The Newtown bee., 1878-05-30

and had during his minorily shNen N snnll sun of money which he had safely deposited in tho savings bank, nntilsueh ! iiuie as he should want to use 1t.
 After he became of age he had added to hI4 capital and when he thought no should llltc Jane Perkins for wife and proposed to her and was accepted, ho bought the farm which we find him occupying, and was doing as well as any young farmer in the ncighborhood.
 He had been married about two years when the gold fever of lsfs-9 broke out, sweeping on thousands of our most ii- dustiious mechanics and farmers, and leaving many . hearth-stone dcsolate, and many wife to mourn an absent husband,
 How few have returned with their hn- tlcipations fullllod Thousands who left the New England states expecting to win n competency in Il short time,
 have heen glad to work their passage
 back in some slow sail-tub, while othors
 too proud to return empty-handed, hasn
 toiled on, barely gaining livelihood, and now rest from their cares and trou-
 bles by the banks of some river, with nothing but rude board to mark their graves.
 After Mir. Dana left his wife she washed her dishes and put them away. and sat down to read the glowing ae-
 counts of the gold discoveries. The
 more she read the more fascinated did she become, until she at last came 10 the conclusion that if she was a man, she would be tempted to go and try her
 luck.
 Twice during the forenoon did she Peruso the paper, and each time her resolution of not consenting to her hus-
 bands departure grew weaker, until she
 finally made up her mind if he asked her
 consent again she would give it.
 Mrs. Dana was a woman of considera-
 ble mind. Ever since she was a child
 she had been obliged to labor. and by
 her contact with the world she had ac-
 quiicd knowledge of business, which
 did not, however, impair or detraet
 from the natural modesty of q good wo-
 mans heart or mind.
 A week had not passed before the ' husband again alluded to the subject . uppcrmost in his mind. A company r was about to leave Windsor, and many : of the young men of the town were en- rolling their names. MT. Dana thought = that it would be good chance for him. as he would have aequaintances to lohd | him helping hand in case he was taken
 sick. His wife thought the same thing,
 and delighted her husband by giving her : consent to his going. ' They wore not aware of the selAsh- - ness exhibited in the gold regions. 0 where each man struggled for himself. n and thought it waste of time to help his feverish friend to q cup of cold water, E or make him mess of gruel to keep : him from starving.
 Mir. Danas arrangements were soon r made. He had some money on hand,
 and with it lie determined to cross the f Isthmus, in company with his towns I men, as he thought he conld make e enough in weeks time after his arri- 5 val to pay his passage.
 They wrote to engage steerage berths l and received answer that the vessel I would sail on such day, and that they < must be promptly on the spot. This : news caused the party to hurry their
 arrangements and the day before they I were to start MT. Dana requested his f wife to accompany him to lawyers. 0 T am going on a long journey, ho 0 said "and may be gone longer than I l. anticipate. shall leave you the fartn, s to do with it as you please. If you get Il tired of carrying it on, sell it to the
 best advantage; I shall make money , enough while gone to buy larger ono
 when I return. hardly think 1 shall O live on farm when come back. We s will get one of the grand new houses ill e town, and live liko Squire Bolton"
 His wife thought at the time that l. there might be failure in his schemes. G but she was hopeful and would not say
 anything to dash his bright anticipa- if tions. The day of parting came, and h with it tears and mournful looks: but 1t r was not until Dana had left the house
 perhaps never to return, that the young II wife felt the loneliness of her condition. For q week or two she was low-spir-
 tied and sad but as she received letters IF from her husband in New York written Il in lively vein and bidding her be of q 2 pod cheer, as he should certainly re- if join her in the course of a year, she bo- n came more composed and reeonclled to 1T his absence.
 Y We will not follow him in the crowded Il steamship. nor cross the Isthmus, where
 he narrowly escaped drowning. while n ascending the river; nor will we tell of
 his arrival at San Francisco, and depart n ure for the mines, where he worked in
 the bed of the river and was quite for n tunate, until attacked with tho fever and aaue, which roasted him at one moment i, and froze him the next.
 Hewo, l lie in his tent. and wish that .e the gentle hands of his wife could wips
 hn ,noistnra from his hl,n1v or l.lrer hin,