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THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., JUNE 10. 1879.
RUTH'S CHOICE.
AVEItY pleasant llttlo group gather
ed about Mrs. Dermot's cony break
fast table that bright spring morning.
First, Mrs. Dermot herself, fair, fat and
well no matter about the age ten
years a widow with not over plenty of
means, and the mother of three girls,
Miss Laura the eldest and the beauty,
Miss Isabel, a beauty also, and a musi
cian besides, and little Ruth who was re
garded by the family as neither very
brilliant nor very beautiful, but very
useful to help mother and the sole
servant with the household affairs.
This morning there was one more in
the group, Mrs. Dermot's brother Ed
ward, au Improvident youth who had
run away to California years ago and
Just come back, not much the better, as
Mrs. Dermot could discover, for his long
wanderings.
" We never need have expected poor
uncle Ed. to make anything," she re
marked to her daughters the night after
his sudden return. " He says he has
saved enough to buy himself a little
home somewhere, but I suppose that Is
all. I'm sorry, for I did hope he would
have been able to do somethlug for you
girls. But I suppose we must make the
.best of It, and treat him as well as we
-can. I do hope he won't try to buy a
house In the city, for It won't help you
.any to have Bhabby relations close. I
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. Ha Ana nil ti 11 n nio ouiaii,
tfo buy over on the Jersey shore.
Uncle Ed. received this advice and
consented to adopt It, with a sly twinkle
in his gray eyes, which Mrs. Dermot
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uiu nui uuuue.
She rather expected to be asked to
assist in the selection of the little place,
but as uncle Ed. did not invite her to
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seiviees.
At the table this morning, uncle Ed.
"annouuced that the little house was
ready for occupancy and that he was
going to take possession in two or three
days.
"And now I want a housekeeper,"
he said in his slow way. Won't you
lend me one of your girls, Mary V"
Everybody looked up as uncle Ed.
made this amazing request, Laura
blushed with vexation ; Isabel shrugged
her pretty shoulders and smiled, and
even Kuth looked astonished.
" Of course she needn't do the rough
work," continued uncle Ed. "Ill hire
4 kitchen girl for that ; but I thought
I'd rather have one of my own relations
to look after things. You see I'll not
have many more years to live, and I'd
like to be among my own kin."
Nobody answered so poor uncle Ed.
went on, slowly: "I'll tell you what
I'll do. . If one of you girls go over to
my new home and live there with me
I'll give her her board and clothing
while she stays and whenever she mar
ries I'll give her what I can for a setting
out. Now, I'll leave you to think over
it. I'm going over to-day and when I
come back this evening, you can have
your choice made."
After uncle Ed. left the room there
was a chorus of exclamations.
Isabel leaned back in her chair and
laughed till she was tired.
" Wouldn't I look pretty playing the
piano in uncle Ed's six by nine parlor,
with an Ingrain carpet and wooden
chairs V" she exclaimed.
"And wouldn't I feel like asking
Colonel Richardson to call on me in
some little muiry, stuffy, Jersey place I"
cried Laura indignantly.
" It's a pity, I know," said Mrs. Der
mot but I don't see but what some of
you ought to go. It would relieve us
and you know uncle Ed. would dress
you, he sdld so."
"Dress!" cried Laura indignantly.
" Yes, calico gowns and cotton shawls
and may be a cheap alpacca for Sunday.
Thank you ; not for me; let Ruth go I
they'll suit her."
"If ma is willing, I will go," said
Ruth, speaking for the first time. "If
uncle Ed. feels lonely and wants one of
us we ought to go and stay with him,
and I am willing to go.
" Well, I do suppose you would be
best for him," said Mrs. Dermot,
thoughtfully. " It would leave me
more, too, for the other girls, and then
when they marry they can help you."
" You forgot uncle Ed. has promised
her a ' setting-out," said Isabel with a
Moornful laugh.
And Laura added, "a pretty 'setting
out' no doubt. I don't suppose after his
house is furnished, uncle Ed. will have
fifty dollars left in the world. Go along
Ruth ; I wish you joy In the bargain."
