=iij" ."**i TS3T &* Hancock's Heroism at Gettysburjf. compelled to appeal to his wife for x-fr ELY'SLUCK. tones, or anundefinablesenseofpowei at the unwontoned carets from such MOTHERHOOD. some of her fortune. that superior minds oftentimes exercise 'iff \ji He made a trip to Paris, where she Hundreds and thousands we^e A Mirier Deserted' By the Woman to One~by one the days of that week over inferior ones, that stayed "Only the look from 1 he eyes of a babe, S-, was living. He found her living in Whom He Gave a Fortune. stricken down the shrieks of animals slipped by and the woman still remained the blustering answer upon the man's As it lay upon my knee, surroundings even more georgeous and screams of wounded men were with the Bigharts. It was the iips and made him slink out of the Yet I shall kn J\V that vrondous gaze There was quite a numerous gathering than those he had brought her to ytk day before the departure for America, appalling still the awful rushing and When we meet in eternity. house like a cur, turning, however, at around the small mahogany tables from Salt Lake City. As he had once ail business having been satisfactorily sound of flying missiles went on and the gate to shake his fist defiantly. in anup-tOwn cafe recently when I entered, Angel of death! ye cannot then been the central figure in life in San transacted, when Mrs. Bighart, laying "Theer, theer, lass," soothed Jack apparentlv never would cease. It says the New York correspondent ,My heartstrings rend apart Francisco, so was she then of the gayties her hand kindly upon Mary's shoulder, as his wife clung sobbing about his was then, when the firmest hearts had I shall hold iny boy forever and aye of the Atlanta Constitution. It & and frivolities of the French capital said: neck, "ye ha' na call to fret. He'll na begun to quail, that the army witnessed Close to my yearning heart. was a brilliant, though not an unusual A Queen, indeed, and of his own making, "Do you know, Mary, I've been trouble ye agin, I'm a-thinkin'!" one of the grandest sights ever picture, as one stood in the doorway Motherhood! how dearly bought!' but the creation was more divine thinking that I don't see how I'ni to "But, oh, Jack, you'll not love me beheld by any army on earth. Suddenly and watched this curious gathering We little know the cost, than he had ever dreamed of. So was spare you, an' I've talked it over with the less?" came desparingly from "Ma- a'band began to play "The of young bloods and listened to Until we suffer birth and death, the result. Instead of seeing the rude Tom, an' the long and the short of it ry. Star-Spangled Banner," and Gen. Hancock, Until we've loved and lost. their gay talk. Right in the midst of little girl he had picked up on the is, my dear, if you've a mind to go "Love ye the less, lass. Why, I with his staffMajor Mitchell, this throne sat one whose appearance streets of Utah's capital, he met a along with us, I'd be glad to have you. couldn't do it if I would, an' wherefo', SAVED. Capt. Bingham, Capt. Parker, Capt. made him seem out of place in such The children they've took to you so, haughty, imperious woman of the ye are a good, true woman an' ray Bronsonwith a corps flag flying in surroundings. He was an oldish-looking an' you see, out west in them clearings world,whose head had been turned and wife." the hands of Private Wells, appeared man, but still in the full vigor of it's goin' to be a bit lonesome, without dazzled by the life she was leading. Slowly to and fro a woman paced A few days afterward the dead body on the right of his line uncovered and healtha big, strapping uncouth fellow, a neighbor, barring perhaps three She had no use for the old of a man was found in a gully. The ih^TWaterloo bridge, London, apparently rode down the front of his men to the of almost giant proportions. A miles. I'm sorry we're not able to miner, who came to claim her theory was that, having drank to unmindful that a drizzling rain rough diamond, and one that left. The soldiers held their breath, offer much wages at first along of the as the partner of his name and freely (an empty leather flask was no polishing can alter, would be expecting every moment to see him nad set in and that her thin shawl was expenses we'll be to agettin'there, but fortune, nor did she propose to divide found in his pocket), he had made a the comment of a person who your bit an sup and an odd pound now fall from his horse pierced by a dozen with him the wealth he had given her. becoming wet through. After awhile misstep and percipitated himself to his an' agin you'll be welcome to." would watch this singular character bullets, but still he rode on, while the Their paths henceforth lay in different death. The body was identified as she turned her steps toward the