Pittston Gazette

              IitSi!5*"ar**f Oldest JS'ewsoaDer in the Wyoming Valley. PITTS TON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1890. A Weeldy Local and Family Journal. " would do bo but for two reasons—one, we do not need you in the slightest, and the other is that this stuffy office is no place for a young lady." "xou are so mucn interested in mining affairs," I replied. "I have often noticed how you stop to read The Hill Beacon, no matter what you are doing. Let the mail bring that and at once everything else is dropped. See! Your very eyes confess your guiltt" She met my accusation with as brave a front as she could command. her sit da wn. He gave her a drink of water and sat down in front of her. "Now," sai 1 he, "we will help you, but first you mi ist control yourself and tell us bo we ca i understand. If Jack is to be helped a Dol heads, not broken hearts, will have tcD do it. Crawford," and he turned to me, "sit down. You are as much upset as she is. Now what is the matter with Jack? It is Jack Lewis, your nephew, I suppose?" you. i ll go see her, but I have no hope of influencing her." time a man loofclng like a Presbyterian clergyman in a miner's clothes came in, and in his turn stared at us, gave a little nod, and he went out. Then the woman arose, took two plates from a closet, two cups and saucers and began to prepare a table for us. She spread no cloth, and she put the bacon and potatoes which she fried together upon our plates, dispensing with the formality of a meat dish. The coffee pot she pulled forward, poured some water on what was already in it and let it boil. She put bread and butter and some pickled tripe on the table and bade us come and eat. whole body relaxed, and she looked aa il she could bear no more. She put out her hands to tl now low fire, but in a moment rested her head on her hand like a tired child. Then she drew herself together, looked up, and did the most astonishing thing. My Heart's Delight ON LIVING IN NEW YOEK from ballet, bat such, it seems ta "" could not have been the case, especially the secret ballot. "Go to her uncle," aaid I; "surely he has some authority over her." She stood up and I could see tried to look entirely indifferent, but her lipc trembled and her face paled. "HI do my best," said he, "but I won't promise you success.'* NYE PUTS THE EXPENSE AT $600 MORE THAN YOU GET. The ancient Greeks selected magistrates or decided political questions by secret vote, for which purpose they used different colored beans. At one time they used only the pole beans. Hence the term, from the Greek, "going to the polls." It was one of the moat interesting and thrilling sights, we are told, to see the Greek on election day selecting his ballot from the Wn bag before casting it By L0UI8E STOCKTON. I went to Melvin, packed up my handbag, made arrangements with my housekeeper, and all the time my thoughts dwelt on Margaret in fear and dismay. "Of course then," she answered me, "there is nothing more to be said, and ( can only beg your pardon, Mr. Crawford, for having troubled you." She began to sing—to sing in a clear, sweet, thrilling voice, which vibrated with passionate intention. He Alio Make* Other Interesting Kem*rk» About Existence In the Metropolis and Tells Some Thing* About the fCoDVrleht. 4A1 BioMa a»ii~. CHAPTER t "Now come, Mr. Crawford," she replied. "You notice that I read that paper because you are interested in it yourself and on the lookout for itl Pray, do you notice how much I also like to get The Orchard and Meadow?" The newspaper which Reuben Httltf and I own and edit is, I am aware, a "one horse" affair, but we are satisfied with it It is a small eight paged weekly, largely made up of advertisements and scissorings, and the subscription price is one dollar a year. We have no reporters; we never print telegrams noi murders, and we have a subscription list of 172,000 names—farmers, gardeners and country people, because wherever there are people raiding fruit, truck 01 flowers there goes the little Seed and Graft, and we are eld fogy enough to employ girls to fold and direct these newspapers, and these girls do their work cheerfully and peem to be happy. * When one of them marries we give hei a sewing machine and a dining room table. wnen x reac&ed tne station a few minutes aften 10 I found Hale standing at the entrance. As I sat still looking at her it flashed upon me that perhaps if I knew more of the history of this girl I should noi so hastily shut the door upon her. And I have a very strong feeling about disappointing women. When I married my wife and I had only a meager salary upon which to live, and I grumbled enough because I had to work all night, and in consequence slep£ nearly all day. I thought I was deprived of my share of sunlight and social life, and my wife tenderly agreed with me. I silently handed him the paper, and he read it without a word of comment "And you knew him?" he said to MargaretIf an angel from heaven had alighted, and in his dazzling attire had stood in their midst', the men could not have been more startled, more electrified. They stood stock still gazing at her. But she gave no heed to them, but tang louder and clearer until her voice seemed to fill the air, making it pulsate with enchantment. For what was she singingl Ah, for what was she not singingt Poi life, for help, for freedom, and, though she knew it not, for love. Secret Ballot Law. [Copyright by Edgar W. Nye.] He pointed with his thumb over his shoulder. "She isin the waiting room," he said, and taking my bag he added: "She carries less baggage than you do." "Well?" said I. Thorndyke Smiley, of Sandy Mush Township, N. C., writes: "Would it be too much trouble for you to tell me with regard to the expense of living in New York for a man in moderate circumstances and who is willing to economize? I believe that if folks in New York only thought so they could save a good deal more money than they do. Why do folks kick so with regard to cost of living in New York? I get $30 a month here, but am offered $10 to go to New York: Oughtn't I to go in order to advance, and also to make so much more money? "I am interested in the Hill Beacon," said I, "because my nephew, Jack Lewis, edits it I am always anxious to see what fool thing he will do next. There never was a boy who so loved to Btir up the wasp nest. I want to see what he will say when he is stung." Then when we had finished the woman lighted two candles, and we arose and followed her to two reasonably clean bedrooms on the other side of the hall. After she had left us wo sat down and talked. In the selection of candidates certain colored beans were chosen by the primaries to correspond with the they were to represent Sometimes • packed primary would decide on a style of bean to be cast for an unpopular "nndidate, knowing that the last quart of that hrand of bean had been eaten at breakfast the previous Sunday. tti* -fiat"happened here a style ot vulcanized ■ robber bean of the same general appearand would have been made in the night The Greek origin of Boston is established by the history of the ballot I *hCTiV At Athens the dicasts—whatever ♦*»«» may be—used in giving their verdicts balls of stone called peephi, or of metal called sponduli, whence cornea the term spondulix or money, which has also been associated more or leas with the ballot throughout the history of the world. Those pierced in the center or black in color signified condemnation, »CmI though this, of course, was hardly political