Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1890, Page 5

& CONMERCIAL TRAVELER. | \n Excellent Start Towards the Formation of a Olub. BENEKAL AND PERSONAL NOTES, \n Interesting Description of a Tha- atcical Performa in the Rural Districts—Omaha's Sunday The Traveling Man's Life, Df all the professions o'er followed by man, F'rom the rising of love where Adam began. for checkers and changers, anxiety and strife, ‘Yhere's nothing comparea to the traveling man’s life. Tho modern drummer is readily known And has a peculiar style of his own; In presenting his card and dropoing his grip, Unless perchance he is on his first trio. The new drummer i1s very important and wise, And generally woars glasses for his cus- tomers’ eyes; He is out on trial for a one trip term But considers himself the head of the firm, But the dew drummer learns as he grows more old That he doesn’t handle all the goods that are sold; When fully convinced of the state of affairs He increases his sales by decreasing his airs, {f all the drummers should die 1n one night "Twould leave this country in a terrible plight. Dur passenger trains would rust on tho rail And the hotel business be as dead as o nail. No more would hear the sound of the gong And livery rigs would sell for a song; ‘The hiuges of theater doors.would rust, The street car and omuibus crumble to dust, The blind beggar would got no more dimes in his hat And tne saloon business—well I hardly know as to that: The practice of flirting would suddenly be stopped And all other legitimate business be aropped. Then gather their grips of all sizes and stylos And empty them out in & promiscuous pile; Whata wonderful mixture the eye would behold, From the corsest of fabrics to the finest of gold. There are disappointments that come in the wily Of the traveling man of the modern day; And many insulting thrusts uro made, But he chokes them down for the sake of trade, Thus faucy might run and more things be said, But we have positive proof the drummer’s not dead ; In spending an hour iu a gentloman’s store We nad introductions to a cozen or more. P. 8. To the customer— But they're living and moving I'm happy to say, And jolly good fellows they are, by the W Have a smile for the boys when they call at your store And give them kind greeting if you do nothing more, MR. D18 AsTER. A Traveling Men's Club. { A magnificent start was made last Baturdny night toward organizing o traveling men’s club in this city. The meeting was the result of the call pub- lished at the head of the commercial travelers’ department in Tur BEE last Monday. There was a large attend- ance and plenty of enthusiasm of the bed rock sort. Mr. C. O. Lobeck was put in the char and Mr. W. W. Ryer- son was made secretary, Mr. Lobeck vead a letter of regret from W. L. Eastman, running as fol- lows: ‘“Iootice the call the boys have in Tae Bek for ameeting to organize a traveling men’s club in Omaha., Iam very sorry I cannot attend the meeting. Hope you will have a good lot of the boys ont and make a start. I am with you on unything that is done for the good of the boys.” ‘W, H. Carson read aletter he had received from Jack F. Garratt, saying: ‘I am sorry, old man, that it will be Impossible for me to be at the meeting 73 {'mlp organize the Traveling Men's club of the west. I am sure you will make all arrangements, as tha boys are all in for it. We should have had a club years ago, Nearly every town of any note has one and the boys of Omaha should uot be behind. I am with the boys and will put up myshare whenever salled upon to do so. I aw sorry I can- oot be in Omaha more than I am.” W. R. Packs said that he thoroughly believed an organization or club of traveiing men was greatly discussed by the boys generally. o would guaraa- tee that he would get fifty members right here in Omaha. satisfaction by several gontlemen dur- ing the discussion. On motion it was voted to admitas charter members of the now orguniz tion the editors of the traveling men’s departments in Tne Bee, World-Her- ald and Republican of Omaha. The committee on preamble repocted the following, which was unanimously adopted: “Considering that it would be greatly 10 the interest of the traveling men of Omaha to have an organization for the purpose of promoting their welfare generally and socially, we, the under- signed, agree to join and heartily sup- port an organization, such organization to be called ‘The Omaha Traveling Men’s Business club,’ the first hundred of which shall be charter members, to bo governed by a constitution and by- laws, to be hereafter adopted.” The following gentlemen immedi- atoly signed the preamble: F. G. Cran- dall, W, H. Carson, V. F. Martin, Julws Born, Frank M. Arnold, W. W, Cole, H. Kellogg, J. Glenn, C. O. Lo- beck, J. B, Miles, F. F. Goodson, Jack F. Garratt, W. R. Parks, M. W. Ryer- son. Aftor a vote of thanks to the pro- prictor of the Hotel Casey for the use of his parlors the meeting adjourned in high feather over the very successful resulte which had been accomplished. Got Too Much for Their Money. Cnes , Neb., Feb, 15.