$ The Minister's Rescue i
.
$ By Ethel H. Colwa.
rnHE Little Minister" everybody
I on board the Luorelia called
Mm lucvltubiy, he wan so very little
Hi, J mi oblnuljf a milliliter. And
everybody, before the hucretU was
three duys out from Liverpool, was
pussipliiij about the tittle minister's
(li-ftttion tu an ot the women patasn
KT the woman with ikikenfd eye
brow ann brtlr a thought too ifnMefi.
Kverybody would linve gossiped (till
more hill everybody heard and, under
stood the whispered words which
amused the curiosity and wonder ot
the heud airwarririess on the evening
when the little minister net everybody
T" hy escorting the yellow-haired
woman down to the eery door of her
Hate-room.
"Conrajre! Conrarel Po not de
spair!" waa the balfompreheiided
ejaculation with which be bade her
adieu,
And everybody, airain, would have
l.ecn nearly frantic with excitement
had the manner In wl.leli the two b
(imi aerpialtited been publicly known.
The yellow-haired woman waa lean
f rar over the rail of the promenade
flwk, well forward, upon the aecond
day of the vnyase, when the little
iitl'iilsier, who had been watehinK her
keenly from hia tinobaerved aeat be
hind a music room porthole, atrolled
easily to beralde.
"I wouldn't! Don't think of It," he
Mid, aoftly. "ft really wouldn't be
w.irth while, Pluck up heart and take
t.mrairo. Your present aorrow will be
over In a lifetime, anyways you'll be
iurry for all eternity If you Jump over
b"ard. poor child."
"Why do you apeak to me like thla?"
cried the woman, Jurnlnf wtd, dea
prat eyei on hla kindly face.
"Hreauss I, too, have been very
!ue to despair. he made itentla an
swer, "and, perhaps, with far less
renaim than you have. I hart known
vpilr foe my own elna rather than
tiie sins of others. Yon have sinned.
aUo doubtless, but you hava be a
Vmied acalnat as well."
For a moment the woman looked a
though he wnild kill him. Then, and
rienl.v. lie hid hef weary hejd down
.mi the mil. and he could feel, rather
'than ee, that she waa Bobbin. Pres
enile he stepped a little nearer, and,
aiTVcfltur tu he deeply Interested In
the tnsslnjr water, spoke to her Spain,
In vry low tone.
"Ifcm't give way here and now," he
ethir'ed, tenderly. "Othera are
vuii'hinir ua; yon don't want to at
trai't attention. Hear up a little long
er you hiive been alien! an lonff, I
ati mire, Let them think you are III
--It la only natural. Steward!" to the
Mite-jacketed funetlontry of the lower
Vrls, "wiine hot beef-tea for thla lady,
l:timed!nie!y." s
"Let me (rive you my arm to the up
tier ilwk," he eufrireawd, when, the
beef-lea hnvine; been ahaorhed in a
sheltered corner, the tak of screen
ing her from the. .inquisitive jrlancea
.f ramial rlrrk-st rollers became a
Vttie difllcult. And there on the up
per deck which waa altogether too
eipnseit and too windy to be anything
but deserted the yellow-haired wom
en relaled her atory. She was moved
thereto partly by the knowledge of
hia cluth and hia fatherly manner,
partly because ahe looked through the
clergyman, and aaw that he waa a
nun and a gentleman aa wellj more
than all, perhaps, becauae ahe had
reoched the point where ahe could no
lunger contr.in the gullt-burdencd mis
ery fr.m which a womanly listener
might hava ahrank whh repellant die
fiit. It waa a pitiful atory, more pitiful,
even, than the teller of it realised. A
desolate child, fatherless, motherleia,
she had never known a real home or
, affection. Tossed and buffeted from
one unwilling, unloving relative to an
other, the had flouted them all, at
is, to fall In lore with s man many
jeara her aenior, and who had never
borne a good name, She had gone
through the preliminary punishment
of the loat in order to be true to him,
in hia absence. When, a year after he
had bidden her good-by until "I can
come back and marry yon," he had
sent her money and directions to
cross the ocean and heeinne hla wife
In Liverpool, ahe had sacrificed her all,
tlveming It no aacrifice, but a joyous
privilege, to obey him. Two yeara
later, inflamed with the Are of a new
passion, he had offered her a goodly
um of money to aign an agreement
protecting him from any future de
mand . embarrassments, and leav
ing hin. . t'e to marry the woman of
hia later choice as he hail promised
untruthfully to mnrry her.
