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Norwalk gazette, Friday, July 31, 1896 · page 12

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Laugh. and the world laughs with ybu:
Weep. and you weep alone. '
For the sad old earth must borrOw its mirth.
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing. and the bills will answer:
Sigh. it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a. joyful sound.
But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice. and men will Seek you;
Grieve. and they turn and go.

They want full measure of all your pleasure.
But they do not need your woe.

' Be glad. and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all — "

There are none to decline your nectr’d wine.
But alone you must drink life’s gall.

*5 Feast, and your halls are crowded:
' Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give. and it helps you to live.
But no man can help you to die.
There is no room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train.
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
-—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

THE REDEEMING ACT.

Dave was a coward and he had al.-
ways borne the reputation of arrant
cowardice ever since he had crawled
over the‘ side-of his dugout cradle to
wallow alOng with the underfoot world
on ‘the white sandbefore his- parents’
cabin door. Though country born'and
bred, a passing thunderstorm struck
him with terror, and the sight of the
black waters of the “crick” caused a
remarkable agitation of his knees. He
wasa coward, pure and simple. The
bristling of a coon routed him uncondis
tionslly, and ‘a determined ’possum
couldT rob the he roost before his very
face. Indeed, D vs was a coward, and
his cousin, Sue Spivey, laughed up-
roariously when the poor fellow per-
petrated his initial and only act of
boasting. He had said to her one day
very solemnly, and no doubt sin~
cerely:

“Toe pertec yo’ honah an’ happiness
I ’ud throw away my wuthless life.”

Ordinarily Dave’ 5 speech was unpol- ,
ished and provincial, but on this occa-
sionit rose to the dignity of what he
felt the occasion demanded.

Sue knew full well his timorous dis-
position, and would have. thought it
safe to cOunt on his poltroonery in any
event. But a day was sadly near which
proved to her the full worth of the
poor fellow’s grandiloquent assertion.

Long before the late unpleasantness,
and until this day, Honeypath was only
a siding where occasional trains took
water and passed each other. Two or
three log shanties, without special pre-
tensions to any architectural dissimi-
larity, marked the site of the town,
distinguishing it from the vast area of
impenetrable swamp that backed it and
the arid waste of sandy bottom through '

nwhich the glistening polished rails of the
grand trunk line writhed and sinuated.
Along that glowing metal highway
troops of both armies passed and re-
passed, gazed at curiously by. the few
old women and senile males left in the
village, but exciting no other emotion
than a blank curiosity that died out
even before the white mist of the fine
sand stirred by the soldiers’ feet had
settled behind the retreating bands.

Dave was a native of Honeypath and

lived with an aged father in one of the
shanties. Sue dwelt with her mother
in another nearby. Dave’s father was
a hot blooded Southerner, whose pa-
triotism answered to the first call to
arms. But Dave was timid, fearful of
the smell of powder, and refrained
from act-ibn, preferring 'to suffer the
opprobrious epithets which were liber-
ally bestowed upon him and the con-
tempt of the .county generally to fac-
ing he knew~not what horror on the
,..battlefield. He was not a, philosopher
and could not plead in extenuation of
his neutrality that the martial slaughter
of his brother man was a crime, and
that the wholesale sacrifice of human
life was immoral.

Before the strife ended Sue’s: mother
was gathered to her final rest, being put
out of sight in the little Ksandy grave-
yard, with only the comment of the two
remammg’ neighbors. And then Dave
and Sue toiled early and late in order
to wring from the starving acres an
un'varying livelihood of yams, corn
bread and bacon, more often the corn
bread without the embellishments of
potatoes and bacon, particularly during
the few weeks after a hungry foraging
party had passed that way. ’

One day Dave was working among
the young potato vines in an open arid
field behind the cabin,'when ’Sue ran
out to him in troubled haste.

“Oh, Dave, I’m pow’ful skeeredl” she
panted. .

“Skeered 0’ what?” he asked, without
intermissionof the bent labor.