—To the Lditor of TiE BeE: Several of us met in a small town in the southern part of the stale the other evening and after having ‘“‘done” the town and repaired to the hotel and wrote up our orders we gathered around the stove to dis- cuss the best method of passing the evening. Some one suggested high five, but we could not find any cards, and hearing that a performance was 1o take place at the opera house, we de- termined to ‘‘take it in.” Knowing that you are always gind to hear from the *'boys” I will give you a description of the performance The company consisted of six people, who did alternate duty as the orchestra when not being required on the stage, and if the organ, violin and cornet did not harmonize, still the vigor dis- piayed was charming. The overture was the “Devil’s Dream,” but it had to be succeeded by two other pieees, as the stage apparently was not ready for the entertainment. During the ren- dition of the third piece a member of the company made his appearance armed with a tallow cardle, and pro- ceeded to light the three lamps which were to do duty as footlights. Having done this, he mounted the stage, and assuming a dramatic attitude worthy of a Booth, informed the audience that in the absence of programmes, he would announce the entertainment, and did 80 as follows: We will commence the evening’s per- formance with a comedy drama in three acts entitled **Nick,” or “A Friend i Need,”” and_ will conclude with a cal comedy in four acts entitled ‘“‘The Two Peas.” During the interval, be- tween these two performances the vari- ous artists composing the troupe will favor the audience with their musical specialties, making in all seven acts und an interlude thrown in, all for 25 cents, The boys stayed right with i\ for the three acts of **Nick,” also through the variety porformance by the individual members, but at the termination of the first act of *The Twno Peas” it was unan- imously decided that 25 cents worth had been received by each and every one, so we retired to the nearest cider house, and all concluded that for great- ness of quantity and scarcity of quality this company wil hold its own with any on earth. The boys all declare that they laughed more and louder than at any time since their respective chila- hoods. Jo AT HoLprrce, Neb., Feb. 14.—To the Editor of THeE BEE: Mr. W. A. Bo- land, the popular Chicago clothing man, was in Holdrege Sunday compar- ing diamonds, as usual, with Mr. Hampton. Jean says he will have the genial Willie's diamonds1f he has to seli the hotel. Oklahoma Hanna in- tends chipping in a bag of potatoes and his little hatchet. Fersonal Mention. Charlie Thornburg, who disposes of the juicy bivalve for Platt & Co., re- turned to spend Sunday in Omaha after & successful week’s business. Mr. Thorn- burg says the *‘r” in this month has proved a *hoodoo” to his business. The ‘" is not quite cold enough. J, W. Stratton of Wahoo, commercial paper broker, stopped over in the city {;os rday on his v to Chicago, where e will remain for some time, C. S, Carrier, who represents the Chicagound lowa Coal company, was a Sunday guest at the Millard. He en- joyed an interesting social conferonce Mv. Carson said that Mr. Goodwin of the Clark coffee compuny bad told him there were five in his house who had signified a strong desire to join such a clab, providing members of the firm were adwitted. For his part, Mr. Car- thought it would be an excellent to admit jobbers to membership in he orgmlwuon. Mr. Parks favored taking in the job- bors, and a motion to that effect by Bim wss unanimously carried by the meeting. " It was decided that the term, *‘city salesmen,” be taken as synonymous with that of traveling salesmen or trav- ‘aling men, E, J. Cullen spoke enthusiastically of edmittiog jobbers. He thought that E‘a of the principal aims of the organ- tion should be to widen and strengthen acquaintances between rep- wesentatives of and the heads of firms. The headquarters should, in his mind, be made a, congenial meeting place for traveling men, jobbers and customers »s well, On motion of Mr, Ryerson the chair wus instructed 1o appoint a committee of three to draft & constitution and by- Saws for an organization to be knowa s fhe Owmaba Traveling Men’s Business Aub. Messrs. Parks, Clarkson and B{ermu were appointed as such com- mittee. Messrs. Crandall, Lobeck and Arnold were appointed to look up the matter of headquurters, s It was decided that every man should rustle for members during the coming week, and vome together next Saturday evening and report, and also hear re- i)ar\.l from the committees appointed. n order to assigt in the securing of members it was voted that Messrs. Ryerson and Curson prepare a preamble to head the puper to be presented for sigonatures, {t was the sense of all present, and was 50 voted, that at the next general meeting, Saturday evening