Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-01-04


away. I'll bet my inkstand that that pa
per was the mortgageof John Smith s farm.
Farmer Churchill has risen from bis din
ner. and sitting in his chair for momen nj 5
rest on the piazza of his pretty white cot
tage. Ellen is there. She is not less beau
tiful than she was four years ago. She is
singing, but she stops to hear remark of
her father. a'l,i saasis3 .y3.a assa b. i,a
1t is just four days ago to-day, sai3 the
good farmer, since your John Smith left
us. | wouldn't wonderif we saw him along
here before the month was out.
why not to-day, father asked Ellen,
he promised he would return in four years
whether he was successful or not
The farmer had 70 time TO reply, for Just
then Mrs. Churchill appeared, and said a
carriage was coming with only single gen
.tleman in it. She had seen it from Rerwin-
dow. enter the valley little way south Of
the cottage, Only moment elapsed and
The carriage was at the door. A young
stranger within it turned lis eye for mo.
mcnt towards the piazza, and then sprans
to the ground. Ellen's eye had caught the
ran to the gateway. ana was in bis arms.
John Smiths son John had got back again!
Farmer Churchill was scarcely less hap
py than his daughter, for he loved John al
ready as The were his own son. But his.
joy found other channels through which to
display itself then in kisses and embraces.
He gave Johns hand q hearty shake, well
coined him 10 his house, ordered his horse
TO be put into the stable, and himself walk
ed with him over to the log cabin to see his
mother. On his way there lie told John OF
the reconciliation between himself and his
father, of the completegreiormation of the
latter, and assured him that abundance of
happiness now reigned where before was
strife and misery John had not lost all
his boyishness,. and he clapped his. hands
with JOY when he received this intelligence.
He felt even more like doingthe same thing,
when, on reaching his home, and after be-
ing covered with Kisses, lie heard the same
story from his mothers lips, and saw the
bright smile on her happy countenanee.-
His father soon came m, and with fearful
eyes, but in deep thankfulness, welcomed
back again--back to a better home than he
left-his long absent son. Just then Ellen
came rushing in and declared she could not
stay away from where there was so much
happiness. Young John now took from his
pocket book the mortgage paper of Scribner
and proposed that it be consigned TO the
flames. His father took it gently from his
hand, read it aloud TO The little company,
and after imploring his kind father in hea-
ven that there might be kept no more dur
able record of his vices and follies, did with
it as John had desired.
That evening John and Ellcnmet at their
old retreat by the brookside, and renewed
the embraces where they parted four years
before. Not the least pleasing Of their de-
clarations this time, was the one, that come
veal or woe, their days desperation were
at an end.
In the course Of few weeks, Joyous
wedding party assembled at the cottage of
Farmer Churchill, and the same kind heart
cd clergyman who reclaimed his father,
joined him in the holy bonds Of wedock,
with the woman he loved better than him
self. A happier couple had never entered
the married life, and happier parents than
those of John and Ellen, never give away
son or daughter. r t5