parapet, for a short while, and it would be the shot roared and crashed around him, directions. What passed between that of a stranger who had stopped Like one dazed, Mary stood listening and leaning over its edge, gazed truest estimate of the man that could every moment tearing great gaps in them other than this has never been at a wayside house the night before to the kind offer, then, with deep down into the black depths beneath. be made. As I sat watching him, and told to the outside world, for "Jim" the ranks by his side. the accident. There was nothing upon wonderment in her tones, she said: wondering what curious train of circumstances Eiy's lips have never spoken the woman's The next instant she stood erect his person to tell from whence he "You are asking me to share your "Stormed at bv Bhot and shell, had brought among the name since. He took the next came or who he was. They buried upon the parapet, a shadowy figure home, knowing nothing of me? My Boldy they rode and well. present company, I learned something 3teamer for this country, and has not him, marking his grave by a rude God! had I but met such!women as you seen through the mistiness of the night. Every soldier felt his heart thrill as of his history. His name is Ely"Jim" crossed the Atlantic again. He also wooden cross. And when Jack told in the past!" In another moment she would have he witnessed the magnificent courage Ely, as I rememberand not twenty brought his two children to America Mary concerning Jim's death, for he of his General, and he resolved to do, been fluttering like a wounded bird, with him and placed them in a school years ago he struck a silver mine out had recognized the man, he added Five years had come and gone since something that day which would equal on Staten Island, where they are getting in Nevada that made him a millionaire down to certain death, had not a gently: the day when Mary joined her fortunes it in daring. Just as Hancock reached the education which made their thrice over and the biggest man in the "Let the past die with him, Mary, man's hand held her back from the fatal of her helpful friends and prosperity the left of his line the rebel battery mother what she is. territory. He dragged the woman lass. Please God the future shall ha' had dawned for them and her. act, as he exclaimed: ceased to play, and their infantry, whom he loved from ignorance and Ely's mode of living has not been o'ny good fo' ye on' the little 'un," Toms and Jack's log cabins were the 18,000 strong, were seen emerging "Fo' God's sake, lass, dinna do't." poverty to education and wealth, changed much by his misfortunes. He and honest-hearted Jack lovingly envy of their less thrifty neighbors. from the woods and advancing up the gave her his name and fortune, and still has a little moneyenough to eke For a second the woman struggled in clasped his two treasures within his At first Jack had boarded with the hill. Hancock knew the artillery fire from that rich sowing has harvested out a scant existenceand I am arms. his grasp, then, half defiantly, half Bigharts, but after awhile it occurred had been intended to demoralize his a life of wrecked hopes and disappointed told that he is on here now to induce to him that he, too, should like a wearily, she said, as he helped her descend men and cover the advance of their some people to give him money ambitions. home of his owna wife to share the A Sad Sight. infantry, which was to make the real from the parapet- "Well, I suppose for the development of a property good luck that had come to him. And, attack. Turning his horse, he rode It is a sad sight says a writer in the you want me to go along to the which he has discovered in Colorado. as the months slipped :-ito years, he slowly up his line from left to right, San Francisco Chronicle, to watch He says there is five million dollars in lock-up?" "Jim" Ely lived in Missouri until learned to know that there was but holding his hat in his hand bowing and the gradual decay of love, the devel a little hole, as he calls it, out there, along somewhere in the eal'ly '50s, one woman for him, the woman he had "Na, na, lass, I'd on'y like to see ye smilling to the troops as they lay flat opment of familiarity and selfishness and he wants to share it with the man when he left his home and made for saved from death. While Mary, when on the ground. Hardly had he reached among friends. Come, he added, laying who will give him the means to get it. between a newly married couple. I it first dawned upon her how dear the Pacific slope. The gold craze of the right of the line when the men In the meantime the wife is making his hand kindlv upon her arm, see them sometimes, from the country she had become to this simple, Godfearing '49 was still rampant "through the who, inspired