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January 26, 1907.
1 THE SUNNY SOUTH
SEVENTH PAGE
Household Letters
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deciar.
CONTINUED FROM SIXTH PAGE.
^ |MOCKlXGB1KD IN THE BEECH - I'd a s s,, 0 -.i eui
TREE SINGS. ; con to m pi no rely.
a1i.Il awakes from you I . listen! tlioy all crioil. ‘‘Ho
' .y o, ‘ reminded by the inslru-! tli<ln 1 t ' x I"' PS!J himself lo that effect
i its. — Walt Whitman. j w * le, - 1 wo had llio last supper down at
Hall s. From the showing that night.
kingbird in tin
u d mother sits in
swings:
o' 1 , dear in-art! sit
last of id.- mav bo
'ruing liotirt! a
■at evening tint,
light.'’
dll a.td rest.
• best,
snnny and bright:
tilde’s alwav:
1n»- I Kerb L\\u lovers hear,
moonlit per.-li-notes lu m id
SMonnto burst of molociy:-.
-<•> you re In
' ll s *
i ilO^e
n earth as ■
whose hear I
beooh tree sings. j one would have thought
the shade and I favorite dish."
| "We'll move it on
said Gb-nii, "but kero we
looks as if then might b<
-ring hero."
I be beautiful modern home ol Captain
Williams was '.’rightly illuminated —
lights shone from every window. Miss
Barnes, of the capital . Ity. the guest
<■: honor, hud a nitnibe: of satelites
about ber. From the windows, as they
1 approached, c-oul-l he seen some of the
•ni re hero ; company playing "Heart. Quoits." As
■ they came up the gong sounded the see-
nhove I ond round. "I'm going iu and try my
arc filled with! hand.' said Glenn. "It's not too late;
j xx o can make another table and soon
pair off.”
"There are four of you besides my-
I solf." observed Will Tyson. "•on all
go ahead. I'll stay here a. while and
wa'"h you get ‘paired off.'
1 ut strain j "Hate to leave you. Will Come
world-worn man wifli weary j along. "
i “No. not just yet. I believe."
ee> *hou the day heart filled with sor- j When the quartet were ushered into
row '! the room they were soon provided with
. not thyself about the morrow “hearts," and’ proceeded to the Lime,
strong in soul! Enough to he’ ’ Soon the ninth round was played, and
nuous toil wins Vietoi v"’ 1 l,,<> counts handed in. During ihe iiw
.. ‘ ' ' 1 terini tliere was a call for music, and
8,1 er-th routed Mockingbird! j an admirer led Miss Barnes to the piano.
>weet Philomela of our south’ I Her rendition of several popular humor-
>ugh life’s long day with rupture's I ous s ° n <? s called forth general appreeia-
lieart tby praise of her song and hor , tliese old graves, exposing the remains
iovely appearance. As ’they f Jpr-xd • which had been reduced to only a few
home he determined that lie w' .,jT jpi : of the larger hones, including tin- skull-
over a new leaf. He had neve, P *fee-i ■ that on nearly every instance remained -
before that she cared so much, i.^That in tact, displaying two full rows of teeth,
song with the note of heart-break had ! with no sii=n of decay,
been a revelation. ! But I sta-ited out to tell about the
JENNIE OUTLAW GRADY TRAVIS. ! liver, and not the Indians. If I were to
Halifax. N. C. J get into a small boat and float idly with
Ihe (" rrent. I xyottid - soon tie carried-
A GOOD AND GIFTED WOMAN. ! a ross the state line into South Carolina,
Mrs.' Brvan kindly . inquired after :,n< i 0,1 ' lu * nn nearer and nearer to
Charleston, where the waters of the ro
mantic Catawba mingle with the waters
of other rivers, and finally flow into the
great ocean. On the other hand, if I
■osne
inquiry
meet with
'■<oi'
naartert
a trembling
■l-td, exultant,
keg ;]
'train:
-11
with dew drops!
leaves but half
heard
itiiigs from the magic mouth.
MART PETTI S THOMAS
CLEM.
Hello, Will! 1 am gjad to
C" exclaimed Marshall
'vc missed you terribly. These cool j
.min evenings call us in doors early, j
.1 Johnson (we've had lo put • ;:> with ;
•inson, j on know) is so boorish, be- !
b-s lie doesn't know a. deuce from an
So glad you are back!” slapping |
' friend on ihe shoulder,
riiank you,” answered Will Tyson !
ulally. Have that seat over there,” '
inting to a near-by ebair. "You |
ustn't imagine you fellows had it all !
yourself. That little town of Wiid- i
id ran boast accommodations peculiar '
itself. And Uie court room was posi- j
e]y the most ill-ventilated 1 have ever (
tered. There is a French cook at the ’
Ua Grande; I chrisuened it. I
lion. Presently there was a softer toueli
on the keys and a richer, purer voice
began to sing—a love song—‘‘Bartlett's
Dream."
i "That voice." thought Will Tyson.
