Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-08

4 can ROT do much. for am weak and III
but yoa may depend upon my ezsr!trg
myself to my very last breath' i ! couio pc
rewarded By but . glimpse OF ms dear
face
aVery well, I" said the steward. Where
are you going now 2
"indeed, nr, didn't know, abe replied.
every well; you want sleep and food,
YOU must come with me- !" said the steward.
o Hama thanked him fervently, and toll
lowed him to the little house in which he
logged
When o Hama and the child were fast
asleep between the quilts, the steward wrote
the following note:
any Lord and Master: The bearer OF
this is your little daughter. send her to
you to implore You for the sake of your
wife to place yourself once again at the
head of our armies"
Early the next morning he told 0 Hama
of the resolution he he had taken. at first
she was unwilling to trust the child to go
with him into the soitudes OF the noun
tains, but he swors that no harm should
happen to her, and o Aans, happier than
she had been for many long days, consent
ed.
So the steward bought the child a new
red dress embroidered with szAleA flowers,
took her on his back aud started. When
be arrived within hundred yards of his
masters hut he directed the child which
way she should take and waited below to
hear the issue,
Then followed the scene which forms the
subject of my skin picture.
so great was Ksruks,s joy that for some
moments he could only embrace her In
silence. Then he asked her about her
| mother, and wrote on the back of the stew
ards letter that be would only take again
the field on behalf OF his country upon the
condition that il he succeeded all the past
should be forgotten and he should be per.
mitted to introduce o Hama to her proper
STATION in life.
The child came down with Ksruka; the
steward FASTENED back to Koyias, told 0
Hama of what had happened, took her
/ back with him to where Karuka was wait
ing. and without staying to witness the
| ioS full greeting between the long-separatei
husband and wife, made all speed TO Yedo
With his message.
Very little remains to be told. OF
course the mobiles gladly accepted Ksruka's
conditions, he came forth from his retire
ment, made almost triumphsl procession
through the streets Of the capital, saw that
o Hama was settled in his old castle under
the protection OF the faithful steward, and
went off to the seat of war. In few
weeks the news therefrom was OF such 3
character as 10 infuss proud enthusiasm
into every Japanese heart. The junks
which had so long brought nothing but
news of disgrace and defeat now sailed
proudly into Yedo bay with punches Of
evergreens at their msstheads, and by the
Summer the Coreans had been utterly
crushed, and Japan had dictated her terms
of peace
Karuka returned full of honors to his
native land; the people rebuilt for him the
castle, which hsd been suffered to fall into
grievous decay during his exile; the Assem-.
bla of Daimois voted him an annual income
of G, 900 knots" Of rice, equal to 1000
pounds sterling; the greatest in the land
crowded to his castle to pay their respects
10 him aud to o Hama, and prominent
among them came the Prince of Nsgato
and his wife. once known as o Kiri, the
admirer Of Karuks. Nor was the faithful
old steward forgotten, for Karuka bought
for him an estate in the country, where
he died at an advanced age, to the grief OF
all who knew him. The child grew up
beautiful, and By her marriage with the
Prince of Choshiu stamped all the Eta
faint from the family of Karuka.