balloting it soon led to it Petalism, which was so popular in Syracuse at an early day, a term which has nothing to do whatever with pesrimism, was a system of voting by words written upon the leaves of the olive. By airing the plain leaf the voter "I give you leave;" but by making certain other Greek characters on the ballot it meant "Leave the office alone." Or it might be marked so as to mean "We beleave not in yon." She nodded her head. "And yon were engaged to him?" The color swept up over the face that had been so drawn and white. "Did you see her?" said L "Couldn't you convince her? Surely you could have done that" "No," she answered, "I was not engaged to him." She looked from one to the other. "Could I put the rings of Saturn aronnd Jupiter? My dear boy, I did not try to convince her. She would not discuss the question. She asked me about the mines and the strike, but she knows far more about it all ''Shan we do. She has used the exchanges to advantage. She even knows the names of the leaders among the strikers. There is no end to her nerve, 1 think. She won't break down again." "She'll break down as soon as the excitement of starting is over. Surely you, a married man, know that a woman's calmness may be as hysterical as her tears. Good heavens—P' and I stood still, "I will not go until 7:15 to-morrow morning! I will not lose much time. I cannot do anything the night I get there." Now that we were in Tiger hill we had no idea what to do or where to turn. But we agreed that we had best be silent. "And I," she boldly asserted, "am interested in those poor miners whom he abuses so much." "I will have to tell you! It was my fault, because 1 should have come away sooner. I met him in the Adirondacka last summer and we were in the same party because I was visiting the wife of an old college friend of his, and I thought there was no harm in it—in Beeing Him so often, I mean—because every one knew that I was engaged to my cousin. But the night before I left there he begged me to break the engagement, and he told me what was true, that I didn't love my cousin. But I did not know then that I could not marry Ned Mason. You see I had been engaged to him ever since I was 18, and I refused to even think of breaking it Jack said soma hard, hard things to me and I was angry with him. After 1 came home I found ] could easier die than marry Ned. And my uncle was so violently disappointed that I had to leave the house. Then ] came here." She sang like one inspired, and hei whole heart went out in the cry, "Angels ever bright and fair, take, oh, take mo to your care!" and the song seemed born of the night and of peril! And then, behold, from one of the huts there was a great cry, and out there rushed a man, torn, weak, bandaged, and he looked wildly about him, and seeing her he ran to her and fell prone on the ground at her side. And she lifted him up and held him in her arms, and I—I came out from my hiding place and hurried to them, and I took Jack from her and laid him down, thinking he was dead, but h« opened his eyes and feebly So ] sat down on the grass and held Mm, and Margaret knelt by him, and they looked each into the eyes of the other. After she suddenly failed in health and died I discovered that she had worked in our little house all day and sewed for the shops at nightt It was thus she bought my little comforts 1 And now that she was dead and could not share the comfort and repose of my life it seemed to me that because of her deprivations I ought to be more thoughtful of other women. Little enough did the girls guess how often they owed some little pleasure or indulgence to the mute pleading of my wife's memory. Thinking thus, I said: "Abuses!" I repeated. "They aro a set of rascals, every one of them. An insane, law defying crew." "In the morning," said I, "we will see the place and learn something of the people. There must be some one in authority here, and some one who has some sense of law. The very gossip may tell us where Jack is, and just what has happened. In the meantime we have come because I am interested in the mines, and you are my niece—as indeed, dear child, from this moment you must be." "They are a poor, ignorant crowd ot men," said she, "and it is our duty to educate and civilize, not abuso them." "Will you also tell me what you know regarding the new ballot and all about its history, if not too much trouble? We all read your stuff at our house and regard it as almost unavoidable." One day I came into the office af ter an absence of a couple of hours, and found Hale scissoring the New York dailies. "My dear," said I, "the United States offers refuge to the oppressed, but it doei not offer a free fight territory for outlaws, and that is what these men ask of us. It is the duty of their own governments to 'educate and civilize' them We do not aspire to make our country a reformatory school." "Dan," said he, "thero was a young woman in here to see you." New York is about the only American city I know of, Thorndyke, that does not invite immigration. The reason is apparent For several centuries New York has been engaged by the United States government to do a general focusing business for all the disaffected foreign population of the earth, and as an entrepot, if you know what that is, Thorndyke, and cache e hoodlum for Europe. Finally, it got to where the fllnnssort pauper, both titled and otherwise, who desired either to marry rich or go into politics, constituted the bulk of the immigration. Foreign dynasties informed us that we must accept such as they could gather from the ranks and whose terms either in the bastile or the pest house had not yet expired, as they had run out of "ticket-of-leave men" and other suitable timber for colonization. The result is that with the influx of ambitious young blood from the interior to hold level this ever restless and ever flowing current of poorly deodorized aliens, together with the natural growth of the city, there has been no organized effort to make of it a boom town. Our growth, therefore, I may truthfully say, has been steady and healthful, and any unoccupied or unimproved property south of the postoffice that you can get hold of is almost sure to be valuable if you hold it long enough. The expense of living in New York varies according to the station you purpose occupying, but generally runs up , from $600 to $800 per """"" over what you get And Margaret, leaning over, took my hand and kissed it, but I drew it away and laid it on her pretty head, and prayed to God that she might in this adventure be kept from harm and from sorrow. "Very well," said 1 getting a glass ol water, "you saw her, I suppose? It is as hot as ginger outside, Reuben." "I saw her," he replied, "but she didn't want to see me. It was the old gentleman she was aft»r." "Are you quite determined on news paper work, Miss Woolstine?" "Quite. And perhaps I should tell you that I have an offer which I can accept from The Royal Express, although I have not written for them, but I have just come from there and they seem desirous of trying me." "All that is true; but their own governments won't do it, you know, and they are here. Wo must do it." "That they are here is unfortunatelj true," said I. "Then shell go alone. She has her ticket, and when her train Is called she will be off. She won't wait for yon." "How do you know she has her ticket?" "I bought it for her. I went to her hoarding house and brought her here, then I bought her ticket." "Judas! said I. "And I do not believe you saw