Show TWO WESTERN WIVES A sentimental story of or a young ilife her ifer baby and her bonnie john jolln there left st paul in a i pullman Pull mafi car on tho the northern pacific rail road last friday two ladies bound west each to meet her husband and each bearing to the father ather f hia his child which ho lie had not hot yet seen one of the ladies had been marx mar ried in chicago on christmas day 1882 and the following g fall her husband went to helena to seek his fortune he had bad obtained a fair start and sent for his wife to join him in hid hiti new western home her babe was a hazel eyed boy bov already in short clothes and she declared it to be the perfect image of its father the train reached helena late at night and none of the passengers saw the meeting of the interested parties the other othe r lady was sirs mrs taylor of liverpool wife of capt taylor master of an E english ship now lying at tacoma she married two years doand had not seeli seen her husband since since ho lie sailed for australia last april A portland gentle gentlemen meik was a passenger iu in the sleeper and related to an oregonian oregonians Ore gonian reporter something of tho the pleasure and amusement the little woman and her little 1 babe afforded all her felloe fellow travelers both the 1 little I 1 atle woman and babe were cheerful good looking bright eyed and fair to see and every passenger felt a protecting interest in them it long before all had bad won her confidence there never was a woman eo so full of liopo hope and tenderness and lovo love and anxiety as n this little woman was and all day long she wondered whether the captain would be at tho the depot to meet her or whether tho 60 captain had bad got her tele gramand hamaud she sent tha baty ashore by somebody else the captain would know it meeting 9 it in the street seeing that he lie had never set eyes on it in his life was not very like jy y in the tile abstract but was probable enough to the young mother she was such an artless little creature and was in euch such a sunny beagin beaming g hopeful state and let out all this mutter matter clingi clinging og close around her heart so freely that the tile jwo two lady passengers filtered entered into the spirit of it 13 bueb as she there thero was ono one little yv ei cazen izen dried old woman who took occasions to doubt the constancy of husbands in euch circumstances and there was another lady old enough to w m ra lizo lize on tho lightness of human affections and at yet not so old that bhe ole could help nursing the baby now and then or smiling with the rest when the little woman called it by its fathers namo nanie and asief it all manner of fantastic questions coil cou him in the joy of her heart at last the train pulled up at the east mast portland station at it 1 jest yesterday erday afternoon it had scarcely 1 stopped when a good looking large bronzed man entered the car dropping dr her babe upon the scat seat in iu front of her tho the little woman sprang up and in a moment was clinging ai g around the captain capt aind tj neck several of the passengers could not see plainly through their teara for the next minute and none of them cared to remain and disturb the acene as the little woman led the father back to the baba Il ortland oregonian oregonians Ore gonian |