Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-08
HoUu Jimm g
Found a Prize
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

ONE member Of the household now
always calls him Japhet, In mem
Ofy uf the old hero Of Marryat's old
but ever new story 81 the boy who
went looking for his father. The lit
tie fellow was baptized James and he
was his mothers hearts joy As he
was but five years old, Jimmie went
better than james, and goes bet
ter to-day, because he Is less than y
months to the better in point of years
than when be was five.
Jimmie's father had been dead for
three years. Jimmie didn't remember
him and Jimmie's mother felt no par
ticular sorrow over the fact. Seven
or eight years ago Ellen Deane had
thought there was no one from pole
10 pole and around again like Edward
Talbot. She subsequently became Mrs.
Edward Talbot and then she found that
her idol was not made out Of clay, but
out of the veriest mud. Clay is clean.
Talbot wasn't. When he died, after
they had been married three years, she
wore her widows weeds dutifully, but
they didn't cover streaming eyes, nor
an aching heart, but that wasn't Ellen's
fault. There are some men who by
their actions can kill love, and when
Sardou wrote Daniel Rochat,' he
knew what he was writing about, crit
les 10 the contrary Notwithstanding.
PERHAPS Il was with something like
a sigh that Ellen Talbot thought OF
the old DAYS and wondered why i was
that girls didn't always choose right.
There had been another who wanted
her. and whom she knew was worthy
But she had said no.
Things were going hard in the Tai
bot household Ellen's little money
had dwindled away 20 nothing. She and
little Jimmie lived in two rooms, and II
didn't need the keen eye Of a district
visitor to tell that Poverty was guest
and that Perjury had his hand raised
to rap at the door. Jimmie was Ola
enough 20 notice that his mother did
not eat as much as formerly. II was
with a smiling-a very smiling state
ment that she wasn't hungry that she
transferred things from her own plate
"a Jimmies. Jimmie knew that his
mother had something the matter with
her arm and wasn't working as she
used 70. He also knew that the man in
the gray clothes who carried a bag
around and handed letters TO people
never brought anything to their door
Ue had asked one Of the boys down
stairs one day who sent these things
thar the man brought around, and was
told that it was grandfathers, grand
mothers. auntS and uncles. Jimmie
had never heard 81 this kind Of people,
/ and had he been a little older and q
little wiser. he would have known that
his mother never wrote any letters
and for that very reason did not get
any herself.
One day Jimmie found his mother
CRYING. She gathered him MP in her
orr,s and kissed him. She was look
mo- very white and i'll. Just before
this Jimmie had heard man talk
irg NJ the door who had said some
ching about "must have his money.
and somehow he traced connection
between his mothers tears and the
pruff tone at the door.
mamma" he said. lis money the
same thing as a price,"
"sometimes. my dear" she replied
"Well." said Jimmie. you want
money and I'll get it for you, be
cause the boys downstairs told me
how 10 get a prize"
She kissed him tenderly and le'
him slip out the door TO play with
tbe tots below in the area without
having much heed TO his Pratti'
ahout prizes and money. Jimmie
cached the Killed and pinaforec
aatbering below, and, addressing on'
,nernber said: Freddy. how many
AZ Won have to see before you fnc
a prize? III a.,d Won
cot TO cross your finger each time
YOU see one. IL,
eAu right" said Jimmie, and with
that he toddled out through the aroh
wav into the street bent on hnaine
~, xrhite horses, after seeing tn'