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OLD MATTHEW-
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It was a place of which iho owner
might weil Le prood. The fine stono
mansion standing baek in its well-,
kept grounds, surrounded by vel
vety lawns with parterres of choice
plants and flower., and a driveway
leading up to it bordered with noblo
elms. In the adjacent orchard Borne
pretty Alderney calves were teth.
ered beneath the tree, and from
there the haDdsome rttable buildings
and quarters of the coachman aud
pardener could be seen, all solidly
built of stone, while stretching
away in a distance, a model kitchen
garden completed the picture ot m
derly perfection.
As the sun sauk low in the West
ern eky, aud cast its lengtheoiug
shadous across tho meadows' gol
den green, two men came out of the
stables where they h.ad been inspect
mg the spirited hoies and gentle
cows, and walked leisurely on to
gether. It was not hard to see that the
younger of the two waa the owner
of the place, and that he was show
ing off its beauties with pardonable
pride.
"My dear fellow," said his frieud,
whose accent proved him unmistak.
ably of EuglUb birth, "I cougratu
late yon, I am sure- I positively
have seeri nothing to equal this
place of yours since I have been in
the New World. Everything about
it is in perfect form, quite English,
I assure $ou ; you have none ot
the litter about, nor the slovenly
outbuildings, that disfigure so many
of the otherwise fine country seats I
see about here, and which give one
the uncomfortable sensation one has
on seeing a pretty woman with slip
pers trodden down at the btel.
Some of your wal a and buildings
look rather new, but that defect will
rectify itself in time."
"Yes, that will rectify itself,"
Henry Weatherill said complacent
ly. "These outbuilding are, in fact,
quite recent, in my lather's time
tbey were miserable wooden affairs?
which I had torn down at once, and
have rebuilt in this substantial way.
Oh yes, this part of the place has
undergone a complete transforma
tion, and I doubt if the old gentle
man woold recognize it, could be
return from the upper world."
"Bei'o, Weatherill,'' interrupted
bra friend, "Some lunatic at large
pins got into your place; but what
in the name of wonder i he trying j
to do in your cabbage-bed yonder1'! stand poor fellow !''
An expression of annoyance apJ And still Weatherill felt more un
bred upon Henrv Weatherill's ! comfortable than he bad ever been
handsome face. "It is past endur
ance," hns said impatiently, as be
watched the movements of the bentj
figure which stood among the rows !
of cabbages, now usiu; it to point j
Aith here aud there with strange
gesticulation and muttering?, while J
with bis back turned towards them.
he was uncouscious
of their obseri
vatiou.
The Englishman eyed Weatherill,
and curiouslv awaited his relunctant
exP'dnat,on "It's only old Mat",
thew,'' he said at last, "an old peuj
9'ouer of mine, my father's coach
man for thirty Or forty years; it's a
pjty when these people outlive their
usefulness."
"Ab, but why his excessive fond
lul uu -S
"Well, the truth is, his house
used to stand npou that verv spot,
a miserable, fumble-down wooden
aff-vr, which I had torn down when
making these improvements. It
was really a disgrace to the rest ot
the place, so I hired a couple ot
good rooms for the old fellow in the
village, and paid him au outlandish
bonus to get it ; but since then be
has taken it into bis head to hauut
the place where hi3 shauty stood,
until he has become a nuisance. I
shall put a stop to it "
"Oh yes, it aunoys you, poor fel
low !"
Weatherill afterwards remember-
ed his frieud's expression with some j
discomfort, and wondered how he
could haye misconstrued its means
ing at the time.
"Matthew,' he called, and his
voice sounded sharp and hard in
contrast to the old man's answer in
its tremulous treble.
"Master Harry, bless you, sir!'
He approached with a feeble, limp
ing gait and bowed with deep re
spect. "I hope I see you well, sir
and the vcung mistress T"
''Both well, Matthew, and yon?"
In spite of his annoyance, Weather
ill could not he'p this response to
the old man's courteous questiou.
''Better oil than I deserve, si--,
thank the Lord for his mercies I"
4And are your new quarters
comfortablpf, aud the people there
kind to you ?" asked Weatherill.
tkYes, Master Hany, thank you
kinCly, sir."
