Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-11-13

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Begging no pardon
Though all the roses
Fall on their noses
1Has Is the way the rain behayesi
Drubbing and rubbing,
All the leaves scrubbing
Then the trees shaking,
Leaving them quaking,
MS Is the way the rain behaves!
Splashing and dashing,
Merry drops clashing,
Each other hustling-
y, what q busting!
Iris Is the way the rain behaves
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MEXICAN WAR ROMANCE.
An .Arkansan Returns After an Absence of
Many Years.
Little Rock Gazette.
Mr.. JIM. Halsett, of Pike county, gives
us the facts Of very interesting .Auld
Lang Syne' affair, with sentimental ter
minus of recent date.
just abnut the time that war was de-
clared with Mexico, a young man named
Henry Lauring and young neighboring
lady, Miss Vcna Waldrom, became en-
gagged. When the trumpet Of war sound
ed young Lau1ing, conceiving it to be a
duty owed to his country, babe his afii-
auced good-by, and became a soldier
They were ueyoted to each other, and
when the young man left, the young lady
vowed that she would never marry If he
did not return.
After the fall of the City of Mexico, a
man named Ralph Mitchell approached
Lauring and stated that he had left Pike
County subsequently to Lauring's depart
ute, and that Miss Waldron had died a
few days petore his departure. The
young soldier was desperate, and when
the troops "came marching home with
glad and gallant tread,' he was not with
them. Having in moment, been trans
formed from an ardent soldier to rcck
less nam, he left the army, and embark
ing, went to Cuba. From there he went
to SPAN, to England, to Austria, Prussia
and to France. When the late Franco
Prussian war broke out he entered the
French ranks, aud at Metz was almost
fatally wounded. When he recovered
the war was over, and remaining in
France until the Russian war with Tur-
key, he repaired to Russia and joined
the army, though an old man.
With a detachment OF troops he crossed
the Danube, he was shot through the
lungs. For long time he languished
in hospital, and finally recovered.
After the Mexican war, and when
Ralph Mitchell returned to Pike County,
he called On Miss Waldron and sympa-
thetically told her that her lover, Laur-
ing was dead: that he strayed from the
camp one night and was killed by band
Of scouts. The girl fell speeches. to the
door. When she regaincd consciousness,
when the rush of recollection forced its
way over indistinct memory snags into
the mind, a high fever sprang up, and
for months she tossed on bed, caring
nothing for her surroundings, and dread
ing recovery worse then death. After a
long illness she reco, cred. Mitchell, who
was very attentive to her in her sickness,
called frequently in health. One night
when the moon was shining, while the
pale moon shone on the facs Of a paler
girl, Mitchell told her of his devotion.
I'VE lave known each other from chill
'ireo," he said, 1--WE have lived as neigh
oocs. 1on know me-; my father and
mother. I love you with d depth only
known to a burning soul. Will you be
my wife,
"Mr MITCHELL" replied the girl, II re-
spcct you highly; but I am engaged to
another"
'But he is dead"
THE engagement is not. 1t will he
contaminated in heaven
us there no appeal from your decis-
long,
None"
"Then I win tantalize you the more.
Lauring is not dead. My love for you
caused Inc to deceive him. I told him
that you were dead, and, with u yell of
despair, he left the army. I did this
through love"
Another long illness followed this.
When strong constitution again came to
the rescue of a lite, Mitchell had married
Il ncighboring girl
Years went Oh, as years inevitably do.
The girls father and mother sank be-
meath tic clay. The girl lived with her
brother. The civil war came on. The
girls brothers children grew up and
marrled-not the girl, for she was far
advanced in years. In small house
they lived. There were vines in the yard,
and among them the once beautiful! vo-
man sat and museta. Summer and WIN.
ter came and went. The love-kiIled wo-
man had read every book in the neinh-
borhood. The birds sang, and the rabbit
sprang from his damp, snow sprinkled
bed. But old songs and old memories
still swept the harpstrings OF heart
once yoang and still ardent.
One evening last week. Miss Waldron
sat among the vines in the yard. Her
brother was gone to the mill. An old man,
with long beard and lettering walk,
stopped ar the gate and asked if Mr..
Waidron lived there. Chris Waldron IN
vlted him in. lie approached, and when
he had reached the vine covered porch,
Tx down IN char, tho one Miss Wal.
cron had vacated and buried his tace in
his wrinkled hands.
"Old gentleman" Miss Waldron said,
can do anything for you9 You look SO
weary"
"That voicer' the man exclaimed.
'Vcna, don't you know me7 Henry
has,
A shrek, and The old man stopped and
lifted the form Of an old woman from the
floor.
When the brother had returned and
when the moon had risen, a couple of
Did lovers walked out into the beautiful
polished peace Of hight. The party
walked along the road, each hand claspcd !
within each other. Opening gate they !
urned into an Enclosure. They stopped |
It a mound.
"BeDd over, Henry, and see if you can
cad the inscription
Henry leaned over, and, Strengthening
-, said
1T is the grave Of Ralph Mitchell"
Then, IN the pale moonlight; then,
while the soft air famed them, Henry
md Vena clasped hands across the almost
ime-leveIed mound, and said
"Great God, we forgive the man who
destroyed so many years Of happiness"
In little log church not far away, a
pleased minister pronounced Henry and
Iena man and wife Nature says their
ives will not continue but d few years
onger; true sentiment says the few years
giil be happy ones.
cold Nails"
The Boston Commercial tells this anus
ng story: The why old president of a
commercial bank is known among the
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