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the shadow-self.
rning'dd® the traveler westward
mo
. 1 bound lengthened shadow
f(jre bim sees a run;
' beneath him the ground;
1 jt shrinks on
fc tD °° rket i it rearward moves at set of sun.
Unma
Ijugghng shadow-self the youth pursues,
| And questions _ with a fond and curious
I L. uiiud;
P‘ ' the man in prime subdues,
5 has cast it far behind.
mellow age
—Edith M. Thomas.
ROSES AND PEARLS.
g ?an Wilde was in a deep quandary.
u Gladstone, working
er aunt, Mrs. was
embroidery pattern at the opposite
i On stand in front
End of the room. a
Ef Susan lay a necklace of pearls and a
t p] e w hite rose. The rose and the
, a rls were each accompanied with a
rate note. They had both been pre
lented Erithiu to her last half bv hour. special messengers
the
T)e‘R Susan: Will you wear this rose on
■ Eon] -bosom this for evening, who if loves there is truly any
Kd for hope one you
devotedly? Henry Joy.
The second read as follows :
Deui Miss Wilde: If you feel that you
L Kteii'ity n ever love me with one-half please the acknowledge ardor and
that i do you,
Khe ■wearing sweet truth at by Mrs. accepting Gladstone’s the pearls, reception and
Eis them
evening. Arthur Floyd.
I Eurce And these two missives were the
of the quandary into which Susan
■Wilde, the acknowledged belle of Spring -
■rale, had so naturally and insensibly
■alien. Arthur Floyd was of the firm of
■■Floyd – Son,” dry goods merchants,
■rhile Bi Henry Joy was simply a salaried
er k in the establishment of the afore -
Kid firm. The young men were of
■bout the same age, both intellectual,
Ell Eil educated and good looking. They
been classmates at the same univer
■jty, and young Joy owed his position
Etbe establishment to the influence of
E friend Arthur. Both were madly in
Eve with Susan Wilde, the beautiful
rphanuiece of wealthy and aristooratic
Irs. Gladstone, who had come to reside
_t Springvale after the death of her hus
Emi. who was reputed to be worth his
Bullions. Mrs. Gladstone was still of a
Karriageable Bortv, age, being but a trifle over
and remarkably healthy and
oung-looking. Mr. Gladstone had left
lis property equally divided between her
elf and step-son, a sophomore in Har
ard.
Susan was an only child of an elder
ister, who had died some years before,
saving her offspring to Mrs. Gladstone’s
ere.
Her father had left some property,
fhich her mother, through tact and
-onomv, had very materially increased,
) that at the time of her death Susan
as left quite an heiress—having an un
icumbered farm and some four or five
lousand dollars at interest. Neither of
le young men had concealed from the
ther his passion for Susan Wilde, and
easoning between themselves that she
ould make but one of the two happy
i a matrimonial sense, they had jointly
it upon the above novel method of as
ertaining laira which of the two might
her preference, each promising to
tide by the young lady’s decision, with
ut ull harboring the slightest enmity or ill
against the other.
In their social intercourse she had
lorn no especial preference for one
jore than the other. Their visits and
-radons had hitherto seemed equally
elcome to the young lady, and they
ere now both anxious to know' which
■asm the future to be tbe favored one
her choice.
— Susan had read both of the notes care
■% and was now deeply pondering.
Nrhad evidently brought the young
f J 0 110 i ' kU a mat Profound she must sense decide of reflection, and
po. between the
[ArUmi LitV* DS * * aside abundant from his personal
’ la< prospective
l»o recommend him; while Henry
F peal , oni - v intellect, beauty, aud fine
powers to plead for him. With
pst unlimited means at his command,
e ioiaier could place her in the
most
Iter* Earv W •*'? S ’ t 110 ‘ on ot Jtl ^ society, while than the his
cr resource
r .'Ohi(,i i only
expect to support a
not ostentatiously.
L.Jj nJ a > ength sa id Mrs. sileu Gladstone, after a
I L JUal, , y reserved y ce, “you seem to
[li on the subject of
Itii snn r a ^. Ug y°or S con good 'espondence. dying Can’t
aunty is
io learn the contents of
Lp., “Si l00kctl ou rc ad 11 H them,” confusedly.
* she asked, “or
LV“ fn." 1Pad , * K,n ’ Hear. You see I am
Uow w ifH this embroidery pat
L*J|oboyed, y 8u hmitted reading aloud what we
L “Wli a t to the reader.
aJ ; a,n f to do?” she questioned,
wai io?- i; 1U '^ * evident ^ annoyance although
Died r ° m ie hlusli that accom
ed. she felt not a little flat
ieUu ' '”° U little innocent,” re
ainst n' G la<lst0Q e, laughing, “it is
a rules , of propriety to keep two
B– i n „ . °
;e ' y° ur how after they have be
lli E 2° fin,° t0 lln do I K) rtunute. The only thing
is to consider the respec
M E (]J:T °, 1)etweon f tllese two them. Haring as -
0 fi The
E Ifidly^p Co Vcr .y difficult, of course, when
r relative positions in a
“ik a °' v Arthur is rich and Henry
Poor. > -
I“Ves I • • a u<! the former is certainly not
greatly inferior to the latter in point of
good looks and intelligence. Of course
you will discard the rose for the pearls?”