"Then iu the name of goodness
why don't you stay there, where yon
belong, instead of haunting my
place here, day after day ? Don't
you huosv I do not like if ? It you
want anything just let me know
auil I will see that you get it ; but
I do not want to see you prowling
around here agaiu; do vou under
stand?" "Yes, Master Harry,'' aud the old
man humbly touched his hat. "I
did not meau to trouble you, sir;
but I didn't think you'd mind when
I got loaesome, like down there, for
me to come up and eee the place
where I lived with them that was
dear to me so many, many years,
It seemed to bring 'em back nigher
to me, wheu I could point out and
say, 'Here the stove was, in the
kitchen ; and here was the settin'
100m ; aud Phebe's rocker stood jest
there for nigh upou thirty year
though she's been dead an' gone
these twenty years and more ; and
poor little Sam, with that cough of
ais'n, followin' bis mother right
afore my eyes. Their memory seem
ed to linger round this spot; aud,
Master Harry, tbey don't neem to
belong to anything down in the viN
lage yonder thy seem fur off from
me. down there.' "
"Yon used to be a sensible mau
and ycu shouldn't allow yourself
such fancies. You understand now
that this does annoy me, and I do
not want to see yoa banging arouud
the place.''
Yes, Master Harry, I under
stand." The old man touched bis
hat again, and turned away.
"He's in his second childhood,"
said Weatherill, feeling unaccount
ably annoyed not only with old
Matthew, but with himself. "Yon
most understand my feeling V
'l understand,'' said the English
man, still following with bis eyes
the pathetic looely figure's slow re-
treat.
'Ob, yes; I quite under
l)efo?e.
Alter this, old Matthew's presence
aever disturbed the young Master
when he paid his evening visits to
to the stable", or showed bis friends
She beauties of bis place ; but when
ihe summer moon looked down from
the hifib heavens at midnight, when
Henry Wetherill lay sleeping iu his
stately mansion among the trees, its
silvery linht shone tenderly upou a
lonely figure standing betweeu the
rows of cabbages, pointing here and
there with his stick, aud muttering
softly, "Phebe's rocker allers stood
jest there ; and jst above if, in tie
1 sleeplnVroom, was Sam's crib
poor, little sickly Sam !"
Bat old Matthew was mistaken if
be thoaght these secret midnight
visits were unperceived, for a dis
charged stableman baa sea him
there, night after night, and among
tbe many grudges treasured up
against his fellows tn this man's evil
breast, was an oM one against Mat
thew, who tunny ears befoie had
almost loit him his place for having
brutally beaten a high spirited yoong
horse, in one of his fits of nngovern -able
temper.
When the moonlight nights were
gone old Matthew still paid his sto
len visits to the site of his old home
h9 could have found it blindfolded
I now and be never slept until he
had held communion there with his
cherished memories of Pbebe and
little Sam.
One night, s he was about to
leave tbe garden and retrace bis
lonely room, the faint sweet smell
of smoke came to him, and with it
tbe consciousness of something
wrong. Sniffing the night breeze
like an old hound suddenly wakened
to a sense of danger and duty, he
peered anxiously about him, to
ward the stables and the Master's
bouse, nutil through the darkuess
he saw a tiny lurid tongue shoot
upward.
"Fire !" Tbe tremulons old voice
ro.se shrill aud clear, aud some cf
tbe vior of hia youth seemed to re
turn t the feeble limbs, fle knock
ed loudly upon the gardener's door,
though he hardly stopped in pass
ing. "Wake there, fire, fire !" He
paused an instant at the stable, tor
he had caught the smell of burning
hay, and he roused tho men who
Blept in the rooms above with hia
c5' of "Fire, savi the horse.?, quick!''
He ahfcady heard them snot ting
and stcHipmg iu blind tenor, but he
could not stop to help the poor,
dumb creature?, for the Mastei's
house was ou fiie too, and human
lives were iu danger. "Fire, fire,
Master Harry, tor the love of God,
wake up 1" He threw a haudful of
pebbles agaiust tbe window of his
room, and when he had aroused
him, hurried on to spread the alarm
and to biing them aid.
The pale dawn came at last, but
never befoie had the sun aiisen
upod such unwonted coufusion as
now reigned iu young Weatherill's
beautiful place. And yet the dam
ae:e done lv the tire was not so se-l
nous after ail, tor happily it was
brought uuder control before it
cisuld gain full headway, and tbe
buildiug.H themselves being sol idly
built of stone, had received but lit
tle ii.jury.
