Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-01
BRANDED.
The story of Brothers Revenge.
Woman = journal

Woman's journal.
1" It won't last long! Can you bear it,
Saby9' and with Il wild look in her
kreat, brown eyes, she clasped the wee
HING tighter to her breast and went
RpidIy toward the rocky ledge that
kanc over the ocean. She had played
ere a thousand times in her childhood
| ad watched the tide creep lazily IN
I nd out on a summers day, or, wild
Ind tempestuous, dash ships with their
krecious lives upon the rocks.
TIE ocean was like a lover. 1t could
ke all things.
"Will it be very cold for the baby
nv baby-his baby Will he mind it
kuch?' The birds sang sweetly, and
be baby cooed, and the mild spring air
Fought up the breath Of the violets.
Dor moment she faltered. If life were
nly birds and blossoms, but it was not,
nd, with last kiss on her baby's lips,
nd a death-like grasp, a leap, a strug-
Ee. and all was over.
Misslngl
Grace Reeverly was missing, but the
|cean told no tales.
The little Atlantic village was stirred
Tom center to circumference. A lovely
irl, oonfding in nature and pure as the
bow, she had been the pet and pride of
be townStolk. Her voice was clearest
the choir of the little church; her
land was gentlest on the head of the
oorcst and toughest child, and the vii
ge .cnoomaster thought she repaid
+ teachings a thousand fold by her in
igence
There had come a young physician
good family to the town, young
IAN Of manly ply sique and agreeable
tanners. Acquaintance grew into love
hd the people looked on with joy,
iat proyidentially their loved one bad
Pund one worthy of her. He had been
falned in city ways. Either woman
b. not sacred thing to him, or, match
her artlessnesss with his art, he
ldged wrongfulIy when he tested her
rtue by her self-forgetting love. Per-
Rps 1t was not true, as Butfoon says,
mat every person has his price" All
lay not fall under the strongest temp
ZION, but most err because they blndly
llst leader who leads over preci-
&C. Is there no remedy? Mothers
0st do more than they have. Girls
aSt know that life is full of ouicksands,
ld boys, that virtue is of God. and the
tsToyer OF 1t, if not always punished
re- Will meet "A deserved hell here
Missing, The whole town knew the
'fyi how he had deserted her, claim
mat woman who could be won
"' unworthy of him; how the day for
pfiual came and Went; how Grace
ID her aged mother wept and prayed {:
w when tie baby came, she hid its
ing tace against her breast, so that
Do2dy ever looked upon it save the
o'h1er, Tor beautiful though it was, it
y n,s iace; how the springtime came
~ 'he fresh May mornings, but no
Ut came to whitened cheeks, but a
1hSe' unusual brilliancv into her
- ana then the old mother was
i"eTybody was questioned, but no.
~ Had seen her. The aged woman
p uoWn to the ocean day by day.
yue TIDE came in bringing only sea
e" ana empty shells. One morning
up the beach, kindly hidden from
ana storm, under clump of trees,
"' boys at play found the missing
me sea weed was wound IN and
a. nough to bind the hands still
'e't the weakness of death I'M
"a n 'uem and let go her treasure.
ne town had a common sorrow At
,'r,"l the little church was crowd
~ me way to the graveyard that
~. ABOVE the sea, where the waves
constantly above the sleepers.
was an unbroken procession
,1' mat day, no woman ever spoke
.s, ,. lDuhg physician. He walked the
ouno,uced. He carried himself
loudly. Circumstances would
|s1' MN to seek another home
.1uSe That in country town wo-
"a, 80 highly priced :, he thought.
rro ~ was not all thus.
aged mother soon law beside
and her baby.
49,. good ship Be.sey heaves in sight
t-"> Went like UIIdtira tbrg,,,,,L IL .