of this week, & pormanent organization be effected. A discussion of the question of dues was had. Maoy present llwughl. that #5 would be about the proper thing, the idea being that it would be far better to make tho membership fee enough to carry the thing through than to have it small and then be gompelled to make assessments. The idea that some of the firms would bring in articles of fur- niture for the club room or headquar- ters, in addition to’ their membership feo, was contemplated with considerable with A. G. Morseman and H. F. Kergu- son. .The latter sells goods for a St. Louis boot and shoe house. A. G. Moseman, the poetical repre- sentative of Mathews, Nicholson & Co., miners of “*Superior)’ conl, St. Louis, i% on his first trip to Omaha. He says the firm has decided to open a branch house here next fall and put him in charge of it. Mr. Moseman is at the Millard. A. Summers, the popular grocery salesman of Chicago, was in Nebraska City Tuesday. W. H. Bates of Lincoln registered at the Grand Pacific, Nebraska City, Tuesday night. Dan Sheenan of the James Walsh mercantile company, St. Joseph, was a Eromlnem figure in the rotunda of the rand Puciltic, Nebraska City, the mid- dle of the week. Fred C. Johnson, the handsome heart- breaker, who travels for a St. Joseph grooery ouse, was in Nebeaska City ‘ednesday. Fred says it's not his fault he was born beautiful, H. B. Kooser, the Missouri Pacific traveling freight agent, visited Ne- braska City the middle of the week. W. M. Corthon, the blonde cigar man from Lincoln, worked the main line of the Missouri Pacific last week. | Clarence Engle sells spices ana coffees for au Omaha house, He spent Sunday in Nebraska City. At the Horole, At the Casey—William Jess, Paul; M. W. Kirkpatrick, Chicag ‘W. Kennedy, Chicago; I\ E, Milla Joe; G. E. West, St. Louis; J. H. § den, Columbus; J. D. Bicker, Detroit; Willism E. Sheehan, Milwaukee; O. D. Porter, Peoria; L. H. Ward, Chicago; J. H. Bliss, Omana; V. H, Weakly, Chicago; H. W, Patrick, Chicago; Jno. J. Dube, Chicago; J. H., Marshall, Rockford; W, E. Lee, Bosto Foote, St. Louis, Hasoall, Peoria; Julious Born, Ch e-so; W. K. Ewmerson, Boston; J. ). Jones, Omahu; C, B. Thomas, Zunesville, O.; E, B, Morian, Dunkirk, . ¥.; H. W. Van Sickle, Omaha; M. A. Sultwan, Chicago; E. J. Cullen, North Loup; R. R. Waugh, Peoria; E. R. E‘erfiuwn. St. Louis; H. Benne- diet, Chicago; J. K Long. Buffalo; H. 8. Nerwin, Chicago; E. R. May, San Francisco; Frank W. Sullivan, To- wanda, Pa.; L. B, b‘er{ St Joe; R. E. Smith, Philadelphia; F. M, Lud- ington, St. Paul; A, E. tin, Bur- lington; E. J, Augle, Towanda, Pa.; G. St. W. Jones, Omaha; W. A. Humphrey Pittshurg; W. O. Johnson, Des Moin John Mullowney, Omaha; A. W. Cour- son, Moline; B. Tucker, New York; A. 8. Kelley, Denver; T. B. Lottin, Omaha; J. A, Casebaer, Casper, Wyo.; W. H. Stout, Philadelphia; Marshall Harker, Kansas City; J. A, Jenkins, Denver; E. A. Rickner, Lincoln, At the Merchants—Alex P. Brown, ev. J. W. Jones, Philadelphia; N. K. Van Husen, J Zabusku, Sioux City; L. J. Archer, Connor, Neb.; Charles Dreyfus, Chicago; Thomas Haley and wife, Omaha; E. C. Jackson, 1. M. Willsey, Blair; E. C. Carns, Thomas Graham, Seward; J. S. Dew, Tecumseh; George W. Allen, Longmont, Col.} John Berry, Chadron, Neb.; J. W. Mil- ler and wife, Ogden, Utah,; J. A. Inevie, Toronto, Can.; R. W, Johnson, Omaha; T. J. Norton, Newton, Kan.; C. L. Stain, Springfield, Neb.; George G. Thomas, New York; J. H, Cogle, Me- tropolis, I1l.; B. Pettz, Hot Sorings, Dak.; E. W. Bisch, St. Louis; E. C. Jefteries, Cleveland, O.; J. H. Mockett, Lincoln; D. W, Fletcher, Wooster, O.; 1. C. Perkins, H. A. Perki Leaven- worth; B. MecLean, Chicago; E. P. Wood, Mount Ayr, In.; W. W. Finch, E. Hanson, Central City; Charles k. Benson, Dés Moines; K. 8. Bailey,Rock Island; B. Howard, Kansas City; F. I Rice, Rawlins: J. A. McColl, San Fran- cisco; Jesse P, Mills, Tacoma, Wash I. G. Miller, New York; Thad Whi tier, Omaha; D. B. Weipton, Red Oak, Ia.; A. A. Fisher, Omaha; A. C. White, Colfax, Ind.; J. F\ Kratze, Omaha; Phil Jacobs, Kunsas City; P. H. Sharp, Des Moines; C. F\. Iddings, North Platu Donald Ma Cusig, Nebraska City: Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska Cit; George D. Medell, Rock Island; S. H. Plummer, Chicago; J. D. Kluelsch. Lin- coln; R. S. Moore, Lincoln; C. E. Chandler, Chicago; D. Weggartz, Mil- waukee; P. L. Patterson, Mankato, Minn.; S. H. Robt, Gibbon, Neb.; O. R. ‘Wainwright, St. Joseph; M. V. Erskim, Omaba; S. P, Georgia, Chicago; J. F. Cobb, Chicago; A. Shannon, Chicago; Judge I. B. Tiffany, Albion; M. E. Springer, Chicago; Bea H. Hayden, Omaha; Simon Hahn, New York; Frederick Backus, New York; W. E. ileissner, St. Louis; C. C. Melhorem, nover, Pa,; J. W. Kruse, Lincoln; A. Greig, Beatrice; W. J. Studley, Des Moines; R. W. Harvey, St. Louis; I. B., Searage, Columbus, O.; H. R. Spilman, Clinton, Ia. At the Millurd—Dan Y. Wheeler, representing M Brothers' drag company, S