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WEIGHED III THE BALANCE.
BY GERTRUDE SMITH.
I
DON'T see no reason why you
shouldn't stay in and go to meet
ing this evening We've been
having some good meetings all along.
They'll be a big turnout to-night.
It's goiug to be clear and there's, a
moon. You better stay in and go.
" I don't think I better. I don't
think John VI want me to."
" l guess he could get his own sup
per for once ; and while you're here,
you might as well stay in aud go."
" It ain't his getting his supper.
Hu's doue that enough times, and he
dou't mind doing it ; but I don't thiuk
he'd want me to stay to-night."
" You don't mean to say he's so set
against religion that he wants to keep
you from going to meeting, do you ?
He always seemed sensible to me, and
that ain't sensible. We can take you
home Just as well after meeting as be
fore."
Mrs. Hewett had been spending tbe
day with Mrs. McCallister. She had
from the farm with Mr.
Hewett in the morning. He had
brought over a load of corn. Mrs.
McCallisterhad promised to take her
home before night if she would stay
and spend tbe day with her. Mrs.
McCallister'8 husband kept the one
store in Elk Falls. The two women
sat in the little sittiDg room back of
tbe store. They were sewing. It
was a warm day, and the door was
opeued on a porch. The porch was
covered with morniug-glory vines
bright with blossoms.
Mrs. Hewett got up and went over
to the door, with tbe pretence of get
ting nearer tbe light to thread her
She was a plump little
Her pale red hair was
brushed straight back from her face,
and coiled loosely on her neck. Her
fair skin was flushed. The • bright
calico dress that she wore, covered
with little brown sprays, was over
starched, and rattled as she walked
across the room.
" John never said much about it,
but I know he's against these revival
meetings. We used to come to church
sometimes to preaching, you know."
She bent her head over her work.
" John never has to say much for me
to understand what he means."
Mrs. McCallister looked up quickly
at her visitor. Her face would have
had a look of horror, if it had not
been over-balauced by a look of curi
am— mb
needle.
woman.
osity.
I've heard people say John Hew
infidel, but I never believ
so. I've
ett was an
ed iL I always told them
said, many's tbe time, 'John Hewett
may not have got religion yet, but
he's no more infidel than you and me.'
That's what I've always said." She
drew the needle through the cloth in
quick, short stitches, and waited a
minute for a reply. " A man as ten
der-hearted as John Hewett couldn't
be an infidel."
Mrs. Hewett came back to her
chair and sat down. Sbe buried her
face in the cloth she was sewing on.
"He is," she said, in a half-whisper.
" I don't be'ieve it !" Mrs. McCal
lister held her work tightly in her
hands—" I don't believe it !
" He is.
I've always known it.
You dou't mean to tell me he
don't believe there's any God ?"
Mrs. Hewett bowed her head.
There ivas a silence of several min
Then Mrs. McCallister stood
utes.
up.
I'm going to get supper, and you
must stay and go to meeting with us.
If I was in your place I'd make a
stand, and go right along. Now you
going to stay, so you just settle
yourself on that."
Mrs MqUallister went out into the
kitchen, a fid Mrs. Hewett went on
■with her sewing, the tears falling on
' her soik/ Ste felt that she had al
ready taken the stand against her
husbaBd in the confession she had
made. She longed to be at home
getting supper for him. She thought
of the cold lunch he had had in place
of his usual hot dinner, and remem
bered that she bad planned making
biscuits for supper.
There was no church in Elk halls.
The foundation had beeu laid, and
the people were hoping to build the
church in the fall. At present ser
vices were held in the school-house.
The school-house had beeu placed,
for the convenience of all, in tbe
centre of tbe district, and was nearly
mile from the village. The village
the banks of the Klk river,
but the school-house stood out on the
unbroken prairie. It was a large
one-story wooden building, painted
An unpainted three-board
are
a
was on
white,
fence surrounded it.
