Weekly Wisconsin (Newspaper) - July 31, 1886, Milwaukee, Wisconsin VOLUME JULY Written for The UNCERTAIN nr After months of travel amongst the glories of the wonders of and all so f now adays through special correspondents to even our stayathome I found myself little city of where my old Tom was from ever since his a few years j had received if not more invitations to come for a I had had a letter from him only the week and wishing to glance it over took it out of my as I did the lovely features of smiled at I had carried the picture with me all these but was no nearer the solution of its identity than Time in a dimmed the youthful ardor with which I had viewed it but I still felt compared with all other faces were tame and insipid though I laughed at myself for thus cherishing the memory of a printed could not abandon it yielding to a sentiment that I would have derided in wherever I went I took with me the sweet counter part of I reached and soon found myself hap pily domesticated with Tom and his agreeable I was at once adopted as one of the and ruled accord It chanced that on the evening after my the junior exercises of the Clinton High School wento take and as Tom was on the school board and was bound to be present in his official it was decided that the family should rally to his support and attend in a Eight of a fine saw us occupying our seats in the crowded assembly room of the High School and patiently awaiting the beginning of the enter I had glanced listlessly over the as when I as one will when one has no particular interest in a congregation and expects to see no familiar and was now taking a leisurely survey of my more immedi ate while Toms wife was chatting with her acquaintances about Suddenly my heart stopped beating 1 with a tremendous bound that sent the blood rushing to my it started on again BO wild a rate I put my hand to my breast to still the tumult What had I seen not ten feet dis tant from sat the simile of the photograph that I had so long carried m my bosom I gazed was the Those glorious from which a noble soul looked forth that lovely contour of cheek and brow those firm lips those many beauties over which I had BO often sighed in silence and alone It was the yet even more lovely than the with the maturer de velopment ol the added Could it be possible Had I met my fate at last When my whirl of emotions had somewhat I leaned over to by a turn in the sat at right angles to and whispered a question as to the name of the Let said she as her eyes took in the ladies about the lady in a white bonnet 1 eo many white bonnets the extreme right Yes I know that is the the bankers wife lovely isnt Cheston My blood seemed to congeal Had I found her but to lose her A bride The insane idea flashed through my that had I been a few why dwell on what might have been Cheston I I had not even to the strength and depth of the impres sion made upon me by tbat lovely pictured In spite of common and the stern reality of an every day I had yet cherished this ideal in and it couH not be dis placed and overthrown without caus ing severe But I must master my feelings and rouse myself to what was going which I did at and responded to the lively comments of Toms with a smiling brow and a ready lip all the like a sentimental I kept repeating to myself the words of the old song The eye may the cheek may The lips with may AB light may gleam Upon stream When all la dark beneath Still the exercises went seemed to me interminable but the affair was over at and the well pleased audience slowly dispersed with much good feeling and hilarity while still hiding my bade my friends a cheerful good night and was at liberty to seek my At in the solitude of my bed chamber I took out once more the precious face and gazed upon It had become more than a picture to it a and now that I must no more yield to the many fancies I had woven concerning it ought I to destroy it I had not realized how much of hope had been mine until now that I knew I was But I would not mar fair This loveliness bad never never could bat I would keep the picture as one might tbat of some sacred for whom one could feel no earthly I placed it carefully in a blank sealed and laid it away again in its old resting and having done I feltas if I had stood beside a grave and had beard the heavy clods fall with hollow reverberation upon the lifeless form I had not expected to slumber that to my I slept pro as one sometimes will when a threat crisis has passed and hope or henceforth It was only the next afternoon that I sat with Toms wife flitting rn and and the children playing upon the lawn in when I heard her voice in the rapturously darling is it you How glad I am to see you Come right in I want to introduce to our Toms old Glancing I saw it was the origi nal of the Cheston I braced myself with what fortitude I and rose just as the ladies en tered the began allow me to present our dear wnom you must prepare to esteem as we do A wild scream rose from the lawn and the excitable Halsey dashed abruptly through the open French to the rescue of her leaving the newcomer and myself staring at each other in all the embarrassment of a ished But the ladys native ease came to our and ad she held out her I am very glad to meet and as our friend has omitted to mention my it falls upon me to do so I it is quite for I already know your having seen you and ascertained your identity last Ah she I noticed you with Halsey you come from the I believe and now tell what do you think of our Western scholastic talent While I was in the midst of a suit able Halsey suddenly reap holding in her arms est had re no more serious injury than a and it is scarcely necessary to say