Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-05-27

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"'Don't try I said. Tell rue about
yourself-prove to me that have not
been indiscrcet.'
"'You have acquitted yourself like o
friend and comrade,' he replied.
There was no reason that we should
not marry only that our parents md
guardians set their faces like flint
against it because we were second cous-
ms. We had been companions from
childhood, and our growing intimacy
was encouraged. "They will always
remain like brother and sister," had
been said scores of times.
"'Ilow strangely some people outlive
their youth. 1t was SO with these. They
could not understand how the boy and
the girl who had romped together and
studied from the same book should,
after separation of n half-dozen years,
fall desperately in love at first sight.
"'They laughed ut us. They said we
were too young to marry; that it was
only a bit of sentiment enhanced by the
romance of the time and my changed
appearance in my regimentals. At
length they said if would give up my
commission and remain Mt home we
might be married. OF course we both
secuted the idea. was called away
from home on some business arrange.
ment, and while absent was unex.
pectedly recalled to the field. have no
doubt my wife's mother arranged it
with my colonel, who is her kinsman.
l sent message to my love that ]
should pass through - junction on
this train and she slipped away to bid
me good by-and returns home as my
wife
"'She will keep the marriage private,
of course
"'Not ut all. We arranged that. She
will announce herself as my wife and
60 ut once tonight to my house. Thank
heaven it will now be home; it has not
been so since my mother died
Poor fellow, he went Mt once into
the thickest of the fray. In week he
had been promoted to the captaincy OF
his company, and in less than month
he earned colonels commission; but
it cost him his life, and his body was
carried home for burial. The poor
young bride had been having stormy
time with relatives. but now from an
object of Indignation she became one of
intense compassion. Her quiet but pa
thctic agony drew both families to her
feet and held them there. So young. so
beautiful, SO brave, and so constant,
she has had u legion of admirers, and
it is true that one man at least has re-
NAMED single for her sake.
"She lives quietly, and occupies her.
self in many benevolent enterprises.
The relatives of deceased soldiers are
her especial charge. The parents she
has comforted. the widows she has
cared for, the maiden sisters who have
shared her bounty, and the children she
has educated are legion.
1T is only what my husband would
do were he alive, she says. i wish to
deserve his commentator, as well us
my Divine Masters well done!"'
'She still wears her widows weeds,
and has always deported herself with
the most beautiful dignity.
There, the procession has left the
yard. She is preparing to go. l must
cross over and speak to her; could not
lntrude before
The young people watched almost
with awe as their uncle limped across
the drive with his crutch as support,
and bent over the widows hand.
Her beautiful face lighted at his
greeting.
Can it be that he meant himself?"
whispered Bertha. is that why he ha
never marricd?"
He was walking beside the lady, with
bowed head. Al they passed the car
riage the young people caught her low
spoken words.
"All days are Memorial days to me-"
she was saying.-Mrs. Annie A. Preston,
in Northwestern Christian Advocate.