| Show THE STURT this is ji strange worrill and yet I 1 never bought so until my attention was called to tho fact bv a incident dial befell nio one day nal set me of thinking so haul chit 1 seemed to grow out of my own ecail ami reach i great height ara then look down on iny other scalf wih compassion I 1 dont know that it made me anny wiser but at least ja inadomi moro my fellow beings more thoughtful of their joys and sorrows an J that county for something I 1 and cried dozens of pawnbrokers pawn brokers f alas in my kiino and thought about them unless itkis tant old two to one or G and take were doubling their and making a pretty penny even with ten per cent coin in iiron bakon on but I 1 biad never thought of the story with anny ono article of alio llio ilo of tho heartaches and despair and comans womans tears it was but a joke to me who had known tho time to spoilt a halcli or pistol or some light trinket in order to carry on 1 frolic or help chap than I 1 was was but the impulse of alio moment and carried further weight than tho relief from empty pockets at the moment but as I 1 havo said before something think and ever since I 1 haven i the same heart to cry away the goods of the poor creatures that want and misery lud driven into old two to ones clutches the city of B s a splendid market for our business the trade dono by one house alono would discount anny banking commission or other business in the place and by the samo token the pawnbrokers pawn brokers equal us in power and profit and give us some of our biggest sales an old lot came into the wareroom war croom aim adny consigned to us by clutched chem A keep a shrewd linn of now beginners and as it fell to assort and label tho good it anus also fell to my fate to havo a part in tho following atory the consignment consisted mainly of lass and silverware pictures anil bronc 09 A keep were rather first class in their business awl did notch condescend to family bibles but in the lot I 1 came across a few pieces of furniture which attracted my attention from tho fact of our having an order from a western to pick up nil alic antiques ami oddities for a anck a brack linn here were about a dozen specimens of claw leg stick back and otherwise uncomfortable household in ho shape of chairs dressing gans es igind cabinets and I 1 nt 1 them sold that they might not gut into act days sale but bo forwarded at to our western lionso one article alone I 1 noticed attention enough to remember afterward anil then only because I 1 struck my hand roughly against it and alio pain made mo stare hard nt tho cau of it it was an old cedar cabinet brais boand and clamped but rusty and forlorn looking in its changed fortunes I 1 labeled it as I 1 thought for our next days sale as there were two others to go west and the ciomo market was then going as crazy for everything old but parents and friends as cither tho west or north but discovered my mistake our saturday sale was a bi me tho rival on alie corner haan hadn t n chance against us that day and by noon every article put up was bid and quick the crowd biad begun to thin and I 1 aas busily mopping my wet ficco with a arch handkerchief for it is warm I 1 can tell you to cry lucli from ten to one when a lady came back in the store I 1 was aland nic eagerly aru yon the proprietor sir she asked with nervous hast and I 1 saw bhe was trembling 1 I am the auctioneer madam I 1 said wondering what was wrong 1 I will call the birin if you wish she looked around timidly but cagar 1 perhaps you can attend to my business I 1 I 1 do not understand these matters acry well rho answered and then I 1 saw sho was poorly clad although well bred and timid I 1 drew an old chair up into the corner and asked her to bit down and as she did so gratefully poor little woman I 1 boyk u good look at her she was still young and pretty behind her hung a long mirror it hod grown dim hanging and had a misty shadow over it and in tho two angles of alio corner stood a faded old japanese and n tall of drawers tho blore was now empty and abo light was leaving it as the sun was creeping away from the doorsill and mounting up to the roof as if he had only waited for the sale to bo over alio lady had a face that touched mo at once sho was pale and timid but tharo was that in her face that mido roe take off my hat while I 1 talked to her I 1 dont know how to express it but it was us if I 1 sl in the presence of boath anillio natural reverence great mystery my respect ahat cani do for you madam I 1 aked she had been looking au around her is if seeking you kall alio goods do you not she said eagerly yes madam you would know tho articles sent here probably she looked about bior again and alio color camo and went in her faco oula t have just ionio from Clutch cm keep N no agan in hurried tones as ashamed of her know lodo alicy biad some bilings alvas forced sho for a moment lien looked up at mo with a fadul smile you hear this said so often that I 1 will only weary you somehow or other it seemed to me I 1 had only then understood