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VOL. VII.
A WORD FOR THE MOTHER.
Send the children to bod with a kiss aud a
Rinllo ;
Sweet childhood will tarry at best but a
wuiie ;
And soon they will pass from the portals
of home,
Tho wilderness ways of their life work to
roam.
Yes, tuck them In bed with a smile 'good
night!
Tho tnautlo ol shadow is yelling the
licht ;
And may ho God knows on this swoot
little lace,
May lall deeper (shadows Iu lifo's
raco.
weary
Yes says it : "Clod bless my dear darling
I pray !"
It may bo the last you will say it for
aye I
The night may be long oro you seo thorn
again i
And inoihnrloss children may call you In
vain 1
Drop sweet benedictions on each little
head.
And fold thoni in prayer as they nostle In
bed j
A guard of bright angels around their
invite,
The spirit may slip frum the msriiing to
"iglit.
FOR TWENTY YEARS.
It don't seem much, of a story to tell,
though it was a tough one to lire. You
see, it was more than twenty years ngo
that my twin brother and I sold out our
homestead iu New Yoik, went to Cali
fornia to seek our fortunes. AH the
rest uf the family were dead, and we
two were the more attached to each
other for that.
Well, we tried mining, and Ire tried
everything we could think of, but noth
ing seemed to prosper with us j we only
grew poorer and poorer.
Finally, we thought of the idea of sep
arating, so as to work two fields at once,
before the lust of our capital was gone.
There as n great talk just then of some
new gold region, and we agreed that
one of us should go there and try his
luck, while the other stayed in San
Francisco, and carried on a little busi
ness we bad started there.
Of course, everything was in partner,
ship. I never thought of an interest
separate from his, and be, I know, felt
the same.
Well, tho question arose, which of us
should go. It wasn't very tempting, the
mining life, and neither of us was
ai xious for it, so we drew lots
who should go.
The Lit fell to me.
There was another reason
didn't want to go, besides the
to see
why I
unc'im-
fortablt! life, but I would not tell liob ;
for I could not drive him oft' to the
mines, and I knew his generous heart so
well, that I was sure he would insist on
going, if he were aware of all.
ISut well, the truth is, in a word, I
was iu love, aud I couldn't bear to leave
my dainty Susy to fioht the world along
she was a music teacher, poor
thing! nor for the other lellows to fali
in Live with.
However, I submitted, of course, to
the lot. and made my preparation to go.
It was a sad hcait that I bore around
to Susy's.rotuns that night ; but, bless
you I she no sooner saw my face than
she knew something was coming, and
she braced herself to meet it before she
asked me a question. After we had
spoken of the weather, and the book
I had brought her the day before, at
last she raid, quietly :
"Well, Ralph, what is it?" I know
you have bad news lor me,"
"I'ts bad for me, Susy, and I'm
afraid it will be tad fur you ; though
you know "
I couldn't go on, and she spoke again,
brave as she always was.
"llalpb, you know I'm used to mis
fortunes. Tell me at once."
So I told her, and she bore it nobly
as I knew she would though I was the
only friend she had in San Francisco,
except her pupils.
ISut I had thought of another plan to
make my going a little easier. That
was to make her my wife before I left,
so as to leave her in the care of Rob,
and rcleavt her from the bard life she
was liing.
After some persuasion she consented
to it.
So, a day or two afterward, we three,
I hud told Rob went into a quiet
little church, aud Susy was given to oie
to cherish and protect.
lrae little woman 1 how trustingly
she gave me her heart, and how basely
I failed her I II w ready I was t j be
lieve But let ine go hack. I took her to
our cozy boarding-place, which was in
deed a home to us, installed ber as its
mistress, made every provision that love
could suggest for her comfort, ecj yed
the bliss of a lew boura honeymoon,
and then left her.
I needn't speak of that. It w is hard,
I tell you.
Ah, welll 1 m an old man now oiuer
bv sorrow than by years ; but I never
shall forget the fresh, dainty look of my
darling, as I left her on the steps mat
bitter day a bride in the morning, a
widow at night. And 1 never did Mr
get it through all the black years, though
it seemod as if the very memory of it
would drive mo mad.
Well, I went to the mines, and I tried
faithfully, eagerly, for my heart was long,
ing to go buck to ber. Rut I could not
succeed.
