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MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 4890.
NO. 29
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ttitfij^iTHE ITEM.
liltlfi _JBtrt1_f'' f (flflitll
the watch aaivi..
-laistcn to the Water-Hill,
Through the live-loag day;
now the clicking of the •wheel
Wears t he hours sway.
■Laiiguiclly the autunm wind
Stirs the withered lt*avos;
Ou the field the reapers' sing,
BindinK up tho slitaves;
And a proverb haunts my mind,
And as a spell is east,—
"The mill will never grind
With the water that is past."
Summer winds revive no more
Leaves strewn o'er earth and main,
The sickle never nunc shall reap
The yellow, garnered grain;
And the rippl i ng stream flows on,
Tranquil, deep find still;
'Never gliding bacj* again
To the Water-Mill.
•Truly speaks the proverb old,
With a meaning vast:
"■""atlie mill wUlnever grind
With the water that is past;"
Take the lesson to thyself,
Loving heart, and true;
Gulden yeara are fleeting hy,
Youth is passing, too.
Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day!
Time will ne'er return again
Sweet chances thrown away.
Leaves no tender word unsaid—  *
But love while love shall last:'
"The mill will never grind
With the water that is past.*"
Work, while yet the son does shine,
Men .Qf strength and will!
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by tho mill.
Wait not till to-morrow's sun
Beams brightly on thy way;
AU that thou canst call thine own,
Lies in this word: "To-day!"
Power, intellect, and health
Will not always last:
"The mill will never grind
With the water that is past."
Oh! the wasted hours of life
That have swiftly drifted by!
Oh! the good we might have done!
Gone, lost without a sigh!
Love that we might once have saved
By a single kindly word!
Thoughts conceived, but ne'er expressed.
Perishing unp&nn'd, unheard!
Take the proverb to thy soul!
Take, and clasp It fast:
"The mill will never grind
With the water, that is past."
O, love thy Ood and fellowman,
Thyself consider last,
For come it will when thou must scan
Dark errors of the past.
And when the flight of life is o'er,
And earth receded from view,.
And heaven in all its glory shines,
'Midst the good, the pure, the true—
Then yon will see more clearly
The proverb, deep and vast:
"The mill will never grind
With the water that is past."
—By Sarah Doudly.
"PROPS"
Jim Dolan, or "Props," as he
was best*known to most of as, was
property man at the theatre in
A .   Very few of the company
ever even troubled themselves to
ascertain his real name; accordingly the familiar cognomen of-'Props"
was in general use by us to designate, on all occasions the custodian and always looked to provider
oi tbe many and multifarious adjuncts of stage business.
'•Props'' was not, in the strictest
sense, a very pbpular being with
the rest of the company, a state of
affairs which I can only account
•for from the apparent fact that his
silent ways and reticient manner
were almost always mistaken for
sulleuness, and his dark, homely
face and gloomy appearance were
not at all inviting to strangers.
One ofthe members of the company,   Mrs. , was the doting
mother of a lovely little boy, about
five years of age, who had often appeared upon the mimic stage, when
the cast called for a child. One |
day, daring rehearsal, his anxious
mother missed bim, and when a
strict search was instituted by every member of the company, the j
little estray was found in the prop
nine features had relaxed into the
only r»al smile. We had ever seen
on them, as he danced "the little
one on his knee and sang, ia somewhat monotonous tones, the'-Moth-
er Goose*' melodies, ditties always
dear to the baby heart.
"When "Props" saw that he was
observed he hastily, a!must roughly, set the laughing child down
and, with a muttered apology,
turned away to work on some papier mache figures whioh the plot
of a forth-coming production called for.
But baby stoutly refused to be
severed from his new-found friend,
and with lusty yells he twined his
arms around --Props" while he
pleaded piteously: '-Sing more
songs, bab.*Hoves%'oo".
"Props" gently disengaged the
clinging little hands, and as the
mother led the screaming child
away the old man remarked, in
semi-apologetic tone, and with the
utmost deference in his manner;
"Children knows who loves 'eni,
ma'am; I had a little chap like
that once myself."
The usually harsh voice was softened to a wondrously tender tone,
and a mist came into his eyes,
which, &s he spoke, had a yearning expresion in their sombre
depths; but the next moment he
turned away with a half muttersd
remark about "bein' a dammed
foot about kids, anyway;" and then,
as if ashamed of having betrayed
any emotion, went on with his
work as if nothing had occured to
disturb him.
"We all had a much better opinion of "Props" after that. We reasoned—rightly—that there is always something good in a man to
whom a little child will reach out
its tiny arms and run to confidently, for he must have a tender,
loving heart pulsating in his bosom,
no matter what outside appearances may indicate.
Well, one night a stranger ap
peared at the theatre as a substitute for "Props" and upon inquiring the cause therefor, we learned
that the latter was very ill.
Night after night passed and be
did not return, and finally it was
rumored by the stage hands that
the doctor in attendance upon
"Props" said he was afraid the old
man would never recover. Laden
with wine, frnit and flowers several of us started out the next day
to visit him, and found him in his
humble room, emaciated almost
beyond recognition by a fever tbat
raged like fire in bis Veins, and
baffled all the medical man's skill.
