Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-12-10


guess having to hold your tongue so much
up to the prison kind o. makes it run al
both ends when you get out And | beg
your pardon, Sir, for doing it. But, il
it's the same to you, I'd ruther push along
to the station; for talkin' with you sort O
makes me hate to go back again" And
capable of human tears.
'1've concluded, =" said Blythe, quietly,
Ito transport you instead =
The man jumped up. '.Why, that ain t
American law, is it?'' he cried s'Why
should | care, thought just as you say,
Sir. You've treated me fair, and don t
doubt you know the law"
'It's Gospel, if it isn't law;' said
Blythe, heartily. 'fWhat is your name,
my frlend?"
s fsJohn Brand, Sir; but the names a
brand to me now, and if I'm to he ship
ped, I'll take another, if it amt against
the law
''All right" said his sponsor: take
mine, John Blythe It's good, honest
name, and I'll trust you to keep it So
You're going to Philadelphia to a friend
1 have there in the carriage business; big
house;good wages chance to rise. I'll write
to him and tell him all about you in a
letter you take. He isnot to report to me.
If you do well, you'll be glad to let me
know it yourself. Ifyou DON'T I'd rather
not know Il 81 all I'm have No cn;es
unon Won and m trnst Won n keen f,ith
with me You'n want another snit and
ten dollars in your noclxet "a make Won
feel resnectable Sonow we,r 90 and get
fitted. and buy our ticket and take 0nr
rather damaged wares to a new MARKET y
When John Rlvthe went home that
niobt he lanphed little Ia himself ~
think how many of his investments in
wild cat humanity had broucht hack no
dividends Rnt he ALWAYS had faith in
the last one .eThe trntj is u his mother
had told the minister that morning when
she begged him to withhold her son n
little from his prodigal benevolence-
truth is that John regularly strips himself
once a month or so for some plausible
scamp. Three times this season has he
come home without waistcoat. And |
fully expect to see the day when he win
have to lie in bed to have his only shirt
washed, his opulent beggars having
pawned all the rest.'
Blythe still lived with his mother, be
cause he 1elt that no other woman would
be happy with the perpleXities which his
constant experiments in sociology entailed
on his household, and because he had
never found a woman whom he could ask
to share that poverty which might 50 easily
have been wealth had he chosen TO con
duct his moral book keeping according to
usage. In this new rogue he had
taken much stock, as he said. The man
was not only certain to reform, butt save
hundreds OF men IKE himself, whom he
would know now to reach. But after one
brief, lll-spelled, and dirty note to say
that he had found work, and friend IN
his employer, he made no sign. And
when year or two OF silence had con
WINGED even Blythe that the taint of ten
years could not be cured by an hours
kindness, ne only SAID, 'Well, poor fellow,
ought 70 nave Kept nm under my own
Eye ,;f fhere o was good gd II IN NM But sup
PC CO iiS -. %%S ~ 80 -. hD,.,
~ ens yl ? 80 S'Iis y, hiy .lie soins
ms oaiiy fouiiu Oh aHos'eltaeh ue'y'
never ufeaih'ilg tnal' ne was SAINT III
shappy VeStiheh.s' anu ohiy seeing tnat
each Gay ne let sip some chance OF he1p-
luiness Which nc might nave selzeu. his
business haa got thrlyen as ne had hopeds
Men Were q illtle shy OF such y Slulxote,
genius though ne was; ana ne was so Ger
tain to refuse cases where the right was
not clearly on ms SIDE that his ices grew
fewer year by year; 1t was hard, because
ne saw suen g6ou i sila' Hllgh. 9e zone Wltn
more. an f3n1t FEfra~@
There ~ Tina oholaro s,,,,,,oor
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pouy was reit' save lhe "retcnes VINO
coulu no. ny, anu Whose5 poverty lghor-
ance' anu art irtpreuetermiheo them Vlctlms;
py oay any " hlght' ~ tne sIews ana
beat and stenches Jobn Rlvtbe watched
and worked His nerfect bea1tb wIfich
seemed 10 Mace him bevond ner;l of in.
fection his skiIl in n,irsinr lis tender.
ness and the oriat raga Which ronSad
., 80 49, "e g,9oI .ou.o
an answeilig couIase ia .ne anrlsnteu
tors He of1en met one ".her ~ Uoi,,ntoer oo
nurse. not less invaluable than himself
the physicians said. But bevond civil
greetings they had neither time nor
fhouobf tn hestow on each other