J. L. Daugherty, Des Moines; BE. C. Butler, Cincinnati; Charles T. Ledden, Chicago; H. C. Stewart, Des Moines; M. Smith, Chica- go: Charles W. Cox, Chicago; John A. Ladd, St. Louis; S. B. Hathaway, New Frank Fox, Denver; Y. E. Tucker, New York: W. E. Putterson, Kansas City; C. R. Pugh, Grand Rapids} G. C. Cushman, Chicago; George Towle, New York; J. J. Landers, New York; Max Kugel, New York; J. Retterson, Chicago; Tra Hubble, Kansas City; William Meclntosh, New York; J. H. Edwinston, Chicago: H. Barbey, New York; H. Damm, Chicago; W. 1. Jeunkins, New York: J. S. Kimmelsted, New York; H. P, French, Troy, N. Y.; H. F. Ferguson, St. Louis; W. Mor- risey, New York; A. K, Dixon, Troy; J. J. Dowling, Boston; D. Y. Wheeler, St. Louis; J. A. Creah, New York; B. F. Rhodes, St. Louis: Sam Bick, St. Louis; C. K. Wilbur, Chicago; B. F. Cass, Chicago; J. S. Sawin, Chicago; . B, Newcomer, Chicago; Sam Cass, San Francisco; James G. Goodville Chicago, K. H. Lunley, Detroit; A. G. Nosemay, St. Louis; W. . M. Bain, Saginaw, Mich.; R. J. Killick, C! g0y J. H. Muller, Chicago; C. A.. Kimbal Bos- ton; M. Rosensteine, Lancaster,. P: S. M. Mandle, New York; A. E. An derson, Chicago; J. F. Sanger, Chicago; J. Schram, Chicago; Lewis Meyers, Chicago: C. E. Cohoe, Rockford, Ili.: James Stagord, Chicago; W. Hartman, Cincinnati; Samuel F. Smith, Phila- delphia; F. N. Hackett, Detroit; J. S. Cooley, Chicago; d Rosenberg, New York; Johu D. Thompson, Cincinnati; H. C. Knowlton, Rochester, N. Y.; W. P. Schurman, St. Louis; Wiliiam T. Booth, New York; W. R. Lynch, St. Louis; E. D. Hofeller, Rochester, N. Y.; D. C. Wegelan, New York; Stanley Woolman, New York; Robert Branch, St. Louis. e Pleasant to the taste, surprisingly quick in effect, and economical in prico—no wonder that Dr. Bull's cough syrup is the leading preparation of its kind. *Oh! woman, in thy hours of ease, uncer - tain, coy, and hard to piease.” With ohil- dren hurt, long hours she's speat. Do try Salvatior: oil, the Liniment. ———— RUTH ELLIO.T'S CROSS. S. M. in Chicago Herald: We were driving home from the Sargent’ ball, Alice and I, you know, and the prospect of such a drive iv the intense cold of a winter’s night was not delight- ing our hearts. By the glimmer of the carriage lamps we could see the snow- flakes falling thick and fast, and the wheols rolled on with that awful creak, creak, which tells of dry sharp cold and a thermometer way down below zero. I had myself seen that there was no half way business abouf the heating of the soapstones for our feet, and Alice re- marked that she would not mind if somebouy had been thoughbtful enough to provide one of those little Japanese stoves for her hands, *Why! are you cold alveady?” said I, covering her hands with one of mine in its buge fur glove and drawing ber close down among the furs and up to my side—of course, solely for warmth’s sake, for Alice and I had been married quite long enough to be satisfied with our own corners of the carriage on ordinary occasions; only we weren’t. ‘*No,"” she replied, **not cold exactly, but premonitory shivers are running down my back; by the time we #et out home we'll be frozen stiff, Tom!” 0, no, I guess not,” so1d I, reassuring- ly, “still I should have insisted upon staying in town luuiFhl; living in the country bas, after all, some fow disud- vantages; shouldn’t wonder, thongh, if James wou'd congenl before we arrive.” **Tom,” said my wife,some time later, rousing me from the deliciously drowsy state I bad fallen into, **Tom, who was that sad-eyed woman to whom 1 saw you speak so cordially. Her face haunts me. [ cannot seem 1o get away from those mournful eyes. Hus she a his- tory?” “My dear.” T answered, ‘‘what will you say if Itell you that that was an old flame of your faithful spouse, the lady at whose feet my devotions were laid for many & long yeur, during which she m‘:xht have become Mrs. Thomas Allen had she but bec n walling$” * “*Nousense, Tom. I wish you would occasionally stop your joki 15]. Khe munll’ be quite ten years older than you are. “*Make it five and come sowewhat vearer. Kuth Elliott is really 'some- what older than Ifaw, it is 'true, but’ from the day I met her at the nuture age of eleven years, until you broke my heart at twenty-five, by certain wicked tricks, [ adored her unceasingly.” **So that was Ruth Elliott," saxd Alice, with that cuarming unconcern about men’s early loves which pretty, spoiled Youn, wives are wont 10 manifest. *Ruth Elliott! Why did you not intro- duce me? Did she not think it stranger”’ “No. dear, at her own request I refrained, but wremised to bring you in town in a day or two to see her. had started to seeld you when she beg- ged me to wait and'bring you to see her quietly. So, a8 shevwas just leaying, [ left you to your dnmcing. She only cameo to bring a young cousin who is in town with her, but:finding that Mrs. Winter was very nlensed to chaperon the girl and take hen home, she early withdrew."’ I know, Tom, deny, that T ought to remember a great dgal more about her than I do! Of course, I know the family lived next you for 50 many years, and that you nl? adored ler, and that she was awfuily unhappy, But anything more is a vague, shidowy idea of sad- ness and sorrow in_my mind, just now accontuated by the memory of thoso groat wistful eyes and drooping mouth. Tell me about her.” “There is not o much to tell, Alice; only a talo of the woos human flosh is heir to. It wasatragedy that left its imprint upon that woman’s brow, and, strange to say, & tragedy in which only filial love entered in.” Y0, Tom, now, yvou must tell me. I know it is something heart-breaking, your voice has such a far-away sound and you have forgotten all about me. You will have plenty of time to tell the whole thing. James has todrive so slow through all these drifts, and it is sucha long way.” “Well, let me see that you are all tucked in,” said I, bending over and ar- ranging the rugs, “‘and I will try to make you understand something of the repression of self in the story of this one woman’s life. Ruth Elliott was the brightest ray of sunshine that fell upon my forlorn boyhood. Sent at eleven years to live in my guardian’s family, where the coming of a rough hobblede- hoy was anything but welcome, espe- cially as he was heir to only enough to give him an education. I had not much to make the days happy, either of love or kindness. and I grew to watch for the smile on Ruth’s lips, the friendly glance Jof her eye, almost as a dog does for his one friend’s hand upon his head. She was not old enough to feei how much more I needed nor wise enough to guide me over the rough places, but it was her nature to be sweet and pleasant to every one and let some of her happiness bub- ble over for others’ good. “I did not see ner so often, although many an afternoon after lessons were done and I was supposed to be romping and shouting with the other boys I was hidden away down by the hedge watch- ing for a giimpse of her face, ready to reach forward and open the gate if she came our way, although I might as well rounfess that I was usually disappointed. Ruth, you know, lived next door to my guardian, and a very difierent family was here from the worldly people with whom my lot was cast. Her mother was the gentiest woman God ever let the sun shine on. She woulil even at first have been a friend indeed to me, a mother- lesslad, but since Ruth was five years old she had neverseen her mother on her feet. An injury to her spine kept her confined to one, room, most of the time to a bed of pain, so that few,except her family, ever saw her. ‘A true wife and mother, she kopt her best moments for her own, and herccheering, patient life was the example upon which Ruth’s character wns built up. “Ruth’s father was a gay man of the world, good in his f¥ay to his wife and family, proud of Rith’s beauty and full of hope for his boys, but the weak spot in his character showed itself in hissel- fish grief at his wife’s misfortune. What she suffered, what grushing disappoint- ment life was to hory taken so suddenly from all scenes of brightness and pleasure, confined »dforever to = four walls, was as nothing compared to the fact that he was deprived of her society, that his house and his table should have lost its head ana could not longer be the center of every- thing gay. Kind he was, it 1s true, but selfishly kind, doing for others when that doing afforded him a personal pleasure—ranking himself and his wishes first always. His devoted wife reached out even from her sick room to hide this fault from the world and es- pecially from the children as they grew older. The boys, both younger than Kuth, were noisy young animuls, with- out a thought or care for anything save fun with their dogs and horses---but withal inheriting, as Ruth did, the same bright, laughing nature, without a cross grain, from their mother. This was the Elliott family as I first knew them, before the blight fell-— when the mother hand, though weak and feeble, could guide the heim. Ruth was the connecting link, the mes- senger of love; she it was who stood be- tween the mother and the outside world, her young head attended to many household arrangements. She hushea the boyish exuberance, when too much noise reached the sick room; through her could the mother keep up her chav- itable relations with the village poor: through her soften the father’s harsh judgment when things did not please him, and thus early was the girl lnuahr‘ to think first of others and not of self? “Tom,” she would call to me across the lawn, “*Mamma wants to know how poor Muft 'is this morning, and if you remem- bered to put thoso bandiges on his leg?” or **Tom. mamma thought you would like toride totowa with me and the boys.” And thus did they two plan for the stranger Ind who had never vet seen the sufferer’s face suve through the window’s pane, and yet whose forlorness her kind heart longed to reach out and succor, *Do you need to have me tell you