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DANBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, JIHVE 11, 1885.
Mrs. Morris' Mortgage.
BV EDWIN U. TUAFTON.
I.
Whatever brigiituoss there was in that
littlw household wus strict 1 y home-made.
Home-made things may lack ntyle and
polish and a great many otbor qualities,
but they are solid and satisfying. The
widowed mother was brave and patient;
fourteen-year-old George was manly
and hopeful ; Baby Buss, a wee tot, in
sisted that she was 'mam'.na's sunbeam
and George's joy,' and between them
the love these three had for each other
was their principal fortune. To be
sure, th*>y had thou ;ttag>' •'.cj.iUJ litre
a brown little wren nf a house among
the cherry trees, but so far from the
more pretentious street of the village
an to be quite secluded in its modest re
tirement—a hoine-nest where there was
more peace tt.au plenty.
One thing this tiny residence had in
common with many stately mansion:'
that unwiukingly stand forth as it' beg
ging for public admiration—there wo-' a
mortgage on it. It was so very small
a house that it roally seemed as though
it would not take much of a mortgage
to crush in its low, rambling roof, like
a too heavy load of suow, and, like the
snow, is a mortgage on a poor man's
home, a cold, pitiless dead weight.
Next after hor two ehildrcu .Mrs.
Morris loved this wreu-liko bouse best
of anything, and for 'hreo long years
she had worked at that montage, saving
up and paying it otf 'by i.tiles.' ucti!
at last when of tho original tfi ro
only remained a trifle less than $lO to
pay, Lawyer Harding had given bcr no
tice from tho holder of tho mortgage
that he could no longer extend the time,
and that unless the balanco was settled
by the first day of the month he would
foreclose. This simply meant that she
would lose all she had paid and be turn
ed out of doors into the bargain. At
tho samo time the lawyer had intimated
on giving this disagreeable intelligence,
that if >lrs. Morris would consent to
marry him ho would relievo her of all
further trouble, not only in regard to
this but all future financial embarrass
ments.
The mortgago itself was trouble
enough for one poor woman to bear ;
but she would rather have bad all the
mortgages in tho world to fight than en
dure the thought of life with A nun with
the mean traits of this lawyer. She
gave him to understand this fact as
clearly as a good use of plain, rnatter
of-faot English could do it. His words
were smooth enough —too smooth, in
fact—as he went away, but thero was
the sort of smile that boded no good to
tho object of his thoughts. It was as
evident to Ber as though lie had said so
in so many words, that the time men
tioned would be tho last day of grace.
April Ist came - but not tho paltry
balance ncoded to clear otf the mort
gage. And no sum of money is paltry
when one must have it to avert disastor
—and cannot get it. Mrs. Morrii oould
see no earthly way out of her trouble
that morning. Everything looked dark.
It was hard to have worked so long, to
have struggled for weeks and months
and years, as she had done, only to lose
all at last. No, not all' For she hud
Georgo and Hess left. Thinking of
them made it still harder to boar, for it
was for their dear sakos she had toiled
and economized and saved. There was
a suspicious suggestion of what hor eye*
hud beeu doing when (ieorge came chee
rily in to his breakfast.
'What, my little matumie's eyes are
half drownod ho uxctaimad, in his
hearty, boyish way, with part fun and
more tenderness in his tone, as he hug
ged her like a young bear, and dabbed
kisses iuto each damp eyo.
«'Tisu't mo '' he continued, scarch
iig for a cause for the rather unusual
display of discomfort. 'No ! I'm glad
of that, because I don't think I've done
anything downright awful lately, and it
can't be Boss? She's all right, 1 know—
no measles, or whooping ccugh, or any
thing—for 1 just saw her sleeping liko
a—a —' hero he paused for a satisfac
tory smile, dabbing more warm kisses
from rosy lips into led eyes the whilo—
'like a happy little kitteu-'
'Georgia, do cat your breakfast. It's
aa bad to hare one'a eyes kissed out as
drowned out.'
