Omaha daily bee., 1882-09-23
MILLER JIM DAUGa M.

III w. ILltN, III Boston Transcript,
MILLER JIM DAUGu FE.
eyes, that's the Old n i'll over Their,
Kind Of purity aud romantic lookinp.
aiut ~ Bat 1t seems awful luuefoms
to us foibs as knew 1t tuIl uf life and
just pilling i'll the grist all day long.
That there wa or. wheel 6idu't stop for
repairs In them days; 1t just byzzed
along all the time, and the teams
stood around, aud you'd ace the boys
comm up the hill ridin' sn old mare,
with a great sack of grain thrown over
her instead Of u SADDLE -trit-trot, ,rit.
trot, and a half grown, bar,footed
boy on her nock-fo'ks allus sent u
hoy to mill in those days, il they had
one. Aud you see that there old house,
There's where Miller jim and his
darter lived. W. boys usel to cast
sheeps' oyes over AZ that door, | tell
you, and when = he'd como ard look
out kind Of unconscious like and plr-
tend not to See US, ont shade her eyes
with her hand look way down the val
ley, 1t WA just as 1t an angel from
heaven hac lit down there. Purl,l
Why, there wa'n'6 "a chap in Sugar
valley that didn't think sho WAS The
handsomest gal III the world, an6
when che smiled on any of US with
that kiud If sort of sweet i%nsinuatin'
way she had, we'd just have walked
On hot piowsherrs for her and drawed
lots for The privilege.
What M. We tiguriu'! a snetchin'
the ruiz Well, ye don't SIC any
ruin, bu5 that # he senseless wood
and stone. The ruin was made by
one Of yuu painter chap, darn bis
peter! II l could have held his head
Ia the miil-race Tor Halt all hour, I'D
have died h,ppy-aud that's what
makes me cry now like a poor, weak
crItter. l interduced him to her; he
was a moovin' round here gettn'
sketches, as he called EN-, of the val
ley, aud l may his well own up he
was u nlce, smart. looking, we'll
spoken chap, and paid his
way literally. They said he was
only working tor amusement, and 30
IT. turned out, and II day ] tod MIN
ho hadn't ever seen the pretti.st pic
ter in the p acc, aud / sad 1t was Nil
Ter J3n's daugh er, aud he'd ought 10
eco ber. the next Sunday / MAS "A &
the church and 80 WAS the painter
chap, Mld We happened to SIT to-
getheT, and when the CHOIR sang there
was one voice thai KIND Of carried the
tune alone. ! knew it well, AID il
made me trenb all ever with hap.
piness, AID tue stranger listened, and
says ne, /" Il Whisper, "Wnat IA heav,
eply voic,f'
Yes" sez ], land its her; the one
in tb9 straw bonnet aud white veil,
the Girl that's singln' ar that Miner
Jlm's dsrter."
AFTER church nothing would do
but | must iuterGuce him-whtch |
did-God forgive me-, and he walked
by her and CARED her book i1st as #
he alius had known her, but then her
fatherwas with them, only he wasn't
of any acc uut, KIND of shifties4, be.
ieved every bOny honest, till he found
them uut, AID chen ne would kinder
apologize for them, and ned lend
money as long as he had "a penny Ia
his p"ctet, II anyone mlcu up a good
and never Hooked IA door, ~
took uvcr toll, or made a sharp bar
gain; kIui Of ~~Itiess aud foolish, with
"a suft heart That al u kept him poor,
though don'l know ~ ne ever want,
ed anything much"
"Well beauty is y misfortune, #
tho grace OF God nu"su'c 20 with II
Nobody au,prIoD,d 8uyJLiog wIoug,
when all to once II Cslue over u. like q
thunder b'aat. The niller'a glrl s.s
gone; gone with tho painter chap,
but Wa never knew how or where.
There was nor than one of us that
was goln' TO ask Miller jim about A,
bat when Wa come To look in has tace
w just didn't cay anything. The
was a changed man; he'd alierr
had q emile and "a pleasant word for us
boys-he wasn't ever what you call
jolly, Blu he had his little quiet jokes
they were the same Old ones over
and over, but We expected EN-. Nov,
ne had a look In ms iaca ss If soms-
thing inside was dead; AID his lis
that used to DO kind of smiling and
foolish, they were shut Ike a we,
and lie neyrr mensioned her name 10
mortal.
'AHd he got sort of absent minded
forgot 10 take toll from a widows
grist used TO stop little chill iren and
kiss them or pat them on their heads,
aud there Ras alius a tear just falling
from his eyes colo, i 'spose, GAUGE
no didn't take any care OF himself; and
then he took a good bit # notice Of a
little child-s pretty little mite Of a
lived nesr, and one day he
see her leaning our OF Ru upstairs
window and he run oven aud told her
mother she would fall mebbee, and y.t
hurt; the woman had an ugly temper
and she Gays 10 him, says she: 81
kin take care OF my own children,
that's more than you could do with