W. FLKTCITER AUSBOX, Editob.
,C. V. W. AtSBCN, kvaimtes AUmagbr:
VOL: III-
ELYMOUTH.N.G, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1891.
NO. 32.
LOVE. - .
Love came at daif a when all the world was
--fair; 4. '. -, '" .-'.,..
Whan nJiuson glories, bloom, and song wero
.'- : ;rlfe; , ,-..
Love came at dawn when hope' wings fanned
..- ike air. , - . .,
Afi-$ tuanaared, "lam life." -''
Love came at even when the day was dons,
- vWlteti heart and brain were tired, and slum
Imr pressed;
tove cante at eve, ahnt out the sinking sun,
And wulsjwred. I am rest. " ' ,
- -William Wilfred C'Aunitall, In Century.
THE LOTTERY TICKET.
Cell Bonner, coming over the hill
from Gateuborough to West G;itesbor
ough in the teeth of a keen November
storm,, wondered why tins . particular
storm affected her so disagreeably. Geu
- erally in such weather she beguiled the
way with cheerful thoughts and calcula
tious, all overspread by calm comjila-
. cency that she had at last gained this
poeition as teacher, so long coveted; but
touir.it she found herself wishine: tliat
the school were at West Cntesborough
instead of GaU-sborough. or else that hoi
mother and the small house and farm
which was their sole estate could bo
.... mATMl Bftarar tn f ha rl.rMl. ' I . v
'. This wishing was all ho unlike Celia's
natter rt fxrt rpstannn.ilonoaa in ran oral
. mat she sought hard for the reason why
.1.1. i. ....1.1 1 - . -1 . jit, . -1. - j - r '
- Uhe soon fouud it in the fact that she was
utuleubthly hungry .'. v '
- She whs wet, cold, and bedraggled, but
; twist, of all sho was hungry, with the
. keep, .iiziponiproniitting hunger of .healthy
young girlhood. Surely this of itself was
tuuough ti induce gloomy thoughts aud
r' fytjle wishes. . ? i ; " :. .
"I waa silly not to think of it sooner, "
; she half laughed to herself. "I had be
gun to forget that I. had such, a very
.aaa,,.a, a a ta a . n. a a.. . ... - M.va." ' aw.aa. " - .
mind: mother will have a hot supper
waiting for me."
Then she turned the last bend in the
road, and seeing the light in her moth
er's kitchen, stumbl.! alonn more auk-klv
typical in a measure, of everything
within the house, from the mother down,
i a, ...1. "al: - . .1 .1..
lunni wneii veiia whh inert-. Eiveu me
r.firHx'Mrs. llohuer kiudled liad a trick of
burning weakly and unceriaiuly.
When, a few inoineuU after she saw
.the light, Celia bunt into the kitehou,
with her cloak and uni(-rialla held out be
fore her, the savory supper she hail so
: keenly anticipated was in no way ap
:parent to her senses. The table was pro--Tided
with no-other edibloH than cold
Graham gems', a very few slices of cold
corned Itvef, and the inevitable dish of
'.'i ,.w it .... . . ' 3 I f t t ...
jieeui4fnH dot 01 uif (irip tiucii uo
. stood,still,
- RHitliHrf , Ynii don t mMn tn hj thi
Is all you have for supper!" .
Affecting intense preoccupation' with
v th teakettle, 'her mother retouded, "I
uuu i Bt9 win ti prciij guuu, veiuw
"But, mother! We've had nothing
else for the last week, and I told you 1
was starving for something hearty and
warm, I gave you money this mornii g
to ouy a sieaa.
' "Well,. you see, there's so many othet
v things to get," Mrs. Donuer pleaded
Weakly. .There was something so furtive
and insincere in her manner that Celia.
' without difficulty, jumped to a conclu
sion. - 0 " . .. -..
Mother. I lielieve vou've 'snent that
money for another lottery ticket! "
A' TliS Kriinl. . btotAitidnf ruvauliul tit
f skeleton which had stood in the closet ot
...V a. vkuv nwt.av M.wua aj...aa i V. at a a a.
tliu Door little household for more than
a year. It was a subject so repulsive to
Celia .that she hated to speak of it, but so .
