The Stayton mail., January 01, 1904, Image 6

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W A Y S OF LONG AGO.
TRANSPOR I IMG A NINETY-TON GRANITE COLUMN.
Last niglit I dreamed I win swnke;
Theu, waking up, 1 dreamed.
My mind Just went without a break
To where the waters gleamod
Anil dimpled down beside tlie road.
I saw the willows trail
Along the stream, jt st like 1 knowed.
1 saw the teeter tail.
And heard the blue jay rail, and call.
And saw the eddies swine
In curves below the waterfall.
An' hoard the ribins sin«.
And I was just a boy, and wa 1 ked
The ways o' Ion* ago.
The catbird came attain and mocked
Just like l used to know.
And in the orchard loaded down
The heavy branches swum:.
And in its coat of sober brown
The thrush its matins sun*.
And hiteies moved the ripcuiuir grain
In billows to and fro.
And 1 w as just a boy again
In ways of long ago.
O. welcome dreams that take us back
To childhood's happy days!
Along some well-remembered track
In pleasant woodland ways!
O, welcome song o f orioles
And thrush’s matins clear
That bring us back the orchard kuolls
And days of yesteryear.
Till we can hear the lullabies
Anti feel the rhythmic swing
That used to lull our tired eyes
When mother used to sing.
— Houston I ’oet.
! HIS SECOND WIFE f
4-
4-
IT down, dear, and while I ani
waiting for John. I will tell you
all about It. 1 know people won­
dered when we were married,
and
said I was au old flame, and that it
was preposterous for old people like us
to marry. But, my child, I don’t care.
Yes, you do seem like a child to me;
eighteen, did you say? And this is
your engagement ring. Pretty, isn't
it? How it brings back the old times
when I was just your age, and John
and I was eourting.”
There was a pause, and one small,
wrinkled hand was raised to brush
away a tear. Then the sweet old voice
continued—
“ You see, John was what they call
a bound boy. He was just eight years
old when he came to live with us;
and he stayed until, well, until he
married her. You knew Eunice? She
was a handsome girl. If I do say it.
Far prettier than I. I never did count
much for good looks, but for all that
I took pretty well with the beaux.
But I didn’t care a jot for any one o f
them but John. He was five years
older than I, and from the time I was
a mite o f three, my constant compan­
ion and protector. How he did stand
by me If there was any fracas at
school, as there always was more or
less with part o f us on one side, and
part of us on the other. Well, matters
went along smooth enough until I was
nearly nineteen. Then the first and
hardest trial I ever had to contend
with, came like a thunder bolt from
a clear sky.
“ John and I became engaged on my
eighteenth birthday, and father and
mother were well pleased. Don’t very
often hap]»en that way. does it? But
it did in our case. You see, I was the
only child, and John was a tine, man­
ly fellow, fully capable of making his
own way in the world, and always
like a son to father and mother. How
they loved that boy! They never seem­
ed quite the same after he disappoint­
ed them so. And to think they never
knew the truth. Oh, it was shame­
ful! But there, I must not judge her.
She was young and thoughtless, and
sorry enough In after years. I ’ll show
you the letters some time.
It was
them that wrought all the mischief.
They were written while I was West,
visiting my mother's brother and his
family. You see, dear. Eunice and I
were the best o f friends, and I never
suspected till afterward how much
she cured for John, but I never blamed
her for taking him when he wanted
her.
“ I tried to think it was the Lord's
will, and stayed West two years try­
ing to reconcile myself to the Inevit­
able. Then mother was taken sick,
and I mine home, John and Eunice
had a little one by that time, and some­
how those baby fingers helped to heal
the breach; and before I knew It I was
loving John's baby as well as I did
him, only In a different way, perhaps,
for there would come times when It
seemed as If my life was a blank. They
were apparently so happy, I so lone­
ly, trying to crush out the love I now
felt It a sin to harbor. Somehow,
though, it survived the years; for
John is as dear to me to-day, my
child, as in the long ago; when be­
neath the apple-boughs he placed this
ring upon my finger. It was in the
fair spring-time and the old orchard
was like a dream o f fairy-land.”