! "would hold me here the rest of the
e you : night." Somehow the song made him
Berry, j think remorsefully of ins home and ids
neglected wife—sweet, quiet Clem, in her
girlhood, such a social favorite, but now
almost a fixture at her home.
Tile singer respondi <1 to a request for
another song, and “The Message of the
Violet,” from the “Prince of Pilsen."
went to Will's heart.
possum was his j "Brownie." so
j once more, ere the dear o)<l Sunny is,
him some night.' , numbered with the things that were. i
re. Humph! : ■Chris.tmas ‘hat was so pleasant lo!
luite a gath- j ln; , nv of you, brought me saddest
i thoughts, for there was an empty chair
; in our home—the “old arm chair" of my
1 dear good mother. She was stricken
j with paralysis on the night of October
! 9. and she died :b ( following night. I
i have hail many sorrows, but this is the
hardest to bear. t am an invalid, and
she was my derendenee. my comfort. All
her thought and care were for nn
only daughter. My father died some
years ago. and now there are but two
of ns left. As I sit each night by my
lonely fireside with iter vacant chair in
the corner, a sense of desolation comes
over tne, and I wonder how I can ever
live without iter.
Mother was not a person of ordinary
mould. She was a rarely gifted woman,
descended from a long line of literary
ancestors. She was a great granddaligh
ter of Printer John Miller, who was
banished from Eng and for printing the
famous "Junius" letters, and a grand
daughter of John Miller, who owned and
printed the obi PemSIeton Messenger^
the first newspaper published in the up
country. She herself was considered a
tine writer, contributing to many papers
and magazines. She wrote several
times to the Household under a pen
name. Many of you perhaps have a
copy of the “History of the Old Stone.
Church." The chapter about the Millers
was written by my mother, Mrs. Julia
Miller Browne. 1 hope you will not
■think me egotistical in eulogizing my
dear mother. It is only a worthy tribute
to her bright mind and lovely Christian
eliarae er. She had for many years
i been a collector of Indian relies and
a Wall street broker, but bis love has
cooled.
“The young'husband left her and the un
happy wife is living with her mother.
“But Mi's. W. lias determined not to give
up the man she loves.
“ ‘We married for better or for worse,’ J
she says, ‘and why should I resort j
to divorce? X shall devote myself to try- j
may see again said to me: "1 do hope
Mother Meb will continue to give ns her
chats, for T think she must be one of tiie
best women in the world, and it does look
like to me she knows everything, for y<» i
cannot ask her a single thing that she
cannot answer.”
1 go off to lonely country places to
hold of the
t of t he rt
*:i n
and start
source. I
v er
out
would tirsi pass through many beautiful j diversity of
valleys, dotted with little cottages and put th<
farms; .farther on i would pass small
factory towns, and. finally, after many
days of hard rowing 1 would come to the
foot of the beautiful Blue Ridge moan-
tains. Here I would, without doubt,
have to leave my boat. And again after
many days of walking, climbing, slipping
I would at leng
reclimbing _ .
tin era lie •>! the river the t 4 j,, no t blame him
rather the numerous springs— , tween us: I blame
her back ant
arrive a
spring—o
gushing from the mountain side and | j* oor Clifford although
" ding little streams, that uniting, form jj 5s not oM enough t
the infant Catawba.
With best wishes to all.
Your descriptive letter is
Let us bear from you again.
ing to win back my husband's love
"If Mrs. W. is to win back - her husband's
love, what would the readers of this page
advise her to do?"
The above is a copy of an article which
appeared in tin magazine supplement of
•i well-known paper some months ago.
A week or so later quite a number of
htters wi re published in reply, giving n
■pinions, but I would like to
hion before the Household:
What would you do under tin same
circinm- tanees?
"Mrs. \Y..‘ the paper further states,
"told her story frankly, and with a man
ifest desire to shield her hciband. '
" “In spite of all that has happened,’
she said, ‘J still love him. and will go
back to him any time he asks me to. 1
for tiie trouble be-
my mother-in-law.
year older than
have graduated
j teach, and it is a great pleasure to read
The Sunny South every week. Now it
j wili seem a long time to have to wait a
! month to get another copy,
j Bit to tell the truth, the reading ina
j lor we set in The Sunny South is first
j class, and it is too good to be torn up
and thrown away, amt if ii were printed
j in a magazine form on good paper it
j could he saved and reread. As it is. the
! papers are usually destroyed. The < di-
. lorials are too line lo b< lost; and Mother
j Mob's chats could bear rereading any
! tone. Although it is hard for us lo give
■ up a dear friend like Tiie Sunny Sourii,
i we must lake ii philosophically, and re
member (bat tb<' caterpillar disappears
from view, and in its place rises « 1 ■<-
i beautiful butterfly. DAPHNE.
Wi-L.LIE.
inter eating.
M. E. B-
from liis mother's apron strings.
“ 'We took an apartment for tiie first
winter, and were perfectly happy, but the
next spring we went to visit my- hus-
I hand's fatnilv. Then our trouble began.
