The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-11-10

- :. The dream 10 broken and faded
go The glory departed and flown
And to hearts once loving q they did,
'Tis death to live on alone!
0 Sea that her lover art hiding!
80 o wave, with thy dlrge like time!
There's fathomless gulf dividing
Tho spectator
PRIN6LE's FLAT.
A Honeymoon Experience In tho Far West.
''You will have . beautiful day. my dear,
said Mrs. Hope. as she looked admirinQly
tirst at hel son Dick, as he was driving up
TO the door in a new buggy, then at her
daughter. in. law, Mrs. Hope whose honey
moon was at its full.
Il am so glad!" said the young wife.
what lovely weather we have hal ever
since came here! not at all what some Of
my friends predicted when they said We
ought to spend our honeymoon in the east.
Dick Hope at that moment sprang out
Of his buggy lightly, and calamity extended
hand to his wife.
'Nonsense!" exclaimed Mary Hope. Il
am not such helpless creature that cant
get in myself, and she stepped lightly into
the buggy with merry laugh.
Old MIR. Hope, coming down from the
seabfes at that moment, eyed the horse.
buggy and harness Dick had expended
then stood patting the horses neck kindly.
He was an admirer of fine horses, and his
Judgment was sou ht far and wide on all
points of horse flesh.
"Theres fine metal there, Dick"
II know il aaid Dick nr0n6lv
Cheap at feur hundred, said Mr.. Hope.
"Ha7e you tried her YETI"
II think she is good for two-twenty- one
without an effort"
:; why, isn't that fast horse, Dick? asked
his wife, whose curiosity was aroused.
Just middling," answered her husband.
We have them out here faster than that. n
1T is fast" said his father. ave used
to think it impossible, but we've got SD ia,
on that there's no telling what's in horse.
like this mare very much. If it was any
body e]se's 3D.
Come. now, what would you give, IA
tber?" said Dick, banteringly.
Its all in the family, SO I'm saved q
hundred dollars, ut least"
"a hundred more wouldn't buy her, IA
Their. Just sly to anybody that covets my
new mare l won't take cent less thar
$500: Why. she goes like the wind"
THAT reminds me, Dick. you'd best take
the road round by Drake's."
And loose good half hour" sale
Dick.
That's long way round, father" said
the elder Mrs. Hope.
"You take my advice, said her husband
II mean coming back. It doesn't matter
going. If it should blow, you'll find il
safest."
dick. who was adjustinga strap. looked
of east and west, smiled in satisfied way
and observed: Il don't nee any signs of 9
Storm"
Nor l." said his father, hut no on
knows anything about that wind here. II
never forget the sweep got twenty years
ago coming over Pringle's Flat"
That's where We are going, isn't it,
Dick?" Mrs. Dick Hope looked the least
trife anxious as she turned to her husband
WAS it so bad, Mr.. Hope?"
bad? Bad's no name for it. Why il
blew my wagon as far as from here to the
barn, blew the horses off their feet, tore
up trees, and lodged me against rock and
saved my life.
THAT must have been TERRIBLE" said
Mary Hope.
Don't let him brighten you," said Dick
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the same place. I'm all right you see. The
only time was blown away was when
went east for you. Are we ready now:
Basket in. mother?'
. Mrs. Hope nodded gnily, Dick lifted the
relns lightly. and away the new buggy
with Its happy occupants sped over the
prairie.
It was early morning. The fingers oil
the dawn stretched upward. dissolving the
shadowy mist that hung over the prairie,
aud the line of woodland that lay away of
to the west like the fringe of a neatly cut
garment. The young wife inhaled the per-
fumes exhaled from the flowers, filing
the atmosphere with rich oders. There
were lines upon lines of variegated tints
above the horizon. Such sunrise MARY
Hope had never looked upon except among
tho mountains. There tints of crimson,
amber and gold, and all white pillars rolled
Observation-Disclosures more magnificent and
stately than the human mind can conceive
"How grandr she said, as Dick looked
smilingly ut her.
As the red and golden glories stretched
above he horizon. light breeze sprung up
tanning Mary Hopes cheeks, caressing he,
hair lightly, anu signing through the thin
shelvage Of trees that Dicks father had
planted along the roadside before Dick
was born. The god of day wheeled hit
chariot aloft, radiating. as only the summer
sun can, the rarest tints of amber, crimson
and gold, until the purple elories, rolling
like great pillows, gradually archcd them
selves into the semhlance of q gateway
through which Mary Hope caught, in fancy
glimpses of the celestial city, She did MOI
speak, but sat perfectly quiet, drinking il
the beauties of the most beautiful mornips
Dick Hope mad ever witnessed in the west
There is Prngle's Fiat" said Dick sud.
denly pointing ahead.
Surely VIC have not come seven mile.
yet, DICK? ?"
Scarcely. How far is that ahead?"
ut is a mile, Dick"
Dick laughed loudly; ''It's near .our,
don't understand it,"
That's what the smart hunters from tn,
east say when they shoot and miss thei
game. It's the atmosphere, Marv,"
It's a small place" said his wife, as sh
= looked forward to Prin9le's Flat, lying
little below them. Beyond it there was
ribbon of molten gold, made by the sum
slanting rays falling upon the river, AN,
that is the river"
Wen be there in twenty minutes" sal
Dick, when l want to introduce you t.
some of the incest people in this end of tn
state."
The people Dick referred to received lh,
young couple in a manner that made Mar
Hopes CHEEKS glow with qualification. He
husband was universally admired-as fino
specimen of his kind as was eve. produces
west OF Prlngle's fat. The bride, durin,
the two hours they remained in the town
created q ripple Of talk. There was some
thing about Dick and his wife that mad
people turn and look at them. When the
drove away, score of friends waved goo
wishes and tossed kisses after them.
Now for Dams Rock. said Dick. ~ hi
gave his mare the rein, and cast a backward
glance at pringie,s Flat: Pretty, isn't it,
Pretty" said his wife, why, Dick, it j
lovely! See the Ing int on the church win
dows; it looks as though it really were O,
nre: The houses are so pretty, too"
am glad you like it. That remind
me; do you see that house above the church
to the left?"
:. 1T looks charming-the prettiest hous,
there" '"~"
''Glad you like it,"
''Why, Dick?"