The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-22

penitentlv, Just as she used To uo
She was a child, and asked "hal sue
had done to anger me- anu 'heH;
Heaven forgive me! told her an, anu
asked her If she could say with neF Ups
the words she had written, anu she
nestled in my arms all a-tremohng IKE
a bird. and said them over ana over
again.
sWben Marv's family heard or our
engagement, there was trouble iney
looked higher for Mary than mldaie-
aged schooImaster. No blame TO tnem-
They forbade me the house, her uncies;
but we met in the village ana at the
neighbors' houses, and was haPps' |
knowing she loved me. MatteIs were
in this state when the war came on;
| I had strong call to look after the oid
flag, and | hung my head thai DAY Wheh
| the company raised IN oul Vlllage
marched by the school-house TO the ran
road station; but couldn I tear myself
away. About this time the Ihlhistei
SON, who had been away 10 coiiege'
came to the village. lie met MARY heIe
and there, and they became great
friends He was a likely fellow, near
ber own ace and it was natural they
should Lille one another. Sometimes |
WINGED at seeing him made free OF the
home from which / was shut out; then
/ 7 would open the grammar at the lear
4 whore Dear John was written up IN
the corner and my trouble was gone.
MARY was sorrowful and pale these
DAYS. and 1 think her people were
worrying her.
CIT was one evening two or three
!, days before we got the news OF nuii
| RI
! oronnd to trim the spruce hedge SET
} FOUND the old man s lot, and was just
! stenninp into the enclosure, when |
J, heard voices from the opposite SIDE.
One was Mary's, and the other knew
| to he Young Marston S, the minister 8
| son. t didn It mean to listen, but what
Mary was SAYING struck me dumb. we
, must never meet again she was saying
/ in wild way. We must say good-oy
lforever-good-by good-byl AND
) could hear her sobbing. Then, present.
n w. she said hurriedly. No, no; my nand,
not my lips! Then it seemed ne Kissed
+ her hands. and the two parted, one
\ going towards the parsonage, and the
n other out by the gate near where
e stood.
, CT don't know how long I stood
: there. but the night-dews had wet me
L TO the bone when l stole out OF the
l. GRAVEYARD and across the road to Ihe
y scbool-house. I unlocked the door, ana
L took the Latin grammar from the desk
!. and hid it in my bosom. There was not
/ a sound or light anywhere as walked
ont of the village. And now,' SAID
d Bladburn. rising suddenly from the
It tree trunk. eff the little book ever falis
e in your way, won't you see that II
u comes to no harm, for my sake, ana
o for the sake of the little woman VINO
o was true to me and didn't love me!
n Wherever she is tonight, God biess
G hertz =,
AS we descended to camp with oui
l. arms resting on each others shoulder
h the watch-fres were burning low IN the
e valleys and along the hillsides, ana az
far as the eye could reach the silent
n tents Law bleaching in the moonlight.
" III.
FL We imagined that the throwing Tor
W ward of our brigade was the lnltia
movement of general advance Oh eh'
IS army: but that, as the reader VIII re
. member, did not take place until TINS
a followino March. The Confederates hat
it fallen back to Centrevllle without niin'
d a shot, and the National troops were
If uossession of Lewinsville, Vienna AM
10 Fairfax Court House Our new posi-
r t;on was nearly identical with tina
which we had occupied on the nlgh
is nrevious to the battle of Bull Run-ol
If Tho old turnpike road to Manassas
where the enemy was supposed to be i
great force.
no Their pickets soon became nulsanc
lg to us. Hardly night passed but the'
no fred nnon our outposts, SO far with d
Id harmful result; but after a While
,gl Grew to be a serious matter In
it Rebels would crawl out on all-four
ke from the wood into field covered WIT
in underbrush and lie there in the OAR
lyl for hours, waiting for shot. Then GU
he men took to the rile-pits-plts ten Q
tie | twelve feet long by four or hve deeI
lf, with the loose earth banked up re
is inches high on the exposed sizes. a
er the pits bore names, more or less fellci
90 Gus. by which they were known to tnei
to transient tenants. One was cane
s.The Pepper-Box," another Unc
ar Sam g Wen.'' another "The he
ry Trap and another, am constraine
II to saw was named after not-to-b
ge mentioned tropical locality. Thong
nv +b;s ride sort of nomenclature pr
ed dominated there was no lack of soft'
am titles. such as F'Fortress Matilda al
lit eCastle Mary" and one had, tnoue
iii Internationally, literary flavor TO
nyI "Blair's Grave,'' which was not pop
ce. larlv considered as rejecting unplea
i've antiy on Nat Blair, who had assist'
nj in making the excavation.
TX Some of the regiment had discover
ie1 field of late corn in the neighborhoo
The and used to boil few ears every ia
lid while it lasted, for the boys detall
the on the night-picket. The eorn,co
| were always scrupulously preserved a.
hat mounted on the parapets OF the pl
Whenever Rebel shot carried aW
one one of these barbette guns. there
nv swearing in that particular trene
vas Strong, who was very sensitive TO u
ing kind OF disaster, was complaining 2
and terlv one morning because he had IL
by three ''pieces' the night before.
eds "There's Quite So, now, SO
of Strong, ''when Minie-bal con
and ping! and knocks one of his guns
mar flinders, he merely smiles, and doesl
hat at all see the degradation OF
ppv thing ;,
~ J,5burpf Al watched h