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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1891. Af HIS MQTHtVa KNEE. Back to his boyhood's home again lie crept like some guilty thing, Sick at heart and diapised of men ; As a bird with a broken wing Longs for its nest and leaves among, For the peace of that home longed he, And to listen once more to the simple song Th il he heard at his mother's knee. There in her lap in the dear old way He laid his fevered head, As when some childish grief held sway, He ran to be comforted ; She did not believe that his heart was bad, For she could not forget, you see, The days when he knelt, a happy lad, In prayer at his mother's knee. Cau a mother's forgiveness one's sins ab solve? At touch of that aged hand There sprang within him a new resolve; Like a glimpse of a promised land. Through repentant tears that fell like rain, He beheld new years to be; And so he began life over again Bight there at his mother's knee. Piloted by a Ghost. I checked my horse, and after one Ion?, straining look around owned to myself that I was lost. I had suspected the fact some time since, but had stub bornly fought down the suspicion, though my horse evidently realized it. With pa tient endurance he plodded along, resig nation plainly expressed in the droop of his tail and ears. Ia place of the ranch the hearty welcome, pleasant words, bed, supper I had expected to reach by sunset, there was nothing to be seen before, be hind, oa cither hand, but the dead level of the plain. There were paths in plen ty; in fact, the trouble was there were too many all narrow and winding, for whoso meandering there seemed not the slightest excuse, except the general ten dency to crookedness most things, ani mate and inanimate alike, possess. But it would have taken the instinct of a bloodhound or a trailing Indian to have said which paths had been made by horses' feet or those of cattle. Now that the sun was gone, I found my knowledge of the point of tho com pass gone with it. As I sat perplexed and worried the gloom of twilight gath ered fast and the chill of coming rain smote me through and through, while in the distance there was the roll of thun der. Glancing up I saw the masses of cloud had closed together in a curtain of gray mist. My horse strode on of his own accord, and hoping that his instinct would lead us to some house, I let him have his own will. Presently it began to rain, a sort of heart-broken passionless weeping, but with a steady determination to persevere all night, that awoke graver apprehension in my bosom than any amount of bluster ing, showery downpour could have done. It was now quite dark, and very dark, at that, though at short intervals close to th i horizon a faint gleam of lightning sh wed, too distant to cast brightness on my path and only sufficient to intensi fy the blackness about me. All at once I saw a man walking about fifteen feet in front of me. Yes, I know I said it was intensely dark, bnt all the same I repeat it. I saw a man walking in front of me, and furthermore I could see th it he wa a large man, dressed in rough, but well fitting clothe; that he worj a hea?y red beard, and that he look ed back at me from time to time with an expression of keeo anxiety on his oth erwise rather fixed features. "Hallo!" I iricid, but as he did not halt I c included ho did not hear me As a s icon 1 hail pr idu ;e I no result I spurred my weary horse up to overtake tho stranger. But, though the gray re sponded with an alacrity most commen dable under the ci rennet a n:ts, I soon found that this strange pedestrian did not intend to let me catch up with him. Not that he hurried himself. Me seem ed without any exertion to keep a good i fifteen feet between us. Then I began to wonder how, with the intense darkness shutting me as four black walls, I was yet able to see my strange companion so clearly, to take in the details of his dress, and even the expression of his face, and that at a distance more than twice my horse's length when I could hardly see his head before me. I am not given to superstitious fancies, and my only feeling wag of curiosity. We went on in silenco for nearly half an hour, when, as suddenly as ho appear ed, he was cone. I looked around for him, half afnid, from his instant and complete disappearance, that I had been dreaming, when I perceiv d that I was cloae to a small, low building of some sort. I reined in and shouted several times, but not the slightest response could I hear, and at last I rodo boldly up and tapped on the wall with uiy riding whip. Then, as this elicited no sign of life, I concluded that I had stumbled upon some deserted house, or it was the abode of my eccentric friend; so, dismounting and ty ing the gray, I resolved to spend the rest of the night under a roof or to find some good reason for continuing my journey. I felt my way aloog the wall till I reach ed a door, and, trying this and finding that it yielded to me, I stepped inside, striking a match as I did so. Fortunate ly, I carried my matches in an air tight case, and as it was dry the one I struck gave me light at once. I found myself in a large room close to a fireplace, over which a rude shelf ws placed, and on this mantel I saw an oil lamp, to which I ap plied my match. On the hearth was heaped a quantity of ashes and over these crouched a child a little girl of five or six. At tho other end of the room which was plainly and scantily furnished, lay a man across the a bed. and as I raised tho lamp I saw that he was the same I had been follow ing, but there was something in his atti tude and face that struck me as peculiar, and I was about to go forward and look at him, when the child who had at first seemed dazed at the light fairly threw herself upon me. "Have you anything for Nelly to eat?" she said, and then: "Oh, Nelly so hun gry!" I ran my hand into my pocket and drew forth what had been a paper bag of chocalate candy, but was now a pulpy unappetizing mass. I muet confess to a childish fondness for sweets, which I usually carry in some form about me. I handed the remains of my day's supply to the child and then walked over to the bed. Yes, it was the same man, red beard, rough clothes, but setting off the magnificent frame to perfection; the same man, but dead, long dead. I took his hand only to find it stiff and cold, while his face had the dull gray aspect seen in the newly dead. As I stood gazing down on him a little hand touched mine. "Nelly so hungry!" said the child. "Have you eaten all the candy?" I ask ed her. "Yes, yes! But me hungry, for me had no dinner, no brekkus, no suppen and he won't get up." The house, which consisted of the large room, a smaller kitchen, and a shed, where I found a quantity of hay aod fodder, seemed quite bare of food, but by dint of searching in the hay I discov ered a nest, which Nelly informed me was there, and in it two fresh eggs. These I boiled for her. When she had finished I soothed her to sleep on a bed I made for her before the fire. Then after I had put my horse in the shed room and fed him I performed as well as I could a service for the dead. When day dawned I was able to dis cern at some distance from the house a line of telegraph poles, and taking the child with me I followed these to the nearest town, where I notified the au tarkies of the death. The dead man's name was Frederick Barnstaple. He was an Englishman, so I found, a recent arrival in those parts. His daughter was restored to her family across the water, aod is now a pretty girl of 17. I have never told this story be. fore, but I am ready to take an affidavit to its truth. It all happened about 30 miles from Dallas. Philadelphia Times. W E.1IEHS WISDOM. A friend's help in your troubles never travels beyond the point where it effects his own interests. The best-loved man is ho who gives the tn k-t; he is also the one least regarded when he stops giving. That men are different from women is considered by the men as a sufficient war rant for all tbeir follies. 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