NOT SHYING ABOUND THE QUES-, My mother-in-law did not like me, and
TION. ! was always discovering faults in me that
1 no one else had ever seen. In the fall,
when we should have gone back to ou:
Words cannot express tiie thanksgiving
in mv heart todav. I haw. been down , , ,, ,
in tiie dark shadow: had the second apartment, ray husband cancelled
stroke of apoplexv; was left almost life- i ho lf ' as f • :ls 1 won id not live with
less, with a .pulse of 12 ter minute, and I hl . s mother I went back to mine,
breathing onlv 3; . old as a corpse, but j T waited for my husband to come baeg
in God s blessing I am mnv able lo sit *° but he did not come. Tn the mean-
up a little. 1 want to thank you, dear j CJ,1,e my, lather died, and mother and 1
mater, for your wor.'s full of heart-warm
sympathy. You don't know how much
it helped me when nn wife brought the
paper to me. Also I want to compliment
Finey on his get off on tiie owl and the
volutionists committed ancesticidc.
Come again. Piney. you struck plum, ven
ter. I wish to mention John's gentle
warblings, and respond to bis request
that t should explain the scene in the
valley of Ajalon. He called on Sam Bur-
ion to help him watch me "shy around i
the question." As I don't happen to he I
one of the shying kind. I'll say to I
were left alone. 1 thought Clifford would
come to me then, but lie did not.
" ‘I write him sometimes, and I have
sent him my photograph. Y'nu see i
want to keep myself in his thoughts.
Perhaps some day he will tear himseif
away from home rule and come back to
me, and 1 shall forgive him and we shall
bf happy again.'
is it not a pathetic little story
Of course Mrs. \Y. should have ex -
peeled something of the kind.
A girl who marries a “mama's darling”
should look for trouble. By mama's
"That voice sounds strangely t'amil- i rare stamps. Just a lew hours before
iar." he thought, but he did not tr yto she died, 1 was saying to her that I did
recall its identity: lie was too taken up not see how 1 could live without her.
with the song—“I love you—love you— Siie replied that 1 must take up her
love you." rang out tiie words ever on ; stamp and Indian relic work, and 1 am
the crescendo: "anT'-now very softly- trV | ns to do this for her dear sake, and
also that I may earn a littb- moiiev. as
'til he thinks women were
material
t 1-
"My heart's true blue." How did i(
happen that the singer put a note of in- , , ,
tense sadness—almost heart-breaking in ' nm without means,
the notes, contrary to tiie sentiment of
the song?
Silence—the silence of deep appreciation
—followed the singing', and then the
plaving was resumed and continued
i until Captain Williams announced’
:ee are tasted, men you jump up. j « M1 ^ H arm w i t Ir ,
■ rry out to smoke your ■ tgar. and make | .oade' tin sam'e number o
will cut for the prize."
Mr. Mason that if lie will read Joshua, ! darling I mean a boy, generally only one
IOt!i i<< 15lh verse, he will need no ex- j """• T vho . ha ' T'° ,le<1 b >’ il!S "'Other
planation. He will see that Joshua i and sister: . .
prayed to Jehovah to lengthen the day. Jaled merely to administer to tli
that lie might win a vi< tory. and his j wants of man.
piayey was granted. In verse 14 it is i However, as Mrs. \\ . still lot es him and
declared there had never been a day like ■ " ls hes to have him back, i think she
that. It is not a question of human .should adopt a line of-a.ction entirely dtt
t o ! ferent
rfsively. you- mind— and die deluge of
roes, patties. croqueUeB. cruddlers.
.. that they bring you. is tantalizing
the appetite until the first
In a previous letter I
story of an old confederal
his wife, who were, living
tlo ilouse, and trying to
;ave you me |
■ veteran au»*
in a tiny lit- 1
arn a living.:
power, or of human reason. It
| question of whether God is able to chan
the order of a world which he created
quills.
futile attempt to delude yourself with
p idea that you have partaken of a
ast. Finally, you compromise by in-
stiiig 5 cents in Adams' pepsin chewing
mi. Oil, 1 was glad to get home, I
11 you! Had- wonderful luck witJi my
ses though. Catne out victorious in aii
it one small suit.”
'Well, that helped to console you. no i
ubt. \\ hat do you intend to do with }
rursclf ibis evening? There is to lie a
itle ‘social’ at Captain Williams’ in j
onor of Miss Barnes—a young lady who I
vis'tiing Cousin Josie. We might drop '
about 10 and survey the crowd. ! i
oppose you are free until II or 12 ]
>' ■'* 'as usual''”
“Well. T stopped .1 home barely long
ion ;I to have tea . rd my how d' ye to
lejn and the boy. ’Told her I'd have to
ome to tiie o;fiee awhile—I've been at
Wilt Tyso
points, and
Will started: so it was his wife
j sung "The Violet." He had not In
I her sing for a long time. He had
j idea that she was here tonight. There
j had been players in both parlors was the ; ,- u i* s
j reason lie had not seen her before
veiling.
gardening, ami siie by making.
