Show A TRIP A washington star writer wm was talk ing ienir i to a western judge who wa waa 8 on a business visit to washington they hold had been friends and schoolmates and natu naturally were interested in each other well said the star writer after on e n exchange of person personal al new nen B P I 1 in glad to hear you are now rich anil and respectable spec table not to mention the audgo p pait a it of it which Is more than rc a ablo b 0 11 it ta in well enough now my boy responded the judge but abut a dw doan n years yeara ago it A was not well by any ny rn means ans 0 go o on with the tory story said the star roan mn what I 1 m here for you remember when I 1 first went west I 1 knocked about colorado for some time doing what low law busi business I 1 could pick up and at last got settled in a good brood town and began to mako make bolln solln e money I 1 got into on the side and it wash t long until I 1 hod hall a fair reputation in manipulating that sort of thing thine finally I 1 ran down a fine snap and with borrow borrowed mt money and all my own pile I 1 stood to win a hundred thousand while I 1 was trying to get rich I 1 was also maintaining ta lining a correspondence with a octet sweetheart in indiana and once or twice we hod had net met a day when I 1 should return and marry tier her but it did not eventuate owing to the slipping of acme of my schemes I 1 this one however hod had no slip blip to it that I 1 could see for or the men and tile money were in sight might and on the lot let ot or october wo we were to turn the property over and got get the cash on this I 1 wrote to the girl to bo be ready by the ot of october and that would bo be our wedding day rain or shine 11 ery grything thing went beautifully until tile the last day or oc Septem september the men were on the ground the money was waa in the bank waiting tot 01 us and we were hying high on that day a strike occurred and that night the street streeta were full of 0 angry miners there W wua Is an ugly feeling in the air and by ini morning orning our men were so po scare scared d that they picked up bag and baggage and with all tile the money that was to have been ours they went back to new york well aou ou can imagine how I 1 felt gone in debt my law and mining practice ruined and a wedding to be met 2500 miles away and not enough cash to buy a railroad ticket halt half way there lor bior a lay day I 1 was utterly crushed and then I 1 rallied somewhat and made up my mind that I 1 would trust providence and marry so I 1 borrowed enough to get me ma to her and without it m woid 01 as aa to my financial condition I 1 went right ahead and married in tho the nunn time though I 1 had given an uncle of mine a brief explanation and bor rowed of him then I 1 went on my wedding trip just around the tha state to lilt frit franda rids of hero hera and mine and I 1 think I 1 was about the worrIe dest groom that ever went on such euch an expedition but I 1 tried to conceal it and kept on hoping for something to happen that boull relieve the pressure fortunately something did my new mado made wife was token taken quite bulto ill and tho the physician foi bado bade her going west at that time then I 1 had a strange mixture of feelings I 1 was sorry that my WHO was nick and I 1 was glad but you can t fully appreciate those feelings until 3 sou ou havo have tried it the doctor said eald it would bo be at least nix mix weeks before she aho could unac utako so BO long lone a trip she ehe had something like pneumonia and ho he was armald to risk exposure and I 1 told him I 1 would have to go as aa my business imperatively demanded my presence the lord forgive me for that lie for I 1 had no business busi neHa in the west and away I 1 went taking what would havo have bought nor her ticket to got mo me there and going hat flat broke I 1 promised to send f for or her is as soon boon as aa she mho could come if I 1 found it blo ble to return for her think of that sort bort of talk in tho the faco face of tho the fact that all the money I 1 could raise would rit t buy meala along alone the road it if we wa walked when I 1 reached my colorado town again I 1 was as barly n arly a wreck as aa a man could bo be and get around my office rent was waa paid to the end of 0 the tha year and thither I 1 went as soon ae aa I 1 left the tha train find and when I 1 ant down in Us its dreary loneliness lonell noBa th re bamlet it a ray of light anywhere in all tho the tor for me liven my difo seemed a burden arid and it hurt mo me that I 1 haan hadn it told her the true condition for 1 ft week I 1 went to my ofilio every day for two weeks tor for three and there was nothing for mo me to do hie 1110 only comfort I 1 got was wan from the filand fi lend who had loaned mo me the three thousand ile iio told me ho he would extend the time until I 1 had a chance to catch on again but the strike had caught on and the there re was waa desolation denotation everywhere 1 then came a letter from my wife saying she ehe waa so BO much improved that tile doctor had told her she might comp como an aa soon eoon as aa I 1 would send and would I 1 send bond right away or b ater butor would I 1 come tor for her thin was waa tho the that broke the camel a back and I 1 went to my next morning fully resolved received it if nothing turned up tip that lay day to kill myself find and end it nil all as an far an I 1 ras s concerned sitting thoro there alone at 11 II wao 0 clock with my head on tho table utterly broken in an I 1 pi bilde ide I 1 was waa surprised by a strange visitor I 1 explained in a minute that I 1 vaa mas not feeling well and baked what I 1 could do tor for him ito iio told me lie had bi bf oil en sent bent by a friend of mine to consult with mo me on some mining clainie tho the company he be represented had out and showed mo me the papers in IL a leond I 1 took new hope for I 1 knew all about them and lit in a few minutes he said bold lie ho would turn over to me the six claims ho he had and it let itt t ill me look after them ile he told mo me that I 1 would expect a retainer in rich each ease case and ho he asked it a hundred dollars in ill each ono one would lo be 10 it wal wa amply arid and when tic ho went out a halt hour h later ter I 1 wits was a now new man alth ith dix BIK bundled dollars dollane in my pocket then I 1 sent tor for my wife and together we no pulled all that year trying to get in shape once more and I 1 guess my luck had charged for within two wo we had paid the the other borrowed borrow tA n oney money 1 and owned a twelve bundled dollar house and a fine baby my aly luck stayed with me too for I 1 vo ve bt ann en making inona money y ever since and I 1 am it i judge with a chance for Coneie sa it if I 1 want to take it and your wife queried tho the star rn man n finest woman in the coill I 1 and I 1 never would mould have ceased regretting it it if I 1 hod killed myself anti and never found out what admirable tits she ehe possessed come up to our parlor an ai I 1 I 1 11 kt t me present you to her and the star man went willingly |