenly :
'Ellie can't, walk a bit. How I did
she get - home that- night she 'was
hurt?'
Colin laughed its he looked across
to Ellice and said, 'I carried her.'
•Was she heavy ?' inquired Sybil.
'Did you like carrying her?' said,
Jack.
There was a little pause, and then
the Doeteirsaid in a quiet tone : :
'Yes. Jack:
When he glanced toward the sofa
next there was a rosy glow on thC
face lying. there, more rosy than
could be accounted for by-the sunset
light that was streaming in through
the low window. -
Thire came a sick- time that au
tumn in Middleham, and Dr. Cam
eron was very busy for weeks and
weeks fighting disease among the ,
children down in the, squalid, sum
mer-heated streets and- back-yards;
and when, at, last, the worst was over
and he could feels few evening hours
his own for a- walk over to Dorley, he
found the place empty of the pres
ence th et bad made it dear to him.
Quite casually, as if it were news of
no importance, he was told that 'My
daughter and ms neice are gone to .
Paris with .111iss Furnival. They will
probably stay, till the spring.' That.
was the beginning of: an ill-time for .
poor Colin. He was overworked and
that helped to make him anxious an•l
disturbed at the thought of his En
glish rosebud among the fascinations
of Paris. From time to time he beard
of her; how they had been to Ver
sailles "and Fontainebleau, and to
balls and theatres and what a de
lightTul place Paris was. - But a worse
time was' to come. ,
One dreary December afternoon be
was walking up to his rooms to dine,
when he was joined by one of, his
friends, Llewellyn Cobbe by name, a
mercy, loquacious rattlepate.
'Oh, I say, Cameron
,!,You re
member Archibald Brailel
'Yes,' said Dr. Cameron ; 'he came
to 'Clny's' just before I. left. But I
never knew him well. • •
'Well, Fortuna is ruining favors on
him in tbe most shamefully , partial
fashion. He has`got a good appoint
nteittin lad* bas bun larking about
PART 11.
the Continent for a month or two,
'and now, in Paris, he has picked up
a wife—and aMiddleham lady !
Think of that! 'You may read his
letter if you like. It is fun to hear
the superlatives- these- engaged fel.
lows indulge in ! We are not collie
to that pass, eh, Cameron ?'
But as the young man rattled on,
his companion's heart stood still.
This was the letter :
DEAR COMM : Thanks for yotir
congratulations on my luck. But
you must send me another batch, for
1 do not go •to India.slone. The
dearest, sweetest, and prittiest of
wives will accompany me. ' - 'll,O she
hails from the neighborhood - of Mid
dleham, you may know, her name—,-
Miss bolt. My graceful, gracious
'Ellice'-gives herself to me in a fort
night, and we sail by P. and 0. on
the 12th of next month.
On some swiftly devised pretext
Colin parted from hisevil-news-bring
er, and 'strode along,.not knowing,
not 'taring, whither he went, with a
bitter paid clinging about his heart,
and silent; bitter outcries against the
cruelty of fate. And Ellice—oh El
lice'!—did .she not know, had she not
been sholttn by him, that she was . his
queen among women ? Oh heaven
how. different, after all,- their feelings
must - have teen'! .He, left mourning;
and' she, willing, straightway to lis
ten to the love-vows of another man I
It was with a gray, haggard face that
the young man at last returned in
the late evening to his - lodgings, to
his over-cooked, tasteless dinner, and
to disturbed, restless sleep.
Being a brave soul, he tried to
throw himself more than ever into
his work, and so to overcome his
troubles • but it was very hard work.
and as Christmas approached he got
a friend to look after his patients,
and then started. fur Scotland. _The
weather was severe, and as he neared
his Pertlishire home ea tremendous
snowstorm came on and blocked his
way, and when at last he reached El
gowan, the illness he had been strug
gling against for weeks seized him
and utterly prostrated: him. Help
less as a baby, racked with pain,
gasping for breath, he lay, while his
little sad-eyed, steadfast, gray haired
mother flitted about his room and
waited on' him, hand and foocand
prayed to Heaven to help her boy to
live.
