Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-22

at pin. never was took SO suddin
in all my life"
81 wonder you didn't have your
dinner in the Carlton Hotel, Sarah"
$50 would "a done If I'd hev
he'd time ter chinge me dress. You
orter know, Dock, as no Idly ever
goes inter them plices in wot she's
bin wearin' afore she cleaned her
| self 'ad ter go ter Marlborough
| 'Ouse ter tell the Prince of Wales
and that's wot kept me-
| Better luck next time. Sarah. So
1T only ran to fourpenny between
you and the Panorama
"You shall all dine with me next
| week." said the young man in ques.
ton. "On my honor, I'll give you
the best dinner you ever had in your
| life. AS for Sarah here, I'm going to
put her in a flower shop In Bond
| Street."
| earn, silly, what 'ud do in Bond
Street? Much better buy the Arch
bishop church."
The ertswhile clergyman did not
take the suggestion in good part.
II have always doubted my ability
to conduct the affairs of parish
methodically," he said, tthat is-a
little habit-a slight partiality to the
drug called morphia is not in MY
| favor. This, I am aware Is draw
| back. The world judges my profess
| sion very harshly. A man in the city
VINO counts the collection indifferently
will certainly become Lord Mayor.
! The Establishment has no use for
| him-he is de trop. or as. we might
say, drop too much. This, recog-
| nize in frankly declining our young
| friends offer-with grateful thanks"
! Sarah, the flower girl seemed par
| ticularly amused by this frank ad-
mission. Feeling in the depths Of
her shawl she produced capacious
| flask and bundle Of cigars.
"Ere, boys" she said, "lets talk
am and heggs. 'Ere's drop of thu
best and five books worth Of chimney
Attire. stun me mother if there amt
I'm sick of talkin' and SOS the Pane
rawma.' Light up yer sherbooks and
hink as you're in Buckingem Peliss.
There amt no arm thinkin' any
ways"
II dreamed last night" said the
Archbishop very sadly, "that this eel
| lad had become a cottage and that
the sun was shining In It,"
II never dream" said "the PIANO.
rama" stoically; put my head on the
floor and won't lift it until the
clock strikes ten
"Then begin now, my dear" ex-
claimed the Lady Sarah with sui
den tenderness, put it there now and
forget what London is ter you and
me-"
The words were uttered almost
with womanly tenderness, not with
out its influence upon the company.
Some phrase spoken of Frivolity's
mouth had touched this group Of out
casts and spoken staight to their
hearts. They banded pleasantries no
more but lighting the cigars-the
Lady Sarah boldly charging small
clap pipe-they fell to an expressive
silence, of introspection, it may be
or even of unutterable despair. The
been cast down from comparative
ton For the others life was a vista
far behind them! vista perchance.
Of cottage and the sunshine, as the
parson had said; an echo of voices
from forgotten world; the memory
VI d udllu ludI w dS COlu edHu vi uOdu
faces approaching them. Such pauses
are not infrequent In the conversation
of the very poor. Men bend their
heads to destiny less willingly than
we think. The lowest remembers
the rungs of the ladder he has des.
cended.
| Alban had lighted one of the cigars
and he smoked 1t stoically. wonder
ing again why the caves attracted
him and what there was In this com.
pany which should not have made
him ashamed of such associations
That he was not ashamed admitted
of no question In very truth, the
humanities were conquering him IN
spite of inherited prejudice. Had the
full account OF 1t been written down
by philosopher such a sage would
have said that the girl Sarah stood
for type of womanly pity, Of sympa
thy, and. in its way, of motherhood;
qualities which demand no gift OF
birth for their appeal The unhappy
q parson, too, was there not much OF
good in him, and might he not yet
prove human field worthy to be till
ed by 1lusbandman of souls? His
humor was kindly: his disposition
gentle: his faults punished none but
himself And for what did "the
Panorama" stand If not for the whole
gospel of human hope without which
no life may be lived at all? Alban
had some glimmering of this but hs
could not have set down his reasons
in so many words. AS for the little
lad ,"Betty" not the affection
they lavished upon him that which
manhood ever owes to the weak anG
helpless. Search London over and yoJ
will not find elemental goodness In g
J shape more worthy than 1t was to be
found in the caves-nor can we foregc
moments reflection upon the cam
more worthy than it was to be fount
in the caves-nor can we forego E
moments reflection upon the cam
which ever breaches the vice of the
poor and so rarely stops to preach
! their virtues.
This was the human argument O.
Adams association, but the roman
tic must not be forgotten. More ina