,i dear to the mother that she loved, to eu
large upon it. s . '
' "And supposing I did, Celia?"she said,
.more confidently.' "Fortune's going tn.
turn sometime,' and I'll be bound you'd
'' be glud enough if we came into $15,000 all
at once, as that young man did up in
.Massachusetts."-.
'The lines of the argument were all.
wearily familiar to Celia, but hunger gavtj
an added vigor to her protest.
"I might be demoralized by it." sh .
said, "but I'd never be gladl Whether
.4..- a .a .
you gain or lose, me principle isiiieBame.
It's nothing but gambling, aud though
. you'd feel pretty badly to hear that ouf
Joe out in Colorado had become a gam
bler, you think it no harm to be one your
'self, though you are a church member.
v .Mrs, lknner remained silent a little
while, and then began to cry softly.
,,; "It's too bad for you to scold in thai
way, Celia," she said, "when all I'm
thinking about is your good and Joe's
And even if I am a church member,
AsirSk baa .lint I'm nnniinif itn ain
UUII w wv. ' - - - a a tp
Ain't lotteries as old as the days of Moses,
and didn't he consent to them? Anil
didn't the early settlers in Maine ami
New. Hampshire make use of them tc
build churches as well as schools ?"
- This waa again familiar grouud to Celia,
but she took it up as if it were quite uew,
"Yes, mother, but we dou't live undoi
the Mosaic law now, and our forefather
did many things which we dou't imitate.
. Because they hanged iunocent women a
witches, we should not consider it right
to do it. Lotteries began in corruption
and they corrupt wherever they go. I'm
sure every Christian mut condemn then;
at heart, and to win iu ' them is mom
dangerous than to lose,
" You Lever hare been the name, tuolbar
since you nought tnat nrst ucaec iw
years ago. It's like drain drinking; yov
want to keep on at it. I dou't mean to bf
unkind, but I can't make it seem any
thing less than wicked. '
The stern young preacher -softened I
little here, and a plaintive sniffle by waj
of acknowledgment prefaced Mrs. Don
ner's reply: - ';, v.;:1." . ,; v
"I dou't believe I'll ever need to go inti
them agaiu, Celia. I feel it that 1'nr
going to get something this time. I ha
a dream last night, nud iu it I was couufr
ing'out 15 bags of gold 1 ,
' It was -useless to argue further. Cclii
moodily set about clearing away thi
dishes, and said no more. -
A few weeks later, coming over th
hill in a snow storm, Celia found the lit
tie light absent from her mother's win
dow. Filled at once with a vague alarm
she hurried over the remaining part ol
the road and into the house, calling as she
went, "Mother I Where are you, mother?"
.No answering voice greeted her, but
groping to the mantel she lighted a lamp
'I'lmn taming. t .1. .
" vuiuiug w nyuuiius kiiv iwm, nun
:, saw her mother sittinglu heraccuBtomcil
chair by the window. -
"Why!" Celia began, half relieved,
.half provoked; and then the quern iu
which was to follow died on her lips, fo
. it became apparent that, though death
- did not yet confront her, she was looking
upon its strange similitude, paralysis. -
Her mother's whole body was rigid
and motionless, . The poor hands, quieted
forever, hung down beside it. The tongue,
whose irrelevancy had so of tea . wearied
poor, practical Celia, was now forevei
, stilled.; . ; - '
For what seemed an hour, though in
reality it was hardly more than a' mo
meut, Celia stood almost as motionless!
then,' running. down the road, to theii
nearest neighbor, she brought her back,
pitying aud exclaiming aa she came. .
Together they lifted the. limp figure tn
the lounge, upou which they wheeled
Mrs Bonner to the bed in the room oil
the sitting room. ' ' ' -'
Only when they laid her there did Celia,.
bendiug above her in agonised appeal,'
'discover that the eyes alone were instinct
with life. They looked' up to Celia with
' pitiful intelligence, seeming to respoud,
to her cry. " . . , ."'