Mails were not theo established so I
did not hear from my two dear ones;
but all the harder I toiled, for never a
thought of doubt entered my mind. I
was only too glad to have my dear
brother to care for ber, and save ber
WELD ON,
fiom all rough contact with the
world.
Finding no luck in the mines, I de
termiued to push on iuto the Indian
country and try a little hunting and trap
ping; for that was a good business then.
I succeeded a little at that, but wan
dered no, and finally came out at Fraser
river, where the gold excitement had
broken out fiercely.
I don't know now whether it was
months or years days and weeks were
alike to me for a long time but at last I
was successful, and got together five
thousand dollars in yellow dust. Of
course, my only thought was of my wife,
and I seiied the first opportunity to send
off my treasure.
A miner, going home, willingly took
charge of my little pile, and I soon
began to look fur letters.
Rob's I could easily imagine noble,
manly, like himself. Susy's I thought
of, and tried to fancy, hundred of times,
for I'd never hud a letter from her. I
knew it would bo delicate an 1 dainty,
and like mv pretty snowdrop.
Well, well, fancies may do very well,
but they won't feed a hungry heart.
Day after day passed hy and no
letters. My soul grew sick, I made nil
sorts of excuses for them. I irnan'med
all sorts of delays. Rat the liii",
dreary days went by with leaden feet,
and not a word came to die wanderer.
I grew morbid aud bitter, and nt last
I wrote to an acquaintance in Sun Fran
cisco asking for tidings of my brother
and wife.
The friend wa9 not so neglectful as
the wife and brother.
Soon too soon I got a reply. I
can see it now, in letters of fire. "My
dear fellow," it ran, ' I have made in
quiries, as you requested, about your
wife and brother I can only find that
they disappeared from here a few
months ngo, telling no one whence they
were going, but evidently having plenty
of money."
lut more the letter contained I
never knew; that much of it was
burned iuto my brain, and nt that point
I lost myself. They d,i say I was a
raving maniac. Perhaps so ; I don't
know.
I only know I found myself an old man,
blasted before my lime, like a tree
struck by lightning.
let, I could not feel angry. How
could! blame him?" Was I not mad
to leave him, with his tender heait, to
care for a tender beauty like my Susy?
Ilow ciiuld he helf loving her? Wasn't
she all that was lovely? He was nut to
blame, poor fellow.
And she I Did she not love me, and
was he not my twin brother? What so
strange that, seeing his love, she should
grow to leturn it?
What should I do? Should I search
them out, and blast their lives forever?
S lould I come with my ignoble revenge
aud teur her from his arms? Would she
love me for it? Should I get back my
wife and brother?
Oh, nol I had been gone long enough
to give her a divorce she had undoubt
edly got it, and even now was his wife I
IDs wife I Oh, God I and I could
live I
Weeks, months, years dragged on. I
scarcely knew they passed. Mechani
cally. I worked on. Fortune, no
longer sought, showered gold on me. I
cared naught for it, but instinct pre
vented me from throwing it away, (ram
bling was utterly repugnant to me N i
form of dissipipalion lured me. I was
an old old man at thirty. I only worked
aud thought, and lived over the old days
my one brief day of perfect joy.
I never cursed them. The hurt was
too deep and too sharp for curses. From
the depths of my toru beait, I pitied
them.
Well, twenty years rolled on, and I
have got to be forty years old, feeling
and looking more like sixty-five, bent
and stiff and gray-haired.
One day, in my wanderings I cime on
a traveling party of miners, bound to
the good regions. I j lined them, fron
tier fashion, and was soon seated at their
(ire, exchanging news of Indians aud
from the Slates. I chanced to mention
my name.
"We've got a names iko of yours iu
camp," said one fellow.
' Have you?" I said carelessly. "It
isn't a common name."
"No, and that's where it's odd," said
he: "besides, vou somehow remind ine
of him, though ynii'er much older than
he liy the wuy, there he comes."
I turned something, I knew not
what, shot through me. I rose on J
knew my brother.
My heart gave one bound. I forgot
my wrongs. I saw only my dear oilier
self, the companion of my boyhood. I
sprang forward.
' Robert I dear old boy is it you?"
He looked at uie eagerly incredu
lously. "Rilpb 1 it can't be you 1"
"ltis;"i cried; and well, I don't
know as I am ashamed of it I em
braced bim like a school girl, and
wept.