her uncle." And indeed it was but a few hours after that there was need of an instant answer to this prayer. "Now, come," said I. sitting down, "1 am not going to shirk the title, but you'll have to take shares.iu it. Vou can't be distinguished from me by it, my boy I I am gray, but you are bald; I am lew and you are stout, and there isn't a six months difference in our years or oui looks, Reuben Hale." But around us there was a hubbub ol confusion and quarrelling, and knivet flanhed and the leader pushed back one and threatened another, and the noist grew greater and more fierce, but Mar garet and Jack were like people safe in a lagoon, careless of the raging storm outside. But the leader turned, hrDlCUng one man by the throat, and ha cried, "Sing! If you value your lives let the girl sing!" "And your nephew's paper says thej ought not to have schools where their own language is used. I think that unkind. Their native tongue must be deai to them, and they naturally wish theii children to know it." I had been asleep about an hour when suddenly I awakened. It seemed to me that something had happened to arouse me, but everything was perfectly still. The stars were now shining; I heard an owl hoot and the cry of a lonely cricket. I was just falling off to sleep again when the very skies seemed rent by a woman's scream. The sound was not in the house, it was far off and in the open air, but I instantly knew it was Margaret's voice. The shadow of a smile passed over Hale's face, but I took her hand in mine. "Do you want to go there?" Sho flushed painfully. "No, I do not. It is BCMrablic. There are so many m«o going and coming." ••Ana you aid rightly," l said. "1 was the one to whom you should have come." "There was no use in seeing any one. Apollyon would not have stopped her." "I believe in my heart you encouraged her/*! testily cried. "Don't be unreasonable, Dan," said he. "Don't quarrel to-night, my boy. It is as much as I can stand to see you go off, and I declare I will go with you! Of course I will. I can look after Margaret and leave you free." ' "And who will get this week's number out? No, no, Hale"—and I fell into line at the ticket office—"it wouldn't be wise. I'd do better by myself, and three of us would be ruin to everything. And I never did quarrel with you. Begin to-night? Not much, Reyben." And so getting my ticket I went into the waiting room and found Margaret composed, alert and confident. Hale pressed through the gate, carrying our bam, and wnen the train ran out of the station I glanced back out of the window and saw him trying to look cheery and hopeful, but a more miserable, woebegone face never did I see. "Have it as you please," said he, "but that is what she said—she wanted to see old Mr. Crawford. I think she thought me the young one." * I nibbed my hands nervously. "Sit down, Miss Woolstine; who did you see there—at the office?" "Then let them teach it to their children at home; but in the public achooli of this country the language of this country is in place. How else can we educate, civilize and make good citizen! of them? If they are to be part of ui they should speak our language," read our books." "But 1 came because I had so often watched you in church and thought there never was so kind a face, and I had heard how good you were to the girls you had here, and of course I had to earn some money; I would not taka any from my uncle." The Romans divine first monkeyed with the right of suffrage in the year 189 / nsing wooden tabell® placed In dstar-a sort of baaket or wlohsr These were marked U. B. (nti or A. (antiquo) in the caae of a *1 law, and L. (libro) or D. (damC3ie case of a public trial. The a custom of using the word casting the ballot has given rise to ' om by which politics and profanitill seen so often going hand in iown to a drunkard's grave, to he is in it, and, if not, with the of utilising it themaelTea. an idea that the Australian was also used in Rome at least a before the birth of Chriat,'for it that at that period the woodsn used as ballots contained the •• • * For a moment Margaret faltered. She feared for us as she never had for herself, and she gasped as though her breath was gone, putting her hand to her throat Then she sprang to her feet and sang. It was a wild, fierce song like a battle cry, and she now and then clapped her hands together with a ringing sound, and she flung out her arms, looking lik» a prophetess calling her people to follow her to war. And then all these men struck in with a solemn slow measure that was like the tramp of feet, and their eyes flashed as they drew close together and nearer to her. b. a "Was she a blind young woman?" "Blind!" he repeated. "Just wait until you see her eyes. Oh, she is coming back! At 2 o'clock, Daniel. Even if she didn't want to see me I asked her- to do that- .1 told her you'd be in then." "Mr. Finley, the editor." "I think I ought at least to try it, don't you? It is one of our best papers." "And you will go there?" Out of bed I sprang and into her room, which was empty, and her clothing was gone. On a chair by the bed stood her little satchel and a few toilet articles. It took me but a moment to fling on my clothes and dash out of the silent, dark house, and here and there 1 ran, trying to find some token of her, but I did not call nor speak. I am not young, but I am strong. I have been a man of temperate, athletio habits, and ] have the use of a body nearly six feet in height, well knit, well kept, and when I carried fewer years I asked nothing ol my strength or endurance that I did not get. But at this moment I thought oi neither strength nor weakness, but 1 sped on, meaning to find my precioua charge. I fell down, I ran into trees, 1 plunged into water, I tripped over stones, but nothing baffled me, and my speed was little broken. Then as I ran I became aware of sounds inarticulate, almost inaudible, which were those of the human being. I h#ve not described Margaret Woolstine, and I do not know how to do so. She was a lovely creature, tall, slender, with a superb carriage of the head and the most charming coloring. Her eye* were dark and tender, but pride .inJ obstinacy curved her pretty mouth, and 1 often thought that it could not be pleasant to cross her wilL But thus far I have never had to do more tbau observe what has happened to others who tried to subdue and conquer her. "Still you knew I was Jack's uncle?" no) in "They will learn English. It is in tht air and they cannot help it. But il keeps the children and parents togethei if the children's school life is that Whict the parents knew. How would you lik« your child taught in a French school a language and a method of thought o: which you were perfectly ignorant?" "Yes," she said gently. "WfiU, I won't," I answered. "I am going out to Melvin on the 1:45. I am not going to stay in town this hot day." The very incoherence and simplicity of her little story touched me greatly, ana I looked at Hale expecting to read in his eyes pity, sympathy. Instead I saw judgment and disapprobation. I knew he condemned her as a coquette who had not known her own mind. This 1 greatly resented, and I felt he was narrow and prejudiced. And because he was hard in his thoughts of her I became more tender, and I should have liked to have comforted bar as I should my own daughter. But I said to her that I believed in her and I should help her, "but I cannot see," I said, "why now that yon are free Jack should keep up his resentment Had I been your lover at his age I should