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By .Tames E. Frost. II
VOL. ITT. i
T3 LIT, IHJOT TI LIT!
BY AMY BA.NDOLI’ir.
“I’m not going to let my house to
everybody,” said Miss Jerusha Brown,
cmpatically.
Miss Jerusha was forty, but she was
neither fat nor fair. On the oontrary,
she was spare, but her brown eyes were
clear and bright, and there was a certain
quickness and elasticity in her move
ments which betokenod that the springs
of youth were still fresh within her.
She had posted up the bill “To Let,”
and she now sat in the shadow of the
parlor window curtains, waiting to see
what luck might betide her—a modern
“fisher of men,” her bait gleaming in the
wistful eyes of all house hunters.
“No,” repeated Miss Jerusha; “I
must be very particular in my choice of
tenants.”
And slic started nervously to her feet
as tho bell wire sharply reverberated.
It was a rusty widow, in crape, bom
bazine, and faded complexion, who eyed
Miss Jernsha, as woman in the abstract,
eyes her fallow-woman—as a natural
enemy, to be got the better of, if such
getting the better is a possible thing.
“This bouse to let?” said the widow.
“Yes’in. it is,” answered Miss Jeru
sha, unconsciously catching the acerb
tone of her interlocutor.
“How much rent?”
“Eighteen hundred.”
' “Too much!” said the widow, closing
Iter lips tightly.
“My family is quite small,” went on
the widow; “only nine children, my
step-son, and three or four friends as
boarders!”
“Nine children !” gasped MissJeru
.sha, vaguely reminded of Rogers, the
Martyr. “And one at—”
“And one at college yos!” said
the other lady. ‘ But he stays nights
with us.”
“I object to so many children,” faint
ly interposed Miss Brown.
“Then you’re no better than King
Herod !’’ said the widow. Good-morn
ing, ma’am !”
And away she went, the crape bows
on her bonnet quivering with agitation.
“Nine children!” repeated Miss Je
rusha to herself, with a grasp at the
cologne bottle. “I don’t know what
would become of me, if—”
But hero the door-bell pealed again.
“It’s a man this time,” said Miss Je
rusha to herself. “I hope lie hasn’t got
nine children! I’ve a great mind to
have the bill brought in, and add to it,
‘No one with over six children need
apply!’ ”
While she was turning over this pre
caution in her mind, a tall oily-faced
gentleman entered with his hat under
his arm.
“Your house pleases me, ma’am.”
“Indeed ?”
“The rent is somewhat high, but the
premises are airy and commodious.”
“Glad you think so, sir,” said Miss
Jerusha, with an air which said rather,
“It is a matter of indifference to me
whether you do or not.”-
“I was thinking,” went on the gen
tleman beuuiily, “of renting these prem
ises to open a Home for Young Desti
tute Delinquents, under the age of ten
years. Childhood, my dear madam—”
“I object to childhood, on any terms.”
“But, madam, your duty—”
“My duty don’t lie in that direction,
sir. I’d as soon furnish a cage to a lot
of juvenile hyenas!”
The oily faced gentleman withdrew,
murmuring to himself something about
“poor human nature.”
“Upon my word,” said Miss Jerusha,
‘it behooves me to look about a little.
I didn’t know that renting a house was
such a dangerous business. Who is
that coming now ?”
A tall, solemn female, with the un
(comfortiible expression of face which
generally means dyspepsia, with a gush*
“3ALU3 POPULI BUPREMA LEX ESTO."
WAYNESBORO’, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1872.
ing girl of sixteen at her side, wished
to know “if eighteen hundred was the
very lowest rent Miss Brown could be
induced to take ?”
Mi>s Brown signified her immutabil
ity on the suhjeot of price.
“I think it’s a damp house,” said the
dyspepsia-faced lady.
“/think it isn’t!” flashed out Miss
BrowD.
One’s house is like one’s baby—it is
hard to hear it decried unjustly.
“I’m quite sure I smell green mould,”
said the lady, with a wrinkling of her
nose.
“Nothing of the kind,” said Miss
Brown.
“This is a very unhealthy neighbor
hood, I’m told.” pursued the rentee.
“I really don’t see, then, ma’am, what
you’re in it for,” retorted Miss Jerusha.
losing all patieuce.