And so did he, poor fellow, though
he could hardly believe the wrecked
old man was his brother.
liut what struck me, even then, as
strange, he did not shrink from me, n.or
act as though he had injured me,
"Robert," I said, when we were alone
and calmer, "I've forgiven you long ago.
We won t speak ol the past. Let me
only be happy iu the bliss of seeing you
once more. I II never come around to
trouble vou."
"Forgive me!" he said inquiring. "I
dou't uuderstaud. You'll never trouble
N. O, SATURDAY,
me. and we'll not speak of the past?
Why didn't you write to us, Ralph?
Your poor wife "
"Don't speak of her?" I cried in
sudden agony. "I can bear anything
else spare me that."
"But, Ralph, there's something every
strange here. Why didn't you let us
hear from you? Why can't I speak of
her? Since you arenot dead as we
supposed wby did you dene t her?"
"Desert her I My (Jod I" and 1 fairly
laughed
A horrible laughed, I dare say, fir
Hubert turned pale. I could see he
thought I was mad. I resolved to con
trol nmeir, and since wo must have it
out, talk it over. Si after a turn or
two, I camo back and stook by him
uuce more.
"Now, Robert, if there is liny mistike
here, let us understand it at once.
left you, twenty years age, in chargj of
my wife, iu San Francisco "
"You did, and I"
"And you," I interrupted, "took good
care of her, and did not hear from me :
and she grew tired of waiting and lov
ing a shadow ; aud you and you loved
her 1"
"Hold I" he shouted, his eyes blaz
ing. "Who told you that infam ius lie?"
"And she," I went on, uot becdin
him, "she grew faint and tired j she saw
your love and she returned it."
U inert seized my arm us though
ho would murder tue, but I went on
coolla ;
Hush, till I have done. When you
received the money I sent, you were too
lar gone to go back She got a di
vorcod ; you married her, and left tho
city. I don't blame you."
"And you! you've believed this for
twenty years?" he said, calmly, now,
though it was the calmness of a
smothered volcaoo.
"I have."
"You have for twenty long years be.
lieved that your wife and brother were
infamously false to you?"
"I have."
"Then, here me, Ralph, while I
swear" and his form seem fairly to
dilate and grow grand, as he said
solemnly, 'The whole story is a most
infamous falsehood ! Your wife is as
true to you to-day as she w is tho day
you left her, twenty years ag ."
"What do you mean?' I cried, fran
tically, overwhelmed by his manner and
his words.
"What do I say Ralph? Uli ! there
has dcen some great mist ike 1 Hear
my story. After you left us, I strug
gled on with the business, though not
succeeding very well. Susy drooped bt
first but soon grew cheerful and begun
lo plan for your return."
These words brought the dear little
creature so plain beloro my eyes, that I
sank to the ground and covered my
face.
"As weeks and months and years
passed on," he went on sl.iwly. "he
cheeks grew thin and pale, a hungry
look came into hor eyes. I stw she
was pining, and wrote a leltlcr after you,
but no word could we hear. There
came to mo in a little envelope, directed
to both of us, a draft of five thousand
dollars, with not a word to tell how or
from whom it came. Of course we
knew it was from you, but whether gift
or legacy, who could tell?
"We instituted new inquiries. Noth
ing that love could suggest was left
undone. At last we were forced to
conclude you were dead. Hy my advice
the money was invented in a small
farm some distance frome San Fran
cisco, and Susy went to live on it, while
I started out on a sort of vagabond,
wandering life, in hopes at least to find
your grave, for we never believe! you
were nlive these long years, and never
let us hear. That life I have lived for
fi t;on years returning once in three
or
of
"a
has
four years to see to the c imlort
Susy ; and now I find you "
' You find me," I interrupted,
wreck a miserable wretch,, who
blasted three lives by his cri nin il weak
ness, his childish credulity in believing
evil, and who will soon rid the earth of
his presence," aud I started to go, for
despair had seized upon ma.
That I should have believed that
horror for to many years, and fi id it a
stupid mistake ; that I should havo
lliiown away my life, the blessed love of
my true wile, the warm affection of my
bri ther, for an idle scandal, 1 was
much to endure.
too
Robert laid a detaining hand on
my
"Hut Sjsy, Ralph I what shall
I say
to the loving woman who
has sutfered
so much for your
"Let her still believe me dead
I said
gloomily.
