John Pott's Reward

Thirty years ago yesterday a poor girl named Carrie Roper, in garmenta tattered and torn, wandered to the home of John Potts, a village blacksmith, ia what is now known as Brooklyn, Pa. Mr. Potts took the girl in, and suggested to his wife that they adopt lier, they having no children of their own. Mrs. Potts objected, feeling it her duty to take one of four of her sister's ters, if it was deemed expedient to adopt a daugbter. Mr. Fotts would not listen to his wife's suggestions, and detennined to support the girl. He seat her to a school in Bucks county, where she took up the study of muñe with her academie course, and graduated with high hi.nors. Two yearsafter she gradual ed Potts failed to learn of her whereabouts. His inquiriesdid not bring any tidings of the girl, and he gave her up as dead. His wife died in the spring of 1877, and he lived alone. He still continued his business as blacksmith, though unable to save anything from his earnings with which to pay off a few mortgages on his property. Two weeks ago a strange lady appeared at the uostoflice in Biooklyn, and introduced heraelf as Mrs. Jame3 Rutledge of Pittsburgh, wife of a millionaire. She enquired for John Potts, and was escorted to his home. The old gentleman recognized her at sight, and was overeóme with joy at her appearance. She paid off the mortgages on the Potts property, purchased a handsome morment for the grave of Mrs. Potts, and made Potts a gift of 150,000 in United States