The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 10, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
THEIR REAL
WEDDING
By F. A. MITCHEL
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John Humes, foreman at an ironworks.
had an assistant. Peter Itucker
I'eter was as necessary to the works
as the engine that supplied the motive
power, and he worked as steadily us
the flywheel whieh turned just so
many revolutions every day in the
week, flumes often told the superin
teudent that he could get on without
any one under him except Pucker
I'eter was thirty-live years old and
unmarried. Humes took him home to
supper with him one evening, and there
he saw for the tirst time Ilurnes
daughter, Madge, sixteen years old
Pucker was looked upon by the girl
as a friend of her father and of an
other generation. Hut while Pucker
was talking shop with Humes he had
an eye for Madge, and he wished he
could knock ten or (ifteeu years off his
ni'H sn flint clwt u-nul.1 !/"?!
In a different li^rlit. When lie left the
Burnes home Mrs. Burnes said to her
husband:
"Did you see the looks he gave
Madge?"
"No. What d'ye mean?"
"I mean that lie's a chance for the
lass to get n good husband."
"Tuab, mother! She's only a child,
and when she comes a year or two older
she'll be thinkin' o' some laddie
with a sproutiu' beard."
"She's thinkin' o' one o' that kind
now. There's a younker that comes to
deliver goods from the store that's
caught her eye."
The result of this interview was that
Ruclier was asked again to supper, and
when the menl was over Burnes had
a headache and must go to bed and
his wife must nurse him. That left
Madge to entertain Rucker, which she
did with a poor grace, for she was
thinking of the grocer boy. Bob Decker,
with whom she had an engagement
for the same evening.
Rucker divined this to be encourage
ment on the part of Madge's parents,
and since M.ulge kept her feelings to
herself his heart leaped for joy. With
u.uvu oiuuiuuufi nir usivuu uunies n
he would object to his trying to win
his little girl for n wife, nnd Bunies
assented. But It was Mrs. Burnes who
won Madge for tho wooer, though he
thought he had done it himself. The
mother held a picture of comfort with
Itucker and one of poverty with
Decker should she marry him, for his
salary was but $15 a week, with 110
prospects.
So on the day Madge was seventeen
she gave her hand to the sturdy mechanic,
while her heart remained with
the grocer's delivery boy.
Rucker did not expect much demonstration
of affection from his wife. lie
calculated on her growing dependent
upon him nnd thus drifting into that
affection which follows later in life
between married couples. But he noticed
that she had none of the elasticity.
the spirits that should be in one
on the threshold of life. This seemed
to go from bad to worse, and one day
he said to her:
"Tell me, little one, what troubles
you. No matter what it is. I will
make it right if it is possible."
Her only reply was tears. Rucker
spoke so kindly to her. urging her to
cast her burden upon him. she trusted
him so implicitly, that at last she told
him that she loved Bob Decker, but
could not have married him because
ho was poor. She had therefore yielded
to her mother's persuasion that she
should marry Rucker.
Had the ironworker been struck by
one of tlie sledges used Iu the works
he could not have been more completely
knocked out. But the soul of a
strong man will stand up when his
body will go down. Not a twinge did
he permit his young wife to see. It
was some time before ho spoke again;
then he said:
"I didn't know I was standing in the
wajr of your happiness, little one, or
I would not have done so. But 1 am
In honor bound to undo what 1 have
done. I will see that you secure a
legal parting with me, and not only
that, but to make amends for the
wrong I have done you 1 will make
it safe for you to marry the man you
love. I have a bit saved and will give
it to you that you may not want."
There was a strange look in the
young wife's eyes when she lifted
them to her husband. But she snid
nothing. There was going on within
her something that she did not recog
nize. The young man to whom she
was to be given came up before her.
He was a very ordinary youth, whom
she had sot up In her mind to worship
But somehow she could not conceive of
his doing anything like this. The man
whom thus far she had looked upon
as standing between this young lover
and herself now suddenly loomed up
as something grand, something noble
In a twinkling it was revealed to her
that to exchange him for the other
would break her heart.
Words could never undo the words
she hud spoken. Fortunate is woman
that she has something stronger than
n'linlti ivlil. ..I.O.I. ... .
.. ...V.I ...... II IU gA|)IO? IILTSl'll
ami which seldom falls with man
Tears came again.
"Don't cry. little ??ne. It will soon
be all right. It can be undone and
you will yet be happy."
lie reached for her hand to soothe
her. She throw her arms around his
neck.
"You may go tonight," ho said, "and
I promise you that within a year you
shall be living contentedly"?
"I don't want to go!" she sobbed.
That was their real wedding. The
former one had heen a sham.
WAGNER'S TWO WIVES.
