Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-17

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and here good man has come along
and taken you into his. He loves you
dearly now, and you have great deal
of influence over him, and can do pretty
much IS you like noW; but how long will
that last If you 60 on crying and being
unhappy and showing how little you
care for him.
II don't know" whispered the bride
family.
"Then you are married, you know.
You have given a promise, and must keep
it, even if it makes you sorry. Promi-
ses are solemn things. But l think you
can keep it and be happy too. And it
strikes me you have chance 10 Do q
most beautiful thing"
what IS that?" wonderingly.
+" To make up to a good man ,0hO loves
you for a hard, hard thing in has life. Think
how dreadful it must always have been
for your husband, with his clever mind
and fine face, to feel himself in one re-
spect inferior to the stupidest laborer
who works in his fields. 1t must have
hurt him cruelty and if he were not a
sweet hearted person by nature. it must
have made him hard and sour. Now,
for the first time, something delightful
has come into his life. He has married
you, and it seems TO me such chance
as few women have to be able to be 80
much to any one as you can be to him.
And---dOnt think / want to preach; but
God always blesses those who try to do
right, and if you make your husband
happy, I think He will bless you and
make you happy too"
Her eyes ran over as she ended her
little speech. lid.
Felicia" sounded from below
Felicia, we ought to be going"
Must you go9" cried Mrs. Dalrym-
pie, sitting up in bed. Thank you ever
so much. You've done me heap of
good. I'll never forget you-never.
Oh-what'sy your Manner
Felicia-Felicia Mallows. Good
bye, dear and don't forget that the wind
in the chimney never says Alone
when two people who care for each
other are together" Then they said
goodbye. II shall come again il can
before 1 leave" declared Miss Mallows.
Old Sally, coming up to hasten her
movements, was astOnished to see the
two exchange kiss.
"Why, whatever she done to the Gre
tur?" she muttered, as the pony-wagon
rolled away. "She looks twice as alive
as she did before they came" +
We drop tiny seed into the ground,
or we watch winged messenger detach
itself from the parent plant and float
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scarcely conscious that with the act a
new sequence of energies and POSSIBLE
tiles began, and the world is the richer
for fresh point of growth. Felicia
Mallows had no chance for another visit
to the Dalrymple farm that autumn,
and it was two years before she saw it
again, during which time the image of
the oddly circumstance little bride
faded into dim distance, as images will
in this overcrowded world. Another
visit to Patunxet revived it into sudden
| life.
! "Whatever became of that little
neighbor of yours who married young
girl" she asked Mrs. Lenox. at was
when l was last here. She was sick.
Don't you recollect our going there?"
eyes, now that you recall it, do;
and the uncomfortable time you staid
up stairs in her bedroom. Ibelieve she
is well. Her baby was baptized few
Sundays ago."
"Have they baby?"
eyes; little girl. By-the-way-"
Mrs. Lenox was called off, and did not
finish her sentence. Next day Miss
MallOWs borrowed the pOny-Waeon for
a solitary drive.
!" l want to see my little friend Mrs.
Da irymple," she explained; "and sup
posing her to be up stairs, you might get
tired of old Sally"
"Thank you, my dear, should. You
are welcome to the pony"
1t was September as mild as June;
and when Miss Mallows drove through
the farm gate, she saw its mistress sit
ting in the porch, her sleeping baby in
Its wagon beside her and her sewing in
her hands. She dropped it with a start
OF JOY when she caught sight of her
guest.
a" 1t is you r' she cried. "Oh, l am
so gladw
Is there any fattery equal to that
"you?"
"You haven't forgotten me, then ?"
said Felicia.
"Oh no; how could l forget? You
came when was all sick and miserable,
and lifted me right out of it. There's
never been day since when haven't
thought of YOU"
"Then you are sick and miserable no
longer?" said Miss Mallows. with Sec
ond kiss. "That is happy news"