 

 

the road, an’ they spoke to rue—sassy
like,”

Shebesitated, and Dave looked up to
see her pretty face scarlet, and her
brows bent tOgether 1n angry mes.

“Well, what did they all say?" he do-

manded, in his accustomed slow drawl,
after waiting in vain for her to pro-
ceed.

“They ’lowed they in was a comin’
back.”

“Who was they, ennyhow?” he asked
uneasily. his face blanching in antici-
pation of the martial visit.

“They was Mosby’s men, I ’lowed,
on they was five of ’em.” '

“Our fellers?” a little surprised and
straightening his back. “Come on back
to' the house, . Sue,” and shouldering
his hoe, he trudged stolidly on before.
“Don 1: you be skeered, ” he continued,
as they reached the yard. “I reckon
they won’t do nothin’.”-

Of the two, itwould have been man-
ifest to the most casual observer that
he was the worst “skeered, ” but he

walked on until they reached the house
and Sue cried out;

“Yonder they come now—all five.”

Dave’s face blanched to a sallow
whiteness, and he pulled; her quickly

,inside the door. '
“What you gwine to (10‘2”. She asked,
nervously, keeping near her cousin, but
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,la“Some-—some soldiers just went down ,

his life on the altar of the cause leaving;

this.

“What you gwine to do, Dave?” the
girl persisted, Coming closer and lay-
ing her hand on his arm Dave shook
several catridges into the cylinder of
the rifle, and waiting in silence, appar-

. ently not aware that Sue had touched

monplace little tragedy. A loud
pounding at the rickety cabin door, and
a de’risive imperative voice demanded ':

“Hi, in there, open up, or we’ll make
splinters of yer ol’ door 1” the threat was
garnished by several strong expletives
and accompanied with more vicious
pounding.

Then for answer went the spiteful
snap of the rifle followed by a surprised
howl of pain, more volubl‘e profanity
and footsteps in rapid retreat.

Dave went to the window, and
through a knot hole in the shutter re-
viewed the situation of the enemy.
Then through the aperture the rifle
again spoke with decisive, , leaden
emphasis, and when the smoke cleared

hoed potato rows, while anOther limped
painfully 1n the rear of the retreating
trio.

In the short-silence that followed the
last shot the arid topography of Honey-
path seemed to float before Dave’ 5

str‘bng and clear. The fine, white sand
covered everywhere with fat .leaved
prickly pears and cactus that bloomed
perpetually'in big butter colored flow-
ers; the bright, blazing sky, the heat
that rose up and hung heavily over
man and beast, the many insects that
sat out in the furnace-like sun, rattling
shrilly with every joy. Then the dense
shade of the murky shadowed swamp
and the big scaly black scorpions and
dainty multi-colored lizards that played
an eternal game of hide and seek among
the rotting rails of the Old snake fence.

The trio had disappeared into the
swamp and Dave calmly refilled his rifle,
waiting as though lost in thought.
Presently from the rear of the cabin
came the harsh command:

‘ ‘You cowardly bushwhacker 1n there,
come out and fight like amanl If ye
don’t, we’ll burn ye an’ yer shanty an’
the gal with ye.”

' There was no Opening in the rear of
the cabin, the logs were thick and the

Dave could not return a leaden answer
to this brutal challenge. He fingered
the rifle nervously and looked at Sue.

“Oh, Dave, don’t opeu the door,” she
pleaded, meeting the earnest look bent
on her face from beneath the brim of
Dave’s frouzy slouch hat; "I ain’t
afeered toe burn.”

wobbly with fear, but he had not for-
gotten the one boast of his poor, pinched
life, uttered so long ago, “To purtec
yo’ honah an’ happinness, I ’ud throw
away my wuthless life.” He uttered
the words again monotonously, finger-

his shaking hands.

Poor Sue, there was no answering
laughter in her soul now for those gro-
tesquely sententious words which broke
in husky monotone on her hearing like
a last prayer.

