Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-07-01

old lady came towards then, win out
stretched arms
She then drew back little, and
gazed Hp at the dark. stalwart fellow
before her. cNclalming:
"Surely this can never, never DO
Thomas"
EYES. this is Thomas, but you are
not my mother" he said. still holding
her thin hand tendcrly.
"Oh yes. she is your mother! She's
only pale and thin!" cried Bella.
mo! MOI" said the poor woman.
sadly.
The stranger replied; "No' mol"
Turning TO his young guide, he added:
Then l suppose you are not my
niece, Katic9"
mo; I'm this mothers child" re-
piled Bella, with tears of modification
and disappointment in her fine eyes:
"Oh. this is dreadful
"Who is? lP Ny mother won't
say So" said the young man. play
fully.
but where is my Thomas? Did you
leave him in the mincs?' asked the dis.
appointed woman.
The mines? l never saw mine in
nv life. I'm the first mate of the
Orient, and have just returned from
China. But your sons safe. | hope.
He'll be here by the midnight train,
take my word for it"-a remarkable
exhibition of ideal confidence, rs he
had never seen nor heard of the mis-
sing son and brother before!
IL hope you'll let me come back to-
morrow, and see if this is not So" he
added.
"Oh. no, | shall be ashamed ever To
see you again-l made such IN cNhibi-
ton of myself at that dcpot!' said
Bella. 81 ought to have asked you If
you were my brother, Thomas Haynes.
ought To have known there were
hundreds and thousands OF Thomases
in the world"
"Oh. | see now what the dreadful
thing was, kissed this little girl nj
the depot, before all the people, think
Ing it was my niece grown beyond my
knowledge. don't see how | can
help it now-shc wouldn't let me take
the kisses back. know
well. call il blundcr that no one
could help. But | do wish | could
know where my boy i! He was to
come, surely, by this train said Mrs.
Haynes.
He'll come tonight; don't worry.
Now, let me say goodbye to YOU
both. for there's another mother wor-
rying now, on Prince street" said the
stranger. II wondered what she had
moved for"
The young stranger had scarcely left
the house, when mcSscngcr-boy
came with telegram with which he
had been running about for an hour.
Thomas Haynes had missed the morn
ing train in New York, by the care
lessneSs of u hack-drivcr; and would
be at home at midnight. But how
was he to lind where the family lived
now? for they had moved to their new
home since he had left the mines.
Bella left message with Il sleepy
looking official. as to how the inquiries
of stranger for "Nlr,. Mary Haynes"
should be- answered. But she might
have saved herself the trouble; for
"that other Thomas as she now
styled the jolly intruder whom she said
she chopped never to see again" was
waiting the train.
lie knew Thomas Haynes for a
miner, as soon as he sprang from the
cars; and "hailing" him, told him his
mother had moved lately. and that he
had come to guide him home. 1t was
a happy family that gathered round
the fire and listened to each others ac-
count Of all that had occurred during
their separation.
"0f all the earthly blessings God can
bestow on woman" said the aged
mother, good and noble children are
the greatest"
After this. Bella called her brother
"This Thomas" and their new friend
THAT Thomas" Well, life has its
poetic episodes, its pleasant events that
are like romanccs and stories. This
Thomas and that Thomas were both
tired of rough work on land and on
sea. Each had Il small amount of
money; and after some weeks of
very close intimacy, the two decided
TO buy farm together, and when men
enter into the friendly relation of BROTH
ers. their sisters are not ignored. 1t
was so in this case. Bella was not for
gotten.
The next spring the double family
for the two families We're now one
moved into the farmhouse, the cosicst
and pleasantest room in which was the
'.parlor-kitChen," which Bella had re-
produced with the furniture of the old
one in the city. And Bella-the sister
Of this Thomas, and the wife of that
Thomas-made the one home as happy
rs she had made the other; for good
daughter and true sister. and an agree
able and careful housekeeper in her
"tcens, is apt to prove a very appre-
ciatcd wife, and become the head of a
happy household. Youths Companion.
Thieves broke into the unoccupied
house of Assistant Secretary Of the In
terror jerks at Brookville, Pa, recent.