The Middleburgh post. (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, May 07, 1903, Image 6
IilDDLEBUr.Q i COMPENSATION. OM war I blind. I atiU should know The splendid iuii wars shining: Bla warmth would, through tha unaeaa (low. Fill eyea (or vision pining-. ' JUd were I deaf. I still should feel Slyslua music round inn: In soundlt M cars would yet be real The thrill that once had found ma. Bo. were I dumb, 'twould matter not " Tbat words could ne'er be spoken: H'or soul to soul ran vole Its thought, Tliounh silence be unbroken. -Clay MucCauley. In N. Y. Independent, i of Mystery. BY JOSEPH REYNOLDS. GY1 maybe because of her oppor tunities, wns the only one to sus pect tragedy breathing behind the curtnin. Xonc of the ever-clinnging occupants of Archer's tenement bud time to pose us the htudents of the psychological. There was a ripple of dull excitement us the dark, et-lipped young uiun from nowhere, carrying s email trunk und u puzzling air of refinement, wus seen going conscious ly tip the common staircase; but it fiz2cd out the first time he wus heard t drop his voice when the landlord's agent called. Down on Ins luck, nsk. ,ing for u few days' grace, a sympa thetic chord was struck at once. After that only one person troubled about Mm and his fugitive ways, and lhat was (lyp. the delicate, deformed girl in the lowest room, who was paid te keejj the stair and landings re vpcclalle, ami who was at the beck end mil of anyone iu the tenement wanting i.n odd job done cheaply. lie hail tiie sky parlor, so high up that tin. invalid who rented Jt before lihu IiimI been known to pause for breath on the staircase 2U times. Cyp, with li'e keen iutelligence of her kind, wus bound to note wliut a farcical Amount of furniture bad been carried up, anil l.ow bolvnm the scent of (:!; ii'g found it way through the dour clunk.-. She knew his name must bo frank Meiciiii !i. because letters a rarity, in the tenement came fre quently for him. They were mostly in long eiielo;.i's, rn.l once or twice, when she can i d li.em up, she had been muck 1;. the twitch of his lips an he took t.im and hastily closed his door a;;:o.i. Strangest of all, be was a man ': couid live without work and wit; m:i friends, llegularly, at dusk, he went out for about an hour; lor the rest of the day he fol lowed the -lead of the invalid und sat klolie in the quiet room. Doing what? Heaven nl.me bad an inkling. Twice u week she washed the stair case down; and she often paused over that.top landing and wrung out her flannel- oit u dozen.. times unneccb iuii'y, .';il''1"i'a uf hearing Roroethifl.?-. Once 'lie bad opened his door softly and caught her at it. "Oh, 1 beg your pardon!" he v!:i . pered. Taney 'that language. i wondered what the scrubbing noi.-.e was." liyp didn't send) that bit again. Finally her feelings took the form of a vast wonder and pity; because, with her woman's i:::nitioii, she di vined many little things thai only a woman would notice, lie was not mad; he was not a criminal in hid ingIds face told that. He could only be a man with a mystery. One night she saw him step sharply out ns usual. As it happened, she was just about to run on one of her own furtive errands. ' (lyp had no notion of weighing impulses. She followed him at a little distance. He jut two or three long envelopes care fally into the pillar box and then vanished through n doorway. It was a branch of the public library, and no place for (lyp. There were two hushed rooms. She ventured uncer tainly in. Ostensibly engrossed by a medical directory, sho watched through the glass partition. He hnd turned to a certain corner of a news paper and was staring as if fasci nated. Just as he made to tear him self away the lights blazed tip discon certingly. Hoth noticed something ahe that he was two shades whiter than usual, and he that she had been watching him. He flicked back the sheets and walked out, with a pink spot on either cheek. Again the im pulse was open to criticism, but a minute or so later she found herself canning that printed corner. Her lips began to work as they always did when she read. There it was something that hulped to solve