The prairie was bright with moon
light. On the south it stretched
away to the wooded banks of the Elk
river and the lights of the little town
glimmering among the trees. Owing
to the clearness of the night and the
great interest that had been shown at
the three previous meetings, the at
tendance was to be unusually large/
People were still coming, the heavy
wagons rattling over the hard prairie
roads. The horses were hitched to
the fence around the school-house.
When Mr. and Mrs. McCallister
drove up in their light spring wagon
with Mrs Hewett, it was with diffi
culty that Mr. McCallister found
room to hitch his horse. The lights
from the open doors and windows
shone out, and the people were sing
ing.
It's too bad we have to miss any
of it," Mrs. McCallister whispered to
Mrs. Hewett.
By the time they had reached their
seat the singing had stopped. There
the usual buzz of whispering and
general rustle of people getting set
tled, and then the minister began to
pray. It was a long prayer, und Mrs.
Hewett, with her bowed head resting
the desk in front of her, wondered
what her husband was doing at that
minute—if he had guessed why she
had not returned. She remembered
the old time she had spoken to him
ol the irreligious life she felt they
led, and had asked him to take her
regularly to church. Before that
time they had occasionally gone to
morning service, but this was the first
time since that talk that she had been
to a service of any kind. Her cheeks
burned, and her heart throbbed pain
fully.
was
on
ÿ,
could understand how bit
terly he would be opposed to her
being there. She planned guiltily to
keep from him the knowledge oi her
having been at the meeting.
The praver ended abruptly, and
the minister began singing. Not
many knew the piece. Three or four
women sang with their frightened
voices through the first verse and then
stopped. The minister sang on
through the remaining verses of the
hymn. He sat behind the teacher's
desk on the platform, and when he
had finished singing he put down the
book and stood up. He was an old
man and very tall. His gray hair
very long, and hung loosely on
his head. His lace was clean-shaven,
with heavy cheek boue3, and a large
weak mouth. HU eyes were gray
and limpid. After looking over his
audience for a moment he began
speaking, in earnest, half-sobbing
tones, of the crucifixion.
In a few minutes women were cry
iug softly all over the room. They
suffered physically, so vividly had
been pictured to them the anguish
and suffering of the scene.
Mrs. Hewett sobbed aloud, hiding
her face in her handkerchief. Mrs.
McCallister, with the teai'3 rolling
down her cheeks, listened breathless
0 oue
was
ly
And yet His blood flowed for
you, my sinning friend. Oh, let the
blood of the cross be upon your
hearts ! Let its mark be upon the
doors of your homes. Get behiud the
blood ; nothing else will save you !
And now, while we sing the 349th
hymn, let everyone who has never
felt this blessed cleansing come for
ward. This is the place, this is the
time, when you are going to leave all
tor Christ."
" Are you going?" Mrs. McCallis
ter whispered to Mrs. Hewett.
" Oh, I don't know."
" Come. I'll go with you. Don't
you feel a call ? Don't you want to
go ?"
• <
or not.'
Yes. Oh, I don't know if I do
" Come on. I'll go with you."
The two women were sitting near
the front ot the room ; and before
Mrs. Hewett could speak again, she
felt herself drawn forward, and fell .on
her knees with the rest around the
platform.
Some one came in and partly clos
ed the door in the back of the room.
The people who were in their seats
turned to see who it was, and there
were whispered comments. The man
who had come in stood with his back
against the wall, his broad felt hat
still on his head. He had a full
beard. His brown eyes looked in
quiringly around the room. There
was an indifference in his „attitude
and glance that chaqged^uJdeqly
into one of intense interest; " Hé wok
offhishat, and weut quickly down
the aisle toward the front Of the room.
" There's John Hewetf going ■ for
ward," some one whispered.' '
An old man looked' up»' froiii the
bench where he was kgeeling, and.
shouted: "The lost is found!
Brother Hewettfg'. coming to the
Lord!"
There were loud amena all *>ver the
room.