On* Helped Him to Attain Succeee, the
Othvr to Retain It.
In the case of Wagner we And female
Influence exerting strong power
In some of his compositions.
The uncomplaining devotion of his
first wife can scarcely be exaggerated.
During the Paris days of poverty she
trudged about seeking and obtaining
loans for her husband (a Wagnerian
loan was practically a gift*, she took in
lodgers in their humble apartments,
she blacked the boots of husband and
lodger.
She sewed and washed ami drudged
only to be set aside when the days of
prosperity came and when she object
ed to her husband seeking Inspiration
from the wives of other men. Such
inspiration lie found in Mathilde We
sendouck. who was the chief factor in
bringing forth "Tristan uud Isolde."
Hut the reader should imagine two
distinct Wagners, almost u real Dr
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?Wagner the I.It
tie and Wagner the Great.
The latter it was who never forsook
his highest ideal in art, who worked a
quarter or n century upon n great
music drama, "The King of the Nilte
lungs," without t lie hope of ever see
ing it given, and wrote to n friend, "If
I live to complete it I shall have lived
gloriously, and if I die before it is finished
I shall have died for something
beautiful."
The second wife of Wagner was Cosima,
the daughter of Liszt. Cosimn
Wagner was a helpmate Indeed for her
imperative and very erratic husband.
She was his secretary. She stood as
the buffer between him and troublesome
visitors. She was the diplomat
who smoothed out many a trouble that
was caused by Wagner's impolitic and
irritating ways, and. next to himself.
Wagner loved her as well as anything
on earth.?Louis C. Elsou in Mother's
Magazine.
TORRICELLI'S VACUUM.
Experiment That Led to the Invention
of the Barometer.
The barometer was invented by Torrieelli.
a pupil of Galilei, in 1G43. In
attempting to pump water from a very
deep well near Florence he found that
in spite of all his efl'orts the liquid
would not rise higher in the pump
stock than thirty-two feet.
This set the young scientist to thinking,
and as he could not account for the
phenomenon in any other way be was
not slow in attributing it to atmospheric
pressure. He argued that water
would rise in n vacuum only to such n
height as would render the downward
pressure or weight" of the column of
water just equal to the atmospheric
pressure and. further, that should a
heavier fluid be used the height of the
column could be much reduced.
To prove this be selected a glass tube
four feet long and after sealing one
end filled it with mercury and then inverted
it in a basin containing a quantity
of the same peculiar liquid. The
column in the tube quickly fell to a
height of nearly thirty inches above
the mercury in the basin, leaving in
the top of the tube a vacuum which is
the most perfect that has ever been
obtained and which is to this day called
the Torrleelll vacuum in honor of
its discoverer.
The name of the instrument means
"weight or pressure measure." and its
fundamental principles cannot be better
illustrated than by the above described
experiment.
Jeems Henry Was Conjured.
"Mars John." excitedly exclaimed
Aunt Tildy as she pantingly rushed
into a lire engine house, "please, suh.
phonograph to de car cleaners' semporluuj
an" notify Dan'l to emergrate
horn#* (lin Pfon 11 r 1.- ovo Tnnmo 11
sho' done bin conjured! Dr. Cutter
done already distracted two blood vultures
from liis 'pendercitls, an' I lef
him now prezaminatin' de chile's antebellum
fur de gcrmaus ob de neuroplumonin,
which ef he's disinfected
wid doy gotter 'noculate him wid the
ice coldlated quarantimes. But I
b'lieves it's conjuration."?Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Test of the Elect.
Let me ask you a question. Did you
ever on a freezing winter day stand
precariously in one slippery washbasin
while you sponged your shivering self
with about a quart of water from nnollter
china howl? If you think you
would have persisted in this morning
after morning in an unheated bedroom
through zero weather I salute you. You
belong to the elect.?Atlantic Monthly.
Flow of Solid Metals.
Metals flow into each other just as
gases and liquids mix. though more
slowly. If a cube of lead is placed on
one of gold, the surfaces of contact being
kept smooth and clean, and left for
a month a small quantity of gold will
be found to bave penetrated the lend.
Getting Solid. .
"You certainly is n fine cook, ma'pm," .
said the trnmp nt the back door after
being fed.
"Oh. I didn't cook that food you ate,"
said tlie lady. "I keep n maid."
"Well, ma'am, it's Just as good as if |
you did."?Yonkers Statesman.
A Backslider.
First Modern (Jirl ? I can't quite ,
make up my inind about Dollle. There "
is something queer about her. Second
Modern (Jirl?I'll tell you what it is. *
She has an effeminate streak.?Life.
Monster Trout.