the mystery, and at the same time thick nti i . "If Frank Meredith will only com mnnieate with known addresses he will learn that bygones are bygones hi the fullest sense. Ethel heart broken." That next morning, as she set her rail bteadlly down on the top lnnd fng, his door clicked; he looked out. Jt mode her jrnp. She hnd been picturing the face of "Ethel" in her soapsuds, and her lip curled. "i hope as you didn't think " she began, and stopped, glowing witli strange confusion. Ten to one he had forgotten nil about it. "Yhafs that?" he asked, absently. ' In fttr trepidation she slopped the water all around his feet. She was ssed to men who would have nailed town her clumsiness with an oath; this one only stepped back. "I waa golDg to say all along," aha stammered, "It you'd like your Kom oat swept out I could do It aft under aae. It's no trouble, and and It bob want It.' v 'Under one? Yeu're kind," he said. "I don't know perhaps it does. Did jam mean sow?' - "Just as you like. I mean It's bo boublsv" repeated. M , hi He threw back the door. She stu diously avoided., looking pointedly round, but she could not help seeing lomrthlng that brushed away another slice of the mystery a tahje in the corner by the window covered with writing paper. That's what he did then, wrote all day long. He had no carpet down; in five minutes her small broom had lightly flicked round the walls; in five more her long one had gathered up the worst of the dust and flue. He waited on the land ing outside. A she brushed the heap past him he held out two coins that, had grown hot in his hand. He knew that she often thoroughly cleaned a room for fourpence. "What's that for?" she whispered, sharply a girl who seldom saw oc casion to whisper. "Put it back, or I won't nsk to do it again. You know better!" "I know you're kind," he said again, past a throat lump. "These these rooms soon get dirty." They do, in six or seven weeks. He went in; the dust hnd subsided. She knelt there, wringing her flannel, and picturing him at the table in the cor ner. No, she should never dare to otter to cook him a meal. It neemed the most ridiculous thing in the world that day, but somqhow, her heart was beating faster under the h'onse, that suddenly Rcemcd too shabby for the daylight, at the thought that she hail "done him that morsel o' good." He was one of the men who painfully need some one to look after them, and, in the nature of things, that same one could only be n woman. It was all well to have "broken hearts." liusy lingers are the things a helpless man needs. And ufter that after that (iyp, su premely unconscious of her own tact, found regular opportunities, of doing him that little service. No one knew; and if he could never seem to find his voice in thanks lie seemed to know that any mention of payment would bring 1 lie blood surging to her cheeks, .lust as you may find a fault less kernel iu a fool of a husk, so you may have the heart of a true woman beneath an impossible bodice, (iyp i!:d it for the love of the thing. If any one had suggested that she did it for love of the man (fyp might have found herself unable to un swe r. The lower door of the tenement generally stood open. One day, nt an hour when most of the occupants were out, Ciypiiavv u tall, aristocratic old gentleman, with white hair fring ing Ids silk hat, staring incredulously in. "Does does my son lodge here? I mean, a ;ir. Xi-i cdith '.''' be asked, keeping 1.. . ' some emotion. "T. i re's , right at the top," she saiii. eye::. him doubtfully. "Yes, I think' he s i . I'll I'll show you." They w :'i. She pointed and 1lien ret . to the next landing. Not for iife could she help lis tening. !. . heard a husky "Frank!" ii :! ihen n dull bound, as if the man i . i..ere ir.ui ieupA! roiivufsivcly from '. s writing table. And then- v "What! I asked you not to try and find me. I told you " "My boy! I've searched all New York for you. Y'ou here, in this den! Frank, you know I never meant half of what 1 said!" "15ut you snid it. I was n good-for-nothing I could gc I simply took you at your word. Perhaps, when 1 can show yon that I'm not so worth less, I'll think of