The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-26

all, Inat KIND OF soup Indt Is JnlcklSn
and seems to stick to your bone and en-
| courage your muscle"
Here we did laugh.
Think of Jack the exquisite, Jack the
elegant, Jack the pride of the most
| fashionable clubs, finding delight in
boiled eggs and a soup that he describ-
| ed as "thickish!" Oh all After lit
| tie more laugh and little more cordial
Molly read on:
II have taken rather a fancy to one
fellow here. He is an elderly chap-that
is. he seems elderly to me-but as he
was only II years old when he fought in
| the Confederate army he cannot be
what you call aged. He told us a good
! story the other night while we were all
chattering like lot of women or birds
| or anything that is sweet. He said that
| while the men of his family were all
| away and it was announced that
| the women must leave their home
| and come into the city they tried to
hide their family silver. OF this they
| had great quantity. Some of it had
| been given to the brides in the Carey
family (his-name is Charley Carey) be-
fore the Revolution by some of the
| Lees and Careys on the other side of the
water, while many came from friends
but little moke to help them, and he
could not dig a very deep hole. They
were in hurry to get away and did the
best they could in the way of hiding
their treasures. When peace was de-
clared, they came back and looked for
the silver; but alas and alack it had
Disappeared A few years after Nine.
Carey was sitting on the veranda one
afternoon when up drove an express
wagon in which was big box. The eX-
pressman asked, DO you belong to the
Carey family that lived in this house
on the jackson road during the War?
She said she did; that she was Mrs.
Carey. He handed her not only his
book to sign, but a receipt that de-
nanded her signature so that a well
known jeweler might know it had
reached its destination. 1t took three
men to carry that box into the house.
and when it was opened there stood a
magnificent chest in which was every
piece of the lost silver FURNISHED and
made to look as ii 1t were perfectly
new With it was a letter which said
that this silver had been taken by a
young man in the Union army who at
the time regarded it as the spoils of
war 1t never entered his head that
somebody of finer feeling would think
that this taking was something a little
stronger until he met a maiden fair,
laid his heart at her feet, and she con-
descended to pick it MP. Her great fad
was old silver SO he said to her when
the wedding day was very near: Now,
my dearest, I have a present for you
that ! am sure you Will love-beautiful
bits of colonial silver, fine pieces of
modern silver indeed such silver as
you never saw. l must tell you how I
got it, and tomorrow you can go to the
store with me, look at it and decide
whether the old initials shall be taken
off and the new ones put on
after she heard the story her lady
ship displayed a temper that her sweet
heart had never dreamed she possessed,
and there and then she called him a
thief, and then and there she announced
that until that silver was returned to
the people to whom 1t belonged she
would never marry him. The conse-
quenee was that he begged the lady
would write her a note announcing the
arrival of the silver saying that every
piece was there. and. funnily enough, he
had the honesty to tell her that it would
not have been fixed up so finely If he
| had not expected to give it to a sweet
| heart
| 1--WE all laughed over the story and
| now. Molly, you maynt believe this
part, but it's true. a tall. thin son of
Vermont drawled out. do you belong
to the Careys?' and my friend nodded
his head, and the Vermonter said, I
know the fellow that took that silver.
and he married one of the incest, girls
that ever were horn in Virginia. 1t is
funny how war brings out romance.
Caf al n infA
and few of the men advance wild
theories in which nobody is to be pun
ished for his sins and everybody is to
find happiness here and hereafter. 9th
ers arrange a future where everybody
is to be frozen or burned. l generally
smoke and keep quiet when they talk
of religion. Dear 1 do not possess a
Bible. l have that quaint little copy of
Holy Living you gave me so many
years ago. 1t rests against my heart,
Molly, and il bullet is aimed there il
will have to go through the book before
it touches me. The other night when I
was on guard I turned through the
book and read by the light of the moon
the little prayer that | know you say
every night. the prayer for those who
lie under the rod of war;
Molly choked a little as she finished
tne letter, anu ffcr Amen was not
said alone. for all of US had some one
away off in the southland fighting for
the good cause. and each one of US had
prayed either by words on in silence for
their safety. You, who are my neigh
Dor, may have said your prayer out
right l. who surely am your neigh
Dor, never even whisper mine. 1t is in
my heart, but 1t is the prayer Of silence,
though. after all, what is the differ
ence? We are each asking in the hour
of trouble that help may come to us, as
we are each trying in our own way to
reach the land of everlasting happiness.
II your path is different one from
mine, do you think that one or the 9TH
er prayer of admission will have No"
said in answer to 1t when we reach
there? People are fond of saying that
God is just; but, for me. like TO think
Of him as merciful That is the belief
of at least one poor sinner, she whom
Molly calls
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