The Western news., 1903-07-08

follows:
Dear Uncle Joe: I want trip pass to
Cleveland and back for Cousin Emily, for
| boat after next. It's all right.
KATHERINE DENHAM."
"Then it is all right, since Katherine
says So" said Uncle Joseph. 1T must
be quite awhile since Emily has had a
boat trip. l don't remember sending
her pass. She deserves Dozen"
Next Katherine wrote to the most
promising of the three railroad men:
| Dear Uncle Peter: want passes for
Cousin Emily from Cleveland to Buffalo,
New York, Washington and Boston, and
any place else YOU can think Of and back
to Cleveland again. She's going down by
boat. It's all right.
KATHERINE DENHAM"
"Bless her soul, of course it's all
right" said the railroad magnate,
making out passes with his own hand.
Her Cousin Belle wrote IL pages
when she asked for pass from Mil
waukee to Chicago, and had to get
her letter typewriter before could
| read it,"
Katherine displayed such deep and
following week that Cousin Emily be-
gan to fear that the chaperoning of
young woman of II was position of
no light responsibility.
The mystery was explained, however
when Katherine appeared one morning
in Cousin Emily's doorway, with ra
diant countenance, numerous slips of
paper and workba sket.
"There!" said katherine, with dane
ing eyes. "These are all yours!"
"Mine!" exclaimed Cousin Emily.
What are they?"
"A little of everything" replied the
plotter. "A lake trip, railroad trips,
jazz to Washington, trip to the sea
shore, run to Boston, another to New
York-you're to stay a month if you
want to-
katherine, you told!"
Il didn't! l never said a word!"
"But y.u explained"
Nothing" said katherine. "This
family's too large and too honest for
explanations. Here, if you must cry.
take my apron. But you haven't time.
You're to go the minute the others
get back. I've come prepared to sew
on buttons by the quart and braid by
the mile. You'll have to have some
clothes, you know. It's blessing
your spring suit is so new!"
The day of Cousin Emily's departure
dawned. The relatives that went to see
her off formed a scattered procession
that reached from one end to the other
of the long ore dock. Now that their
attention was called to the fact, all
realized that quiet, unobtrusive, help
full Emily had lived all her life in the
little village without a glimpse of the
word beyond.
Really" said Katherine's mother,
waving a handkerchief energetically
after the departing boat. I'm afraid
we've all been abominably selfish.
We've given Emily half dozen homes
among us, to be sure, and we've pro-
vided her with all she could eat and
wear; but I'm afraid we haven't been
quite as thoughtful as we should have
been about her pleasures. Now ]
come to think of ii, she has always
been the one to stay at home; and no
one has ever heard her complain"
katherine tipped her hat over pair
of telltale eyes, and grabbed small
nephew by the arm just in time to save
the boy from disappearing over the
side of the dock and herself from the
pecessity of a reply.
With cousin Emily gone, the family
seemed singularly incomplete. No
one else could put the Perkins baby
to sleep. No one else could bathe the
Denham baby to his satisfaction. For
no one else would Grandfather Den
hams Cruel attain the proper con-
| sistency. And it suddenly became evi.
| dent that no other member OF the fam
| ily was competent to make buttonholes
in the Denberry twins shirt-waists
When, therefore, just five days after
her departure, Cousin Emily walkee
in unannounc she was greeted will
ioy. as we'll as with no little astonish.
| ment.
'.How in the world" gasped Kath
crime, almost dropping the Perkin.
baby in her surprise, did you get bael
SO soon?"
"Soon!" cried Cousin Emily, seizine
the baby and shedding tears of jo,
down his neck. ''Soon! It's been tht
longest week ever lived. I was sc
homesick for this baby, and the Den.
ham baby, and Grandfather Denhan
and the twins, that left the boat the
moment it touched the dock at Cleve
land and came homo by rail on the
very first train"
"But you had no pass"
81 had money!" said Cousin Emily
triumphantly.
''Do you mean to say that with {
pocketful Of passes to Washington ant
Boston and Buffalo and New York, ant
everywhere. and boat pass, BESIDES
gasped Mortified katherine, "that yo,
bought and paid for ticket, ant
wasted all those passes?"
Eyes, dol" said Causin Emily, hug