Rainbow trout grow to such a large 1
size in Australia, especially in New '
South Wales, that it is illegal to take a {
fish under ten inches in length. 1
What Ambition
Can Do
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1916. by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
K ==*
Q. Hope Jones advanced to the desk
m the platform and said:
"My dear friends. I reached this
own of Cucumber Hill early In the
lay and have had several hours to
ook over the landscape and converse
ivlth your most eminent citizens. You
inve a site here to be proud of., and
rour sawmill is equipped with one of
lie iinest steam whistles 1 ever heard.
"your nogs look rat and contented
is they walk up and down the aveiucs.
Such cows as I have encountered
are of a kindly disposition, and the
ilarnis of war seem not to have disurbed
you.
"There nre only seven persons present
at my lecture, but probably the
neasles and the whooping cough kept
lie others in the house. 1 have deliv;rcd
lectures where the audience numjercd
only one person, but I spoke
with the emphasis, philosophy and
ogle that I use where the audience
lumbers a thousand. I shall do so tollght.
You shall have the worth of
rour money and perhaps double the
ralue. 1 am going to tell you what
imbition can do.
"Take the case of Socrates. He has
icen dead some time, but he did not
clck about dying when his time bad
:ome. and history has left us a good
eeord of his ambitious doings, lie
tegan life as a corner grocer, and in
those days every grocer had to give
sixteen ounces to the pound.
"Seeing after a year or two that
there was no show in the grocery
business for an honest man. Old Sue ates
decided on a change. He closed
jp his shop and went to school to
[earn to be a statesman and an orator.
Such was his ambition to get there
that in two weeks he knew more than
;he schoolmaster. It wasn't two
nonths after the change occurred that
le made a Fourth of July speech
;hat knocked nil the older orators galey
west, lie used his big words in
lust the right places and he slung his
grammar around with the utmost liberality.
From thence on he began to
elbow his way upward. Those who
lad reached the top rung of the ladler
tried their best to keep him down,
jut failed in their designs. The time
:amc when Socrutcs almost had the
ntlucnce of a king.
"Having got all the honors that .
eould be showered upon one man and
laving accumulated about u billion
lollnrs, he peacefully passed away.
"But, my friends, we need not go
lack so far to cite our cases. Take
:hat of Napoleon, lie was born of
lumblo parents. He lived In a garret,
aot biscuit and clover honey werellW
'or him. Nothing but ambition saved
ilin from becoming a tin peddler or a
larker for a summer show. He had
imbition. and he won. He chopped
;ord wood for 20 cents a day until he
lad saved money enough to take him
.hrough a military school. When
:hrough with this school he took comnand
of the army of France, and the
way he did lam the rest of Europe
was a caution. For forty years or
nore he kept things going. Between
Sis wars there was hardly time for
Sim to go fishing. He licked the en>my
in most of his battles, and when
le didn't lick 'em they could not catch
up to lick him.
"Ambition made Napoleon the greatest
general of the world, and the greatest
general finally became an emperor
ind made the whole world afraid of
line In truth ho hoonmo n littlo tr?r?
imhitious. He started out to give
Europe a last dressing down, and at
the battle of Waterloo he got the
Ircssing down himself. Be ambitious,
but don't expect to hold four aces In
jvery hand.
"And there was John nancock, first
:o sign the Declaration of lndepend?nce.
What did he amount to before
le signed? Nobody took off his hat to
dm. His name was never put up for
in office. He could not have gone to
he alderman of his ward and got a
lidewalk repaired. It was said of him
:bnt lnf was a very quiet man. but he
lid not know a tater bug from a
jeetle.
"All of a sudden, however. Mr. Hanrock
felt ambition stirring in his
jreast. He got up and took his hat off
is peg and said to his wife:
"'Hannah. I think 1 will go over to
he old statehouse and sign the Decaratlon
of Independence. Something
ells me I ought to do it.'
"And she replied: .
"'Yes. John, you had better go over
ind write your name as large as you
ran. It will bluff the British if It
loesn't do anything else.'
"And who was John Hancock half
in hour after he had signed? Why,
he men of Washington were whooping
'or him and carrying him about on
heir shoulders, and, you take my word
'or it, next day he could have had anyhing
in the gift of the town. He shot
igni up line a green bay tree, and to
enow John Hancock was something
hat every man in the land could be
iroud of. He died respected and loved
>y nil.
"My friends, there is nothing to com >are
with ambition. It beats the skyicrnper
elevator in hoisting u man up.
rhorope never breaks and lets the cage
'all. If the ambitious boy or tnan is
lrlvlng oxen today he may he riding
n his own gilded railroad car five
rears from now. If you are not an
imhitious man don't delay In making a
itnrt. If you have not the feeling
Max it to come to you. and when it
;omes give It a warm welcome and
prepare to he hoisted Into greatness."
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