'Oh, 1 know !' ho continued, pursuing
the subjeot with no intention of being
put off. 'That old Harding is coming
again, I'll bet anything.'
1 Yea, dear, be is ooming but the
little woman bad not the heart to tell
all that dreaded ooming implied.
'Pshaw, mamtnia ! Dou't worry so
about it. That blamed mortgage is al
most paid off and you wou't have to roe
the mean sneak many times more.'
'I don't like to hear you speak that
way. It doesn't holp ate and it hurts
you.'
More kisses tbat said as plaiuly as
words oould, 'lt was becauso 1 love you
and can't bear to see you so unhappy,
but if it hurts you 1 won't do it any
more.'
Then be pitehed into bis breakfast
with as savage earnertness as though ha
thought be was a balf-st.rved caunibat
and his food was the luckloss but well
eookod Haiding.
,
'l'll bot it's an April fool !' said
Goorgc, at tho sound nf an unusully ■
lound ring at the front d mr. It was in
reality a boy with a lurgo official cave
iupo, addressed to Mrs Morris, who ■
simply said he was told thero was no
answer to wait for.
Nervously Mrs. Mor is tore it open,'
as some people have a way of doing with !
their telegrams.
'lt is tho mortgage !' she cried, a? she
undid the formidable document. It was
uot her familiarity with law papers that
enabled her to so promptly identify it , '
overy fold and ercase at.d blot of this 1
mortgage sbo knew by long and sad ac
quaintance.
"Aro you quite sure 'tisli't an April
fool, uianimio ?" asked George suspi
ciously. Neither he nor bis mother bad
from past experience any reason to ex
pect favors from Harding or the
rich property owner ho represented.
Here was the mortgage in her hards—
theic could be no doubt of tbat—a small
pieco of paper, after all, to have been
such a dead weight on the tiny homo
and the three that wore in it. Careful
examination failed to discover any scrap
of a letter or word of explanation ac
companying it.
"It is too good to bo true," sighed
the widow, still dazed by tho event,
"but people are sometimes better than
we give them credit for. I've already
moro than paid the oiiginal amount of
money which your poor futber was obli
ged to raise, when tbs interest is coun
ted in, and they may have been moved
to do a kindly, generous act, although,"
sho added, "1 would as soon look for
sunabinc ID a coal bolo. If any one
has been really good it is uot Mr. Har
ding, I am sure of that much ; it must
have been the uiao to whom the mon
ey really belouged and for whom he
woiks."
"If it ain't some kind of a mean
'April fool' I'll eat my hat,' said George,
with greater force than clegaace, who
would not believe tho evidence of bis
own eyca when that evidence was in
Hurdings favor.
Presently that person himself made
his appearance. Ho had the air of one
who had earned a warm welcome and
cxpeoted to receive it. Between grati
tude and doubt the widow smiled, and
her manner was so much more friendly
than ever before that Harding flattered
himself that he had done a very clover
thine indeed.
•'Yes, my dear Mrs. Morris, I sent on
the mortgage ahead of mo becauso 1
thought you would like to get it iuto
your own hands at last."
"lndcod, lam very glad if all my
trouble with it. is finally at an end."
"I fully appreciated that fact, and
wished to relieve you c.f all annoyances
as soon as possible," with a plausible,
selfsafisficd look, "But I felt so sure
your own good sense would urge you to
agreo kindly to my proposition, that at
last you would consent to make tue tho
happiest of men, that I did not hesitate
to lot you see with what perfect confi
dence I was ready to carry out my part
of the contract to reliovo you of all fi
nancial troubles."
"Mr. Harding !" was all she could
say in hor indignant surprise.
"Perhaps 1 have boon too hasty—"
"I am sorry you havo put me to the
disagreeable necessity of repeating what
I thought 1 bad said plainly enough be
fore ; 1 wuuld rather give up this littlo
home of ours and take my chillrcn I
know not whore than to accept any home
you could provide."
Rising as she spoke, with a very be
coming color in her oheoks, sho indioa
catcd that the interview was at an «nd.