‘•I am not sure, aunty, dear. I have
been pondering the matter deeply for the
last live minutes. I have always prided
myself that I am something of' a judo-e
of human nature. To be sure, Arthur
l 1 loyd is rich, and can lavish pearls,
diamonds, even
upon the ladv of his choice -
but in my knight of the white rose I re
cognize a natural superiority that wealth
alone can not confer. My decision,
aunty, ought not to be governed wholly
hj the present situation; for riches, you
know, have wings; and, aside from that,
I find in my poor admirer more sincerity,
more deal strength of purpose, and a great
less vanity and selfishness than may
he found wrapped up in the man who is
represented hv pearls.”
‘‘Surely you would not he so insane,
mv dear, as to resign Arthur Floyd, with
his prospective wealth and recognized so
cial standing, for a poor clerk in his em
ploy, with nothing but his good looks to
recommend him?”
‘‘I might, aunty. A young girl is
sometimes supposed to consult her heart
rather than her ambition in these matters;
and surely if I allow my heart to have a
voice, it will plead most, potently in favor
of Harry.”
“Well, I have no power to control
your decision,” responded Mrs. Glad
stone, somewhat impatiently, “I can
only advise you as I think for the best.
1 ou are, of course, your own mistress;
but as you make your bed, so must you
expect to lie.”
There was but little more said upon
the subject, and that night Susan Wilde
wore the white rose instead of the pearls.
Arthur knew of his disappointment in
season to send in his excuses to Mrs.
Gladstone, lor Susan had returned his
present, with an appropriate declination,
early in the afternoon. Indeed Arthur
had privately flattered himself that the
preference would he awarded to him, in
consideration of his wealth and high
social standing; and to he thus set aside
for one so greatly his inferior, in a worldly
point of view, was a source of deep
chagrin and motifieation to the young
man.
Henry Joy, on the contrary, was in an
ecstacy of happiness at sight of the simple
white rose so modestly displayed upon
the bosom of the fond object of his
heart’s worship; and lie found oppor
tunity in the course of the evening to
draw her into the conservatory, beyond
the reach of listeners, where he
into lier willing ear the passionate story
of his love, and how feeble, until that
hour, had ever been his hope of winning
such an exalted prize.
“I could not afford such a costly pres
ent as Arthur sent you,” he whispered,
softly, “and, therefore, I had scarcely
dared to hope. Had I not loved you so
wildly, so madly, I should have hardly
ventured to make the bold proposition
to you that I did.”
“I thought it a model of manly deli
cacy and cleverness,” responded Susan,
blushing, and permitting him to squeeze
her hand in a most demonstrative
manner.
“I felt myself very much in the condi
tion of a drowning man,” said Harry, in
a tone of happy triumph. “The faint
hope I hid of winning you from such a
rival as Arthur, was the straw, figura
tively speaking, at which I grasped, and
lo! it buoyed me up, and I gained the
haven of my desires. Oh, Susan, dar
ling, you don’t know how haony your
sweet promise has made me!”
“You know, Harry,” said Susan,
quietly, “that I have always aimed to be
a sensible and steady-minded girl. When
I chose you. dearest, I did not do it
without reflection. In the first place I
was fully sensible that I loved you best
—that there was more, in fact, worth
loving in your character than in Arthur’s.
He would be much more selfish and ex
acting with a wife, and far less self-sacri
ficing himself than you; besides I have
been made acquainted with some things
that do net reflect credit upon his char
acter. For instance, I have heard, on
very good authority, that he sometimes
drank more than was good for him; that
he preferred associating with gamblers
and roughs, to sober, honest young men
of his own age—a class whom that set
characterizes as ‘old-fashioned—and I
have often heard it whispered that he,
too, indulges in the pernicious habit in- of
gaming. Considering these facts, the
trinsic worth of whose character—for I
have been assured those who know,
that your record is a spotless one—
weighs more in my humble, womanly esti
mation, than all the wealth of the world
associated with a tarnished name. I rea
soned that Arthur, with habits of reck
lessness and extravagance already formed,
though rich and courted now; might be
poor, despised and degraded at no dis
tant day; and then what would a loving,
proud-spirited woman have to live for.
t duly considered all these things as well
as my decided preference for you; and
the result we.3, though contrary had to the my
aunty’s good advice, who not
faculty, as she said, to discover any of
these bugbears, I accepted the rose iu
preference to the pearls.”
i; Bless you, darling!” cried Harry,
deeply impressed by the sensible discrim
ination of his promised bride. “If I
ever disappoint you in your hopes or ex
pectations regarding me, it will be be
cause I lack the ability, not the will, to
sustain the role I have marked out.”
