Show A ED WEDDING TRIP A washington on star writer was talking to a western judge who was on a business visit to washington they had been friends and schoolmates school schoolmates maies and naturally were interested in each ether other well said the star wilter after an exchange of personal news im glad to hear you are now rich and respectable spec table not to mention the J judge part ot of it which Is more than respectable it Is well enough now my boy responded the judge but a dozen years ago it a was pot well by any means go co on with the story said the star man what im here tor for you tou remember when I 1 first went west I 1 knocked about colorado for some time doing what law business I 1 could pick up and at last got settled in IL a good town and began to make some money I 1 got into mining on the side and it long until I 1 had a fair reputation in manipulating th that a t I 1 bort of thing finally I 1 ran down a fine snap and with borrowed 1 money and all my own pile I 1 stood to 1 win a hundred thousand while I 1 1 was waa trying to get rich I 1 was also maintaining a correspondence with a sweetheart in indiana and once or twice we had set a day when I 1 should return and marry her but it did not eventuate owing to the slipping of I 1 some ome ot of my schemes this one however had no slip to it that I 1 could see for the men and the tha money were in sight and on the alst 1st ot of october we were to turn the property over and get tho the cash on this I 1 wrote to the girl to be ready by the of october and that would lie be pur wedding day rain or shine kv ev went beautifully until the last day ot of september the nien men were on the ground the money was in tho the bank w waiting alting tor for us its and wo we were flying high on that day a strike occurred and that night the streets were full fall of 0 angry miners there was an ugly feeling fit 1 the air and by morning out our men were so BO seared scared that they picked up bag and baggage and with all the money that was to have beer been outs ouis they went back to new york well ou can li I ingine how I 1 felt fe it everything rone cone in debt my law and mining practice ruined ani and a wedding ng to be met 2300 miles away and di not 0 it enough cash to buy a railroad ticket halt way there for a lay day I 1 war wan utterly crushed and then I 1 rallied somewhat and made up my mind that I 1 would trust providence and marry the girl anyhow so I 1 borrowed enough to get me to her and without a word as to my financial condition I 1 wen went t right ahead and married in mean time though I 1 had given an uncle of 0 mine a brief explanation and borrowed t 0 0 or of him th then c n I 1 went on m my Y wedding trip just jur t around the state to visit friends of 11 hers ers and mine and I 1 think I 1 was wa s about the worrie dest groom that ever went on such an expedition but I 1 tried to conceal it and kept on hoping for something to happen that would the pressure fortunately something did my new made wife was taken quite III and the physician forbade forme her going west at that if time me then I 1 had a strange mixture of feelings I 1 was sorry that my wife was sick and I 1 was glad but you cant fully appreciate those feelings until you have tried it the doctor ait said it would be at least six weeks before sho she could undertake so long a trip she had something like pneumonia and he was afraid to risk exposure and I 1 told him I 1 would have to go as my business imperatively demanded my presence tile the lord forgive me for that ile he for I 1 had no business in the west and away I 1 went taking what would have bought her ticket to get me there and going flat broke I 1 promised to send tor for her as soon as she could conic come it if I 1 found it impossible to return tor for her think of that sort of talk in the face of the fact that all the money I 1 could raise buy meals along the road it if we walked when I 1 reached my colorado town again a I 1 was s a as s n nearly a la lou early wre wreck c k torri a as nag a m man a could min d b be e a and n ge get t around my aly office rent was paid to the end of the year and thither I 1 went as soon as I 1 left the train and when I 1 sat down in its dreary loneliness there a ray of light anywhere in all the he world for me even my wife seemed a burden and it hurt me anai I 1 told her the true condition F for or a week I 1 went to my office every even day tor for two weeks for three and there was nothing for me to do the only comfort I 1 got was vas from th the friend efriend who ho had loaned me the three thousand and he told me he would extend the time until I 1 had a chance to catch on again but the strike had caught on and there was desolation everywhere then came a letter from my wife saying she was so much improved that the doctor had told her she might come as soon as I 1 would send and would I 1 send right away or better would I 1 come tor for her this was the straw that broke the camels back and I 1 went to my office next morning fully resolved it if nothing turned up that day to kill myself and end it all as far as I 1 was concerned sitting there alone at 11 II with my lead on the table utterly broken in purse and pride I 1 was surprised by a strange visitor I 1 explained in a minute that I 1 was not feeling well and asked what I 1 could do for him ile he told me he had been sent by a friend of mine to consult with me on some mining claims the company he represented had out there and showed me the papers in a second I 1 took new hope tor for I 1 knew all about them and in a few lie he said he would turn over to me me the six claims he be had and let me look after them ile he told me that 1 I would expect a retainer in each casl case and he asked it a hundred dollars in each one would be sufficient it was amply and when he went out a halt half ho hour U r later I 1 was a new man with six liu hundred adred dollars in my pocket then I 1 sent for my wife and together we pulled all that year trying to get in chape once more and I 1 guess my luck had changed for within two years we had paid the WO the other borrowed money and owned a twelve bundled hundred dollar house and a fine baby aly luck staged with me too for ive been making money ever since and I 1 am a judge with a chance for congress if 1 I 1 want to take it and your wife queried the star rn man n finest woman in the world find and I 1 I 1 never would have ceased regretting it it I 1 had killed myself and never found out OUE what admirable qualities she possessed come up to our parlor and let me present you to her and the star man went willingly |