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Show OGDEN DAILY COMMERCIAL: TUESDAY, ACGI ST 23. 1891. WiU. WHAT :. , fv Tiatc t TiME for Iruts osil jus K:.i,T.pid attto biuM. A At Msl, f wLmj, mm uti as rb' ASM ' ' A dare, bUt VM "tl TUm pre? GVtf A Aas Uh-KU.as. Ueie U CLkso mic -- A THE STUKY OF EVA RAY. m 0o wH a 4J o Oh (f) o o bJO I bad always, loved Frank Barron, and Id sot think that 1 eoald hlp itaf I had tried. It began whan V went to achoot together. Barely tt it bathsT m let that to hate. Glad,' Martns mm prettisr than L Gladys waa my amain, and whan hank wm mwrntyivo he tuddenjy discovered that aha waa th girl he wanted far n wife, offered himself and waa accepted. Sow, when I beard that from her own lips, 1 went away to my room for awhile, and knelt down betide the bed and prayed for my goal For I felt the moat unreasonable angar and jealousy thrill me from bead to foot And why should I feel so? Only a tan knew, 1 waa assured --only satan. And when 1 arose from my kseea 1 had conquered him within me. I waa Frank's friend, who loved him aa n sister, and nothing more, and 1 went to the wedding, and whs first bridesmaid to Gladys, and said to myself that there were some women to whom loTe and joy were given and some who had their dutiea to perform, and that 1 waa of the latter jrt and Cousin Gladys of the former. Frank Barron waa only a poor doctor, and Cousin Gladys had nothing. But 1 was rich, and when they went to the country town where he was to practice, I went with them. I had lost my relish for the eay life 1 had led in the city, aud I bad made op my mind to be a spinster, and Wt that I could do a great deal for Frank and Gladys. She w as one who never thought of the future and could not manage a small income well, 1 knew. And so it proved. She never gueesed nor did he how much trouble they would have had but for me. Jul it was. every one was saying what a pretty home they had, and how well the young wifo cared for it, and how njoely she dressed. As for nie, they knew me as Mrs. Barron's cousin, Evangeline Ray, and I think many thought me a poor one. What did I care so that Gladys and Frank were happy and fond of me? After awhile there was some one else to love a little girl baby, who soon grew to believe that there was no one else like Aunt Evangeline, and later came a boy. Whan he was but two years old there waB sent to Gladys a cablegram from England, where her grandfather (no kin of mine, for we were cousins on the mother's side, and he was her father's father) lay dying. He wished Gladys to come to him to remain with him for the few mouths he had to live, and promised that if she would he would leave her his fortune. Duty and interest both called upon her to go, but still she cried out, How could she? Ah! how could she how could she leave the babies and brave the sea alone? Where were the needful things for a voyage to be got at a moment's notice? What should she do? But 1 had crossed the ocean thrice and I knew what to do. I had her trunks packed and all in them that she could want while she was still wondering what to da And 1 took her to the steamer and left her with peo ple whom 1 knew who happened to be going on the same boat as if she were a child. She seemed so young and fair and girlish that no one could believe that she had been married so many years, and I could see that she would enjoy herself for all her pretty terrors, and her last words were: "Take care of Frank and the babies. I wouldn't leave tbem with any one but you. You are our guardian angel." I was glad. It is so much to me to le loved, and always was and always will be. I went back to Frank and the children. The old servant, half cook, half housekeeper, whom 1 had engaged, and who knew how I managed to make Frank md Gladys believe that they lived on what would never havo sufficed for half their needs, made it a proper thing for me to stay. Indeed, the idea that it was not proper never hod crossed either of our minds. We were very quiet after Gladys was gone. Sometimes 1 fancied that Frank looked more content than he usually did. Gladys, though so pretty and gay in company, had a way of fretting him in private. Our time was half taken up in soothing her. Now and then she quarreled with him because, working-ahe did at his profession, he had little time for company. She wanted him to change his nature, it seemed to me. Now no one bothered him. I kept the children in their little nursery, and in the evening when he sat down with us, if ho were not called away, I let him lead the talk, as men like to do. I knew, too, what callers he would like to see, and which to entertain myself, and, of course, being only his wife's cousin, I did not expect him to spend any time entertaining me. However, he often drove me out with the children, of course and we enjoyed the ride. And the poorer patients fell to asking to see xne and telling me their troubles, and when 1 could help them I did. "You'd' make a far better doctor's wife than the real one does," an old woman said to me once. "She turns up her nose at us poof folks, and seems to think my ailments always something catching. God send yo a doctor of your own, miss!" 1 laughed, but 1 was glad Frank Bar ron did not hear her. We got a letter from Gladys as soon as she reached London. Her grandfather was dying of cancer, she said, and might live a long while, and indeed he did. She wrote, but not very often, and the ttonths went by and a year was gone. cid gentleman Svci aW TV Btwu Method. -- t we Uizic to be dec there jxt What Bo&c thieks sf Sew York oa the wiiL Urn month ajaj wnt u pernaps ociy parml- if.