Then wandering through the' door in
their gaze, they fixed themselves on Mrs.'
Penny with a total change Of expression.
Celia turned around in startled sur
prise, to discover that the kindly neigh
bor, with the instinct of a housekeeper,
was "tidying up" the sittiug room,' and,
as part of the effort, was now examining
an envelope, ' Celia remembered that she
had seen this lying on the floor beside he
mother's chair, but sho. had been too
sadly lacking in curiosity to examiner it
"What is it, Mrs. Denny?" she now
asked. Then she covered her face with
her hands, as Mrs. Denny replied : .
"For mercy's sake! The poor thing! It
it isn't cue of those lottery lists. Now.
that's what's given her this stroke, I sup
pose. '. She's been disappointed again, and
she set so much store by it. Shall I burn
it, Celia ??
"Yes," Celia answered, with sorrow:
ful energy ; and then corrected herself,
as the haunting eyes on the pillow caught
hers with a sudden fierce protest.
"No. Mrs. Denny.': She doesn't want it
burned, I think. Put it in the top left
hand drawer of the secretary, please. "
Soon after, and all through the dayi
which intervened before the end came,
that mournful gaze concentrated itself
most of all on the old family bible which
rested on a stand in the corner of tit j
room where she lay, and this, too, Celia
interpreted.
"She wants me to read the bible to
her, - Oh,' poor mother! you know now,
don't you, that your truest riches are in
that?" .
. So hour after hour, during the few
short weeks in which her mother lingered
on, the daughter read and reread the
promises which relate to eternal life.
Sometimes peace fell like a veil iiHn th.i
dim windows of that fast darkening tal
ernacle, and again such restless eu treaty
looked out from them that Mrs Deuny
interrupted the reading:
"Celia, she's got something on her mind
that we don't know of yet It seenit
sometimes as though her eyes would
pierce through the bible as you sit theru
reading, and when you ain't at it she's
Etill staring at it.
But always Celia's reply was the same t
"It's only that she's growing mora eaget
for it all the time. It seems the greatest
comfort I have that she loves it so. Yes,
mother, I'll read more."
The final summons came very quietly .
at the last Celia, going away for a muc'i
needed nap, bad smiled down upon her.
saying:
"Goodby," mother! I'm going to li
down just for a little while. God blew
you,' mother dear!" ,
' The poor, pathetic eyes had seemed al
most to smile in return, but when Celia
woke from her nap they were closed iu
their last slumber. Whatever was tin
secret they had yearned to disclose ali
opportunity was now forever gone by. ' ,
Two days Inter they laid Mrs. Bounei
in the family burying ground at the back
of the little farm, and Celia returned t
her teaching with a new tombstone as tlx
immediate object of her ambition. .-
The blinds were closed in the oi l houst
and the doors locked-up, and for tlx
preseut Celia eugaged board in Gates
borough. " - : -
The weeks wore on until the wjntri
term ws neany over, imn iwuai
orotnerjoe wrote irom uolorauo. bcr
ging her to join hitn there. He wai
well, and was lonely. Why should no'
Celia let or sell the old place, and com
out to this new country, which was
much fairer than that bleak little coruei
of Blaine? ...
v Celia loved Maine with the deep, rooted
attachment often noriceable in plautt
which flourish on Vocky soil. It wai
home to her, and she was essential!
home loving; but it had been a vert
dreary home of lata, and she missed tin
poor, weak mother, sorely grieving foi
her with that admixture of remorse
which all strong natures are subject.
The little house under the bill couM
never be the same to her again. Whethi
there or in Gatesborough, her living wai
but scanty at best, and most of all slit
longed to be with dear old Joe.
Almost as soon as the wish was ex
pressed a tenant was found for the house -
whereupon Celia with Mrs. Denny's hel;
began the task of clearing away aud
1 .LI 1.. . ' .
UUltlDg iningV in OTUer.
Mrs. Denny offered to take care of an
such relics as Celia chose to keep.
