Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-12-25

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We'll, well, well, unused the bach
elor, as he led the little wanderer to the
fire and stroked her beautiful hair.
Then turning to the wondering
landlady he commanded her TO take
the child under her protection and
make her comfortable.
Yes, come, sissy said the land
lady, you are almost persisted with
cold and hunger
''Her shoes were worn through and
her feet were covered with blsters.
Yet her cheeks were like a peach and
her eyes sparkled with brilliancy. She
was most beautiful. The bachelor
sat for hours musing. The red cheeks
and bright eyes of the little country
maid haunted him all night. You may
not wonder at this, for if you think the
lady you saw to-day is beautiful, what
must she have been when a grip
within few days the gentleman
married the girl, and as he was we'll
TODD they lived together in comfort
for several years, when the gentleman
died. The young widow remained
widow but short time, when she re-
married. This time she was married
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lived literally, and entertained his
friends right royalty. This marriage,
as the former, was a happy one, and
the lady had opportunities to travel
abroad. She learned the French Ian
guage and INDUCED in the study OF
art.
''But one day the lady husband died
suddenly while on his way from Cincin-
natl to Chicago. Thus a second time
your heroine was widowed. She had
magnificent wardrobe, but only about
| two hundred or three hundred dollars
in money left. This money was used up
in defraying the expenses of her late
husbands funeral and paying their no.
tel bill. She was then left without
means, but she kept up her courage.
When on the farm she had been taught
to sew, and she concluded to turn this
part of her education to advantage.
Her desire was to 60 to housekeeping
and take cloaks home to make. She
had nothing with which to furnish a
house, but she went to a friend of her
husband and laid the case before him,
requesting loan and offering a jewel
as security. The gentleman kindly
consented to lend her what money she
wanted without any security, and asked
ly replied that she thought she would
need at least twenty dollars. The gen.
tleman laughingly informed her that
she could not buy anything with twen-
ty dollars, and that she. had better take
fifty dollars, which she could repay at
her own convenience. But the sum of
fifty dollars frightened her, and She
would consent to accept but the twen-
ty dollars. Supplied with that amount,
she rented small house and bought
the simplest outfit for one room that
she could purchase at secondhand
store. She had no trouble in securing
cloaks, and as she and an assistant
could make two of than in a day, at
three dollars apiece, leaving the lady a
profit of five dollars day, she soon
paid off her debt of twenty dollars.
latter progressing in this manner
for some time the young widows at
tention was attracted by an advertise
ment in a daily paper setting forth the
fact that an immense number OF soldier
I COaJS wcIO In al uufuislIOd 1ts.ts irn th c
hands of the United States Commissary,
and that hands were wanted to finish
them. The widow attired herself in
her best and repaired to the Commits.
sary's office, where she met a Govern
ment official, who politely asked her
what she would be pleased to have.
She somewhat surprised the official
when she informed him that she wanted
to get work on the unfinished soldier
coats; but he ceased to wonder that the
elegantly attired and beautiful young
lady before him sought employment
when she related how death had lief
her penniless widow, and how sh'
proposed to make an honest living. o
course she was promised all the worl
she might want, and that evening al
express wagon load of coats was sen
to her modest little home. The officia
found it in the line of his duty to cal
, at the Young widows house to see tina
the work on the coats was properl,
commenced, and his gallant heart blet
! pretty woman as ne found the Ion,
widow to be. In fine. he was smittel
by her charms, and set his brain {,
work to devise a plan by which h
could relieve the lonely creature with
|, out insulting her. At length he said +
! the lady that he could promise he
enough work to pay her at least fiv
hundred dollars, and that he woul
! gladly pay her that amount in advanc
in order that she might furnish he
house in a manner that would be CON
! Portable. The widow declined the offe
, with a charming grace.
christmas Day arrived, and th
3 officer called at the widows mode:
: cottage Marching up to the prett
widow he addressed her thus:
1 "I made proposition to you a fe'
n DAYS ago, and you saw fit to reject i
4 Now / have another to make, and
: sincerely hope that this time you wi
r not decline. want you to render m
: Christmas extremely happy by givin
g me the right to protect you from tn
!, Inconvenience Of poverty. Be m
q wife
q ''To be sure he said much more, bu
; it is not necessary to repeat all that h
e did say or all she said, save to say thu
;. a second time she found a husband O
v Christmas, and again she found herse
q independent to the world. Her ne
4 husband added to his already comfor
g able fortune before the war ended, an
d again the lady got to travel throug
II foreign lands and crafty her love IL
"a study and the fine arts. She is wido
q again, but rich one. And on Chris
d mas Days she never fails to bestow NJ
o on the needy presents that give joy
d the recipients and happiness to hersel
n She looks upon Christmas Day as da
e of propitious fruition, and is probab
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