When the crisis had'-remne and
passed,, and he was beginning to
mend, he asked her wlint.was the day
of,,,the month ? The 19th, of January
she a id it was. and Colin turned his
face to the will' with a sigh.' They
would be in the Red Sea by this
time, alas! He was pot so well after
this for a day or two, and the new
born light in his mother's face faded;
but again strength returned' and con
valeicence, and the late days of Feb
ruary he was haek in Aliddleham, and
at work again;
The town was placarded in all di
rections with announcements, in foot
long letters, of the coming of a lead
ing Cabinet Minister to speak on
the burning Question of the day; and ;
on -the evening of this event, Dr.
Cameron was one in the crowd of ex
cited people who waited for the -open
ing 'of the oloors of the great town
hall. His head was well above most
people's, and, as he was looking
round, he saw, a few feet from him,
a, tall, elderly genteleman of his ac
quaintance, who nooded, and said
- 'Hallo, Cameron I Glad to see you
back. Better, eh ? Can you get to
me ?' And—as the people between
gave the young Doctor pa_ssagq-room,
he continued-4 have foolishly yield
ed to the entreaties of. two political
ly minded young Ladies who wanted
to-hear the great man, and, upon my
word, I don't like" my job I wish
you would take care of one of them.
You know Miss Holt, I think ?'
Colin's heart gave a great throb,
for theie, indeed, was Billed - Holt
standintr '' by a pillar. As,slie saw him
a glad, shy light came into her face.
He made his way to the -, -standing
ground beside- her, and : bent 7-down
anti said to her'in a low voice
'lt Will delight me to take care of
Miss Holt if she will let me."
Waiting in an ever-thickening
crowd for a quarter of an hour is not
under ordinary eircumstafices,
pleasant experience, but little did
Colin Cameron mind his foot being
trod on or his back being dug into;
these things even added to his happi
ness. 'for was he not screening his
'rosebud' from annoyance, and, in
deed, giving her, if the truth must be
told, a quite unfair share of air and
standirig-roam ? At last the doors
opened, and the rush inward took
place, and after a time the great ora
tor' was speaking, and- the vast audi
ence responding with enthusiastic.
plaudits. But little did Colin hear.
The revulsion from a sense of hope
less loss to hope unbounded almost
dazed him. The hall, was hot, and.
Ellice took off her gloves, and he
saw her little dear left hand bare of
all rings—no fatal plain circlet there!
When 'the proceedinks were over, and
they were waitingfor a chance tO.get
away, he said to her :
'lt is a curious question, but will
.you please tell me your cousin's fu'l
name ?—that cousin I knew at your
house ?'
'S,he Mrs. Braila now,' Ellice
said, with 'a wondering jpok.
'Yes, I know,' said poor Colin,
with a great rush of thankfulness,
•but what is , her Christian name?'
'Gratis Ellice, ' ` she answered.
'Every one calls h er 'Ellice,' except
us. It was my name, too, you see,
and i vie had to make a difference, so
we called her Grace.'
'Thank you,' said Colin.
PART 111.
No grass should. grow under Ilia
feet now, he said, as he walked home
under the stars.
By 3 o'clock the nexV - day be was
Standing in the parlor of Dorley
Grange, waiting with. agitation for
the entrance of Mrs. Holt. When
she came, the young man spoke earn
estly, with the eloquence of love, and
the mother gave, with tears and
smiles, the permission he craved.
Ellice would, soon be in from the vii
lage; she said. . Then he would go
and.meet her.
Ellion.heM had, Wm fhasterin
,
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: ' ll
. ~..7. ~.,. ~, .. .w.!
with a happy unrest all the day and
she had tone into the village to'quiet
it by seeing some of the poor old
people who looked for her coming as
their best sunshine.
But all the quiet fled, as, turning a
bend in the road, she. met Dr. Cam
eron face to face. She tried to re
cover her maidenly composure, and
made some vague remark about the
weather. He made ncos answer, but
took her hand, and said gently, earn
estly, looking into her sweet, down
cast face :
'You know what I have come for.
May I have it.
