South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-02-27

All righL' screecled Polly. sIIa
Ina. Oh, my poor head!'-this very
dolefuily. Then with sudden change
To exube'an delight: - harlie! Charl,e!
How do you do. Charliey So glad To
see You again! We.cone, Charlie!
Walk right in! Charlie over the IVA
ter! Bonnie Charles home again!
Ha, ha. har
The gentleman stopped abruptly.
and looked i. teniiy at the bird. Then
he approached, glanced at the house
aud Windows and finally said:
III W do voc do Pollya'
This freedom from stranger irri-
tatcd the bird. She gave a shrili
sarlek, rntiled her feathers aud pick
cd >pitefuily NJ the extended tingar.
II WAS AT this moment that Carrie
came To the widow ia obedience to
her mothers request. to silence
Pully's dis,racting noise.
Tue young man half apologeticaIly
Ii ted ms hat.
Pardon my liberty with your bird
hut IL may inquire did she 1 once be-
long to Miss Lydia Tracy. Of Grecu-
ville p g 1s
Yes, Carrie admitted, adding shyly !:
j suppose you knew her when sho WAS
witt, Miss Iracv Z
Il had not the pleasure With a smile.
'Bu ] am Miss Tracy's nephew. aua 1
rscnaUized The BIRD iron her tiescrip-
uop.' $685.,
Mrs. Dalton hal come to the window,
AID she DOW excl ,imci
You mus be Char es Tracy. the son
of Mark Tracy, who went SO long ago
t. the Wet, aud there dlel! Come in =
she aided. IN some excitern nj. i am
y"ur fathers cousin. Caroline Tracy
AIRS. Dalton'
The young man needed no second in,
v'tstio,. he pretty face ut The win.
dow h,d wonderfully attracted him /;
aud besides tins he was very glad OF
this unexpected meeting With his rela
tives VII I'm he had never seen. but of
~ ON he had ..ten heard.
Tue visi- was u rather lengthy one,
Tor there We're msny questions TO to
asked aud much to DO tod on both eiies.
Dir. Char es Tracy, senior, la | be- en-
very successful in his specializing busi
ness in the " est. and had made quite a
fcrtune. lie had ,aken the son IF us
deceased brother, Mark, under tbs care
and set him up 10 business in Cali'ornia
six months w :, the Old gentleman ha
died, leaving ali lie possessed To his
namesske, Charles who had found it ne
oessary to come East on spne bu.,ne 80
connec;ed ii b his late uncle y estate.
'Hu' Tor Polly. said MIR. Charles Ira.
cy, junior. 4 fear / might nevsr have
had pleasure Of meeting you. SINE
years ego nv uncle 81, Mt Aunt Lydia A
parrot, and she wrote. Tot lupl bsfore
her death, wheh she wa, ex1Gciing q
VISIT iron her brother, that she ba
taught her TO talk sbnut him, and to
sing his Old fsvoriie song Charley Over
The Water, ana 'Charle,'s Coming lone
Again.. IL VAS hearing Poily's per m
anc", and ber peremp,ory call TO me TO
stop and como mp that attracted my
attention L" pnssing.'
MIR. tha'iey Tracy Fingered East
LOGGER than b. had originally intended.
tie was very oftcl at the D,ltons' lo &.
tags. and IN, re- he naturally became &C
quainted vi IA Laura sliianced- - arry.
friendship immediately sprung up
bet"een the two yoong men, and MIR.
Tracy dLcovTtcd that Harry was the
vers sort III :, p.rs,D whom he needed
as psitDer ~ his hu sibsss.
larry had no capital but that was
not necessary and % An arrangema Mt
was made between them satisfactory to
Doth gentlemen, and to oil other parties
concerned.
Wy the time that spring had fairly
merged into summer, Polly went back
California, her native State.
Che did not go alone, bat with her
mistress. Carrie. now Mrs Charles Ira.
cy and she was accompanied nv Mrs.
Dalton. and Laura, am her husband, oil
col whom. then and so long as she we'd,
male much OF Poiiy-for was it no, TO
her That they all osed their good for
tame.
SToP AND TuIaK.-Pareals should
stop and think if they are doing right
In allowing their boys to be cut upon
tie streets 81 night. There ars more
young lives ruined and blasted 10y the
practice Of street ptowline than We may
mqgine. Night covers tue Garth With
ark0ess. bIlks the gaze OF friends and
loved ones, and thrOHs veil over the
acts and deeds Of wicked men and won,
en-. Our boys are generally gentlemen
aud Trustworthy, but there are man,
cases 10 The coItratiwise. Every in.
ducemenL 10 offered 10y The low and
Vicious To- entice Vrsuspee.ing asd
green boys iuto the sbOdcs of sin and
laWlessncss. The TACT 10 revealed b,
the report OF tho superintendent OF our
penittntiary, that over one.fuurth Of The
inmates Of that insiitu lion arc boys.
Then take into confederation tue large
numbers who so unpunished, on a.
count Of ago. and 1t ia simply appalling
that there is 60 much crime among