have flown to yon." ♦.he custon. "Yes, you are. You'll thank you/ happy stars if you do. If you miss her, Daniel, you'll break her heart, and after yon have seen her she'll break yours." ity are see if "I am going on the 1:45 train," I repeated.I have ballot "If I fled with my child to France, and expected him to be a French citizen, 1 think I would stand it. Jack is in the ight, Miss Margaret." "Bet yon a dollar you don't," said Hale. "I told her to come at 2, but she said 1 o'clock would be more convenient, and she would try to find you then, and Daniel, yon had better take your feet off the chair, and brush that hair of yours up a little, for here she comes." When she ended they came crowding around her, and the little dropped on his kneee and kissed the hem of he) gown, and from that moment we wen safe. For the song was one of their own. and an outcry against the oppressors ol their country; and Margaret, who studied the song3 of the peoples of the earth as others do the language, knew it, and knew how to Bing it centnrj is a fac\ As she stood before me, so young and charming and innocent, I thought of my wife, who was also a Margaret, and 1 knew she would not have allowed the child to go into such a crowd as frequented The Royal Express, and I said: "Have yon no mother?" "I have only my uncle," she answered, "and he is angry with me." "You are fond of your nephew and are blinded to his mistakes," sum sue stoutly. names of both the candidates,  pnnctaor holes opposite the name nsed or voted for. chapter HI. "I hardly know him," I replied. "1 never saw him but once, and that is fivC years ago. He is good looking." There was still a dim light in the sky, but the lamps were lighted in the car, People were preparing for the night*a journey. Men were reading the evening papers as though every moment was a consideration, and in a seat opposite a woman waa trying to aoothe a baby, while another little one clung to her. If you expect to create a social revulsion you will find that it will run considerably into money. If you desire simply to dodge the city ordinance regarding drees, eat the herbage that grows along the bobolink environed, rook ribbed, granite canyon of Broadway, and laundry your clothes and your family in the stone horse trough on street, which has been dumbly appealing to God and man for ages to come put a drop of water on its parched tongue, then you ©an make it pay to more to New York for an advance of $10 per month, but otherwise not. In Great Britain the ballot was first used in 1663 by the Soots puUuunt in proceedings in the "Billeting act," which was a measure for ostracising and otherwise disfiguring a few political opponents. Each member of parliament wrote in a disguised hand on a pieoe of paper the names of twelve people whom he didnt like and whom he wonld be glad to ostracise, or at least help hold while mne one else did it. These- werr Ink v "What a dunce you are! I really think"-*- But at that moment, the door opened, and Marvey appeared. By that time the kettle had boiled, and Halo came in with a basket of grapes, and we talked no more of thC miners. "Lady to see Mr. Crawford," said he, stepping aside, and there entered a young woman dressed very plainly in dark blue, with a smoke colored veil pretty well covering her face. And so she sang through the night, Bitting on the log with her hand in Jack's as he rested against me. Sha sang everything—gay songs and doleful, ballads, opera arias, hymns and dances. The men sat around the blazing fire, and their eyes were soft and sometimes they laughed, and every now and then they would burst into a chorus of their own. And tho leader lay close to the fire yyj| slept. Never in their lives had theaa men, I fancy, been more innocently happy, and never had they heard singing that so delighted them. When the morning dawned we stood up, we men wondering in our hearts whether now that the spell was broken, we would b* allowed to go, but Margaret smiled and held out her hand, and they each kissed; it and then went the woodi With us. Wb&Q we parted the little man plucked ft bunch of goldenrod, and giving it to Margaret, said with % friendly "Push ahead." We took his. mX knowing the^ W« aa ta*ia *wi*y, although tt W gohig ft {ho wrong direction, VN W«nt at once to th$ station, and when M came we took it, and aU w«at into th« baggage car, Jack looked not only Uko a hw of the prize ring, but a most forlorn and neglected one. And now need I tell how we stopped 5t the first town, and rested and mad; ack presentable, and then traveled home in bliaa and content hat that Jack and I did all the talking, while Margaret smiled at us? She was not too hoove for that. And need I say how 1 got my Bon and lost my assistant editor and my niece, but had a daughter instead? And how Margaret paid for our lives with her singing voice, which had not yet come back to her? As for thla story—how often Hale had heard iit Ask him! * "Very well," said I, "some one must take care of you, and I am going to ask yon to let me try for a little while until your uncle has slept his anger off. And although we do not actually need another editor yon can be of use to us, and I want you to come." Her eyes flashed at this. "Do you suppose I would send him word that I was free?" But of Jack we did speak, and to thC purpose before the day was over. The evening papers had come in, and Mist Woolstine had carried them off while Hale and I talked to an eminent rost culturist Silently, cautiously now I went, listening and following the sounds, which grew more and more distinct, and yet not intelligible, when without expecting it I suddenly came upon a sight thai made my heart almost stop beating, so horrified was I! There in the light of a fire stood Margaret, in the center of some ten or fifteen ruffians. Her hat waa gone, her hair was down and a shawl was fastened about her, pinioning hei arms. But never saw I a girl more thoroughly angry than she, and never have I heard a more hideous jargon than these men spoke to each other. I saw that she had been brought to the entrance of a mine, and that not far off were soma huts and sheds. Fortunately I was back in the shadow of the rocks, and I stood still, waiting to see what would happen and what I could do. At the moment 1 was powerless to do more than preserve my own freedom. Just then the clerical gentleman who had inspected us earlier in the nighl came put of the sheds, and when he perceived the plight intq which Margarel had been brought he went hastily to her, fmd without a second's delay unfastened the phawl and freed her. "Surely you could in some way let him know." "A pleasant lookout for the night" I said to Margaret. "You do not remember me, Mr. Crawford," she said. "I am Miss Margaret Woolstine. 