Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-06-13 | Page 3 | "Stranded."

love me oh no jackl if yon did yon oppose what is for my highest interest yon want me to waste tho best years of my life drudging among anch common people when 1 nave talent which can lift me to something better no jack yon dont love me for love is unselfish and yon think only of yourself jack clavering a strong limbed saxon haired young fellow turned to the window and for a little while gazed in silence upon the cummer world outside but he saw neither the bine sky nor the green earth ho did not hear the south wind whispering among the budding lilacs nor the robins singing inthe apple trees pink with bloom those honest bine eyes were blind with tears wrung from the bitterness of his spoiled and cheated manhood the words of his heedless ambitions wife had stabbed him to the heart yon think only of yourself 1 she his adored kate coald say that when he would have laid down his life for her sakel he turned presently hero as he was he had concealed every sign of what was warring within him 1 I will not oppose yon kate if you are really in earnest about the matter but it will make a great change in our livell have you thought of that he asked her 1 I have thought of everything she answered eagerly of course we must sell this odious little house and lot and you can transfer your business to the city while I 1 am studying and afterward when I 1 shall be established on the stage you will go with me wherever I 1 go the life suit me he said if you are determined upon a career as an actress yon must get along without me altogether you will go the way you have chosen my kato and I 1 will go mine for a moment she looked grieved and reluctant but the new ambition was stronger than the older love and such a separation did not seem so terrible after all she went to him and put her arms around hin neck but the parting will bo without anger and it will not be for always she asked him we anger certainly was his reply and BO it was settled and ina in a few weeks kate bad begun her new life in the city and jack was journeying westward whither he scarcely knew and hardly cared the curtain had rolled down for the last time the play was over there had been no applause no recalls the company had played that night to a nearly empty house it had been the came night after night in town after town and city after city in rose satin and filmy lace a glitter of jewels the worth of which would not have purchased her a nights lodging the star swept her shining court train across the stage on her way to her dressing room one of her companions met her in the wings tho girl was crying hysterically oh katel alho sobbed that wretch has gonel he has disposed of everything he could and ha has gone and left us to shirk for ourselves yon dont mean the manager said kate aghast jest do mean tha manager the heartless scampy he has borrowed money on the stage properties just enough to take him home 1 suppose and he went away the instant he could get the receipts tonight and here we are in this horrid place without BO much as a dollar among us all it was all too their manager bad forsaken them leaving abo unfortunate company stranded in that remote little western town while leaving the theater in the excitement cit ement kate happened somehow to become separated from her companions she walked on thinking borne of them would overtake her and presently she stopped on a bridge spanning a narrow stream which flowed in a sluggish current through the little city sha had stood there a long time waiting gazing down into the dark rolling water and absorbed with her despondent thoughts before it occurred to her that the others must have preceded her from the theater building and there was little probability that any of them would come back to search for her bat what did it matter it was a calamity in which each one must help herself or himself and doubtless they had all by now settled themselves somewhere for the night at least they had all of them even the little soubrette who had sobbed so disconsolately been members of the profession longer than she trecy were used to its ups and downs its shifts and expedients and most of them had experienced exactly the same predicament before now in her distress and perplexities kate concluded that they had forgotten all about her there one of them who cares enough for me to miss me to wonder what I 1 will do or what will become of me she thought as she stood there on the bridga alone iu the night gloom and this is the career I 1 once fancied so full of pleasure this is the end of my dazzling hopes my lofty ambitions well tonight is but the emblem of it aall in love in everything makes ones life sweet and blessed I 1 am indeed stranded perhaps it was only natural in such a time that eha should recall her olden home how pretty it was how dear that simple little cottage in the quiet village I 1 the old apple trees where the robins used to sing so riotously must now la pink with bloom and the peach tree how beautiful it was in blossom when the petals used to fall in showers against her tiny bay win dowl had the new owners driven the swallows away from the eaves the wren from her nest in the moldering stem of the dead and branchless locust perhaps they had pulled down the dear little house altogether and erected agomo grander structure in its stead suddenly she stretched out her arms yearningly she lifted her sad faco to the cold stars but ohl she murmured if I 1 could only rest my tired head beneath that dear old roof tonight I 1 think I 1 die content A listless uncertain tread upon the klauks of the bridge at that moment distracted her thoughts and aroused her to the imprudence of her position she must not remain there she must go but where how strange how pitiful it deemed that in all the wide world she had no place to lay her head the footsteps camo closer with a half frightened glance she saw a tall man broad shouldered roughly dressed with a great shaggy yellow beard and with a pair of piercing eyes which seemed to look her through and through he had passed and re passed a number of times but she had been too engrossed with her sorrowful reflection to notice him before he walked directly to her he grasped the tail of the bridge with both hands and she marveled vaguely to see that he was trembling you are one of the unfortunate theatrical company can I 1 be of any service to you he asked her abruptly who are you she cried in alarm as she shrunk back from him his reply was uttered in a strange rapid and vehement whisper 1 I am like yourself he said some years ago I 1 had a happy home and a wife I 1 adored she went away from me and since then in hope and happiness I 1 have been stranded for an instant she stood as if suddenly turned to stone all the life within her seemed concentrated in her great dark burning eyes you jack oh god is it you she exclaimed at length yon who used to be so proud about yourself so brave of spirit like this do you care he asked her do I 1 care she repeated passionately 1 I care BO much that J would give my very soul if 1 could