In that moment Dave, who had al-
ways been a coward, who had all his
life long borne meekly the scorn and
opprebrium attached to the character,
he whom heretofore nothing could arose
to a sense of degradation, calmly arose
to the very pinnacle of heroism.

“I’m coming out,” he called and
shooting back the bolt he stood on the
cabin step before them;

“Fall back and give him a show; he’s
coming out, boys!” Sue clung to him,
pleading, “Dave, don’;t there’s four to
one“. Don’ t go. 1” but he pushed her
gently backward into the room.

and passed out.

Sue stood motionless in the centre of
the room waiting for it to begin. Dave
pulled the trigger of his gun and turn-
ed the corner and instantly four weap-
ons barked with one voice.

Sue. heard something heavy fall
against the side of the cabin; then in-
stantly the sharp, clear utterance of a
rifle answered the carbines again and
still again. ' One carbine only answered
and then all was still; only the fretful
warbling of a wren in the nearby Cher-
okee rose hedge breaking the tense si-
lence of the drowsy afternoon hush.

- Anxiety canuering terror, Sue drew
whack the bolt, threwing the door wide
open. A broad stream of yellow light
and a rush of heat that her, passing over

» a figure on 11:15 knees that always trem.

bled at the sight of deep water. Dave
was gasping his last breath. Bleeding
and shattered, he crept to her feet, after
the manner of a faithful dog to die. In
the grave, gray eyes that were raised

1 to hers there was the light of the exalt-

ation of a passing spirit, triumphant
over the shadow of death which already
darkened them. His' lips moved in the
contortion of a smile that broke into an
articulate murmur.

“I done said that too purte'c’ yo’
honah and happiness I would th’ow
away my wuthless life—and I done
.hit.”

And Dave with the crimson glory of
his “wuthless life’s ” blood streaming
from many wounds, passed to the judg-
ment reserved for him from the begin-
ning of all things.

The wren shivered out her fragmen
tary song to heaven, the perfume of the
Cherokee rose filled the air of the fad-
ing day, and the setting sun, streaming
through the cabin door touched the still
figure of Dave. wrapping him in molten
splendor as though with the face of a
dying god.

Poor Dave, though a coward all his
life long, he had earned the reward oi
heroism at the very end. “Greater
love hath no man than this, that he lay
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Sue’ s brother, who had also oflered up '

his weapon to his sister as 'a means of 3

him. Only a few more moments to.
wait and then the last act in the com-.

away the man inside beheld one of the,
besiegers lying prone across the freshly

vision, each peculiarity standing out“

chinks well stopped ,with clay, so that,

His lips blanched, his knees were,

ing the rifle that was held limping in,

“Bolt the door behind me!” he said-

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LOST IN A CAN OF TOMATOES.

‘When the Can was Opened the Watch Be
gun to Tick.

The finding of a gold watch and chai

’ in a can of tomatoes by an Indianapol

wOman brings out a remarkable story.
The find was reported and the circum
stances noted in the Indianapolis News
and the next day a young woman who
woman who is employed in a cannery
appeared at the ofice and identified the
watch and chain.

She lost them two years ago she said,
and while employed at the factory. She
did not know she lost them, and adver-
tised at the time for several days. She
says this would have discovered the
property if it had not been sealed in a
can in a storehouse. She had long ago
bought a new one. , -

The lost-one was dearer to her, how-
ever, both because it was prettier and
because it was given to her. Her theo
ry is that the watch and pendant chain
dropped from her belt into one of the
elevator buckets of tomatoes, was car-

ried to the filler and Went through the”

filler to'the can.

The bow, or ring. which connects the
watch and chain was not found, and it
is believed that this part was not solid
gold, and was, therefore, eaten by the
acid ofthe tomatoes. The main spring
was broken, but everything else was in-
tact during the two years’ handling of
the can, and the watch is again as good
as‘new and is keeping good time.

HOW TO ACQUIRE GRACEFULLNESS.
Hints to Women" Who Want to Look
Pretty on their Wheels.