She stood: a moment quite silent
and still. Then she lifted her eyes to
his, and in them he read the happy
answer. •
You maybe . sure Mrs. Holt was at
the'door waiting for them, and with
her was her husband, who, catching
Ellice into the embrace of one arm,
shook hands with the Doctor, and
told him he had stolen a march upon
him and that his permission was yet
to be got. •
There-they had tea altogether, and
afterward played at some childish
game for Jack and Sybil's benefit,
and then Dr. Cameron rose and said
be must be going.
'MOther' hx)ked across the glowing
fire-lit hearth at 'father' with a ten
der, comical half-smk of remem
brance, and the)two kej-t their places,
while, after a moment's pause, Ellice
slowly rose, 'celestial Tosy red,' and
went out itito the hall with her lover.
He caught up - a shawl from the wall
and wrapped it about her, and then
opening . the, door, led her out into the
stilt:, darkness.
There with his strong, tender arms
about her, under the shining stars,
pure heart to pure heart, pure lips to
pure lips, they , gave their betrothal
kiss.—Household Words (the Reissue).
Charles Frost. Williams began to
be particular as soon as locked up.
He wanted a looking-glass an a
spring bed in his cell ; refused to
drink from the dipper in common
use, and stood up for three hours
rather than sit down on the well
woi n bench. When.his turn came. to
appear in court be wanted a clean
collar, a_ tooth-brush and some per
fume for his handkerchief, and he
seemed greatly put out as he was left
facing the desk.
'Can't this case be adjourned until
can get on my Sunday clothes?' he
softly asked.
'Can't be done.'
'Can't I-be tried in a private room,
then'?'
'Not a bit of it. You'll have to
stand trial right here, You were
drunk on the street.'
'I might hal& been slightly over.
come by the weather. I am very
susceptible to changes.'
'Yes, but the weather doesn't make
a man sit in the stairway and sing
through his, nose, nor strike at an
officer who offers to put him on a
street•car.'
might have partaken of a little
sweet wine, but' really, sir—really, I
do protest against the statement that
I was drunk. Loafers get drunk,
sir.':
'Well, yours was a flat, silly drunk.
I happened in here just as they
brought you in, and your tongue was
too thick to say sugar.'
'I cawn't believe it—really cawn't.
'Tisn't &bit like me.'
- 'Your fine ill
,be five dollars, all
the same.'
'Beastly-beastly, but I will pay.
Het4, sir, is the fithy lucre. It is
most; annoying, sir—really most an
poying to me. Good morning, sir.'
Wolfe's vote will be about 50,000,
slightly more than was conceded to
him - by the Republican Committee,
and much less than he himself claim
ed. Under ordinary ci'rcumatances
this vote would be suprisingly large,
and even as it is, many politicians
are puzzled to discover where the
votes came from. Mr. Wolfe's vanity
will flatter him into the belief that it
was personal popularity; that his
incessant talk in the Legislature,
which only disgusted his fellow mem.
hers, made him famous with; and be.
loved of, the people. A cursory
. ex
amination of the unofficial returns
shows that. Wolfe's vote pine about
two-thirds from the Republicans and
one-third from the Democrats. Mr.
Wolfe in a published interview says
his vote: was a popular protest against
politiciansand political methods'. We
.believe the vote east by the•following
elements to be found in every com
munity: •
1. By those Republicans who have
failed to have . themselves or their
friends advanced to prominent of
fices.
2. By those Republicans who find
fault with everything that is /done
within the party lines.
3. By those Republicans who are
insane enough tot think that certain
Republican lead Era were accomplices
in the assassination of Garfield.
4. By Democrats who were con
vinced by the arguments of their own
leaders and organs that it would be
a good thing to vote for Wolfe.
5.. By those Democrats who thought
they could advaneet heir own party's
interest by increasing Wolfe's - vote
in . - certain 'counties where the ac
knowledged leaders of the Republi
can party_ reside.
These are the elements which com
bined and threw away their suffrages
on Mr. Wolfe. The result is not
gratifying to any one of hem. Their
lack of success destroys all the. vir
tue they arrogated to themselves as
independent voters. —. Harrisburg
Telegraph.' -
Wrruout-' earnestness no man- is ever
great, or does really great things. Be
may be the cleverest of men ;he m-y be
brilliant, entertaining, popular; but, he
will want weight. No soul-moving pic
ture was ever painted that had not in it
the depth of a shadow.
