Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-05

the visitor and, lowering his tone into
the confidential, asked:
sMiss-, 90 dss . -bsby.@-ss---~a-
The young lady gave one swift glance
around TO assure herself there was no
other hcarer Of this pertinent question,
aud replied:
NO, Charlie, dear, have not
'Aud did 90 never have babyf
In spite of the youth Of her eager
interlocutor her handsome eyes dropped
before his ingeuio1s gaze, aud her pret-
ty face flushed as she replied:
NO, Charlie, never did. Il not
this a beautiful dayf
Aud amt 90 never doin To have no
babyi' persisted Charlie, declining to
enter on the tempting conversational
sidetrack Of the weather.
My boy, l cant tell. Tell me all
the names Of whom those are the photo
graphs
And don't 90 want babyi'
'Well, Charlie, what q close ques.
toner you are. If you are not careful
you will grow into one Of those news.
paper interviews, aud then what will
your poor mamma think of youi'
Because, continued Charlie, utterly
refusing to be switched of, i know
where 90 tan det ore. The doctor
brought my mamma one, and he keepth
them in hith ofiith. You jeth do down
Ellith street to Martet street, and den
90 do down Martet street TO Tarney
street, and den 90 do down Tarney
street ever so tar, and den 90 do up
lot of thairth, aud there's where he
teeps 'em. Aud they're awful chep, too.
Ny papa bathn't paid for my marnmas
baby yet, but beth doin' TO.
'Well, Charley, I'm sure I'm much
obliged to you for your full directions,
and Ill know just where to GO
'Oh, Mith--, 90 needn't do. I'll
tell my papa just ath thoon ath ever lie
tune home that 90 want baby, and
he'll det one for 90, ard,
That young lady seized that little
boy by his shoulder, and leaning over SO
far as TO look full into his eyes, she
said, with an impressiveness lent by
sudden terror:
See here, Charlie, listen to ne. I
don't want any baby yet, and If you
ever say anything about it to yorr papa
I'll never like you any more at all, at
all, never, never, never. Now, will you
promise.
'Well, if 90 don't want q baby
won't; but / tot everybody liked to
have babieth. / do
The interview was here terminated
by the entrance Of a servant 10 usher
the visitor into the presence Of the con.
valescebt lady.-San Franeiseo Paper.
PosrMAsrER GENERAL KEr As Cox.
rEDERATE.eAt the close Of the war
Key found himself in North Carolina as
Colonel OF q Tennessee regiment. He
surrendered there with General Joseph
johnson. lie Dad brought his family
along, and there he was without cent
Of money, except Confederate, which
was not worth FIVE cents peck. He de.
scribes those days as the most wrctched
of bis life; and, but for his family, to
whom he Is deyotedly attached, he would
have felt relief 10 have sought reposs
in the grave. He did not know what
the policy Of the government would be
whether ho would be hung, banivhcd
for life, or allowed TO return TO Tennes-
see with bis family. But be the action Of
the government the most fsvorsbls, he
was still in bad fix, AZ he had not
cent of money, beihg left by wrecked
Coniederacy stranger 10 strange land.
He wrote q long letter 10 President
johnson, setting forth bis unhappy sit.
ustion, and asking as . matter Of fnfor-
nation whether be was 10 be hung, or
could continue the practice Of law. IIs
did hot ask for pardon. But by return
mail here comes pardon, and Judge
Key says he never wss 80 glad TO get
anything 10 bis life. 1t was st least On
assurance that he was not going TO be
hung or banisbed. The next thing wss
TO get home. To do this money was
required. He rented piece Of groupd
in Caldwell county, plowed and cultivs-
ted it with his own hands, raised crop
Of corn, gathered and sold IL in the Fall
and returned to Chsttanoogs with the
proceeds. He took TO the plow resdi-
iy, having been trained upon . farm
when boy Cineinnsd CemmeSeisf.
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