Can Such Things Be?

ght by civil war. Their children had the social and educational opportunities of their time and place, and had responded to good associations and instruction with agreeable manner

d State, made demands upon his time and attention so exacting that to those of his family he was compelled

me been sufficiently affected to be a poet of no small Colonial distinction. If not specially observed, it was observable that while a Frayser who was not the proud possessor of a sumptuous copy of the ancestral "poetical works" (printed at the family expense, and long ago withdrawn from an inhospitable market) was a rare Frayser indeed, there was an illogical indisposition to honor the great deceas

adition to the famous Colonial bard, his succession to the gift and faculty divine was purely inferential. Not only had he never been known to court the muse, but in truth he

r weakness from all eyes but those of him who shared it. Their common guilt in respect of that was an added tie between them. If in Halpin's youth his mother had "spoiled" him, he had assuredly done his part toward being spoiled. As he grew to such manhood as is attainable by a Southerner who does not care which way elections go the attachment between him and his beautiful mother - whom from early chi

forehead, toyed for a moment with a lock of her dark hair which had escap

y, if I were called away to

r telltale cheeks had made instant reply. Evidently she would greatly mind; a

and handsome as that - pointed to yours on the same wall? And when I looked it seemed that I could not see the features; you had been painted with a face cloth, such as we put upon the dead. Your father has laughed at me, but you and I, dear, know that such things are not for nothing

elf to the son's more logical mind; he had, for the moment at least, a conviction that it foreshadowed a more simple and immediate, if le

er the true reading of the dream - "places where one recovers from rheumatism and neuralgia? Look

istorian is unable to state, but for himself he feels bound to say that fingers looking less stiff, and showing fewer evidences of even in

he one went to California, as the interest of his client required, and the other remained

a sailor. He was in fact "shanghaied" aboard a gallant, gallant ship, and sailed for a far countree. Nor did his misfortunes end with the voyage; for the ship was cast ash

nd ages ago. He would accept no assistance from strangers, and it was while living with a fellow survivor