“Come, Amanda,” said the tall lady, in
the tone of a suffering martyr; “there’s
no reason we should stay here any longer
to be insulted.”
“No reason at all, ma’am,” said Miss
Brown, courtcsying very low.
“I was a little too much for her,’’ said
Miss Brown. “Green mould, indeed!
I’ll green mould her! Well, ma’am,
what do you want ?”
There was au uncouscious infusion of
defiance iu her voice, as she confronted
a plump, showily dressed female, with
a profusion of curls, and a glitter of jet
chain, who was rustling into the room.
“You are the owner of this house?”
she asked smoothly.
“Yes, I am.”
“Ah ! then perhaps you wouldn’t ob
ject to taking pare of the rout in gen
teel board for yourself, if I like the
premises ?”
“Genteel hoard, eh ?” said . Miss Je
ru.-ba, rubbing her no e with her ball
of yarn.
“My family are all of the first posi
tion in society,” assured this blaudly
spoken lady. “I have about a dozen of
the most agreeable boarders. Professor
Soldo, whose devotion to art is such that
ho practices the violiucello eleven hours
per day. Mrs. Major Perkes, whose
delicious voice enchants the neighbor
hood—”
“That’s enough,” said Miss Brown,
with a little shudder. “The board
would be quite too genteel for me!”
“I am not sure that I entirely com
prehend you!” said the lady, putting
her gloved baud to her ear.
“I prefer not to let my house for a
Bedlam broken loose!” said Miss Brown,
with more sincerity than politeness.
The curled lady rustled her flounces
away in a towering rage, and our heroine
was once more left monarch of the field.
“I didn’t know before that I was ner
vous !” she said to herself. “I almost
wish I hadn’t bought the house! Mr.
Smith said I was a fool for my pains,
and I believe he was right—the great
unmannerly fellow!”
Now, Mr. Smith and Miss Brown had
lived next door for ten years, quarrelling
all the while with unremitting assiduity.
Miss Jerusha scarcely ever sat down to
a comfortable cup of tea without the
Banquo’s ghost of “Mr. Smith’s com
pliments, and your macaw has picked all
the blossoms off his early cucumbers;”
or, “Mr. Smith’s compliments, and if
you don’t keep your eat iu your own
yard he’ll shoot it!” While Mr. Smith
himself lived in a perpetual state of siege
at the hands of Miss Browu and her fern
iuine corps of maids.
“I’m glad of it,” Mr. Smith had vfn- j
dictively remarked, when Miss Brown
had told him of her new investment. :
“You can’t be more glad than I am !”
she retorted brusquely.
But when a family of ten boys moved
iuto the vacant premises next door, and
commenced scientific onslaughts on the
neighborhood, Mr. Smith bethought him
self of auld lang syne, with a shadow cf
regret.
“I’ll movel” raid Mr. Smith.
So it befell that Miss Jerusha, sitting
in her parlors and bewailing the dignity
of her landed proprietress-ship, found
herself face to face with Mr. Smith, who
was vigorously hunting houses.
“Is this residence to— JTullo /” cried
Mr. Smith, as he recognized his quon
dam neighbor.
“My goodness gracious me !” ejacu
lated Miss Jerusha. “Don’t squetze
my hand so, therc’s a good fellow!
How are the cucumbers?”
“Hot-bed smashed in—young fiends
of boys. Can’t stand it any longer!”
said Mr. Smith, dolorously.
“Don’t you want to buy a house?”
said Miss Jerusha, with a gleam of hope.
“Who wants to sell ?” asked Smith.
“I do r
“ What for ?”
“A loDe woman has no business with
a house! Smith,” lowering her-voice
to a confidential whisper, “I should go
to a lunatic asylum if I faced the tide
of house-hunters much longer!”
“I thought you were equal to any
thing!” observed Mi. Smith, satirically.
“I thought so, too!” said Miss Jeru
sha, dejectedly ; “but I find I’m not.”
“How is the macaw ?” asked Smith.
“He is well.”
“I hadn’t an idea I should have missed
the macaw so,” said Smith, abstractedly.
“Come, buy my house,” urged Miss
Jerusha.
“Keep it yourself,” said Smith.
M ss Jerusha was too well accustomed
to the abruptness of her old neighbor to
take any umbrage.