"Then madam," be replied, also ris
ing. "it if my painful duty to inform
you that tbe alternative of your own
aolcotion most bo enforced. If yon will
please to notice this mortgage still laeks
my signature as agent with power of
attorney. That signature 1 shall be
pleased to affix on the payment of the
balance duo—thirty-seven dollars and
fifty cents."
"But, I thought—" stammered the
widow.
"You thought I waa fool enough to
releaso you from the obligations of this
document before I know you were ready
to marry me? Hardly. Have you the
$37.50 handy t No? I thought not.
Then, madam, 1 shall foreclose without
any further delay, and—"
"Count that, will you, and seo if there
isn't $37.50 there."
It was George who had heard enough
of the conversation to find out that the
mortgage was not paid off, after all, and
slipping out of tbo loom bad returned
a minuto later'witb a' nuiall uox fall c."
silver and copper, which he slapped
down rathei uucorcmoniously on the
table in front of Harding. Which was
the moro surprised, tho mother or the
lawyer, it would bo quite impossible to .
tell.
"What's all this mean !" demanded i
Harding with a soowl.
'Never you mind what all this means.
Just count that money and sign your
uatnc, aud then if you ever bother my |
mother again just look out for yourself. I
that's all.'
'Oh Goorgc ! was all Mrs. Morris '
could say.
There was nothing for Harding to do 1
but to count the money, which was cor
rect to a cent, and affix his signature,
which he did with a face that looked
liko a thunder cloud, and not without
mutterings that faintly suggested the
disagreeable commotion inside. Whcu
ho was at last out of the house, vioious
ly banging the door behind him as a
sort of harmless malediction as he went,
George caught bis mother in his arms,
and hugged and kissed her till both
were fairly out of breath.
'1 earned and saved it all myself,
mamtme,' lie Gnally was able to explain,
'doing odd jobs and things—all but the
last $lO, and that 1 gut for my stamp
collection yesterday. I knew you
hadn't the money to mako this last
payment, and 1 meant to surprise you
all tho time. I anew that was an 'April
fool' when that mortgage came, bat if
there is a bigger April fool in this town
than that blamed old Harding, I don't
want to see him.'
'You blessed boy!' was all 'mam
mie' eould say between laughing and
crying, while it would have been hard
to find three happier people on the face
of the earth that day than the brave,
patient mother, her manly, helpful son,
and sweet Baby Bess, who got her full
share of the sunshine of joy.
And it will not make you the least
bit sorry, I am sure, to know that the
reason Harding was so anxious to mar
ry Mrs. Morris was that ho knew of
some property that wa- soon coming to
her, of which she had never a hint.
But when this new and unexpected
blessing did come to them they did not
desert the brown littlo wrr.n-like home
nest under tho cherry trees—only it
made possible George's dream of col
lege days and a bioador future.—New
York Urapbio.
The Hurtlen of Hrrrarcment
Another burden some have to carry
is the burden of bereavement. Ah !
these are the troubles that wear us out.
If we l».se our property, by additional
industry, perhaps, wc may bring back
the estranged fortune, if we lose our
good name, perhaps by reformation of
morals we may achieve again reputation
for integrity; but who will bring back ,
the dear departed ?
Alas me! for those empty cradles and j
trunks of childish toys that never will
bo used again. Alas lue ' for the emp
ty chair and the silence in the halls tbat ,
will never echo again to those familiar
footsteps. Alas ' for the try of widow- j
hood and orphanage. What bitter
marahs ip the wilderness, what cities of
the dead, what long black shadow from
the wing of death, what eyes sunken
with grief, what hands tremulous with
bereavement, what instruments of musio
shut cow because there are DO fingers to
play on them ! Is there no relief for
such souls? Ay, let that soul ride into
tho harbor of my text.
The soul that in Jesus liatb learned to re
pose
1 will not, I will not desert to Its foes;
Tliat soul, though all liell shall endeavor
to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake.
Over 200 new doctors were turned
oat of a New York medical oolloge re
cently. Tbis looks as though their ID
ititntions wore working on full time
to keep pace with the establishment of
skatiog rinks.