"Laura, Isabel, hush," said Mrs.
Dermot, reprovingly. " If Ruth has a
uilnd to go, you ought not to put obstacles
in her way. Let her do as she likes."
When uncle Ed. came back it was an
nounced to him that Ruth had decided
to go with him.
"Thank you, dear," he said, laying
his hand on her head. "I'll try to
make you as comfortable as I can. Will
you be ready to go, over dny after to
morrow V"
" Yes, sir," answered Ruth.
The girls had a great deal of sport
about her going next day, but little
Ruth, whose heart was warm with pity
for her lonely uncle, held firm, and was
ready to go early the next morning.
Uncle Ed. Invited the rest to go over
and Bee her installed In her new home.
Miss Laura haughtily declined, but
Mrs. Dermot and Isabel resolved to go,
Isabel enjoying the anticipation of turn
ing up her pretty nose at Ruth's humble
quarters.
They crossed the river and uncle Ed.
told the ladles to wait at the ofllee a few
moments till he found some sort ' of a
carriage.
" lie hired a very handsome one, I
must confess," was Isabel's menial com
nent as they were seated a little later in
the stylish carriage with its splendid
horses j " I didn't know they kept such
elegant ones outside the city."
Beated In her corner, Miss Isabel en
Joyed the ride very much, commenting
on all the handsome residences they
passed.
" What an elegant place," she cried,
as they drew near a line old mansion in
the midst of stately grounds, with a
gleam of marble statuary among the
trees, and a sparkling fountain flinging
its bright drops in the air upon a well
kept lawn.
" We will stop here," said uncle Ed.,
as the coachman drew up his horses.
"Here! Why, do you know these
people ? Who owns this place V" asked
Isabel.
" I do," returned uncle Ed. quietly,
as he assisted her to alight.
"You!!!!" cried Isabel, with at
least three exclamation points after the
word.
While Mrs. Dermot stopped short on
the carriage step to say, " Edward ! My
good father's alive!"
" Yes, I !" returned uncle Ed. smil
ing. "Come, Ruthie dear, this is the
home I have brought you to ; let us go
In and see how you like it."
The surprised party followed him
through the grounds to the door, where
they were admitted by a neat colored
boy.
" Good morning, John," said uncle
Ed. " Here is your new mistress," pre
senting Ruth, as John bowed low, after
the manner of a polite darkey, to. wel
come his young mistress.
" The rooms are all in order, John ?"
asked uncle Ed.
"Yes, sah," replied John.
" Very well, we will look at them.
Come ladles."
He led them through lofty rooms,
most elegantly appointed, pausing at
last in Ruth's own chamber, a lovely
room, all soft drab, blue and silver, and
fit for a queeu or a lady.
"And here," he said, opening anetlier
door into a room furnished with rose
color, " Is a room for your sisters, when
they may choose to come and stay with
you. I know you don't like to climb
stairs."
" But but Edward " Bald Mrs.
Dermot, who was the first to recover
her voice, "we are astonished beyond
measure. I thought you said you had
only made a little out yonder.' "
Uncle Edward smiled.
" Well, I did make a little, Mary
and I never was glv6a much to brag,
ging, you know. BesideB, I had a fancy
to see whether Uncle Edward poor and
Uncle Edward rich were to be consider
ed the same. You have all been kind"
Mrs. Dermot winced a little, for she
knew It had only been a pitying sort of
kindness" and my little Ruthie here,
most of all, for she had come to .make
my home bright. I'll take good care of
her, and give her a hundred dollars a
month for pocket money, and when she
marries I intend to settle twenty
thousand dollars on her for a - wedding
present."
Isabella sank down in a chair speech
less with astonishment, while Mrs.
Dermot exclaimed, "Well, I never!
Goodness gracious, my good fathers!
I can't hardly believe it yet, Edward."
Uncle Edward only smiled.
"You'll get used to It, Mary. Now,
Ruthie, dear, take your sister to your
room and take off her things. Mary,
you and Belle must stay all day, and I
will send you home in the carriage." '
" Was it your carriage V" asked Belle.
