Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-07-26
sTORH AND SUNSHINE.
How His Ship Came In---An Affecting
Story Of Struggles Patience and Tri'
uwnh.
Prom the CapItaLJ


I ran across what struck me as q
very singular genius on my road from
Springfield 70 Boston. This was 8
stout, black whiskered man who sat
Immediately in front Of me, and who
INDUCED, from time TO time, in the
most strange and unaccountable ma
noeuvres. Every now and then he
would get up and hurry away 10 the
narrow passage which leads to the
door in these dFaWing-rOom eaTs, and
when he thought himself secure from
observation would fall to laughing in
the most violent manner and continue
the healthful exercise until he was as
red in the face az a lobster. As we
neared Boston these demonstration
increased In violence, save that the
stranger no longer ran away to laugh,
but kept his seat and ehuekled to
himself, with his chin deep down
in his shirt collar. But the changes
those portmanteaus underwent He
moved them there, here, everywhere.
he put them behind him, In front OF
him, on each side OF him. He was,
evidently, getting ready to leave; but
as we were yet twenty miles from
Boston, the idea Of such early prepa-
artions wEs ridiculous. II we had en-
tered the city then the mystery would
have remained unsolved; but the
stranger at last became so excited that
he could keep his seat no longer
Some one must help him, and as I
was the nearest he selected me. Sud-
denly turning, as II I had asked q
question, he said, rocking himself to
and faO in his ehairin the meantime,
and slapping bis legs, and breathing
hard, Been gone three years i''-
All !" " Yes; been In Europe
Folks don't expect me home for six
months yet but ! got through and
started. 1 telegraphed them at the
last station; they've got It by this
time" As he said this he changed
the portmanteau on his left to the
right, and the one on the right to his
left again. Got 3 wife," said l.
Yes, and three children" he re-
turned, and he got up and folded his
Overcoat anew, and hung it over the
back of the seat. " You are pretty
nervous over the matter, amt you ?h
said, watching his fidgety move
ments. "Well, I should think so, "
he replied, " I haint slept sOundly for
week. And do you know he went
on, glancing around at the passengers
and speaking In q low tone, I am
almost certain this train will run of
the track and break my neck before l
get to Boston. Well, the fact Is I've
had too much GOOD luck for one man,
lately. The thing can't last; itaint
natural that 1t should, you know. /
] hr- ,N.n1 Z 4
il shines; then it rains again. It
rains 30 hard you think it's never
going to stop; then itshines so bright
you think its always going TO shine
and just as you are settled in either
belief, you are knocked over by 8
change, to show you that you know
nothing at all about it." "Well, &C.
cording to this philosophy, y said ],
You will continue to have sunshine
because you expect q Storm It's
curious be returned, "but the only
/ thing that makes me think will gei
through safe, Is because I think
WON'T % Well, that is curious, /" said
/. YES" he replied; I'm q ma
1 ehinist; made 8 discovery; nobody
believed In It; spent all my money
trying 10 bring it out; mOTtgaged my
home; all went. Everybody laughed
at me; everybody but my wife
spunky little woman said she would
work her fingers of before I should
give it up. Went TO England; NJ
better there came within an ace o
I Jumping of London Bridge. Wen
into a shop to earn money to conn
home with there met the man
. i NaA L., 81. ~
| I've brought E30, 900 home with me
and here am !, 4" Good for YOU
exclaimed. Yes, " "saidhe, "E30, 900
\ and the best OF 1t Is, she don't know
anything about 1t. I've fooled her s.
/ often, and disappointed her 50 much
! that Just concluded I would sal
( nothing about this. When I got M
I money, though, you better believe
struck q bee-line for home" AM
now you will make her happy SAT-
/ i. Happyp he replied. VIII,
you don't know anything about ii
She's worked like q dog while hav
been gone, trying to support hersel
and the children decently. They pail
her thirteen cents apiece for max
ing coarse shirts; and that's the wa
she'd live half the time. She'll com
/ down there to the depot to meet me
] In q gingham dress and q shawl
Y hundred years old, and she'll thinl
lshe's dressed up. Oh, she won't hav
tuo clothes after this-oh, no, I CUES
tnot!n And With these words, Whicl
4 implied that his Wife's Wardrob
the stranger tore down the passage
way again, and getting in his old cor
i ner, where he thought himself out Q
/ sight, wentthrough the stangest pan
tomime, laughing, putting his mOutl
into the drollest shapes, and thel
swinging himself back and forth Il
1.-THE limited space as II he were walk
ing down Broadway full-riggei
metropolitan belle. And 50 on till W
rolled into the depot, and place
myself on the other car, opposite th
stranger, who with a portmanteau i
each hand, had descended, and wa
/. standing on the lowest step, ready |
Jump to the platform looked fFoT
Ihis face to the faces OF the people bS
fore US, but saw no sign OF recOgni
ton. Suddenly he cried, There the
are" and laughed outright. but in
lhysteFieal sort Of . way, as he locke
, fover the crowd. followed his eye
and saw some distance back, as
tcrowded out-shOuldered away by th
! well dressed and Glowing thrOng-
, little woman In q faded dress and
!. well worn hat, with q face almOi
: painful in its intense but hopeless e
! preston, glancing rapidly from vii
NJ dow to window as the coaches glide
lin. She had not yet seen the stranl
er; but moment after she eaugi
/ his eye, and in another instant h
: had Jumped to the platform with b
two portmAnteaus, and making q no
! Id the crowd, pushing one here an
! there, and running one Of his bundle
! plump into the well developed ston
! ach Of a venerable looking old ma
! In spectacles, he rushed towards II
I place where she was standing.
; think I never saw a face assume :
MANY different expressions In 30 shO
! a time as did that Of the little wOma
7 while her husband was on the way
!, lhsr. She didn't look pretty. On Il
: contrary, she looked very plain; bl
, somehow felt big lump rise in m
I throat as / watched her. She was tr,
! ing to laugh; but, God bless her, no
: completely she failed in the attemp
Her mouth got into the position; b
a Il never moved after that, save
4 draw down the corners and quive
81 while she b1nked her eyes 80 fast tn
I suspect that she only caught Oec
siOnaf glimpses of the brOad-shou
n desed fellow who elbowed his way
rapidly towards her. And then,