The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-26
in life the Iaurels shall be placed at your

feet"
IT'S strange what confidential friends
those who might have been lovers often
become. Although Maurice and Fannie
had only been acquainted few weeks,
yet each had read and understood each
other as if they had grown up together
from childhood. Each knew the other's
secret, and both were strongly attracted
by the subtle magnetism that acts upon
the human heart, drawing them toward
each other, and binding them with silk IN
cords, that ere more enduring than hoops
Of steel, for time or rust never cerrodes
them.
Maurice was now fully determined to
accomplish something that would make
him worthy of the love of the beautiful
girl that had refused him he would leave
his home and friends for new country
where he could get fame and fortune
sooner than in the old States. At that
time the reports of the discovery of gold
IN California reached the Atlantic sea-
board and awokc that enthusiasm which
spread with lightning rapidity through
out the whole extent of the Union, causing
thousands Of the young and adventurous
to leave home for the new Ell Dorado in
search of those glittering sands which al.
lured alike the generous as we'll as the
avarlcious, drawing them to this Northern
slope in the hope of sudden wealth, that
would enable them to return in few
years to their former abodes, and then
81 end the remainder of their DAYS in
piece and plenty; yet how few of the
many who came here, in all the pride and
strength of early manhood, ever realized
heir deIusve drealns,or returned to their
loving friends. Few of the pioneers of
our Golden State survived the excitement
of those reckless days; borne away by
the reslstless tide, they drifted along with
it's tumultuous currents, until carried too
far from the landmarks of virtue and So
briefly, they became the victims of ungov-
ernable passions which their wild career
excited.
Many brave and noble youth ended
his days in gambling hell, then found
anywhere IN the State; or, worn out with
toll and exposure 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 pre-
serve an existence that has outlived its
hopes forgotten by those at home, who,
from their long silence deem them dead.
J with no prospect in life, they migrate
from gulch to gucb, pitching their tents
} wherever night overtakes them, with the
ground for their couch, and the stars, 81.
ways bright and clear,in our sunny cline,
for a canopy; and thus they wander on,
true nomads OF the mines, until death
shall claim them, when perhaps plying
community will send them to hospital
aud generously furnish rude GOTTA and
pauper's burial.
Some eff the brightest intelIects of the
age have here miserably persisted, yet
there were many who withstood the temp
tation who came ont of the hery ordeal
unscorched,an helped to lay the founda-
tion of this, the Empire State of the Pa
: cifc, which ere many generations will
rank among the first in our glorious I'm.
J ion. os
Maurice called one morning to bid
, adieu to Miss Howard, who heard from
himself first of his new intention
} 81 have made up my mind to leave for
California" said he, ."and shall START to-
morrow for New York"
"What, going away so far When did
you come TO this sudden conclusion ?"
"When you refused me your heart and
hand," he replied emilingly.
you don't seem to feel very badly
about it."
"lf carried cay heart on my sleeve, as
many do, you would see that 1t is deeply
affected; but have learned to hide my
feelings from a world that always laughs
at love, especially mans love, when it is
not reciprocated."