Again the sweet voice quavered and
broke, and a tear dropped from the
down-cast eyes and glittered like a
diamond on the worn circlet o f gold.
Once more memory carried her back
to the time when she was a light-heart­
ed girl, with not a cloud to dim the
The construction o f the great Cathedral o f St. John the Divine. Morning-
side Heights, New York, now going on. Is one of the biggest architectural
tasks undertaken anywhere In recent years. The work Is progressing slowly,
owing to lack o f funds, hut even. If unlimited money were at the dls|Hisal
o f the trustees, the enormous building could not t>e constructed In less than
fifteen years.
Eight gigantic granite columns for the choir recently arrived in New
York from Yinnlhavcit. Me., and attracted great curiosity while being trans-
ported from the dock to the Cathedral grounds.
Each column is a memorial gift, and they cost shout S'J.V ihni each. An
enormous lathe was built to turn them. 1’ nfortunntely, they could not be
true monoliths, as they broke In the lathe during the polishing operation,
one o f them fracturing within a few hours o f completion. Therefore It be­
came necessary to make the columns In two pieces. The larger section Is
37 feet ti Inches In length by t! feet In diameter, and weighs 1st tons. The
smaller section is 17 feet long, H feet In diameter at the stnaHur end. and
weighs from 40 to 43 tons. The columns were trnns|N>rtisl front Maine, on
a lighter, two columns Itcing curried at one time. No very great difficulty
was experienced in unloading them, hut the carrying o f them to the Cathe­
dral grounds, a distance o f two miles, is proving a heavy task. A special
truck was built for the purpose, which Is oue of the largest ever constructed.
The frame o f the truck is 30 feet long, and weighs 10 tons. The axles are 7
and 8 inches equure. and are made out o f cold-rolled steel. The wheels are
built up o f seven thicknesses o f 3 inch white oak plank. There nre four
&-lnch tires on each wheel.
A 40-horse power traction engine is used to transport the columns to the
Cathtslral ground. Progress Is, o f course, rather slow; for Instance, It re
qulred nineteen days to carry the first column from the dock to Die Cathedral
grounds.
sunshine o f the hour; when benenth request, John, promise me you will
the apple-boughs she plighted her troth heed It.'
to the man she loved.
"W ell, ns you know, child, we were
“ Ah child.” she resumed, finally, “ If married In June, although he Is past
my life could have been like that al­ three score years nnd ten. and I was
ways; but It was not destined to be so. seventy Instead o f twenty ns It was to
Metblnks, sometimes, the trial was have been. That Is all dear, and here
needed to strengthen nnd perfect vvliat Is John.”
otherwise might have been a weaker
Later, ns I wandered In the glen, n
character; one that knowing naught of picturesque bit of rustic scenery,
I
trouble, failed in that deep sympathy found them sitting In an Ideal s|iot at
for leas fortunate mortals. How well the foot o f a beautiful waterfall, the
I remember the day I received that grand verdure-covered hills towering
letter. I felt sure It was from John al>ove them. Dear old people; young
by the writing on the outside. You , In their hearts as on that spring day
see. she had Imitated his hand so when they plighted their troth beneath
closely that I failed to detect the d if­ the blossom-laden boughs o f the old
ference. I f possible I was more than apple-tree.— Waverley.
usually pleased to receive It, as It was
several days later than on former oc­
TO PENSION GIRL’S MOTHER.
casions, and I was beginning to chafe
Mrs. H edwlg A. Maas, o f Enst Or­
at the delay.
“ Humming that sweet old love song, ange, N. J., Is to be recompensed by
Annie Laurie, I hastened to my room. Congress for the loss o f her daughter.
