New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-04-11


quence of. some other fact, though in
our ignorance of prior or intermediate
facts we often miss the sequence. The
difference between truth and fiction is
that in fiction we are permitted to see
both cause and effect, while truth. Of
ten conceals certain causal facts, the
absence of which makes the conclusion
seem strange, Illogical, unaccountable.
Ny wife's first love affair furnishes so,
good an illustration of what 1 mean
that, if you will pardon SO personal a
relation, I will tell yon about it, -
OF course everybody expressed a de-
sire to hear the eminent novelist's sto-
~. n $a sE@szz7f.- ~ 9j27> sFF''s
"Well," said he, Gin 1860 she who is
now my wife went with her parents to,
live in small town in Missouri. She,
was then u years DID, that age when
the vine heart Of a maiden begins ear
nestly feeling about for the oak to
which it tsto cling for life There was
not very extensive forest Of available
oaks in that. little town, yet before a
year had passed she had fastened her
tendrils to one of them, young fellow
whose loving but misguided mother
had bestowed upon him the Scriptural
Christian name Of .Elimelech. 1t might
have taken some courage for Flora
Eldredge to receive openly the atten-
lions OF young man with such a
name, especially since her brothers ard
sisters missed no opportunity to chaff
her about it. But, she loved Elimelech
with devotion which paid no heed to
such trivialities. So one day they
plighted their troth, vowing by all that
was sacred to their earnest souls that,
come what might. they were for each
other through life, through death.
through the eternal existence of their
immortal essences & "A s 49,
> ''Thens the boom Of a great gun rang
across this continent and reverberated
round the world. Sumter had been
fired on. Men melton the streets. of the
little Missouri town and in the excite
ment of the hour Kissed the words
which made them mortal foes. Mr..
Eldredge, Flora's father, was an out
spoken northerner. Elimelech's father
was an equally outspoken sout1erner..
They came together in heated dispute
and Y parted in deadly enmity. Mr..
sEldredge well nigh broke his daugh-
ter's heart that day by commanding
her never again to see Elimelech, and
the young mans father declared he
would: .disown his son If he did not at
once break off with the hated north
erner's, daughter. Elimelech at one
home pleaded, and Flora at the other
Wept,1but all to no purpose. The roar
OF the tempest in the &paternal breasts
deafened the hearts. to pleas and sobs.
The sentiment Of the town was al
most unanimously with the south, and
it was soon borne in upon Mr.. Eldredge,
that his personal safety lay in immedi-.
ate fight. Within two days he and his
family had departed. but not until the
lovers had metssurreptitiously and re-
newed their pledges Of love and fidelity.
Mr.. Eldredge himself did not know
where he was going to settle, so all his
daughter could say in the three letters
which she managed to send to Elime-
lecli from as many points along her
journey was that she would send her
address as soon as she had one. But
by the time her abode was established
Pap Princes Conf derate army held the
little Missouri town and the mails
could not pass in. The important let
ter which told her lover how to adj
dress her was returned to. her from the
dead letter office. 5=. E
Il 81 d 125 4 81,
\ hen, in the following February, fell
Sthe#aWful blow ieh wrecked her last
hopesand nearly took her fe. ,Ffhes
north mort was exuIting over Grants great
victory at Fort SDonelsen. :BonfiFes
blazed and bells rang out the wild JOY
of the people, eWsboys scam ered1
everywhere and eager men deVoured5
the latest word Of news that ould be
read &c Or heard Core All the
front ri knew their harvest time and gar-
'lAe every serap of inf ornaa ton One
fsfhese scraps related to the f1n q ii
4; as.young Jonfed erate bod tiff ii the
attitude att tvs Of spra AZ Ell sraeeis 8 his
death wound he la 4, according to Stiile
corresp pendent, craRsIed to- br,sh
seized at with a deaf grip and held
himsel up on his knees. He More the
uniform Of IS aissouri I.egi anf Iii
his coat cket We're found three let
ters which the enter prising CORE spond.
ent had lac copied sloras FL dredge rec
ogniZed them as the letters she had
written to Elm elech along her Journey
from Missouri have said. the
shoe nearly killed her. 70 speak more
OF her great grief would be only to in-5|
fiict pain upon myself vii bout adj ding
to your interest. ins the story FOL. al
you know she IS. now my loved and
loving vii s
Adr. Edwards pped as &c the better
s. q, enjoy g the perplexi "a TIE tie