The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-10-11
is not 50 important, so interesting te

is not 80 important, so Interesting to
those whom it concerns.
Then, by the time the message is sent
the dinner. il ready in, Mr.. Tawmanas~
vate Office, when Mrs. Setter partakes Of
II, but does not think proper to waken
the weary child, that she may eat also. :.
Then Mr.. Tawman says SNOW you had
better 60! I'll see to the child; I'll bring
the little girl up with me tonight
>h"No, mol" exclaims the mother; ~
must have my Ellie with me always sir!
You are so very. good, though, sir; so
very good!, 4 is there no news Of the
''"Not word, I'm sorry to o. say" ,.:o 20
ut cant DO possible: The brig must
come in today. .,!4: .. T..
"1'm sure hope 50, with all my heart
and souly Mrs. selter.'' ! ,,>-:, ~ =
II know you do" she responds with q
sigh. -. :',' ~
"Now 60. am sorry you have to
wake the child, but I suppose you can't
help it. .J':.'G
"Come, Ellie" ,says the mother, tap:
ping her shoulder lightly. y
~ The child with q start awakens and
cries: us it my papa? Dear, dear pa
pa"
Then seeing her disappointment she
bursts into tears. ~,'.,.
"Dont cry, dear, don't cry. The brig
will come in. Dontcry:" The good old
man speaks soothingly to the sobbing
child; and the mother catching her hand
walks slowly and sadly away, followed
by Mr.. Tawman, who lifts the girl down
stairs and helps both her and her mother
into car.
The next morning the woman is again
lettering about the wharves with the
same agonized inquiry. She again puts
the question to the wharfmen, and. again
receives only the same answer. Then, as
before, she seeks the Office of the brig
owners, still accompanied by the little
girl, and inquiries:
elias the brig Good Luck come in yet?"
"Not yet, ma'am."
She sings and looks out of the window
at the shipping. She says she will wait
for Tawman, and sits down.
When Mr.. Tawman comes in, as usual,
he greets her very kindly, and kisses the
little girl and says:
III SOAAt OA4k ISL III ycts
"Will it be in to-day?"
II hope So" And be goes behind his
desk and looks over his letters. He has
not long been engaged in his correspond
ence when scream from the woman
startles him.
She has risen and is pointing excitcdly
out of the window.
Here is ship coming in; look, look p
"That's not it," says clerk; that's a
schooner"
ooh, no." adds Mr.. Tawman; "that's
not the Good Luck"
ut is! it isl" She darts from the
office dragging the child after her, runs
across the crowded street, across the bust
ling wharf out to the very edge Of the
water.
Mr.. Tawman rushes to the window,
opens it and calls to her. To no purpose,
however. All the clerks cluster about
the window to watch her.
"The woman is mad" says one. "She's
going to drown herself"
Tawman says quietly to tbs telegraph
operator:
"It's the Mary"
The schooner is being towcd up the
river by tug. She is making prepara-
tions to anchor in the stream opposite the
wharf. All this time Mrs. Setter is
standing in the midst of a crowd of ex-
cited people, waving her handkerchief,
and the little girl is waving hers.
"Look! look there! There's man
overboard!'' cries one of the clerks. A
cry of alrm goes up from the wharf.
"Thunder!" exclaims Mr.. Tawman,
thoroughly aroused. "What does that
mcan2"
"He's swimming like fish," says a
clerk.
"He has landed. Hank at the cheers %
"God of mercy! look! lookr' shout
ed the operator. "She is hugging him
so is the little girl. It's Captain Setter p
Then he puts on his hat and runs down
the stairs like boy, and darts over to
where husband and wife and child are.
united and happy.
'The Good luck has come imp yells
Tawman, Justify.
"Ahw he exclaimed, shaking the cap
tain by the hand, and not caring for the
gaping and wondering crowd all around
him, 'this IS good luck, isn't it? Did
you get my telegram"
When the man can speak he answers:
eyes"
II planned it all,'' chatters old Taw-
man. "You see I got dispatch, yester-
dey, from the Breakwater, saying that
Captain Setter had been picked up on a
raft by the schooner Mary, bound in, and
that you were coming in by rail from
Lewes. I telegraphed word for you to
come up in the schooner, for a certain
purpose. The shock would have been
worse to her if I had not. I told her
when I put her in the car yesterday, that
the brig would come in and come in it
did. Over to the Office, every one of you,
and after dinner and dry clothes, Cap,
we will have talk about BUSINESS. Come
on"
rhe Family Ne d1clne Chest.
We do not believe in carrying drug
shop about wherever we go,nor of having
the contents Of one in our bedroom clos