It has been proves the work of an
incendiary beyond a doubt, for the
house aud stables had both been
fired in several places, and a bottle
with some drops of kerosene left iu
it has ben found near by. So an
officer has been quietly sent for, and
when he comes, Weatherill, with his
face dark with anger, brings him to
where old Matthew lingers in the
background, worn out with his on-,
usual exertion?, yet loth to leave
while there remains a chance of his
being of use and pointing him out,
said loudly, "There is the man,'' and
before old Mattbew grasps his
meaning tbe officer has left no room
for doubt, "Mattbew Brandon, I ar
rest yoa for this nigbt'3 work."
From the moment that tbe doors
of tbe jail closed upon him, old
Matthew took to his bd. He ot
tered no complaint, and thanked
them kindly for all they did tor him
lit r le enough in fac; ; and now
I he third day has come and it is
evident that he is sick unto death
The doctor himself has said that
his trial will never come off unless
he is tc plead at the bar of Heaven
and receive his sentence or pardon
there from a higher Judge than
ours.
A light wagon drawn by two
spirited horses now dashes up and
stops before the jail, and Henry
Weatherill jumps out. There is a
curious expression of shame upon
his handsome face as he explains he
has come to settle that affair about
oUl Matthew Brandon there has
I been a mistake and he wants to see
the old man at once.
Impossible, tbe warden tells him,
gravely, for tbe man is very ill,
Wetberill's f-ice falls still more at
this, and he horridly explains that
Matthew was an old servant of his
father's, who had been pensioned
off and perhaps not treated ex
actly right and bow, m a momeut
of mdignation at the outrage com
mitted on his property, ho had mis
judged tbe evidence against him
and so had caused bis arrest; but
now that the real offender had been
Jound he wished to make immediate
amends to the old man for his un
fortunate -mistake,
piece of business
An unpleasant
altogether, he
adds, and so even thought he is ill,
he must really beg to be allowed to
see him, to get it settled aud off bis
mmd as speedily as possible.
So Henry Weatherill was admit -
ted to old Matthew's cell, and the
sight of the pale wrinkled face lying
with closed eyes upon the pillow of
the misirable cot, touched him pro
foundly. Concluded on last page.')
The story ct'tlie Aflamic
ble.
BT ctrcs w. field.
(From the Youth's Companion June 2, '92)
Tbe Youth's Companion asks for a
brief outline of my life, and espe
cially of tbep-irt it was my fortune
to bear in establishing telegraphic
commuuic ition between Eaglaud
aud America.
As I am a business man, yon will
only expect me to answer with bus
idess simplicity. Although I hare
live l ever s nee I was a boy in the
city of N-w York, I am a native of
Now England, of which I am very
proud, and of the State of Mass i
chtiietta. Seventy -two years Hi?o
my father was pastor of the Con.
greational church iu Stock bridge,
where 1 wa-t Loil, 1-Tov ember 30, 18
19. 1 have always couuted it a
gi9at happiness to have passed my
boyhood among the Betkshire Hilh.
n
Although four cf my brothels
went to Williams College, I, as 1
was intended for business, simply
"graduated' at the villiage acade
my, and at fifteen years of age left
tny father's and mother's roof with
their love aud blessing, all that
they had to give, to make my owu
way in the world.
Coining to New York, I here coun
pleted my education iu the business
house of the late A. T. Stewart, one
of the best training schools in the
country for a thorough kuowledge
of business. The great merchant
was a rigid disciplinarian, exacting
the strictest fidelity aud puoctnali
by ; aud to tbe lessons there learn
ed and tbe habits there formed,
many men have owed their success
iu after life.
HI.
At the age of tweoty-one I was
iu business for myself.
For thirteen years I knew nos
thing but business. I was up early
and late, giving myself do rest in
summer's heat or winter's cold.
At the end of that time I bad reach
ed what at tbe at tbe start bad bean
the limit of my desires. Ideas of
fortune then were much less than
now, and having reached what I
aimed at, I resolved to retire from
business, that I might enjoy what I
had acquired, free from anxiety,
and passed tbe rest of my days in
tranquillity and peace. Little d.d
I think that the great struggle cf
my life was not yet b6gun !
