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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.* 1
ELLIJAY, 6A„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1882.
Memories.
•
Oft in the drear December,
When summer’s far away,
Round the year’s last dying ember
We dream of that past day,
Tlie full blooms of September,
Tbe opening buds ot May.
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Oh, the wide wealth of roses,"
Their deep hearts opening sweet,
The flow’ry bower closes,
The green turf at our feet,
The rapture that o’erflowed us
In tide as full as fleet.
The primrose odors blowing
On ev’ry April air,
The wistful violets showing
Their meek eyes ev’rywhere,
The brooklet’s silver flowing,
Tbe blue of heaven bare. ’
And ’twist the sleety saowers
Of tempests lowering
Comes a mem’ry of tbe flow’rs,
Of the swallow on the wing,
And in dark December hours,
We dream about the spring.
AT THE OLD FARM-HOUSE.
People called Lela Brownson
“peculiar.” Perhaps they were
right; but then a girl with sev
enty-five thousand dollars of her
own when she is ten days old,
and five hundred thousand more
before she is fifteen years, has
almost a right to be peculiar. To
beau heiress is enough to make
a girl different from other girls ;
but to be a beauty as well, and
also possess a merry, cheerful,
laughter-loving, generous nuture
—surely a creature so gifted
could indulge in almost any
whim or caprice, and be counted
blameless by her three hundred
and oue dear friends.
Lela certainly claimed her
privilege, and did pretty much
what seemed.good in her own
eyes. She had a guardiau of
course—aji easy-tempered man,-
who loved his orphan neice yen
dearly,-but was too much devot
ed to business to look alter her
very closely.
Another relative, a matron la
dy, presided over the household
of the heiress since the death of
her father, which event took
place when she was fifteeu years
old. Mrs. Malcom was the wid
ow of a rather eminent Scottish
artist —an excellent lady. She
also indulged Lela, and, being
childless, loved her with all the
strength of a heart intended by
God to be “motherly.”
“I want to go somowhere this
summer where there is nobody,
Aunt Nellie,” said Lela, one
bright spring morning, as she
gazed through the window ol her
home.
“Somewhere where there is
nobody ?” replied Mrs. Malcom,
with slightly elevated eye brows.
“Yes, some place where there
ain’t a soul? I am going to study
like—like fun. Aggie Austin
learned Spanish last season
while she was in sUch a lovely
farm-house, and used to make
hay, ana got all burned up with
the sun, the way Dio Dewis says
is good for you ; and I’m going to
do the very same thing this sea
son.”
“Urn f You know Agnes Aus
tin is a very poor girl, and is go
ing to be a teacher. Ido not see
the necessity for you to bury
yourself in that way.”
“Aunt Nellie, yon don't know
how sick and tired I am of being
the rich Miss Brownson. I over-
Heard that Mrs. Selkirk 'say fast
night: ‘Oh, Brownsou’s pills 1 are
you in agony?’ making fun of
poor papa’s advertisement. Yes,
lam going away, all by myself,
and I am not going to lake any
thing but the very plainest
dresses—calicoes aud ginghams—
and I may play the pari of a poor
girl. Now, everyone who looks
at me or speaks to ine thinks of
pounds and pence, and Brown
son’s patent medicines.”
“By yourself, Lela? Do not vent
want me to go with you ?”
. “No, Aunt Nellie, Ido not. If
you go, there is a nameless at
mosphere of wealth about you ;
no one would ever believe 1 was
poor. You must go to Saratoga,
as usual, and if I get tired of rus
ticating I’ll run along and joiu
you.,’
“ Well, I suppose you must have
your own way, as usual,” said
Mrs. Malcom, reluctantly.
“Of course I must—decidedly.
I will be Little 80-Peep, who
loot her sheep, and you will be
quite surprised to learn how few
admirers I shall find* once I am
perfectly clear ol the pills and
liver-pads. I want to find just
how loveable Lela Brownson is
without the filthy lucre that aris
es from the ills that tlesh is heir
to.”
“Another of your whims, dear,”
said Mrs. Malcom. with a half
sigh. “Well, I hope no harm will
come of it.”
“Harm, Aunt Nellie? What
possible harm could come of it?”