Stung to the quirk of the sensitive,
future which hud liiteiy known love for
the first time, nil but maddened, des
perate, she had left him but without
taking the money. Now , another year
Inter, she wns usirir the proceeds of
111 months of hardwvurk and snmi-dla-
ipatlon to go b:ii U to America. Te
llow passing of the lonjj M-fiays' voy
age, desirable for financial rciior.s,
had Iff; her time for the bitter think
Ing and forecasting o long deferred,
The (ilant Despair had her fast In hia
Iron, relentless clutchea when the
little minister hud Interfered.
He heiird her through hi silence--the
sympiithetlc, comprehensive al
ienee so rich In balm and cheer. He,
ton, had been lonely; he waa return
Itiir now from the journey undertaken
to bid hla Inst living relative a long
g .od by. Ilia was nature, also,
which, while It COtlin nevrr Know rem
wickedness, suffered much because of
fancied agalnat Woa ana man.
(Unci the fancy, aa now Happened,
taught biin great sympathy and skill
In dealing with otherand greater
sinners It waa not, perhapa, without
its uses, Tha yellow-haired woman
realized tha supposed and actual
character of the fancy Intuitively:
but the knowledge that he believed
himself a aore sinner wm aa Inde
finably comforting aa hia wis alienee,
Pity after day tha little minister
cheered, atrengthenad and encour
aged her, heroically regimlleaa of the
meaning glances east toward them
by women who hair waa not yellow,
and by men who considered facctiotw
9!echea concerning flirtatious par
sons and the . latitude of the
cloth: day after dy he Induced
her to postpone further compact
with tha Giant Despair at least
until she had made effort a lit
tle longer. And all went wall until
tho afternoon when he wne powerlevs
to fight the recurring battle with her
hecauite. of the determined compan
ionship and questioning of tha ascetic
maiden lady who wanted hia views
iik,ii the Athanaslait creed question
--and also to talk uboiit the yellow
haired woman.
The little minister. j
whose gentlemanly Umtliict never U0 f- u diroction a,d cannol J,ut
lowed him to discuss on woman with " . ....
another, found anxiety dispoasesaing b encouraging to the people of the
hia patient and polita boredom ar. he Inland Empire that thev are final
noticed that thayellow-haired woman j, . rfvcr
tannin ltimtiirh InAtttftd of OVI-r o r
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the rail. Hut before he could
carry out hla awlftly formed resolu
tion lo go to her Immediately there
u the flash of a falling figure, a sud
dm eommotion and ht reaiiied that ;
the long-dreodcd elrcumsUiiioe had
come to pat.
!! was 'u the water alruoct as aoon
as she was. Three other man made
tbeme!f ready, but were a' trifle j
kiwrr, ror various reason, iserore
they reached the rail the little mlnia
ter had caught hold of the vallow
Iriin.' woman who alruggled and
fouelit him wildly.
"Don't save me," she gwaped, moan
Ingty. "I can't help atruggting. but
I dm t want to be ssvsd.
please let me drown!"
Pleasa,
. .
hand
For all answer he slipped a
under the littla, round, dclicala
ehin
which told such a clear story of the!
weakness which loves v! find It
hard to resist temptation, pushed her
at nreis'-Iength from Mm. nnd swam
ns strongly aa he mlvht until a rope
came to him over the stern of the
ahip. Kiret she wna drawn on board
Kutcly, then he followed and was hur
ried downstairs for brandy and hnrdi
nibb'ni'. Almost before tha two
combined brought warmth and vital
ity hock to the lltnba which were ao
InniK'iifinmtly weak and unfitted to
contain the mighty spirit which up
held them a measage eama to his
stateroom. The yellaw-halred wom
an hoped he had not been Injured In
coining to her rescue; ahe would like
lo see him to say "Thank you," when
ever he should feel Inclined to leave
hla berth. 8he herselt had been com
manded by the eurgeon to remain mo
tlonlets for some houre.
