Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

youu see presently. Anyhow, he's
the SON of a rich father, college man,
and has been well brought up. mem
ton this because not all rich mems
sons have, you know; and want to
dwell on the fact that his family's one
of refinement, evidently. Well, while |
he was at college he was taken with |
typhoid and brought home. For sew
eral weeks he lay next door to death,
then, at the crisis, took a sudden turn
for the better and got well. So far so
good.
During his illness trained nurse
had been engaged for him. He be-
lieves that her extraordinary care pull
ed him through. What he believes is
of course only of moment in the light
of subsequent events. They're all
good, let us hope; but they're not all
SO come1y and refined as she was, and
we know how likely a sick man is to
magnify the virtues of any body who's
kind to him. The upshot of it was
that no sooner did he get out of bed
than he married her-secretly. You've
heard of that sort of thing before
eh?
Well, of course it's quite in order to
put more than half the blame, if blame
there is, on the woman. It's quite
possible to bring in her undue in
f1uence, her insinuation into his affec-
tons, and SO on; 1 believe its general
ly done. But in this particular case
happen to know it was otherwise.
That part of it is i1nmateria1, any
way; the point is, they got married.
And when the family heard of it there
was pretty state of affairs. No sem
sib1e man would blame them for feel
ing cut up about it, when he was an
only son and there were daughters;
but young Miller-he was barely TWEEN
ty, believe-young Miller, boyishly,
did not take kindly to the things that
were said, and he and his father quar-
relied. If 1 conjecture rightly the old
man ordered him out of the house.
Anyhow, there was considerable of a
shindy.
The young woman he married, mind
you, was about as well born and we'll
educated as his own sisters; 1 can ven
ture that because 1 know her. She
was very young, too, but she was sem
sible. When she realized what the
marriage had cost him she was also
self-sacrificing enough to want him to
leave her and return to his family.
And that's one thing 1 like about the
boy. I'm not sure the words were
used, of course, but 1 can very we'll
imagine him to have said, 81 live or
die with my WIFE" H'm-on second
thought, he wouldn't have been so
mawkish and THEATRICAL; but in any
event that's what he meant.
Well, the young pair, with perhaps
money enough in hand to keep them
month, got a little furnished room in
some reconcile region of the East
Side and went to housekeeping. The
wife could have earned pretty fair
wages, probably, and the young man
little or nothing. One was practical,
the other had a rudimentary educa-
ton in the classics, which was for the
moment a burden to him. But of
course he could not let his wife work
The consequence was that in very
short time they were about starving. |
You see, so far, everything was 60
a nt1if. 1iEn hnnL
ton came nearer. What with low +
diet, or no diet, and fruitless wander
ing of the streets III search of employ /
ment, young Miller was soon in bed (
again. understand typhoid is hard
thing to got over. Well, affairs were
now at grand crisis. Here was
sick husband in the house, no money,
40 friends, nothing. What was to b.
lone? If it were still going on like
The book, there would have been a
visitation of the family, I.
Eager for reconciliation, a few tears {.
and other properties, and the curtain
would have fallen happily. Or, per-
laps the girl wife would have gone
o the obdurate parents obduI ate's
he word, isn't it?-on her knees, aud
accomplished a like result by the for
# her beauty. But nothing of the
lind happ, ned. What was TO be done?
Well, .ir, that girl knew. She had TO
Nurse her husband, you see, and she
lad to make some money, you also
zee. The doing of one or of the other
would have been nothing to her; but
she had to do both. Without pausing
l moment to ponder, she had her hus-
band taken to a hospital, then got a
place as nurse in the same ward.
It was for several weeks. Then, as
soon as he was able to be out again,
young Miller began to fret about his
wife's working-she had retained her |
place, you understand. I'm quite sure
their only quarrels, if they ever had
any, were over that. But what else
was there 10 do? The girl was sensi-
Bile, of course; and the boy was sensi-
bic, too, only it cut him deep to let
things go on that way. And at last he
got a place. What do you suppose?
. messenger. boys. In a uniform cap.
He carried telegraphic messages at
two cents message; and I'm credibly
Informed that, working twelve hours
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