Of the multitude of women who are
now cycling, there are only a few who
have acquired a really graceful style of
riding. Whether it. is because the
greater proportion are still in their no-
vitiate, or that the majority strive after
speed before all else, can scarcely be
decided; it ’is certain, however, that
there is a great deal of room for im-
provementin this respect.

The oft repeated statement that a
woman cannot look graceful on a bicy-
cycle is a fallacy, the only thing that is
needed is a sense of fitness on the part
of the rider, and a proper adjustment
of the machine.

Some woman have an idea that any
costume will do, so that the skirt is
very short. This is a great mistake.
One must have a special costume for
cycling, just as for equestrianism.
Feathers, flowing skirts, capes. and a
hundred and one other articles of drees
look just as out of place on a bicycle as
on a horse. A plain narrow skirt, not
too short, held in place by a pair of
dress holders, a smart Norfolk jacket,
a neat hat, untrimmed, save for a nar-
row band, and, perhaps, a quill, plain,
black shoes and stockings, a well prac-
ticed ankle action, a straight back. and
you will look equally graceful as when
indulging in any other recreation.

The Pretty Burmese \Vomen.

N o M.1ngolian can be beautiful ac-
cording to the European standard, but
apart from this standard there is much
to admire in the Burmese girl. A round
face with olive skin and dark bright
eyes, is surmounted by coils of smooth
black hair, in which is jauntily stuck a
flower or two. The upper part of the
body is modestly covered with a white
cotton jacket. Bound closely; round
her slender hips and falling to the
ground is worn the tamein, or skirt,
which is generally of silk, woven into a
brilliant and harmonious combination
of colors. A gray colored silk wrap is
thrown across the shoulders and brought
Sandals
held by a strap between the big and
second toe protect the feet. All women
young and old, smoke immense green
cheroots.

It is not at all unusual to see a bevy
of women and children dressed as bril
liantly as a bed of tulips on a spring
day, engaged in pufling great clouds of
smoke out of che’roots twice as long as
their smiling, pretty faces. The child-
ren of the poor go absolutely naked till
about ten years of age. They do not
even wear the necklace of beads or the
piece of string and a rupee which pass
for costume in Bengal. The men are as
brilliantly dressed as the women. Their
long black hair' 15 gathered into a knot
beneath the folds of a pink silk turban.
A white jacket and paSoh make up the
costume. The pasoh is a shirt made of

a single width 'of silk about five yards .

long. Brought close around the hips.
it hangs in full folds in front. The ia-
vorite color is rose pink, woven int:
plaids, stripes and checks.

 

 

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J ACK’S CONFESSION.

At the foot of a gently rising hill in
the midst of an undulating Iowa plain
there stood, thirty years ago, a herds-
man’s shanty. This shanty was very
small and low; it was built of the
roughest timber; the boards lapped in
such a way as to shed rain from the
roof; numerous single panes of glass
fastened over as many holes cut in the
boards servedvfor windows. A stove-
pipe protruding through" the roof per-
formed the duties of a chimney; the
door was made of undressed boards
nailed to heavy cleats, and held in place
by strong leather hinges. Wild morn-
ing glories were trained on strings up
each! side and over it.

There was a small garden but idly
sated far. The path beginning at the
door ended at the gate ofua large cattle

coral a hundred yards or so distant;

Running from north to south, and east
of the shanty, was a streaui’: and lining
its banks were dwarf cottonwood and
box-elder trees. The restof‘ the scene
consisted of'hills and valleys covered
with- tall prairie grass and flowers——
nothing more so far as the eye could
reach, not a roof, not a fence, not a
grove, nor man’s handiwork in ‘any
form; the primitive prairie bounded by
the horizon was as. fresh from the

‘ finger touches of the Creator as if made

yesterday.
A few gray streaks in the eastern sky

heralded the approach of dawn; they,

resemb.ed a daub of ”grayish paint on
the eastern edge of a. canopy of dark
A warm breeze ruflied the tops
of the tall blue joint-grass. ' There was
no moon, but the stars sent down their
flickering light. From the corral came
the sounds of lowing cattle, and from
the rushes on the stream’s edge the bark
of the prairie wolf.