“It’s too lonesome ” said she.
“Get married,” suggested Smith.—
“Two heads are better than one, if one
is a wooden head.”
“Pshaw I” said Jerusha.
“Marry me!" went on Smith. “I’m
not young; hut then neither are you.”
“Your manners don’t improve, any
way,” said Miss Jerusha, half vexed,
half laughing.
“And they never will,” said Smith.
“Come, old girl, you know the worst of
me, and the best, too, if there is any
best. I miss the macaw, and I miss
the yeilovv cat, and I miss you."
“What nonsense F’-said Jerusha.
“It it nonsense, I know,” said the
frank wooer, “but we’re no worse fools
than the rest of the world, Jerusha.—
I’ll buy the house—but I won’t buy it
without you’re thrown into the bargain.”
“You were always a quarrelsome fel
low,” said Miss Brown, relentingly.
“But you always held your own,”
pleaded Smith. “Corm—l can’t stand
here courting for ever. Yes, or no?”
“N—n—” began Miss Jerusha, but
just then the bell pealed sharply, and a
shrill voice demanded of Betsy Jane :
“Is this house to let?”
“No !’• shouted Miss Brown through
the door, which stood ajar. “No, it’s
not /”
And she looked at Smith, half fright
ened at her own temerity.
“It’s a bargain, eh ?” said Smith.
“Yes, it is," said Jerusha.
“Then let’s go up stairs and see the
macaw," observed this strange suitor.
“Let’s go and take the bill down first,”
said Miss Jerusha.
And they did.
A Game Two Can Play At. —ln all
the books of Advice to Wivei, “good
humor” is especially and primarily in
culcated. This looks suspicious. Is
it possible that the wife is obliged to
have enough for two ? In this con*
ncction we may mentiou an anecdote:
A young man was telling a young lady
what he should require of the wife he
should marry. ftor enumeiating a
long list of perfections, the damsel in*
quired, “And pray, sir, what have you
to offer in return fot all this?” Just
then he found it convenient to leave.
For a wedding song—Love knot.
-
The head man in France is the Guil*
lotinist,
II S3 a year, in advance.
bessie ™ prairas.
BY NATALIE.
The cold November wind played
drearily around the house where Bessie
Allyn sat gazing, mournfully, on the
bright grate-fire.
Now, a grate-fire is always calculated
to make one feel either very happy or
very sad. When we arc in a cheerful
mood, there we find brightness and
warmth ; when we are melancholy, we
muse in our easy chair, and the flicker
ing flames recall the sad Past. All its
pains and trials rise up to greet us from
each red-hot coal, reminding us of the
time when Grief burned her memory
within us.
So, as Bessie had been low-spirited
all day, it was no wonder that when
night came on she sat down alone in
the library, and let the long-pent tears
flow freely as they would.
Bessie had a deep sorrow all alone.
It was her own secret, which she never
meant any one else to know. When
ihe tea-bell rang, she went to the table
as radiant as ever.
“Here are cur invitations for Thanks
giving,” said Mr. Allyn, producing a
large euvelopc.
“Ob, gQodie ! goodie !” ejaculated the
younger members of the family, with
whom any holiday was thoroughly en
joyable.
“We always have a delightful time
at John’s,” remarked Mrs. Allyn.
“I wish we could stay at home,”
broke in Bessie.
“Why, Bessie ! I thought you, above
all, were so. fond of Thanksgiving day,
especially when it was spent at your
uncle John’s.”
Bessie, thus pressed, had to say some
thing ; so she merely replied that it was
so long since they bad spent a Thanks
giving at home, she longed for their
turn.”
The Allyn family was an unusually
large and affectionate one, and held it a
sacred duty to meet at least once a
year.
The family gathering was held in
turn at the house of each brother and
sister, and it was now four years since
they had been at uncle John’s. He
was a jolly fellow, particularly fond of
his nephews and nieces, since he had no
children of his own.
His wife’s nephew, Frank Howard,
had been left to his guardianship whon
a boy, and they had come to look upon
him as a son.
Handsome, bright, and talented, he
gave promise of becoming a fine man
and they looked forward with confi
dence in his success.
But Frank had a strong will, and be
surprised them all by suddenly announc
ing his determination to go to Chiua.
