After dinner Mrs. Hark ley and her daughter Anna railed. The elder lady Is the widow of Nathan Barkley, one of our earliest school friends. When tin* war broke out | he entered the service and bidding his wife and four little children goodbye marched away to the war. After having served three years, as he was returning home on the steamer Sultana, as our readers will re-mernlwr, the Ismt when in mid-river burst her loilor, sending one half of her passengers including Mr. Barkley, to the bottom of the Mississippi.fill f _ I .11 a. _____ A A — A