When the aisles and staterooms had
been einp-.'ed by the dinner-gong the
little minister traversed the former
and stood at the side of the yellow
he.lrcd woman pathetically weak nnd
young-looking lit her physical weak
ness and spiritual abasement. At
aight of him ahe broke into sobbing,
ri'1'ardless of the now aympathetic
stewarilftes, who considerately slipped
from the room.
"Why did you save, mef" ahe asked
him, still weeping. "You knew I want
ed to die. I want to die now, as God
hears me, although I have learned
thia evening just how eweet It would
be to go on living if one only had a
chance to atnrt over."
And then It was that the aonl of
the man and the gentleman stood up
In the eyes of the preacher, and the
divine Instinct which had henled ao
many sine and aorrowe failed not the
little minister, even though the rem
edy required waa unusual. .
"I, too, learned something while
down In the water," he said, with the
hesitating precision of one who re
cites a lesson but hastily learned.
"I learned that my life will never be
quite perfect, never quite what It
should be, unless you consent to be
come part of It, my my dear. Will
you" hia manner aa reverential aa
though ahe had been the most con
ventional of conventional "good wom
en," "honor me by promising to be
come my wife?"
The hope and the wonder which
flashed out In her face transformed
and1 transfigured It: but the glory
died . out a moment Irter.
"You are only saying this for char
ity's sake, to save me, to give me an
other chance," ahe told him.
"No," answered the little minister,
with quiet tenderness and gentle de-
termination, "you are qufta, quit
mistaken, my my dear, 1 am saying
it because I lova you."
And the good God, hearing these
worda of nubility and resurrection,
looked upon them with favor end
made them trua.
Oae AOmtrlisI CMMciit.
That no man la a hero to his vnlet la a
truism that has come down through a
long line of French cynics; but Lord
Ulpon, e-viceroy of India, hud occa
sion to demonstrate that he, at least,
was nppreciRtad by a faithful retaiw-r.
Boon lifter hla return from Calcutta,
and when the criticisms of his admin
istration wer parSciilarly fierce, Lord
Ulpon was met by a member of the
liberal party, who said to him, enthus
iastically! "I congratulate you on
your courage and public spirit In pur
suing so large-minded and liberal a
policy In the east." Lord Itipon mnilul
us he replied: "It i" food of you to
say such kind things of me; but to tell
you the 'filth, 1 don't believe thrre was
anyone In India who rea"y approved
nf my policy except my old ricotcb
gardener." Youth's Companion,
A Good Mom.
While the action ot the house
rivers and harbors committee in
recommending the' authorization
of a lurvcy of the proposed boat
railway between The Dalles and
Celilo with the end in view ot hav
ing a survey made for canal and
locka in not all that could have
been desired, it is yet a move in
w, ! . . I I I
i itere in an unexjicnucu tuuu ui
1214,407 in the appropriation for
the boat railway which the com'
mittee authoriaea tc be used in
making the survey. This fund be
ing immediately available will ad
roit of work being commenced at
once on the BUrvey, and it should
bo completed in time for the en
gineers to make a full report by
the time of the convening of the
next congress.
The favorable report of the com-
I mittee is unquestionably the re-
' suit of their visit to the Columbia
I . .
nrcr oasin iasi summer, aim ip
evidence that when congrejsmen
become better acquainted with the
resources of the west they will be
more liberal in their dealings with
internal and oast improvements.
We are certainly begining to feel
the effect of the eant becoming ac
quainted with the west, and to
further advance our interests a
strong effort should be made to in
duce the irrigation committee to
visit the arid regions next sum
mer, for next to the improvements
of our rivers and harbors is the
reclamation of our arid lands-
Dalles Mountaineer.
Knows Nothing of It.
James J. Hill, presidont of the
Northern Securities Company, is
quoted by the Journal of Com
merce as saying he knows nothing
of the new transcontinental rail
way line with a Pacific terminal at
Eureka, Cal. The plans of the
line were given out some time sgo
by Lord Thurlow, of England, and
recently at Chicago. Mr. Hill is
further quoted as having said that
so far as he was concerned there
4vas nothing in the report; that he
did not even recall where the Eu
reka terminal was, 'and that he
had no negotiations of any kind
with Lord Thurlow or George H.
Proctor.
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