" Yes ; and I hope you will enjoy a
great many rides in it, Belle."
" What will Laura say V" was Bell's
first question when she found herself
alone with Ruth. " It don't make any
dlfl'erence, though, we had the same
chance as you had. Ruth you are a
lucky little soul."
And Ruth, as she moves happily
about "poor Edward's" magnificent
home, thinks bo, too. But the truth is,
she was kind, generous and honest, and
now she has her reward.
3T Spend your time in nothing which
you know must be repented of. Spend it
in nothing which you could not review
with a quiet conscience on your dying
bed. Spend It in nothing which you
might not safely and properly be found
doing, if death should surprise you In
the act.
8AVED BY A BIRD.
THE old coal pit of Bottsford had
proved a failure after fifteen thou
sand dollars had been expended on It.
The forsaken shaft, two hundred feet
deep, and a long tunnel in the moun
tains of Bottsford, were the only re
maining traces of work having been
done.
Newman Highborn, while roving
through these mountains became sepa
rated from his companions. He had
reached the forsaken shaft, and was
precipitated into the fearful abyBg., Ills
walking stick which struck the rough
side walls here and there, broke the
swiftness of the fall. But down, down
he went to the bottom, where, It is
true, he reached very much mangled,
but alive.
Although agonizing with pain, he ex
perienced a feeling of thankfulness for
the preservation of his life. Still he felt
there was no help for him two hundred
feet below the surface. He was only
saved here to famish. Throughout the
whole dreary night he planned how to
escape, but nothing occurred to him.
He must stay here to perish.
The next morning he consumed the
bread which fortunately he found in his
pocket. The space he occupied was but
a few feet square, and with the help of
matches he soon explored It most
thoroughly.
Highborn, under ordinary clrcuni-"
stances, was not easily discouraged, but
now the terrible situation in which he
found himself, gradually began to op.
press his spirits. The more he .reflected
on It, the more he became discouraged.
He began to be tortured by thirst, and
there was no water there, not even a
drop, which usually tickles down so
abundantly in places of that kind.
The day passed, night came. He
cowered down weary and hungry, and
fell into a deep sleep. - He dreamed of a
woolen stocking.
It was an old story which he had
often read in his boyhood of a work
man in England, who was left on a high
chimney after the scaffold had been re
moved. He unraveled his stockings
and let down the tbm yarn to the
ground. With it he pulled up a cord,
with the cord a string, and with the
string a rope strong enough on which to
descend. So ended the story, and so,
also, ended his dream.
He awoke.
What was the cause of his dream?
He had known this narrative for many
years. He did not find himself on the
top of a chimney, but deep down in the
earth. His situation was quite differ
ent. As he was thinking over the
dream a swallow fluttered down the
shaft and fell by his side to the ground.
The poor bird was frightened, but not
dead.
Suddenly a thought flashed upon the
mind of Newman Highborn, and he
thrust his hand over the swallow. It
was but a weak ray of hope. He took
off his shoes and stockings, and care
fully unraveled the latter. The threads
he laid over each other in a circular
manner so as not to become entangled.
He labored industriously and patient
ly until the two stockings formed one
longBtrlng. This he fastened securely
to the tail of the bird, and again placed
it under the hat. Then he took a lead
pencil and aided by the lightof a match,
he wrote on a piece of paper.
" I am at the bottom of the shaft of
Bottsford mountains I beg you send
help I Newman Hionuonx."
After he had folded this and tied it
securely to the other end of the thread,
he set the bird free. It fluttered for a
moment around Highborn 's head, then
slowly ascended.
Now rose a glad though only a weak
hope In his breast; it grew stronger the
higher the bird ascended. Bravo ! little
swallow. The thread at every glance be
came shorter 1 A life depended on it.
The bird at lust disappeared at the en
trance of the pit.
But what prospect had he after ally
lie shuddered at the thought of the
blight hope. Should the bird after
reaching the open air, turn to the right
or left, how easily might the thread
by rubbing against the edge of the shaft
break.
But the bird discovered upon reaching
the top, that it was more difficult to
turn to one side, and consequently, flew
right up In the air.
