Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 April 1894 — Page 7

A PARABLE.

"Side Siy side, within my garden, Grew a Rower a «l a weed. Ort I watclied thu flower unfolding,

To the oi her gave no heed. •So the sun smiled and the rain fell On them both aiike, and, lo! 33oon the weed's* rank growth was spreading

O'er the hidden flower below. Trifles oft do make or mar us. If to faults we give no heed, TTiiey rise up and dwarf us, spreading

Rankly as ho garden weed, Choking in their growth the nobler Instincts that our natures know, Till, like tender flowers uncared for.

They in dust are trampled low. —Minneapolis Housekeeper.

HER BURGLAR.

"Dear me, I do wish Jack would come -"home—such a Ktupid novel! The idea of that lackadaisical young woman, Ilva, •confronting a groat, burly burglar with her tiny revolver and scaring him into a clqset, and—o-h, hum, o-h, hum I'm BO sleepy!" sighed pretty Mrs. Norcross, lounging back deep into the pile of cushionB around her.

The slow, solemn ticking of the big library clock and an occasional subdued snap from the fireplace were the only sounds to disturb the profound stillness.

Mrs. Norcross sat gazing dreamily at the logs slowly falling into glowing coals «nd ashes, in her mind a vague vision of a big, brawny, heavy booted man being backed into her closet and thought she would rather object to the crushing her gowns would receive in the process. "But then, of course," following up her train of thought rather drowsily, "he wouldn't have on big boots—they would make a noise—dear me!"—out loud— "what was that?" And she suddenly sat «rect.

Surely she had heard a noise in the direction of the dining room. All was quiet again, however, and not being an extremely nervous young woman Mrs. Norcross subsided into her cushions again, thinking she had bet^i mistaken.

Still, an uneasy feeling possessed her, and she remembered that she had sent all the servants to bed, saying she would wait till Mr. Norcross should come in.

She picked up tho despised novel and read a few lines, but ifc failed to claim her attention, and again her eyes sought the dying embers.

The drowsiness stole over her senses, and she had nearly dropped asleep, when alio found herself half out of ber chair, straining every nerve to listen.

Yes, it is 110 mistake this time. She can plainly hear tho catch in one. of the long -dining room windows rattling gently.

A deadly feeling of suspense creeps-over ber, and she starts with a gasping shudder, shrinking as from a physical blow as tho (all clock softly chimes the half hour after 12.

Tho window in the dining room -is gently raised, and at the sound the trembling womaji suddenly bee^nes self possessed and culm.

Rising softly, she turns down the blaze in the (all lamp, and creeping out into the hall hastens up the broad stairs and Hies along tho corridor to her room.

On the way her quick brain has devised a course of action. The servants are all at the other end of the house, and she is virtually alone, for the burglar would surely kill her before she eoultf rouse them.

She resolves that, as there is no man on band she will herself assume man's garb and sternness.

Entering her husband's dressing room, she hastily throws aside her trailing gown, and snatching down trousers and smoking jacket from tho pegs and a soft shirt from tho dressing case proceeds to array herself in her liege lord's attire with a rapidity astonishing, considering the strangeness of the apparel.

Pulling a smoking cup over the soft masses of her hair, she tiptoes into tho ball, and leaning over the balusters hears steps in the library she had hut just left. "Oh," she thought, "1 don't feel so very brave if I am in Jack's coat. What can tho horrid creature be doing so long in the library? Hush—he's at the desk I I guess I'll get Jack's revolver. I've fired papa's any number of times."

Softly she re-enters the dressing room and there gets a terrible shock—thero Is a man advancing toward herl Can there be two of them?

Involuntarily she shrinks back in terror, and then even in her fright falls to laughlug noiselessly, for the man does likewise —in the mirror at the foot of the room.

Still trembling from her midden fright, •he creeps down stairs, gathering courage at each step as she grasps the loaded reYolver tight in her hand. Stopping on the last step, just out of the broad ligbtst reaming from the library door, she sees the tall, •ihn figure of a man busied with the papers in her husband's desk.

Half her terror dies away as she notices tliat he is well dressed and quite the gentleman In his appearance,until the thought conies to her—these gentlemanly burglars are all the more cruel and relentless—and as the man turns his head at this moment she determines in her own mind that there is ft hard, steely look in his otherwise handsome eyes.

Deciding that it would be wiser to surprise the burglar than to be surprised by bim, she steps into the circle of light and says in a deep voice: "Weil, what are you doing here, pray?"

The start the man gave was not a very guilty one, and the coolness displayed by burglar caught in the very act stirred fn. Norcross' manly mind to wrath. "Who are you?" she demanded angrily, "and what are you doing?"

The intruder took a step forward, at which Mrs. Norcross grasped the revolver more closely and said most courteously: "I beg your pardon, sir, but I would like to speak with Mrs, Norcross a moment."

Recovering from the effect of this audacity, the lady returned: "You cannot do so." "But I must," persisted the stranger. "I u»U yon you cannot. Mrs. Norcross Is not at home." "Not at home? Are yon sure?"

