Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-05-26

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ter of the Widow Dusenberry, Joseph himself
from the scenes childhood off towards
that famous land which lay away off yonder in the
direction of the setting
CHAPTER III.
"dy child, do not look sad. You will only make
matters The you worry about it the
harder the trouble will be to bear. Be brave girl.
Pshawl Only love quarrel They always end in
Kisses Gone, has he? Rash, hasty boy. You should
have leased him much, but then believe Albert
is sensible a boy be driven from home by the
coquetry of saucy little girl and he will be back in
less than week. I'll be bound, and make amends for
all these And Mr. Kamman smiled into the tear
full face of his pretty daughter.
mo, papa, he has gone away to return, for he
wrote that he would again."
At the thought Anna laid her head her fathers
and burst into another flood of tears.
Rev. Kamman a resident of Starkvile, Vermont,
a beautiful village in the picturesque valley among the
Green Mountains. According to the economy of the
church to which he belonged, Mr. Kamman had filled
pulpts different parts of the state He had
risen from the Sunday School class to the position of
presiding elder had invariably discharged his pro-
obedience what he deemed the
import Gospel. He believed that religion
designed well spiritual
welfare of mankind taught by precept that polit
zeal sins should be reproved pulpit. Mr.
Kamman a New England Methodist, and possessed
political enthusiasm which actuated large
orty of that spiritual fold in that particular of
national history.
In early life he had married Anna Wyman the old
Asbury church StarsvilIe, and had kept the of
love for her. His life had been a happy and this
happiness accumulated when, years after
riage the little daughter Anna born. The child
replica of the mother and there existed between them
that mysterious affinity which often exists between
mother and child easily discovered yet defined
Being only child, Anna naturally petted and
spoiled, and in nnumerable ways made complete a
little tyrant dictated to household. When
reached the age of Fifteen her father retired
from active work in the mnistery and set about pre-
pairing the peaceful happiness of life at home but
alasl how sadly uncertain earthly hopes His dream
felicity one, for shortly afterward his
disconsolate and griefstrcken. Mr.. Kamman mourned
dead wife with which refused earthly
had been the idol at whose shrine he had
paid devotions. She had borne his trials, and
ported his adverstes with sympathy and love. Amid
all conflicts of a minister's life, she had been
and friend; her life ambition and heart
wholly his No selfish motive the part of
the sunshine of their love- They
lived each other, and when she died, Mr. KAN
felt if the machinery of life had suddenly
stopped But the minister a devout man, and not
eternal, n the mournful that tolled the
requiem his ife he heard the voice of God.
This perhaps the that he became the
panion of his only child Shortly after her
mothers DEATH took his daughter for of the
states and located temporarily at Traders
town. Carolina, where he attempted give in
structons the slaves of that community However,
Mr. Kamman found the public sentiment strongly