Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-12

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Ronald. one evening. 1T seems as Il
there was no place in the workaday
world for me"
ooh. yes. there Is; only you have
not found it yet And do you know,
Ronald. mamma and have been talk
! ing over your going TO American
The suggestion was not new to the
young nlan. His own heart had been
giving him the same advi.a from the
very first. and the subject once
broached soon assumed tcngible
form 1t was thoroughly discussed and
arranged for, and Ronald's place taken
in a steamer leaving two days before
his month of grace expired.
During all his trials and preparations
Ronald's home-never happy one
had been becoming daily more wretch
ed His mother wearied him with al
ternate reproaches and eutreatias, and
his friends pitied or ab;ised, advised or
laughed at him Still. the last night
he was to spend under hs mothers
roof he made another effort ut recon
ciliation.
II have a miserable headache to-
night, he said. kiss me. mother, for
the sake of old times"
Certainly, Ronald, if the kiss i'm
plies that you have recovered your
senses, and are willing to follow out
my plans for your welfare"
81 cannot give up Eve, mother. For
give me this"
''You are old enough to choose be-
tween us. If it is Miss Sorley, her
kisses must suffice you"
"At least. mother, shake hands"
"Your are sentimental tonight; a
thing have no use in the world for.
Obedience is the test of love"
"Well, good night, mother"
Good night, SIR"
And thus they parted, never more to
meet in this world.
Hard as his parting was with Eve, it
did not sadden'him like the unnatural
"Good night, sir" of his mother. In
the former there were love and hope,
and the promise of a happy reunion.
After Ronald's departure Eve waited
hopefully and happily for the good
news she was sure would come. Nor
did she wait in. vain. In two years
Ronald had completed his study for the
law and opened small Office in a flour
ishing town in western New York. For
some time his practice was small, but
at the end of the fourth year he was
making more than enough to claim the
redemption Of Ewes promise
Mrs. Sorley accompanied her daugh-
ter to America, and lived many happy
years with the young couple. Ronald
is always a warm defender of uha.
much abused character, mother-in-
law.
AS years wore on the little vine COW
cred cottage was added to and enlarged
until it became the pride of the town,
and Judge Mitchelrs handsome house
and gardens, his thoroughbred horses
and numerous servants are certainly
evidences of an income vastly above
the $500 year he refused to accept as
equivalent for manhood's noblest rights
and privileges.
Ronald is portly, middle aged man
now, and Eve, though still beautiful,
has lost the early bloom of youth; but
up and down the long piazzas and
through the shady arcades Of elm and
chestnut, many beautiful boys and
girls play, walk or read, uncontrolled
by any element but wise and patient
love. For Ronald has still sad re-
membrance of a home cherries and
loveless amid all its splendor, of a
childhood unblessed by fairy lore or
mothers kisses, and of a youth in
which everything was to have been
sacrificed for interest and ambition.
Mrs. Mitchell still lives. If her heart
ever softens toward her son, she never
suffers it to make any sign. She is APP
parently as Indifferent to his later
honors as she was to his early struggles
and trials. 1t is likely even that she
may outlive her busy, hard working
son, whose brain and heart carry the
cares and sorrows of many besides his
own, for
The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn 10 the socket.
Yet never has Ronald Mitchell re-
gretted the day in which he chose love
before land, and true wife in prefer
ence 70 100000, Ask him today if he
would part with even one memory of
the real life which commenced for him
with that decision, and he would an
swer, proudly and confidently, mot
for gold, Amelia E, Barr in New
York Ledger