Inside the shanty, seated at a table,
was a man of thirty or thereabouts.
He was clothed in buckskin trousers

and jacket; by his side, in a long leath-

er sheath, was a hunting knife; on a
corner of the table rested a wide-
brimmed, heavily banded sombrero hat,
while near by were a pair of boots with
wicked looking spurs at the heels. This
man was a “cowboy” in attire, if the
West ever saw one. Yet when one
looked 'at his face he found it kind,
comely, and intelligent, and realized in
some mysterious way that he had been
born and bred a gentleman.

“It’s time for poor Ned to take another
powder,” he muttered. Noiselessly be
bent his steps in°the direction Of a
shadowy corner in which stood a bed-
stead of rough pine. 0n the rude frame
there was a straw tick, some pillows
and quilts and under the latter the re-
cumbent figure of a man who breathed
fitfully, moaning with pain.

The watcher looked long and intently
at the face of the sufferer.

“He’s asleep—fast asleep. The doc-
tor said I wasn’t to arouse him, not even
for medicine. Heshall have the powder
as soon as he awakes.” He commenced
to walk from side to side of the cramped
little room. “Sinking, sinking—hardly
the ghost of his former self. It’s eleven
days since I wrote. telling them of
poor Ned’s attack of typhoid. They
must have received my letter six days
ago; yet no answer—nobody comes.
Must he meet his end in the midst of
this mysterious, monotonous prairie,
with no one to comfort him but me—
without the presence of some one fit to
kneel by his bedside and offer up a
prayer for his soul? If his mother had
only lived—ah, curse it! when a man’s
mother dies the world turns black!
There’s the rumble of wheels; it’s the
doctor, no doubt.

The watcher opened the door and
stood looking into the gray dawn at an
approaching buggy, with a solitary oc-
cupant on its seat.

“That you, doctor?”

"‘Yes. How’s Ned?”

“Sinking; been in a comatose con-
dition most of the night. Any let-
ters?’

“N one.” ’

“No one arrived at the station in-
quiring for us?”

" 'No one.

The doctor stepped within. Removing
his hat and gloves he slowly approached
the bed. He gently forced his hand
beneath the covers, and as gently
clasped first the hand, then the wrist of
the sleeper. He turned away with a
sigh.-

“The fever‘s higher, doctor?”

“It’s no lower?”

~“He’s worse then?”

“Yes.”

Pebr Ned!”

The two stood by the bedside for some
moments, conversing in whispers.
Then the doctor seated himself at the
table and prepared half a dozen pow-
ders. Having done this, be grasped the
hand of the watcher in silence.-

.“Those little gray powders are all
that stand between Ned and the

?”

av
“All, " said the doctor, as he started

- for the door.

Day was now breaking. For a long

time the watcher stood gazing vacantly
from the window, like one unconscious
of his surroundings. At last he moved.
and as he did so the sunlight shot past
him into the dingy room; it fell on, the
man’s pillow in a shape not unlike a
crown; it touched the dark brown hair
and fevered brow, leaving the lower part
of the wasted face in shadow.
.. The watcher behold the sight, and
stared as one might who saw an appari-
tion.
bedside.

“I’ll do it!” he exclaimed. "It is my
duty, and now’ 8 the time—now, not the
hereafter. It’s the only strength I can
add to' the gray powders. Perhaps God
sent that me vn of gold through the
window to force me to a decision—to

' show me away to save Neda-the only

way. What do I sacrifice, after all?
What have I been .hoardin'g as dearer
Simply the visionary
hope that a woman may yet love me
who never has loved me, and who now
never 'shall. ” '

 

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Rising, he ‘went to atrunk, opened it, ‘ ‘ "

1.1}: N10RW AL- K- GAZE T T E. I

and drew from the bottom a case of
photographs. From the many he so»
lected one—a card which bore a girl’s
face. There was a laugh on each feat-
ure, a double laugh in the roguish eyes,
and the hair so light and fluffy that it
seemed capable of tumbling and tossing
on the card. Yet the face contained a
hidden seriousness which showed that

it was possible for the woman to step .
forth from behind the mask of smiles-1 '
’a woman of sober thought and depth of

feeling—one to love and be loved.