You were kind enough to send
:hc dear old lady many packages ol 1
quill pieces, and some welcome littla
j gifts to :lie almost helpless old veteran.;
Mr. .Mason seems to intimate that
Adam did not fail. Here he is all wrong,
because if Adam did not full then man
would not need a Redeemer and tin- entire
Christian plan of salvation would be un
necessary. Now, such argument as tnaj I
would never do, for we cling to tlii
Christ as our only hope. If you will
take tiie advice of a well-wisher, you
will stop criticizing soripluie. The Bible
. , , ... lias already proven i(s ability to stand,
u d I tn, housekeeping, and are now dependent (;<it( sayH '^j, stun<l tllollgll m-aveu and
relative. I hey live at l endleton. ; cartlt pass away, and He surely knows
, and lilt old laoy still makes I Now let us not;
The husband is nearly blind. ory. I stated before that, it was a fad
Friends. I would bo so glad if some ofi and would eventuate into a fake. The
11. tin
d pair have had io brt
that
Two chairs were set opposite each
oilier at a table in Uie center of the ' would greatly
room. Miss Barnes was led to the one
nearest the window—her profile was reg
ular and handsome. Clem took the
remaining chair; her delicate oval face
contrasting with the other as a lily with
a. rose. She was smiling, and her cheeks
were flushed, but Will thought remorse
fully of that note of despair in her song.
They began to throw. One—two—three—
four—five." Clem had won by 'two
ome precious little of lute, and I
“Hello!" "Hello!" “Hello!" intern upted ( M illiains presented the prize-
/ ' chorus of voices us J..1111 Alack.. . Rufrs !
I King and Glenn Williams entered the j
you would write to me occasiona ..y.
heer my lonely life. ij -
would receive your letters if addressed! -"’■'
from the one she is pursuing.
She lias told him she still loves him. ana
that is enough. If I were her, 1 would
cease writing to him and would utterly
ignore him and pretend to be perfectly
happy. Also, I would entertain both
men and women in my mother's home
as much as f could with propriety.
Men seldom, or never, appreciate the
love of a woman until they think they
are about to lose that love. Besides, if
Mr. W. is a normal man his vanity alone,
should she pursue such a course, would
cause him to return to her. He would
wish to prove to himself and to his little
v orhl that tliis beautiful and charming
vour evolution tiie- i y°u"g woman really did prefer him to any
other living man.
But what would you do?
MARY GARTH.
BROWNIE.
Alai shall,
no," pro-
u.ii
j room. “Come. Will, you and
/ lot’s go over and- lia ve a gal
osvd Glenn:
The new comers discarded topcoats
bats, drew up beside Uie table and lit
Glenn took trick after trick.
•• ''ftfiy, wi.-iFs tli- tn.liter uiiji you
lows tonight?" lie said ;| i letigll,.
"You must b« keening a trump card
up your sleeve." insinuated Marshall.
Whereupon Glenn, laughing heartily,
r ise and shook himself: raids fell from
Ms clothes: he appeared to rain cards.
"Just a little trick ol legerdemain!’’ lie
explained. “There was a juggler in town
tin's afternoon, and I paid him SI5 jjst
•o let me on to some of his sleight-of-
hand tricks; this is one o: them. Gome,
let's all adjourn to Cousin Buck’s and
see who is tliere."
It was a dear, starlight night, with
an exhilirating tang nf Host in the air.
Sensitive to the new cold, tie entile in
the neighboring stalls were lowing plain
tively, and in tiie distance could be heard
the ‘Yap! yap! jap!' of several hounds
hat had evidently treed a coon or
'possum.
"I can't understand where the f n
comes in in such business as that." said
Rufus. "Now those hunters will Lake
r’leir axes that they've shouldered for
tiie purpose and cut away till they fell
that tree by the sleepy light of an old
lantern: and then their arduous labor will
he rewarded with a measly old 'possum.
pair of beautiful cut-glass toilet
bottles, and Mrs. Tyson rose and ac
knowledged the gift by a bend of the
head, then turned gracefully and pre
sented the ease to Miss Barnes, Uie
guest of 11 i.o evening.
