The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07

UnaC leu to tne "UuR-Out Ill the TOCkS where he was "cabining."
 He was a boy, and young one, not having yet reached his majority :; but he had had a painful spot in his life that, but for his mother, might have blighted all the years he had to live. The mention of his mothers name before the crowd of rough men had set his heart throbbing, his lips trembling. And here, in the darkness, leaving behind him the light of the store and the twinkling candles in cabin windows, the tears came out.
 They ran down his cheeks as he whispered: w'm baby and a girl. But how I do love her! I was think ing of her, almost in despair, to- night as l sal. in the store, only because I had no money to waste for candles and firewood. And when that man brought in the rock it seemed to me God had sent him-if God ever does send help to felloww he continued sadly.
 For he was almost in despair. The blight from which his mother had rescued him had fallen upon him through his own fault, and she, to save him, had paid all she had. "The only son of widow" Words so sim pie and full of pathos that they have come down to us through ages, carry ing with them the history of two lives. And this widow, this only son, were as dear to each other, as neces- sary, as ever had been those others in the scriptural story.
 She had been too unselfish, this widowed mother; and he, such a bright, atfectionate, willful boy, that while really needing greatest control he had seemed not to require any.
 Study came easy to him; success was a right. A college education, and then profession! This was the mothers dream. Stinting herself and keeping the stint hidden, that her boy might stand among his peers, nor lack what they had in abundance. Just the boy to win boys hearts and lead in manly sports, George Elmair's years in college had been one scene of tri- umph, until at last, at the very close, with hOnors still warm on his brow, he did what other boys had done be- fore, and what, alas they will here- after do-"he went on spree"
 Went on spree with some other fellows, full as merry, but not so in- nocent as he. And for the result not only aching head and limbs, but papers forged
 How it happened he knew not, hav- ing no memory beyond the hour of drunken merriment, until after three days' searching, his mother found him ill bed, in strange hotel, his com- panions fled, and under his pillow the notes that had been advertised.
 An hour of agony, an explanation that was no explanation, and, then, with prayer to the God of the fatherless, just as George was, his mother bade him dress and come with her to the bankers office. Pausing first at her own bank ,and drawing out every cent, she hurried on, her feet not seeming quick enough to carry her to save her boy from dishonor. With her hand on Georges arm, and in her bosom the book containing her little all-the all that stood between her and destitution-went that mother to the rich mans office, asking admission.
 Treated most curtly, yet she had laid down her money and stated her mission. At first the offer was re- | fused, prosecution threatened, but she pleaded as mother can; then, as an intelligent woman, she stated the many points in her boys favor, and the slight case that could be made against him, that his only proof of guilt lay in his unconscious possession of notes which she herself had found. The rich man finally considered, and with the mothers thanks, accepted her money, opened the door for her, and let her pass out, penniless into the world.
 There followed days of agony for George-days when, between him and the despair of his young heart, stood his mother, like the angel he had called her, telling him that suicide was cowardice, that she believed in his manhood, and looked to his future as her sole hope.
 Then, with the rashness of youth, he asserted that if a future was possi- ble for him, he must find it out in the west, among nobler class than was in the eastern cities, where friend was synonym with traitor. The young fellow was so nearly broken-he hearted that the mother yielded, sold hel watch and every trinket saved from the wreck of past prosperity, and sent him off loaded with her blessings and her love.
 He knew she had obtained a posi- tion as teacher, but he did not know her last cent was in his pocket, anG Il that the only bit of gold she oXnei