John Hewett made his wny among
the kneeling people to his wife's side.
He knelt down beside her and whis
pered something in her ear, then
stood up and walked slowly back to
the door. Mrs. Hewett followed him.
The room grew suddenly quiet. The
old man, who had been praying loud
ly, stopped with an impatient groan.
When they were outside in the
school-yard, John Hewett turned and
looked at his wife.
"Just wait a miuute, Lucy, and
I'll bring the wagon around."
She made no reply. He drove
around where she was and helped her
in, and they rode silently away.
" I never saw the moon any bright
er than it is to-night. I believe you
could see to read a paper," he said.
They were nearly home. She gave
a half-sob and turned her head away.
" Don't feel bad, Lucy. I shouldn't
have thought you'd have done it. I
didn't supposeyou was so weak, but I
don't know as I ought to blame you.
What a row they made when they
saw me coming forward ! ' Caught
this time,' says they !"
" Oh, John, how can you ?"
" How can l what—laugh ? I am
not going to cry over it. I know you
wouldn't have been so foolish if I had
been there."
Mrs. Hewett was guiltily conscious
at
of the truth of this.
" I suppose Mrs. McCallister hector
ed ycu into the whole thing. She's
got more cant about her than com
mon-sense. We'll drop it all. I've
got a principle against going over un
comfortable things. It just makes
them â(jem worse and worse."
They rode along in silence again.
'' John, I've got to !" Mrs. Hewett
cried out suddenly. "I can't reject
Christ no longer, even to please you."
" What do you mean ?" He spoke
roughly.
" I duu't know what will happen—
maybe what you threatened me once
— but I've got to give in. I've got
to make a staud for right."
" I never stood against you in doing
right. We've been all over this
gr.tuud, aud I ain't going over it
again. I tell you now, once for all,
you cau choose between me and that
snivelling set I seen you with to
night. If you've made up your mind
that's all there is to it. You can go
back to your mother to-morrow, if
you want to."
They drove into the yard at the
side of the house and stopped. He
helped her out, and went out to the
baru with the horse.
The door was unlocked, and she
weut in. She lit the lamp and look
ed around the familiar room, then
went into the bedroom, leaving the
lamp on the table.
In the morning when she awoke
she heard her husband building a fire
in the kitchen stove. She arose and
got Dreakfaat, calling him to come in
from the barn when it was ready.
She noticed as he took off his coat and
hung it up behind the door that one
of the sleeves was ripped. She
thought she would tell him after they
had had their breakfast to put on
another coat and let her mend that
a
I
or.e.
He sat down in his shirt sleeves
and ate bis breakfast in silence. She
felt the oppression of his silence keen
ly. He was usually so light-hearted
and happy. When he got up from
the table he said :
" I'm going down to Longton with
some of that corn. I hear JenniDgs
is paying a bigger price thaD McCal
lister."
Mrs. Hewett was picking up the
dishes. "Well?" she said, without
looking up.
" I don't believe I'll get home
much before night." He went out of
the door, aud not loug after she saw
him driving out of the yard.
She washed the dishes and swept
the room, then went into the bed-room
au.i began, with trembling fingers, to
change her dress. When she had
finished the fell ou her knees beside
the bed and prayed aloud. Her
heart rebelled against the thing she
was about to do. She felt that her
desire to stay was her greatest sin,
aud prayed for help to overcome it.
When she rose she was calmer ; she
tied on her bonnet, and took out her
pocket-book and counted the money.
Oh, I'm so
a
!
" There's enough,
wicked I wish there wasn't. I wish I
could stay, but I can't. I can't give
in to him again—I can't do it."
ft was two miles from the farm to
Elk Falls, aud the day was warm.
Mrs. Hewett started in time to take
the one o'clock train north. It wa3 a
long, warm walk. All the five years
of her married life went with her.
They had not been unhappy years.
John had been a kind husband al
ways.