that Ruth idolized her mother; that her happiest hours were spent beside the shrunken form or fulfilling its behests, and that the unchanging story of griel began for her when somehow or other the ides entered that father's mind that Ruth must be sent to school. ‘She must be made & wol panof, a woman that I shall be proud’'to own; a woman of the world fit for {he place at the head of house,’ declared he, and all protests were of small avail, although he knew his wife could not ha¥e her long. And she, with that unsélflshness which he had grown to look upon as a matter of course, as soon as she realized that his decision was unalterable, turned to rec- onciling the poor ¢hid’s mind to her duty to her father's will, *“rom,’ said Ruth'$0 me one day— ‘Tom, I have got to and leave my mother;’ and with: i"pnul.her word she dashed away into ouse, unwilling that even a boy shauld recognize the extoat of her grief. * "Twas after Ruthiawent that I got to kuow Mre. Elliott. One day when my heart was full of paim because of some rebuke I had recsived, I almost uncon- sciously found my way down to my old seat near the hedgd, and glancing up to the east window of the Elliott house saw the thin face bending a sweet, kind look upon the youthful spécimen of human desolation below. Some motion of her hand my fancy transformed into 4 sign to come to her, and without hesi- tation I cleured the gate, ran across the lawn, and entered the house through a side door, by which the boys had always take me 1. With a courage born of impetuousity I aushed up the stairs, calling back a servant who came in the hallway: ‘Mrs. Elliott wants me.’ Grace was given me to stop at the door and give a timid rap, but the low, sweet voics which responded ‘Come in' was changed to wu ejaculation of surprise whean the door swung open, and in an THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 17, 1890. instant a trembling form was kneeling beside her couch. “Little Tom! Why, how is this?"’ she exclaimed. **Ohl Mrs. Elliott,” T sobbed, ‘I wanted to come before, and if you had not beckoned me now I don't know what I should have done.” “That was enough for her womanly intuition, for Ruth told me a long time afterward her mother wrote her that not for worlds whoutd she have let me know she had no idea how I could have fancied she beckoned. Such a mother petting as I had that day Ialways re- membor when I sce you, .»divo, soothing the hurts of our little chaps, and once a week, all that long winter, when they were trying to decide what to do with me, dear Mrs. Elliott insisted that 1 must be allowed to come in to her. | grew to be the confident of her hopes for Ruth. She would lie there and tell of the dreams she wove for the future that should come to her; of the happy home she pictured her in,and when exhausted she lay back with oyes closed and hand upon my shoulder I would sit there motionless untiiL a firmer pressure or the entrance maid would signal my dismissal. “If T have not often spoken of this woman’s influence over my life, dear, it is not because I have forgotten it, but because it seems so far away, almost like a story which has been told nearly twenty years of life in the world make the boy of thirteen almost a dream,and, after all, T knew her such a little time. Well, it is neither the story of her life nor mine that I am telling you, but Ruth’s, and T must _hurry, for we have alrendy passed old Jessup’s gate. “Ah, Allie, the storms of life began early to fall on Ruth’s young head. ‘That daughter’s heart knew how slowly but surely the mother was fading away, and that the repressed longing for the companionship of her child was aggra- vating the nervous disease, but she dreamed not of that other care that was preying upon her little by little. Mrs. Elliott was being made to realize that the world, the flesh and the devil were taking the wife’s place in her husband’s life; the distractions found at his club were too much for himj night after night the hour of his return grew later, day by day the flush on his face was deeper, untilat last she could no longer deceive herseif about the way he was going. No one but Ruth will ever know of the mental suffering those four walls beheld, for oniy to her was revealed the despair which fell upon the wife’s soul when she realized dmt one sick woman was powerless to stem the tide. “From Ruth her father’s fall was kent, but the boys were growing old enough to see for themselves, and their love and tenderness for their mother scemed to grow hourly. One- bitter cold night Mr. Elliot came home at an early hour deeply intoxicated, and tinding something~ wrong at the house, sent for the boys and ordered them to get into the cart from which ho had just decended and drive into town for tne plumber without de- lay. Jaclk, the elder, ventured to re- monstrate with ghim, asking why one of the men could not go, but when he replied angrily that he wanted that thing ~ done that night and it would take one of