coming back. Not before! Y'ou musn't come here. Y'ou need not worry. I can eke out a liv ing by writing, and I'm in hopes " "Hut, my boy, it's impossible it's starvation! Look at you now! Peo ple are saying I let you go to your ruin!" "To just the reverse, it may be. Dad, if I hnve your obstinate, hasty spirit, that is hardly my fault. I've had to swallow the lump; I'm quite comfortable here, whatever the place is. No, you had better not come in side. You'll go back and say I'm mad. I'm not. I'll tell you this much: I" his voice trembled here "I've been writing a book a novel. I'm in hopes it. mny be the beginning of an end. If it comes back if it fails then I'll realize that I've made the mistake of my life; and I may make another. IJut it won't. I can't talk about it you'd never understand. Y'ou'll know soon." "My boy, you know it will come back you know what things are! You're an tinknown. Publishers play upon names nowadays; they're bound to. You know well I why, I'd have paid for it to be printed and let you have your fair chance. Y'ou'd be cer tain then of getting a hearing. I don't wish to thwart your ideas, but let mc pny that!" A pause, as if he were struggling against the shnr)j(st temptation that tier came to a man clutching the lowest rung of that slippery ladder. Then an amazing answer. "No! No, sir! A month ngo I might have thought twice of that; but how now I feel that I want my leok to stand upon its merits. Y'ou don t know what n book becomes to its au thor. Heaven knows 1 had to realize It was all or nothing with mc! I want to make my own way in the world." "Then, my boy, if you won't con sider me, think of that poor girl with her brenking heart. You left her without a word, after you had won her affection. Think of her!" "I do," he said, brokenly. "I think of her every moment I live. I would never let it be said that I married her for her money. I wrote to her I ave up all thoughts of it. She knows she knows that If ever I make a name far myself Don't don't dare to tell her where I am. If you da door banged on a sob. The old genttemaa stood for minute as if etapeflad, and then groped back flown lha eternal ittinb fit ftW p stem to see tie shabby girl who shivered back on the second landing, and Gyp's own blaring eyes merely . focused strange mist. ' " Cyp kr.tw all now; knjiv in her cruCa wiy t'iut that booU had coma to st,i;i a matter cf life ttd dtath. to the man. The words he had dropped, the way he came out and listened when the postman knocked, the gray fear on his face, that vanished aa sho tame up with only a long en. elope. And here here she was, carrying the puree 1 up the endless stairs, with a numbed sensation. It bad come back to him. She had taken it from the carrier's baud. The publisher's priut cd address was on it. She had only to lay it down beside his door, tap once,, and creep down again as fast os possible. How right down silly of her! She was nearly up to his lan:Iinr. She had paused. "If if a parcel comes," ho hud said a dozen times, "you might let me have it at once." Hie had paused, she knew not why. 'Die silence of his room awed her. Into her head came that queer recol lection of the man down the street the man who, out of work and des perate, had swallowed a dime's worth of carbolic acid. And she heard a rus tle a soft, silken, slow rustic on the stairs behind, as if some great lady were feeling her way up. Gyp looked end looked. A sweet oval face framed in f"T, came above, the land ing, the dark, velvet eyes in it were looking beseechingly, fearfully, up into hers. And (iyp knew what had happened. It was the woman the woman whose heart was his, tho woman who had come to iiud and take him uwny. And Gyp's red hands j clutched the narcel in a snasiu of I jealousy. "Mr. Meredith? They told me he " Tiie whisper broke off. . "Yes, I know you. He's here," (Jyp breathed back. 