".Nay, brother; let me rather restore
you to ber. Ri'ph, go hum. aud let us
be so happy togther us to partly make
up for these years of mistakes aud error
and grief,"
ell, he persuaded me and soon 1
was eager enough myself. Now the
cold I bad despised was valuable, as it
could add to Susy's comfort. I gathered
it up, and we started for home.
Home 1 I had not spoken the wqrd for
fifteen years.
As we went, Uobert tried to prepare
me for a change m Susy.
"She has had a life of sorrow as well
as you, Ralph, and you must remember
she isn't the girl of 19 you left. She
neatly 40 years old."
IS
As I drew near, I seemed
young again, and I wanted
through without stopping a
to grow
to rush
moment.
Rut Robert refused ; aud be wanted to
OCTOBER 10, 1878.
get me into civilized clo.his, and under
the hands of a barber. lie wouldn't
take such a wild man of Ike woods home
to a little wife.
S i we stopped a few hours iu San
Francisco. 1 had my long white hair
and beared trimmed, and my dress
arranged to suit Robert, aud hastened
ou toward home.
As ho approached the blessed spot
where my darling lived, I could scarcely
breathe, and I dreaded to frighten her
to death. In sight of the house. I sent
Robert a head to tell her, and I basely
hid in the shrubbery, whore I could look
into the window.
There she wasl tho stnio dainty
figure tho same lovely face; but
dressed, oh, my (Jod! widow's weeds,
and her bunny brown hair thickly
sprinkled with silver.
1 saw the rapid, eager conversation.
I saw the color come quickly tn her
face, then leave it pile us death. I
saw her turn to the door, and fly. And
sprung to meet her, and and
Well, I can't tell about that.
And what said the little woman, when
she knew that I had stayed away all
these long years, had blasted her life,
disappoin'cd our brother's life love,
made deep misery for three, by my
stupid belief of a piece of gossip that
even t hear repeated she shrank from
as though it would wither her life. With
quivering lips she said :
1 lbar R ilp, let us forget the past.
This dread suspicion has wrought its
work of sorrow upon us both, it has
been a fearful mistake, but we may
again be happy iu each other's love."
A TERRIBLE STORY OF THE CRATER.
Jacksonville (Via. Uepublican
In your issue of the 17 ill instant I
noticed an article, the first sentence of
which asks the question, "Can a per
son's hair turn while within a short
time?" Having seen such an instance,
and one that can be authenticated be
yond all cavil, by persons now living I
will give you and your readers the cir
cumstances as they occurred, when,
where, and who they are.
When (iraut sprang to the "mine,"
or "blow-up" as many calls it, in Iront
of Petersburg, Va., at twilight on the
morning of 3(Kh of July, 18(51, the
point immediately over it w is occupied
by a Virginia battery. The ditches on
the right immediately next to the bat
tery were occupied by the Twenty
second South Carolina volunteers, Col.
Flening. O.i the left of the battery the
ditches were occupied by the F.ightecnth
South Carolina, C .1. W. 11. Wallace
(now Judge Wallace of South Carolina)
or which regi uent I was surgeon. All
along our lines our soldiers had dug out
small bomb proof's, us they called
them. These bomb-pro ifs were gener
ally about four feet broad, three high
and seven lect long large enough for
two or three men to to crawl into and
sleep with comparative comfort and
safety, which they did wheu ofT duty,
during that never lo-bc-!'orgotlen seige
by every man who participated therein.
In one of the bomb-proofs on the ex
treme right of the Hiuhteenth South
Carolina volunteers, and just to tho left
of Ihe mine, Lieut. Williard Hill, Com
pany 1! , und Sergt. Greer, Company A,
I'lighteeiilh South Carolina Volunteers,
having been relieved from duty an hour
before, were sleeping. The first they
realizrd of it was the shock, the i a deep
darkness, then a consciousness that the
mine had sprung, and that they had
been bone. I, how deep they could uot
imagine. I heir first impulse was a
deep indescrible despair hcarl-sicken-
ing, heart rending hopelessness, that left
them powerless lor a lime, li it what
could they do? They had nothing t dig
out with but a btvonet Unit b ryt. (jtreer
had in his bell, und there was but a can
leen of wa'cr in the cell. Hut what wis
ejniug on above them ? Urant hid con
silium ited the most diabolical of all deeds
ol a teriiblu war. I was within 180 yii'ds
ol it on my morniiif; visit to my regiment,
aii i it whs Ht ut that tune ol iky twi-
!it th it even trees can look like ghosts,
that added to tho weird scene til death.