“I don’t know. Somehow I do
not like the idea. If you give
your name, people will be sure
to guess who you are.”
“Well, then, 1 won’t give my
name. I’ll call myself Lela—Le
la I’ll take your name, Aunt
Nellie—Lela Malcom.”
* * * * *
The sun was setting among
the while birch-trees behind the
old red farm house—the home
stead of the Parker family, near
North Attleboro—as an ancient
buggy drew up, and a young la
dy stepped out.
“I declare, Aunt Mabel, here’s
the boarder come a’ready !’’ ex
claimed Daisy, Mrs.’ Parker’s ro
sy-cheeked niece.
“1 declare—so it is ! Well, Dai
sy, go and ask her in; I can’t
quit llie lire till the bread’s out.”
Half shyly, half gladly, Daisy
obeyed. She wanted to see the
new boarder, and yet she feil
timid.
Miss Austin, the young lady
who had spent the previous sum
mer with them, had highly re
commended Mi sj Malcom —a
nice, quiet girl, who wanted to
study and enjoy the advantage
of fresh air, new milk and ber
ries. Agnes Austin had smiled
to herself as she peuned the let
ter, thinking how soon the belle
would tire of the old red farm
house.
Tea in the kitchen was anew
expererieuce to Lela. She watch
ed the amount of home-made
bread and tea that so rapidly
disappeared with astonishment.
She drank fresh, creamy milk,
ate fresh strawberries, aud ad
mired the red flush that came
and went so rapidly on Daisy’s
round cheeks. She retired early,
and rose next morning when she
heard the first stir in the house.
On consulting her watch, she was
surprised to find that the hour
was five.
“Dear me, what shall I do till
breakfast time ?” She said to
herself. “I’ll take a book, and
sit down beside a pile of bay.”
The wish was hardly formed
When it was carried out Seated
by the hay, book in hand, she
watched the changing colors on
the dewbrops, the shifting lights
among the birch trees, and the
clouds passing oukof sight before
the ardent gaze of the sun.
A manly footstep roused her
from her reverie. A tall, dark
man stood before her, dressed in
a loosely-fitting suit of gray, with
a soft felt hat pulled over his
grave, brown eyes, and a book in
his band also.
“Have I taken your seat ?” in
quired Lola, prepairing to rise.
“Yes and no. 1 sit there at this
hour usually, but the seat is not
iniue.”
“Well, you may have it, if you
like. I lliiuk I will go and walk
through that grove.”
“Indeed, I will not occupy the
spot if I drive you from it. Is not
there room for both of us ?”
Lena did not know what to say
or do. She wondered if this was
Mr. Parker, her host. But no ;
if that was the case she certainly
would have met him at supper
the night before. Perhaps the
Parkers had a grown up son. This
man appeared to be about twen
ty-four years of age, and some
how he had not the look of a rus
tic.
She stole a glance at his book.
It was a medical work. He was
very quiet* and Lena studded his
face for some time. Avery good
face, she thought it—resolute,and
perhaps, a little stern.
Suddenly he looked up, and
caught her regarding him stead
ily, smiled slightly as she looked
abashed, and began to talk. How
well he talked—speaking on all
sorts of subjects ! He had trav
elled, and, before she was aware
of it, had'drawn from Lela an ac
count of her one visit abroad.
“It is breakfast time,” said the
stranger, rising and offering his
hand to assist Lela to do likewise.
“1 suppose you are staying at
Parker’s F’
"Yes.”
“I heard Daisy say they expect
ed a friend of Miss Austin’s to
speud the summer.
He was one of the family then.
But no, for when he entered Mrs.
Parker hailed him with a friendly
“Good meriting, Mr. Studlfy.”
They took their places at the
table, and the conversation be
came general. Mr. Sludley could
talk as well to the farm people as
lie had done to her, and was as
well posted on other topics as on
travel. Without his bathe was
liner-looking than with it. An
earnest, thoughtful face, wonder
fully attractive to Lela, who was
tired of society youug meu.
Days passed, and Lela did not
tire ot the red larm house. Site
did not study much, however,
though she had -informed Frank
Studley that she was preparing
for the profession of a teacher.
How her cheeks burned when
she thought she had told a false
hood 1
Four weeks since Lela arrived
at the farmhouse, and she still
lingered, though she received
letters almost every day from
Mrs. Malcom, urging her to join
her many friends at the seaside.
