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Show "pt...-.i.IiM. -!, .u,i i ..I.... i j BBS Letters Long on Way "'" ;, I "Speaking of tho curious routes lot" tors sometimes take In reaching their destination," said nn old newspaper man, In the Now Orleans Times-Demo-crnt, "reminds me of an extraordinary oxporlenco I had In 1001, when I ro-colvod ro-colvod two letters which had been mnllod to mo In 1888, thirteen years before. I had been with a friend In Washington up to early In 1888, when I concluded that I would go to my old homo in Boston. I remained jn Boston Bos-ton a fow days, going from there to Now York. My movomonts wero so sudden that ho did not at any time know exactly where to find me. Tho two letters to which I havo referred wore scrtt to my Washington address, and, fortunately, foil into tho hnmls of my frlond. Not knowing exactly where I was after hearing thnt I had left Boston, he did not know whero to send tho letters, so ho Just koptthem, thinking thnt ho would finally learn my address and would sond them on to me. "Whllo loafing around In Now York I was suddenly seized wlth a deslro to go to Europo and, without saying anything to anyone nbout my Intentions, I boarded a ship and started start-ed for foreign lands. "For nearly four years I wns abroad and during that tlmo, whllo communicating with relatives and friends on this side I never wroto to my, friend whom I had loft In Washington, Wash-ington, for I did not know his ad- No Human Life There ;: I BR Tho coast of Labrador Is tho edgo of a vast solitude of rocky hills, split and blasted by tho frosts and beaten by tho waves or tho Atlantic for unknown un-known ages. A grand h6adland, yellow, yel-low, brown and black In Its nakedness, Is over in sight, ono to tho north of you nnd ono to tho south. Hero and thero upon them aro .strips and patchos of pale green mosses, lean grasses and dwarf shrubbery. Thoro aro no forests except In Hamilton Inlet. Occasionally miles of precipices front tho sea In which fancy may roughly shapo all tho structures of human art. Moro frequent, than headlands and perpendicular sea fronts trq(the sqa Blopes, often bald and tamo, and then, 1 tho, perfection otVallAthnF lis1 plctur-oatruo plctur-oatruo andHbush."iIhfJh(Jvlntefr6r tlfo' bluo hills and stony Vales that wlnU up from among them from tho fiea jiavo a summorllko nnd pleasant air. Ono finds himself peopling thoso ro-glons ro-glons nnd dotting their hills, valleys and wild shores with human habitations, habita-tions, but a second thought, nnd a mournful ono it Is, foils that no men toll In tho fields awaythero, no worn- dress and could get no trace of him. B Ho had loft Washington in tho menn- flHB tlmo nnd had como South. Thoso- - BBS fncts were, of course! unknown to mo nt tho tlmo. I never hoard a word jBBB from him and nover know anything of jH his whereabouts until somo tlmd after' BBBj my roturn to America; In fact, not un jBBB til tho year 1901, whon I suddenly rnn JBBB ncross h'lm In tho city Of Now Orleans, i I secured employment here and was BBB surprised ono day to learn thnt I was. BBB working In tho samo office with my BBB long-lost friend. H " 'By the way,' ho said, when wo- , BBB first met, 'I have a couplo of letters. ., BBB for you which 1 havo kept for thlr BBB teen years, since shortly after wo sop- BBB nrated In Washington In lS,' Ho, BBB gavo mo tho letters. Thoy wore ycl BBB lowod somewhat by ago. Thoy wero, BBB from two very dear friends and I BBB asked my friend what had become of BBB tho boys, telling him whom tho 'letters BH wero from. 'Thoy aro both dead,' ho BH said, 'and havo been dead for a num BBE her of years.' I supposo thoso two( BH boys died thinking just a llttlo un BH kindly of mo bocauso of falluro to anf BH swer tholr letters, for they never BH know tho letters hnd not reached mo. HB It was a strango experience and ono H which had no small amount of pathos HB In It for me, and one, too, which Is BH brightened by tho pretty friendship HB of tho man who had kept tho letter BH nil theso years for mo." HB HiHB on keop tho homo off thoro, no child- Hi ron play by tho brooks or shout ' HK around- tho, country schoolhouso, no- " jHJ boos come homo to tho hive, no smoko BBt curls from tho farmhouse chimney, no BBS orchard blooms, no bleating sheep BB flock tho mountnln sldo with whito BBS ncss, and no heifer lows In tho twl BH light. , Hf There Is nobody thoro, Uiero never ' BBfi was but a miserable and scattorod ' ,HK fow, nnd thoro never will bo. It Is a ''Hi groat and terrible wilderness, thou , Hi sands of miles in extent nnd lonesome-1 HJ to tho very wild animals and birds. ' Hf Loft to tho still visitation of tho light , J . BH from tho sun, moon nnd stars' and' tho IBBI auroral fires, It Is only fit to look- upon ' -Wm and then bo givon over to' 4ts Sprlmei " mT val solitariness, i. But1 lor' tho living' f - . ' BK 'things of its waters, thq cod',rsaljnoh,'i6v - SBP and aeal, which beings thousandg o'f , a. S.JB fishermen to Its waters and traders to-., .' . " gSfl' Its blealc Bhores, Labrador would bo as ," A , ?- ""i ? Sa ddsolafo as Grcenlnnd. The tlmo is, . t j BB nbw coming when with good steam-, .1 '" BJ ship accommodations tho Invalid ftiid BB tourist from tho States' will bo found - BB spending tho brief but lovely summer BB here, notwithstanding Its ruggedness. BB and desolntlon. Bpston TrnnscrlpL ' BB " , - |