Simultaneous with the deep, ileal sound
and quiver ol the earth, there arose in the
air a cloud of dust ana smoke, and tem-
hers, men mi I inu-kels, ami all manner ol
shapes and Iraoineiits wetefi in in every
lirie'.ion--in I thun Isr it moment a still-
icss -ami it ?ceiifil nl II every e union ou
the whole Ked' ial linn was mined Inn
urk'noiir lines Shells hlirieked thioiii-h
the air, inu-ket bulls and IranicuH ol
dliell lell in every iliiectinil, plivvmg up
the Ctrl It an I eutlin ol IidIm from rees
thai the relent '.e.-s hand of war hud spared
I hen came the chir,e. N-'uro troops in
limit with splendidly caparisoned tump
ol tho Federal army behind, drivinj theui.
as it were, to tho front like sheep to
slaotrhter. with the battle-cry ol "ltemeoi
ber Fort Pillow," and the fe the very
tew that survived no doubt remember
tho crater ol Omnt full as well.
II in h above all the eonlusion and smoke
and dti't and groans nl Ihe wounded,
crnild bo heard the battle cry of the Fed
erals, and wor ia of fiicou'iifjeiiU'iit ol ual
lant officers th lew that are left of the
Eighteenth and Twcnty-mcond South Car
olina volunteers, and of those brave Vir
ginians whoso battery was buried in a
common uravo with nearly every soldier
who manned it. I!ut tho ('onlederatc
lines were broken in twain, Federals and
negroes had tnado breastworks ol the
boulders that were blown up by tho ex
plosion. Hut shcy wcro not to stsy there.
Soon came General Mthnno with rein-
lorccmeiits; and after ona si the most gal
lant fiejhts o all the war, he carried the
works, and the crator turned to the grave
tor its cspters. I had heard of pools of
blood it was there I saw them. Then
silence reigned, tint painful silenc
which always follows on the battlefield
aiUr death lias held hiti carnival,
NO. 3G.
Then came the md duty nl rountins "-P
the cost, .My biigade had. kiiITiTi c! Seveie
If, the Twenty-see mil South Carolina, had
I 'st its gal'iint Col. Fleming and many a
brave soldnr. My regiment lost one
liunlred und six y-thri e iri'n. Two
whole companies, A and C, Eighteenth
South Carolina, hid not a man It-It who
whs on duty to tell the la'e. One hundred
and one of my mi n, inehi lin;; Capts.
McConiich and llildis, were dead Inricd
in the enter or pent ti red a!oim the woiks
nnil sixtt-two were m;8(in'.
Amni the iniKiin:,' are fcntenant Hill
nd S reimt lircer. We Mi them iu
their ill in 9t living uiave ; lircer dt),':ini:
with his bayonet, while 11.11 passed tark
til.' itirt, with all the ill i-in t :il inn o:
despiir. They hi ar n.it, lienl not, the
till' I lo Hint IS laying at) iVe them, but toll
to only uivo way lo ilfpair. 1 1 1 1 lia
o'teii I'll ine how, when lie uwoko to a
eiiiHCinioiess n his condition, the
t h nit; lit s til it 11 i-he.l thiouyli hia brain
like liejiininn ; lin.v il lie e uM only
one i iv o 1 i i 1 1 1 , or In.-.iili the trmh
once aain ; that il lie a nl I only let
air,
his
wile kiuiw wher.! Iu died, that death
would he a relief lo him. Almost suffo
cated lor hesh nir I li' y winked on; at
lust it seemed to them that soinethiiu had
dug through the loose, boii'dets, and the
light htust up mi tliem. They both, over
come wifli the so Men trims ictinn Ironi
their full' icntion and despair to light and
hope, landed, H w lon they iciiiained
the e thev knew know not. When they
awoke Iront their swoon the 11 rat s mini
that broke on tlieir ears was the cla-h ol
arms anil the quick rolling roar ol the
battle as it raged urjnin.i and above.
Almost in stupor, trying to reili.J that
they could again Bee tho light, ol heaven,
and hear the voice nl a living creature,
they lay still until they recovered their
minds enough to know wh il was going
on. Hill has olteii told mu that when he
knew and realiz-d that It was a battle,
the sound was ol sweetest music that li id
ever greeted his ears. At last the cry ol
victory rose high above everything else.