When she cametça rise oLgronnd,
where she could look off <^er the
prairie and see the little towfr- in the
distance, she stopped. If she weut
back now John would never know
that she had been away. But "she
did not gölljack. ...She -dragged her
self wearily along .until she came into
thé one street of the little town, and
aft&fistopping at the station to. see
how long before the train would be
due, she &.ent across the street .to bid
Mrs. ' McCallister good-bye. She
hoped to gain from her a little of the
moral sapport she felt herself so sadly
iirneed of. v
The people that she passed looked
at'her curiously and sympathetically.
Every one knew wfcat had happened
the evening- before. It had been talk
ed. oyer in all its possible meanings.
The men who were then lounging, in
the store were in a warm discussion
over John Hewett's life and his possi
ble future.
Mrs. McCallister was ironing near
the door.
" My ! what a start you gave
I didn't know there was a soul about.
Did John bring down another load of
corn ?"
to
I
I
am
me !
No ; he's gone to Longton with a
load.
" Oh, has he ?''
Mrs. Hewett understand the quick
resentment of her tone. "Well, he s
free to take his corn where he pleases.
I come to bid you good-bye. I m
going home for a spell."
Mrs. McCallister turned and looked
at her shrewdly for a minute ; then
weut out into the kitchen, and came
back trying a hot iron with her
dampened finger.
" Weil, you're lucky to be able to
You al
go this time of the year,
ways did seem able to pick up
go more than any woman I
knew. They ain't many men would
take it as good-naturedly as John
Hewett does. But then he knows
and
ever
more than most men.'
'• He don't mind ray goiug."
" No ; he's so good-natured, I sup
pose he don't."
" I've got to go now, or I'll miss my
traiu. It rau3t be most time."
" Yes, I suppose it i3. Say, what
made John Hewett take hL corn over
to Longton ?"
" They're paying a bigger price
there. It's some of that left
over
over corn. He wants to get it all
hauled away before the new corn
comes on.
" I don't believe Dan McCallister
knows they've come up. He always
comes up as soon a£ anybody else
does"
Mrs. Hewett said good-bye, and
went away.,. Mrs. McCallister had not
giyen her tiré help she had hoped for.
Her interests were more self-centred
than they had been the day before.
The first stop above Elk Falls was
Turner's B?nd. There was a little
dot of a station and the usual long
plank platform. At eight o'clock
that evening Mrs. Hewett sat wait
ing on the hard wooden bench in
front of the station. She had been
waiting all the afternoon. When the
train had stopped there, and the doors
of her car were thrown open, she had
rushed from the train, and stood look
iug after it as it moved away, de
fiantly.
God don't expect it of me! I
can't do it anyhow. I tried, and I
can't !" She sank down on the bench,
and cried aloud.
The station-master came up and
spoke to her.
•* I don't want nothing but a ticket
back to Elk Falls," she said, calm
ing herself.
He told her there would not be a
train that would stop at Elk Falls
before eight o'clock in the evening.
" I'll take it and wait, then," she
said.
It was nearly ten o'clock when she
reached home.
She had come quickly away from
the station when she reached Elk
Falls, not meeting any one, but the
two miles walk across the prairie had
seemed very long.
It was a bright moonlight night,
and the waving prairie-grass stretch
ed away on all sides, glistening with
a heavy dew.
When she came into the yard she
could see her husband through the
door. He sat with his arms
ODen
resting on his knees, and his head
bent forward. When she drew near
the door she could hear the cat
purring on the mat, and the clock tick
ing on the mantel. He raised his head
slowly, and saw her standing there.
"Oh, John, I've come back. I
couldn't help it. I had to." She
sank down on the door-step, covering
lier face with her hands. ''I'm so
tired I doir't know what I'm about.
I walked all the way to Elk Falls and
back, and I waited in the station all
the afternoon besides."
"What station did you wait in?"
he asked, without getting up.
