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1Mm two eminent physician, nbo,
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1 WIDOW DARBY'S S
2 VALENTINE. 5
ill K widow Darby.
I J fair nlnmn ml look
, r
inx far younger tbaa
her -15 years, bad rid-
den into town with
;jtrra rveai riw
her bdrse had lasaed
i himself that nsoratag.
.'and Jared "happeaed
to be coins ia." and
had asked tbe widow
to ride with dim.
Jared was what some
of tbe people of tbe
neighborhood called a
"resalar born oW bach." He bad ootM
aad scorned womanuind most of tbe fifty
years of his life, and bad openly set forth
his eoerietion that men were "better off
witboat 'em tbaa with 'em," particularly
when it come to "marrying of em. tie
had heW to this conviction so tens and
had proclaimed it so boldly and so con
stantly that all of the match-makers ia
the rural neighborhood in which he lived
bad given him ap a hopeless case beyond
the pale of their schemes for making a
benedict of him.
Jared was not. like most avowed women
haters, a crabbed, cross-grained, snecring
ly cynical man, which made his celibacy
all the more unpardonable in the eyes of
the match-makers.
"He'd make a real good husband If he'd
try," they said. 'Then he has the nicest
farm in the neighborhood, with one of
tbe best houses on it and money out at in
terest, although he's not a bit mean and
stingy. He'll do his fall share always for
a neighbor in distress. It isn't because
he's too stingy to support her that Jared
doesn't get him a wife."
It was a clear, crisp morning in Febru
ary when Jared rode to the village with
the widow Darby seated beside him in
his neat little cutter. Tbe sleighing was
fine and the air keen and exhilarating. It
gave the widow's plump cheeks a beauti
ful crimson glow and made her black eyes
sparkle. She was in high spirits and her
laugh rang out frequently as merry and
rippling as the laugh of a child.
But then the widow Darby was prover
bially cheery. She bad suffered keenly
the loss of her husband and both of ber
children, but time bad softened ber grief,
and she was too wise to spend ber life
in gloom and grief over the loss of those
who were beyond all care and sorrow.
She had a comfortable little home and a
few acres of land adjoining Jared Kent's.
She bad known Jared all of ber life, but
not once had she thought of him as a
possible successor to Joel Darby,
'Jared will never marry any one," she
had said. "He isn't of a marrying dispo
sition. Some men are that way. It's all
they lack to make 'em what God intended
they should be. My husband and I used
to talk Jared over a good deal, and we did
our full share to get him settled for life
with a good wife. We used to invite lots
of nice girls, young and elderly both, to
our house and then have Jared come over
to tea and to play croquet with him. He'd
be nice and pleasant and all that, but he
never came any ways near falling into
any of the traps we set for him. We
thought once that he did take a kind of
a shine to a nice, sweet, real good looking
girl of about 30 named Jauet Doane from
over Shelby way, who was visiting us.
She'd of made him an awful good wife,
and I sung her praises all the time, but
nothing came of It."
"It's an elegant morning, Isn't It?" said
Jared, as ho and the widow flew ulong
over the hills and through long lanes in
which the snow was drifted almost to tho
top rails of the fences.
"Ob, it's lovely!" replied the widow. "1
like snow."
"So do I. You got much to do In town ?"
"No; I'll be through with all of my er
rands In an hour. I can let something go
If you don't want to stay In town that
long."
"Ob, that'll bo none too long for me.
Where shall I meet you?"
"I'll be at Smith & Hanscom's dry goods
store, any time you say."
"We'll call it 11 o'clock, then."
It was three minutes nftor 11 when
Jared drove up to the appointed place of
meeting. The widow had stepped Into
tbe sleigh and ho was tucklug the robes In
around her when she said:
"There, Jared, I'm Just like other wom
en; I've forgotten something."
"What is It?"
"I forgot to go around to tho postofflce.