by the courage of their the most of life out of the fortune he evidently, at a restaurant here. I "you'll be wet through standing here." man, was seized with an impulse country, and he had set his mind on General, could "notv hardly restrain gaveher,and has probably blotted out like to watch them and speculate on to flee from the shelter of the joining the sturdy army of fortune The woman gazed at the man with a themselves, received orders to attack of her mind whatever recollection she the subject. They come in together happy home that for three years had seekers who were then steadily wending the advancing rebels. Eighty guns perplexed look, which he returned may have had of people and conditions when they first airive, full of bliss and been hers, but her strength failed her. their way west to the land of which Hancock had concentrated with a friendly smile, noted her pale on this side of the Atlantic. Reports affection and tenderness and other She could not so easily uproot such promise. But there was no gilt eds opened their bra/en mouths and from Paris say that she is living cuticular characteristics of human face and the hunted, weary expression tightly riven ties. For Jack had become to the life he led out there for many streams of blue bullets flew from the there with a Frenchman of broken nature. He is most delicate and attentive. as a part of her very being. -of her dark eyes as she said, almost years. He moved from one mining mu//.les of our rilles to the breasts of fortune. As I heard the last incident He takes her cloak off and It wa3 only f}r his sake that she camp to another with even less than the Confederates. humbly: of this romantic story and glanced at hangs it up. He sets the chair for her thought of going away, because of the the ordinary run of luck and a great It was an awful day, and Longstreet's "I should thank you, perhaps, for the rough-looking man who was and hovers o'er her until she has fairly sacrifice she deemed it would be putting deal worse than the ordinary run of "Old Guard of the South" the hero and who was within a few saving my life, and yet it were better settled herself in it. He takes up upon him if he should wed her. hardships, even in that desolate melted away like wa\ under the terrible feet ef me, I began to think that truth Something of this'she tried to tell him the bill of fare and divides the hungry if you had let me go. Not a living country. It was a rather long and fire. Of the 18,000 who came to the was really stranger than fiction after when he asked her to be his wife, but eyes between the sparkling face opposite narrow lane that he traveled until soul is there to mourn my loss, and I attack 5,000 fell or were captured on all. he would not listen he was satisfied, and the monotonous, inartistic, the inevitable turn came in the winter the hillside. Thirty stands of colors might have found rest." he t.aid. Then almost desperately ohe and singularly appetite-destroying of 1866-67, when he finally woke up and an immense number of small arms "Na tha' way, lass but ye look ill begged that he would hear her, and document. Then he suggests everything Wrecks in Washington. one morning to find that the wealth were taken. Hancock was every here, an' na fit to be out o' sich a night. If shielding her face with her hands she to her, and she accepts everything, he had dreamed of was actually his. riding the storm of battle as it he bore There are around Was-hington just yo dinna moind, perhaps I might be a related to him with pitiful pathos the and the waiter does not know The "find" was in Pioche, Lincoln a charmed life. At last just at the now looking for clerkships, says the help to ye, a-seeing yer home." story of her life before his path crossed what to bring them. I like to watch county, Nevada, and it has since been moment of victory, he was seen to coriespondent of the Cleveland Plaindealer hers, holding back nothvngfromthe "Home! I have no home. I have the waiter's patient, half-amused smile known to the world as the Raymond reel his saddle, and would have fallen hundreds of bright, brilliant bitter degradation of the past. With been sick unto death. This morning while he gazes sideways down upon & Ely mine, for both men had to the ground had he not been helped young fellows, who, if they achieve tears si reaming down her cheeks she only was discharged from the hospital, them. Then he goes and gets what worked together the claim and had a from his horse. A ball had pierced their aim and secure clerkships, will implored him not to judge her too and such as I are best out of the he thinks they ordered, and they never full partnership in it. Over $0,000.