“I wonder why I like to remain
here,” she said to herself, glanc
ing over one of these epistles at
the table, where the family were
assembled to breakfast.
“Well, Mrs. Parker, I must
leave you on Monday.”
Frank Studley was the speaker.
A pang shot through Lela’s heart;
the words seem an answer to her
unspoken questiou.
“Yes—dear me, how the time
flies—yes, I suppose you must.
Well, this is your last examina
tion. isn’t it ?”
“Yes. Whefi ton see me again
I shall be a full-blown M. D., he
returned, laughingly.- |
The next day was Sunday, and I
Lela attended church. She was
simply dressed, as indeed she
had been during her Whole stay.
In the afternoon she wrote sortie
letters, and in the evening went
to church again, accompanied by
all the Parke* family.
She had not seen Mr. Studley
daring the whole day, and felt a
delicacy about inquiring for him,
Daisy walked beside Lela, and
after about half tlie distance to
the ehurch had been accomplish
ed, began of her own accord to
give her fuller information about
their other guest than she had
ever had before.
He had spent four summers
with them. He was studying
medicine under j: eat difficulties,
lie.-he was very She be-
VOL. YU. .NO. 32.
lieved *he was engaged to bd
married to Miss Austin.
How cold Lela grew when ph*'
heard this ; how dull and dark
the twiiight seemed !
“They got acquainted right
here in cur’house,” said Daisy,-
triumphantly.
They were now in church, and
Lela saw Studley sitting in a pew
near her. His eyes met hers, and
rested kindly on her pale face,-
for she had turned white,the pain
in her heart was so keen.
She knew very little about the
sermon, listening to it in a dazed
manner with great apparent at
tention; while in truth her
thoughts were far away with Ag
gie Austin, the fortunate posses
or ot Studley’s affections—Aggie*
the girl she had pitied because
she was poor ! Oh, what words
could describe how she now en
vied her !
‘‘Aunt Nellie said harm would
come of it, and so it has*” she
said to herself bitterly.
Wdien the service was over*
Lela found Studley beside her as
they passed out of church, and
be continued beside her as they
walsed home under the stars. He
was unusually silent till they
reaehed the little gate ; then be
said suddenly* in a voice unlike
his own :
“Miss liela, will von walk on
with me ? I have something to
say to you.”
She was too much agitated to
speak, but she passed the gate.
‘ln the fiast place, I must tell
you that I correspond with Aggie
Austin, and she has told me who
you are. I can’t plead ignorance
as an excuse for my madness*
and yet I must give way to it so
far as to teii you. I love you
with my whole heart—l, a pen
uiless man ! You are silent; it
is my most merciful answer.
Well, I will only say farewell.-
We wiii never meet again. God
bless vou!’’
He wrung her hand and turned
to leave her, his face ashy grey
m the star light, despair in his
strong, manly heart.
As he walked away, Lela fonnd
her voice, and called after him
faintly :
“Mr. Studley.. I ”
“What!”
Joy was in the tone, though nef
other word was uttered. And
whatjoywasin his face when
she held out her hands to him,-
saying fondly:
“You cannot love me half so
well as 1 love you, lor I am not
worthy of such love.”
When Mrs. Malcom Was intro
duced to Lela’s intended hus
band, she was safisfied, and re
joiced that no greater harm had
come of Lela’s summer spent at
the old red farmhoase.
Good Law,
The United States C rf c q i t
Court, sitting at Leveirtforth,-
Kansas, has decided that the
printed retie of the telegraph
companies* that they will hot be
responsible for mistakes unless
eacli message is repeated (and at
increased cost), has been set
aside as something not to be'' re
spected. The decision was that
“any rule or regulation of the
company which seems to relieve
it from performing its duty be
longing to the employment With
integrity,- skill and diligence/
contravenes public policy as etrell
as the law, and niidet it the patty
at faolt cannot seek tt fage:” If
it becomes necessary fof the
company in transmitting mes
sages repeated to SeCnfe accura
cy, then the law devoltes upon
them that duty.
■■■ ■ .. .7.
The prohibition law prevails itt
forty-two counties in the State ef
Georgia