1 see you very often in church, but of course yon do not see me, but you have to"— and she nervously Haughed, "you have to hear me, you iknow." "They are almost dead with sleep now," said she, and in a moment what did she do but cross over and take the baby and toss it in her young, strong arms. The baby felt the change from the lax, nervous grasp of its mother, and burst into a crowing laugh, while the older child, interested, stopped whining and joined in the merriment How did Margaret happen to have a sweet cracker in the shape of a horse in her pocket— she who abhorred "dry flour?" I t.htalr it came to her aa all her other fairy gifts did, and it comforted more of ua *D»»" the baby and the baby's brother. That hone cantered and walked. It hid itself, it jumped out of queer places, and was finally dissected and doled out in the most minute and everlasting particles. To see Margaret so full of resources did not surprise me. I was too much used to her fertility and freshness to wpnder at ft, but her fight Uugh, the firm gentleness with which she managed both mother and children, as though she had no other care nor thought, did make me realize that the unexpected is the woman."No girl would do such a thing as that," she promptly answered, and then her lips trembled, her eyes filled and she broke into a bitter weeping. We could not stand this, old fellows as we were, and Hale jumped up and walked around the room, and cleared his throat and blew his nose, and ejaculated all sorts of exclamations, while in broken words, in ways foreign to me for many yean, I tried to soothe and quiet her. But when she ceased her sobbing it was only to break into a wailing still more pitiful until at last she lay exhausted, her head against my shoulder. Hale brought coats and whatever he could find, and he made her a bed on chairs and persuaded her to drink wine. Then we laid her down and we left her and went into our own room. We closed the door and looked at each other. When Hale came down stairs Mia Woolstine was gone and I was in a little room back of our office taking papers out of a desk. names put - bag, which w at once sealed up and Mat-to the * - The *" All at once I heard a little cry, and yi«w Woolstine appeared at the dooi opening into her room. Her face wai whits as snow, her eyes filled with horror. I did not wait for her to speak, bnt at once arose and went into her little office. For a moment she stood, stiU looking at me. exchequer chamber. iing repudiated this act, however, in 1706. At the present time voting is done in Great Britain a good deal the same as It will he done in this state hereafter. Across is made after the name of the candidate who is voted for, the names being in alphabetical order on the ballot. Each voter has a chanoa to to Ad with hhnaalf ttrinMpg wKrD will rote far. For this parpose he has a little booth, to which he can secretly retire along with hia numbered or stamped ballot, and. unless his thoughts are highly rociferous they cannot be heard outaias the booth, or, if heard, they will be no Indistinct that the law is really complied with in spirit at least Australia has a good method, which ii In the first place, yon do not want to be too far from, your work, so you try to get a place down town. There Is nothing there,, unless yon sleep in a crate and associate with those who have D**»D already blackballed in perdition. So yoa go further out, farther out, with your salary in one h**"* and your sinking heart in the other, till at last you find where yon may be permitted to abide, but yon most get up by candle light and eat your morning fried mush before the gray dawn in order to catch your ferry or your train so that you may make the shop, or the store, or the in time. Then you must pay per year fTStoflOO to the ferries and cars for your daily ride, while you stand up and gayly hop from the waving corn of one fat passenger after another, contributing at least five good working months in the year to getting to and from your work. Of course I do not wish to discourage you, for you may be kind of set on coming, and if you are all I could say in a conservative way would not keep you away. The general custom among a certain class is to go ta New York, go through the $18 which hi brought to the city, and then return to speak disrespectfully around As sand embowered and amber speckled stove of the home codfish emporium for years after, but if you have your id&as properly pulled and ■".Mr. Crawford," said Reuben, getting up without the glimmer of a smile and with gaeat deliberation, "I am going to Mel Tin on the 1:45, and I shall have to leave at oaee. Will you kindly pay that dollar far zas on account?" He put on his hat, took his cane, bowed to Miss Woolatine, went out the door, and 1 heard him immediately tramping upstairs to the composing room, where 1 knew he had proofs to read. There were limes when Hale was 16 instead of 60. "How is this," he said with a fine affectation of wonder, "didn't you get off?" "Hale," said I, "we are going to hav« another editor, and this room will have to be made ready for her at once. I think well put a matting on the floor and make it look clean and cool, and well hang a pink curtain at the window. Thu desk will do, but we must get a better chair. If you will clear our belongings out m send Marvey for the scrqb woman and m go for the matting." "1 cannot tell you," aha whispered. "Is it bad news—bad news for me?" She nodded her head like a dumb person. Now, as my wife was dead and I had no child and I knew my office was safe, my heart beat still steadily as I took her hand in mine. Miss Woolstine looked more comfortable after we were alone, and she took «ff her veil, holding it in her hands. "By George!" said he, "are you daft! What on earth are you talking about?" And when I told him he listened and hie only reply was an occasional ejaculation of "Oh, Lord!" but his intonation of that expression never varied. "Nothing dreadful can happen to me, my child. I am so poor that Hale has little to take from me. But yon—dp not be afraid to tell me—my poor girl." "This is a pretty piece of work," said Hale. •"I almost felt as if I knew you, Mr. Crawford," she said. "When I was a little girl I used to sit with my uncle in bis pew jost where I could see you as 1 looked At the painted glass window, and now from the choir of course we have you in full view." sailed the Kangaroo method, and baa worked so well that canvassing for votes una (Kamrau; uisappeareu «utDn, 111 sheep stealing is on the decrease.  are of course familiar with this method more or less, Thorodyke, and So I need not go into detail, but the principle is there as well as here, that even if you bay a voter yon can never feel sore that he will not be replevied by some one else. A man who will sell his vote will also lie, or leave bis honor in the Grand Central depot; therefore yon can never feel sore of a vote unless after buying it yon see that it is deposited and counted, or counted at least. This method will insure secrecy, and also give the voter while in the booth a chance to think over his past life. If permissible, thrilling mottoes in red yarn could be bung up in these booths, asking the voter if he has used Blair's soap, and also bidding him good morning in a bright and chipper tone. She looked at me still with great horror in her eyes. She turned her head back and gasped for breath; her voice was choked and she could not speak. "It is pitiful—It is terrible!" I groaned. CHAPTER H. "I remember him well," replied Hale; "a handsome, impetuous fellow, much too fine to be made the sport of a girl's caprice." It is very certain that had Miss Woolstine gone to the office of The Royal Express she would not have had the chance for housekeeping that we afforded her. With a little white apron tied overhei dark dress, and an obtrusive dnster in her hand, she very soon learned to keep us in very good order indeed. But she had the rare, most angelic talent of making that order ours and not her own. She mever put oar inkstands in the middle of th« tables. Mine stood as [ liked it, close to my hand, while Hale's was at arm's length /root his, and she never mixed a revise with the first proofs. Life in our establishment yrep very simple. There was no rush of r? porters, no late hours, so excitement over news. "Do not distress yourself so." I held her hand firmly in my own. "If the trouble is mine do not so increase it; if it is yours, let me help you bear it." The day passed, the sun set, the twilight fell, and Margaret and I sat silent aa we drew near our journey's end. "I do not know what they meant by this. Have they hurt you?" Margaret held out her white round wrists, on which there were red lines. "And you do net think me rude because yoa so often catch me watching you?" The girl slightly colored. "You have the kindest face in all the church. 