The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-08-26
toy ?. w. sehasfsr)

ltoT lftiug hia eyva from tho green
mound, VITA lta Old hradalono
askew. 10 survey the yellow and
whim frame hotel and the springs
noNiug water roputcd "a be heal
ting
No more than it's a queer place
to de. said the proprietor o. the
little keutgeky Watering place
Tao Visitor was aisnuaed 90 iook
st & as q poor testimonial for TIE
hcalins snrinw ft devolsed upon
the gallant keutacAiaa "a aet bin
right
we thluk right smart Of thla
sraYe. the hotel proprietor said.
taking hitch AZ hts taw linen
trunsers aud tanning himself with
bis Panama hat We are proud 10
have that Erase among us There's
a pcor. sweet glfi aleopias under
this blne grass as q a victim of the
North and the South. Yea. sir
You hardly think that possible,
when there IL no North and no
s1alh Well. there ussad 10 -. hat
yuu can't expect Young hearts 10 BE-
patient ealie statesmen and aoieFa
NEEDLE with geography.
Hack tefnfp che war this plAre
Naa hke Yau see Il naw the same
pretty little river the same archud.
~hlapeFins tFnwm above thw lowers
walks the Haais apFinEs EufEiiuE
ont ~ the fno4aY rFuund. the same
hospliahle. verandahea hotel and
the same crisp fried rhlrken. that
Is, the eano KIND % chicken
The elite rssd % rnna hnrn from (
All the waF up ia Michigan ana aii 4
the way down In Florida. cause 4
ae'fo on NhNf usasl % 81 che great .
highway 90 travel en- thsm AaYa 4
And this grove used % ring with .
the laughter ~ bciira AID boaax /
something notable
This YoauE miss she vas
from Louisiana. which her father 4
WIS a cotton planter. orc % thnss
stately old fellows with a Whifa 4
goatee lskm ynn sflli ssn a. q e0nfad
crate reunion. and pruua as sIaEsa /
sNn was pet'ed ant rretty with fwo 1
black women % Do every hAnda
tuFn for her. aaA Naz ths admired /
~ ali admirers
Nov. the Teller be vas frofn the
North and about as handsome a
Young huck a. yuu could come 4
across in days journey toward /
the great lakns Ito vas ~ North. 4
ern that when you heard hlm aud .
the Louisiana giri talking together !
out hers undar this trra you'd think !
they came from different ends Of /
the earth. but they could bath pro 1
nounce love the sans. which. may
be. vas The reason thsy pronounced |
u 80 often. ny shes say. / lhinh 1
there's somethluE Ia them springs !
that trhds 70 enurtship. and I ~
Tise you 20 BE a little kcarful and
not oyerinduige
Tho impending civil conflict.
as the histories say. waa then im-
pending Everybody waa fuli %
loyalty and that noble quality sec
tlonal prejudice. Everybody but
them two young people They want
right ahead regardless 81 the iasua
and pliEhfod their trogh and
plight it proved 10 be Tor both Of
them % another kind The folks
az home would hear nothing 10 II
u was set down a. dOablo- barfeled
s~aasou
Ia those days they would have
married m once and bet tha parents
mourn. In those days they we're
more oldfafhionod. and dngiful
They neparNed. voWiug 10 meet
here again the next summer. when
ugly passions would have cooled
and there would ba no nnuaensea
about North and South.
but the next year there was
war Armies we're passing and re-.
passing across the border. Battlaa
were ~. In one OF them battles the
young gentleman from the North
was lost She never know Down
In Louisiana the little Southern
girls heart was fiutterinE In her
breast like a Gagged bird beating ia
wings against the barrier nf hate
"A tho war went more bitter and
her love more hopeless ahe grew
white and waxen as a magnolia
blossom Every day she pined
more and more on the deaolate
plantation.
During a lull In tho strife they
brought her here. She told them
aho had 10 be near The spot whore
she first met him But what she
wanted 20 DO was 10 de By a. ri
didn't take long She was almost
gone when she came bury me uu.
der tho tree. she said ilo will
come ~ me here
Isn't this n serene. peaceful dayi
The wind ruslling through the
leaves sounds sort OF comforting
like Isn't II awful. though. that
this had to happen 10 a poor. fraii
child. when thero's no North nor no
South after ali
II feel kiad OF queer Ia my