THE good things which belong to pros
perity are to be wished, but the good
things which belong to adversity ate to
lie admired. The virtue of prosperity is
temperance, the virtue of adversity 'forti
`M tude, which in morale, is the more heroic
OS.
A " Too Utter" Man.
WOLFE•S VOTE.
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$l.OO per Annum In Advance.
THE MAID AND THE LEAF;
A dead leaf drifted along the siow—
A poor brown leaf with edges tors; .
Now here, row there, blown high and low,
• An outeaat and a thing of scorn:
Alas! Alas
So life drifts on to hearts forlorn.
Once In a bewer, fresh and bright, d ,
Kissed by the sun-rays and the dew,
A maid, to flee the hot sno's might, .
Prone on the growl]. her fair Ilmbathrew,
,To sleep, to Shep,
And dreaM of some one that she knew.
She slept and dreamed horrid thlag— ,
That he she loved from. her would stray;
And starting up, deep sorrowing, .
Itemised to seek him out that day.
- Alas i Alas I
'Twas all too true—he'd fled away.
Her last love token—just a leaf .
Of eyeamore—rlore's emblem btight.
She threw away, then hayed that grief
Might beer her off from mortal eight.
Alas Abut: -
While the dead leaf drifted through the night
. —ill the Pear Round.
Who Kindled that Fire?
The Ancient Israelite before burn
ing over his stubble fields was re
quired by a wri4n statute to take
every precaution that the flames
should not injure the property of his
neighbor. Before lighting the dry
grass he was required to see that the
wind •was in the right quarter, and
use all possible precaution, so that
the swift-footed flames should not
rush through vineyards and over ol
ive yards, consuming the stack of
barley. But if any farmer neglected
to take these precautionary steps.
and the fire-fiend went flashing and
crashing through his neighbor's plan
tation, he - was required toe pay • for
the damage done by his own careless
!less. -
We now apply the principle under
lying this ancient statute to our own
times and customs. Take one of the
so-called social virtues, and none is
more' popular than of hospitality.
An excellent virtue it is, but how of
ten abused. Who is prepared to be
come responsible for the long list of
evils and injuries inflicted upon soci
ety from rich dinners, late suppers,
high wines, intoxicating liquors, and
the blue ruin generally. There is
fire in that spark li ng wine cup!
Look at that street loafer, this ale-,
bloat! that whiskey-sot! - Who kin
dled that fire?
We charge home these fearful con
sequences upon all those who have
pandered to a falsncustom, and un
intentionally, though it be, caused
all this havoc and wretchedness., We
charge home the results of idleness
and vagrancy upon silly parents,
who let their children grow -up'with
out work, from a . false notion that la
bor is dishonorable! We charge
home upon_the saloons, and the dice
tables, all the fearful consequences
that follow in their wake. There is
fire in all these.-
And if the Jewish farmer who set
lire to his neighbors shock's of corn
was required to make restitution. al
thsaugh he may not have intended to
burn bim out, so should society hold
these pest houses responsib'e for-the
damages done to its- members. We
must suffer for our carelessness as
well as for our malice ; for our
thoughtlessness as, well as for our
hate., The preaching of such a gos
pel. at this time will have a good ef
fect toward healing the
_wounds and
bruises of society. -
In- the Express Office
A stranger passing by the Race
street entrance to the United States
ExprOs Office, the other day, "saw
the good-natured Munson, sitting in
Mis sentry-box, smoking an after din
ner cigar, and he rushed up to him
and hastily said : 6 Be you an ex
presser?'
Munson expressed himself to the
effect that he was there fur that pur,
pose.
Welf,' said the stranger, -!I want
to express—'
Certainly,' said Munson, ' you've
struck the right place. 11. S.—unit•
ed we stand—right over the door.' -
' I say I've callel to express___,
'That's right,' said Munson, ' what
have to express? Where is
it going?' - . .
What I mean to exprees-,'
Well, if you mean to •:xpress,
why don't you go ahead and do it?
The entire- express service of the
"united StateS Company is waiting
on you,' said Munson.