- --, u. as wrt sa Uits eaeaapavfl fnnua; pr.iiCipiw V rt Ht uby inf. She aim id the ateaanar. and w ton. What Sew York board of itaaaflay sasnsssnaj atom What baj!ft-i..fmem a? a member of tlx to cot nmm-a- n mm wilt ever kMPr. A A talk w all that was ever loom ooc ;. I .act of l o- - : and thaa was ares im u th farmer etty Be tsA beard that and wot ia America, Husband and B asse Lad dinaared th boas way oi father mam mm ImmMhi and many a nd al Kuans, sad doing U woman a Una Wv bad mvm dawn xu us a brnei jttfit way, a a not snly fareante no power to eeod a not to hart the poor tramp a feaimgs. well word to any on. And Gladys Barrvn ww among tbtin bat make htm- fed. aa It were, that ht soli ttuii up his bctei as a man oar Gladys Frank wife. Be lay upon tha door in hit atndy. among men n was reported that any tramp might where ha bad cast himself down fur hour, and 1 dared not speak to ciu tt apply at the Boston benevolent establishwm days and weeks before the gtutly ment and pal u bath, a clean nightshirt, a frightened took haft Ms fans, month s bed and a breakfast, all for the privilege fun 1 eaased to fear that ha would die of aawieg wood two boars ia the mornchilof no mi Hayed with the York ofik'ii dren. And a another pea etajt bjr. ing. The benevolent New He himself dressed himself. for tried 1 it was remember, Then it epri&g tiiae, and all the orchards ware fall of tramp fashion, in n way to deceive the Frj.k came to vary elect, and applied for a Boston pink and white. me aa fail at work in the (shadow of the lodging. He timidly held before th two or three trees in oar httls village clerk of lb tramp lodging bouse the garden and sat down at say fatty ticket be ha J got at th police station "Faithful tittle woman." hs said. "I The clei gsve him a look of withering i are dear wonder if you know hew yon scorn, and ia a to mat fash: n remarked, "I'm getting on 1 trembled, and ray heart throbbed H racket"' Then he gruffly called, to that I could scarcely breathe. Ten are rich and 1 am not." be mid;1 "Next,' leaving the New Yorker standing lie had no idea what the bewilderinl. "bat I know you will not think that sort of racket was mat the high and mighty am a fortune hunter I sea wreck of what 1 ana, I think some- official objected to until, after a painful thing went out of ms when my poor process of inquiry, he found that he Evangeline was lost that is, youth's to have put the card into the offessence. I feel it and look how gray 1 ought no matter where the hand icial's hand am growing But 1 long for a deal was. for a friend for a woman's tenderness He got hit bath. The towel offered wife who will be what you can be to me. Will you have me, such aa I am, with for him to wipe on made bis flesh creep, my children and my saddened spirit, and the nightshirt made bis hair stand and all my imperfections on my bead?" on end, from the unmistakable evidence Would 17 I dared not speak; but they gave of the score or so of tramps put my hand m his. I knew be did not who had used them since their lost cleansgive me the love he had given poor ing. However, be was in for it and Gladys; but 1 should have a right to live He had to finikin. near him to receive his caresses to be tramps must not be metal a to tied around wear a 1 tag string all to him that I felt could be. "He shall love me yet as passionately his neck showing what was the number "lo of clothing. In the mornas man ever loved womany I said to of hit ae myself, "when, no more repressed, no ing , more afraid of loving him too well, 1 am performance was repeated from 3 o'clock once his wife." till the tramps bad breakfast at 8:30 1 was happy as the angels are for a o'clock. They were allowed to wash little space. The faces, but bad no towels. their We were to bo married very soon, but at-York man estimated New f the break wedas yet had told no one. I had my to cost about two cents a head. For ding dress sent down from the city, vilthis and the night's lodging each man one and knew of lage gossips it, nothing worked ! r two hours, sawing aud evening I went to my room to try it on. The men were treatIt became me well. It was a pale splitting w When the pearl silk with a pretty white bonnet, in an uuitxiing manner. and in that 1 was to walk up the church New York man got out he no longer aisle on the next morning. We were to wondered that tramps were scarce in have a little journey and return. and he concluded that the Boston, 1 "I am pretty again," thought to enterprise was a thorough busi- myself. "The looks I lost long ago success. have come back to me in my joy;" and I went up the glass and kissed my own Legal Appeals. reflection. One would not wish to be troublesome, As my lips touched the mimr 1 heard a sound below a wild cry, a scream of or yet to suggest innovations on time fear, a shout of joy. What bod hap- honored customs, but really is not the business of tak'ig appeals in law cases pened? I rushed to the head of the stairs. rather overdone? Take, for instance, the They were dark. The hall below was Iowa calf case, or the Arkansas shout fully lighted. Under the blaze of the case. In one of these famous legal swinging lamp 1 saw Frank Barron the property in the beginning tangles holding his wife Gladys in his arms. She wore a traveling dress. His sudden was worth 17, in the other (8.50. Yet clasp had caused her cap to fall to the the contestants lawed and lawed on with ground and all her golder hair to escape unabated fury till thenselves, their from its comb. Living and lovely she families and all their kin on each side stood there embraced by him. One of the cases were bankrupted. 