I'oalllve Preaching.
The fact down at the bottom is that
people live by their beliefs. Truth is |
the soul's daily bread, aud even though
there be bran in the loaf, it is still
and evermore the bread of life. To tell
pcoplo that arc hungry that bread of
fine flour is sure to give dyspepsia, thai !
baker's bread is a mixture of bad flour
aud alum, and very injurious, that bar
ley and rye arc deficient in nutritive
qualities, and that oaten cukes arc only
fit for horses, is to detiact attention
while the body starves for food. The
'negative preaching of our day destroys
confidence in the groat nutritive faiths
• on v-Mcli gaue> a,fta3s p" hive
lived'and wrought, aud puis nothing iu
their plaee. It is uot what men doubt,
I but what they believe with mind and
might—the beliefs they live upon, the
| faiths they assimilate and reproduce
!in conduct and character—that save
j thctn from sin, and make thum strong ■
tj do and endure. And it is only (lie
inculcation of such positive faiths m the |
j pulpit that will attract congregations
i and edify tliciu much. Preach' rs wno j
| declaim against old bcliofs, who grow
I eloquent in denouncing outworn supur-
I stitions and the sins of the times which
i have ceascu to be fashiouablc, may have i
! a short run of popularity, but they make |
no cnduraucc mark. People soon tire |
lof such exhibitions. They hungry for '
1 something positive. They want a faith
| of home sort that will tiupporl them in
j trial, strengthen them in temptation,
help them in trouble, sweeten their joys,
j and span the dark passage of the future
with a bow of everlasting hopo. And
only the preaching that comes ft om such
faith, aud builds up such a faith as this
in the heart of the hearer, is lit for tne
Christian pulpit. In an of latitu
dinarianism, and among indiffcrcnts,
whoever believes any thing thoroughly,
aud maiutaius big belief with bis whole
, mind and might, is called dogmatic.
But to be dogmatic under such circum
stances ia a great merit. Better be a
zealot with a heart on firo with sonta
giouti enthusiasm for C'hr.st, thun a half
' hearted expounder, raising more ques
tions than can be answered, and startiug
inquiries in fruitless fields. Too much
of what is called popular preaching is
. hammering in general, instead of dri
ving a few great truths home, like
spikes, with well directed, energetic
blows.—The Evangelist.
Rainbow In n Window Pa ue.
In Pendleton county, Kentucky,
about half-way between Detnosville and
Knoxvillc, lives a very worthy old gen
-1 tlcman by the name of Stith. On the
. thrco lowest panes of glass in the win
dow coxt to tho ground is pictured a
piece of rainbow, which, I aui told, has
been written about several times, though
1 have never heard of any attempt at
an explanation. This oaso of picture
taking is oxtiemely raro—it never has
occurred before, so far a? wc know, and
probably never will again ; and the true
secret wc may never know. The great
est difficulty is to ascertain how those
panes of glass were made sensitive ot
| susceptible to tho impression. Well,
j nature never fails to furnish ways ond
' means when undertaking a piece of
j work. This house stands nearly north
and south, with this window on the east
side of tho house, near the south chin:.
: ucy, and no light admitted from the
• west side of that room, and no obstruc
tion on the east side at that time.—
! Then the bow was on the cast side, of
! course. Mr. Stith says it was a very
damp time, aud the probability, accord
ing to my judgment, is tbat it waa very
] warm and a good fire burning at the
time. Now, it may bo that at the
, proper time a heavy charge of electric
i ity catnc so near that it caught the
; placo thus prepared for it. The old
gentleman closed tho wiudow-hlinds and
' the picture was taken, which, I am told,
; was a dim auiber color at hist, but soon
aesumcd all the brilliancy of a beauti
ful rainbow.
"What did I understand you to say
this is, ma'am ?" the new boarder asked
the landlady. "Spring chicken, sir,"
tartly replied the lady, "pray, what did
you think !" "That's what 1 thought
'it was, ma in, with all the springs left
>"
i Some one has said tbat modes'.y ia a
1 quality that highly adorns a woman,
. but ruins a man. There are not many
- men ruined in that way. At feast such
i ruins, like those of ancient castles and
f temples, would bo worthy objects of
pilgrimage.