"Bravo! little woman!" cxciniine 1 Will
under iris breath. lie felt as if b<
have stamped himself to the
so unworthy of her did h< Ve!
e ; bought, “it was my .shameful
tlm: brought that sadness to her
proof of litis is that God's creatures
bring forth after their kind, and have
since tiie first offspring
. .. ,, ... ... .... . , <ff tire first creature. Another i-ontrsdictlon
‘kO Hrowni<\ Equality. S. < . W ul« lo y&ur evolution theory is that Christ was
hearty wishes for a Happy new year. L| incarnated in the form of man. left eartli
am your friend, j and entered heaven in this form, proving
thus that man must have been created in
the. image of God. For my part I be-
A BROKEN-UP HOME—A TRUE b'eve it. for tliere is more honor and sat-
STORY isfaction in claiming God as a direct
... , . . ' father than in believing that we came
Mic was a beautitu! lovable young U]> from the slime by gradually develop-
i leatuic, when young Ei. G. hi ought , ment Evolution tends to destroy spirit-
her home a bride. She had been deli- i „ is material in its nature, ap-
cately reared and well trained, and when ; , s lo n „ nrtW( , sentiment, furnishes
siie became tiie mistress ot the young | no U)ftv illea]
doctors home she very soon grew to st p aul sta tes -.ositivelv (see I Cor.,
b. the Mol Ot the slaves. At first she j , 5ih cUa pter. 39 verse, that all flesh is
viax\ei\ happj, and went singing abotitj not tile same flesh, for there's one flesh
Hi- place, hut ere long that green-eyed j o; another flrrii ..f boasts, another
monster, jealousy, crept into the home , , )f bil . d!)> ami anotlic■: of fishes, thus
and r oisoned tne iiean ot the \ oung | ) Ua i^j Ui r four grand divisions of the flesh
l, j_ j could have stamped himself t«» Lh«* ! inisl>:ui«I, wliu L»\ jiioi e J alone,. Xow, if e«'t.dulion he true, all
I earth. s-» unworthy of her did he ce! exacting and suspicious. Lmee uhildien flesh would he the sd.ine. and AVhat a
iii»i ! l he t duiitglit. *‘ii was my shumeiu: ■ u, l t ‘ ^V, 111 them two hoys and one _ terrible set of cannibals we would be!
■ m gleet tlmt brought that sadness to her; i- ihe g;r! ran awa> <*url\ in lii«* and When a lien hatches an elephant or a
i!v . ! | married against her lailier^s wishes; one tiger br ing s forth a lamb, it will be time
1 le waited. Presently tiie cr»*\vd began the i)o\s also disp»eiistrd his lather, enougii to argue evolution, but as long
to disperse. lie was ashamed of him-j vvimt away. f)nly one now remained ils God’s creatures continue to bring forth
sell*—he hesitated to let his wife know ut home vvich the* parents, and he onl> ! each after Its own kind evolution is non
lie was there. Then he wondered how stayed to protect his mother, as his in tli- j Don't mix p development with ! IN ARIZONA RESORT,
she intended to gc' home at that lime eu had grown so tyrannical that the son j evolution. Johnnie, for nearly oil your ar- ! b, vour “Chat with TTouselir.ldeV- •• n .
of nigiit wiliiout an escort, and found leared violence toward his mother. j gument is a -simple description of how j eentlv I no-i s x ... , , V i
himself hoping that she would -ome out I hey lived in this way for some time. ! certain tilings develop. Evolution is al- ‘ i,,v .Vmm , ii. , , ,
<ei tiie veranda alone. In another min- he practicing in toe neighborhood, where ! together different, and without the help LViJ T Absent Btothei and his wife, m
utc she emerged from tiie doorway with he stayed tor weeks at a time, leaving ■ you get 'front development it would not i r<it of a Io\ ed ttiend s friend, who d* -
Captain AYllJIams and Miss Josie. U!s licr to sew for money and live the best j s ; nn ,j ;i niinute. Tiie world goes on— sires come to Arizona for tier health,
heart heat violently, but he sauntered, she could. j the:e are many fancies—many so-called I* atn spending the winter here—from tin-
tip in his own careless fashion and said Finally a separation took place. She . scientific theories that will not hear the i south—for my health, and am getting well
in ids nonchalant wax. "Captain. 1 was remained at the old home, while tiie search-light of fnc* Yet in spite of all ! rapidly. lam boarding with a fine Chris-
passing on my way from the office, and doctor moved to another place, where ie , lids. “God’s children are gathering home." tian familv—uunt and niee°—and ! be
thought I heard my wife's voice; so I'll alii im old maid sister lived until the; Tile elect will never be deceived, for they : have a nice cheerful meiiir Vo.x.n i, '
take great pleasure in seeing her home. | dwelling house was burned: then they will set their faces heavenward, believing i ‘ ; ",' , ' m
if xou please." j moved tn ihu kitchen, a one-room log I where they cannot prove: and their faith ; , . 1 , c p.ison lice from lung
"Certainly, ct.lainiy. Will. Siie will ■ building. Here lie lived and smoked his , will prove to them the substance of ! < 1Sfase *. who desired to rent. In every
tell you we iiad much difficulty in per- Pipe amid asiies and dirt till the sum- j tilings hoped for and the evidence of j ^vay I find tliis a very desirable home to
suading her to come this evening, and r j "tons came calling him to meet his j things not seen. With much lo\-e to the I be hi
THE DEEPER GRIEF.
Siie came to me, with tearful, swollen
eyes.
And said that sorrow had, within the
night.
