Orange County observer., 1895-01-26


Aer in q !ov.al manner.
After 4 shile Matte :ol1t strength
70 creep down stairs, m 90. home 10
Cousin Smiths. aaI told that gool
lady that she hal "a ..ea .achc.
The rext evening she took ;Ae ring
from her finger AMI wrote:
"Gooi-by, Asl. shall never write 10
yol any rnor- I. mus. be ali over uetwecn
us Don't ask no why, WI! never tel
you Hope you will be happy. bu, n5g /
could 70, make YOU SO. M.rTIE BLUME.
And this note came TO Asa one morn
ing and fell upon his heart SO terribly
that his friend and chun, Frank
Werter, found him, AN hour after,
senseless upon the floor, and te,e-
graphed to his sister to come to him.
Hannah went at once. She found
her brother tossing il fever. She
looked in his vest pocket and found
the note and the ring.
SO when her brothers senses re-
turned Hannah told him as she now
blamed herself for not having told
him before, how Matte had been
going on with young Brown.
SO it was over-thc romance OF two
lives. Tha. beautiful thing, first love,
hal died the death
Matte went on with her school; Asa
worked hard at his profession gained
us diploma; practiced; began to make
monev-not for Matte, alas He
| heard funeral bell toll at his heart
when he thought of her.
Meanwhile Hannah had returned
| home, buxom and fresh and bright,
/ and went about her work singing. A
new light had dawned upon her life.
| Frank Werner had fallen in love with
her, and she loved him in return. He
had already proposed and they would
be married IN six months time.
They were exactly Of an age; they
had tastes i'll common; they liked
each others looks; why should they
not be happy, then.
II due time Matte heard that Ham
nah was married, but they, father and
! daughter, received no cards. Hannah
J had not desired her brother to love OF
marry Matte, but she bore her q
| grudse for iilting him all the same.
Asa never went home to visit h
could not breathe the mir that Matte
brcatled; but Frank Werter had ns
idea that family relations should b.
broken. He often contrIved to TAX
Hannah to see the good father an,
mothcr,' and he won their love il
J time, outlandish as they thought him
It was one Christmas time, an,
Frank had brought h!s wife home
anl Asa uli, as usual, remained IN tao
citv, where he hal no friend with
whom to dine, bat ate his lonely mea
1T restaurant, when Mrs Wilton, I'll.
c.crgymaa's wife, whom he had bu
jas, brought home to the parsonage
gave a party L which She invite.
cverv!5o $. Poor little Matte =.
ce.vell si>r inv.,t.. ~, Of course, m
it SeemeI in ss.a.n = refuse i. ~
besides, oil Nj B,l"e iec.lel t. ~
She c.part ok g tea .Il ate cake AZ
played those games suitable for
clergyman's home, AMI looked an,
felt like a martyr through i AL.
Or. Frank Wertcr felt like q mar
tyr also. and resolved IN his own min
. endure tnia quiet 10 longer. "Wai
li,tle, IL cricl. There shall )
very soon rev Lady here" And h
vanished froil the room. and, seizin
upon the astonlshel help n the pass
, n1.. j.e!l secret converse.ion wit
her, aal departed whittier 10 on
guessed. His wife grew little nerv
oas, for vha: Nouil people think
Tho c.e--vnaa's wife whispered to til
leaSoaess aax: her that much va
e>casa5.e in foreigner. anj in th
nll.,-, .. sha paaic thu; cnsu2.l cane
ranpia- - ,.4e door. l. Was opeao.
.ni ,,.e-e entered gl-au,sc girl (
tie Y,-.oi, l-cS-e i she halp'- Le.