1 rushed back to my room, tore off ray lasted twenty years. Who got the money dress, hid it, locked it safe from sight, finally? The lawyers. Lawyers don't donned the gown that came first to Not they. mind appeals. cried "God help me!" and went hand, In of it must have been fact, point down the stairs. By this time he had her in the parlor, and was looking at her the cunning legal gentlemen themselves who devised the system of appeal from through his tear wet eyes. Vllaa beautiful as ever," lie cried "as a lower court to a higher one. Certainly beautiful as ever!" it does them good, while it helps their "Thank God, Gladys!" I cried. And clients only in one respect, that of enasurely I thanked God that she had come bling them to continue quarreling longwhen she did. She kissed me, but not er. The longer their cases can go on. warmly. their more the passions become inflamed, "Fancy me all this time on a desert island," said she. "I had to go back to and like the Arkansas shoat contestants London for clothes and money, and I they bankrupt themselves for $2.50. Appeals seem to be granted far too thought it best not to cable." Her tones were flippant, her looks de- easily and on much too frivolous prefiant texts. Nobody ever knows when or "Tired of taking care of the babies?" how a case is to be decided, and the t she asked. "How do they look? They trial simply means nothing at all It wont know me." would be better, at least it could be no Later she came to my room. "I heard you were going to marry worse, if there was no appeal allowed Frank," she said. "Hadn't you better at all in the majority of cases that are confess? On the whole, I suppose you'd contested at law. like to leave us?" "1 have packed my trunk," 1 said, Strange stories come through the "Gladys, you must have suffered; tell French papers to this country about the me about your life on the island. How German emperor. French correspondcould you keep so well, so fresh, so ents declare that the young kaiser uses blooming?" to deaden the pain in his de"I can't bear to talk of it." said she. morphine formed arm and for the same reason he "It was homd, of course. How old and drinks alcoholic liquors, sometimes takugly Frank has grown." of both the morphine and the more ing "With grief for you," said L alcohol than is good for him. This acShe laughed and left me. 1 was gone next morning without counts for the accident when the emadieus. peror recently slipped and fell on board A little later I met an English friend. the imperial yacht From the same She took my hands. source comes also information that the "I thought you would give Mrs, Bar- emperor's orders on board the yacht ron up," she said. "Her husband has were so unreasonable and confusing that taken her back after all." "It is no crime to be cast on a desert the sailors found it impossible to obey them, and were almost dead from fa- island," said L "Desert island!" she laughed. "Did tigue before he finally gave over. she tell him that story? She lost the Be quiet and don't waste your strength steamer and went back to her own house. She found it hard to leave some in fuss. The fussy little person who one she had come to know, and when fumes and talks constantly of having so the boat was lost she made capital of it much to do does not accomplish nearly in America. We knew she spent a good so much as the quiet, steady individual many months and a good deal of money who goes to work without a word, keeps in the Isle of Wight, and her temper hia head on and says nothing at all about was too much even for Lord So . herculean tasks. He lets his work his she came from a desert island and he believes it. How funny!" speak for itself. The calm, strong, reI never saw either of them again. poseful person is the one who climbs to the top of the hill and commands his Mary Kyle Dallas in Fireside Companion. fellow men. In one part of the Mongol country Though the Majestic made the shortpassed over by Mr. Rockhill in his journey to Thibet he found that boots were est trip ever known between (jueens-towthe only things the people would receive and Sandy Hook, the City of Paris in exchange for horses, food, etc., and still holds the record for the greatest he congratulated himself that he had number of miles ever traveled by a carried nlong two dozen pairs, with steamer in twenty-fou- r hours. The discloth tops and queer upturned toes. tance was 515 miles. Tbst th mtHl id ijd .' - cbt 1 Nan-aoma- , I 1 ' - wood-sawin- g fii-s- n Brethren, pray one more