The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-02

g0VernaDle paSSlouS Wulcn tueii VIII ehiooA Ga
cited.
Many brave and noble youth ended his
days in gambling hell, then found anywhere
in the State; or worn out with toll and expo
sure incident to memory, sank into early graves,
without stone to mark their resting places, or
friend to weep over their remains.
Even yet there will be found in old mining
camps some wreck of early times, shattered and
broken, struggling to preserve an existence that
has outlived its hopes; forgotten by those at
home, who from their long silence, deem them
dead with no prospect in life, they migrate
from gulch to gulch, pitching their tents wher-
ever night overtakes them, with the ground for
their couch and the stars, always bright and
clear in our sunny cline, for canopy; and
thus they wander on, true uomads of the mines,
until death shall claim them, when perhaps
pitying community will send them to hospi-
tai and generally furnish a rude coffin, and a
paupers burial.
Some of the brightest intellects of the age
have here miserably perished, yet there were
many who withstood the temptation who
came out of the fiery ordeal unscorched, and
helped to lay the foundation of this, the EN-
pire State of the Pacific, which, ere many gen
erations, will rank among the first in our glori-
Gus Union.
| Miss Howard, who heard from himself first, OF
his new intention.
IT have made up my mind to leave for Cali
fornia," said he, "and shall start tomorrow for
New York.
"What, going away so far7 When did you
come to this sudden conclusion?"
"When you refused me your heart and hand, :"
he replied smilingly.
"You don't seem to feel very badly about it"
eff carried my heart in my sleeve, as many
do, you would see that it is deeply affected; but
| I have learned to hide my feelings from world
that always laughs at love, especially mans
| love when it is not reciprocated."
"It seldom proves fatal malady with your
SEX" said Fannie, with an almost impercepti-
| BILE sneer.
"There is where you deceive yourself" re-
piled Maurice "and most women fall into the
same error mans love is purer, stronger, deep
er, and more enduring than is that of woman
for it he sacrifices everything but principle,
and often becomes knave to testify his atfec-
tion."
"More frequently becomes fool" said she,
soto voce.
"He will leave friends, home, and everything
that makes life pleasant" continued Maurice,
"and 90 to the uttermost parts of the world to
| get wealth for the object of his desires"
"I hope you are not bound upon any such
Quixotic errand."
ayes, my dear Miss Howard, am going to
the Pacific for you, and you alone. | shall
strive to get gold and fame, and then shall
ask you to become my wife" -.
Could it be true, thought Fannie, that this
man would do all this for her, and only an ac-
| quaintance of few weeks. Such devotion
touches the heart of a woman, and, for the first
time, she really began to love him.
"You will allow me to write to you once in
while won't you ?" said Maurice, beseechingly,
for he dreaded to part with her for years with
out a hope of hearing from her occasionally. >.
ooh, yes, will answer your letters, tor IT
will be pleasant to have correspondent IN
such far off country"
"You will find me a very prompt one, at any
rate"
And so he bade her farewell, happy at least
in her promise to write, for he knew the heart
often went out with the letters, and followed
them to distant shores, and ere long, from ex-
pecting answers, it looked to see the wanderer
come back in person to receive more gratlty-
ing acknowledgment from the lips than the pen
can put upon paper.
Time few by, and months heightened into
wears, and every steamer brought letter from
Maurice full of vivid descriptions OF life in
California. Her replies imperceptibly grew
warmer, for he wrote beautiful letters, and they
often give one better insight into character
than mere personal observation furnishes; and
Fannie, who refused the passionate appeals OF
an ardent lover, felt her heart already clinging
closer to her friend as she anxiously watched
for the arrivals of the mails from the Paclhc
coast.
Maurice was lawyer by profession, and
after trying his luck for year or more In the
mines, finally settled in San Francisco, where
he opened an Office. =.
He succeeded beyond his most sanguine ex-
pectations in the practice of his profession
but while still in the mines, long before ne had
acquired either wealth or reputation, he re-
ceived q letter from Fannie which plainly
showed that her heart was his.
| "Forgive," wrote she "my foolish speech
when you asked my hand; l want neither
wealth nor fame but e. kind, true, warm heart
those girlish notions have given place to more
mature and womanly sentiments. am willing
to share your tolls and trials, and for veal OF
woe will be yours forever. Love asks nothing
but loving heart and willing hands, and if it
is your fate to struggle against adversely it is no
more than right that should share your trou-
bles, as know I should your prosperity if ever
fortune smiled upon you. When ready to re.
ceiye me, write to me to come to you, and !
will start at once for that golden cline whose
beauties you have made me SO anxious to be-
hold"
When he had prepared cozy little home he
sent for her, for his business connections were
such that he could not well leave for the jour;
ney home and back. When the steamer with
Fannie on board arrived at the pier, Maurice
was there to receive her, and before they left
made one; and here where love often has to
endure the severest trials, there is no happier
couple than Maurice Nelson and his beautiful
wife.-AKa Californian.
THE NECESSITY OF AMUsEMENT.-A GER
tain amount of harmless amusement is neces-
sary. for people. No particular possession, OF