They knew that somebody was vanquished,
and that somebody was vic'or, who they
knew not. They emerged from their
awful retreat, weak, worn in body, and
with minds almost crsZ'd. Tiny knew
not how long they had been there. They
ilid not Imow even their old comrade",
Nor could they realirj that it was the
same day they weio buried.
They weie brought back to nie nt tl e
field hospital, more lie id than alive, for
strange as it may pecm, they were the
most sadly change I men that I evrr
beheld, ll.it h weie liae-looking soldiers
before ; now they were we ik with sunken
cheeks and eye. J,i u Mill, whose hair
twenty lour hours beloie was b ack, with
out a tingle gray luir in it ( is ho was only
thirty years ol I) was how almost us while
as snow. Whether it turii'.'d from horror
at his condition, iv the heat ol his sub
terranean bed, or both, I do n it pretend to
say. I ni in il v give the lacts, not as 1
heard, but as I saw them, and ho still lives
to vilify that this is no romance, but
one nl mv i xperiences in a war whose first
g'in 1 heard tired and lat mm nl winch
smindeilho ru'iiein ol the Wt cau-e
wheu I was at my post on duty.
lltic.u Toi.ani), M D.
CHRISTIAN SHIRKS.
II Y
The papers all over the country report
the congregations thinned out and churches
almost deserted on account ol the hot
ather. What trivial excuses serve to
keep our so.callcd Christians Irom attends
ing the public fervice ol Clod's limine
"K irsakn not the assembling of yourselves
together, a the manner of some is," said
the inspired npistle ol the Gentiles. And
yet, sec Ihem, hear them; Going to church
today? No. Why? It ia ton hot or too
col I. too damp or too du-tv. too windy nt
too sultry, Iko this or too that, to any
thing, everything cr nothing, but the
right lliing.
ll.it let a circus with its bare lodged
somerscttcis and vulgar clowns, come along
and, rain or shine, dust, inu I, heat, snow
hail or thunder, all these delicate Christians
will be there to "let their children seo the
aniina's." No trdling inconvenience ol
wea'her keeps theui from iitten ling to
their buviness or pleasure. Chopping,
hiuling. sidling, shopping, pieknicking,
party-going ; they never lail in ttorin or
calm, to put in a prompt appearance, at
them all. li d the inc. incut Sunday dawns,
each molehill on the roud lo church be
comes a mountain and each mole a lion.
Why is this thus? Is Sunday beat any
hotter, Sunday col I any colder, Sunday
lain any wetter, Sunday dust nny dustier,
or Sunday wind -hi v windier, than that of
any other duy ? What amount of Sued iv
exposure would prove li'al lo an able
bodied christian upon whom all the rige
ol week diy elements is spent in V'lin ?
Turn out, turn out ye wor-dnp-do Iging.
duty-skulking seivitits of the living God.
Away with your hoiwylugglinir pretexts
and apologies for Is', in ss and indilb rence,
When .fehovali Hire ol Ins b ,nn Icons least.
Sunday a''er Sunday, in ten inlnntcs' wa!k
ol v i u r hoims. will you st rve your immor
tal souls to save the blacking on your lino's
from dust or mud, the st ircli in your col
lars Iron per-pirational wilting, or Ihe
tl iwers on your llunsy bonnets Ironi a few
drops ol rain? Death w ill hardly pns'pone
his call on account ol the weather, and yon
niav havo to lake your last long ride
cemet crvward in an hour of storm and
cloud. You cannot go lo heaven under an
umbrella Pair-wea'l'er Christinas, who
only attcn I church when the day is bright
and pleasant and theii clo'ln are new, will
be apt to land in eternity wheie it ia al
ways hot and dry, Selah.
MARRIED 0NTHE TRAIN.
Frank Harrington, of Springfield, Ohio,
eloped with the pretty daughter ol Colonel
Dolt.. One of the first persons they met
on the trail w is Elder Knight, tho young
man's former pastor in Maysvtlle. Prank
told the elder that he was looking for a
clcrvniaii to marry him, and the elder
volunteered to 'o the job then and there,
So, when tho conductor came along, I e
was pulled iiilo the teat as a witness, ami
while the tiain was speeding thirty-five
miles an hour, the two veto made one.
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