“Go to China! and you not out of
college! Why, Frank, what do you
mean ?” exclaimed uncle John, when
the news was imparted to him.
“Mean that I intend to go, sir, with
all respect to you,” bowing as he spoke.
“Well, well—this is a matter for
serious reflection, my lad, and I hope
you are not doing it hastily.”
“I am going, sir,” said Frank ; and
he went.
A party of seniors in college were to
start as soon as they graduated, and
Frank had strangely determined to ac*
company them. No persuasions or re
monstrances could induce him to give
it up.
It was now four years since the last
Thanksgiving had been kept at uncle
John’s and then Frank was the gayest
of the gay.
Now it would be dreary without him
—at least to one of the party, and she
dreaded goiug,
Bessie Allyn knew why Frank How
ard went to China, and for four years
had shrunk from these parties as are
minder of it. Now, to go to the very
spot where they had parted was almost
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intolerable, but she could not escape
from it.
With trembling hands Bessie made
her toilet that day, but she never looked
sweeter. Her pure complexion was ad
mirably set off by her dress of pearl
poplin, with rose-colored sash, and rose
coral ornaments. These last, a Christ
mas gift from Frank, she had not taken
from their box siuce he had been gone;
but a strange impulse seized her to
wear them.
Her spirits rose as they drew neat
their journey’s end, and the merry wel
come received from the host of guests
I drove thought away.
Gaily the hours flew with cheerful
laugh, song and games, until the great
dinner was announced. Uuele John
: would have everybody nt dinr.et to
gether, and the long tables laid in the
elegant saloon were filled by as happy
a party as ever were gathered.
Vases and urns, heaped* with lovely
flowers, hanging baskets with trailing
.vines, beautiful canaries in their gilded
cages, with the table adorniueuts of
rich china and silver were reflected back
in the mirrors which lined the walls,
and formed a scene of brilliant beauty.
For a time there was great laughter
and confusion, while the process of
carving was going on. Every one felt
happy in the prospect of a good dinner,
and laughter and jokes reigned supreme,
while the waiters flew around serving
the guests.
Bessie alone remained quiet. She
felt more lonely amid all this cheerful
ness than she would if she were entirely
by herself. I rank sat beside her before,
Frank toasted her in his wine. Frank
whispered words to her in the dance
that she had laughed at, the while her
heart was bounding with joy.
She shuddered as she thought how
stern his face grew as he replied, “I
thought you were above trifling, Bessie,”
and led her to a seat, leaving her so
agitated that her lips refused to speak.
Thus they parted, and she had borne
the load of grief and despair which
many a heart knows. Musing thus on
the wretched subject, she iost all con
sciousness of where she was, until heav
ing a slight sigh she recalled herself,
glad to find her abstraction unnoticed.
As her eyes wandered around they
happened to light on th<j mirror oppo
site, and—oh, Heavens ! what did she
see!
With a quick cry she sprang to her
feet, pointing to the mirror, and as
every head was turned, astonished to
sec what it was, sho fell back iu the
arms of Frank Howard !
She could not faint though, for as he
strained her to his heart, her blood
ran swiftly over face and nock. Then
such huggings aiid kissiugs all round,
such real pleasure at seeing the wander
er, gave new deligh to the toccasion.
Uncle John ordered in a hot turkey
and a fresh baked pig, and tho Waiters
vied with each other in serving their
young master.
Never did chicken-pie taste bo good
bdbre, never was there such cranberry
sauce or delicious coffeo. It was almost
worth a sojourn in a foreign land to
come back with a better appreciation of
home.
Only one thing was wanting to make
Frank perfectly happy. He glanced at
Bessie’s forefinger, and saw she wore no
ring, and he was relieved.
But he must end his impatience
quickly; so, when they had returned to
the drawing room and, dancing had be
gun, he claimed Bessie’s hand for the
first Redowa.
How warm and soft it felt as she
placed it in his, and how he longed to
snatch it to his lips. But he kept quiet
till they had reached the end of the
room ; then “Bessie 1” he whispered.
She looked up with her lovely eyes,
and he asked ;
“Have I come back to you ?”
doftly her “yes” floated to his eager
ear, and in a tumult of bliss they whirl
ed on. S .
At the next Thanksgiving party Mr,
and Mrs. Frank Howard were the hap
piest of the happy.
