Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

The Furniture consisted Of the bed, two
or three oh airs, and an old table. The
walls we're Low and the room dark. rs
there was only one window, and that
opening on u back yard where little
light could enter, az it wes inciosed by
brick walls.
lyon are very Ill., Lillian sail, after
seating herself beside the invalid.
Pray what can do for you to make
you more comfortable
ooh, l get along very we'll +; it is not
much matter about me. My poor
daughter, who is all day shut up in a
store, and then is obliged to work all
night to make me comfortable and her.
self presentable, is the one to be pit
! led. ".-,.s.s,.a .--r. ---s--s- as- '.--
81 have Just come from your daugh
ter, with the intention, il God so wills
I it, Of doing you both good"
/ "Then God has sent you. my dear
lady, in answer to my prayers! " the in
valid replied, feebly grasping Lillian.
hands.
II think He has, Mrs. Hanson ; and
here is hundred dollars l will place il
your hands, with which your daughter
can procure for you every comfort that
her loving heart can suggest. shall
call ut the store on my way home and
see that she is released from her SER
vices this very day, and then she car
be with you constantly and tomorrow
you shall be removed from this miser'
able place to more comfortable quar-,
tiers. 1 suppose you will go il send
carriage for you? There will he nc
goods to move, As the rooms to which
you will 40 will be furnished. and
hope more cheerful than your present
| quarters.
"This is too much happiness-more
! than l conld have expected !" gasped
the invalid. 1t will, perhaps. seem a
little like olden times, when had every
comfort and luxury that heart could
wish but shortly before my husband IS
death he failed in business. and L was
left to struggle along, with ill health
and three little children. two of whom
died, until I at last found myself in
poverty and at deaths door"
Here she was taken with fit of vio-
lent coughing, which resulted in a
slight hemorrhage of the lungs. These
attacks had of late been frequent, she
assured Lillian nevertheless, the latter
considered herself the cause of this
one, as, in consequence of her visit, the
poor lady had talked too much, and
become unduly excited over the pros
poets she had held forth to her. So
she ran down the rickety stairway into
the street, to order her coachman. who
was waiting. to go to the store at once
and bring Miss Hanson homo immedi-
ately, ii she ever wished to see her
mother alive.
In less than ten minutes the girl was
at her mothers bedside, the invalid
having then recovered from the attack,
except that she was still weaker than
before.
After making further arrangements
with Miss Hanson for the removal the
following day. Miss Matthews now left
for home, greatly to the coachmans re-
lief, as he apparently felt humiiiated at
being seen so long in SO poor a neigh
borhood.
He was sent, however, the next day
to the same place, to remove the sicl
lady and her daughter to furnished
cosy little cottage belonging to Mrs
Matthews, which had lately been re
lieved of tenant.
In the evening, Lillian went to see
her poor friends. and found them nice
ly settled in their new home. Mrs
Hanson was quite overcome with til
effort of moving, but looked so com
Portable in the tidy bed, and the sur.
roundings were 80 pleasant, that il
caused Lillian the greatest Joy she had
ever known to think she had been the
means of promoting their happiness.
The following week she left for the
country, after receiving promise from
Ella Hanson to write her at least twice
week, that she might be kept informed
of their condition. For a few weeks
she received hopeful accounts of Mrs
Hanson's health then fearful hem
orrhage of the lungs brought her dowr
lower than she had ever been before.
Lillian returned to the city q little
sooner than she had intended on theil
account, and was a frequent visitor a,
the cottage as long as Mrs. Hanson
lived, which was until the following
October. Then, with the falling of the
leaves, her spirit passed away. Shortly
before her death she said to Lillian, who
was sitting beside her
If l were to live hundred year.
l could never thank you sufficiently
for all you have done for me and my
dear child God heard my prayers ani
sent you to help us, and 1 will thanl
him through all eternity. And now
leave my dear Girl to you, and I know
that you will befriend her, and that sh,
will listen to your counsels and con
tinue grateful, loving friend to you
and may you both be prosperous ant
happy, continuing to try to do good, ant
striving to do the will of God in al
things"
Lilian's eyes filled with tears as she
listened to the advice of the sanity
dying woman, and, taking her wastei
hand in her own soft palm, she prom
ised to do by her protege. Ella, the sam,
as though she were the nearest of kin
After the death of Mrs. Hanson Ell,
went to Elm Place to live with Mis-
Matthews. She was but fifteen year
old, and that fall commenced fou
years course of study at W Acad
emy, At the end of TINT noriod eb<