The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-02

held q Quaker meeting around the stOvt
jim came in from The stable roaring QUO
There is only one girl in the world to7
NEE,
Ony enc girl has my smypa-thee.'
Tom took his hands from his face ans
lis,aned, cooking his old ear TO one SIDE
lik a chicadee.
True true every word of it." said Tom
as the boy helped to place the lamps II
th-ir brackets and sang louder than ever
what's true?" asked the doctor.
What Jim is a-singing. Queer, amt nc
h " things come up?"
What has come UP TO yo1 now?"
/ Nothing. l was thinking how strange
filings come about in the world-thats
J.. I've been saying what hat songs says
faariy all my life, and 1 iidn't know A
word of it until this summer. 1t seems rs
the whole song was mine-belonged t.
nett fits my case so well. was in love
nee myself"
No? ! never heard of it, though they
aid you had secret som wheTe. Tell Us
bout IT,
There's no secret to it at all just plain
acts, which I amt ashamed OF. If 1t
viii do you any good to know what a
blamed fool I've been I'd as soon tell you
as not"
OF course, everybody said it would DO
good, and when the old man had hFn
persuaded for a tine he put his elbow Pn
the arm of his chair and said:
Il liked the girls US well as any of the
young fellows in my day. There was one
Carrie Marks, who lived over on the road
to Blue hill-that / knew I loved, and fels
pretty sure she loved me, too. ] was q
years old and poor She was about my
age, and her folk were pretty well-to-do.
IF we got married then, she would
have to work hard. SC ] said TO myself
1 would keep a lookout for her and not
ask her to marry me until 1 was WORT
S50OO Pretty soon I had an offer to go
to South Carolina and get out hard pine
ship timber.
1T was a GOOD job, so went. I stayed
there two yea rs, and made nearly $4,000.
When I reached Castine with my money I
did not stop anywhere, but hired d morse
and drove over to see my girl. AT the
house they told me her father and mother
had died and she had married an Orland
farmer.
THAT was pretty tough, but, after
thinking it over, ] said it would do no
harm to go up and see her. drove up
there the next day. They were awful
poor. She had one Of her husbands led
flannel undershirts on instead cf a waist
when she came to the door, and she was
Greadfully fustered 10 see me. OF course
l didn't tell her what [ came home for
not a word of it, l told her l had made
some money, and asked her to take 81
Of it for old times sake
After that / gave the children Sl0l
each as they came along. and helped the
family in other ways. When the boys sot
big enough to go to work 1 found jobs for
them, and gave them little money now
and then They are all doing pretty well
now. cutting stone and quarrylng. some
Of her girls worked for me in the hotel
until they got married. I've tried 10 ne
friend to the whole family"
where is the man now VINO married
the girl you loved, Uncle Tom?" asked
the drummer.
THE poor cuss is dead"
'Why don't you 80 and marry the
widow?"
Lord love you, man. she died ten years
before he did. Hard work and poverty
aud bringing up children son Wore nef
If he had died first, would you have
married here"
Cant tell. Perhaps she wouldn't have
taken me. What l ought 10 have done
was to marry her in the first place;
BY this time the lamps Were nghted'
and the sun was fast asleep oehand BEL
fast hills Uncle Tom reached over the
desk and pulled out the checker BOARD
Five minutes later he was in the kInS
row. in spite of all the doctor could do