“I have the most perfect contidcnee in
vour ability, dear Harry; and to show
you that I have, I shall place every dollar
of mv little fortune—some ten or twelve
thousand in all—if tbe farm can be dis-
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
posed of to advantage—entirely at your
command, which will enable you to com
mence business on your own account.
The man I marry is not to be cramped in
his aspirations on account of my fears for
the money I might have lying idle in some
savings bank.”
The lover could only express his
emotion of gratitude by a tender pressure
of the hand as they strolled back, and
once The more mingled with the gay company.
next morning Susan informed her
aunt, Mrs. Gladstone, that she and Harry
Joy were to he married at the expiration
of a month, and preparations for the ap
proaching nuptials were immediately set
ou foot.
before Agreeably to the promise given him
her marriage, Mrs. Joy surrendered all
property in her husband’s hands, and
he immediately set up for himself in a
limited way in the same line of business
as the Floyds.
As Susan had prophesied before theii
marriage, his business grew, and its
growth proved a Healthy and profitable
one. In five years Susan’s §12,000 had
multiplied to §50,000, and Harry .Toy was
beginning to he spoken of as one of the
“heavy men” of Springvale.
But during that five years a great
change had come over the fortunes of
Arthur Floyd.
His father had died, leaving him in
full control of his extensive business. For
a while things seemed to go as smoothly
as ever with Arthur, though prudent peo
ple observed that he was becoming daily
more fond of the wine cup and the dis
reputable company of fast men and pro
fessional gamblers. He let his business
go at loefse ends, trusting to the integrity
of the salesmen he employed, and they
robbed him. He spent much of his time
in the city, and a rumor reached Spring
vale one day that he had lost §20,000 at
faro in on»e night—nearly twice the
amount of money that Harry Joy had
had to commence business upon.
From thh.; time Arthur Floyd became
more reckless and dissipated than ever,
and cautious people began to whisper of
impending bankruptcy, and, sure enough,
it came sooner than the most observant
had predicted. An officer from the city
arrived one day and closed down upon
everything. He had been running his
business for a long time on the strength
of a credit which his father had pre
viously established for the house through
his business tact and integrity.
The next morning after that ruinous,
but to some extent unexpected failure,
Arthur Floyd was found suspended by
the neck to a great beam in his own barn,
and quite dead when discovered. Susan
Joy had just received a call from her
aunt, Mrs. Gladstone, when the sad news
of the suicide reached them.
“Where should I have been now bad I
accepted the pearls?” was all that Susan
said.
“Indeed, dear, you were wiser than I,
after all,” confessed Mrs. Gladstone.—
New Torh News.
Mormon Tithing Scrip,
If you go into the principal office ol
the Tithing House, says a Utah corres
pondent, you xvill see a tall young man
handling what looks like money. He
is behind a counter, and the counter is
protected by a high railing. The man
glances through the window, then looks
down at the bills and then goes on
thumbing them like a bank-teller. He
goes to and from a big safe, carrying
bundles done up just as bills are, with
little bauds of brown paper pinned about
them. Sometimes the young man doesn’t
stop to count, but takes the amount on
the brown slip as correct and passes out
the money. It is vj.e tithing scrip. It
is used to facilitate the handling of the
grain and hay and live stock aud pro
duce that come in. If you pick up one
of these bills you will find it very much
like a bank note in appearance. In one
upper corner is the number of the bill.
In the lower left hand corner is the la
hoc signo of Mormonism, a bee hive.
The face of the bill reads: “Geueral
Tithing Storehouse. Good Only for
Merchandise and Produce at the General
Tithing Storehouse, Salt Lake City,
Utah.” Each note bears the signature
of the presiding bishop. On the back
is the denomination again and a vignette
of the new temple at Salt Lake City.
The back also bears tbe wording: “This
note is not current except in the mer
chandise and produce departments of the
General Tithing Storehouse.” The en
graving is well executed and the print
ing is well done. The bills vary in
color. There are greenbacks for One de
part of tbe tithing house, brownbacks
for another, and so on. By using this
scrip the Church is able to create a mar
ket for considerable quantities of the
tithing. This scrip is given out in dis :
charity. It is used in paying for
work on the temple so far as the work
can make use of it. Employes of
the tithing house receive their salaries
or allowances partly in scrip. In numer
ways the Mormon money gets into
Movable Birthdays.
There lives, or there did a few years
ago, an old lady in this country,who has
a movable birthday. She had the good
fortune to be born on Easter Sunday,and
she insists on receiving presents and con
gratulations cn that festival, no matter
when it occurs. Lots of people have
tried to reason with the old lady, calen
dar in hand, but she replies to them all:
“I was born on Easter Sunday morn
fifty-six years ago, arid till I die Easter
Sunday will be nay birthday. —Pitti
hum DuuhiUJl. *»- — —Ais.. -* ■' •
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Office of Biblical Recorder. I
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