1 could never think you rude." And with that she became scarlet "There was no caprice there," and I looked up, irritated by his persistent misunderstanding; "she has acted aa became a conscientious girl." Tiger Hill was shrouded in mist and darkness when we entered it. By a lamp in the station a surly agent was making up a report from which he was loth to separate himself to do more than mutter that there was a hotel up the street where we might find lodgings for the night. Having thus answered he buried himself again in his papers; but looking back as we left the room I caught his eyes fixed upon us with a serious, suspicious expression that was not pleasant to me. But of this I did not speak to Margaret We stood on the little platform And looked around us. The clouds had light* ened enough for us to see the great hills vaguely outlined against the sky. The wind was rising and rustled in the treetops, and it seemed to us that we had been put out into the middle of a woods. Suddenly a light flared up and burned steadily away off in the distance. "It is Jack!" she gasped, "Jack! They have killed him! They have raided the office—they have killed him!" "They know so little of American girls," Raid she, "that they thought thii would frighten me." "Well, well," rejoined Hale, "we will not discuss that question, but now— how now?" Ah, I was not so poor! Fate had left me a possession—vague, not in my grasp, but still a possession, for it was Jack I had meant to know—Jack who was yet to be my son and to inherit my fortune. And so I in turn looked in horror at her. "You have reason enough for fright," he returned, "without any such treatment""I will not say what I think of yours," I said gently, "or you might think me very rnde indeed, but can I do anything for yon?" She cjneabed her veil tightly in her hands. "I do not want to take up your time, Mr. Crawford; but I do want tc talk to you a minute. I have to support myself, and I want to get newspapei work, Mr. Crawford, and I thought perhaps yoa would give me some. It is sc quiet here." "I shall go at once to Tiger Hill—spot fitly named! Whether Jack is dead or alive I must see after him, Hale—he had neither father nor mother." "I have no expectation of being afraid," said she; "and if you command this band you have, let me tell you, sir, a precious set of rascals under you." "Now look here," said he; "haven't you again and again written to him that you desired to make his future your care? Didn't you bring bin; east and set him to work in this very offloe? Didn't you give him to understand you were prepared to treat him as a son? Yon know all this is true! And you know Jack declared his work stupid, the paper poky. You know he was determined to be the maker of his own destiny. Orieve as much as you choose, Dan, but don't fall into womanish reproach of yourself, Jack ww a fine fellow, but he was pig beaded, and I truly believe that when he fell in love with Miss Woolstine it was partly because she was out of his reach. He is just the boy to want the moon and refuse the green cheese." A Cut for Expluultn, "How do you know it?" I asked. "You need not be saucy," he replied. "It will pay you better to be honest, and tell me who sent you here," Purely you know all J fan tell youl Where is the woman of the house in which we lodged? I suppose she is your accomplice. When she called me out of my room and asked me if I had a friend here I was frank and told her. Ask hei if you want to know." "I gave you that parrot as a birthday present, did I not, Matilda?" he asked. She pointed to the paper still in her And there it was—all in headlines. .A mob, an attack on The Hill Beacon, a .defense, pistol Bhots, a dash into the office am} a tearing out of all that was in it Jack's body had been carried off by the mob. VY-ea, but surely, Albert, you are not going to speak of your gifts as if  "It was young and speechless at time." The flowers bloomed in the spring. And we told how to care for them and what to bay, and we grafted, budded, plowed and reaped without even as much as a harvest dinner to look after. Vainglorious rid farmers sent us samples of prodigious com and pumpkins, and market gardeners didn't forget to let us see their prize fruit and berries. Everything sweet and pretty went tc Mias Margaret as her natural fee; and she it was who opened the boxes of flowers, the baskets of fruit, and it was she who introduced tha spirit lamp and tea kettle, and who made a corner in her office where she served our kittle Arcadian lunches of bread and butter, frnit and coffee. But it was Hale who bought the teacups, and money enough must hi have spent on them. There were not two happier old boyt than we in the elty that summer, and we never tired of telling e&ch other what an admirable person Miss Woolstine was. She was very useful to us. Her style in writing was full of sparkle, and her very notices of giant radishes or new harrows had little graetful terms of express! on that took them out of the common and made them readable. She wrote oui business letters, she scissored, she read proof and filed it, she sorted the mail, she kept the water cooler in order, she opened the exchanges, she took the most Complete and unobtrusive interest in everything, but with it all she kept herself apart with a gentle reserve. As I knew her better I saw there wai trouble in her life, and I suspected it arose from her quarrel with her unofe He had been a father to her, and she had left him and was boarding in another part of the city. I knew that ii was impossible that he should not mise her, and she often spoke of her old home with a lingering tenderness that was pathetic. Of the dreumstanoes of the quarrel I knew nothing, but we agreed that Mr. Mason had been to blame. Some murmuring is being done hare, of course, regarding the great expense the city will be at or to in order to fit up ballots and little retiring rooms or considering places, but if we are doing right we must not pause to reckon up the expense. I looked at her with surprise. "1 thought you lived with your uncle, Mr. Marin?" "Yes," with increasing wonder, it has never been out of this parlor." "There are no other yonng ladies in this house?" And he was dead—the handsome, gay fellow who found life with me too slow even to try for a little! And he was my wife's nephew, and 1 had not tried to make the career I offered him pleasant and inviting! I sat down Crushed and guilty, for at least I should hava forced him to leave the miners, or cease his rating of the strikers. I could not look at Margaret. But in a moment she was kneeling by me, and she was telling me that he was not dead—no, no, not dead! "If he was dead they would not carry him away. He is alive—oh, you may be sure he is alive, and we tnpst go at once to him. We must find him, for he must be sorely hurt, and we will have to nurse him. Come!" she said. "I did, but we do not agree, and 1 have no money of my own, and as 1 have to leave there I must support myself.""Softer, softer, my dear," ha said. "You look very pretty when you scold, but you's better be uglier and wiser," MWi»ere in the woman?" asked Mar garetr "No, there Are not." "Then why, why when I kissed you* picture in yonder album while waiting for you did that wretched bird assume Sour voice and say, 'Don't do that, Chare, please don't?"'