Her visited, to sadly break and blight
Her once glad heart: that overhead her
skies
Were darkly dim, no suns could ever
rise
With warmth sufficient to pierce
through with light
Their gloom. “Or make." she moaned,
"the •pathway bright
That long and lonely now before me
lies."
Then words of consolation sweet I said.
Of Him who to ihe burdened stoopeth
low;
Who loveth all and doetli all tilings
■well.
But when my friend ha<f gone. wiih
low-boxved head
I knelt and sobbed: “Oh. were tiie grief
I know
A sorj'ow not too .sorrowful to teii'"
MARGARET A. RICHARD.
ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE.
|- was the til's, sound 1 heard jester-
day. .-Jill it sail that the old woman. 9£
years old, was gone. She had been dying
four d-ys, 1 tigering as if unwilling t
go before having reached me iCChh
mile p st. I'suady 1 do not mind the
hammeri g in the day time when there
arc so many noises to mingle with it, but
yesterday 1 awo.ee with a headache, and
tiie tap. tap. beat on my brain, and tiie
pain was not dulled by tiie drug. It
was distracting, that ominous sound tell
ing me in my quiet home what crape
on tiie. door announces to the people on
tiie street. I shuddered to think how
many times I must hear it, if I should
live to be 9S.
On e it was so slight a disturbance as
: t<> be barely noticeable, but since Box'
wen: an i tiie house is so still it has
grown louder each time, especially at
nigh’. I hear it before I awake, it is a
nightmare. 1 am ;n a cotfin. and they
hammer so loud over me that the din
drowns my muffled voire when I cry out
that I am alive. T awake bathed in
coll perspiration, tingling with horror,
an t :h< tap, tap. tap. echoes and re
echoes throughout tiie bouse, my silent
house, whle i of.en appalls me with its
stillness. I wonder if I am dreaming,
and go grop'ng through ; he darkness to
the window and a ross tiie orchard a
iight glimmers ox - e a store where they
keep stacks of coffins, unmade that they
may l>e stacked more closely, but xvitli
all tiie parts ready to be l>ut together
when needed, and I see figures bending
over something while the steady tap of
1 the hammer goes on and on, louder and
| louder. T can rot sleep any more, and
I go to tin* organ and play the songs
! that Boy sang xvi li me, dear little Boy.
I who sings with angi-ls.
; Never was tlieie such long iicuiRued
hammering as I listened to yesterday. 1
think they mismetisured the body, and
had to make a second coffin. I wished
; that Uie eld woman had waited till her
j century x\'as out, that steady tap, tap,
j tap was maddening. Perhaps I was
mad. or I would not have struck out so
fiercely as to klil him. When they came
! and 'told me that he was dead I did not
| try to deny my gull:. 1 could have kept
! quiet when they called it suicide, but i
I confes?ed. and now T am a prisoner in
| my own house, and that tap, tap of lie
| Ivantmer tells me that they are making
j his coffin, and that I must go to prison
j and be tried for tlie* murder of my hus-
1 band.
j On my dull dumb misery I am glad
j of one thing, glad that Boy is not here.
| And I wonder th u I ever though! that
j his death was tlu* greatest sorrow that
could befall me. I recall how I sat by
this window and listened to the tap of
j the hammer on his coffin, as it came to
j me f i nly across the orchard all pink
and wii'te and fragrant with peach and
I plum blooms, and 1 hated the fair spring
! day and Uie bird that sang evuftingly
in the apple tree. because Boy xvas
I gone, and U'.e house xvas still. How lit-
| tie did t think that a day could come
! when tiie sound of that hammer through
I bare tro *s shivering in the autumn rain
! would mean so much of black despair
that the knoxv’edge that the child could
not share it with me would be my one j
ray nf comfort!
But alas! Boy knows it all.
He knew that niy sharp and j
cruel words drove his father to death
as surely as if my hand bad held the
pistol, and with an aching sense of
• I finality I realized the completeness of,
our separation for ail time.
The t p of the hammer has ceased. ;
Tn us pi ice another sound comes clear;
and sweet through the stillness,
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ii come to see her that night,
eing Sims to be his friend re
ed i. when Sims .acknowledges
lows Dan is innocent, but he
hax’c Minnie and will give Dan
police. Dan goes to telt Viv-
Situs rides to the uangman a
]i<- thinking it Dan opens the
door and the. wretched man tries to kilt
her, but Dan. in, Sir Reginald’s automo
bile. arrix'es in time to sax*e Ills wife.
Everything turns cut all right and Min
nie is rewarded for her true, and undy
ing faith in Dan by a happy life witn
him. AUZPAH.
that lie xv
Dali belie!
x'eals him
that lie k
intends to
up to the
ian while
Hut—M
TRUTH AND ERROR.
Pure thoughts ;re flowers that never
fade—
Eternal is the bloom of truth—
But error's dust through which we
wade
Shall fee] no more the thrill Of youth.
Yet error's mold shall fertilize
A grander, nobler, truer creed;
And from its trodden dust shall ris*
Th* sap to feed a present need.
