The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-08

1 Co cause SD much suffering from sym
 pathy as a person employed in q man. | ufaCtory or on a railroad to break the news to an operatives family that he | has been killed. Where there are
 large number of employees there is
 usually such a person, for there is certain percentage of workmen killed every year.
 Kathleen O'Rourkc and Patrick Co., ! glan met at a ball on the evening of St. Patrirk's day. and Pat had asked
 her t0 dance with him many times | Afterward he invited her tU go to
 moving picture show with him. From
 that time forward they were together | when not at work, and il was evident | they were about tO make q match.
 But Pat had q mother to support and Kathleen who waS an orphan,
 was a mother tu d little brother and q sister So they couldn't marry until
 they had laid up something. They both worked in tine same factory, and each lived n house built on the | premises by th. company tO be used for homes for itS employees. So they saw a great G,al of each other.
 They u@rr,l that when their wedding occurred il should take place on the an uiversary of their meeting. which was the evening hrfuyc St. Patrick'S day. When this nrst anniversary cane around Pat had saved $4UO, and Kath- leeu had su,rd $jjn, and they decided that if they GiI aS well the next year l they would Ir married the evening before $t. Pdlrirk's day.
 On the trst of the year they counted | up thcir savings and interest and con- cludcd that with their nest egg they might be married and have enough for | themselves and those dependent upon them. Kathleen bought what clothes she would unri lo last d year after her marriage. and in due time the bamnS were published In church. Finding it mcomycujrut Du hc married on the very day they had planned. March lG, they set their wedding day for the 1Ith. | This was partly because Pat was one of the committee of arrangements for the St. pauirE's day parade and was to lead his society on that occasion.
 When the hour came for the wed ding Pat did not appear. Kathleen, dressed in Ter bridal apparel, waited for him with u wildly beating heart lest something had happened to him. She went to the door dozen times to look for him and finally stationed her. self at window where she could look up the street on which the workmen's | cottages were built.
 Presently she saw Owen MacTayiSh coming. NacTayiah was known to every one connected with the plant as | the company's bad news breaker, and many a wnmau's heart beat quick when she saw him approaching her | house Kathleen no sooner saw him coming ,hau she rlucicl he would stop at her home to tell her that Pat had been killed Before hc reached the l door she had fallen in SwoOn. Nov. NacTuvish did not stop ut the O'Rouvkc cottage and was unconscious | that he had frightened q girl there into swuou. Kathleen was picked up by her friends, who had gathered to at, tend her to the church for the we'd ding. When shr came to herself she looked about. threading 10 see the bad news breaker hul he waS not there.
 "Is hr gonr:' shp asked.
 "WhO gJnc:'
 "NacTavi>h."
 "IIe hasn't been hrvc.'
 And Pat isn't GradE'
 "Nobody'S heard of his being dead" "ThanliS be tO Cod
 But Pat did not appear and no one seemed to have any news of him. Word was sent to the cOmpany's office
 to inquire for him. but no information
 was eicited.
 Kathleen for awhile gave herself up
 to grief. She wus uncertain whether
 Pat had met with foul play or wheth,
 CT he had deserted her. It would have | been easier for the poor girl if she had | known which of the two suppOsitions
 was correct, for it would have relieved | her somewhat of suspense.
 When St. ParriCk's day in the morn-
 ing came round Kathleen made up her
 mind that her lover had deserted her
 and with true Irish grit declared that ] there were aS good fish in the sea &s