I know that there's nothing there for me,
because one of the Stone boys brought my
si
1 Vf&orlX
..Mai Vvl J&0 rw MiTATJHii tm
mail oat last night. nJ there's so mail
trains in antil noon: but poor oW Jane
Carr came over just before I left aad
wanted Me to W sure and see if there was
a letter far her. Her daagbler m very
vk-k oat West, aad sbe baaa't bad a letter
for a week, aad be' half wild. 1 eoalda't
bear ta tell ber I'd forgotlea to go to the
ofaoe."
"IU drive 'round that way." aaid Jared.
"It won't be three Mocks oat of the way."
Two or three boys stood Idling la front
of tbe postoMce and Jared aaid to oae of
tbeM be caaneed to know:
"Say, Jbamie. ran Into tbe offlce ami see
If there's any letter for Mrs. Jane Carr.
Yoa aeeda't ask for me. for I've been
around and got My Mall."
"Yoa Hiabt look ia box IS!." said Mrs.
Darby. "Mebbe there's a drop letter for
me."
Tbe boy came ont a moment later with
a very large square white envelope in oae i
band and a small blue envelope in the1
other. He grinned as he banded them to
Mrs. Darby. Sbe glanced at the Woe en
velope and said Joyfully:
"O here's a letter for Jane, and It's from
ber dangbter. I know by tbe postmark.
How glad Jaae will be! And here well,
I declare!"
She burst into a merry laugh as she
looked at the big white, embossed envel
ope. The boy had told the truth when be
had gone back to bis comrades and said
with a titter:
"She's got a valentine!"
"Who in the land ever sent rae that
thing?' said Mrs. Darby, holding tbe en
velope out at arm's length. "I dkln't even
know It was Valentine's day. If it Isn't
tbe greatest idea that I should get a val
entine!" "I don't know why you shouldn't," said
Jarrd.
"Oh, because I but I guess some child
sent it,"
"Maybe not."
"No one else could have bad so little
gumption!" said tbe widow with another
laugh. "Maybe there's one of these comic
valentines inside of it some ridiculous
thing about a widow likely."
"Why don't you open it and see?"
"I will."
Sbe burst into another laugh as she
drew forth a dainty creation of lace paper,
tinsel and bright colored embossed pic
tures. "How perfectly ridiculous!" she said.
"The idea of any one being ninny enough
to send an old woman like me a thing like
that!"
"You're not an old woman."
"I'm forty-five!"
"Well, I'm older than that, and I don't
AT JANU CAHIl's OATE.
call myself on old man. Many a woman
around here would be glad to get a val
entine like that if trie sender really meant
it."
"Yes, and if you were the sender."
"I'm not vain enough to think that and
not foolish enough to say It if I did think
It."
"No, I don't think that you are, Jared.
Hut I wonder who could have sent me
this. The writing on the envelope Is evi
dently disguised, and O here Is some
thing insldel Let's see what It says.
" '0 wilt thou bo my valentine
Forever and forever aye,
And wilt tbou take tills heart of mine,
And giro mo tblno to-day' "
There wao another verse, but before she
had read It, the widow Darby cried out:
"Jared Kent, that's your handwriting und
you need not try to deny It!"
"I'm not trying to deny it. You'll find
my name signed in full to tho noxt verso
on tho other page." This was tho next
verse:
"If 'yes' my answer Is to be,
My heart with Joy will mi
If 'no,' I ret shall bo your 1 tend
And I shall lore you still."
They had reached the outskirts of the
town now. J ami beaagbt Use hoes t a
standstill and oald:
"I it yes or no, IryT
Sbe looked at aim with saialag eyM aad
laughing face far a MOMrttt. Tbsw oba
laid one of bar mlttoaed band m tbe
sleeve of tbe great far coat a war aad
mm: I
"I think It l y, Jared."
He turned bU borsVs bead toward tbe (
town.
"Where are yoa froinc?" sbe asked.
