The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-10-09
.guaeraoas gatslligeaeer.
ALE FoR LOVE.
The s.ory Of Jamos samuel,s Lifo.

SloSe, Jealousy, attSupteu tuuIuef anu u
heppy fnale-has just been made public
in Denver, Col. The hero, William
Samuels, il one of the wealthiest men in
the State, and 1t is t.om his lips that the
story comes, eorr2borated by his wife
and brother James.\ -Four years ago the
two brothers HEedfn the beautiful Ches.
ter Valley. Pennsylvania. 7I Herbert It
sSamuss hn the her Tas scs TeGdG o sdG
where he iwelt with his wife and two
boys. When the latter were old enough
he sent them to school and then to col
lege. During their absence brother of
tho fathe. diad and he took into his
family the dead mans child Hattie.
When the two brothers returned from col.
lege, aged about twenty.three and TWEEN.
ty.fve respectively, they found their
cousin, O beautiful girl of twenty years,
installed in the house. Of the brothers
james, the elder, had light hair and eyes
and was of quiet and even demeanor,
rarely, if ever, known TO be angry, and
being general favorite not only at home
but throughout the entire community.
In marked contrast was the character
and disposition of William, the younger
brother, who, of dark, almost swarthy
complexion, with hair and eyes as black
rs coal, Was aery and quick to anger, and
although naturally we'll meaning had
had numerous encounters, both while
attending school and since his gradus.
ton.
Since the time, three years ago, when
James and William finally returned
from college and found their lovely
cousin domiciled at their home, they had
both been violently in love with her and
both had made every manifestation of
the fes!ine. but so far the cunning witch
had avoided showing tho slightest pref
erence for either, treating them Us broth.
crs rather than lovers. This state of
affairs rankled as thorn in the breast of
the hot headed William, whose feelings
of bitterness and jealousy toward his
brother grew until they amounted to
almost positive hatred. Time end again
he Bought quarrsls, but James' more even
temper prevented anything Of serious
character until one bright afternoon in
July, when, upon the return of the elder
brother and Hattie from ride, the
younger, who watched with ferocious,
dangerous glare in his eyes as his broth.
er assisted his cousin to alight, then fol.
lowed him to the barn where he was
embarrassing the horses and attacked
him with the vilest abuse, using epithets
80 strong that he was at last compelled to
Eeply in the same spirit.
Words were followed by blows, when
William, blinded by passion, seized
heavy wagon spoke and dealt his brother
n stunning blow, telling him to the earth,
as tho blood gushed from ghastly
wound in the head. At once realizing
tho terrible til . that he H6d done, and
believing tha /, had killed his brother,
= complete :eru!siaE Of feeling oamo
over him, and, casting last hurried
ldok at the PROSTATE form aud the white
upturned face, he fed. After several
days of continuous travel he arrived at
an obscure ,ainiGg camp in Colorado,
hoping that, buried in the wild fastnesses
of tho Rocky Mountains, he could shut
out from his vision the ever present hor.
rible eight Of the face Of the brother
slair by his hand. Entering upon the
nI -auit of miner he sought by fever.
ish industry and the hardest kind of
hard word to forget his one horror, but
In the dark recesses of the drift In which
he was working, In the gloomy corners
of the cabin in which he slept, every
whero and always 1t haunted him. In
the meantime, after few months, for
tune with her usual fckleneas rewarded
his labor, which had been performed
without any particular thought or hope
Of result, and the open drift which had
become @ tunnel of some proportions,
struck o rich lead of marvellous proper.
tions and containing Immense wealth.
at once the almost unknown camp
became famous, and his name all un.
consciously to him became almost ms n
household word In oil mining communi.
ties as associated with one of the largest
strikes Of ths year. Fame OF this Kind
travels far, and even after time reached
the quiet farm in Chester Valles @hers
ne had spent his happy childhood days
aud alterward wrecked Lis manhood.
One cay, while in .ha cage ascending
from Che bottom of one OF his deepest
shafts, a.shadow cast over the top caused
him to suddenly look up, and the face he
saw caused o thrill Of horror TO pass
through him, his hands relaxed his
grasp OF the rope, and he had narrow
escape from falling to the bottom.
Arriving at the top more dead than
alive, he gave one hasty, frightened
glance around him, saw the face again
and sWo0ned away. The owner of the
face, o sall aud handsome man, evidently
q stranger In the camp, sprang forward
and caught mis- falling body in time to
prevent IL from being dashed to piecea
in the bottom of the shaft, at the same
tint me ii a1liasin, 'GG GGh, tTriiu" The
miner was taken TO his cabin, and, after
the application of restorattves, slowly
revived. Where is it2" ha asked, :.
si.e stranger ssiiofw!y advanced mud
said softiy, Brother, don't You know
!ine ~ With q still half frightened look
in his wandering eyes, the miner gased I
again at the iacs which had 80 startled
him, and gradually realizing the fact
that IL was real, living flesh and blood
again relapsed into o. subon. For days
lie rayed in the paroxysms: of fever.
living the hldeols chapter Of his life
over again, until at last the fever ex.y
hansted itself by s'very force, and the
sick man sank into o deep slumber.
AT last the invalid awoke, weak aud !
helpless as child. but in his right mind.
Instantly the cause of his Illness was by
his Bide, aud taking his5 hand tendesly4 4
ID his own aai5 William, my poor /,
brother II was James satnuefs, the
brother who was supposed 10 have been
dead, but Rho s7as here alive and we'll
and in the full senj oynaent Of fimanhood.
SIS " q miracle 7n ejannlatsd William, az
Boon ls he could speak, ssIt ia no mira.
Gle, but end mistake under which yon
shave iabored and from Wh hich you have
.uhdD edly suffered much. When vol,
get atgonger i will tell you al The
maxi day, William having 90 far recov.
cred id 10 ba abfa Ia ait nm 4 his hyofl,nr