Miss Clara Ixtulse
I always wanted to be alone when I
Maas, who died In
rottd John's letters. You understand,
my dear? How my fingers trembled as
K - R y 33 Cuba In 1«01 as
s S s i S W tLo result of an
I opened it, and with a sense o f happi­
experiment
made
ness, too great for words, bent over the
closely written pages! Alas, how d if­
for the purpose o f
advancing science
ferent from the other missives I had
In the treatment o f
received from him. ‘He loved me still,
yellow fever. She
but It grieved him to say, only as a
went there on re­
sister. In Eunice he had found his
ideal. Would I not release him from
turning
from
a
hurry call to the
an engagement which. If consummat­
ed In marriage, would only terminate
Philippines
and
In the ruin o f three lives.’ He 'begged
permitted
herself
me not to mention the affair to my
to be bitten six
parents, as he would tell them himself
times by a mos­
and thus spure me the ordeal.’ Spare
quito which had
me! Ah, my child, that would have fed upon a yellow fever victim. The
been nothing In comparison with what health authorities were trying to dis­
cover If the disease was carried by the
I suffered then.
“ From that hour my whole being insect, and gave those submitting to
was changed.
No longer a happy- the test a reward o f $100.
Although she had nursed two Span­
hearted child, but a grave and thought­
ful woman. H ow little I knew that iards who subjected themselves to the
at that very time, John was having a test and died. Miss Maas offered her­
fierce conflict with his own emotions, self as a sacrifice. If necessary, to sci­
as he read and re-read the letter sup­ ence, and fell a victim to the disease
posed to have come from me. ’ In the as a result o f the bites o f the mos­
far West/ it told him, ‘ I had found quito. She was taken to the yellow
another, and by the time he received fever hospital, and her sister, Miss So­
that, I would be a wife.
Would he phia Maas, started from home to reach
forgive rne for my fickleness, and could her bedside, but death won the race,
he not find some one to fill my place? and she reached there only to hear
There was Eunice. I was sure she that her sister had passed away.
A bill has now been introduced In
cared for him, and would make him
Congress for a pension for the mother
happy/
“ You know the rest, child. He mar­ o f the girl.
ried her. She was ready and willing
H e r IleXort.
to give him every eneouragement; and
H e was explaining why he dldu’t
not until she lay dying did she con­
fess herself the author o f these two get home until an early morning hour.
"T h e fact Is,” he said, “ an old col-
letters, and how fearful she had al­
lege chum— a stranger In the city—
ways been that we would find out her
came to the office, nnd I felt as If I
guilty secret, and by a mutual con­
ought to entertain him a little----- ”
fession learn that rti our hearts we
“ Oh, it was charity!” she lnu*rrupte<f.
had always been true to each other.
“ Why, yes,” he returned, hrighh'nlng
O f course he wondered why I had
at
the suggestion, “ you might call It
never married. But she told him I had
chnrity to spend a little time and
been terribly disappointed, and not to
money on a lonesome----- ”
mention the subject to me. The letter
“ But charity," she Inbrruptfd again,
I wrote releasing him from his engage­
“ begins at home.”
ment she received. Instead of him.
Then he gave up the explanation
Eunice wus clever, very clever. It's
business.
a pity so many clever people don't put
their talents to better purposes.
W h y I t P a a s n i l H y.
“ On the day she tiled, she called
“ Did Opportunity never knock at
him to her. ‘John/ she said, 'my life your door, my good man?” asked the
has been spared many years, but I kindly lady.
have not been happy. Knowing at last
“ I dunno, ma’am,” replied Beery
that you would never care for me, as Bill; “ mebbe ao— but I never pay no
you did for her, I was wretched—a attention to knockers." — Cincinnati
fitting punishment for my sin— hut you Tiines-Star.
have always been a kind and faithful
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husband, and I could not die without
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“ Do yon know,” said the pretty
girl, addressing tho strange young man
on the opposite scat in Urn street car
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ly for several minutes, “ you put me
so much in mind of my brother?”
“ Do I?” he responded, with a k ill­
ing smile
“ I ain delighted to hear
it.”
“ Yea. You make me wish he waa
here for just about a minute.” — Chica­
go Tribune.