"I went a3 far as Turner's Bend. I
couldn't go »0 further—I couldn't ;
and its been so hot. I never saw such
hot day. It seemed as if I'd never
get here."
John Hewett got up, and went over
to the sink, and pumped some water
into the tin dipper, and took a drink.
''I think you've done enough for
day. You'd better come in and
go to bed now "
She got up, and came in wearily,
aud sat down.
"On my soul, Lucy, you look just
beat out ! I thought I'd had the worst
of it, but I'll give in." He came over
to her and took off her bonnet.
She caught hold of his hand and
held it. " I couldn't go, John. I
want to do what's right, but I couldn't
g°-"
I
I
a
a
one
was far
I nevtjjr thought you
wroug, Lucy. We'ye plod oh, doing
our duty, being cheerful a3 we could,
and we've been honest anti'kept our
debts paid up. I don't think we've
got any cause to cry over our short
comings before a whole houseful of
people. Don't let's try to fix up
«omething on the outside to live by
when it's all in us any way we look
at it."
He went over to the wood-box and
began cutting kindliDgs from a pine
stick.
I ought to set bread ; they ain't
hardly a bit in the bouse," she said,
rolling her bonnet strings smoothly
around her fingers.
" I think you've made enough sacri
fice for one day without setting bread,
tired as you are. I'm going to take
you to church Sunday mornings," he
said, after a moment.
" Oh, John, are you ?"
" Yes. That's going to be my
rifice. When I see Brother Johnson
rolling his eyes, and sighing, and tell
ing the Lord about all the depart
ments at Washington, I'll thiuk of
you sitting all trie afternoon at Turn
er's Bend, instead ot wishing I
home and out uuder the trees. That'll
be my sacrifice, but I don't begrudge
it, seeing you've come back."
sac
was
Her Picture on Silver Dollars.
a typical
When, some years ago
American girl consented to allow a
reproduction of her features on the
latest variety in coinage of United
States silver dollars, she stipulated
that the identity should not be reveal
ed. But the secret is a secret no
aud those who have seen the
more,
original of the design since learning
the fact are pleased to observe that
she is much better looking than the
silver presentment of her would indi
The lady is Miss Anna W.
cate - - . ,
Williams, now teacher in the Girls
Normal School, 17th and Spring
Garden Streets, Philadelphia, Penna.
Her profile at the time she wa3 taken
for the model of Liberty was consider
ed the most perfect in Philadelphia.
Delaware and the Eastern Shore of
Maryland still retain in their geo
graphical names traces of an early
Peninsular hero. Augustine Heer
man, who ruled like a prince in New
Castle county, Delaware, and Cecil
county, Maryland, has left his name to
Augustine creek, sometimes called St.
Augustine, and the Delaware and
Chesapeake ship canal was a cherished
project of his more than.two hundred
years ago. It is a Delaware tradition
that Heerman leaped with his horse
from a place of imprisonment m New
York city and escaped
tbe animal aerc^s the B
man's tomb is on Bo
part of his once prince
and still one of tbej
swimming
in, Heer
. . A
feru> in g
Eastern Sborema
Manah " he mea
New York Suui
Burdette's Joke.
Rev. Dr. Delanno, » well-known
clergyman, tells a funnjr story of
o? "Bob Burdette's practical jokes,
which he happened to be the un
fortunate victim. He and Burdette
were lecturing in Bristol, and while
there, Mr. Delanno had received from
his brother two silver spoons, heir
looms ot the family* These he placed
loosely in the pocket of his overcoat
and thought no more about them.
Shortly afterward, going to dine in a
restaurant, he met his co-lecturer, Mr.
Burdette.
While here he exhibited the spoons,
and the joker's eyes began to twinkle.
The two left the restaurant together,
the clergyman throwing his overcoat
loosely over his arm. On reaching
the sidewalk, Mr. Burdette gave the
coat a sudden fling, and the spoons
fell to the pavement.