JOHN MASON.
A GEORGIA OBITUARY.
hb- laid down his burdens—
His share of them gone:
They were ours when he left them,
And so. they go on!
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He pressed bis wife's little hand as it
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; Judge. He x\-;is buried at his father's
! old home. The wife went to see him |
| buried, liien siie i-ame back to her !
lonely life. Ere many years she. too. •
was culled from earth. When tiie khul ■
neighbors rume in to prepare her for |
burial, no lit clothes could *jt- found in I
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wouli mark the spot with a stone, but!
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father are in separate ground, and neith- |
er has a stone.
The ancestors of this ill-fated pair i
were people of excellent standing—what
tiie darkeys call "big folks"-—tli§ proud- '
est in their respective neighborhoods. !
j When one thinks of this and of the i
early /prosperity and happiness of this •
! pair, and their prospects for a bright
, future, and then thinks of those two
j neglected graves and (he scattered, ill-
I conditioned children, on** wonders if it
j is indeed worth while for “the spirit of!
i mortal to be proud.”
This is a true story, and. if Mother
Meb does not object, T'll tell xou more j
of the peculiar life of this eccentric doc-
. tor some day.
Dear Meb. could yon roax some of
your family to write to roe? I won! ’
l°ve to correspond with as many of th*
Household folk as would write to me
I lix-e on a farm, and liax’e very few
companions, and sometimes I get dread
fully “blue," and at such a time, oh!
how much good a bright letter does.
JOB.
Household, and a God-speed to G.
\Y.. I am yours for Christian brother
hood. DOCTOR NAT.
Waterford. Marshal] Counlx, Miss.. De
cember 31. 1906.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Miss Hilda A. was a pretty ghi; siie i-
still pretty, though sle- is now Mrs. \V.
"Three years ago siie married young W.
: T look forward to the merging of our
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j deligiit. for I know your bright facile pen
! and thoughts will enliven its pages, and
, the precepts and examples, as given in a
l broader light, or space, will influence us
! nil to stand firmer and truer and more
! upright. God bless you and your work
| is ray prayer. Loyally yours, "In His
Name,’’ CORNELIA H. KEYS, j
368 Fifth St., Phoenix, Ariz.
"Nearer, mv
Thee,
E'en trough
me."
God to Thee, nearer to
cross that raise:h !
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AN OLD, OLD HOME—THE HAUNT
ED CAVE, ETC.
■ Evolution, socialism, platonic friend
ship—and tiie friendship between women
are interestingly talked about in the
! Household 1 , and I enjoy tiie interchange
j of thought, luit also I like the short.
| chatty letters, telling about tbe writers’
j homes an,] their surroundings. These
i glimpses into the life and habitations or
j bright people are delightful to me—and
j I hope some of the friends may like lo
hear alrout my rather unique home, huilt
j probably oxer one hundred years ago. as
j the oldest inhabitants can remember
nothing about its construction. .Every
j log in the building is as large as a good-
; sized saw log. and they are apparently
I as sound today as when first put u,p.
j Near here there is a cave that extends
far back under the earth. It is the
home of night birds and bats (bats are
not finite birds, you know), and insects
of every description. The history of this
■cave is as old as the hills, and supersti
tious folks declare it is haunted; that
sometimes strange forms have been seen
to pass out and in its almost hidden en
trance. It has never been fully explored,
but enough has been seen to show that
It xvas once the hiding- place of robbers
an,f tbeir plunder, perhaps also for their
x-ictims, as bones, said to be those of hu
man beings, have -been found within
some of its chambers.
I also live near a river, the beautiful
Catawba, which name was given it by
tiie- Indians, who xvere at one time so
numerous along its fertile banks. There
are signs that many of them were buried
| beneath the sand and the willows, which
' at one time formed their favorite liunt-
i ing ground.
A JANUARY SUNRISE ON \
SOUTHERN FARM.
Those who burn the midnight oil and !
spend the early morning in tiie Land of j
t Nod are to be pitied and not censured,
i This morning I watched Old Sol as he
j slowly climbed above the stately pines,
scattering the brilliant clouds of red aiui
gold and flooding the world with irs
I glorious iight. The birds (God s
! songsters) sing of life and love, and a
j world to be—far beyond tiie billowy seas.
! The red bird, attired in his gorgeous
; gown, adds color to the scene as he
j proudly flits from tree to tree, seeming
t aware of the fact that prettv feathers
! make a pretty bird. At my feet are
j jonquils, hyacinths and violets, har
bingers of spring, making the air red-
j olent with thei r perfume. The smoke in
| Lie log cabins curls upward, and another
day of labor has begun. All is peace,'
I and harmony—it is sublime. I think of
j the psalm. “I will lift up mine eyes
unto the hills, from whence eometli niy j
help. My help cometh from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth. The sun
shall not smite thee by day. nor tiie
moon by night." And this is January.