'That's his room, up there. Ami this here's his book, , i . v:n 4..1... come i.'itcti iio it wcui. urn jimi iuai; it?" A pause. His door had opened! j He knew nothing of the tragedy; breathing outside, of the two women j who iooked into each other's eyes, lie never knew, and never would' know, of the last whisper. "His his book! And he does not know? O, thank you! Hless you for telling me! (live it to mc his book! 1 came to tiie minute. It it was to be. I waited till I dared wait no longer! Not n word. He need not know now. God-by, good-by!" She had taken the precious parcel close against the furs of her breast, und was gone. Just n week later, when Gyp knelt wearily down to wash the top stairs, the man's door opened. In the niaji's eyes was a wild light, in his hand that morning's letter. For one of the most wonderful things in life had happened. And it seemed bo natural that it should happen! "(iyp," he said, "I knew you'd be glad I know you will. They've taken my book. You shall have a copy. 1fi i. . fi'i... v r V. . , or semi. 1 Ti.VTT: "niem know this address. You've been kind ah, but you hare! I wanted I meant all along to give you a little present. Y'ou must you must; you have been so thoughtful." It was an envelope with a gold piece inside. He went hurriedly down the stairs. For him a new life hnd begun. He was trending a golden, dancing path, with a woman's sweet oval face at the far end of it. His book had been taken! lie 'could not be expected to know of the huddled, dreary figure on the top of the land ing there; of the red, twitching hands that covered a face. He had given her an eagle. Women like Gyp have no hearts to break. Chicago Tribune. ToCnro a Ccia b Szo Bay' sctivo Crcno tz.js??.A Td3 Lcsctive Sevea lS3oa fcasM sold ia pott 1 Cofw Cr? ! a TWO Deyj, ca every v.J 3C. Balletla for Each. 6Iz million two hundred thousand farmers' bulletins on a hundred and forty different sub jects were printed for the depart ment of agriculture during the pust Bscal year. As there are about 0,000,- ! j, WO farmers, exclusive of agricultural laborers, in the United State's, this Is one pamphlet for each one. If any farmer did not get his copy, it was because he did not apply fur it, for they are nearly all turned over to the members of congress for free distribution. There is hardly a sub ject in which farmers are interested that is not discussed in some one of 1 the various bulletins. Inforiuatibn is contained in them about the feed ing of farm animals, hog-cholera, how to kill weeds, the care and feed ing of chickens, butter making and the t:;tre of milk, the vegetable gar den, good roads, breeds of dairy cat tle, bread making, how to raise ap ples, rice culture, tomato growing, sugar as food, insects affecting to bacco, cotton and grapes; diseases of potatoes and apples, how to detect oleomargarine and renovated butler, tree planting on rural school grounds, the Angora goat, and scores of other things. It would be diffi cult to estimate, with any ilcgree of accuracy, says the Youth's Compan ion, the financial benefit which has accrued to the farmers from the perusal of these bulletins. Such men as believe they must be continually studying to keep abreast of the times and to understand the possibilities of their business have been the most diligent reodcrs of the publications of the department of agriculture. Il is the benefit which these men hove derived that justifies the continued exenditure of money by the govern ment for free education of this kind, un education n)most ns necessary to national prosperity as that provided for the childreu in the public schools. FBRlsl )RE..-; If iiti ere in uml of Furniture, CariN, Mattings, Uugs, Oilcloth, Linoltum, Iace C'urtuins, Window Slmdts, Pictttwf, aud I H-Mxrv Iramcs, give us a call. V nil you in can Style and in Prices....... Our stock U new and up-to-late. It . is no. trouble to bIiow goods ami quote jirioes. UEl'AIKING neatly and promptly done. Lewisiown Furniture Go,, No, 12-14 Valley St. Felix Block i HELPING THE EORSES. Ttier Work Hard and I'ul tlitally and Thierfor Are Kutilled to CunMldi'rnt (arc. . Spring Opening, A'i me Aiuw toJUlU-J StinlmivP,' ! Larger stock and ptieis 10(1 'than ever. Our Store is J!'o '; witli new things lor bpnnj; in V: What an unpleasant hindrance inf. litinH n ; ., ..!.., . . ing active iiiunaal labor. Jlow about f.r00in, Lm'thH lines, on flnJ me uorse that has to work when lame , Uool