"If I have' room in my trunk," Celit
said, "I shall certainly take the old Bible
I can't bear to leave that behind. "
. Then, being alone and somewhat tired
she began to turn over the pages of tlx
acred , book, stopping to. read here auc
there.
She opened, all unaware, at two page!
where she was not accustomed to read;
and there, between them, lay a totterj
ticket bearing the number 68,493
. Celia looked down upon it for a mo
ment with the half fascinated and yet
wholly disgusted gaze which she miuht
have bestowed upon an intruding snake.
Then suddenly a thought 'which she
found equally veneraous darted into her
mind.' - '.
"Was thi the reason mother used
to look so longingly at the Bible?" she
thought "Oh, surely not!".
Then, leaving the book open on the
Itaud, she rushed i in a tumult of fear and
a prehension to the secretary, and opened
the top left hand drawer. -
There, where Mrs. Denny had ' placed
It, still lay the well remembered fatal en
' relope. Opening it Celia scanned the list
of numbers which had won the principal
: prizes at the December drawing.
;' 82,413, 59,162, 44,122,58,227 and then,
' dancing before her eyes 68,498!
The poor, futile dream had come true.
. The $15,000, represented by the 15 bags
of gold, had for one moment flashed be
fore the dreamer's eyes; and then, before
her feet could carry her from one room
- into the next, before her eager hand could
. grasp tlis small, blue slip, the hand of
death had arrested her.
Just in the first painful shock of her
discovery Celia woudered if her con
science could stand the strain. -Itseeiued
as if fate, not Providence, had been at
work, and had wrought this bitterly ciutl
. piece of irony. '
For a long while she groped amid dark
ened thoughts! Then, material darkness
' having also come upon her, she rose ; and
'again, as on that fatal night,' groped
her way to the mautel She lighted the
- lamp, and stood looking down into tlt'o
' smoldering logs upon the hearth. Whilo
she looked a new thought came to trouble
hera new though very feeble tempta
tion assailed her,
' "Your mother wanted it most of all
for Joe and you," the tempter whispered.
"She would have been happier dying if
she had thought you would have had it "
But, with some of the old time fire in
voice and eyes, Celia answered aloud, as
though to a visible opponent: "1 will
not do it t It was liko one of those poi
sonous marsh damps which lure people
. on to death. It led her there : she would
have been alive now if this weakness had
not taken hold of her. And 1 would
rather die than profit by it now. I will
burn the thing, so that the mean tempta
tion may not come to me again !"
In another moment the small blue slip
- of paper curled and shriveled over the
dying logs, then burst into a mocking
flame, and in a moment more was a thiu
- little sheet of ashes. Hester Vickery -Bxown.
f
Sk4tlKC for Beef.
years ago a popular Western
Some
amusement was a shooting match foi
beef, in which all the marksmen of the
neighborhood participated. The homely
sport is described by the eccentric Davy
Crockett in his "Life and Adventures.
A farmer . wishing to raise money
would advertise that on a certain dsj
and at a given place he would put up a
first rate beef to be shot or. After the
marksmen had assembled a subscription
paper waa handed round with the follow
ing heading; "
"A. B. offers a beef worth $20 to bo
shot for at 25 cents a shot" .
The paper was passed from hand trv
hand until the number ot shots subscribed
for made up the price of the beef. Two
persons who had subscribed for thota
'were then selected to act as judges.
Every subscriber furnished his owu tar
geta board with a cross iu the ceuter,
. The shot that hit the center, or came
nearest to it, secured the hide and tal
low, which was the first choice. The
nit best shot got his choice of the litml
quarters; the third received the othei
-hind quarter; the fourth took his choice
of the fore quarters; the fifth, the re
.remaining quarter; and the sixth was
nllmvp.l (he lead in the tree to which the
targets were naueo. . '
The judges stood near the tree, and
when a man fired they shouted, " Win
8hot?"and the shooter gave his name.