undo what I 1 have done I 1 have failed in my career but I 1 might have succeeded jack could 1 have had your love I 1 could do nothing without your love jack she was crying now softly hopelessly not daring to believe that eho was still dear to him he put his roughly clad arms about her and drew her unresisting head to his bosom against that shaggy tangled beard which with his careless attire ehe had fancied a sign of heaven knows how much destitution and vagabond agel yon have always had my love sweetheart do yon think I 1 could ever have ceased loving such an adorable woman as yon are kate our trouble was all ray fault too all my contemptible obstinacy st said he ao 00 jack how good you are to say that when you know it ame she murmured with her arms around his neck and her lips upon his well darling we will begin over again I 1 have never sold the little cottage I 1 because we had buco been so happy there and I 1 have made a big fortune in the mines back here so you shall live where you like and wear diamonds and cloth of gold it yon choose or if you would rather stay on the stage you can have a company of t x your own and a theater of your own if you desire and yon deed not fear ever again being stranded no jack neither of us need fear ever again being stranded she answered solemnly and with a meaning he could not mistake but kate left tho stage altogether she had talent and in time she would no doubt have succeeded more than tolerably but sho bays it that I 1 love the profession less it is that I 1 lovo my home and my husband more buffalo news the trade in mammoths Mam moths tasks tho abundance of the remains of the mammoth is almost incredible dorf reckoned that at least a hundred pairs of these tusks had been put on the market yearly during the past two centuries and from personal observation is inclined to regard the estimate as too beall it thus appears that in the recent modem trade the tusks of more than of these animals of past ages havo been collected st louis republic assurance will you love me while I 1 am away maria bo said fervently 1 I hilll she replied so positively that he debated about going new york herald walt in the hall the author of england without and within gives an anecdote of an easy going english gentleman who was not bound by tho absurd law against parcel carrying A shoemaker had dissent to him a pair of shoes intended for a neighbor and had probably sent to the neighbor the shoes that should have been sent to him As he had no prejudice against carrying bundles he went with the shoes to his friends house on arriving at his friends door he asked to see mr dash but was understood by the servant to ask for mrs dash and was ushered into her presence the lady who had never seen him before looked up and curtly asked what have you there mr dachs shoes replied the gentleman oh yes its all right mr dash is out but bell be in soon and if you want to see him better take a seat in the hall and wait till he comes but madam began the gentleman who was a baranets baronets baro nets son never mind never mind its all right step out in the hall please and wait for mr dash the gentleman of course appreciated the situation at once but he was too well bred and had too keen a aenas of humor to explain which would have both mortified the lady and prevented him from enjoying her mistaken he stepped into the hall intending to give the shoes to a servant and leave the house but meeting his friend coming in he gave him the shoes and after a few words bade him good morning though pressed to remain he refused knowing that his return to the cifes presence would cause her embarrassment atia consideration for the feelings of another person would have made him a gentleman if he had been a hod carrier in alie corean army in battle corean generals are always accompanied by their servants when he rides on horseback a general has a servant on each side of his war narse to hold him in position and a third stands at the horses head to hold the animal during the fight or to lead it to the advance or retreat these servanda ser vanta accompanied general han to the f ite of the kings nuoi ence hall they alfr him there and he walked alone across the yard with his head bent and his sword hilt toward the ground he walked softly up the steps leading into the room in which ty the king of corea stood on all fours and bumped his head before him as a sign of the reverence for his king then rising he stood with his sword uplifted at the right of the king while my audience took place at the cloae of it he backed out from the kings presence with bended head and eo continued till outside the gate where he again sprang into greatness and had a whole host of servants to do him homage this oriental formality runs through all ranks of the corean army afis the ruin of the service corea will never havo good soldiers until the officers leam military tactics by the same hard knocks that do and until they put themselves morion a level with their troops and work with them frank Q carpenter in youths companion animals and the effect of volcanic phenomena on the lower animals has often been the subject of discussion the records of most great earthquakes eath quakes refer to the con ste mation of dogs horses cattler and other domestic animals fish and other aquatic creatures are also much disturbed at such times la the london earthquake of 1749 thousands of fish in the canal showed evident signs of confusion and fright during tho tokio earthquake of 1880 caits inside of houses ran about trying to escape foxes barked and horses tried to tear down the stable which confined them there fore bo no doubt that animals know that something unusual and terrifying is taking place moro interesting than these are the thail nearly fill classes of animals are agitated just before as earthquake takes place and ponies have been known to prance around in their stalls in an uneasy manner pheasants to scream frogs to cease croaking suddenly just before a shock as if aware of its coming the japanese say that moles shaw fear at anch times by leaving their borrowa before the shock takes place the presence of four or five of the little on tho surface in a garden being sufficient to cause a panic st louis republic urick press A machine has been designed for making bricks and tiles on the semidry semi dry process the clay or material to be formed into bricks is fed into a hopper in a loose and granulated state the finish is delivered as the charger returns to refill the empty mold each brick receives four distinct presses whereby the air is thoroughly expressed all the labor required ja ro neman to tip the clay into the grinding pan and one boy to take off the bricks as tho machine delivers them among the various purposes for which this machine is employed besides brick and tile making are the forming ot purple ore or blue billy for the smelling smelting sm elting furnace the forming of nickel oxide into cakes for the assaying furnace the forming of dry cement compound into blocks ready for and the pressing of coal and coke bri quetter qu ettes new york commercial advertiser ver tiser