the faimily to get it done, Jack followed his brother into the cart without another word. Hour after hour passed. Mr. Elliott was spleeping away the time in the library, the scrvants were careful to keep the whereabouts of the boys from Mrs, Elliott, who supposed they had retired without disturbing her, but when it was nearly midnight @ frightened group i the hall were startied by the loud and repeated ringing of the night-bell. The muid, who had left her queit two hours before, found her sitting up amid her pillows, with a white, tense face and strangely excited manner, demanding, ‘Where are my boys, where are they? I have just heard Hal crying out, “"Mother, oh! mother, do come to us! Help, oh! help!’” The woman, who vas a sedate, elderly, person, di creetly stated that they had long since retived, und eyen went outside the door apparently to investi- gate, returning with reasuring information, and at last succeded in calining the excitement, and with the aid of u quieting powder put her to sleep. By this time it was nearly 2 o’clock, and Battles, who had for half an hour been trying unsuccessfully to awaken his master from the drunken stupor, had just told the gardener that they would go in search_of the missing lads, when Mrs. Elliott’s maid joined them. Leaving the women still gath- ered in the hall, Battles and Hughie went out on their anxious quest. Ruth and my guardian have told me that they came over there firstand got Mr. Arm’s of a { conchman to get up, light his lantern, and accompany them down the road. Toward wmorning the faint light of breuking day discovered these faithful men the center of an excited crowd, bearing up the path by the hedge, two motionless bodies,both lads cold and still, though in Hal's young frame the breath of life seemed to flicker feebly; but Jack, bright, laughing, sturdy fél- low that he was but a few hours ago, was dead, By the roadside, in a little lane which diverged from the main road to town, the men had found the brothers. Jack, who was lying upon his face with his head doubled under his shoulders, must have died at once, but Hal was still breathing but a deep wound in his bead was bleeding pro- fusely. Of the horse nothing was to be seen, although strewn down the road were broken pieces of the cart. How they broke the news to Mrs. Elliott; how the doctors who were summoned, for doys vibrated between her bed and Hal’s, trying with little success to keep the feeble spark of life aglow in each, and of Mr. Elliott's remorse and horror, which wine would not drown, must not pause to tell you, “Ruth, of course, was telegraphed for, and eame, as soon as wight be, to hor stricken home. What those fourteen hours’ journey alone were to the girl, what the influence of her few months ut school and the need to control the girl- ish longings for'her mother friend had done for her,how much was due to the pa- tient example and loving teachiug, bers through that bright childhood, who can tell? The result alone we know. Into that house caume a calm and self- contained woman, with a steady, pur- poseful face, who took up the shuttered lines at once and has held them firm from then until now, during wvearly twenty years of steadfast, loving care for others, How shall I convey to you the faintest idea of the sense of calm- ness, of dependence on a head that came into that doorway with this girl of seventeen. You mubt wait until you know, and trust her to understand. Not once have we who know her so well seen her falter—uot even when the idol of her hearg, her mother, sank into eter- nal rest after a fow more months of suffering. How they loved each other, those two! What peace it must have broughl to that dying woman’s heart to know that, no matter how heavy might be the burden she wmust lay on these {gun{:hnuhlau. there was strength to ar it “The shock did not kill Mrs. Elliott; she lived to hear the tramp of feet under her window bearing away for- ever her eldest boy, upon whose earthly form, still in death, she wight not look; she lived to know that her bonnie Hal was a hopeless idiot, restored to perfect bealth of tody; but with a mind forever blank; she lived to see her husband sink into a disappointed drunkard, rail- ing alike at his cursed luck and at her wiio brought it all on him by the in- fluence of her infernal nervousness, but she also lived tothank God hourly for herdaughter's love and to instill deep into Rnth’s heart that, instead of the bright future of domestic love and hap- piness she had pictured for her, here amid this destruction was her lifo’s work “‘We have sometimes felt that this was the blot on Mrs, Elliott’s character; thatin her distress she forgot she was but a womnn, and_one to whom love would some day be all in all, when she bound her with a sacred promise to remain foreyer with these two unfortunates— an idiot and a man half crazed with drink. To bring to their iife some- thing of brightness at whatever cost hersell, ‘Ruth,” she said— ‘Ruth, my daughter, not for you is the love of husband and the peace of your own homej not for you shall the ring of childish voices and the touch of baby fingers awaken a mother’s love. Here is your appointed place. 