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am sure, and now will you oblige me by leaving my bouse"—this very grandly. "Your house?" echoed this rude man. "Mr. Norcrosa desired me to get (some papers for him, s&ud leave a message with his wife."

Will you leave?" interrupted Mrs. Nor cross, who, reasoning that an unknown man bringing a message from her husband would hardly bar© crept In by the dining room window, raised the revolver and lev ®lcd it at the burglar's breast.

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do not know who von are, hut If Mrs. Norcross is not at b«n»\ ft wl y«i **y she is not, the itrfaasm^ uun»c»»s»ry. i.-tnie air?" "Not fowl'*—rtitl in a deep wroe of TO5CC—"vou will WALK in frotit of I»e,M •aid thi* slight but courageous youth.

And *0 they proceed acros* the hall to

the vestibule door, when the unwelcome visitor let himself out, and with a cool "good night" ran down the steps and away. -*. Norcross closed the door, drew the heuyy bolt, entered the library, pulled the bell rope convulsively again and again, and then sank in a most unwomanly heap on the floor.

In a few moments several of the servants came rushing breathlessly to the library, and the first—Mrs. Norcross' own maid—gasped: "Mr. Norcross, are you ill? What is it? Oh, mercy! Are you killed? Why, it isn't Mr. Norcross! Oh, it's a burglar!" And the frightened Abagail threw herself into the arms of the butler. "Letty, you stupid! It's I—Mrs. Norcross. There was a burglar here, and I put on Mr. Norcross' clothes and scared him away. He's gone now, and I'm so frightened. I don't see where Mr. Norcross is. I do believe that horrid wretch has murdered him, oh-h!" And she subsided into a flood of tears.

In the midst of this bobel there came a violent ringing of the bell, and one of the servants admitted Mr. Norcross, who striding into the library exclaimed angrily: "What the devil does all this confusion mean, and who—confronting the disheveled but beautiful youth who had sprung to his feet—are you who presume to guard my wife's whereabouts? And where is she? What—why—Helen! You in that rig?" "Oh, Jack, Jack! I thought you'd never Come. Do send them all away, and I'll tell you all about it."

Left to themselves, Helen related, with many sobs, the events of the evening. "My dearest," began Mr. Norcross, with an odd twinkle in bis eyes when she had finished, "I hate to spoil your story, and you were certainly very brave, and such a striking man as you make, too—don't blush, my love—except that your hair has tumbled down, you look very manly!" "But that terrible burglar was my cous In, Arthur Wellerton." "Jack!" "And he is noted among the ladies as having the most beautiful, lovable and kindly gray eyes" "Oh!" "Yes. Letmeexplain. You know he has lately been taken into the firm, and.we were going over tig, books this evening. As it grew late I thought I would make a night of it and not come home, so I sent Arthur up to the house to get a file of accounts and tell you of my decision. "Well, Arthur hadn't been gone long when I discovered I had given him the wrong latch key and started after him, for I knew he couldu't get in.? "He must have been gone longer than I thought, for I met him on the way back. He told me how he got in and then hesitated. 'Jack, old boy,' he said, 'I don't know „what to think of it all nor what to tell you, but just as I was closing your desk a man—a deucedly handsome foung fellow —appeared in the door and ordered me out. I asked for your wife, and he grandly informed me that she was not at home. Never saw the" fellow before, but I kuow it was a lie, old fellow, for I swear I heard the swish of a woman's dress on the stairs as I stepped into the dining room.' "You may imagine, my dear girl, my feelings at this intelligence. Who the deuce was this handsome young fellow who made such startling assertions? 1 rushed home—and the rest you know." "Oh, Jack," cried Helen in an agony of mortification. "Jack, how can I ever look him in the face? Oh, what an idiot I am! Oh, dear, dear, dear! .lack, did he tell you about the revolver? He did? Oh" "There, there, don't cry, you little goose. Arthur will think you are the bravest little woman in the world, as I do, and he thought you were such a handsome youth." 1c was all that stupid novel. I shouldn't have been so nervous if I hadn't been reading about burglars. And, really, your cousin, or my burglar, is the handsomest man I over saw—for a blond!"—Maragret Rolfe in Boston Globe.

Icelandic Simplicity.

A young Iceland friend, going across the4 desert from Reykjavik to Akuyera, -met a man riding on a pony. Such meetings are raro in those parts, and, like ships 011 the sea, the two hailed and spoke, and this was the manner and substance of th^jr conversation: "What's your name?" "Stefan." "Whose son?" "Thornsteiusson." .. "Where are you going?' "To prison." "What for?" "Stealing a sheep." "No one taking you?" "No. The sheriff was busy, so he gave mo my papers"—the warrant for his arrest —"and sent me on by myself."

The men exchanged snuff and a kiss and parted. A week later the younger Icelander was returning by Reykjavik, and near the same spot he met the same man. "What!" he cried—"Stefan Thornsteiusson I Why, you said you were going to prison." "So I was, and I went, but they would not let me in." "Why not?" "Because I had lost my papers, and the sheriff said he could not take me without a warrant." "So they won't have you in prison?" "No." "And you are going home again?" "Yes."—London Million.

