Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-25

that famous land which lay away off yonder in the
direction of the setting
CHAPTER III
my child do not look so sad. You will only make
matters worse. The more you worry about it the
harder the trouble will be to bear. Be a brave girl.
Pshaw! Only love quarrel They always end in
kisses Gone, has he? RASH hasty boy. You should
not have teased him much but then believe Albert
is too sensible a boy to be driven from home by the
coquetry of saucy little girl and he will be back in
less than week. III be bound and make amends for
all these tears. And Mr. Kamman smiled into the tear
full face of his pretty daughter.
NO 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 was a resident of StarEville, Vermont
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
various pupts in different parts of the state He had
risen from the Sunday School class to the position of
presiding elder, and had invariably discharged his pro-
fessiona duties in obedience to what he deemed the true
import of the Gospel He believed that true religion
designed to look after the social well the spiritual
welfare of mankind and taught by precept that pot
zeal sins should be reproyed from the pulpit Mr..
Kamman was a New England Methodist, and possessed
all the political enthusiasm which actuatcd large
national history.
In early life he had married Anna Wyman in the old
Asbury church Starksvic, and had kept the of
love for her His life had been happy one, and this
happiness accumulated when, two years after
rage the little daughter Anna born The child was
replica of the mother and there existed between them
that mysterious affinity which often exists between
mother and child easily discovered yet defined
Being an only child, Anna naturally petted and
spoiled, and in innumerable ways made complete
little tyrant dictated to household. When
she had reached the age of fifteen her father retired
from active work in the mnistery and set about pre-
pairing for the peaceful happiness of life at home but
alas how sadly uncertain earthly hopes His dream
of felicity was a short one, for shortly afterward his
wife sckened and died. leaving the father and daughter
disconsolate and griefstrcken. Mr.. Kamman mourned
for his dead wife with sorrow which refused earthly
comfort She had been the idol at whose shrine he had
paid his levotions. She had borne his trials and sup
ported his adverstes with sympathy and love- Amid
all the conflicts of a minister's life she had been
able counsellor and friend her life, ambition and heart
were wholly his. No selfish motive the part Of
either had obscured the sunshine of their love They
had lived for each other, and when she died. Mr. Kam
man felt as if the machinery of life had suddenly
stopped. But the minister devout man. and not
wthsandng his poignant grief he the hand of the
eternal and in the mournful tones that tolled the
funeral requiem of his life he heard the voice of God
This was perhaps the that he became the
panion and friend of his only child Shortly after her
mothers DEATH he took his daughter for tour of the
Southern states and located temporarily at Traders
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