Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30

town, and came near marrying one OF
them bsfore he was 49," Then cams
a tale of shame, learned how jim
Low disappeared from his early home
to all appearances unaccompanied;
nor did he return, but girl, young
and beautiful, VINO had left the peace.
full village about the same time that
he did, dragged her weary steps
home ward bearing in her arms child
whose paternity was, even then,
stamped upon its minute features. A
true woman, she never breathed tho
name of her seducer. She hid herself
in the lowly home of her grandmother,
where she and the babe found but q
cold welcome. Abandoned, forsaken,
spurned, weary OF work and ioyless
exstance, Julia Twillis, once oeaun-
full and admired, sought a watery
grave in that river on whose banks
| the false ones VOWS had been uttered.
Picture it, think of it, absolute man:
| Lave 10 it, drink of t, then, If you can.
! He could, he did Wren her &C
cusing voice was forever silent, the
betrayer returned 10 his native town
and dared to gaze upon that shining
river Did he come there to seek out
his son2 No. The unhappy disownes
little creature would have been left
burden upon its already overburdea
ed grandmother had not one member
of his wretched fathers family poss
essed the heart of woman. An cid
err sister of our would-be governor
adopted the ''sinlesS child of sin, {"
and for very shame her brother eoled
| hi % 81 IN h, ,
own flesh and blood from adding one
more to the long list of recording
angels whose life on earth had been
wrecked by him. He even brought
| himself to send the bov through col
lege and has, we understa nd, used
the very small political influence
which he possessed to place him in
some minor political office, where the
example of his wretched father can
have but one effect, and society
in the future will be obliged to recog-
nizc and lament the existence OF an
other Jim Low. A sense of shame
evidently tied the deacon's tongue,
| but the story unfolded itself all to
plainly. 1t is, perhaps, as we'll thai
the public should not become too
thoroughly acquainted with the dis
gushing details of the early life of
| this moral monslrosity. As turned
| from the door of the deacon, whose
kind eyes were fancied, suffused
with tears, even the most charitable
will wonder that | pronounced the
man who had formed the subject of
our conversation to be Low by nature.
as well as by name.
The old man was quite crimson
with anger while / perused the offend
ing document. When | handed it
back ne went on: 81 guess never
was so mad in my life, for of course
! saw how | had been taken in.
"'There is not syllable of truth
in the whole thingp gasped.
Catch me throwing mud at Jim or
that poor dead girl, as to whom 40
was as innocent as | was. I'd like TO
hear any man abuse julia, who was
as good girl as any of them, aid
great deal prettier."
" j never did see anything in Julia,
said my wife; but what you've done,
Jasper, is to let yourself be drawn in
by that goodNlooking young man
who came here fattering you a week
ago"
MY wife's usually pretty well right
so | sat down and wrote to jim, tells
ing him just what had passed, and |
then wrote to TIE editor of that news
paper and told him that unless he
retracted what he'd stated I'd prose.
cute him for libel. Well, sirl" Here
my host struck the arm of his chair
resounding blow. "Well, sir, that
fellow wrote back as cool as you please
saying that his correspondent was an
honorable gentleman, and that they
couldn't be responsible for the fact
that I'd let my tongue run away with
me.
odd you prosecutor asked.
well, no; my wife said better not,
for Jim thought it something of a joke
when he heard the story, and said:
Let them laugh who win, for he was
elected after all.
"Then there was no evil results2" |
observed.
II won't say that, said my old
friend, for Miss Low hasn't forgiven
me to this day. and we're pretty near
neighbors. When young Ray came
here last we asked them in to tea; but
she wouldn't come, nor let him either.
He and my daughter Maria are pretty
thick, having been children together,
so it's awkward"
Miss Low won't be able to separate
them, III venture to say | SAID with
laugh
"Wen, no. :" said the deacon, dryly,
"the young folks mostly get their own
way; but there's worse than that be
hind / used sometimes TO have my
joke about the women talking so
much, aud now if / say one word
about their long tongues, Maria, says,
Yes. father, but we don't talk to re
porters, or her mother says, I've yet
to learn that men are more discreet
than women. I'm sure my long
tongue, as your father calls it, never
| got me Into trouble"