—Philadelphia Times. "That," I said, "must be a lamp, and a lamp generajly betokens * house. Don't you believe that direction is 'up?*" The estimated cost of our fall election here is $464,748, and there is a great deal of complaint over this, especially by those who do not see any Immediate prospect of getting some of it The money will go almost directly to the man, the printer and the carpenter, at least as near as you can make a half million dollars go in New York to the man it was destined for. Naturally some of it will stick to those whose adhesive palms are extended especially in the fall of the year; but I am betting on the beauties of this ballot, and now if the good men who bathe will also ballot there will be a great light dawn on the future, and its rosy rays will even stab their little ruddy promises into the dark and noisome pestilential political present."But surely your natural resource would be in music, Miss Woolstine. Your voice ought to be worth a great deal to you." "It came out of the darkness like a signal," answered the girl, "and there is nothing for us to do but to go to it. We cannot plunge into darkness without some guide." "She has gone home to look your uncle in bis room, to keep him from taking cold in the night air." "I could not sing in public," she quickly answered. "The church I do not mind, because I have gone there all my life, but the concert stage!—oh, I could Vile Ingratitude. "Yon were jealous of Jack," said L "That is stuff! I was not blind." "And yon are at this moment jealons of the girl," I added. Margaret turned her head away, as though she meant to Bay she was done with him. Jaggs (general utility editor)—Scraggs, how does that qnotation begin about the "remainder biscuit after a—after a"— what do you call it? not do that! And I would rather pot teach. It worries me to teach music." "You would make a success in concerts." She shook her head. "And," I So we stepped off the boards and went warily along a path, which was not difficult to keep, so well trodden was it We soon discovered, as our eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, that we were going through a small woods, and when after a time we came out of it we found a pathway of boards, so narrow that we could not walk abreast, but it gave us comfort, making us sure that we were on the right road. And so after a time we came to the light, and behold, it was the hotel to which we had been so vaguely directed. The house w$s $ small woodeq affair, not overclean and smelling of tobacco, but the only smoker was a woman, who sat by a stove with a pipe in her mouth. When we entered the open door she looked up, stared a moment and then called, "Liberty I' Whether this was the goddess or not we did not know, but there was no answer. The woman then knocked the ashes out of her pipe into the sanded box in which the stove stood, and giving her voice a higher pitch, screamed again, " Liberty t" This invocation was more successful, and a thin, pale-haired  strolled Into the The woman nodded toward us. What reply Hale would have made to this accusation I know not, for at that moment the door opened and Margaret came in. Her face was still pale and her eyes swollen, but she was perfectly calm, and I noticed that her hands did not tremble as she held them together, her fingers lightly clutched. I adored her for her courage, but 1 ardently desired she might not angei him. Bat he treated her as though she was a petulant child, and asked hei questions, froip which I soon gathered that they suspected us of being spies in the employ of the owners of the mines, and that she had como with me to divert suspicion from our object. It appeared to me that they had founded all this in some confused story tQ which the man constantly alluded, but to which Margaret had of course no clew. And I also understood that they had laid a trap oi some kind to get Margaret away by herself, hoping to wring a confession from her, and that the woman of the house had assisted them. The girl answered boldly enough, and finally said that wc were friends of Mr. Lewis, and had come to be of use to him. When this wai translated to the men, who never moved their eyes from the faces of the two speakers, they brutally laughed, and she for the first time lost her perfect command of herself. Answers to Correspondents Editor (glad to assist a fellow laborer)—'-'In his brain—which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage—he hath strange places crammed with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." It'a from Shakespeare. Want to use it to crush a loathsome contemporary? APPROACHED BY UNKNOWN WOXKH pounded and massaged by some true friend beforehand there will be less chance for disappointment afterward. continued, "it would be far more lucxa- The solemn troth is, however, that there is at present a fraction over two millions of people in New York this fall wha would rather suffer and ldck and wail and whoop and be spattered with mnd by looee car rails, insulted by brutal ynards, disemboweled by umbrellas under the arms of tall intellectual warts, spitted by the cane* of those who get ■head of the multitude and back up, with their sticks aimed at the umbilicus of a iUUg uuiuuig pcupicj iiegiecteu ujr vuo un*"seen" waiter, skun by the un-"seen" barber, robbed by the hackman, brained «,D »iu yonceuiBu, mown up by the steam heating company, skinned by the papers, stank to death by the gas leak and the peach orchard sewer system, stung to death tar remorse, fricasseed to death by OAde electric wires, crushed by the crowds, nauseated by the nuisances, killed by the cars, disfigured by truck drivers, crazed by commerce, shot by mistake, gnawed by mad dogs, dogged by detectives, blackmailed by old acquaintaoeest approached by unknown ladies kite at Bight who desire to know the way home, and who ought to be far away in some quiet deO weeding onions instead of going about in a thickly settled community after eating them; watched by watchmen, butchered by butchers, burgled by burglars, fugled by filers forever, than live in any other city they know of at half the expense and twice the salary. You will ask me why is this, and I will leave it to Echo, who will be pleased to attend to you in a few moments.tive than any work I could give you. '' Yon would not like a position here at "Not you, my poor child," 1 answered. "I cannot ask this of yon. Bnt you are right. He may not be dead, yet erven if he is it is my duty to go. The AJpgndrels! The poor boy!" all. The girls are good, respectable ; girls, bnt they wonld not suit yon at alL j And the wages is low." "You are going at once?" Bhe said. "No. Just happened to think of it. You reminded me of it somehow—that was all."—Chicago Tribune. "I have my salary in the church," she ; said; "that would help a little, and 1 . do not want a situation with your girls, . Mr. Crawford; I want editorial work.