The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 20, 1884, Page 6

lade emer A KISS IN THE DARK. Millie Mason sat by the low, open, window, looking down into the quiet, deserted street below. a Millie was one of thosesweet, loving home-girls, with the bluest of eyes, the reddest of lips and a saucy dimple in either check; but the eyes were solemn and tearful now, and the dimples were folded away behind a troubled, grieved expression which shadowed the young face with an untimely sorrow. “Oh, why don’t he come?” she mur- mured, leaning far out of the window, | and gazing anxiously down tke dim, star-lit street. A street lamp flickered on a distant | corner, but the one nearest Millie’s | home had, for some reason, gone out, and the shadows lay dark and deep in that part of the street. “I do believe—yes, there he comes,”’ she added, a moment later, as the tall, | square-built figure of a young man came hastily down the street, and ran briskly up the front steps. Applying his latch-key to the door, he entered the hall. The next instant something white came fluttering down the stairs, with a breezy rustle to its garments, and a pathetic voice addr 1 him. “It is almost twelve o'clock. I waited up so that you wouldn’t dis- turb——”’ “Never mind, sis,” said a merry voice, which didn’t sound one bit like brother Frank's. But Millie decided, with a sigh anda heavy pain at her heart, that it was be- | cause he had been drinking. She must get him up to his room without disturbing Uncle Paul, she thought, an usly, for Uncle Paul had said that very day that , Frank Mason must ‘‘change his ways,’’ or find some other home, and Frank had promised, so earnestly, to reform, for Millie’s ‘aul should learn of this would never forgive him. xic him into his ned’? old more | mistak If she cov y smi roormn wi man’s 1 i be il in the f ou shouldn’t have w: d up for ” said th young man, putting nave brotherly 2 added, as she turned | manner. tos nd ave com ed at his htfulne te, he shouid consider her sirong enough to come down vrs to meet him—she, who had spent the greater part of her sweet, un- selfish life in waiting upon her lazy, big brother! ‘Of course this unusual tenderness on Frank’s part was wholly due to his half-intoxicated condition. But, as the strong arms carried her safe y to the top of the long stairs, a delicious little thrill ran through her, and she could not help w shing that Frank would alw ays be like this in his care for her. “There you are, puss!” he said, put- ting her down at the top. “Now for irl’s face to his own e comy shadow of | the unlit pa: Millie felt a crimson wave sweep over it, Frank had never kissed her, except | after long ser i then it was | more as an imp than areal | token of affection. “You are t sick girl Lever carried upsta Z said merrily, as j though it was on thing for him to carry girls ups ie knew | that the bashful fellow would have eut his hand off sooner than haye done i when in his right mind. As for her being sick—the mere thought brought a smile to her li ips, but this was no place to dispute with her brother in his present condition. “Go to bed, sis,’ he said, tender solicitude in his tones, don’t wait up for me again. Youcean’t afford to have your night's rest broi en. Only a few more weeks and this ni ight j work will be over. company & good turn now, and they are not the kind of men to forget it | either.” He turned as he spoke, and bidding her good-night, opened the door and | walked directly into the st chamber. Millie stood quite still in the dark, and looked at the place where Le had disappeared from view. She could hear him moving about the room, getting ready for bed. =e | ie “PH have to manage to make the bed, and straighten the room, before finds it out,’ she solil oquized. j know that Frank wasn't richt, or he never would have e in there.”” H Millie was up ear ly the next TRO: in order to be ready to p”’ the guest chamber the Frank should leave it. She lingered about the pa iously waiting, when suddenly one came up irs and her there. “W Y i i with a “and moment sage, anx- some- discovered | before, and I am doing the | = faltered Mulie, with crimson cheeks. “No, indeed,”’ laughed Frank. “[m too sensible for such nonsense.” “Then who did?” cried Millie, in- ignantly. ug beg your pardon, miss, but I think it was me,” said an exceedingly ‘‘crest- fallen’”’ voice from the door of the est-chamber, near which Frank and Millie had been standing. ‘I supposed that [ entered iny own home last night —certainly my keys all fit the locks exactly—and I thought that you were m} sister Bessie; w ho is just recovering fra 2 long illness. I don’t suppose you canever forgive me for making such a mistake,” he added appealingly, looking straight into Millie’s blue eye: And she, remembering how tender he had been of his sick sister the night how celightful it had seemed to be ‘‘cared”’ for in that way, could not refuse to forgive him. “The mistake is common enough,” said matter-of-fact Frank, with ashrug of his shoulders, ‘tand Millie’d be a fool to resent it. I made the same mis- take in broad daylight the other day. I rushed into your dining-room and saw a strange girl setting the table, so I | made my exit in short order. _I don’t | see what landlords want to build a row of houses exactly alike for, unless it is to get people into trouble.” ‘They not only build the houses alike, but they put the same locks on all,” said the young stranger, whom Millie had discovered was very hand- some—much handsomer than Frank, and looked as though he would be very loving and kind to any woman. “I did not intend to steal a night’s lodging,” he added, addressing Frank, but gazing at Millie, and thinking of the plump burden he had carried “up- stairs the night before, and the kiss | which had power to thrill him as no kiss had ever done before. ‘The only way for you to get even with me be to walk into our house some n and appropriate a bed for yours: Soe “I think,” sai thoughtfulness for h “the way to settle the affair is “to ~be- come better acquainted, so that w a mistake of t kind does occur, culprit will not ve such an <4 nk n was result was been expe ected. at once, and might Milli ried her dark; for shy to i lives in uve to be to s re built vea bed in every one of} humoe. it is well to lis them.”’ + How the Diviner Found the Pin. At a seance in thought reader boasted that he could find a marked pin hid by one of the audience. Several of them came for- ward, among whom was aconfederate. | The pin was s hid by a Trinity student | in an adjoining room in the presence of the committee, among whom was the confederage. The student, suspecting | this man from his looks, slyly took the | pin away from its hiding place. On the | return to the platform the thought reader gazed into the hider’s face, and putting his hand to his brow was blinds folded and led the student to the place, but of course could dono pin. He returned acknowledging defeat and looking daggers at iis confederate. “Now, gentlemen,” said the udent, “I'll undertake to say that this ‘di- | j Viner of the human mind’ will do as I| } tell him, half the audience out a single hint from me, know where | the pin is,’’ and turning to the thoug ier he said, ‘‘sit down.”’ He did ere was a _yel , and, jum nought hastily from the seat o s trousers the marke | ed pin. a Evolutions of the American Hotel. | does ao. Pp BEsEL to dase eae with any- | a year you wo Lancaster, Pa., a|t | the averace pay Short Talks With the Boye “1am a strong,healthy boy, 16 years old, and havea fair common schoo! education. I must make my own Vv n e, What trade would you advise me to le: earn” Advice would do vou no zood. We will give you some facts and figures re- garding a good many trades, and you can see what they offer. In present- ing these figures we are guided by what is paid in Detroit. They may be somewhat higher in Chicago or New York and somewhat lower in other cities, but, taking the country over, the average will be about the same. If you want to become a butcher you must serve a three years’ apprentice- ship. The rule isto board with your employer, and the first year you may, if handy and willing, get $25 or $30 above board. During the first yearyou will drive cart and do the rough work. After the third year you will get all the way from $7 to $14 per week. There is one butcher in Detroit receiv- ing $20 per week, i there are plenty working for less than $14. In most cases the apprentice sets up for him- | self after his term has expired, and few butchers travel on the trade. The apprentice to a harness maker must serve the same time. The best boy will not get over $5 per month the first year, and the majority only $3 It is all shop work, and used to be con- sidered a good trade, but of late years so many state prisons have gone into the business, und machinery has had so much to do with it, that harness- makers are discouraged. Inthe aver- age shops journeymen can be hired for $9 to $10 per week. Itis doubtful if the very best men, wor on fancy harness, can 5 per weel If you would be a shoemaker you must also serve three years. You would get what i ‘board and clothes”’ the fir: nh means board and about The and and ash. board ird year board apprentices you were t would bea Any ore and good journey- . but more are re- than ove it, sadly ine journeyman during i ns, pie-tins, es he used solder together blow without naund uped at a ams, ‘due baker business takes no regular apprentice. Boys are taken to work, and ar llowed to learn how to bake, out there is no agreement as to time. ‘The greater portion of the work can be 1ed in a year, but bakers who ha ive : de for 3 baker who gets the latter Baus is t i ae second. A m-fitter can 5U per day and Ts are worki and xe over $13 per ‘es apprentice would be paid per week the first year, but without board. In cities of any size a painter means tsman who paints buildings. He is not over $2 “per day, ; and there is a great deal of lost time. asion House in Philadelphia was ed excell Cozzen | fine gun-maker. ; day. Paper-hanging and decorating have come to be an art. Men with taste and il ean earn from $2.25 to $3 per week rst year. des a dozen other businesse: He Keeps a machine shop and a novelty I know a locksmith who is a a clock, put in an electric bell, ything in wooc ors, fie saws, cut screws and bolts and nm an engine, n fact, never jodof any sor He knows ience of ste 3 friction to a nicety athe varia- tions of a toahair. He is in- genius, but when I dsy how much surneyman as | It is active ; such & degree that one can sc: arcely | forty y | being | creatures j him afraix best | $3.50 per | ‘An apprentice would have to | serve at least two years, and would not j | be Ay id over $. What is called a locksm’ th in Detroit j He can turn out any | sort of a pattern wanted. He can mend | repair | or iron, sharpen raz- | day for the third. The wages of a jour- neyman will averaze $12 per week. Horse-shoers take an apprentice for three v uta boy would get noth- ing be ond board for the first. t d workman he is . nd some foe more 3 trade which would not flour 1 “ine side work,” 2.50 perday. T : 2Or ble time lost in the tr a lueky man the year $210 § through Wew the ot her t some of chances Chased by a Spider. The king of the spiders on the pam- pas is nota Mygale, but a Lycosa of extraordinary size, light gray in color, with a black” ring sround its middle. and swift, and irritable to help thinking that in ti species nature has overshot her mark. When & person passes near one, say within | three or four yards of its lurking-plac it starts up and gives chase, and will often follow for a distance of thirty or ards. Ieame once very nearly bitten by one of these savage Riding at an easy trot over the dry grass, I suddenl erved a spider pursuing me, | wittly ong and keeping up v I aimed a blow with my whip, and the pointof the lash struck the ground ciose to it, when it i tly ies upon and nup the lash, and wa thin thr my hand cae 9 i 3 r inches ¢ whip irc ry Was once invaded by strous spiders, and ple went ot _———w oe ee Bown on Enterpri ern few | l to business 2 AD Indiana : mont settled apprec ihey fined | on the ved bou ad three h nd pounded | He refused to make the grocery the head- quarters of old bi uldheads who wanted Jk horse and jaw about hard and some one bored holes in his ne barrels and ‘started the story that he poisoned his first wife. A month ago he bought outa new baking powder, advertised it on the fence around the graveyard, and hired a boy to follow a funeral procession and dis- tribute bills. 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