The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-04
What She Found.

One sultry July aftGrnoon, about five
rears ago, an accident occurred on q
crowded street of Philadelphia A
wagon trying to pass basket phaeton
had wrenched the wheel off and broken
the shaft The lady who was driving was
forced to take refuge in shop until
her carriage was repaired. She would
be obliged to wait three or perhaps four
hours. She looked about with i'll con-
cealed disgust What had induced her
to make the "short CUT out of town
which brought her to such a quarterP
Mrs. c. was refined, wealthy
woman, whose ruling taste for years
had been a love of art, of the beautiful
or sublime in nature. If she had been
wrecked in one of the miserably poor
| districts of the city she would not have
| been so bored. There was always some
| thing picturesque and interesting in
poverty and crime. But she was in the
neighborhood of the great wooden
mills, and mile after mile of little
dwellings and shops stretched out about
| her-a wilderness of cheap groceries,
| cheap ready-made clothing, cheap tin
| ware. The streets were narrow as lanes,
the atmosphere hot and foul. The
room in which she sat was an eight
!by-ten drug shop; the smell of cop
| peras and ipecac heavy in the air The
| apothecary, little, old, keen-eyed
man, watched her as he worked his
| pestle.
"You do not find much to interest
yau in this street?" he said, after an
| hoursnad TTassed -
81 think never saw any place SO
drearily commonplace she said.
"And the faces of the people who pass
have but one meaning: Work for
your bread. "
The old man smiled quietly, grinding
away in silence.
Take that woman who bought q
stamp Just now''-Mrs. C con-
tinued, to relieve the monotony OF
her wearlsome waiting ''middle-aged,
neat to a fault, and half-fed; suppose
the history of her life is: Work for six
days for money that will barely KEEP
her alive five?"
That's about it! That is Anne
Scott. She makes women's skirts or
the machine at dollar q dozen. She
has been engaged to be married for fiji
teen years to John Furlong, thai
stopped -shouldered man on the Other
side of the street"
''Why don't they marry?"
"It's Johns mother, ma am. ShC
had fever and it touched her brair
and she went quite mad. 1t takes al
John makes at the loom to keep her il
private asylum. There's some mer
that would have quietly put her in The
almshouse. But Furlong'l never de
sert his mother even to marry poo
Anne Scott. He's fond of her, too
He waits at that corner half of hi
, noon-hour every day, just to see her g
t by"
, Fifteen years." said Mrs. c.
, under her breath.
"You see, the old man continued
I "Furlong's not skilled weaver. Hi
: earnings are smaller than those of tn,
other men. He is shepherd by rights
. q herder from Scotland. But h
2 landed here without dollar. An,
. what could he do in that case? Their
n are no sheep in the streets Of Philadel
i phia."
r Mrs. c. rose quickly, and wen
: to the door. The stopped, high feature
working-man and the prim little we
n man who passed each other with sue
a den tightening of the face, were NOR
9 interesting after all than any piece {
: old Satsuma or Capo di Monti. Ye
/. what prices had she not paid for these
. She followed Anne home and sper
. an hour in her solitary little room
+ Then she went to find John Furlong
Z She was eager, enthusiastic. Neve
!. had any chase for CapO di Mont /
o Europe been so exciting as this, Mrs
{ c. was a widow, the owner of
o country seat, farm and many flock;
n She wanted q trusty shepherd and
r woman who could take charge of tn
= house in her absence.
John Furlong and his wife have bee
a. established in a pretty cottage on be
II farm for four years. They have game
q a. home and happiness, but her gain
p greater. She has found higher USE
= for her life than artistic devotion to oil
: china and brio -a-brac. The heathe
h maxim for life was know myself!
+ but the Christians is "Know tt
+ brother!'' Youths Companion.