that w a lifted out of oo rasa mj China is writing to cootnbete to otu World' fair, but there it one difflenlty. The Called State law will not allow Chinamen kg land in this country. It o is possible we shall not bear so much about the third party in the north- west from this on Th fanners is Dav and adjoining states have raited so mncb wheat that they will bar Little time to raise pontics The Dakota have produced the best wheat crop in five k ota - years. c :" Factory inspection has worked well in New York. The inspectors report that they find employers willing in nearly every case to Comply with the law regarding the health and safety of their employes, which is an excellent sign of progress. Furthermore, the factories only employ half at many children as they used to. New York law forbids any minor under fourteen to work in shops, and those between fourteen and sixteen must bring certificates from par-ecor guardians in reference to the necessity for their work. The enemy who is always present and ready to sneer a large sneer wants to know whether the farmer legislators have broken the time honored precedent of taking free railroad passes to and from their capitals, and whether they have accepted free pleasure excursions given by parties with little axes to grind. And if they have not, whether they will do so next winter. The enemy also informs the granger legislators that the eye of society is on them and that old Democratic and Republican legislators are especially interested to know about that free pass matter. Here is the granger lawmaker's chance to prove himself granite against temptation. Social Democrats' Programme. The annual meeting of the Social Democrats of Germany will take place in October. The executive committee of the organization has prepared a programme for adoption by the whole body at that meeting. It is so nearly in line with the ideas of bis most Christian majesty, Emperor William H, that he ought at once to take the Social Democrats to his bosom, or they should take him, it Is not quite certain which. Probably the doctors would welcome the socialist arrangement, as then they would always be sure of getting their fees. The demands of the executive committee are as follows: Direct duffraire and a secret ballot. Popular rights of Initiative and veto on legislative measures as In Switzerland. Popular dibcussion of all questions Involving peace and war. Freedom of speech press and assembly. Separation of church and state no state support of any church. Secularization of schools and compulsory education. Militia in place of standing army. Elective judiciary and free courts and free legal aid. Free medical attendance and free medicines. Direct instead of indirect taxation. Labor legislation. Involving regulation of hours of labor by law, an eight hours' day, of commercial Sovernmental supervision of agricultural au-other laborers, rights of labor organization, governmental workman's insurance societies. Sr.- cr o 3 -i .i- mwmwt, --t CD Speak English. Jacob Grimm, the fine old German philologist, is one of the most learned He has studied carelinguists alive. fully the tongues of civilized peoples, and after mature thought, German though he is. writes this: "The English speech may with full right be called a world language." If a German can say this, then those citizens of America who ore trying by all means fair or foul to make other tongues than English the prevailing language of their respective communities may well pause think what they are endeavoring to do. They are going against nature and common sense. When Shakespeare lived and sang, 800 years ago, on the whole globe there were less than a million more English speaking people than now inhabit London alone. There were between 5,000,000 and 6.000,000. So recently as a century ago, even after this republic was founded, there were only 15,000,000 English speaking persons on the globe. At the same date 30,000,000 spoke French and 40,000,000 German, Now we find that while the French and German tongues are spoken by a reasonably increased number of individuals in the world today, in Australasia, the British isles and in America 115,000,000 claim English as their mother tongua This is 40 per cent, of the inhabitants of the civilized world. Is it not commendation of that clever old saying of a wit that he would speak Spanish to his God. French to a woman, German to a horse, but English to a man? this splendid Unmistakably tongue is the language of manifest destiny, the speech of the future. Proof of this is not needed, but if it were it would be found in the fact that the English race is spreading itself over the globe far more rapidly than any other nationality. It is probably the language of the coming race. English speaking nations are the freest, strongest and most prosperous on the in literglobe today. The greatest-ligh- t ature this earth has produced was Shakespeare, who wrote in English. Therefore let us maintain this noble tongue of a rising race in its choicest purity. We may learn other languages as an accomplishment if we will, but never to the detriment of our national tongue. Let us speak and write the best English we know, in the most magical voices we can cultivate. C3 T3 o c ctq C3 a E3 CD |
