The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-06-21

slant the door opened TO admit one whom
heb ID not anticipated meeting then and
and there.
''Ah, Mr.. Merle" he articulated. With
extreme politeness. "This 10 indeed :
SURPRISE"
"A mutual surprise" Robert amended,
psctsd . Wilt from a, YOU. "' na1o'y ex-
"Your wife" he stsmmered n .v,n
confusion. - "'
"With mamma's approval. Mr. Ma+,A
and I were married tho dav I ieft hone .S !,
Kate explained, civilly.
"Ahl then I have only come tn con.
graduate you" he succeeded in seyin9.
even az he recoile1 discounted before
the contemptu0us scrutiny Of Kate's
handsome young husband.
But ne had no desire to prolong 10
dnsatasfactory an interview, and he
departed.
"Be comforted, my dearest" Robert
enjoined her when the guest had gone.
II have f0reseen this day of trouble for
your father and :providentially I have
been given means to help. Would Won
care to be back in the old home. Kafa7"
Would she care7 Had che not lonRed
every hour for months to behold ina
dear old place? and the beloved familiar
faces7
And while the train that bore her
homeward was rafting across the white.
winter world, her parents were making
ready 70 leave tho house whore they had
lived al the years Of their welded life.
Everything had been sold. The omin-
Gus red dag yet waved over theientrance,
aoout which was melancholy, sugges-
tive litter.
Inside, in the only apartment safe
from intrusion, lay tho unfortunate man,
sumclently cOnvalescent 70 realize that
oil his gains had been taken from him,
and still weak enough to hold valueless
the Lite that had been regiven him.
I'VE are not 30 old. Peter-you and I,
that We need fear beginning lite anew"
MS ..H vie lovingly reminded him.
"B1t what win give me back my
child?' he asked, fretfully. "What viii
restore to me her affection, lust ~ fond
and just ~ trusting az it was before I
drove her from her home by my sever
ity?"
"Our Kate will never reproach Won.
Peter" was the soft reply. "And ali il
we'll with her. 1 have hidden some.
thing from you, dear-something that
once would have angered you, but that
now may, Comfort you instead"
Just then carriage rumbled 10 the
door: The purchaser of tho property,
that had been bought by proxy, had ar
nved, and directly was admitted to the
room.
But the sick man was greatly perplex-
cd when he beheld Robert Merle stand
ing before him.
"A little legacy, not altogether unex-
pected, came to me just in time," ex-
planned the generous young gentleman,
and | bought the old place a. gift for
And then, like bright spirit, Kate
Rlided in and dropped on her knees be-
side her fathers couch.
20. papa, forgive me-" she cried, with
her sweet face pressed upon the yearn-
ing hands that clasped her quickly.
"Forgive you, dear child?" calculated
the father, like one amazed. 1T is I
should beg to be forgiven. But scarce
" understand what it all means. Does
it mean that you and mamma and Rob-
ert were all leagued against me?'
II am afraid &c." was tho rougish con-
fession. "But Robert had little secret
of bis own, though" she added, with q
happy glance toward her manly hus-
band. HE kept me quite in the dark
about bis legacy and his purchase OF the
old place until he had brought me here
that shall still be yours. papa"
A PAIR OF Shoes in Twenty Min.
From the Boston Globe.
Eight hours consumed in making q
pair Of boots or shoes when working
for record would be considered ter.
ribly slow time in Lynn. Twenty min.
utes is the best time on record. In
1880 Charles Stewart Parnell visited
Lynn, and while there he was shown
about the city by Mayor Sanderson and
three or four other gentleman. Tho
party visited the shoe mandatory OF
c. s. Sweetser, & Co., and tue proprie-
tors decide ed to show Mr.. Parnell how
quick pair Of boots might be made. It
was decided to make q pair of wom-
ems grain polish and the work COM
menced, MI. Parnell closely watching
every movement. He saw the stock for
the uppers and the top Innings cut out.
the eyeleting done and the passing OF
the uppers from one stitcher to an0th-
or; he saw the sole leather died out
for the bottoms, and the stock fitted.
Up to this time the uppers and bot
toms had been kept separate. The
next he saw was the two parts come to-
EfSs t%e III the %GSsrs lasted to the bottoms.
eoles by u Mckay stitcher, and in rap
id succession followed the work of beat
ing out, trimming and setting The edges,
mailing on the heels. shaving and I'm
iehing the same, buffing the bottoms and
channeling. Mr.. Parnell then took the
boots, which had been manufactured in
just twenty minutes before his own eyes,
and carried them with him to England.
These boots in process of manufacture,
passed through no less than thirty
hands, and the work was perfect.
Religious Cranks,
Last Sunday man and his wife NAM