His mind wandered, and he
could not appreciate the sympathy
and sorrow we felt for him, and
after seeing that every help that
money and medical skill could afford him was assured, we took our
sad—and, as it proved, our last—
farewell. The next day- "Props"
was dead. Tender hands performed
the last offices, and the peaceful
look on the wan face in the coffin
seemed to say that to him death
was indeed a welcome rest. -Just
before the funeral service was read,
his landlady, a very worthy but
somewhat ignorant woman, called
one of ns aside and said: "He gave
me somethin' when he was first
took sick, an' said as how he wanted me to give it to them as had
charge of his funeral, in case be
never got well, an' I don't think
he'll rest easy in his grave if I
erty-rooni) perched on tbe knee of
"Prop*?* Whose generally   satur*} dro't do as I promised binij for he
! seemed so earnest about it."
As the woman ceased speakiug
she produced a small package,
which we opened and iu it was
found a note written iu the aim w
illegible hand of poor "Props,"
asking that the enclosed be placed
in his coffin. It was a battered
tin type of a little, snnlling, bright*
eyed boy, about six years old, aud
on a torn scrap of paper, printed
in childish scrawl, these words:
"I WANT TOU, PAPA, OOME QXTIOK.
JIMMT.'*
"It's from the little son o' his'n
he buried about five years ago,"
whispered one of the stage hands
standing near. "His wife was a
bad lot, and when the baby was
about a year old she skipped with
another chap, and shook Jim and
the kid. He never made no fuss
about it, an' after she'd beeu (tone
about a year we heard sbe died.
Jim was just wrapped up in his
boy, and he was as bright a little
shave as you*^d ever see.
One summer he was kind of
ailin', and the doctor told Jim it
would do tbe boy good to send him
into the country for awhile; but
the little feller hadn't been tbere
long before Jim got a letter from
the woman sayin' the boy was
showih' symptoms of scarlet fever,
an' if he could Jim had better
come out and see him, as he was
awful homesick, and I remember
how she put in her letter this little
note from the kid, 'cause I remember how proud Jim showed it to
us all, and -comforted himself by
sayin' the boy couldn't be sick
dangerous if he was able to print
his -letters.
"After the show that night he
lef for the country, and didn't
come baok for about two weeks,
and, when he did, he came alone.
The little feller had died. Jim
told us about it in a few words, an',
seein' he was broke up, we didn't
none of us talk to him much about
it; but it broke his heart, poor Jim.
He wasn't never the same no
more," and with tears in his eyes,
the warm hearted stage hand
turned away.
We laid the tintype and tbe little scrawl tenderly and reverently
between the still, cold hands so
calmly folded on the breast of
"Props", aud turned aside with
tearful eyes. Perhaps at the Gate
of Paradise little arms reached ont
to "Props," and he heard the
childish voice beloved so dearly
on earth oall out: "I want yoa, papa, come quick". Who knows?
Hitting their boys at trades andj
commanding them to. work whether
they are suited for tbe trade or
uot, and how very wrong such action is. It not only floods the
country with "half" cat mechanics,
bat fills oar community witb careless workmen who care little
whether a job is rightly finished.
Money is their object aud not creditable work. Boys should seek
trades- that will ocupy their atten-
tion, and until this is done, we can
Aspect nothing more than to have
tint industries manned by incompetent and worthless workmen.
laittle 'ironjjli Creek.
Select a Trade aud Stick to It.
Isaac S. Smith, of Ottawa county
Kan,, and his sister, of Jewell C -uiity.,
Kan., arrived in the valley last week
'Tbey are welcome visitorsjto their native valley.
R. P. Smith and wife, of Smith valley
were visitors in this section Sunday.
John Smith, a successful school
teacher. Who swings the birch at Locus
Grove, Cass township, for tbe second
term in succession, passed up tbis way
last Saturday solicting orders' for fruit
and ornamental trees. John never gets
off with one term teaching in the same
school, and he Is about as good at
handling old folks in regard to nursery
stock as be is in training tbe young
ideas how to shoot.
G. W. Hazzard and Al Dottier, ot tbe
mountain city, came down last week to
take a bunt. I learn that each of there
succeded in killing a wild turkey. Tbia ■
is two more turkeys than I knew of in
this region.
Misses Stapleton of Cass township,
were visitors at Colfax Saturday and
Sunday.
Our careful tax collector took sick
last week while in Hare's valley and
had to lay off a couple of days.
Simeon Wright, the regular republican candidate for associate judge, bas
been unable to get around much since
the convention. Hia many friends, however, will take care of his interests in
this locality as we hope they will in
otber parts of the county. It is said
there are some three kickers In tbis dis*
trict who will vote for the man that has
more regard for his own opinion than
he has for the law.
John Mierley, democratic candidate
for county commissioner, was in tbe valley last weeks Tbe Squire is one of the
best men this valley ever turned out,
and it elected will make an excellent
commissioner.
nhiifr 'ami 11 ^M,,,,:^
How very noticeable it is in this
age that a boy works at a trade
simply to earn a few dollars. It
seems a little matter to him whether he will make that one particular trade a life long study. A boy
whose false pride far exceeds his
means will scarcely, if ever,
amount to Very much as a tradesman. His ambition is not of a true
character, and at last it will guide
him to the dark pit of incompetency where he will fall in and be
entirely lost from the progress
whioh bis preceptors had previously laid out. When a boy is old
enough to learn a trade be should
be sure to select the one to whioh
his talents directed him. If alter
working six months and his work
is burdensome, he should not drag
along another six months, bnt
should immediately give it up and
ehgage in something tbat he will
like. How often we hear of parents |
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