The figure on the bed moved. There
came a sound as of covers being thrown
back, and of an arm rising slowly an d
falling heavily. This was followed by
a low moan. The watcher was at the
bedside in a moment.

“Awake at last, Ned! You have had
a long sloop—o refreshing sleep. I hope.
You are better; there is a brighter-look
in your face.”

“I shall never be better, Jack—-
never! I’m ofi for another world be-
fore long What time of night is it‘l’

“Time of night! It’s morning, Ned;
the sun’s half an hour or more high.
There’s sunlight on your pillow—just
above your head. Let me raise you so
that you can catch the rays; there’s
medicine in it--more than there is in
gray powders. N ow I’ll poke up the
fire a. bit and bring your gruel. As for
your being off for another world, that’s
nonsense. I’ve got a cure for you—
something‘that will make you want to
get up and walk. Cheer up, boy! The
world’s before you yet.”

“Your words are kind, Jack; I know
you’d save me if you could, my faithful
friend, but you cannot. Never mind
the gruel—I want to make my will.
Just write on a little piece of paper that
I leave my share in the ranch and stock
to you, then guide my hand so that I
can write my name. Be as quick as
you can—I feel faint—I am sinking.”

“Nonsense, boy! I tell you, you’ll
recover; you are better even now, and
I’ve got the medicine that’s to make you
well. But first try to swallow a little
gruel—it’s all ready.”

“I can’t, Jack—it’s no use.” /

“Then let me sit here by your bedside
and confess—confess something that
will set life to flowing in your veins
afresh, and at the same time teach you
to hate me. For I have been a hypo—
crite. a liar, a thief; I have stolen from
you in the past the hope of gaining
something more precious than gold.
Yes, I see you understand me—I am re-
ferring to Wanda. You were the fav-
ored we at first.
tried to show you sheloved you, but
you were bashful—given to dreaming
rather than to action. Love for the
girl put the devil in me. I resorted to
every subterfuge to gain her fancy, and
by degrees worked myself into . her
favor. Mind, I don’t say into her af-
fections—to say that would be to lie.
and this I intend shall be a tale of
truth. Your hesitancy made my course
possible—nothing else would have done
so. Do you remember the day that we
boarded the train together. The day on
which I told you that ’Wanda and I
were engaged? I could see at the time
that the declaration cut you like a
knife. Well, it was a lie, comrade; as
base a lie as ever was told. She never
cared for me; never cared for any one
but you. In the days that followed
you taught me to love you, Ned. Men

may laugh at the idea of one man lov-,

ing another, but I say again, you taught
me to love you; to love you so much
that the light in two blue eyes. faded—
the features which had haunted my
waking and sleeping hours grew less
clear in outline. I felt that I could sac-
rifice even my love to my friendship.
Yet, with all my devotion to you, I was
too much a coward to tell you all. In
some way a confession seemed like
thrusting an assassin’sknife into your
kindness; and so the days have come
and gone until now. Now that you lie
before me prostrated by illness, a some-
thing undeflnable makes me braver,
and with gladness born of truth I bid
you take new life. Wanda is yours
from this hour. You’ve but to get well
and take her. She 10 ed you once—
she loves you now. omen don’t
change as men do. Hemart’s the
same as it was then, depend upon it.
See, I have brought you her picture. ”

“I cannot see it. Jack. It is getting
dark. ”

“A cloud has obscured the sun. ”

“Ah, Jack, the darkness that 15 set-
tling over me is not cloud darkness; it’s
the darkness that comes when a man
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