Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-22


 many of the cooking ut nsils were
 hung up out of the way, at least fo: the
 time being.
 The table was placed in the c rnter ot
 the room and cover d with a wh te
 cloth, the frugal meal placed upon it
 ana the family gathered about for the
 trst meal in the w home. As they
 a'e they talked of how best to arrange
 things.
 If it had been the dry season they
 could have got on so much more com
 tortabiy. but with the certainty of rain
 one h.rd of the time for months to come, the prospect was dismal enough.
 However. they must do the best they
 sonld, and after breakfast Mr. Parsons helped to put Up the beds, one in each corner tarthest from the stove, which
 stood Tn the center at that end of the room where single window of six small panes of gla loo.el out upon e mouEt;in above them. At the o her end were two windows of twelve pa"es each. through wh ch could be seen the hills str, tching away towards the river
 Thee was also similar window on each side at the right of the doors, so the room was not dark. h wever much 1t m ght lack for conven ences. | Everything not needed for da ly use I stored away under the Led>. but even with this cc nomy of space very little | room was left for moving about l Each member of he fam ly, however. tried to be cheerful and so cheer the rest. Lucy even went so far as to at tempt witticism, and suggested that | there was no lack of room SO long s none of them were obliged to leave tn. house in orler to get space to open the | stove door
 Strips of bright carpet were laid be- tween the beds. about which were hung curtains reaching from the eel ing to the floor. The clock found resting place upon a shelf to the left of the front dcor. A bureau with a m rror occup, ed the space between the win dows at the end where the beds st od The table. when not in use. was folded up and allowed to stand in the center of the floor ready to be o 'ened at mc al time. Upon the walls were hung a few pictures. The white curtains wh oh had once adorned tie windows of the sitng-room of the old home were fitted to those of the new; and when all was done that could be done, the room looked so br ght and cozv that the hearts of the occupants lifted little, and but for the thought that one was so soon to leave them. whom t ey knew not when. if ever. they would meet again, they might have been alm ost happy.
 Jennie did not know what day to look for her husbands coming. for he cou d not tell, wh they parted in San Francisco. how long it would take him | to arrange his business, which c, insisted in the collection of several lit le sums of money ow.ng to him. but she had written f. om. hippsburg. telling him where to go fo directions how to find her; and one day. about week after the fam ly had taken possession of the shanty on the mounta de. he came, having wa ked out from the landing.
 Mrs. Parsons cried lit le when En- sign kiss d her and called her moth CT. It reminded her so forcibly of the separation wh oh his coming plesased that she could not help 1t. But she welcomed him warml, and made him feel that she loved hlm already for Jen- nie's sake.
 From John Parsons he received a han l-shake which, hac.!onad as his own hands were hS work in the shop. came near causing Ensign to ninch The man whose daughter he had married jet very warm friendship for h III in- deed.
 In compav ng Ensign with Annelsey, as he had naturally done at times, When he expected, both would become hs sons-in-law, he had somehow oome to regard him as d. kind ef hero, con tending against odds, as he felt that all men Who labared were forced to do. and that in choosing Jenn for a wife ne had allied himself with those who. although giving no outward sign, were yet half unconsciously revol lving in their minds some pan by winch to remove the wrongs beneath which they sunered and writhed
 It was true that he ha lost his pride Tn posse IS. on and With it all confidence in h mself.
 Without much knowledge of books, inclined by nasuro to think lightly of bis own abilities, and having failed to successfully defend what he Knew to be his matt ral rights to the wealth which he 8 l himse created, he BOW felt that he h Id no right to offer advice upon needed referns i'll society or the laws but Ensign was young, he possessed cool courage and a spirit that would not allow him to remain supinelY inacs- i've beneath great aad continued wrongs Besides this, he had fair eluca1!oa, and, SD the girls said. had on @ or twice tn ked to his fellow-work- ingmen in public upon quest ons aifeot7 ing ther interest. and there had grad nally gown up in ike mfnd of John Parsons 2 feelns tn t Ensign was to be instrumental in some way, perhaps as leader, in fighting the wrongs of the people.
 So long as Lucy had been engaged to marry MT. Annel ey these feelings had been suppressed, everlaid as it were by 2 fear that in encour1 ging them he was choosing between his daughters, w"o were equally dear to him. but he had not been able to prevent a feeling that Annclsey. teing in sympathy with the cause of the losses which he had suf- tcred. was in some way partially re-