- his thigh, and for a time it was enter into small offices, where they harshly. She who had never known world." notice that he has not brought 000 in dividends alone have since been thought the wound was mortal. a mother's care never had a home will leave ambition behind. The "The Lord knows best wba' is fo' them what they wanted. They don't taken out of this property, and its "Tell Gen Meade," said Hancock, addressing until he came into her life. young man with education and ability 't our good," reverently repeated the know what they want anyhow. And his aide, Col. Mitchell, "that yield is almost as rich now as it ever enough to make a name and career for man, then, with a slight tinge of color Pityingly as he might have soothed then he orders champagne. You can the tioops under my command have was. The two men whose spades first himself ought never to seek a clerkship mantling his honest lace, heeontinued"If a little child, Jack gathered the stricken see her faint protest. It does look repulspd the enemy and gained a great uncovered its riches retained their interest here. They, it is true, when they ye dinna moind trusting yerselt woman to his arms, saying: extravagant. But you can tell in the victory. The enemy are now flying in it but a few years, however, to me I think I can find ye a place fo' accept the positions, anticipate promotion, "Mary,that old lite is dead an'gone, distance he says: in all directions in my front."Brooklyn when each returned to San Francisco. the night. Ye see, I'm just newly come buried away this iive year back let or intend, as soon as they Eagle. Raymond took his million and lived "My darling ducky, we've come to fra' the country, on my way to ic rest. Together we will start afresh. get a "little ahead," to return to thenhomes outa hfeofeaseandplenty. Ely,however, town to have a good time hang the America, an' there's a family as was It ye love me I ha' na fear fo' the future, or go west or south, and commence was of a different'turn of mind. expense." Where Kissing Still Flourishes. on the train with me that is bound fo' lass." buisiness or begin a practice. He at once drifted into extravagant The second evening the merest trifle the same place, an' is stopping at a What woman could have resisted But they become fascinated with the From the Christian Million, London. and reckless ways of life which made of a tamer proceeding crops up, and bit of a lodging over yonder, an' I'm such faith.' And so there was a quiet life they lead, not physically a hard Side by side with the astonishingdevelopment "Frisco" a veritable "Golden Gate" there is less enthusiasm and less affection. na doubting but Mrs. Bighart would little wedding, and Mary became Jack's one, but one that keeps them subordinate of prurient literature there in the days of the bonanza kings. But But there is still champagne, take ye in, fo' she has a most feeling wife, and went to dwell with him in not leaders. After getting into has grown up in Sunday schools and he was still living in the flood "tide of ii and just a little fuss. The third night heart, so if yer agreeable to't we'll be in the pretty log cabin he had built the mausoleum of a public department fortune/and the speculations ha plunged temperance societies with a close membership sense is beginning to assume its sway. goin', as it's a goodish bit further." "agin that day." move than doubled the million their ambition giadually gives into an equally astonishing development His finances are beginning to suffer. For a second the woman hesitated, For two years not a cloud had come way and they accept a series of'routine he took out of this mine. For a The theatres and champagne are beginning of kissing games. The oldfashioned then with "very well" she moved along to dim their happiness. Yet sometimes duties as their life work, and become timea brief time, thoughhe was to tell on his purse, and he accepts out-door kiss-in-the-ring of at the man's side. On leaving the buss Mary became possessed with a to other menlike the extia car the central figure in the wild round of her very faint protest and orders school-treats and the equally harmless -which they had taken at the opposite wild fear that it could not last. One horse that is attached to the car leading dissipation which men of his mould claret. The fourth evening she forfeits played (and paid) beneath side of the bridge they proceeded along day in her husband's absence she saw up the hilla mere help, not a participant, made the feat ure of far western life at takes off her own cloak and hangs it the mistletoe havegiven place to a set divers streets. At last the man turned a man approachiug the house. There in the struggle that young that time. He built a palatial house, up, and she arranges her own chair, *h of kissing games in which teachers and in at a doorway, and with a smile and was something strangely familiar manhood ought to look