The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-11-10

week. And do you know he went
on, glaneing around at the passen-
gers and speaking in lower tone,
Z am almost certain this train will
run off the track and break my neck
before I get to Boston. Well, the
fact is I have had too much good
luck -for one man lately~~.zThe thing
can't lasts. tain't natural that 1t
should, you know. I've watched it.
First il rains, then it shines, then
itrrains agaiin.. It rains;so hard you
think it's never going to stop; then
it shines bright you think it's al
ways going to shine; and just as
you're settled sin either belief
you're Knocked over BY a change, to
show you that you know nothing
about it. It y = - : : -
"ss!ssWell, according to the philoso-
ply. said T, you will continue to
have sunshine, because you are ex-
pecting a storm
ypat easeus ne returned, but
tie only thing isch 4 makes me think
I will get through safe, is because I
think I won't -, ..
swell that is curious, said ].
-" Lord yes, he replied, I'm o
maehinist- made, a discoyery-no-
body believed in it spent all my
money trying to bring it out-mort
gagged my home-all went, Every,
body laughedat me- Everybody but
mYsWifse- spunky lisle woman said
she would work her fingers off be-
fore Z should give it up. Went to
Englsnd--no better there; came
within an ace Of jumping off Lon
don Bridge. Went into q, shop to
earn money enough to come home
with; there I met the man / want
ed. To make a long story short,
I've brought, 100000 home with
me, and heresIaa.'
"Good for you'll" Isexelsimed:
".yes, said he, :s3O, 900; and the
best of It is, she don't know any
thing about it. I've fooled her so
often, and disappointed her so
much, that that I just concluded would
say nothing about this: When I
got my money through, you better
beReTe Isshnck beeline for
home = *x4
s".And now you will make her
happy, said L "Happy!' he re:
replied, why, you don't know any
thing about it. She's worked like
"a dog while I have been gone, try
ing to support herself and the chill
dren decently. They payed her
thirteen cents apiece for making
coarse shirts; and that's the way
she lived half the time. Shell come
down there to the depot to meet
me in gingham dress, and a shawl
hundred years old, and she'll
think she's dressed up. Oh, won't
she have no clothes after this
oh, no, I guess not!'' ,.''
@ssAnd with these words be, which
implied that his wife's wardrobe
would soon rival Queen Victorias,
the stranger tore down the passage
way again, and getting in his old
corner where he thought himself
out: Of sight, went. through the
strangest pantomine, laughing, put
ting his mouth into the drollest
shapes, and then swinging himself
back and forth in the limited space
as if he were Walking down Broad
way a fu l-rigged metropolitan belle.
And so on till we rolled into the
depot, and I placed myself on the
other car, opposite the stranger
who with a portmantau in each
hand, had descendeda and was stand
ing on the lowest step, ready to jump
to the platform. I looked from his
face to the faces of the people be-
fore us, but saw no sign Of recog-
milton. Suddenly he cried, there
they are!' and laughed outright
but in a hysterical sort of a way,
as he looked over the crowd. Ifol
lowed bis eyes and saw, some dis
lance back, as if crowded out and
shouldered away by the well dress
ed and elbowing throng, a little
woman in 8 faded dress and we'll
worn hat, with a face almost painful
in it's intense but hopeful express
sion, glancing rapidly from window
to window as the coaches glided il.
She had not yet seen the stranger ;
but a moment after she caught his
eve, and in another instant he had