V'Z riOWPft COLLECTION
NO. 51
SINAI.!. BITES.
Tlic best thing out—a big fire.
The moat popular book—the pocket
book.
The call to arms—John, take ilia
baby.
\ fall winch is enjoyed—falling heir
to a fortune.
Servants belong to the hire types of
1 humanity.
t The cotton broker always has an 'eye
, to the futre '
i The mouse a woman never fears—A
i moustache. •*>
♦ >■»
A ..ourt notuic—Tbe Lonta of uiarri- '
1 iigcaMv daughter*. i
Never re;.]) to the epithet of a fool;
or a low fellow.
Is it correct to speak of a siok law
yer as an ill legal man ?
A bridge should never bo condemned
"mil it l a-* boon tried by its piers.
I'he giraffe presents the moat wonder
ful 0a.,0 of soar tin-out on record.
In these "shutting down" times it is
| evideut that ton mills do not make a
; cent.
Ihe most valuable metal known is
I venadiuiu, which is worth about SIO,OOO
j a pound.
Spicer asks : 'What is the rate of in-
I terest when distance lends euchautmcnt
to the view.'
I
Apples arc the j outh, new cider tho
j middle age, and vinegar the old ago of
| humanity.
The dentist who announcod that ho
; will epare no pains to pull teeth well is
! the man to keep away from.
'Yes,' said the dude, as he gathered
himself up, 'tho hardest thing about
toiler hkruing is the floor.'
'There are poems unwritten and songs
unsung.' 'Yes,' says .n editor,'it ia
this that reconciles us to life.'
'lients are high Una year,' aadly mur
mured the tramp as ho borrowed a pin
with which to hold his coat-tail togeth
er.
Nothing makes a fat man learning
roller skating so mad as to have tho
band come in with a terrific clash ou
the cymbals every time he sits down re
al hard.
"What a lake 1" askad the teach
er. A bright little Irish boy raised
his hand. "Well Mickey, what U
I it?'' ''Sure, it's a hole in the kittle,
mum"
! A Philadelphia woman says sho
was kissed by a spirit at a soanoe.
i; That sensation muct be almost as grat
' j ifying as being hugged by the ghost of
i a chance.
"Of all my family patients," said Br.
Killouiquick, "no; one is sick." "Guess
you haven't called on any of them
lately inquiring'y remarked a broth
er M. D.
Somo one says : 'You can tell when
it is noontime by4ooking in a cat's eyes.'
Certainly. All you have to do is to
hold the eat, look directly into its eyea
and wait fur the clock to strike l'J.
1 "Hollo. . s niith Suppose a man mar
ries his first wife's stop-sister's aunt,
' what relation i*. lie to her ?" "First
wife—urn—step- aunt—er—let's see
I don't kuow." "Urightfellow, lie's
' her husband." ■
f
True Uenllemen,
'lJbcg your pardon!' and, with a
: smilo and a touch of his hat, Hjirry
Edrnond handed to an old man, against
whom he had accidentally stumbled,
1 the cano which he had knocked from his
haud. 'I hope I did not hurt you ?
\\ o were playing too roughly.'
'Not a bit,' said the old man. 'Boys
will ho boys, and it's best they should
be. You did not harm me.'
•I am glad to hear it ; and lifting hts
hat again, Hairy turned to join tho
playmates with whom he had boon frol
icking at the time of the accident.
'What do you raiao your hat to that
old fellow for '' asked his oompantoc,
. ('barley Gray. 'He is only Old Giloa,
the huckster.'
'That makes no difference,' aaid Har
ry. 'The question is not whether he ia
i a geni lonian, but whether I am one ;
, and no true gentleman will b« ISM po>
r lite to • man boos use he w«ara a shabby
i coat or hawks vegetables through tho
I streets instead of sitting m a oounting
f house.'
Which was right!