The three companions that had start
ed out with Highborn missed him for
a long time and sought diligently and
carefully for him. They repeatedly
came upon the shaft without for a
moment thinking that he might
have fallen in. Once they glanced down
out of mere curiosity and found nothing
but darkness. They consulted with
each other as to what first was to be
done w hen one of them said :
" What is that near you, Potts V"
" Where y"
" There, not three steps from you,
to your right, is a piece of thread or
something similar. Why, it stretches
quite a distance over the weeds !"
" Pull it," said Sam Highborn, New
man's brother.
Potts pulled, and about thirty steps
from them fluttered a bird to aud fro.
" Why this poor creature Is fastened
to It ; what heartless scoundrel could
have done such a thing V"
"It is a swalldw," thought Potts,
" Let us see where it is fastened."
" Perhaps it belongs to some one." '
" Whether It belongs to any one or
not, I am going to give this poor thing
its freedom," Bald Sam, cutting the
thread.
The little bird understood this and
arose in a moment and ascended to
ward the skies. Sam followed this
thread; suddenly he called to his com
panions :
" Come here, Potts, at the end of this
thread there Is a piece of paper!" he
unfolded it and read the following :
" I am at the bottom of the shaft of
Bottsford mountains I beg you send
help ! Newman JIiohisoiin."
" Great God, Potts I Down in the pit
alive ! Not fifty steps from here ! It
cannot be, and yet he says so.
Both hastened to the shaft.
The bird had flown away an hour ago.
Newman Highborn waited with tremb
ling anxiety. Ills eyes watched the
mouth of the pit till he sank down ex
hausted, resting his head on his hands.
It was not long till he was aroused by
the falling of bits of wood around him.
At the same time indistinct voice j
sounded down from above.
He looked up and recognized two per
sons bending over the edge.
Oh how he exulted, when , after sever
al anxious seconds there fell a noteat his
feet. He again struck a match and
read :
" We are here and will bring help as
soon as possible.
Sam Highborn and Potts."
He returned an exulting "hurrah!"
but before rechlng the open air the sound
died away to a low hollow murmur.
One long anxious hour passed, two,
three. Night broke in. Then some
thing came down. He noticed a light
at the top, Then a heavy rope touched
his head.
Oh ! how eagerly he grasped it and
made a strong loop and put it around
him. Then he gave the rope a powerful
jerk and exclaimed : "pull!"
Up, slowly, cautiously, ever higher,
now stopping, now gliding back several
feet.' His heart throbbed loudly. He
sees the stars overhead. Another mo
ment, and he is on the surface exhaust
ed but living saved.
Newman Highborn owes the preserva
tion of his life to a little bird, and this
had flown away.
A Cunning Advocate.
At an assize town in the West of Eng
land, some time since, an action was
brought by two graziers against the
landlady of an inn, to recover the sum
of 200 under the following circumstan
ces: The two plaintiffs and another
grazier called on the defendant, and
deposited with her the sum of 100 each,
upon the conditions that she was not to
deliver it to either of them unless all
three were together. It so happened
that, shortly after, one of them repaired
to the defendant in great haste, and
requested her to let him have the money,
as it was wanted immediately to pay for
cattle. The landlady, knowing him to
be one of the party, and not suspecting
that fraud was intended, handed over
the money. Having gained possession
of the 300 he started for America, and
the plaintiffs brought their action. The
jury seemed Inclined towards the plain,
tills; but the defendant's counsel started
up, and addressed the court in these
words : "My Lord and gentlemen of the
Jury My client (the defendant,) ac
knowledged having received the money:
aud the fact, as stated by the plaiutinV
counsel, is correct that my client was
not to deliver it up unless all three were
together. Now, my Lord and gentle
men of the Jury, here Is the money:
and when the plaintiffs bring forward
the third, they may receive it." The
DlaintiilH. unable to produce their com
panion, were obliged to submit to a
nonsuit, to the great joy of the poor
landlady, the satisfaction of the audi
ence, aud the credit of the crafty
counsel.
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