that all formality vanished before her lively ways and sparkling Several times after I met but never with her I finally expressed my surprise to that he never was seen with his lovely Oh she he is out of town didnt you know it but of should yon His wife Raid that he was suddenly called to in entirely too much haste to make it agreeable ior her to accom pany as would have This explained his absence from her yet it seemed to me a little odd that she never alluded to him in any way during our Could it be that she had not found in him that other self so necessary to com plete happiness in marriage And bad so begun to understand the fact But how vain to speculate concerning these things Cruel fate denied that I should ever realize my ideal but whether or not Cheston had been more nothing to Thus I and again and again put down my rebellious Not many days after the above con as we were loitering at the breakfast who was looking over the morning ut tered a loud exclamation of Tom she isnt this dreadful Poor Cheston He was on that wrecked and is re ported as severely hurt and unable to travel Oh I wonder if she has heard Im going right over there It was scarcely sooner said than and in my imagination I fol lowed vaguely envying her the privilege of ministering to the comfort of my checked lovely Starting I took my hat and went for a leaving Tom at his and proceeding onward rather aim The streets were very with few but I noticed a which seemed it could hardly it cer tainly What did it mean Why was she walking out at this time She came nearer and I saw a smile of tion play over her She ob knew nothing of the I was deeply grateful that it was no part of my duty to enlighten her she would hear it soon poor woman I mechanically returned her greeting pity I involuntarily stopped as I met her and Are you going this morning she lightly my regular As yon seem some what this Lad suppose you walk with I silently turned and we walked on I was so confused by the knowledge which I and which she evidently did that I conld scarcely seep pace with her easy and pleasant I kept re minding myself that there was no call for me to tell her the dreadful news and so we went until she stopped before the High School 1 must have looked my for she I stop you I suppose yon will hardly care to enter this morning hoping you will have a pleasant 1 will bid you good I must have said for she smiled and went into the while I walked on almost as in a How very singular it all was She had obviously left home early in the before the fearful tidings had reached the prob ably with the intention of resting from her at the school in as I had previously gathered from lier she was deeply inter But she could hardly fail to know it The teachers must some of have heard and they would tell I could not bring myself to leave the so certain was I that she would come speeding down the steps in an agony of woe and and I lingered about in the vague hope of being able to serve in her Still she came and I scarcely knew what to At after many backward and I noticed down the a quiet book store and reading Thither I bent my and under the pretense of perusing the I kept a furtive watch upon the High In I saw no trace of three hours elapsed and she bad not I could not under stand Why had not her friends sought her out Or had she made her exit from some other part of the building The began to ring and I started up more bewildered than she coming down the in the rear of groups of laughing chil I knew she must pass the book so I waited until she was when I again joined Surprise was unmistakably stamped upon her but she smiled pleasantly and said You You seem ubiquitous today I could scarcely reply to her merry for I had made up my as through some inexplicable she had received no no message from mine must be the lips to acquaint her with the dreadful news and to strive to prepare her for what she must She made one or two sprightly remarks to which I hardly so intent was I upon finding not too that give her a correct idea of what had befallen We walked on a few paces in I could see that her surprise was deepening at my agitated and that she was becoming infected with a strange I must speak How should I begin Mad I said at in tremulous have you heard from your husband this morning My husband she and the color receded from lip and cheek as she gazed upon me with startled your husband I cannot think how it is that you have not is I could not go on with that frightened face before me and with those dilated eyes transfixing me with a look of What should I do With a convulsive I rallied all my mental energies and Do not look so not be so bad Oh I know bow terrible this brutal it seems to have to hear it from an almost utter But my dear We were passing just then an up and she unex sank into a friendly lounging chair that fortunately held out its arms at this I thought she was going to so white and helpless did she But she controlled while with trembling lips and shaking voice she I am not Had the shock proved too great for her brain to endure For one instant we gazed at each other with terror and amazement demoted upon our then slowly her countenance relaxed she seemed to gather strength she straightened herself up in her seat was actually a glimmer of a smile across her features as she said My name is Mildred I am employed as teacher in yonder High where I have been engaged as usual this I to perceive that you mistake me for of whose husbands sad accident I heard early in the and whom I saw starting to join him as I came to schoo this and who probably is with him ere she rising and looking at her ii yon will excuse I will hasten on te my as I am due at school again in a short It