New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-24

@Sa8T2W CLUES, puG 40 say
T. SIf&A that this is not the
N \ ~ most difficult. side
of the virtue, and that there are
mortal victories won in daily life
evincing as honorable and enduring
courage.
Matte was the only child OF Major
John barley, a man who had done
service in the Mexican war and been
rewarded for it by an honorable and
lucrative government office.
He lived in good style in hand
some house, and Matte was generally
understood to be we'll off in money
matters as she was attractive in
person and winning in manners. She
visited in the mostfashionabIe circles,
sand was rather noted for her pretty
thoiiets and the number Of her beaux.
Matte had. however, made her
choice. Unreservedly she had given
her affections to Mark Taylor, a
young man OF no particular family,
but Of handsome exterior and fair
business prospects. Many, indeed,
W, ndered at the major sanctioning
the match; but there are always reas-
~ons within reason, and the poor faith
-er had his private motives for for
warding the views OF the man who
seemed most in earnest about marry
ing Matte.
But before Mattie's pretty ward
robe was finished, and while the lovers
were yet undecided as to whether the
wedding was to be public Or private
-one, Major barley was found dead in
bed one morning, and the house OF
pheasant anticipations became house
of mourning.
This was but the beginning Of Mat
ties troubles. Vague but terrible
rumors OF suicide and ruin began to
he heard, and Matte, even in the
first gush OF sympathy for her DESC
date condition, could feel that indefin-
able something which expressed disap-
probation as well as pity; and after
the funeral was over she was quite
sensible that her acquaintance and
friends were ready to stand alooffrom
her at the hrst good opportunity.
The zwor d upon the whole is not
'fiagrantly unjust; it thought it had
good reason for it's disapprobation.
Major: barley had done wrong; he
had squandered money not his own;
and poverty and dishonor it refuses
ito sanction. In the main it is right.
And when Matte knew also that it
was generally believed that her faith
>er had skunk into the grave because
he was afraid to face the wrong he
had done, she di1 not much blame
the world. She knew it must Judge
men and women o general rules.
But she did blame Mark, for ne had
no such excuse. He had made par
SECULAR promises to her and her
:alone. But when misfortune does
not siren then love, it kills it, and
before Major barley was in the grave,
MARKS behavior had lost something
OF It's respect, and he soon became
querulous and inattentiye. Matte
did not hesitate long In few digni-
fled lines she gave him his dismissal.
and it was coolly accepted with a
very unmanly and ungenerous refiec.
ton upon the dead.
Then the poor girl began seriously
TO consider her future. There was
absolutely nothing for her but the
furniture Of the house in which she
Alved, and the half-and-half invita-
tons which she had received from her
two aunts to make her home for q
time with them. One had large
family and lived in a pretty Jersey
village; the other was an invalid and
Travelled a great deal.
She sold the furniture at auction,
paid out OF it her fathers funeral ex.
penses and found that she had about
$1,000 left. Upon the whole, the in.
valid aunt seemed the most desirable,
and she accepted her invitation first,
1t was the beginning Of summer, and
Mrs. Dayton was going to Europe
for her health" Matte was To %
with her, but 1T WAS not until eyery-
thing was arranged that Matte found
eshe was expected to pay her own pas
sage. She drew $500 and went to sea
with q heavy heart.
The next six months were q simnle
srecord of an imaginary invalid,s
swhims and unreasonable tyranny;
land Matte took under these circun,-
stances her first lessons in that knowl-
edge which teaches
How salt the SAVIOR is Of others bread!
How hard the passage to descend and
climb
By others stairs!''
And in spite OF all Mattie's efforts
and hamiliations. she did not nlease