** The tears shone in her dark eyes, but she did not weep. She looked at me with a ghastly smite. I got up and hunted the time tables, and found my best train left the pity at 10:30 p. m., bringing me to Tiger Hill the evening of the next day. This gave me time to go to Melvin and get what 1 needed for the trip. "Someday," as I heard a bright young voice singing not long ago, "some day I know not when the day may be," the time will come, Thorndyke, when elections will grow wider and wider apart. One election will do for as much as two or three years, and the campaign expenses may be saved up and used for flour and bacon and soap and pure air; when the liar and the lamb shall lie down together—under the same epitaph—people will give themselves more to manual labor and less to prolonged chin recitals, peace shall be as a river, and joy like the waves of the sea. "What would Jack say if you came without me? He would never believe me—never! And I—oh, do you think I could stay here? I should go mad, m*$r A Foollah Thing. "Ho, ho, editorial work!" I smiled at tttts; "but you know Mr. Hale and I do .all that and have time to spare." "I have been very foolish at times, Miss Had kins—Mary—but you put up with it." "Well, then," said the girl, "I will be at the station at 10. I can meet you there." "Oh, Mr. Snortling," exclaimed tho girl deprecatingly. I hove helped you a little," she explained with eagerness. "I have writtea yoa several things and you have always published them. Last week yon made an editorial of one." "Margaret, you do not know what you say. You never knew my nephew, dear child." "But—but that Is impossible!" I exclaimed. "I cannot take you. It wpuld not do at all—not at all! I will telegraph, write—you should hear at once and fully, but it is impossible to allow you to go." "Bntlam now going to, bogwiHyof the most daring, craziest act yet; if you put up with it patiently rm all right." "None of ua are too wise, George." "Well, I'd lika to marry you."—Phil*- delphia Times. She turned her head away as if in appeal. "Ask him that question. Why, he loved me. He told me that his love fOFJiie would be his death—and I laughed a£6fcat"-ye8, I did. I thought fiiy fate far the hardest. But I could not tell him so. You see, the very wedding day waa fixed, and I could not tell him that I loved him better than the man I was going to marry. Could I? You are his uncle, but you know I could not. Sometimes women have to listen when they pannot answer." , do not understand you, but you must t* calmer. You must sit down. Hale, come speak to her. I do not know whether she knows what she says." Willis?"' and I nodded my head like a Chinese mandarin, I have since been informed. "Well, yon are not only a Very beautiful young lady, but you are a clever one, too. I don't know that we ought to refuse Mr. Mark Willis t" "So, indeed! men you are 'Mark Never in aU my life did I meet a look so determined, so full of scpfn for restraint as the one Margaret shot at met She said not a word, but going into her office returned with her hat on, her veil tightly drawn and so silently left the office. There waq que little man who wore a fur cap, and he displayed his knowledge of English by occasionally crying out: "Tyrant! Slavet Push ahead!" When he heard the name of Lewis he shrugged his shoulders and gave an idiotic junyj into the air. In Good Faith. Bachelor Dude—Aw, I say bow, ia a horrid joke! "Oh, please do not," she cried. "1 should be so glad to come here, and ] Friend—What's the matter now? "We were told," said J, "that we could have lodging here, and we should also like some supper." Bachelor Dude—Aw, some fellow has sent me a circular of Yelling's Liquid Food for Infants. It's a low, coarse joke. think X could soon learn to be useful. 1 could cut out paragraphs for you, and that must be such stupid work for yon to do; and J pould write on what subjects you thought best, and if you or the other gentleman wanted to go away for a few days I am sure I could do different things for you. And," she added, "you might both want to go away together. Suppose today you also would have liked to have left town on the 1*43 train. Wouldn't you have been more comfortable to have known some one was here ready to r» ceive messages or attend to f oar orders?" At this how could I help smiling, and I told her that her reasoning almost convinced me. "Indeed," I added, "it Begged Pardon. Hala shrugged his shoulders. Tommy (to new scholar)—I—I beg your pardon for licking you, Johnny Green* I didn't know you had a big brother.—Epoch. And so the summer wore away. Half went back and forth from his house by the sea, and I came in every day from my fans at Melvin, but Miss Woolstins staid in the city. We Invited her to visit us, we urged her to take a holiday, but she replied that she waa perfectly well, and that work suited her better than play. "There waa a pair of them," he said. "I do not wonder they had tumultuoqp scenes." "Sit down," said Liberty, and he at once disappeared. So we sat down side by side on on olC} wooden settle, and it was not many minutes before Margaret's hand stole into mine. I looked at her with apprehension, and to my surprise she said clearly and boldly: Then Margaret suddenly drew hex shawl plcusec-around her shoulders. "J am oold," she said, "and I am tired. 1 wish you would have more wood thrown on the firo and give mo a seat by it." The little man, when this was translated, made $ reply that was ix\ translated to her, and it that they would make QP the fire and give her a seat in the middle of it. The dreadful brutality C4 this made her cheek pale, yet she said not a word, but turned and walked t« the fire and sat down on the trqnk of a fallal} tree, which was evidently drawn there for a seat. For a moment he; Friend—No joke about it They probably thought if you had no baby you might like it for yourself.—Lowell Citizen."She won't go—you do not think she will go?" Conlda't Forget Himself. "He was in a perfect tantrum." "He must have forgotten himself." "Oh, not too conceited for that" Harper's Baxar. "Indeed I know very well. It was 1 who killed him—II It He was desperate. He did not care. He told me he should not care." "Not if you wreck all the trains. But even then she might walk." ▲ Clear Cue. "What fools New Yarfcera are!" exclaimed Beck, "But she shall not! What could I do with her? Suppose she falls tp weeping, to fainting in the train? Ah4 WP get there! Why, Hale, I am not sure of my own safety; and with her to hamper me— It is impossible!" "I am not afraid. I am only hungry." The woman looked at her. "Ia shq your daughter?" she asked. "My ni6ce,rt I promptly answered. "She doesn't favor yott," said she, and there was again silence. After what seemed to ua a very long "WeU, what »owr inquired Peck. "If we did that sort of thing," said I, one day, "we'd send you to write up th« Tiger Hill strike. You'd like that." "Whyshould I eare to go there?" she answered, ooloring, as she was apt to do, when conversation became menbaL Hale was standing at the door. Our Visitor h*4 vanished, and I looked in mute appeal to my friend, still feeling that the girl was distracted. But Hale understood. He came directly to her, took her in his strong gxaeo and ma4$ "Why, a man in New York stole all the 'Annie Rooneys' he could find la a music dealer'a stock." Wanted to See It Work. "What's thatr "That's a kaleidoscope." "Is it? When does it begin to Hde?—Judge. Now, regarding the ballot. "And what of it?" This term is French, earning from the word ball at te. Some think that the ballot, or the word ballot, at least, came "She won't faint nor weep," said Hale, "still she will be a dreadful burdeij tor "The howling idiots arrested him.*— Chicago Times. *