fearlessly upon. made hosts of friends and then began and he takes care of himself deliberately. a nod bade the woman follow him,into about the saucy, devil-may-care air senior scholars indulge for hours together, Richelieu's words "In the lexicon to look around him for a partner for A kind of weariness hangs over a narrow passage lighted by a flickering with which the stranger sauntered and which form the great attraction of youth, which fate reserves for life. the table, a bored look passes between oil-lamp. Then he paused, saying along, but not until he stood within of many gatherings. It a bright manhood, there isnoj-nch What fate or caprice brought him them, and he tells the waiter boldly in his kindly tones: a few feet of her did it flash upon her was our painful duty to \isit a London into Salt Lake City in the spring of word as fail," is not an incentive to to bring him a bottle of beer. Ah, who this man was. A smothered cry "Would yer momd biding a bit here Sabbath school entertainment 1871 no on knows but he went there the department clerk. He is willing me! Loves young dream! The sweetness escaped her, and convulsively clasping till I just sort o' prepares Mrs. Bighart where the- things were being carried ft and saw a pretty face, andbig, to sit down and take his stipend without that cloys, the fairness that becomes her babe she hastened to enter the fo' yer comin'?" Signifying her on from six in the evening until midnight. brawny, uneducated fellow as he was making any effort to' push his familiar, the fading fires of bliss house. But the man called out. willingness, the woman remained We protested A ei bally, and it fascinated him. It was the face own fortune. He becomes a dependent that has consumed itself all too soon! "Here, I say, carn't ye give me a standing where he left her, little heeding also leaving an entertainment where of a young Mormon girla handsome The fifth night they do not come. and generally in the end a mendicant. bite of sumat? I've had a goodish or caring what was to become of we felt the presence of God was not flaxen-haired little thing, Avhose beauty They have gone back to the rural districts, My advice to a young man is walk and I'm about dead beat." her. As she waited, a look of dull being recognized. It began with was all the more resplendent in his eyes where the sharp-eyed editor of White as death, she turned and fared not to come to Washington to accept apathy upon her handsome face, the a can-can which, to an idiotic because it shone out from the coarse him, when, with an oath, he exclaimed, the local paper interviews them, and door through which her rescuer had a mere clerkship in a public office as song and tune, first the upper surroundings in which she lived. Like as if thunderstruck- announces in a double-headed editorial disappeared opened, and a plump, long as he has brains and energy to then the lower membeis of the himself, she was not a girl of line manners that Mr. and Mrs. Jones have returned jolly-looking little woman burst into make a living away from it. The ambition "Moll' by all that's blue." Then, body were raided and swung about. and education, for she had neith 'the hallway, exclaiming: from their wedding tour to to become a senator oi a congressman insolently laying his hand upon her ..i After this an hour was spent in "kissing er. She was a product of the rude, untutored San Francisco. "Oh, there you are! I didn't know or to holdaleading position arm, headded: "I'm blamed if Ididn't life which prevailed out there and hissing." Then came the you for the minnit. The passage be think ye'd kicked the bucket. It's in some of the departments is a laudable then, and, like himself, had little use dark after the light inside. Ye look rather overpowerin' to have ye turn They Met Again. one, but the records do not showthat great lieat called "thearmy." Marching for books or learning. The story goes tired just come right along in. The up here in this unexpected fashion. any man has ever been called Detroit Free Press. around in pairs, these Sunday that she was barefooted and almost children have everything in a muss, You might offer me a chair, I'm thinkin', from a clerkship to the cabinet. school teachers went through a dull They stood together under the wav.mg ragged when Jim Ely first met her. but, Lor' bless 'em, I havn't it in me after our long separation Mechanically The record is all the other way. in whifh "present arms" and "fire a branches of a mighty elm on the But he saw in her the making of to scold, along of their being bo cooped Mary stepped aside amdlet Bright and able young men who have vollc-y" meant embracing and kissing banks of a singingbrook one fair, sweet country."You a queen for his palace if she had a few tip here, after tha the man pass into