The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-07-08
Coin Somewhere.
by NJ. QUAD.


a steamboat, and had a brother who
had made the overland trip to Califor-
mia.
She had been to cuttings, funerals,
and a circus or two, and she knew a
woman whose sister thought nothing
of setting out on a railroad journey
where she had to wait fifteen minutes
at a junction and change cars at a de-
pot.
So l found them-a cosy-looking
couple, sitting up very straight in
their seat, aud trying to look like old
railroad travellers. A shadow of anxi-
ETY. suddenly crossed her face, she be-
came uneasy, and directly she asked 4:
"Philetus, 1 actIly bleeve we've
went and taken the wrong train!"
at can't be, nohow," he replied,
seeming little startled. 'sDidn't
ask the conductor, and didn't he say
we was right?"
"Yaas, he did, but look out Of the
window and make sure. He might
have been lynn to us!"
The old man looked out of the VIM
dow at the fitting fences, the gallop-
ing telegraph poles, and the unfaMil-
lar fields, as if expecting to catch sight
of some old landmark, and forgetting
for a moment that he was a thousand
miles from home.
81 guess we're all right, Mary" he
said, as he drew in his head.
"Ask somebody - ask that man
there" she whispered.
"This is the train to Chicago, hain't
it?" inquired the old man Of the pass,
enger in the next seat.
This is the train," replied the man.
"rhere! didn't say so 2" chucklcd
the old gent.
1T may bet. may be" she replied
"but if we are carried
wrong it won't be my fault. 1 say
that we arc wrong, and when we have
been led into some pirates cave and
butchered for our money, yen wish
you had needed my words!'
He looked out Of the window again
opened his mouth as if to make some
inquiry Of boy sitting OH fence,
and then leaned back in his seat
and sighed heavily. She shut her
teath together as if saying that she
could stand it if he could, and the
train sped along for several miles.
He finally said:
Looks like rain over thar In The
West. l hope the boys hcv got them
oats in."
"That makes me think Of that UNI
breller!" she exclaimed, diving her
hands among the parcels at their feet
She hunted around fer two or three
minutef, growing red in the face, and
then Strengthened up and hoarsely
whispered,
"Ifs goae!"
W-what ?" he gasped.
THAT umbreller."
"No!'
"Gone. hide and hair!' she went on
''that sky blue umbrelIcr which I've
had ever since Martha died."
He searched around, but it was not
to be found.
"Waa1 that's queer,7 he mused, as
he Strengthened up.
"Queer! Not bit. I've talked to
you and talked to you, but it does no
good. Ye come from needless fam
lily, and ye'd forget to put your boots
on if didn't tell ye to-"
'None O. the Harrisons was ever i'm
the poorhouse!" he replied in cutting
tones.
"Philetus--PhiletGs II. Harrison, she
continued, laying her hand on his
arm, "don't ye dare twit me of that
again I've lived with ye nigh onto
forty years, and waited on ye when
ye had biles and the toothache and the
cholic, and when yer fell and broke
yer leg, but don't push me to the
wall!"
He looked out the window, feeling
that she had the advantage of him
and she wiped her eyes, settled hel
glasses on her nose. and usedup the
next fifteen minutes in thinking o
the past. Feeling thirsty she reached
down among the bundles, searched
around, and her face was pale as deatt
as she Strengthened back and whis
pered:
"And that's gone, too!
"What now ?" he asked.
"That bottle with the cold tea in il.
ats been stole J" he exclaimed look
ing around the car as if expecting tt
see some one with the bottle t. thei
lips. - -
'sFust the umbreller--then the bot
tlev she gasped.
81 couldn't have left il, could ?"
"Don't ask me That bottle has beer
in our family twenty years-eve
since neither died--and now its gone
Land only knows what I'll do for
camfire bottle when | get hOme-i
we ever do" ~E
"I1l buy one!'
ayes, know ye arc always read
to buy, and il it wasn't for me re
straining ye the money'd fly lik
feathers in the wind"
"Waal, didn't have to mortgag