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Joba Highow lived not itty miles from hers, | CCueclgntious and he tried o do fi duty. jsimentis known bom the ant Was lacgo of heartand io’ bis {ath sizowr, | Noverthalos, the ch Jeo do ia Suse a Bou poveraing Lisiment a ihe vorid “1g Ho was a farmer very wall io do consciously little Miss Sadie occupied | Weusds, Gd Sole, Berke Siisics, Sure Thick ‘And had a wife devoted, kind and-true. 0 his mind ‘that | Sere Chest and all inflammation, after all others have {But yet one sin life's devious ways beset, '8hé was inclined to worry and to fret, Bout this or that, servants or hired men, ‘But just now ’bout a poor old speckled hen. The rounding year had on theéir. efforts. The great barn loft with sweetest hay was The yellow pumpkins ’neath September's Had grown to more than The honey bees had bounteous sweets dis- And rip'ning apples all the orchard filled. But in her heart there was no joyous song; The ‘hen with many speckles had gone wrong. . The various crops in garden and in field ‘Had given forth a more than generous yield, The sheep and cattle both bad multiplied, And in the house and barn were laid aside Agood supply of ‘all they made or grew To meet their wants the coming winter Yet she could find no comfort night or day, ; The spsckied hen had laid her eggs away. their accustomed 4 x - . NTR » "And so ons day when to her house there ame ~~. © te : An aged friend, we will not call by name, And frankly. asked how they wera prosp’ring 4 now, 3 Poor Mrs. Highow knit her anxious brow, And bowing down her discontented head, i Forgetting all the blessings round her i spread, Bie a : Declared that she was awfully distressed, The speckled hen had gone and hid her nest. The same great wedkness thay caused her distress. The little ills that life’s pathway beset ‘We magnify, and o'er themefume and fret. ‘ With eyes downcast and half: despondent tread, . ‘ ‘We overlook the blessings round us spread. Tis true alike of women and of men, And every life has its old speckled hen. —Thomas F., Porter. The -Oarelessness of: Peters, BY LUKE SHARP. “1a very, very method- «lical person for so {young a man. “When la letter :. got into ;|through a * certain A routine and the an- N77] « swer deperted from . .v him to the 'copyin x4. book and from the “> copying book to the “as - envelope and fhe en- pt .®.._.~. velope,letter and.all, with enclosures marked, went into the {letter box with a regularity that nothing ‘but the office clock could emulate, and ‘even that, the clerks said, was not as regular as Peters, for.they claimed it was | always fast in the, morning and mighty slow in pointing to 6 o'clock. . + It is little wonder, then, that Peters stood high in the confidence of.old man’ Bentham. Bentham was: Bentham Brothers & Co. There were no brothers and no company—that was merely. the firm name—it was all Bentham. Perhaps there once were brothers and perhaps there was once a company, but that is all ancient history, anyhow, and has nothing to do with this strictly modern story. And it did not interfere with the fact that old Bentham’s name was a lovely thing to have at the bottom of a large check. ae = The clerks never speculated on the probable effect of love on Peters, because it never occurred to ‘them that such a thing as Peters falling in love was with- in_the bounds of possibility. = Love,they argued, was not an article that can be docketed and ticketed and referred back for further information, and entered in: the day book and posted on the debit or credit side of a ledger, so what on earth could Peters do with it it he had it? Manifestly nothing. If they had known as much about human nature as you or I, they would have surmised that when . Peters did fall, it was time to stand from under. Ro And who should Peters fall in love with but the very woman of all others whom he ought never to have given a thought to—in other words, pretty little Miss Sadie Bentham, if you please. It ‘made Peters himself cold when he thought of it, for he knew: herhad just as much chance of‘ getting the moon‘or the laureateship as the consent .of Old Man Bentham. The clerks always said that it was Miss Sadie who fell in love with Peters, principally,.I suppose, be- cause she should have known better, and I thir myself there is something to be said for that view of the matter. Any- how she came to her father’s place of business very often. and apparently very unnecessarily, but the old man was al- ways pleased to see her, no matter how busy he happened to be. At first she rarely looked: at Peters, but’ whenshe, did flash one of those quick glances of hers at him poor Peters thought'ho had the fever and ague. He understood the symptoms later on: I don't know” how things come to a climax; neither do the clerks, for that matter; although they pretended to. Be-| sides they ate divided. in their opinions,’ go I think their: collective * surmises amount torbut very littl, Johnson claims that it was done over the ‘telophone, | while Farnam says she came to the office