Great was the divine's astonish
ment as he stooped to pick them np,
thinking it all an accident, to hear
Mr. Burdette call loudly for the
police.
A large crowd quickly gathered
and a uniformed preserver of the
peace quickly appeared on the scene.
" What is the matter ?" he asked.
"Matter!" responded the joker,
with a seiious face, "this man just
out of that restaurant and two
silver spoons dropped from his pocket.
He is evidently a thief disguised as a
clergyman. See what a guilty look
he bas !" _ ^
The minister certainly did looked
guilty after hearing these words from
his friend, and if it had not been for
the arrival ot several acquaintances
doubt have
one
of
came
the policeman would no
taken him into custody.
Then they hunted for Mr. Burdette,
but he had disappeared, leaving a
card in the bauds of a bystander to be
delivered to the minister. On it was
written the words
" Keep the spoons, as you may be
able to bail yourself out with them."
How it Feels to be Insatae.
My wife came to see me, but she <
did not try to bave me released. I
demanded a trial, but no lawyer
would defend me. Then I realized
that the whole community was against
I became so wroth that my
anger seemed to hang over me like a
dark cloud. It pressed me to the
floor and held me there. Men came
after a long time and took me away,
I thought, to another prison. One
day a cat eame into my cell, and I
tried to bite her. She made the hair
fly, but I killed her.
I dou't know how long I remained
here, but one morning the sun
and shone in at me through the win
dow. It seemed to be the first time
that I had seen the great luminary
for months. A mist, cleared from
before my eyes. My brain begau to
work aud suddenly I realized that I
had been insane.
I called the keeper and when he
saw me he exclaimed.' " Thank
Heaven !" and grasped my hand. I
was not long in putting on another
suits of clothes and turning my faoe
toward home. A physician said that -
I was cured and everybody seemed
bright and happy at my recovery. I
went borne. My wife fainted when
she saw me and learned that - .' I bad
recovered my mind. I asked for^tny
little children, and two big boys and
a young lady came forward and greet
ed me. I had been in the asylum
twelve years.
me.
rose
One Horse Power.
When men first begin to become
familiar with the methods of measur
ing mechanical power, they often
speculate on where tbe breed of horses
is to be found that can keep at work
raising 33,000 pounds one foot per
minute, or the equivalent, which is
more familiar to some mechanics, of
raising 330 pounds 100 feet per
minute
Since 33,000 pounds raised one foot
per minute is called one-horse power,
it is natural that the people should
think the engineers who established
that unit of measurement based it on
what horses could really do.
But the horse that cau do this work
does uot exist. The horse-power unit
was established by James Watt about
century ago, and the figures were
fixed in a curious way. Watt found
that the average horse of his district
could raise 22,000 pounds one foot
per minute.
At that time Watt was employed
in tbe manufacture of engines, and
customers were so bard to find that
all kinds of artificial inducements
were necessary to induce power users
to buy steam engines.
As a method of encouraging them
Watt offered to sell engines reckon
ing 33,000 foot-pounds to a horse
power. And thus he was the means
of giving a false unit to one of the
most important measurements in the
world.—Rider and Driver.
a
,
Why the Conductor Laughed.
" There is a trick in every trade
but mine,' quoted an old horse car
conductor, the other day, to a Boston
Journal reporter. The
crowded, many passengers standing in
the aisle near the rear platform,
while in the forward part of the «isle
there was plenty of room. " Moye up,
please ! Move up !" cried out the
conductor, but no one moved. '' Just
watch me," said the conductor, with a
smile on his face, and then he gave
the bell cord a jerk aud the car be
gau to slow down, but, as it came
almost to a full stop, he reached for
the bell cord and gave it two sharp
pulls, and the car started up again,
giving those standing in the car a
lurch forward, and the passengers had
" moved up ; much against their will.
" (ifeat scheme, isn't it? I believe in
strategv whejr politeness fails," and
wondered why that
car was
to
■Mlhe p
a steadij
wtij