The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-18
A CHANGE IN FORTUNE.

Crabhe's big retail dry goods store. was
stealth:ly eating his lunch in dusty cor.
ner amongst some empty packin z-boxes,
II Was not very good lunch, and warm
IS the day was, i'e had but one glass OF
lce-water with it.
very mild, pleasant-looking fellow
was Timothy Bloom, with eyes like a
pretty girls and fair hair parted down
the middle; but he was rather doleful at
this moment, for Crabbe, senior, had
just been abusing him for permitting q
lady who WAS not to be suited by mortal
salesman to get off without buying any.
thing, and had likewise informed him
that he had been five seconds late that
morning and would in CONSEQUENCE "be
deducted an eighth on Saturday even.
Ing.
That was not pleasant, and Mr..
Crab6e's tnannr was not pleasant. and
the dusty corner and tho stale sand.
wlch were not pleasant. And who can
wonder that poor Timothy Bloom Look.
ing up at 70" Of decorated corset box
es above his head, and taking his idea
from the winged infant pictured upon
them, remarked under his breath:
Il wish l was a cherub."
At this moment, even as the wish
tl'1ttertd up to the rset boxes, a little
boy, about three feet high, bearing on
his TO ON a btdse with the enormous
number 1850, came round the corner.
and fixed his pathetic eyes on Mr..
Blooms g lass OF water.
say, Mr.. B!oo'n,' he whispered
pa'hetlcaI;y, "won't you give inc jus, a
mouth'ul OF that water? Mr.. Crabbe
says us c:,shes aint to have no drinks.
end I'm choking"
Mr.. Bloom smiled pitifllily at the child
a ioriorn Widows bread-winner. and
said mildly as he held out the glass:
"llerr, johnny, take half. Ia let
you have 1t all if we We're not limited to
c%ie glass ourselves"
Gu, 50 waters gettin' dear" said
Johnny, eagerly swallowing the share
allowed OF the cooling drauyht, bnt
sc'u'u ousIy careful not to exceed the
permission.
"rhank'ec. You're brick. Mr..
Buinpr mt lie q lick hen asked him.
Here, have the evening paper. A Gus
toner left it on the desk. Save it for
Inc to take TO mar when | 80 home to-
nlgtt. She likes to read tn; murders,
them tlll,1--'
Cash lic!'," shrieked female voice.
"Cust,! Cash"
Its Miss Fri ole. must co." whis-
pertd JO.inev, and $ ,eu away in terror.
Tia rr were ten caSI, boys in the store
and they ha't been numbered hiy h SO
US to sound we'll
Mr. GI' ON prercl round the corner
at lie clock, saw he had ten minutes
more 10 h uisc!t an,i opened the paper.
The tirsl 'hlnG h. eye yhteu' upon was
the adv, rii.rn..n, f. fine COUNTRY seat
for ele, and he read it tnrou ,ll-lhe de-
ser pt'"n oi the stanc~, barns, bath-tubs
cons rvutorv, ve;auu;,. lawn ard kitchen
garH'nS; the Wei, HE ,!lrd hail ard
1rcsc"v.i ceilings, Is tn ',lgh he int .nued
to buy 1t for himself t. at afternoon.
Then he cast his eve, on IN accOunt
Of how Mr.. Mullen had beaten Mrs.
Mullen, and had been arre5tc for so
Ing 4 paragraph to the effect
that the heirs Of Timothy Bloom
OF Lancaster, t,n.'anl, if living, might
hear something o ! heir alvantag: by
appl>ln4 10 Jones & Jni,nson,-Stre.t It.
"My name, thought Mr.. Bloom at
first. Then, Aith a START, he remembered
that lie had heard tina his grandfather
Was banned Timothy. Certainly. he came
from Lancaster, E".and. His father
David bI'nl,, hat uten an on SON. lie
was an only son himself, Well, then
he was T'nctpy Bio ms heir, lift should
pr we that the Timothy Bloom men.
toned was really his grandiather's
Maine.
But, oh pshaw!' said Mr.. Bloom
This sort of thing couldn't happen t.
me. It's some other TIM thy, not ,.ool
Old grandfather" And he copied the ad
dress Or Jones 4 johnson into his po,ke
book, and went back to his c)uuter quite
calmly, th,uIu he wrote u Jones 4 John
son that night.
However. wonder. will never cease
Whep Tim Bloom, the mcekest of al
young men, went home that Satur,a,
evening with a ''Lrdrc salary and =;
s:oldlny, he found Mr.. johnson hiu>el
in The boarding. hou>.. parlor and ON ex
animation Of the family bible in his pos
session, aud a certain bundle OF yellow
letters il:at Mr.. Bloom had more thar
tuuattlv Spared, settled the III tier. Hal
million Of money had come to him IL
tn regular course Of nature, and he
VAS rlcler, not only than Mr. Crabbe
but than any Of his most fashionable Gus
toners.
1t Was wonderful surprise to little
Tom 3 DOM. ara he scar ely grtsDeh
the idea at first. Even after he bad toll
his chief c'''lti'ian1. his .;,'illauy's pretty
grandpa ghtrr, Mehitablc White.
pink checked, capa ,le dalnsel, callet
llrt'y for shor'-le only went SO far a
to think Of a pair OF patent leather boot
and g d a'nvnd cravat pin.
Heity walked him toa full realizatio,
OF his changed condition by saying rath
or ser ously, and looking away from
him:
"Of course. gran !na's won't suit you
any longer, Mr.. Bloom and you'll neve
have 20 60 back TO Crabbe {: Co.'S again
CRY George? | never thought o. it; SC
shan't," said lin Bloom. mo more
counter jumping for me; and if Mrs
White will let me hire the back paro r
IN take th't. Go away? Not l."
Not yet; it's too soon" said Hetty t.
herse.f; INT he'll 20 as soon as he Quit
understands"
"Let me congratulate you, my dear
Mr.. Bloom, SAID Mr.. Crabbe, bowling
as he p,r;td from the departing clerk
as he did to carriage customers at tn
very store door. Il said to my daugll
ter Belinda the other day, if it We're no
for giving often e to others l should as
Mr.. Blo,,n to our little evenings. Some
thing Of the prince in Disguise ab III
him, bnt an emp over has his duties
They sometimes make his heart ache
but he u'lst perform them
Mr. Bloom remembered the p!acart
over the water cooler: "C,shes not al
low d iriukS;' "a cash vino drinks de
Quoted Que half" and thought that
MIR era Zoe really had I. heart this mus
b. true.
Tim Bloom was 'ich man; bnt ~
he had no rich friends as vet. Tn
Clerks at Crab C & co.'s ha been al
ways GU rrrlny among themselves, an
h. had ,.r1 kn ,wn ul,t. ia private.
The boaruers were not 'sociable.
He treated them to ice cream severa
times, AMI took Hetty White TO a con
cert or two
He improved his mind in libraries an
museum, and set uoa bookcase Of hi
own, into which he put miscellaneot1
asSs'r, ''.,t @ v,ln ieS WIN II one di,
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