the possibility of a bicart sorrow acin attached to the exchange of goods such ay I 1 had that day 0 B J sold 1 I am anxious to liola u madam and I 1 wast I 1 believe I 1 was rowin too for it seemed to me naif a hotly ho pacan crossing and that alim mirror and ilio old screen shook as if biehs or sobs were coming from it thank you I 1 am looking for n said the lady gently which was among the articles I 1 parted with to keep and am told it was sent hero for I 1 H ish to re ileum it any price alic stopped suddenly aa alic SAW my faco chango A cedar cabino tl I 1 it at once tho hurt on maliand recalled it also that it had for that days sale frightened at my hesitation do not say that it is cone sho ceicil rising and grasping my arm 0 bod would not so alllice me look look everywhere for it I 1 beg I 1 you iler hands shook 0 o on my arm hint I 1 could fed 10 lo of her iliin lingers 1 tracil to think to whom I 1 li nl sold a cabinet thai day then it hashed upon mo that loiero had not bacu ono in alio catalogue hail I 1 mailo a mistake ami sent it west with the bric a braclet if 0 o it could bo recovered I 1 felt glad for my error but the poor little woman mistook my alenco abid broke down completely sobbing so pitifully eliat I 1 knew then tant komu great cause was hidden beneath her disiro to reclaim the old cabinet it is moio tonic than lifo or sho cried out passionately looking straight before bior it means my honor listen ami will be by my great iccil to find aliis cabinet for me I 1 believe it contains the certificate of my marriage and my children s baptism without which I 1 cannot lay claim to my hu abuid s in france it is not the money I 1 want jhc addad willi proud spirit 1 I cannot bear to touch that but my children shall not bo robbed of the right to their fathers name she paused to look at me I 1 felt as if i severe tension upon her nerves had riven way at last anil crushed by her fear of the cabinet being louto her her silence and reserve had broken down and then she appealed to me unconsciously ly in her need tho shadowy pageant passed to and fro across alic mirror anil as alio went on passionately with seemed to me I 1 saw the whole sail episode kiiss in review on alio dim surface fifteen years ago my husband deserted inc evil influence led him astray aal for my chi dran s sake I 1 would ano pardoned liim I 1 never saw him agi inor aicard one word of him until I 1 learned through lie paper that lie was dead ami had left an estado to his difo and children I 1 could not grieve except that lie biad daid in hii hi i bin by iiii I 1 was poor for he left mo only the furniture and leavo toiled all these years to my children so for their I 1 applied to a lawyer to iii possession of the estate 0 alic shame the despair of finding another claimant in franco to my childrens name and honor 1 I prove our claim as wife and baid the careful french lawyer by alic production of alio mur riago and baptismal anil I 1 knew not where they were the was dead and alic witnesses gone I 1 know not where 1 I felt as if my c lidd dis honored my children anil for days could get no relict from my horrible anxiety until liy a hash as it from heaven I 1 remembered eliat I 1 biad placed alic with some oilier papers in llie old cabinet that I 1 hail parted with to keep I 1 went to them they had sent it here for sale ami now you alic broke idowu with a moan of aca pair it was more than I 1 could stand clial cry and pitiful atory forced me into action at once Y ou arball leavo back the cabinet mad iiii I 1 said solemnly as if devoting my life to its search U bir will do a noble deed it ou but lind it for me bac cried gratefully looking at me with beaming eyes alic five looked tu mo a if a halo camu over it and I 1 dimly felt why I 1 stood bare headed before her truly I 1 had albod in deaths presence tho death of liopo and lore in aliis poor comans womans life alio requiem of gladness und impulse she left me with i hopeful smile taking my hand with a pretty grace and I 1 watched glicr in alic efnor go down the shadowy room into alie sunlight of tho street aind alio shadows to fall from her forever I 1 telegraphed larm they hail the cabinet and ic turned it at once fro that beffie many diya d iya alio little nervous ringers were yc arching in alio presence of tho lawyer and myself for the precious papers alic found them I 1 shall never forget her faco when sho held them up tiiu halo wa was s as she said so softly thank god and it seems to cling to and to make mo think how much misery our evil passions can work through selfishness and miss fannio mills of sandusky 0 is not an overly big woman but bhe had a great foot on her one of glicr bohocs now on exhibition in a miK tum is seventeen inches long seven inches wide eighteen inches around the ankle and twenty two inches around the heel cleveland liwer liw dr an english cotton operator fall hirer recently iid ho would rath cr have tho value of aho waste from ahr cotton mula chaa their profit one 0 them alone liguras their a ivul loss cl boston journal |