"ltark to tbe minUter's. It's Valeartaa's
day, yoa know, and it yoa are to be Mf
valentine. I want yoa to-day."
An boar later tbey rtooped at Jaae
Carr's gate. Sbe came afearryiaic oat for ,
her letter with ber apron over her bead. I
"1 brought yoa a letter. Jane, aad 1 got '
a valentiae." sakl Iey. boldlng ap tbe .
big white envelope.
"I got one aUo." ald Jared, be pot
an arm around hia wife and klaaed her. ,
Detroit Free Pre I
WANTED HIS HALF OF THE BERTH
A Good Ktory fico, M. Pullman I.orctl
to Tell of Lincoln.
There was one story of his career that
the late George M. Pullman of sleeping
ear fame need to tell with manifest de
light. It was as follows:
"One night going out of Chicago, a long,
lean, ugly man. with a wart oo his cheek,
came into the depot. He paid George M.
Pullman 50 cents, ami a half berth was
assigned him. Then he took off bis coat
and vest and bung thom up, and they fit
ted the peg about a well as they fitted
him. Then he kicked off hi boot, which
were of surprising length, turned into tbe
berth, and, baring an easy conscience,
was sleeping like a healthy baby before
tbe car left the depot. Along came an
other passenger ami paid his .V) cents. In
two minutes he was back at George Pull
man. "There's a man In that berth of mine,"
said be, hotly, "and he's about ten feet
high. How am I going to sleep there,
I'd like to know? Go and look at him."
In went Pullman mad, too. The tall,
lank man's knees were under his chin, his
arms were stretched aero the bed and
his feet were stored comfortably for him.
Pullman shook him until he awoke, and
then told him If he wanted the whole
berth he would hare to isy $1.
"My dear sir," said the tall man, "a
contract is a contract. I hare paid you
59 cents for half this berth, and as you
see. I'm occupying it. There's the other
half," pointing to a strip about six Inches
wide. "Sell that and don't disturb me
again." And, so saying, the man with a
wart on his face went to sleep again. He
was Abraham Lincoln.
James I'arton's I'rcdlutlon.
In 1802, James Parton, the celebrated
biographical writer, made the following ,
prediction in regard to Abraham Lincoln:
History Villi say of Mr. Lincoln that no I
man oi a more genial temeranient, a
moro kindly nature, ever tenanted the
White House; that he gave all bis time,
his thoughts, his energies, to the dis
charge of duties of unprecedented magni
tude and urgency; that, hating no iiihii,
lie steadfastly endeavored to win the con
fidence and love of all the loyal and pat
riotic, and that, in spite of four chequered
years of such responsibility nnd anxiety
as has seldom fulleu to the lot of man,
he bore away from the Capitol tho sunny
temper and blithe frankness of his hoy.
hood, returning to mingle with his old
neighbors as one with them in heart and
in manner, in retirement as in power a
happy specimen of the men whom Liberty
and Democracy train in the log cabin nnd
by the rudest hearth to guide the counsels
of thu Itcpublic and Influence the destinies
of tho people.
Tear It Up.
Secretary Stanton was onco greatly
vexed because an nrmy olllcer had refused
to understand nn order, or at nil events
had not obeyed. "I believe I'll Hlt down "
said Stanton, "and give that man n pieco
of my mind." "Do so," said Lincoln
"write It now while you have It on your
mind. Make It sharp; cut him all up
Stanton did not need a second Invitation
It was a bone-crusher that ho read to thn
President. "That's right," said Abo!
nn. Vmi l.n..
freed vour mind on thu million n..
, ,, .-. . , - ... . SWISS
is nil that Is necessary. Tear It up. You
never want to send such letters; I never
do.''-Standard.
Don't Judgo a uiau by tho character
given hltn by his uext-door neighbor.
iuuih u kuuu um-. ivnom can I get
to send It by?" mused tho Secretary
"Send It 1 replied Lincoln, "send itl Whv
don't send It at nil. Tear It
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