was my turn to sink into the arm chair and gasp for breath Positive the surprise was so great and over whelming that I lost temporarily my powers of locomotion and speech J believe she thought was going to for she hastily unclasped her vinaigrette from her as if to offer me but I at and felt my self turning a violent red from head to as I realized the egregious blun der I had She most consider ately waited I partially re my and bid ding me a polite was moving when I ejaculated stay I pray yon at permit me to accompany you have some opportunity of Bearing all about ex She came to my relief with a laugh she you take the matter too You have some how mistaken me for aud I do not wonder at y oar state of in contemplating my supposed inexplicable As to the error though certainly it is not incomprehensible for it is by no means surprising that a stranger should misapprehend the names of those he may meet I need bear no malice for hav ing been supposed to be the charming and refined She laughed and 1 felt my disappearing before her kind I rose and as we walked away I took courage to beg that I might call upon her that evening and become more properly acquainted with Miss Mildred She did not refuse as we parted before her I could not but won der what she would if she knew that at that very ed face lay close against my heart I I did not lack food for as I turned my footsteps toward so great was the variety pre sented for my mental digestion to carry out the scarcely could so arrange the to jive due attention to each But above every thing the jubilant She is free She is free echoed and reechoed through my brain and rendered me almost to any other On be and his wife had returned the latter still having her mind filled witE and giving us tho details of the melancholy affair so fai as she had been able to learn After expressing due in terest and sympathy the I chanced the current of our thoughts by Delating to my friends my singular delusion in regard to then Miss after much merri we compared notes as to how the misapprehension had It then struck us for the first time as Halsey and myself had not been seated side by side on that memorable it on account of our relative that our respective rights were in different when asked concern ing the lady on the she had naturally glanced toward her own right where sat like so many hi a said you were introduced to Milly Fulton right here in my own True I but do yon not remember how suddenly yon left us when Tommy trait himself And yon bad not then mentioned the ladys name and thinking of the preceding assured her that no introduction was necessary and when yon returned we were chatting unre Here again we stopped to while Tom and his wife reminded me that alls well that ends and advised me to take care that the re sult should be satisfactory to all par ties which I was very willing to at and awaited somewhat impa the opportunity to do Daring my call that Miss Fulton and I discussed and every item of our exciting interview that Between spasms of laugh we described our several sensations piteous countenance that each had presented to the other dur ing the But what did yon I after we had laughed till our sides when I asked if you had heard from your hus band Oh she Well hardly like to I had were not had acted so strangely dur ing our I thought perhaps your mind was when you said that I was for I was convinced that you had suddenly gone insane I fairly shouted in my mirth as I re membered that I had the very same idea in regard to her as I I had thought her anxiety concerning her husband had caused her mental Miss Fulton collapsed again as ut terly as she had done before at the up This was by no means the last time that Mildred I made merry over mv for I prolonged my visit until I had won her promise to marry Closer ac quaintance had only deepened the im pression made upon me by her photo I blessed the that had discovered to me the were those pleasant summer hours spent m the common ingg BO dear to lovers and the long walks we took together after school hours were worth more to even in a physical point of than all my doctors Not long after this I bad also an opportunity to make the acquaintance of the genuine who returned to Clinton in a few with her convalescent husband but I was no longer obliged to overcome my rebellions feelings in regard to that and was perfectly content that he should have Dhe unlimited devotion of his undeni ably pretty So the days went All this I had never shown Mildred the nor related my experience regarding I can hard ly explain the reason of this unless it was because I felt somewhat consciencestricken in bavins so long carried her photograph without her knowledge or But on the evening before my de parture for my Eastern from which I was to return in a few months to Clinton for my I strolled down to her as usual after and when we were alone I took the picture from its envelope and pre sented it before her wondering My picture she Where did you get it That ancient that I had taken so long ago while I was at school Doesnt it look comical That absurd dear how perfectly ridiculous an oldfashioned picture always I did not know that there was one of these yet in But how did you happen to have it Explain Explain though I protested against her abuse of the I did explain not only how I had come into possession of the but my resolve concerning it my subsequent searches and disappointments my fond dreams and and the in ability to be content with any other ideal together with the intense shock and real suffering I had undergone when I supposed I had found her as Then I described my relief and joy on hearing the true state of affairs and showed her how my sin gle