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Show r, A HE '1' II K B , E R 1 ' i v 1 E RALI). - - lovely little children, two bpys, Geor-giand Willie, and one daughter, little Kate. To be continued. to the far west, thinking that he might do better there than in the er.st. The sisters grieved much at parting. Both wept a'grcv.t deal, Jenny the .most violently, and Sarah the longest. But they hoped to see each other before a long time. In about two month, Jenny had a Dr Willdi long letter from her sister. iams had bought some land, and built a e An express train slowly pulls out at the sound of the gong. Immediatly from various quarters, as if th-- y propped out of the earth, some peoplt, with wildly little. frame house, in a beautiful on one of the great western praries. Sarah wrote very cheerfully, and begged her sister to come out and make her a visit in a year or two. But oak-grov- e, swinging grips and parcels in hand, rush at brakeneck speeds along the planking to get on board, and are left panting and shouting and swearing just too late. Rarely an Ocean steamer booked for days to leave at a certain hour, begins to churn the salt water into a foam but a tab or. carrage bearing a steamer trunk and displaying a disheveled head at the open window, comes rattling down upon the crowded pier jnst too late. The companydias the passage money, the name is on the printed passenger list, but: tluf' birth is cm this trjp.r Hardly ship ".leaves port but somebody is left by a hair . ... breadth. It seems odd dosent it? But it is v nevertheless truer-- ' This grC'at buisness world stops for nobody. A man must get up and come down on time or get left. And thereis always somebody Jenny was indolent, and dreaded the ..trouble ob jorncying, which was much greater at that time than it is now. So she was always promising, but never went to see her sister; neither did she write to her regularly. Sarah grew -- hired of writing long letters which received short answers, or noneat all, and wrote herself less often, and, at the sisters, who. in childhood, had close and loving com:" Ipee.n such panions, scarc(dy heard from one once a year. Yet they loved another, t ' . each.ptber still,' though the thoughtful the dear old times Sarah remembered r t i' oftener than thejight-hearteJenny. And so eight long years went by. Jenny was yet as happy as ever, her left.--YHerald, husband was fond of her, and she still getting v :nadall around her that her heart could desire. First among the good things neat Remember we can tlo that God had giver, her, were three enough for anybody. Last . . -- i - . ? . d ork job-wor- k , i f i i - . a t t, ? |