Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-25

| itv the bond of all virtues. so luxuriate, throw
out such all-embracing Jendrils, emit sucn
fragrance, ripen in to such fruit. as on the
| occasion of change of quarters. Old Doots
slightly damaged bonnets, heavy pat
tered pieces of furniture, for which
a dealer would not give sixpence; articles that
| would fetch nothing in sale, antlquateo
schoolbooks, magazines five years old. novels
that have lost their backs, games, deficient In
one or two pieces, old gloves, iron bedsteads
minus their brass knobs, and that have to be
tied together with wire; cracked dishes, snip
| ped tumblers saucepans, corroded with rust
with what lavish and lordly magnifcence we
distribute them to all who will accept such
| aims.
| And then-what a lesson does change of
| quarters teach us, to discriminate between the
worthless and the valuable; and with equanim-
| ity to endure separation from things which
have become interesting to us, but which we
| cannot remove. When the author was boy,
his life was spent in travelling on the conti-
nent; in rambles from the Pyrenees to the
plains of Hungary. from the Mediterranean to
the Baltic. and wherever he went he made
| collections of objects of curiosity. crystals,
| petrefactions, dried flowers, BUTTERFLIES, medi-
9val armor, books. Before quitting any place
of sojourn for winter, or halt for night, his
father explored every pocket ard crevice of
there secreted, on which his sons heart were
set and his pocket money had been expended.
Nothing escaped his eye, nothing melted his
heart. The author came to place bringing
nothing with him, and left it carrying nothing
with him away, all he acquired he was forced
to leave. 1t was an excellent discipline for life,
and yet hardly attained; even to this day he
finds that he clings to trifies.
| How many times since boyhood has he had to
shift quarters? and each time ne has expe-
rienced struggle and has had to surrender
some things on which his heart was fixed, but
| from which it was, perhaps, well to be free.
He recalls how one winter at Bayonne, he col.
lected every match and spill end that had been
used for lighting cigars and candles, till he had
| accumulated a trunk full. When, in spring,
the move came, his father peremptorily re-
| fused to dispatch this trunkload of scorched
paper scraps by grande or petite vitesse to
| Vienna, and they were consigned to the flames.
When he was in Yorkshire, he had collected
some prehistoric querns, stone hand-mills.
When he contracted with furniture-mover to
translate his goods to the south of England,
the man struck at the millstones, they were not
in his bond. The author had to resign them;
but his heart aches for those stones to this
day.
When a family has inhabited house for
nigh on 20 years it is Incredible what accumu-
lations have gathered round them, how every
corner, cupboard, closet, drawers, the cellar.
the attic are stuffed with articles of various
utility and Importance, or let us rather say Of
| different degrees of inutility and worthless
ness; none of which, however, can be spared
without pang. for to every one of them a
recollection clIngs
The Cusworths had been. not indeed 20 years,
but approaching that time, in the house of Mr..
Pennycomequick. Every room, the garden,
the attic, were crowded with "reminiscences,
mostly pleasant; to the ordinary eye thin veil
of SCOT took the brillianGe and sharpness off all
things in this smoke-laden part of England, but
to the girls Salome and Janet, everything was
overlaid with the gold dust of childish memo
ries Mrs. ellsworth had come to regard the
house as a quiet home in which she might
spend her declining days, without a care for
the future of her children, for Janet was pro-
vided for, and Salome would not be forgotten
But nov, with the loss of Mr.. Pennycomequick,
the prop had fallen on which the future was
reared; and suddenly she found herself in bad
health. obliged to think about her prospects,
and leave the house in quest of another home.
Mrs. Sidebottom, with the eagerness with
which some women fly to do a spiteful thing,
had taken advantage of her position to give the
widow notice to remove.
The Cusworths mad receive notice to move
within a fortnight, and it was not easy for
them to find quarters into which to go. Salome
had sought lodgings in Mergatroyd, but in vain.
There none were vacant, and she had been
obliged TO engage temporarily part of a house
in the nearest manufacturing town, house
that was called Redstone, but which was popu-
larly known only as Black hole. 1t was a low
house, surrounded by tall factories, that
crushed it into well between them, into
which no sun could penetrate, but which re-
ceived all day and night showers of condensed
SCOT. She counted herself fortunate in having
secured this, and she had already given orders
for the removal to it of some of the packing
cases filled with their goods.
The time had been one of strain to Salome,
already distressed by the loss of her best
friend, and the subsequent doubt about the
identity of the corpse recovered. Mrs. Side
bottom had gone out of her way to make her
feel uncomfortable, had said ill-natured things,
had sighted her mother, and irritated Janet to
the verge of an outbreak. She had been
obliged to exercise great self-control to disre-
gard the sneers of Mrs. Sidebottom, to screen
her mother and hold her sister in check She
had been painfully affected, moreover, by the
mistrust Philip had shown, and though he had
apologised for what he had said, the wound
dealt to her self-respect was unhealed. She
felt this blow the more because she had un-
that he had given her reason for reliance on
him, but that she had felt the need for some
one to whom to look now that Mr.. Jeremiah
Pennycomequick was removed, and she had
trusted that he would be honorable and con-
siderate in his conduct, as beloved Penny.
comequicB.
To add to her difficulties, her mother had
suddenly and unaccountably had a relapse was
seriously shaken, and in no condition to be
not come on when it might have been expected
on hearing the news of the death of the old
manufacturer. She had borne mp marvelously
under this trial; the bringing the corpse to the
house and the funeral had not materially af-
fected her. She had spoken of the necessity
she was under of leaving the house, with sor-
row, indeed, but not agitation; she had taken
some interest in the assortment and packing of
the family goods; and then, in the midst of the
preparations to depart, had been taken alarm
ingly ILL
When the funeral was over, Mrs. Sidebottom
had returned to her own house. All necessity
for her remaining in that of her deceased half
brother was gone. Nevertheless she was in
and out of the house several times during the
day.
One evening she had left after 8, having
dined there with her nephew, who had moved
into his uncle's apartments. and had enjoyed
some of her brothers best wine.
At $50 the front door was locked and chained,
and the gaslight in the hall turned down. but
not extinguished Old Mr.. Pennycomequick
had kept early hours, and the servants OBJ
served the same routine of meals and work that
had been instituted in his time, as they had re-
ceived no orders to the contrary. Now that
Philip had taken possession of his uncle's apart
ments on the first floor, and went TO the mill at
the same hours, and took his meals at the same
hours. the house seemed to have relapsed into
its old ways, out of which it had been hustled
by the advent OF Mrs. Sidebottom.
Mr.. Pennycomequick's apartments consisted
of study, with bedroom opening out of it.
The front of the house on the same floor was
taken up with a drawing room, rarely occu-
pied. A third door on the same landing ad-
mitted into the spare bedroom, in which the
corpse of the drowned man had laid till the
burial.
On the ground floor were two rooms, cor
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