one day, her father’ was not there, and propgséd so. Peters on the spot. One thing the clerks are unanimous about, and that is that Peters, left: to himself, would riovet’have had the courage. Still, too much dttention. must not be paid to what tHe, clerks ®ay. What can they know about ith They dre in another room, § GS tAP oo Peters knew that he had nomi * should have been given up to the con- cerns of Bentham Brothers & Co., and her presen slightest business to be threw the rest of his mental maclifhery out of gear. the sprightly Miss Sadie managed . | think what a machine a methodical man | to his girl on his desk and put it in the { pile of letters that were to be copied into "JTEORGE Peters was | e small portion of ice where she bad not the It is very generally admitted now that |' the whole affair. : No. one who knew Peters. would ever have given him the credit of proposing an’ elopement—* ‘accuse him of it,” as Johnson puts it. She claimed that while she could manage her father all right enough up to a certain point, yet that in this particular matter she pre- ferred to with him after mar- riage rather than before. She had a great deal of the old man’s shrewdness. —had Sadie. He used to say he would not like to have her as.an opponent ona. wheat deal. gir Hl Well, to come to the awful point where Peters’s methodicalness:nearly upset the’ apple cart, The elopemenk was all set tled, Peters quaking most of the time, and he was to write her a letter ‘giving. an account of how arrangements were progressing. It will ‘hardly be credited —and yet it is possible enough when you gota to be—that Peters wrote this epistle the old man's letter book! The office boy picked up the heap at exactly the usual ‘hour, took them to: the copying press, wet the thin leaves and squeezed them in; the love letter next to the one beginnings - “Dear SirR—Yours of the 231 received and contents noted.” Peters got the corner curled letters still damp,and put them all in their right envolopes, and Sadie got hers in due time, but did not know. enough about business correspondence to know that her first love-letter was written in copy- ing ink and had been through the press. Next day when old man Bentham was looking over the leaves of the previous day's letters he suddenly began fa chuckle to himself. ‘Old Bentham had a very comfortable, good-natured, well to-do chuckle that was a pleasure to, hear. Even Peters almost smiled as he heard it. Shag ‘Peters!’ 1 Yes, sir.” i ‘Have you all the letters, Peters,that these are the answers to?’ “Certainly, sir.” ol «There is one I want to ses, Peters.” ‘What is the name, please?” = «Petty. I did not know that in this line of goods, Peters.” «H. W. Petty, sir.” =: ¢I don’t know the initials. Here's the Tetter.””" = : Peters was stricken. He was appalled —dumb&-blind. Petty” danced before his. eyes. He felt his Hair beginning to rise. . Fhe book did not fall from his hand simply because he held it mechanically—methodically. -Old Bentham roared, then closed the door sc ‘that the clerks would not hear his mirth. ‘That’s one on you, Peters. . It’s too good to keep. I must tell that down at the club.” °© or or «] wouldn't if I Were you, sir,” said Peters, slowly recovering his senses as he saw the old man had no suspicion how the land lay. .. - ¢No, I suppose it wouldn’t be quite the square thing. But of all men in the world,Peters—you. Whydo you elopet Why not marry -her respectably: at the church ‘or at home. You'll regret going off like that all your life.” ¢¢Miss——she—that is—prefers it that way, sir.” ¢Oh, romantic, is she? I wouldn't do it, Peters.” : ¢¢There are other reasons.” siFathef or mother against, as usual, I suppose. Well, you refer them to me, Peters. I'll speak a good word for you. But what am I to do while you are away?” : «J thought perhaps—perhaps— Johnson would take my place.” ¢¢All right. I can putup with John- son for a week, gpaybe, but think of me and get back as soon as she'll let you.” If old Mr. Bentham did not mention it at the club he did at home. : «You remember Peters, Sadie. No! no! that was Johnson. Peters is in my room, you know. No, the red headed man is Farnam. = He's in the other room. Peters has the desk in the corner. Staid- est fellow on the street.” Ever ‘so much older than I am—in manner of course. The last man in the city you would sus- pect of being in love. . Well, he wrote” —and so Mr. Bentham told the story. - 8adie kissed him somewhat hysterically | when he promised to say a good word for Peters and said he was very kind hearted. Co i wre we deal partnerin the business, There id no Co., you know.” . «Bless me, child, what has Peters'’s wedding to do with the company? He is taking the partner, not me. I can’t take Peters into partnership merely because he chooses to get married.” «Oh, I thought that was customary,” saidSadie. © ~~ ib non : ane * LOW» = '* "Phére was no elopement after ali. The clerks say that if. was tha conscientious ‘Peters that persuaded Sadie out of it. 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