S. bl k U atsts. )p, Si; or with raw ores on fhoulders? asks Kural his back or New Yorker, Ueatitifnl line . of Kul, S After a forenoon of . agony with the ; ,CK' " rapjKTh, Mnslm-, (JaM , uiiigiiitniB and lute ;iiv:iK 1 What Is 'Hnit tline" Moslct ALL IN A NAME. The Famous Wife Tbonicht the "Pro fession" of the Freachmnn Evi dently a Splendid One. During the summer a distinguished member of the French academy rented a cottage in Savoy, and when the time came for his return to Paris he went to pay farewell to the owner of the cottage, a prosperous farmer's wife, says the Brooklyn Citizen. "I hope you will write your name in my album before you go," she said. "With pleasure," he replied, and, taking the pen, he wrote his name in the book. "Thank," nhe naid, "but won't you please tell me your profession, so that I can write it after your name?" "Oh, put it down 'land owner.' " he answered. "But that isn't a profession," she snid. "Well, then, put down 'academi cian,' " was his answer. These words seemed to puzzle her, and therefore he asked with a smile, "Don't you know what en academi cian is?" "Xo, not quite," she answered, "but it's such a long word that the pro fession must be a splendid one." Knew Where the Whip Came From. Signor Marconi, of "wireless" fame, is fond of dogs, and used to own a cocker spaniel of unusual intelligence. The young inventor says that one day he took this dog to a saddler's with him and bought there a whip. Tli at afternoon the animal wag dis obedient, and be punished it with the whip he had just purchased. But in the evening, when he came to look for the weapon again, it was nowhere to be found. Just then, there Came a ring at the V1L It was the saddlerr whip la hand. "Teur dog, sir," he said, "brought this to the shop in his mouth this afternoon and laid It on the floor and ran off quickly." Jf, y. Objection is made to what is called ragtime by those who favor "classic" music, let a writ er in the Milwau kee Wisconsin tells a story which tends to show that ragtime may be only another name for the sjyicopations that even the writers of "classic" music loved: ,"In a large institution of musical learn- 4 he e !"id cut s -wcr.e : it JAjra r in groups of three or more in ou& Cl the unoccupied rooms to play en semblesometimes violin and piano, but oftener four and six hands at the keyboard. Strange to sny, however, at these improvised musicales there were never strains from the great masters, whose works are supposed to be the sole consideration of the youthful aspirants for piano-fistio honors, but instead weird medleys and improvisations of such trash as Coon, Coon,' I Need the Money' and other incidents In ragtime life. Of course this state of affairs was shocking and not to be tolerated within those sacred precincts. Conse quently there was placed in a con spicuous position the next day a placard bearing this legend: 'The playing of ragtime strictly forbid den under nil circumstances in the rooms of this college.' It is said that since this injunction the pupils persist in ironing out all the crinkly syncopations in the studies that are given them, and that even Beethoven suffers by the process. The pupils are now waiting, for tho judges to interpret the law on the meaning of ragtime." ' collar pressing on thrse sore place it is little wonder that he hangs back ' when taken from the stable for after- : . uoon und is not enthusiastic aliout j LaOlCS wearing the hut-nets again. Most col- j bir CTulIo ftp ctmlln o. ...it. n Hn i r- " ei.i cn hi c iiiiuiipb trude-marks of bad management, laziness or thoughtless cruelty of those handling the horses.'. Ill-fitting or dirty collars cause part of the trou ble, and a "large share of the remain der comes from excessively long, hard pulling in hot weather, so that the skin under the collar'.is really cooked. A bit of tinkering will often help the fit of a collar. If not, i.t is poor eoon otny - use it. The art w hich touches K ilJilIfltr4Jb t free little washing of the sh"o"uiders"ht noon and night will help. The blistered may be avoided by stopping for a minute now and then to lift the collars and let the shoulders cool. But no matter how well the harness fits, a horse doing such work as plow ing, harrowing or mowing is entitled to have his harness removed at noon. This takes but a few minutes, yet we know of men so lazy or thoughtless that ther seldom do it. A called shoul- l!pp In nmi'A Ancltir n . n i t n .1 4l.n. I .... u aa.w.w V J 1 1 ll VI C1I l(U lUCIW cured. . "own i Wewillliave a ppctial sale ft! Musclin Underf wear, May 1st to the It' We will have the most haulifj line of underwear ever Suubury. 