Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-01


.who is its' inquired the voice OF
the stranger.
alt is only l.; the lady you met a
week ago in the lake path. was wor-
ried about you, and couldn't wait any
longer to hear"
''Who is with you?'
'.No one, except the dog l always
take when 1 stray far away"
''Come in, them"
i lifted the canvas, and entered. On
a mattress, in one corner, lay the poor
fellow. On each cheek was bright
hectic spot, and his fine eyes seemed to
have gone far back into his head.
''Oh! am so sorry didn't come be
fore." were my first words, as l. knelt
beside the rude bed.
''Why did you come at all 2" he asked,
endeavoring to be gruff.
"Don't let's talk nonsense" l an
swered. ''Do you know what is the
matter with you?"
''No. / only know that whatever il
is, it means DEATH"
counted his pulse-one hundred and
fifty a minute; palms of hands fiery
hot, and respiration quick and difficult.
"You must come to the hotel at once,
and be taken care of said.
81 could not breathe at all there" he
replied.
| went to the spring, and brought
some cool water, and then bathed his
hands and face. Not a word did he
say; but the tears pressed out from be-
tween his tightly-closed lids, and his
lip quivered painfully. l gave him a
mug full to drink, and then prepared
some aconite, which he readily swal-
lowed. had selected some food at the
house fit for an invalid, and tnis he
partook of also. In an hours time the
pulse was down to hundred and ten,
breathing less difficult, and the hectic
flush almost gone.
II am better again." he said as he
raised himself on his elbows and looked
at me. "what did you do it for?''
"Never mind about answering" he
continued, as vainly cast about i'm my
mind for the right thing to say. 81
understand it; you love your fellow
creatures"
| bowed assent, for words just then
were out of the question.
''And you believe that every man
must have spark of divinity in him
somewhere"
bowed again.
''If am permitted to speak to any of
the angels. when L land on the other
side, L shall say good word for you,"
he continued, smiling for the first time.
81 shall tell them how the tender pity
in your eyes threw CLEAN of light into
my callous soul, and helped me to see
some goodness and purity in this world
helped me to throw myself into the
arms of my God and ask Him to have
upon me-"
"What must this man have endured"
| asked myself, "when he is 80 grateful
for little kindness?"
"Please don't cry" he went on. 81
want to tell you something about my
self. Would YOU like to hear it?'
~ should"
81 am going to tell you, because |
want YOU to hold fast to your belief in
the inherently manly or divine. The
person in whom this belief is certainty
can be of great service In this poor suf-
fering world. For l tell you, my dear
come but the weapon of love. You
you can help them, and in order to love
that which is unlovely you must have
this faith in the divinity of every man
and every woman. This theory l have
held for many years; the knowledge of
its truth never fully understood till
week ago: then the sum added up right;
to-day proved it. Fifteen years ago L
met with a great disappointment. The
woman i loved, the woman L had mar
ried, deserted me for another. She left
me one night as slept, without word
Of warming, without our having had a
single moments unpleasantness. l be-
lieved she loved me as devotedly as l
lid her. When Iawoke in the morning
had no wife, and it was not ull many
weeks after that | discovered she had
fed with her paramour. Upto that day
| had never touched intoxicating liquor,
never had contracted a single vice.
From that morning when / found my
self alone / was changed man.
turned squarely round. 1 drank, gam
bled, lost my property, stole, lied, and
cursed the God who made me, and al
most the mother who bore me. The
guilty woman let go-her lover also.
!
cursed circumstances. l became at last
10 low and reckless that joined gang
If burglars i'm New York city, and when
hey robbed at night and carOused by
lay, | had no fear, because at any time
/ stray shot would have been welcome.
| had no conscience. By man l had
been robbed. would revenge myself
Dy robbing i'm return. Their wives /
lid not want-their property L cared
little for. for many time i'm my fits of
rags have l destroyed in
he morning that which we took night
% steal. You do not shrink away-you
10 not despise me after hearing all
his,'
81 am so SORRY" could only answer.
''If only some one had been then
sorry :" he went on. 81 did not know
hen that God was sorry. Ii there was
/ God which / very much doubted, He
vas mad, enraged against me, and that
dea only drove me deeper into sin.
)ne night the gang to which l belonged
iad made arrangements to rob the
house of very wealthy man uptown,
N New York. This family consisted
# gentleman and his wife and three
tTNdlll-N otiltii. nt sicpt
N the stable at the lower end of the lot.
rhe master of the house was unable to
cave his bed; the lady delicate, timid
.reature who would be easily overcome
f she attempted any resistance to our
demands. At one O'Clock in the MORN
ng three of us had effected an entrance
~ the back basement window. There
vas nothing below to tempt us. The
pack parlor was used as a dining-room,
md on this floor we halted. The silver
lad all been taken upstairs except
leavy napkin-ring, which L was the
irst one to seize. An unexplainable
curiosity led me to examine the inscrip-
ion. There was but one word-'Lizzie'
and that name was the name of my
wife. That moment l was seized with
IN uncomfortable fit of trembling which
tried in vain to hide.
..sWhat is the matter with you!
yrowled one of my companions. You
int going to take the back track are
you?'
81 laughed it off, but put the napkin
ing in my pocket / could not, and fin
lily put it back where l found it, with