The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-19
Triton for Sundays Examiner.
NO NONSENSE.


Bulsi just puuuinR INTO WOnnhhnoou,
while the young men were just flush
ing up a most honorable career in one
OF the best of our eastern universi-
ties. Mr.. Tobin was very wealthy,
and was considered as one of the
solid men OF the state In which he
lived. His mansion was beautifully
situated in the very heart of n deeply
wooded dell. where the sugar ma
pie shut out the rays of the noondsy
sun and furnished grateful shade for
the myriads of feathered songsters,
which gathered there. A grand IL
brary furnished mental sustenance
for the lovely family. Every luxury,
every elegance of music and of, art
adorned this lovely home nest. Grace
full and cultured Mrs. Tobin dispensed
liberal hospitality with a charm
which only ladies of her rank possess.
The blooming girls, the manly boys
and the love of her devoted husband,
constituted at once the Joy and the
pride of her perfected womanhood.
IL seemed that nothing was wanting
to complete this perfect picture of do
nestle repose and happiness.
The summer vacation had arrived,
and with IL, the elder son, Algernop,
just graduated with first honors, the
freshman and the junior came troop
ing home to bask in the mother-love.
Ali how the heart of the proud ma
iron swelled when her gratiiied eye
rested upon all the PROJECTIONS of her
boys-the apple of her mother-cyes.
A bright June evening saw the family
carriage returning from the station,
aud soon the noise OF merry voices,
the rolllcking laughter, the tears and
the smiles of the fond parents and hap
py children filed the little valley and
drowned out the lazy hum OF insect
life, which before this arrival had
lulled the family to their summer after
noon repose.
"Come, mother dear, we havn't left
our school appetites behind with our
books" said Algy, aud we are more
than anxious on the score of lunch"
The meal was served, and while dis
cussing IL with all the zest of
boys out of school, we will leave them
for few moments to outline danger
Gus scheme whose embodiment is to
totally change this innocent scene of
mirth and JOY in the twinkling of an
eye, into one of death, tears and utter
dcsolation. Such is life, and
only on the other side OF the closed
door, divided but by the thickness of
a plank, turks the enemy whose fell
power is to blast and destroy.
A few months before the time in
which we are writing, Mr.. Tobin,
tempted by the dangerous glare of n
western railroad speculation had en-
barked his every penny, aud the very
chairs upon which his happy boys
were seated at their lunch, were
mortgaged TO raise money for the
Texas 4 st. Louis Narrow Guage
The scheme was to pay eighty per
cent. per annum, but it didn't. ln-
stead, the stock holders were drained
to their very last remaining cent to
sustain the original investment bu
all to no purpose. Everything went
aud decree of foreclosure and sale
followed with the speed oflight. OF
course all was swallowed up, and as
is usual in cases of this kind, there
was not half enough 10 satisfy judg'
ments impending. To the Tobins it
meant simply and only, beggary.
CHAPTER IL.
While sitting at their lunch the
door bell rang and a tcle
graph messenger placed I
brief despatch in Mr.. Tobin':
hand. A moment after, deep agon-
lied sigh and the falling OF heav.
body on the floor aroused the happy
boys and no less happy mother TO the
significance of that brief despatch. l
announced to the Tobin's the fact tina
the old life was over and art, musi
and books were to be sacrificed fol
hard toll, self-denal and mourning
From the fainting tit consequent
upon grasping the contents Of the des
patch, the poor father never aroused
and three days afterwards, this ono,
happy mily group stood beside
freshly made grave from which the.
turned in agony, to buffet with thu
world all unassisted by the guiding
hand of the fond father.
A few short weeks only and tn,
mother went the same silent way
The home was given up, the TIVE
girls found shelter with an aunt
;, while the two boys went out to work
the one with merchant in the vii
lage, and the other in counting hous
Ia New York, and Algernol
the elder, and now the head
of the family, with the few dollar
, raised by the sale of some jewelry an'
other personal effects, sought new
career and new home in the grca
e southwest.
r CHAPTER III.
Many years before the opening o
: our tale there lived in South Carolin
:. gentleman of the name of Manning
L belonging to an old and illustriou
! family, and one closely and honorabl
c identified with the great struggl
: which finally resulted In the subjugi
$ ton of the south. After the disa'
S trous result of that struggle, which, G
:. course, reduced him to poverty, h
s also with his fair wife and one infar
II girl sought home in the great souti
west, settling permanently in Wac
soon after the war. Here he live'
D aud a few years since laid down peac'
Z fully In death-followed very soon b
the heart-broken wife. Little Eth
N Manning was thus early thrown upo
q the world in a rude, frontier yillag
l. with that most dangerous heritage, {,
A. woman, beauty. Sympathizln
= strangers took her in and cared IL
l. inc olphhh' chc Ricm "P"VO anu W
In tered womanhood the toast of Il
IL whole countryside as one of the mo
o. beautiful women on the sunset sit
of the Mississippi river. indie,
she is beautiful beyond even the pha
ar tasy of poets dream.
But this is not all. Her mind, u
der the wear and tear of her orphan
life, soon ripened into a beautiful al
T. mature womanhood. Studious al
!! withal prudent and far mo
worldly-wise than most girls
situated, she acquired a fms
ed and even highly polls
ph ed education. 1.-the and willowy
IL person, strong and cultured, she
IL rinh nnss Of hnr nnlowmnni of NJ