, 1872-12-29

seems to me best to tell this story SO that may
explain what manner OF people those wore and
coye,-.and why they have been, are, and will
be linked together, with sort OF family tie
and relationship which one docs not often sec in
the villages self-formcd or formed at hap-hazard
on the seaside, On the hillside, or in the prai
ries Of America Trippa Cove never became
''the Great Mercantile City OF the Future, nor
do believe it ever will. But there Samuel Cults
lived III happy life for fifty years.-and there
he died, honored, blessed, and loved. BY and
by thcro came the second war with England.-tho
| ''Endymion" came cruising along upon the
! coast, and picking up tho fishing-boats and the
| coasters, burning the ships on the stocks, Or
compelling tho owners to ransom them. Old
! General Quits was 70 years old then but he
was, IS lie lad always been. tho head Of the set
| tlement at Trpp's,-and there WAS no 1sck OF
! men younger than he, the sorgeants or the high
| priyates Of the Fighting gTwenty-seventh,' who
drilled the boys of the village for whatever SER
! to Runkins and sent tho "Endymion's" boats
hack to her with half their crews dead or dying,
faster than thoy came, old General Cults was
with them, and took sight over his riho as quick
so twenty years more passed on,-and, when he
was we'll nigh ninety, the old man died
full Of years and full Of blessings, all because
he had launched ont for himself, loft the life he
| WAS not fit for, and undertaken life in which he
was at home.
| Yes and because OF this also, whom 1861 came
with it's terrible alarm to tho whole country: and
its cali to duty, all Trips Cove was all right.
7ere eager for service. The girls stood BY
| the boys, and the boys stood by the girls. Tho
husbands stood by tho wives, and the wives
stood by the husbands. I do not that
| there was not another community IN which
everybody Was steadfast and true: But do
mean that here Was one great family, although
the census rated it as fye-and-tweuty families,
which had one heart and one soul
af nth '0asss hoa nna Tfh shd ons ~sn' soa ntp
every man and every woman Of thom all
bearing each others burdens,
| Little Sim Cults, who broke the silence that
| night when the postman throw dowa the Boston
Gazette, was m old man OF IS when they al got
tho nows Of the shots at Fort Sumter. The
old man WAS as halo and hearty as half tho
men OF GO in this land are to-day. With all
his heart he encouraged the boys who volun-
teered in answer to the first call for regiments
from Maine. Then, with full reliance on the
| traditions Of tho 81 Fighting Twenty y-sevonth," :"
| he explained to the fishermen and tho coasters
that uncle Abraham would need them for his
the land. Aud they found out their ways to
that ~'D:1 thoy might enter the navy as
their brothers entered tho army.
1861, shore vas at Tripp's coyo only ono of that
noble set Of young fellows who but q year be-
fore was hauling hemlock, and spruce, and fir,
and pine, at Christmas, at the girls' order, and
worked in the Westinghouse for two days as
Parson Spaulding camo in to preach
| his Christmas sermon, he thought the
house was bit Of tho woods them
selves. Only one!
| And who was he2
| How did be dare stay among all those girls
! who were crying out their eyes, and sewing their
| fingers to the boncs,-meoting every afternoon
in one sitting-room or another, and dogouring
| 4J,-A,
| tho wo1st-Bpelled letter that came homo from
| l1iao 'Sawin, and priced it, and blessed
it, and cried over it, rs heartily as
| tho pen of Carleton or Sulpton.
| Who WAS he
All! Iharo caught you, have I? That was
Tom Cutts,-the old Generals at-grandson,- =
the very noblest and brave4t Of them all. He
to bo in Bull Run,-and to be cut OF
from his regiment. Ho had the luck to
| hide under corn crib, and to come into Wash
| ington whole: week after tho regiment. He
for the throe-years' service. Perhaps tho same
thing ia said Of many others. He lad come
homo and raised . new company,--an he was
making thom fast into good soldiers, out be-
der. would do anything Tom Cuttt
wanted. And when, on the first ol
December, there ca,no up to tho Major Genera
n command request for leave Of absence from
| LON CuLL8, TC8pGcL1uly Ie16ITeQ TO IOloue
This, who had respectfully reforrod it to Genera
That, who had respectfully referred it to Adju
tant General Tother,-au these dignitaries hae
respectfully recommended that the request bt
the top Major Generals headquarters, it was un
derstood that Cults WAS going home for no les
purpose than the being married to the pret
test and sweetest and best girl in Easter
Maine.
Well! for my part do not think that tho aid
| ~75f inf mt n fha ahou
tis. Surely that Christmas Eve, as Laura Mar
vel stood up with Tom Cults in front OF Parsol
Sp>ulding, in presence Of what there was left Q
tho Tripp'H Cove community, would have sal
She is tall; she is graceful; she has rather
startled look when you speak to her, suddenly O
gently, but the startled look just bewitches you
Black hair,--she got that from the Italian bloc
in her grandmother's family exquisite blu
!. eycs,-that is e charming combination wit
] black hair; perfect teeth, and matchless color
, and she had it all when she WAS maj
rcd she was a blushing bride and not faint
, knew he cared straw for Laura's hair or he
check; it was that she looked just lovely,
aud that she was "just lovely, so self-forge
! full in all her ways, after that first starts
. and so determined to help just. ther'
t Why! aho led all the girls in the Vi
: lagoo whom sho was only IA, b.
Q cause they loved her 80. She was the ono VIII
I maze luo Ta1ta NuGu kAc4o "as 4IebueL HI
v took them all out together on the mill pont
! And, when the war came, she was, Of couls
o cans Of pickles and fruit for the sanitary,--si
/ correspondent with the State Adjutant-
= Heavens! from morning to night ever
i body in the village ran to Laura,
o not because sho WAS the prettie
/, creature you ever looked upon, but because st
> VAS the kindest, truest, most loyal, and mo
l. helpful creature that ever lived, be the san
# man or woman.
it Now had you rather be named Laura Quits
d Laura Marvel? Marvel is good name,-
s weird, miraculous sort Of name. Cults is Il
d much of name. But Laura had made /
u her mind to be- Laura Cutta Eaft
10 Tom had asked her about it.,
ID and here they standing before dear old Pa
81 sou Spsulding, to receive his e1hortauon,-a1
10 to be made ono before God and man.
n Dear Laura! How she had laughed with Il
ar other girls. all in good-natured way, at Il
10 good Parsons e1hortation to the young couple
8 Laura had heard it twenty tiu,es,-f sho b,
it "etood up" with twenty OF the girls who b
80 dared the Enterprise Of Life before her! Na
re Laura could repeat, with all the emphasis, II
n, most pathetic passage OF the whole" Al