But will yOu allow me to express,r
Certainly,' said Munson, express
all you want to, from a pin .to Cleo
patra's needle, and from a June bug
to an elephant."
' Well, then,' • said the stranger.
preparing to take a walk. 'I want to
express my satisfaction over the
agreeable change in the weather,'
and he•dodged out just in t time to
escape a call•book that Munson flung
at his head.—Cincinnail Saturday
Night.
WHERE EVERYBODY GAMBLES-A
-Tuscon (Arizona) letter says : ‘. The
great attraction of the evening is the
gambling pavilion,, which occupies
almost one entire side of, the plaza.
All around , the building is a promen
ade and along this walk are the gam
bling• tables. • Faro, roulette, monte,
chusets, chuck•a-luck and a dozen
other games that only the sporting
fraternity have names for are repre
sented. At times the whole building
is crowded and it is with difficulty
that one can get - close enough to some
of the tables to make a bet or even
see what the game is At the monte
games a five cent -pi. ce may be seen
waiting its turn for better or worse
'alongside of a _hundred dollar• bet
made by some one who is flush and
who is tapping the bank. The rou
lette tables seem to be the favorites.
One evening I counted sflve in full
blast. • There were eager, excited
crowds around each game. It is a
mistake to suppose that only gamb
lers the tower classes indulge in
gamblii4. Everybody here does it,
from the most prominent official and
merchant down to. the poorest
laborers."
TbeTittsbarq Sunday Loader quotes
Mr—Martin Karg, Silver "Creek, Minn.,
eared a badly wound l horse with Sc.
JMU;Oih
NUMBER:27
Drips.
.
The brewer belong. to am ancient
rsee—Hebrewe.
They that walks on oliomirgarino
is not the butterily.
A poet's bspiration is most he.
quently an editor's perspiration.
Short retirement urges .sweet re.
turn..
}lesiva trims our lamps while wa
steep. -
What men ealleth accident's God's
own part.
Manslaughter,— Man's laughter.
Curious language, one's.
Smiles are smiles only when the
heart pulls the wire.
Our sweetest songs are those which
tell saddest thought.
Men who swing the scythe are
generally swarthy fellows.
Maud S is merely another illustra
tion of the fact that time is•money.
Lore is a canvas furnished by
nature and embroidered by Imagina
tion.
Still waters run deep, but not in
the modern hollow bottomed bottle.
Farmers Confidently assert that
cows are the best corn extractors
after ail. t •
—The faculty of reasoning seldom
or never deceives those who trust to
it.
A POET'S DIFFIDENCE.—ThOge who
suffer from bashfulness may take
courage from the following conversa
tion of William Cullen Bryant with
a friend :
Once we, talked of diffident per
sons. Bryant thought that 41'.ffideam
might be classed with the trials of
life,' and said that with him this feel
ing am anted to bashfulnesi. - Often
he had gone to a church and would
feel so diffident before be entered
that h could not -get up courage
enoughito do it, and would come
away" And sometimes as he was led
to a seat there, would find himself in
such ar;ii - gitation that drops of pert
piratio would fall from his face.
'This is strange,' I said, 'for you
who have been welcomed all over the
world, met so many persons, been so
honored. soloved ;- how is it possible?'
Ile replied : 'lt is temperament.
I shall always feel just this - sort of
boyish timidity. - Small - events in
public often: bring on this distress. --
glow about your writings.?' -,
'Well, with them I write and re
write and cast aside so much, and
have such a sense of their lack of ex
cellence.' •
Thoughtful ThoUghts.
To ascribe a man's good qualities to his
tutor is about as wise as to ascribe the
fragrance of a flower to the soil that ma
tured it.
REASON is called the eye, of the -mind,
and should be equal in temperature as
the eye which neither perspires with heat
nor freezes with'cold. -
SOME persons make a great accountof
standing upon their own right& ; a better
ru!e is to account it a privilege to surren
der a right for another's good.
ONE never knows a man till he has re
fused him something, and studied the ef:
fects of the refusal ; _one never knoys
himself till he hass - denifid himself.
