The morning times., 1895-09-15

| covered piece of dress goods Of a very ga.
pattern; again she saw a dolls legs sticdni
| cut of a parcel, and then she concluded he
was a good husband taking bag-fuu o
presents home to his family. She knew
| this must be so when she saw him take {
| photograph from his pocket and kiss i
slyly when lie thought nobody was looking
At last, after examining his watch, a
F.. half dozen times and holding it TO his
ear to discover II it had stopped, he
turned to the gentleman at the other side
of the car aud inquired the time. The
gentleman told him, and then he wanted to
| know if the train wasn't late? No, 1t
was on time.
Somehow thought it was late" said
the stranger.
You're pretty anxious to get through,
I imagine" returned the gentleman.
"Yesl aud the trains SO slow; IL seems
to me it will never get there. I've been
five days on the road Come through from
San Francisco
DO you live there?'
NO, live q New York" he returned.
but I've been gone two years and I'm
getting pretty nervous. Someway it
dou't seem possible I'm back"
Have You q family 10 New York;
"welI, should say" he exclaimed, rub
bing his hands and smiling There was
n pause for a moment, when he took the
photograph from his pocket aud passed i:
over for examination. That's my wife,"
he said 1T was taken ten years ago
aud looks kind o. old-fashioned, l guess,
but it's all the Que I've got.'
They looked at 1t with interest. 1t
was d pleasant face, a hopeful face-a
face to trust u and depend upon.
Have you children, too?" queried
the lady. Strange what trivial things inter
est and attract US on railway train.
"one." he replied, "a girl eight years
of age; we had a little boy, too, eighteen
months old, but he died year ago"
"Ah, that was too bad" said the lady.
yes" he replied, land she had written
me so much about him that felt just as If
I'd been with the little fellow right along
l declare when she wrote me he was dead
someway l had 10 sit down and cry
over IT Just as if he had been grown up,
you know. l couldn't help ii; but think
it was more on her account than The babys
that felt bad. She was so wrapped up in
him and had Worn herself out trying to
know; it was mighty tough"
'And you have been gone two years."
said the lady. Won't she be glad to see
you, thought
~ guess So" he replied, confidently.
And I've got some good news for her
! tel you" He besitated a few moments.
then said:
1T was q hard struggle to live in New
Yorkat best, and when the times grew worse
l went West on contract to work at my
trade at Gladstone, Mich, where they were
putting up buildings for tie railroad and
steamboat lines. After a while wages were
reduced there aud when the Worlds Fair
opened went 90 wn to Chicago looking for a
job. 1 finally went TO work helping tn
ma ke the big frames they used in the fire.
works, you know, but l was discouraged
and didn't know no l was ever to have
my family with me again. One day while l
was sitting on the pier a gentleman came
walking down little ui.s r the influenced
liquor, l guess, for his legs seemed to be
tangled. He was looking TO ward the city |
for a boat, l suppose, when suddenly he |
reeled to one side and went plumb into the |
la ke. The water was ten or fifteen feet deep |
where he went in, but twenty-five feet |
nearer shore a man could touch bottom. l |
was sitting close to where he went over |
and without thought just slid in, grab |
bing a loose board on the pier as l went, |
and when he. came up pushed the board |
,n6erhim, andtow ed him into shallow water
1t was all done in two or three minutes
and didn't attract much attention from the |
people, though maybe a hundred gathered |
round as he came ont
He asked me to get him a chair nd have
lini wheeled to the nearest exit, and hur-
ried up, and when l got it I wheeled /
aim out myself. Then I got hun into
arriage, and as hegot in he asked my name
md address, and handing ME ten dollars
old the driver to go to the Auditorium
Iotel. A few days afterward q man
came and requested me to call on the
gentleman. l went there and he asked me
| lot of questions, and finally said he would
ike to have me go with him to California
didn't hesitate long. When We got to
san Francisco found he was big gun
ot like Mackay and that class. you know,
1ut worth lot of money. He was pre-