Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1913-06-19
OUR TRIP TO
CHATTANOOGA.
Greatest Re-Union in Late Years
Thousands OF Old Rebs on
Their Last Trip.

we got the data from one of the
parties to the transaction it is
correct in all it's details and very
sad in its long and unhappy sep
aration- and double exile, as it
were. But the recent happy
elimination of the affair, com
pensates to great extent for
the long suffering and unavoida-
BILE separation-when the heart
was young and reciprocative of
mutual devotion, and the fair
world about them was roseate
with promises and glowing with
new births of happiness, and a
radiance that bound the twain
with cords of love that was
thought could never be severed.
Born and reared in the lap Of
luxury and amid the fair hills
and dales of Chattanooga's 70.
mantle scenes, they naturally
imbioed sentiment calculated
TO foster the holy ties they had
recently contracted to observe
through veal or woe. just here
in the midst of happiness and
mutual desires to preserve the
compact and make it holy with
sacred obligations, a cloud came
over the scene and left its evil
effects in a waythat soon blight
ed the happiness and left ooom
that was perpetuated through
all the years of separation, that
refused a solution under the
most riged efforts to repair
that which the hydra headed
moster had inflicted upon this
fair creation of royal nuptials.
His loyalty to mutual friend
made the fatal gap that stood
so long as a menacing feature to
debar reconciliation and to hide
all attemps to ferret out way
to right the wrong here so limo
Gently perpetrated and so long
endured. To render aid to this
friend 10 was essential foi Mr..
| Wright, our hero, to visit a dis
tant section, incognito, that he
might not appear as a witness
against him, and thus ruin him
financially and socially. His
forced absence from home was
the balm" for his friend s trou-
bles, in setting his case from
term to term. So true and loyal
to his friend, he let the time slip
by without computing it's fatal
cost to him aud the rupture of
his home affairs. Absent for
several years to prOlong the
cause he espouSed to success
full issue, he finally realized his
wOeful mistake-as a message
came to him in his secluded
retreat announcing that his
wife and child had sold out the
home and departed for a more
congenial cline, und perhaps
feeling "stung" over the way
her leige and lord had acted in
his prolonged silence, she left
no trace Of her departure nor
clue to her adopted home. Com
ing home and finding it dispoiled
of all it's former happiness and
its charms all broken-he started
cut on perilous tour to locate
the pride of his life-and tell
her how it all happened-and
feel the thrill of her gentle words
and forgiving spirit. But his
treasure had flown beyond the
limit of hif reckoning and he
must soon despair of all human
hopes of finding her abiding
place and therefore must go
out and dwell in the realms of
a hermit He evidently felt that
he was the aggressor, and that
fate might intlict a doom com
mensurate with his guilt in the
premises. He felt that he was
willing to suffer for his past mis-
takes if it would atone for his
long continued troubles. Like
ali things human there must
come termination TO all active
affairs, and in this one we have "A
happy elimination, after a Sc
ries of eventful episodes, and
long drawn-out activities, in the
main so obscure that the public
knew but little Of the current
affairs that involved so much of
human heart-lore in these prem
Uses. After So long a time, and
falling to locate each other they
dispaired of reviving former re
lations and conditions and looked
about to promote new conditions
in life. Mr. Wright came 10 Tex
as p years ago perhaps and
soon married. His lost wife,
feeling the sting of her w:d0.V-
hood and Its long perils and
eyentiul climaxes, she met a
good man and married. Thus
their destiny was sealed, but a
kind providence interviewed a
few years since aud restored
the way which fate has destined
10 eliminate IN reviving old re-
lations between oar long separR
ted counla F'ur 81 wears they