The Kin^ Meet* His Match. Henri Quatre was a lover of "les bons mots" as well as of "les honnes Allies." Halting at a village one day to get some dinner, he gave orders that whoever was reputed to be the greatest wit should be brought to amuse him during his repast. On the appearance of the rustic prodigy be commanded him to sit down on the other side of the table. "What Is your name?" inquired the king. "Sire, my name Is Gaillard." "Hah, and what is the difference between Gaillard and paillard—a lewd fellow?" "Sire," was the unexpected reply."there is only the table between them." "Ventre-sainfc-grfs!" exclaimed Henry, laughing, "he has me there, never expected to find so much wit in so little a village."—All the Year Round.

GhRppj'* Wit.

"Have you been vaccinated yet, old fellow?" said one Pittsburg chappy to another. "Not yet, desih boy." "I haven't cither, donefcer know, but I would if It wasn't faw one thing." "What Is that?'" "I cawnt decide vrhethaw to take ether or chloroform. Which is bettaw?** "Well, should think chloroform was good form. He. he! Good joke, eh?" "T^rstc'-c*. You aw a wegul&r hn mowis!, iht !"—Pitts bm^ Chronicle-Tele-graph.

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A Young Editor.

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The stamp collecting children Increase In number every year. Dealers say that they sell more and more albums every season, and the demand for their stamps is steady and growing. There is much more in it than boys and girls fancy when, because some one of their companions is a collector, they also aspire to be a collector. Many bits of history get woven in with their stamps and as a help to the study of geography their collection is invaluable. The collection of postage stamps of this country makes a small pioture gallery of famous Americans. Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Jefferson, Hamilton, Commodore Perry, Zaclmry Taylor, Lincoln and Garfield are all shown in fino vignettes on different stamps, the face of Lincoln on the red 6 cent stamp being a copy of Volk's famous bust. O11 some old and now not used stamps are the faces of Clay, Stanton and Scott, and these are especially sought after and valued from their rarity. The full set of the Columbian issue is a series of admirable views in miniature of important events in our history, and the size of the stamp, at. which business men grumble, gives the picture added beauty.—New York Herald.

A Naughty Great Dane.

TJie Great Dane dogs which Bismarck takes with him on all his walks and that are seen lying at his feet in pictures are' very gentle. They have the softest mouths in the world and will not harm any one. I11 fact, a Great Dane dog does not make the best watchman because he is so gentle. Thero area few of these noble dogs in New

York city, and they can be seen any pleasant day in Central park, playing with their young owners and surrounded by crowds of children, who find it very great fun to look at them.

One day, not long ago, a Great Dane owned by a young girl was crossing the park, when a laborer passed with a pail of beer. Instantly Bismarck, as the dog is named, ran after the man, and sticking his nos£ in the pail drank it almost dij, with two or three laps of his big tongue. The laborer was so frightened that he dropped the pail and ran. Bismarck is as tall as a Shetland pony of small size and is a sort of drab in color. He is the prettiestGreat Dane in this country.—New York Ledger^*

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Teacher (Instructing a class in astronomy)—Johnnie, where would a star be if you could not see it?

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A Great Increase In Crime and Destitution -r Due to Industrial Depression. iAdvices from Australia by the steamer Warrimoo show an alarming increase in casualties, crimes and acute distress. The police are unable to cope with desperate housebreakers, who swann in the large cities. A few that have been arrested give as an excuse that famine drove them to deeds of violence* Several of the policemen attacked by burglars at Sydney are dying. The survivors have been promoted and given bonuses by Sir George Gibbs. .'

On one day last week at Sydney, besides a score of petty robberies, the city hospital was robbed of all its valuables by nurses. Mercredie & Drew, manufacturers, were robbed ef $50,000 by employees. F. Coxon, merchant, was robbed by an employee of a large sum. Three young women succeeded in passing a number of counterfeit checks. Charles Graham, a postoffice clerk, embezzled $200 from the postoffice.

The government's claim is that the unemployed problem is too complicated to solve. In Sydney $500 each week is spent in aiding 500 families. Five thousand men in South Australia have asked the governor to call a special session of parliament to discuss means to aid them. The governor refused. Then they waited on Premier Kingston, but the premier would promise nothing. He told them that though they were in want of food they had refused to break li yards of rock per week for rations, and he could do no more. The delegation said they would not break rock for food alone.

Thousands are sleeping in the open air, and several have starved to death. At Bourke, Afghans and Europeans quarreled over a division of labor, and a bloody row occurred. The most tragic suicides out of 98 in one week, directly the result of hard times, are F. W. Wilson, the biscuit manufacturer of Brisbane, shot himself William O'Connor, lodger in the European hotel, Melbourne, jumped from the fourth story and dashed his brains out on the pavement Kate Brooks, a pretty English girl, starving, got drunk and killed herself with poison Joseph Bancroft, a miner out of work, said goodby to his family and exploded a cartridge in his mouth.—San Francisco Chronicle.

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