aim ever since had been to gain her She sat very quietly till I had finished my her cheek and I could see that she was moved at the thought of the unwavering fidelity I bad shown to her pictured with a tender she said Your faithfulness certainly deserves the fullest explanation on my and really it is all very simple when one understands the Mollie Farnum and I were at school together in New and we both had our photographs taken on the same to here is and she went to an adjoining returning with an album of somewhat passe She turned to the proper place sure there was the likeness of the pretty face on which I had gazed with so much dis appointment on that gotten We were sworn friends at she went and we have often visit ed back and I well remember your uncle and How little I thought they would ever be anything to did not Miss Farnum tell yon that her picture of had vanished I said she wrote me that it was and she guessed pretty well how it all as her brother Henry came to her with her saying he had found Ponto running about with But of course she did not know that my photo had been nor did she ever suspect whose clothes were those on which they nad stumbled that We will go to see her when we visit and yoa shall tell her all about said she married and went to California about five years That is just about the time of my I remember Aunt Loisa said there was talk of her marriage before rejoined and I have never seen her I took her a new picture when I went on toher wed ding as and we supposed the old one had vanished from off the face of the But here is her and Miss Fulton brought another album of more modern and showed me the later likeness of her saw that lady when I was In San Fran cisco she doesnt she replied that the Didnt yon know her I didnt recognize I an though I now know what made her face seem familiar to She is not as pretty as she was five years sighed with the av of a at Time makes havoc all Yon little rogue said laughing yon are angling for a You know yon are by than even when this photo graph was Oh do yoa think BO said with such a accent that Cm I immediately acquitted her of the charge I had made against I didnt really suppose yoa were in bat I was thinking as I as I often do think when I see an old gentleman or that such a one was once fan in bhe beauty oi youth with springing step and sparkling eye and that now these are all and there is nothing mall the universe to recall those vanished And then I she continued rather sad that my eye must grow dim and my cheek wither and it seems so strange and since I have known yon I have me in advancing retain your to my the tears stood in her large eyes as she ceased speak dearest I ex are you in earnest Dp you think it is only your shining hair and round cheek that I love As well might I have remained content with your if your beauty were all I could Remember the words of that sweet old song I mine Yon nave never older With one of those quick transitio ns of mood which were to me so charm she brightened and taking up the old she laughed as she looked at it ejaculated You young creature 1 Here you are transfigured In this absurd forever and more turning to she said Isnt it strange that this should come back to me after all these years indeed I and stranger stiD that I should have pursued the origi nal under the various appellations of Cheston and Mildred But it is very comforting to me to reflect that all these numer titles will soon be null and and I yon as She blushed arid smiled as she re plied Let na hope that you may never again feel called upon to unravel a case of uncertain STATE BABBITT has been nominated postmaster at a pioneer of Water died Sunday aged ANDREW SHOOP was accidentally killed while hunting in the vicinity of his home at Clark a was killed by the cara at He is supposed to have resided at CHILDREN burning out some bumble bees set fire to the marsh seven miles northwest of and 350 tons of hay were DAVID a farmer in the town of killed by a train while driving over the track of the Chicago NorthWestern MYRON of will look to the railroad company for the value of Dayton Belief He paid for the and valued her at WHILE David Partridge was driving toward Beloit with a load of hay it caught and burned so briskly that he was scarcely able to save his fe will remove from Omro to where a site has been given and erect a stone workshop 120 feet They will employ 125 Two Arthur McLaren and Hiram were drowned at Badger near Chippewa Bellington sacrificed his fife in an en deavor to save his the young man suspected of the Search near was discharged from custo the evidence being insufficient to warrant even an FREDERICK living about four miles from Prairie was seriously injured by the sickle a reaping of bone from one of her limbs were found on the THE tobacco on the farm of George near was struck by lightning and Heddles had worth of tobacco in no AT the close of the ball game at Osh on the Jack a lumber invaded the diamond and felled with a blow of his and next attempted to beat the prostrate man with a Glaes was THE Green Bay Gazette says there is but half a crop of blueberries at Cas cade last bushels were daily this year only one to one a half are sent There are some berries in the woods that have not yet ripened that will come on Sixes the disappearance from Man of about two weeks a suspicion that she was the victim of foul play has gradually obtained among her neigh On breaking into ner they discovered evidences that fully warranted their ont in search of her a laborer on the Wisconsin Central on the farm of two miles north ok left a note in his outside coat written in the which ran as follows My dear most part thia I dread tns and I am
