Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-12-09
"GRACIOUSw

Mr.. Fariow was compact business
man. bright. shrew,i and kindly. He Ind
seen u good deal Of life In his day, and IL
was not commonplace life, either. One
evening as we Stt coziiy together. he told
me how he found his wife. for he knew
Lowell her ~ we'll almost M he did. and
his tone wnsa trine more confidential than
usual. N am 10 repeat the story Il must
be In strictly confidential manner. out OF
regard to my friend. though there ~
nothing that any man could be ashamed
ofin IL. except the parssding OF one'x sacred
heart TO the world. hut there Is way 10
which tho sacred heart can he told about
that makes 1t remind w OF our own
sacred hearts and the days OF our own
courtships and little affairs. which. though
we may pretend 10 have forgotten them,
arr always vivid enough II anything hap
pens 10 call them up.
I will let MIR. Fariow tell his own story.
for he can tell II better than could;
You know my marriage all calde out Of
South American trip that once made,
and that " the Interesting part Of the lit
Gle romance. ! was only twcnty-one and
In the employ Of shipping company In
San Francisco. had been with them
about year and half. and think they
have dune 40 to have sent me on the expo
dition they did. y captain and his crew
had run away with ship that belonged 20
the company. and they wanted me to catch
him. He hal started with his booty to
ward Cape Horn, aud II he once fairly left
the South American waters he was pretty
safe from us. ! l,oar,lca the swiftest
schooner that sailed out Of Frisco bay. and
We stretched every inch OF canvas for the
south. The runaway had good two days.
the start Of ms and was nearly ,,s good a
sailer ~ we. but we rssolvel to do our best
anil hope for luck In any kind Of an en-
terprise n man may always hope for luck.
though he cant really CONT on it. Atany
rate is serves TO keep the courage up
I'm I've days we sighted the islands of
Colombia and stopped to make Inquiries
The vessel we were utter had been sighted
two days nnd n half before. and was going
straight for the Cape. The news was not
encouraging, hut we vet on again, with
two days anil half instead of two days 10
gain. But we Still hoped for luck, or some
happy Thought. IL was not luck, but
hnppy thought that finally decided me 70
leave the ship M Valparaiso and strike
across country to iluenos Ayrcs In the hope
OF heading on the robbers before they
cleared that port. Sailing round the Caps
] l.nrw to be hanl work and often slow
ami with t;ooi luck | could probably catch
the vessel. or at iest have gained Ia the
chase.
The trip ncross the Andes and the vast
plains beyonh was memorable one to me.
IL took a fortnight uf the hardest trslmpin.
and ri,lin2 ever did Ia my life. hut saw
some things ! have never seen since. nii,l
never will again. The guides that we
startrsl with were crnsty. malicious Eel
lows. anil lnssle me wonder every night
when lay down to SLEEP on the open
ground whether should NOT wake up TO
fisl my thrust Cit. Fortunately TINT never
happened. but the reason was that they
hal the bctter part Of my money before we
set out otherwise | think my life would
have Isrrn hehl pretty cheap by life In.
surlnec company.
half way mp the mountains we found
an s'.d M Dil;lstery aud litsS chapel. At
nrst II seemed deserted but when at last
we hear! u baby cry we knew that there
werr hnaan b.iasss about. We pecreal i1
Mt n iittis oil kitshen and saw there liz
tie oil woman Win scemrl to have ieen
born Ris,ut the time the kitchen was built.
say n hundred VESTS ago. We asked for
f0ol ami lodging in every language we
KNEW. iut the only reply we got WAS
grunt aud u gesture toward an inner door
We tried the dOnr. hut some one WIS lean
Ing against IL on the other side. by this
time ! WAS quite ont of patience, and lift
Ing the latch of the door gave IL n terrible
push Inward. Some glass thing fell and
broke In Thousand pieces on the stone
floor. AMI uS the door swung open we saw
white old priest stagger backward In the
little orItory Of the chapel, and ON the
paving were the Fragments OF u long black
bottle that hal contained some black
liquid. The old fellow looked very much
frightened and deprecating. and hastencd
TO explain thssf ut his age he found drop
now hnd then necessary We made his
feelings all right on that point by Offering
10 drink some more with him. II he had
any. IL appeared that there were a mum
her Of battles Ia the cellar. The old priest,
and even his wife. the old woman who
SEEMED unable 10 speak, proved very hos
pitahle Ia the end. and we went on our
way early the next morning.
al last the mountains were passed, ant
before IA stretched broad level, grassy
plain. and twenty miles away. though the
distance seemed much iess. lay a city half
the size OF Boston. hut whose site was ON
no map In existence. and whose name prob
ably not ten educated men In this country
hal ever heard But that was forty years
ago. OF course things have changed since
then.
Here my guides said they mnxt leave
me. and though entresated their company
20 the city, they utterly refused. there
fore set out alone.
You can imagine my desolation at be-
Ing left. even by the desperate, black hued
men who had been my companions 40 far
Even they had rome sense OF humanity IN
them, some sympathy for my Loneliness.
though Il was moody. silent sympathy
But now | was alone, strange city that I
dbl not know before me, the Andes behind
me- if was ever honesick In my life IL
WIS on that morning. II ever wished
wew nj hoiue with wife and children
sbout me. thai was the time. A. Itramped
M sireaniri uf eli these things | care
Miiy restiir'l all the young iadies Of my
acquaintance. TO set II ANY Of them would
10 fuf wife Some were more or less Mt
sFsictiye. hut there were many difficulties
u the way ~ really marrying any one Of
them After time turiissl from. a con
ssdsrAti1n Of the Individual female to a
spisAislxrHtivn Of the money question. That
sceitassl iszs doubtful. for / had beUuu 10
khnw my owl powers and to trust them.
hist' and there ressolvesl that | would work
90 lusiger for another master. bur ro into
business ior myself when | rprnrnssl 10 san
fnsneisco. ! hal littls capital laid isy.
sn'i. Of eourSe. there were many schemes
w 14}ns u probably already formed In