Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-23

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man a rahel came IN Sight from behind
some bushes. Intuitively our muskets
were simultaneously raised. M
:. .surrender,, fhIadered the rebel
Surrender vo,,rself,' returned at the
tom of my lungs
."rhen we stood and eyed each other
Each had his gun cooked and leyeled at
the other but neither pulled a trigger.
WHY we hesitated is more than can ex-
~ ,,,oa,I,, ,,,,,,,, hi,osa,t !. 10 r,or,v
nf tho o,har o 90 ~ would saou, cua
ae,,,. no rahl1,. a,,n d,on,a5 and r
hr,uabt ,,;,a aa,,n a,so
sec hera y,nr . h.. bao,n !, a n,,rn
! mi,ear tone .if = should shoot vou nv
side wou,dn., .,in much. and AGAIN n
| vou sho,ld shoot ma vour s;da wou,dn.t
gain much Nou, I.ve .,ot . wife and TWO
babies over wonder and NJ vou dronned
me they wouldn have nobodv ia take
care of them Now it's a d mean man
what won't snait the difference tn Let
| Won go if vou'u let me 90 and we'll call
| the thing sonare wbatr do vou saw
"Well what should sa,,p walked
| over half u,av ANA we mo, and sbook
hands and parted. About n wear after a
| letter came to orr camn addressed 10
Little Yankee thar split the difference
| | had told him nv regiment WI, see pu,
not my name. The letter was cordial
| invitation to visit the fellow Mt his home
in Louisiana. He wanted me tn see the
wife and babies who had nrompted him,
to propose to split the difference. and
have always regretted that was unable
to accent the invitation.
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The heroine of this tale is a young
woman. and a pretty woman, and busi-
ness woman. Nobody disputes the first
two claims, and II is only recently that
doubt of the last has crossed the mind
Of the public The lady dealt in real
tate, and We are Informed on high au-
thority that she had office and safe
and large number Of blue maps. and
that she was in the habit of thinking
very frequently. 1t is mentioned that on
one or two occasions she absent mndedly
cut up the maps for dress patterns. but
this is little thing which might happen
to any of us, and quite too trivial for con-
sideration in connection with so painful a
case.
a young man called ,on Miss Blank
which was a very wise and pleasant thing
for him TO do. Having called once he was
sensible enough to when he was well
off. and so he called again and on an
other evening, and some more. And Miss
Blanks interest in the real estate bust
ness sensibly decreased. She thought as
often as before, but her thoughts took a
the side of Miss Blank as against the
views of editors who seem TO think that
she should have attended to her real es-
tate business and let the young man go.
Those editors have never been women.
The depth and fervency of the young
mans affection were soon shown. He
asked her to marry him. and she accept
ed him with promptness and great joy.
Ii was the lady's ill-fortune that the
spring boom struck her real estate just
at this time, when she could not reason
ably be expected to attend TO it. The
very day following her enga cement four
men came TO her in search of country
homes, and she rented them cottage.
Living over again, as she was. the scene
of the evening before. it was very natural
that she should rent the same cottage TO
each man. And this is precisely what the
young woman did.
The men moved in on the same day. all
four of them. and simultaneously Each
was slightly surprised to find the other
three present but each decided to take
possession himself and let the dealer ex-
plain her error to those lett outside. so
back door. basement and windows were
fnnr slnar,ta families went tbrourb 70.