Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13

Why should he not? After all, was not
| Countess human being like himself? Tha
she was the wife of Conservative lord wa
an accident for which she could not b,
held accountable. And so Barzilla
made a careful toilet in his Sab
bath black, and departed in q cab. But he
had the tact to dismiss the cabman mile
| from the castle. Thither he walked alone, on
the end of his toes, with his trousers turned
up, looking askance at everyone he met in the
| lanes. Once inside the park gates, he
busted himself nicely from head to toe with
his dark-blue silk pocket handkerchief, took
a sprig of red geranium from paper bag,
/ set in his buttonhole, and approached the
| grandiose portico of the castle.
That night there was a meeting of the
labor candidates committee, but Mr.. Jug
gins, for some explained reason, did not at
tend it.
y
Mrs. Scarth, whose husband was the Sec-
retary of the Corporate Society of Walls
end Nailmakers a powerful body, repre-.
senting 124 votes, was frightened almost
out of her seven senses the next day by the
sudden apparition of stranger, leading by
the hand her much-loved firstborn son.
Reuben, howling furiously
care you Mrs. Scarth2 This is the house,
my dear little lad, is it MT? Don't cry so, I"
said the stranger, all in q breath.
''Please to step. inside, SIR" said the
nailmakers secretary's wife, when she had
scanned her offspring with a mothers re-
garding eye, and found him sound of limb.
'It was in this way, Mrs. Scarth. was
walking into Wallsend to see nv friend,
Mr.. Parchment, the attorney, when heard
horrible wall from among the pit-banks.
Without an instant's hesitation, L left
the road and clambered over the
rubbish heaps in the direction of
the cry. Now, be composed, there's dear
woman, though 1 feel it will give you
shock What did see but tall, dark man,
with forbidding countenance, STOPPING
into an abandoned pit-shaft, and holding
something over the abyss. The something
proved to be this little boy, and it was his
pair of little feet that 1 saw Never mind
how rescued him. The man must have
been deranged; at any rate, he has made
himself scarce"
Mrs: Scarth snatched her darling to her
heart, and sobbed audibly. "He was going
to his school, the preciousi like the other
lads. God bless you, sir p'
The stranger stayed with the poor woman
longer than seemed necessary. At parting
she took his proffered hand in the most
cordial manner.
81 shall never forget you, sir-never,"
she said; ''and will certainly do the best
can with him.
"a thousand thanks 1 am more than
proud that L have been able to do you
service"
That afternoon Mrs. Scarth and her hus-
band had a strenuous palaver. At first Mr.
Scarth was obdurate as marble. But his
wife used certain discreet conjugal menaces
which at length had the desired effect. and
in the end the nailmakers' representative
gave way.
AT the committee meeting of the labor
candidate that night neither Mr.. Scarth nor
MI. Jnggins appeared
Mr.. Robinson .acted as the mouthpiece
and mind Of a number of colliers who were
glad to be relieved of the trouble of think
ing for themselves. He was an exemplary
young man, who wore spectacles, read Mr.,
Smiles self Help" in bee, and thoroughly
believed that it was the duty of every man
to advance himself in the eyes of the world
by any means whatever-of course, assum-
ing that the means were lawful He at
tended a variety of improving classes in the
Free Library, and had written excellent ex-
papers on mathematics, English
literature, French, Latin, chemistry, and
modern philosophy. He also played the
violin, aGd could recite his own poetry with
beautiful effect By some he was reckoned
the most accomplished person in Wallsend;