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Show WED TO GO TO WAR, I A--NEW JERSEY OIRL UAVBO g HER SWEETHEART. H tl.rrl.. lb only Way Out of ll.tnf IH railed a (,'oi.nnl Willi. m Haywood H 11a. Ased rareata for Wli.in llo lis tB to Hah l-ratl.loo. IH T3gn llOM Hancock's Uuk llln "'Ms. Balera jraB I ""31 county, N. J, b -4Sj!ffi7 comes an Interest- JW SzSvfesi '" "torr ' p uK rr 7 I'loUim on tho oaBn JESSsSRl ''" ' Toung ffi jSauJiVi 41 woman ot tho MxH WAVv namo ( ""7 wn- tga Ww son, Msry Is tha v dsughter of well- H ' to-do parent. Her H father la a properout farmer tnd hit tm a nest lltlto bank account that he his M gathered together during tho lost few M yctrs since tha mortgage on the farm H was wiped out. This bank account will H oventually fall to Mary, became the It H an only child. Uut tho Itn'l the kind H of a girl thit look to her parents for H support. She Is of sn Independent torn KH of mind, nnd ever itnca iho wit eight H cn yean old, with tbo exception ot H tht lilt winter term, hni taught ths H tchool In the Uuttonwood dlttrlct. H Mary htd far more Important builnen H to attend to laat winter than teaching H tht young Idea how to ahoot. She had H given her heart to a proiperotia young H man In tho neighborhood ot tht name H ot William Haywood, and they wero H to bo married early In tho tummer. H Haywood owna a Utile farm, upon H which ho labor during tho tummer, H and In tho winter ha trachea tchool H In tho Arlington dlitrlct William and . Mary bid grown up together from H childhood. Wltlltm's father a few H ycart ago became helpleti through a H paralytic ttroke, and tho duty ot tak- M Ing rare ot trie family devolved upon H tho young man. Thtro wero only H three In tho family William' parents H and hlmaelf. The young man wat an IH enthuilaitle member ot one nt tho H companlrt telrcted from Iho Sixth rcgl- ment, N. O. N. J., lo Join tho volunteer M army. When tho call came William M wa teaching tchool and ha consulted H Miry. The youhg man told hit fiance H ot tho opportunity to volunteer hla H tervlce In behtlf of bit country, but H ho feared that ho would be unable to H do io beciuao nt tho reionilbllltles H reeling upon him "Hut It you don't H go, William," said Mary, "everybody H who knows you will call you a cow- H ard." That' what worrlet me," an- H awercd William, "but I don't tee bow H father and mother will bo able to get H along If they are left alono. Another M thing, Miry, you know wo wero to b H married early In Iho tummer, and It H I went to war It would destroy our ,H plan In that direction." 1 "I know that," replied Mary, "but I don't want to bear them call yon A B coward. William, and If I can btvo M toy way they thall not" M "I would receive 113 a month ai a B soldier," nld William. "The old po- HH pie could manage to gtt along on that H amount, I preaume, but then there It nobody to look after tha farm." H "There Is but one way out ot tho gVasti trouble," tsld Mary. H "Where doea Jt Hot" asked WJIIItm. M 'Through marriage, Wa muit get H married right away. I'll t their M dtugbter. I don't want you to think M lei of me pecau I am asking yon H lo hurry our marriage, but lomebody H muit look after your father and mother while you are away, and, William, I M want to do IL" H I Three dayi later William and Mary wtra quietly married, Mary was on- H gaged by tho tchool board to flnlab her B Ihueband'i term of teaching, and Wll- HjH Ham bn gont wllh hli company. Mary HH Urea with the old folkt, and I hippy I In the thought that no matter what HJ WILLIAM HAYWOOD. H tho goailp may lay about their bur ried marriage, they cannot truly nil H htr husband a coward. HJ |