20 yds. muslin $1.00. ' 33 yds. muslin $1.00. . Gingham 5c and 7c. 1 Calico 5c and 7c. . $1.00 White Spread 85c. $1.00 Table Unen 20c to 25c ' Herron.', late f ' 1 H-.-F.Clemmer! 446 Market St., SDNBUUY,BLJ Three doors east of the Market Host CATTLE VACCINATION. Editors out west rtill occasionally sling ink with breezy emphasis. For instance, a rival journalist recently Philadelphia Professor Announces Sore Way ol Defeating-Tuberculosis la Bovlnes. ' Dr. Leonard Tearson, dean of the veterinary department of the. Uni versity of Pennsylvania, announces that he has discovered a method of . vaccination whereby cattle may be made immune to tuberculosis. He has been assisted in his experiments by Br. S. II. Gilliland, demonstrator in bacteriology in the veterinary school. I In a recent experiment Dr. Fearson used four young cows which were as free from symptoms of disease as any that could be procured. Two of these were vaccinated in March. In July alt four were inoculated with tubercle bacilli. All were killed in the fol lowing October. The two which had FURNITURE aroused the ire of Editor Bayse, of he been vaccinated showed no signs of Belleville (Kan.) Telescope, and this ' t"berculdr infection, but the others iniu luurncu iruccs 01 xne oisease. is how the gentleman named began his reply: , "From time immemorial it has 'been customary for ants and fleas and flies and fools, scoundrels and tknlawags and skunks, Januses, jackasses and Judases, lizards, leeches and lice, to assail mankind in general and their superiors in particular. The attack last week," etc. DR. FENNER'S KIDNEY and Backache CURE All diseases of Kldnsys, ciauuor, urinary urKans. Also Rheumatism, Back Sce,HeartDUBe, Gravel, Dropsy, Female Troubles. In the process of vaccination a sus pension of tubercle bacilli which is nojivirulent for cattle was injected. The operation was repeated at inter vals and the quantity of matter in for a few tunes failed to appear. "I consider that the principle of im munization," Dr. Pearson said, "as shown by our experiments, is proved and it is now only remains te work ont the details of the method. This work Is to be continued on a larger scale for the purpose of ascertaining the simplest and shortest practicable method of vaccination." Goldea Darvcst. The Druggist Did old Bullyon's case yield to your treatment? The Physician It did. I treated him for six months and his heirs , paid me $1,500. Chicago Dally Newsr 1 Bare Enoash. ' Yeast It's hard to keep a good man Doa't become dlsoonragsd. Ther Is a .ttwa' eurs for you. It necessary write Dr. Feoner. Crlmsonbealc That s Why they put Do you need any furniture! If bo, don't fail to come town Btore and get our prices. We can suit you In style and prices, from the cheap est to the better grade. II Hard wood, golden oak fiuii Only $12.50 Mattresses - 89 Bedsprlns $iM Oood -White) Tn-r- n-rr-i c l 13 cd", witn sarins) Chairs, Dockers, 1 'ouclien, Sid ' boards, fancy and chrap fc tension Tables, Uaby torrl" and Uo-caris. M. HARTMAN FURNlTtRE Mlffllnbiirit, "Eight months In bed, heavy backache, pain and soreness across kidneys, also rheu matism Other remedies failed. Dr. ren tier's Kidney and BacVnclio Cure cured ma completely. II. VVATEU8, Uumtet, K. V." Druggists. 50c., II. Aik for Cons Hook-Free. Schroyep & Smyse FIRE V INSURANCE AGMNTS. Represent only I'nt-classStoc panles .Lighting Olause aud Threshing permit ranted. n r 1 .l Ip nilf its sic wuiimi1 'iit-u .'j - pan lea business to Issue 1 .llcles and s at our oftle same as asiCrliiVuitiuoni1 2." , heTj monument orer some of t offlee. ., L J tasesasyours. 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