A Romance Of Real Life

Some thirty-odd years ago a young man and young girl in Sweden unitet their lives in matrimony and soon afte migrated to America. Here fonr chil dren were bom to tliem and the fathe and mother were ' ' gathered home. The chüdren were provided witli liomes but the boys were dissatisfied with their qnnrters and vanislied between two dayg. This was the year before Sumte was flred upon. One lad went to Min nesota, and the other went South. Whei the war commenced each became a sol - one in a Minuesotn regiment, th other in the Confedérate army. In on of the fierce battles that took' place th two brothers met and recognized ead other. The meeting wns brief, bnt long enough for thera to immediately pledg that when the war waa over they woult unite and uot again separate. This they did and settlel ia East Des Moines, wliere both are now residents, and one of thein is a candidate for office, to be. elected or defeated next Monday. This sounds considerably hkc a blood-nndthunder novel in one column, but it's all