Show ic intellect in raam A gay and brilliant chrono throng were assembled in tile the city of washington congress COD Con 0 giess 1 was wag in session and the hotels crowded with strangers sti angers it was avas an evening party the brilliantly lighted rooms were filled with youth and beauty seated near one of the doors were two young ladies busily on engaged aged ill in conversing together the older elder of the two suddenly exclaimed oil oh marian have you seen mr hamilton the new member from W V t no but I 1 have heard a 0 great deal about him 1101 01 1 I want to see sec him so badly mrs N is going to introduce him to us its I 1 wish she would make haste I 1 have no patience dont speak so louise I 1 wish you would not be so trifling said marian A singular smile played around the mouth month of the tall handsome gentl gentleman eman who was standing near the gills as lie he passed them he scanned them very closely in a choit time mrs N came up with mr hamilton tile new member and presented him to miss gardner and miss hayes As they were conversing to together ether mr hamilton said ladies we have met before but louise and madan declared their i ignorance norance of tile fact it lias has been long years sine since yet I 1 have lave not forgotten it nor a single seji tence uttered during 0 that arc meeting tg 1 I will quote one that may recall it to your memory the rich and the poor meet to ether I 1 and the lord is tile maker of ail U the rich blood tinged tile chace ks s of marian but louise still dec herself ignorant as before mr hamilton then glanced for a moment at marian and turning to louise lie said 4 long years ago a little boy rab ragged and bilty seated himself upon the steps ofa of a stately mansion in fifth avenue and was there busily engaged in ili trying 0 to lead from a bit of paper when his attention was attracted by two little girls richly di diessel essed the eldest of tile the two attract ed him for she was as ar ben beautiful dutiful as an ail angel but as they came near to him she lifted up ker head bead and exclaimed boy what are you doi ng here the boy answered that lie he was trying to read the child of affluence dei aided him and said she had heard beard of intellect in rags rags 0 and lie he was tile the very personification of it her companions answer was that the rich and poor meet together and the loid is tho the maker of them all the elder girl drove the boy away from tile the steps but the younger one took him into lie her d dwelling welling arid and warmed and fed him there when they parted the little girl I 1 said you must not for forget il ot marian hayes and miss ilayev lie lias has not forgotten her that rag ragged raged ed dirty boy is now before you ladies as a member of congress and allow me miss aliss gardner to tender my thanks to you for the kind treatment of that boy overwhelmed with contusion confusion louise knew not what io say or do in pity for her mr hamilton rose and turning to marian said 1 I will see y you oil again miss hayes and he left them louise would not stay in the city where she daily mot with mr daniil ton and in in a few days returned to new boik yoi k leaving 0 malian with tho consciousness of cavino having done nochim nothing to bo be ashamed of and enjoying C tile the society C of distinguished 11 con congressmen gressmen marian and mr ceic walking together one devellin evening gy when tho iho latter drew from his hi s bosom an old and well wol woin 11 aad a nd handed it to I 1 mabian nial ian from this lie he said tile the man manalio who is is so distinguished here gi gist first st learned to i ead cad do you yon reco recognize the bouk book tl marian trembled and did not baiso her eyes when sho she saw tile the well te tc book mr hamilton took her hand and said marian jimmy has never forgotten you since that day you were ivere so kind to him and gave him this book his life had one cicat teat aim and that was to attain to t gLe greatness atness and in after years to meet that ministering angel who was the sweetener of my m y days of poverty when I 1 left your house with this book I 1 returned to my humble lim home ne ten bitnes happier and went to to read my M y mother was an invalid I 1 and ere long I 1 learned well enough to read to her 1 when my mv mother died I 1 found good friends an and was adopted by a gentleman in NV As his ibon on I 1 have been educated A year ago lie ho died and left his propel ty to me inc of all the pleasing memories of my boyhood tin this s one connected with you is id the dearest I 1 have k kept CP t this primer next to my iny heart Bart and I 1 dwelt upon tile hope of gain again meeting the giver I 1 have ha met her ber I 1 see all that my imagination im no agi nation n pictured and I 1 as ask if thu tho dear d ear hand that gayo gave it cannot be mino to bever 11 louise felt dooper deeper do oper 0 grief than over ever when marian harian told her silo she was to become the wife of mr hamilton thu tho poor boy whom she once spurned from froin the alie door and derisively called intellect in ra rags 0 8 11 B but u t she learned a severe lesson and one that cleall changed 0 ed the aholo current of her life for fora a while sho shunned mr hamilton 5 but by perse velilla vei ig b kindi kindness jess jis bli made her feel calv easy in ill his pie presence sence and aho is now tile aa acknowledged friend of the congressman and liis his wile wife years have passed since then and louise is ia training 0 up a family of little ones but she is teaching thein not to despise intellect in rags but to bo be guided by mabians malians Mui Ma ians lians text the 1 rich and poor meet together and the lord is tile the maker of 61 them acm all 11 |