After all had shot the judges examined
the boards and decided what part of thq
beef each man had won. Sometimes onj
man, being a good marksman, and , hav
ing subscribed for six or eight shots,
would get nearly all the beer. .
Which Waa Itf
One of the best compliments a preachei
can ever have is this: "He preaches as ii
he meant every word he says. " Nothing
is quite so soon detected as insincerity in
the pulpit.
A Western minister, who is not alwayi
so careful as he ought to be in making
his preaching and his practice go together,
was lately telling some friends a story of
adventure. It was a large story, and the
minister's little 10 year old girl was list
ening to it very intently. When he fin
ished, she fastened .her wide open eyec
upon her father's face and said, very
gravely:
"Is that true, or are you preaching
now, papa?"
Clllaaiaa 0ly.
The desirability of care in expressior
can hardly be too forcibly impressed
upou those who write advertisements
circulars, and publio announcements ol
all sort
A very peculiar effect was produced by
the following announcement, contained
in the advertisements of a county fair:
"Among other attractive features oi
thi great Fair there will be highly amus
ing donkey races and pig races.
'Competition in these two contest!
open to citizens of the county only!" . .
The Atchison Globe thinks that whet
people read a good thing about a man in
the paper they look at him the next
time they see him as if they hadn't seen
it; when they read a meau thing abou:
him, however, they look as if they haJ
seen it :: " .
For' Value Received. Sho Ho wai
dt-sperately in love with her. Why, h
sent her costly . flowers , aud present!
nearly every day for two years. Did h
finally win her? He No. He earuoJ
her. The Epoch.. . " '.
GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.
German papers express serious alarm
at the spread of irrellgien in the Father
land. ;
A method of blasting by electricity has
bean tried in Sweden with reported good
results.
The prime bishop of Cracow, v in
Austrian Galicia, receives a revenue of
200,000. v;
. The Statistical Institute of Rome an
nounces that 63 per cent of all Italians
are unable to read and write.
The sultan of Turkey is reported as
saying that if it were not for his duty to
his . subjects he would emigrate to
America. '. - , -
An American 5 cent stamp, issued in
1846 at Brattleborough, sold in London
recently for $1,250. This must be the
much vaunted stamp of approval.
. After many years of ignoble neglect,
the town of Ayr in Scotland is at last on
the point of setting up a bronze statue of
Robert Burns in an open tpace in the
town, paid for by local subscription. :-.
By a decree of the khedive, the cultiva
tion of tobacco has been prohibited
throughout the whole of Egypt Tho
owners of lands which are found to be un
der tobacco cultivation will be subjected
to a fine of $1,000 per acre.
A beautiful piece of sculpture from an
cient Ephesus has reached the British
Museum. The relic forms part of a mar
ble bull, the head being exquisitely carved,
while the figure of . a goddess -appears on
the body. "It is supposed to be 2,000 years
old..:.: -
- The English census shows that prisons
ore the healthiest abodes in the country,
and that workhouse life insures a ripe,
old age. - At one workhouse it was
found that nearly 'three-fourths of the
inmates were over 60 ; 83 women and 21
men were between 80 and 80 ; two women
over 90. ' " :'
In the Manchester Guardian the other
day appeared two suggestive .advertise
ments side by side, 1 One was or a
woman " who was a good cook, to whom
45 a year was offered, and the other was
for "a lady by birth and education," to
act as nurse to a child at an annual sal
ary of C0. -
The longest bridge In the world Is the
lion Bridge near Sangang, China. It
extends five and a quarter miles over on
area Of the Yellow Sea and is supported
by 800 huge stone arches. The roadway
is 70 feet above the water and is inclosed
in an iron net work A marble lion 21
feet long rests on the crown of every pil
lar. The bridge was built at the com
mand of Emperor Kieng Long, who
abdicated in 1796 on account of old age.
Ruby's mamma is accustomed to read
something from the bible to tho children
when they are put to bed. The other day
the little girl ponaetieed herself of the
bible and began to play with it On
being reprimanded, she looked up and
asked most innooeutly, "Why, mamma,
is this your heaven book ?"
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