the house there, dra'-.n themselves out of the whirl of Vietween the sexes When we state night in June. A calm and holy joy was years of training and education in a flinging himself upon a seat' and are veiy kind," at last answered Washington society, out of the charnel-house that the male "teachers" knelt down in her facethe joy that comes of a more cultured sphere. So he took her chuckling amusedly, he continued"Yer the young woman, a softened of the departments, and befoie their artners to embrace them, maiden loving and beloved. She looked with him to San Francisco, and told expression gathering in her eyes. seem to be pretty well fixed and that six "volleys" were ordered at struck out boldly for themselves in up into his handsome face with such the world that he was going to marry Bidding her guest lay aside her wet but yer always was a lucky devil. I once, or that kissing that posture the west or adjoining states are now a proud, tender, trustful look. Her her when she became of age. All that sonnet and shawl and seat herself suppose you've got suthm' to eat in was ordered to continue until the men of high repute. wray of fitting hand rented confidingly in his soft and money could do in the lear the stove, worthy Mrs. Bighart the house?" word halt" from the bugleman, the low were the words she spokewords oustled about,bent upon preparing the her for the place she was to occupy in Placing some eatables before the reason of our departure and strong indignant The best, the strongest, and the no ear but bi* should hear. supper. The children, some five in after life was done, and on the day he man, Mary at last spoke, the words protest will be evident. ablest men we have in the nation are number, admonished by their mother, seeming to come with an effort, as she made her his wife one of those who And he! Ah, me, and ah, me! Would the men who, when they were boys, and, perhaps,a little awed by the grave, said: were present at the ceremony says that that I could give to the face and the struggled bravely on the farms in the "Low Briilsc-'* silent woman, ceased their play and "Eat what you will, then go. My she seemed every inch a queen and the heart of every young man the calm, workshops, in the law offices of our ihyly eyed the stranger from a distance. husband will be home shortly and he handsomest woman on the slope. sweet, holy joy that face portrayed,, The Cojonel of a raw New-York regiment, country to prepare thems-elvej for the Ail at once there was a delightAil must not find you here." This was in the spring of 1873. On that heart revelled in. He lived and which had bepn hastily raised high positions that have been assigned shout of "Papa'" as a large, jovialappearing the same day he gave her outright what "Ho, ho! is that the way the wind loved. Life seemed like a summer sea and sent forward, suddenly found Ids man entered the room, and, them by their fellow-citizens. lays?" ejaculated the man, with a was then about half his fortune$1,- before him. Ah, me,andah,me! That command the only reser\e or supposing satching up the youngest toddler, sat wmk. 000,000. Not satisfied with what she ever storm should come, that ever force to a brigade engaged ier upon his shoulder. Then the man "The day has gone by for me to fear had learned in San Francisco, she proposed rude blasts should assail, that ever his front and which was fast breaking A Way Out of the Difficulty. who had befriended the young woman your words, Jim. I have taken up a trip for educational purposes hearts should break! Well, well, and to the I ear. The stream of wounded Mrs. MarmadukeOh, dear' I came in and was immediately hailed with a different life. With you and through Europe, and thither the illmatched again I say, well, well! Lives and loves and stragglers, with direful reports have just been calling on Mrs. Fiipperts by the children as "Jack" a.s they the past I have done." couple departed on their end every day, lives and loves like these. from the front, made his new men and she showed me her baby. clambered about him in high glee. As "Not so fast, my fine beauty. Yer honeymoon. Lovers part to meet no more hearts ner\ ous and distracted then-thoughts. if in adream, the outcast woman found Such a thing. I did not know what didn't live with me for seven years for Either the untutored ways of her break and are forever sad. They had been recruited largely in the" herself seated at the table of a happy, to say. It was too awful for anything. nothin'. an' dn me if I don't claim husband or the glories of the old She spoke: towns aiong the Erie Canal." The order honest family, who treated her as an A head and face like a Bartlett pear, yer as my wife and then what 'ull become world were too much for the young "Adelbert," she sighed, h^r voicelike came