But for a time I tried to carry
out my resolutious; and taking juc
ior partners to conduct the boose
which I bad established, I went off
to South America, with the artist,
Mr. Frederic . Church.
IV.
Landing m New Granada, now
called Colombia, we ascended tbe
Magdaleoa River, crossed tbe An
des to Ecuador, decended to Guay
aquil ou tbe Paciiir, and returned
by the istmus of Panama; just in
time to attend the golden wedding
of my father and mother, October
31, 1853.
Now I was a geutleman vi leisure!
But I soon missed the excitment of
business, the contact with men ; and
begau to fep that I was sinking
down irom the place of an actor in
the world into one of inglorious re
pose. Ir was at this moment that a new
scheme was brought to attention.
It was to atie-r.pt to resuscitate an
enterprise that bad beeu begun and
had broken down, to carry a line of
telegraph to Newfoundland, in
cluding a cable across tbe Gulf of
St. Lawrence, and at St. John'- to
connect with a line of steamers to
Ireland, by which tbe time of com
munication might be reduced to
five days.
V.
Had this been pioposed to me a
(year before, I t-bould have given it
j thought, as I waa engrossed in :uy
j own affairs. Had it come a year
later, I should have been embarked
in something else ; but comiug just
when there was a hort lull in my
1 activity, it seemed to be what my
dear old father would have called a
"special Providence,"
So 1 listened for an eveniDg to
the gentlemoa who wished to eolist
me in bis scheme. He said what
be bad to say, and left me to think
if over.
Beside me in tbe library was a
globe, which I began to turn over
to study the relative positions of
Newfoundland aud Ireland. Sud
denly the thought flashed upon me,
"vYby not carry the line across the
AtlanMc V
That was the first moment that
th idea ever entered my mind. It
came as a vision of the night and
never b ft me uutil, thirteen 3 ears
alter, the dream was fulfilled.
VI.
But it is very easy to draw a line
011 a map or a globe, bnt quite an
other to measure out all the distan
ces by land and sea. As I could
not uudeitake it alone, I looked
about for u lew strong men to give
it support.
My nexxioor neighbor was Pe
Uv Cooper, w hose name is ju&tly
held iu honor for his simple noble
life, aud bis great generosity to his
narive city. He was the first to
join the enterprise, ami stood by it
to the end. That helped me to en
list Moses Taylor and Marshall O.
Roberts, and Chandler White, who,
with my brother, Mr. David Dud
ley Field, as legal advisers, six in
all, made tbe little company that
n'jdeitook the telegraph to New
foundland, as preliminary to the
larger undertaking of crossing the
oceau itself. Mr. White died a few
mouths after, and bis place was
taken br Mr, Wilson G. HuDt.
VII.
The title ot "The New Yoik. New
foundlaud and London Telegraph
Company'' indicated the full scope
of the design.
As soon as we had organized,
thrf-e of us, Mr. White, my brother
and myself, started for Newfoarpd
land to get a charter, which we ob
tained after some week's negotia
tion, giving 03 tbe exclusive right
to land a submarine cable upon its
sbores for fifty years. Now tbe
work begau in earnest. Tbe first
thing we bad to do was to build a
line of telegraph four huudred miles
through an nnbabited country; cut
ting our way through the forests,
c'imbing hills,pluE8iug into swamp8f
aud ciossing rivers. Wbeu we
came to tbe Golf of St. Lawreoc
we bad our first experience in lay
iug our 6rst cable. It was but a
short line, less than a hundred mile
long, aud yet we failed even in that ;
and tbe attempt bad to be renewed
tbe folio ffiog year, when it was suc
cessful. VIII.
Of course we felt a great satisfac-
tion that we had got so far. We
had crossed the laud, bat could we
cross the sea ? As we stood upon
the cliffs of Newfoundland and look'
ed off opoa tbe great deep, we saw
our greatest task was before us.
For this we bad been preparing
by preliminary investigation. Be
fore we coald embark in an enter.
pris ot which there had been no
example, we. must ksow about the
ocean Itself, into which we wer to
venture. We had sailed over it,
hut wbo knew what was uuder it?
