Ellsworth American., 1877-06-21
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Love vs. Indepenence.

Hllloa Joe, just you listen 20 this, will
you"
What's the matter now" says Joe Law
ing down the letter he i reading.
Y on remember Tom Wallace
We'll. he's married; that's all.
What
+ Fact. Jack Briggs writes that he was
at the wedding. Ne-y quiet affair too
But you don't say whom he's married
to-
That's the most astonishing thing about
/ il. You never could guess so I'll tell you.
Miss Fleetwood
DO you mean TO say that Miss Emma
/ Fleetwood that was. is now Mrs. Thomas
/ Wallace, shouted Joe,taking his feet from
/ the table.
Marks. Joe Walkers associate medical
student.
The ways Of men or women either are
I past iinding out. ! declare; and Joe gave
vent to his feelings by bringing his
/ h>t down on large copy of hospital
reports. Why, he was the poorest man
( in college.
just so. put in Will You know he had
only one suit ofclothes when he came, and
those were second hand
What an independent fellow he was,
/ Joe went on a il taking TO himself As
/ proud a though he owned both sides OF
1 Broadway. How he could have ever sub
/ mitted 10 be the poor husband OF a rich
4 wife, = a mystery to me
Perhaps it was a case OF the true love
| on both sides
Don't believe it: or if it was. Wallace
1 was just the man 10 sacrifice his feelings
/ 10 hls stern ideas OF Independence
DO you think sol: Well. they are mar
: ried. and we can't get around that
J That's true; but it don't remove the
strangness OF the fact;' and Joe gazed ab-
| sent.y into the waste-paper basket as
| though thinking of something a good
ways removed from that article.
There is nothing that pleases us more
than romance out of book covers. We
seize hold OF il and make as much of it as
| possible. II Miss Fleetwood had married
rich, handsome man instead of the man
| she had married. These young disciples
! of -Esculapius would have regarded the
event as inevitable. But because, for
soOth, she married poor man, there must
be hlden story TO account for It. Per
haps they were not far out of the way in
| thinking so.
Tom W allace was the son of a village
doctor Every one knows that the prac-
/ tce OF such profession while il Is often
extensive is not often lucrative. So when
| DR.. Wallace died he left au invalid wife.
his daughter May and his son Tom alone
in the world. and that is about all tina. he
did leave. The invalid did not survive
her husband long.
Toms sister married New England
clergyman, and he was left TO fight his
own way. A rather bitter fight he found
| it too. But if the father had not bequeath-
Cd tafa s.ah - -
! in him the desire of an education. This
| Tom was determined to have at all events.
Ii was at the same time that he acquired.
| as naturally he would, habit of self-re
! lance and scorn of proffered aid that
amounted almost to disdain. He left out
OF the account the weary years of toll and
disappointment and forgot what he might
have done in that time OF meant. For at
| last by close planning scribbllng and Civ
ing up many things that make our lives
comfortable. he succeeded in earning
enough money to take him through COL
lege with good management He can live
with his sister. whose home is near the
college. Even his proud soul does not re-
fuse this offer. which had been open to
him ever since he had made up his mind
to 90.
Looking into Mrs. Carro's few weeks
| after Toms arrival. we se,. him settled
down as one of the family. a homely
man. We say at first glance. But we take
that back the next moment. The express
sive gray eyes under the heavy eyebrows.
and mouth of great energy make US
withdraw the assertion. If his clothes
are rusty and secondhand we forgot it by
| looking at the man within them. We
have all. it may be. met such man some
time, aud would rather have MIN by our
side in battle than the handsomest. best
dressed man in the world.
Tom had been in college nearly year
when. ole morning, his sister said TO him !:
I'm going to have company to tea. Tom
and want you to look you best.
can't change my looks. May. can l!
laughed Tom.
You know what mean you naughty