IT is very difficult to be learned ; it
seems as if people were worn out on the
way to great thought* and can never en
jty them because they are too tired: ,
.TISE, real worth of , a life ahould be
measured, not only by the times one has
nut stumbled, but by the times he has
succeeded notwithstanding his stumbling.
IF, after there has been an alienation,
youo feel the impulse to make the first ad
vande toward peace, do it at once. Such
impulses are from the source of all good.
FAITH, like light, should ever be sim
ple and unbending ; while love, like -
warmth, should beam forth on every side,
and bend to every necessity of out breth
ren.
lITPOCRTSY is the greatest social evil of
the age. Sham, falsity, vanity and out
ward appearance for show only, charac
terize every stage of our present society.
Pitc;FANITY-never did any man the least ,
good: No man is richer, happier, or wis
er for it. It commends no one to so c iety ;
it
_is dilmusting to relined people, and
alcsiminable to the: good:
No two minds, are ever the same ; and •
therefore; soy - man who will give us, fair
ly- and frankly, the results of his own im
pressions, unifluenced by tue servilities
of imitation; will be original.
THE temptations of poverty are greater
than those of wealth, because want's de
mands are Leet , ities, .not. luxuries.- A
poor man who is honest Et! greater than
an honest man who is rich.j.
Vna erornal ante is
s:.id to he " the 'price of liberty, and
to-day great success in commercial as in
every other sphere of life can be bought
only with , the gape coin. Put plenty of it
in your cargo, if you would make your
voyage a succebs
DIFFICULTY is The nurse - of great- .
ness, -a harsh- nurse, who roughly
rocks her foster children into strengthand
athletic proportions. The mind grap
pling with great aims and wrestling , with
mighty impediments, grows by a certian
necessity to their stature.
HtiMANITY is the- source of all true
greatness; pride is ever impatient; ready
to be offended. Ile who thinks nothing is
due to him, never thinks himself ill
treated. True meekness is not mere tem
perament, for this is only Softnessor week
netts.
WE gain more esteem by what we bear
than by what we say. Perhaps the higb
est.art in conversation is to make others
talk. The man who bears you may be
heard ; -the man who talks to you ne‘er
is. Ile may- be. dissafigle4 with your
views; he is sure to be satisfied with his
own.
IF you wish to see yourself as others
see Sou, listen to the hitter and scathing
sarcssms that leap to the lips of one
whom you aheady haie bitterly angered.
And when your indignation and senseof
injdstice are gone, yonr 'wounded vanity
ought to admit than what gave point to
your enemy's gibe was the truth though
exagge ted in his 'slander. -
Fact and Facetisz.
THE spiritual. It applies not to the
outward conduct only, but to the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
A MAN should never blush-in confessing
his-errors, forehe proves by his avowal
that he is wiser to-clay_than yestenliy.
"Gums I can find a little something to
scratch off,"-replied the weary genius.
running his fingers through his pair. He
wondered why the staff smiled so boiati r
ously. .
ONE of the Indian chiefs. hen in Wash
ington winked at tb, drug clerk when
calling fur soda water the_otb_er day.
Such little Evidences as this should con.
vince the most skeptical that our mission
ary work among the red men is not with.
OUL some results. 'Native instinct never
taught the chieftain this civilized trick.
AFTER a strict cross-examination, it
was found that the old bachelor did not
call-the thin female "a fl-tt, termagant
woman," but he.gave her the retort cour—
teous in these words : "You flitter - me,
jaunt Yeoman." The Court cautioned
him, however, - to speak more slowly and
distinctly in th - e future.
" Wily don't you dress as well u your
clerks ?" was, asked the other Jay of a
Wall street man. ii_can't," was the an
swer; "they can get trusted."
A CALIFORNIAN went on a $2,000 spree
to see if it was any different froth a sev
enty-five cent one. Much to his disgust
ho found it just the same, gutter, mud,
arrest and all. .
•
Ca
SINCE it bas been said that • r y
could not spell better than 'a store clerk,
several young clerks have been to write
a bit.tiiry of the French revolution.
TIME is a man in California who has
a snake in his stonuch and It obliged to
drink large qpantities of whisky to keep
the reptile stupefied, as It cansea bleg
great pain when it is - lively. He is the
wry of all bits sittibtatt
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