The cable must b no the bottom;
and wbat sort ot a bottom was it f
smooth and even, or rugged as
Switzerland, now sinking into deep
! abysses, and then rising in moun
tain chains over which the cable
must haug suspended, to be swept
to and fro by the deep undercur
rents to the ocean ?
IX.
Fortunately just theu careful
soundings by English and Ameri
can navigators showed that the
ocean-bed was one vaste plain,
broader than tbe steppes of Siberia
or the prairies of America, reaching
nearly from shore to shore; and in
their suprise 00 joy they christened
it the 4 'telegraphic plateau," so
much did it eem like a special
conformation of the globe for the
service of man.
Bo, giving it that name did not
prove that a cab'e could be laid
across it. Tbe mechanical difficul
ty alone was enormous. Men had
stretched heavy chains across rivers
8 booms to bar the passage of ships
but whoever dreamed cf a chain
over two thousand miles long?
If it could be drawn oat to each
a length, would it not fall in pieces
by its own weight ! But sopppose
all went well, and it should bold
together long enough to be got
safely overboard, and to be drop
ped in the ooze of tbe oceaa-bd,
what would it be good for f
X.
There rose the sceintlfic difficulty:
Could an electric current be aeur
'hrough it t
To get au anawer to this question,
we appealed to the greatest author
ities iu both countries. Morse said,
.'Yes, it oould be done' So Bald
Faraday ; and when I aked tbe old
man, I'How long will it take for the
curreut to pass from shore to
shore!" he answered, "Possibly one
second l"j
!Ju?h words of cbeer put us la
good heart and hope, and yet the
only final and absolute test was
that ot experiment. And a very
costly experiment it must be.
To make such a cable as we re
quired, and lay it at the bottom of
tbe sea, would cost six hundred
pound sterling three million of
dollars ! Where was all that mon
ey to come from ?
XI.
I went trooi cay to city, address
lug Chambers of Commerce and
o.her financial bodies in England
aud the United States. Alllistened
with respect, but such was tbe gent
eral incredulity that men were slow
to subscribe. To show ray faith by
my works, I took one-fourth of tbe
whole capital myself. And so wltb
the help of a few, thenece8sary sum
was got together and the work Oe
gan. Toe year 1S57 saw the cable on
board two ships furnished by tbe
governments of England and tbe
United States, which put to sea,
but had b&rdly got more than three
hundred miles from the coast of Ire
land when tbe cable broke, and
they had to return. So ended tbe
first expedition.
The next year we tried again, and
thought we could diminish the d f
ficulty and tbe danger by begin"
ning in the middle of tbe Atlantic,
and there splicing tbe cable, when
the two ships should sail eastward
aud westward till tbey should land
the two ends of tbe opposite sbores.
XII-
This plan was carried out. Tbey
reached mid-ocean, and splicing tbe
cables together, the ships bore
away for Ireland and Newfoundland,
but had not gone a hundred mile
before the cable broke. Several
times we tried it with tbe same result-
Then a storm arose, In which
one of the ships, tbe Agamemnon
cime near foundering ; and at last
we were all glad to get safely back
again into tbe shelter of an English
port.
I went to London to attend a
meeting of the board of directors
It was not a very cbeerfal meeting
fin every face was was a look of
dispointment. Some thooght that
we bad done everything that brave
men could dc, and that now it was
time to stop. So strong was this
feeling that when tho most resolute
of us talked ot renewing tbe at
tempt, tbe vice-president rose and
left tbe room.
XIII
It was then that we took courage
Irom despair. We bad failed al
ready ; we coald do nothing worse
than fail again ! There was a pos
sibility of success ; It was Indeed a
forlorn hope, bnt we would try it.
Again the ships put to sea, but
there was little enthusiasm, for
there were few in either hemisphere
who expected anything bat a re
petition of oar former experience,
auch was the state of the public
mind when, on tbe fifth day August
lg58, it was suddenly flashed over
the country that tbe Niagra bad
reached Newfoundland, while tbe
Agamemnon had reached Ireland,
so tbat the expedition wag a com
plete success, Tbe revulsion of
feeling was ajl tbe greater from the
previous despondency, and for a tew
weeks everybody was wild with ex
citement. XIV,
Then tbe messages grew fewer
and fainter, till a. last tbey ceased
altogether. The voices of the sea
were dumb.
Then came a reaction. Many
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