The Afro-American advance., 1900-10-13

PuhchtFS oorFoWlu jim, and the
name stuck to him.
During all his wanderings. he had
written to Nellie as regularly as pos
sible, and had begun TO regret in a
measure his puritanieal conscience. At
$40 month and grub he did not see
that fortune was in immediate pros
pect. Absence had indeed made his
heart grow fonder, and he longed for
sight of Nelly's laughing eyes and
dimpled face.
Yet he would not acknowledge him.
set beaten, or that he would give in.
Much against his inclination he re-
mained, consumed with desire 10
see her. yet impelled to remain in stiff
necked pride, acting as avant courier
and escort for lot of wild-eyed, long
horned steers, all the while eursing
himself for fool. So he and the rest of
the outfit did not have very much in
common together. and he grew more
and more unsociable and lonely.
Small wonder was the. that
when he received letter from her. he
felt that his voluntary exile WAS brok-
en-his penance was done, ano he was
free to return to civilization and Nelly.
You can come on, Jim, dear" the
letter said; that is, of course, II you
care TO take dowerless bride. have
only enough left to bring me in three
hundred year-exactly what you
had. l do not own another thing on
earth. have concluded that the mon
ey without you is not worth having.
and as long as you are so stubborn
about it, saw that must give in. so
have done so, gladly. l have gotten
to be twentyfour, as you know, and
have absolute control of my property.
So, in order to get you, have given
away my fortune.
You have cost me nearly two hun
dred thousand dollars, so I'm of the
opinion you had better come on and de-
liver yourself up as victim. l don't
propose to tell you another thing about
1t, as you have no right to know, now.
After-after-oh, well, some time,
will tell you what did with the rest
of the money, but just now it is no
affair of yours. You will simply have
to take my word for it. Come on, Jim,
am anxious TO see you"
So it was that Jim was happy. He
had only two more daye to wait, then
he would get his months wages. He
had four hundred dollars saved up, and
he reflected that he and Nell would
manage to get along nicely on that
for awhile. His pride was riding RAM
pant, also, and his conscience was very
self-sa tisfied, indeed, for had he not
held out against the allurements OF
beauty, wealth, position, ease-every.
thing? 1t was a victory well worth re-
joicing over.
The ceremonw was over, the few In
innate friends had taken their depar.
ture, and Jim and Nell looked at each
other in bewildered sort of way.
~ think we ought totake a trip. Jim.
I'm so deadly tired of this place don't
know what to do. Let's go to Europe.
I've always wanted TO go there"
"Nelly, are you daft? can't afford
trip to Europe, and you know it--and
you haven't any money, either, so how
are we to go?"
II think it is very unkind for a per-
son of your wealth to be taunting me
with my poverty. For man as rich as
you, l think you are undoubtedly
close Her eyes twinkled merrily.
II want to go to Europe. and now I've
got you to go with me, you ought to be
glad of the opportunity"
"Nell, dear. IL could afford II, you
know l would be delighted to take
you."
"Well, you can afford It."
81 tell you l cannot"
81 know better, you can. Why, lust
look at these" and she handed him a
bundle of books and papers. He picked
up the first one and read from the in.
side page: First national bank, in aa-
count with James NJ. Allyn. Depos-
tied May l, $35, 900; May 9, $4,000; May
l2. $4,000"
What does this mean. Nell?" he
asked, wonderingly. as he looked Mt
another book and read: Received MAY
9, bonds, mortgages, stocks and secur-
tiles. duly transferred and assigned to
James NJ. Allyn and aggregating $780,.
900. and more particularly described as
follows: The Trust and Safe Deposit
company" Nelly was hugely enjoying
the situation. She sated herself on the
arm Of his chair, and said:
"You dear old stupid. mulish, Stub
born thing, / told you the truth. for
| reserved just enough to bring me
three hundred year"
'Well. I'll be" she kissed him and
stopped the word. "Are we going TO
Europe?" she asked.
"Yes, l think I'D enjoy the trip N.Y.
self; but don't you think you paid too
much for me?"
"Oh, / don't know; not so long as you
are nice. as you are now. Come on
let's get ready and catch the steamer
leaving tomorrow morning. IN. o.
TimesDemocrat.
second Attacks of Typhoid Fever.
The idea is that, as one attack OF
typhoid gives immunity from a Sec
ond, temporarily, II not lasting, inn
munity might be acquired by inocula-
tion with an attcnuated dose of the
poison. But one attack Of typhoid
does not give immunity from Sec
ond, says DR.. T. J. Maclagan in the
British Medical Journal Second at
tacks of typhoid are as common as by
the ordinary doctrine of chances,
they ought to be; more common. foi
instance. than second attacks Of
pneumonia. in about the same proper.