to move forward under fire honored gue-^t, receiving her unquestioned a nose spreading all over like a batter of yerdifferent life, I like to girl, for ^ie lost all interest in her native the far-away tinkling bells, "and must and engage the enemy. With manv within their midst, simply because know? If I could just have a talk cake, or two or three macaroons run land during her travels and has this be? Must we, oh, Adelbert, must misgivings, not unwarranted, as to *h was friendless and in need. with that husband of yourn I'd fix together, no eyes, and a mouth that never returned here since. Not so we be torn apart? Oh, Adeibert, me the result he put the line in motion, And that uight, moved by a strange yer different life fur yer." made one think of a jelly fish or some with "Jim" Ely, though. He had no poor heart will break!" and, in spite of his utmost efforts', longing, she had timidly asked to be allowed A wail of dispair issued from Mary's such thing that squirms and opens use for the life he had led over there, "Courage, my sweet one, courage," saw it bend, waver, and partially separate. to kiss the babe that cooed at white iips as a stalwart figure darkened and shuts that one sees in the and dropped into San Francisco he said, with trembling 'voice and Jup*t then two enoinious her from her mother's arms. And the doorway, Avhilst her husband's aquarium. Oh, I declare, I was perfectly alone one day to take up the free-andeasy quivering lips, "It shall not beforlong. elongated percussion shells struck the 'kindly Mrs. Bighart, with a pleased voice said quietly: dumb and I felt like a fool. I ways he had dropped a few years I go to thegolden West to make a home, ground about 20 yard* in front, and, .smile, had held out tho little one to "Ye would speak with Jack Sturdy, could not for the lite of me think of before at the bidding of his bride. The humble it may be, for my beautiful without exploding, bounded over his her, saying: stranger, but first let me say, tha' between anything to say. tide of fortune turned the wrong way bride. Have courage, me life. We regiment with the most terrible whirring "There, take her, my dear, and kiss me an' my wife lie no secrets, for him, however. Things that had shall meet again. sound imaginable. Of course Mrs. PapadulixI have a standing her as much as you please." Later in I? an' the man tha' says aught agin her before turned to gold almost at his "Yes, yes, yes," she cried, quickly every man stopped and ducked hi* phrase ready for all such emergencies. the evening, when the little woman has to answer fo' it to me. Out here touoh now quickly vanished, and speculation and passionately, "we shall meet head almost to the ground. H felt Mrs. MarmadukeOh! Then in had resumed the charge of her youngest the men are not given to many words, after speculation rapidly again. 0, Adelbert, if it were not for sure the line would go to pieces. But pity impart it to me, and I will call and was bidding her guest goodnight, an' I've learned the way of the country. made heavy inroads on his fortune. that blessed assurance I should die, I at that instant some canal boy with down eternal blessings on your head. she ejaculated warmly. With us it is a word an, a blow, With his reckless habits of life, his shoud die! Heaven be praised! We native drawi sang ouf'Low bridge:" Mrs. PapadulixOh, it is very "There now, my dear, just you but I ha' known the blow to come confidence in his own luck and the shall meet again!" The effect was almost magical. "Low simple when one of these amorphous Bleep well and to-morrow we'll see if fust." Then pointing sternly to the knowledge that his wife still kept intact One passionate, thrilling, joyous, bridge!low bridge!" was shouted amid infants is presented to me I simply 'there isn't a way out of your difficul- door he added: "It is three miles to the million that he had given her manly, burning kiss on her cold, white cheers and Jaughter from, one end to ties," and with'a hearty good-night brighten up and say: "Well, that is a the next settlement. If ye would 4-i on their wedding day, he kept on going lips and he was gone, leaving her in a the other. The regiment assumed its kiss, Mrs. Bighart hurried off to attend, reach theer before dark ye ha' best be baby!" The mother takes it as a down in fortune until almost the last swoon on the banks of the murmuring proper shape and went in to stay and. to her children's wants, while the goin'!" compliment and I have not imperilled penny was gone. His circle of Mends stream under the tender light of the to win.Chicago Tribtme. young woman's face paled and flushed Perhaps it was Jack's calm even my everlasting soul.Texas Sittings. grew narrower as his bank account pitying stars. He was gone! became smaller, until at last he was **&