1 could not go and leave them if T thought yow would one day be won away to another home, Nor, Ruthie aear, must you ever pormit a stranger to sacrilice himself for these, our own, and come here to share the burden with vou. It is your cross, and you must bear it for youand me, though your back bend under its weight.” And Ruth would ever reply: ‘Be at pence, mother; even as you say, so shall it be. I will never leave nor forsake them.’ “Mrs. Elliott had been the only child and heiress of a very wealthy min, who had, for a seemingly incomprehensiblo reason, opposed her marriage to John Elliott, and his death it was found that his property was settled upon his daughter so that Mr. Elliott was unable to have even the care of it; besides which, after the birth of Ruth, her randfather had added a codicil which irected that if his daughter did not in her turn will the property with the same proviso to her chtldren the entire estate should revert to certain specified charities, the trustees of the ostate be- ing empowered to appoint others at the end of twenty years. ““Thus, my near, did it come about that Dr. Johnson aud I became the trustees of Ruth’s fortune, for her moth- er’s will left her sole heir, with the es- tate subject to an annuity for the sup- port of Hal. Mr. Elliott himself was once a prosperous man, and may bo now for aught I know, in spite of his intem- perate habits. Naturaily, since I cume 80 far west, the vesponsible part of our duties has fallen upon Dr. Johnson, al- though Ruth herself is so sucs ul a business woman that he is merely an adyisory trustee. By the way, Alice, did you ever meet him *‘No, L don’t think so. I don’t know, though. Wasn’t he the man who came down to New York to see you the timo iz 28, you did see him then, didn’t you? What a noble fellow he isand how faithful he has been to that girl!” “Who? To Ruth? 1Is he in love with her, and she can’t break her promise? O, isn’t that a shame?” ‘*Yes. While Ruth at school Guy Johnson returned from his two years in the London hospitals and took a great deal of his father’s practice off his shoulders, especially the nervous diseases; and some of his new ideas last sufferings of Mrs. Elliott Through all the days of hor- the boys were killed he was tanch friend. while I was yet young to be of use. You sece, there is u sort of tie of kinship between them. Old Dr. Johuson and Ruth’s grandfather were second cousins, and he was one of the trustees naned in the first will. So the son naturally fell into an unusual sort of intimacy with Ruth, as he came the following day to see Mrs. Elliott and Hal. It was not surprising that her sweet womanliness as well us her beauty soon won his heart, for even though Ruth’s face lost that sunniness which was her chief charm as a child, and the wstful, mourning expression on it grew constantly more marked, she was and is a beauti- ful woman. But that she should not re- turn the devotion of our splendid young doctor has been a subjoct of gossip and wonderment in Merrivale for fifteen years, Not return his devotion! How ittle the world knows of us! Ruth El- liott, even as she made her unbroken vow of sell-ropression ut her mother’s bedside, knew that deep down in her heart was kindled a spark of love which would grow to perfect flower, unbidden as it came. “That Guy Johdson has declared his love and offered to share the,burden with ber I know, for as I grew to man- hood he interested himself in me. Drawn together by a similiarity of taste, we became warm friends and afterwards made the long trip together to South Americi That Ruth has never per- mitted him to have a glimpse into her heart I iinow, too, though she nearly betray herself when ke porformed that semi-successful operation on Hul in raising the t¢kull bone on the brain. only one who dreams secret, and I surprised her one ‘day as she stood gazing with longing eyes irom the east window in ber mother’s sitting room at his tall form gtriding toward the gate. I was privileged because of my lonliness to sit in that room when I would, and this day as [ pushed aside the curtain I heard her say: ‘Guy, Guy, I must not love you and yet youare all [ have.’ ‘Not all, Ruth,’ 1 exclaimed; ‘don’t you love me too? Your mother did.' ‘Ah, Tom,’ she said, starting back—‘yes, dear, I love you enough to trust you completely. You have found my secret, that which Dr. Johnson must never know. Will you keep it for me as long as we live?’ **And untii this moment so I have,but Alice has got to release me tomorrow, for her hardest duty is nearly over. She told me they give her father but a lew months more to live. Bravely has she stood by his side, as few could do,al- though to love the drunken creature she could not. 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