But memory carries us back to times
when tiie blizzard did penetrate our
■unny land and fortunes were lost in a
night, when the inagniflcent orange
grox-es felt Ills icy touch. May I ever
lix-e and sleep the last sleep where the
Janquil nods Ills yellow head, the biris
sing and the x’iolets shed their fragrance
In January.
THE COUNTRY CONTRIBUTOR.
It comes from the graveyard over on
the h llsido, where iliey are burying the
old woman, and it awakens in my heart
thanksgiving, hope and peace. With the
pas- ing of -the effects of the drug, the
shadow that darkened my life is lifted.
1 know tiiat Boy is safe from all harm,
and that death is not the saddest part
in life DREAMER.
I Hava r~v\)V6ii otfucur oo vu. w..
No Pain, No Plastar, No KnHo.»Dr. Walls.
loin a.
j HOW A LITTLE TEACHER FEELS
ABOUT IT.
! J would like to say a few words In re-
I gard to how I. and others, reel C on-
. cerning the demise of The Sunny South,
j We feel as if we are about to lose one
very near and dear to us. We feel like
I have discovered a new an d seemingV ! .1 some one Kinea ner
unfailing remedy for the dead! cancer. I | ** . <JO ”- and after he found that her
have made some most astonishing cures. ! pT,p f completely surpassed anything
T beliex'e every person xx-ith cancer should j ,ie had expected, he offered to gix'e her
DANIEL SWEETLAND.
The story of the English middle lire.
Dan Rweetland. son of the gamekeeper of
Middleton, on rlie night ol his marriage
with Minnie Marshall is accused of mur
dering si man named Thorpe. Dan was a
foster -brother to the son of Sir Reginald,
owner of Middleton, and on the night be
fore his wedding, Henry Vivian, Sir Regi
nald’s son, gave Dan a new gun. The
great factor in the circumstantial evi
dence is this gun, which was fount! near
the -body of tiie murdered man. On the
same night Dan had been poaching, but j
lie had retuffmed to his home. Shortly j
after his return he heat'd a shot anti it j
man passed -closely by him. Dan's father j
was wounded the same night.
-Fims, a valet at Middleton, had been a i
suitor for Minnie's hand. She did not I
admire or ‘Lust him, yet Dan seems to !
think his cause is sa-l'e in Sims' hands. J
Dan slips from his captors, pretending to i
tell them the hiding place of the booty |
of a recent robbery tn the neighborhood, !
l'nids his way to Hangman’s Hut, his j
new home, where Minnie intends to re- i
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dead, but -promises to write soon, then | Tucked Shirt
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Indies. Minnie does not tell Sims that
Dan is not dead, when later the report
comes that the murderer has fallen in an
old -unused mine shaft. Sims heliex'ing
■Dan dead, tries to win Minnie. Dan
writes to Minnie and she shows the let
ter to a friend of Dan's. News comes
■that Dali's ship is lost find Minnie tries
to work out some faint clues she has
that Sims was implicated in the murder
of Thorpe.
Dan was sax-efl from the fated ship and
goes to West Indies. Here he meets
Henry Vivian, xx ho beli\-es Dan guilty ot
Thorpe's death, and has him taken pris
oner. The overseer of Sir Reginald s
sugar plantation does not like Vivian and
L b ^W\t\ y Person wuh cancer should j ’ le had expected, he offered to give her potoon Henry. Dan escapes and finds
Know of this marvelous medicine and ; another prettier and finer dog than the his way to the "Oheali Doeto-'s" hut
tvs wonderful cures, and 1 win i->» 1—, uu.j <*•*-- , , I 1 1 p s iiui
to give
xvrite me and tell me about their case
Peter Keagan. Galesburg, 111., had can
cer of the mouth and throat. Doctors
said, “no hope.” Mr. Keagan wrote:
“It le only a question of a short time-
I must die." Today his cancer is healed
up and he is xvell. My marvelous radia-
tized fluid did it. It has other just such
cures to its credit. It is sax-ing people
• very day and restoring Niem to health
and strength. If you have cancer, or any
lump or sore that you beliex'e is canee..
write today and learn how others have
been cured quickly and safely and at
very small expense. No matter what, your
condition may be. do not hesitate to
write and tell me about It. T will answe.-
yenr letter promptly, giving you, abso-
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sizes, 32 to 42,
fu r » U infornfation d free W to afl wh^ i f" 0 m h ? d kiI1<?d ' Shf ' looked scomfuHv where he bears Ford and the doctor plan-
* nL’ te 0 n n !ue°Vno f ,ri e t nM- a, i^ h0 ,n _ to _ his . '»<* **>« 'ery idea! "ing to kill Henry Vivian. He is caught
t river
j sand
lately free, full information and proof
\ few years ago. when the | of many remarkable cures. Address Dr.
•.•cached its high water mark, the Rup**rt Weils,
washed away from many ui' I Louis, Ala
2301 By
iilainU, tit.
of offering me another in his place; you in the act of taking fruit from the doe-
might just as well kill my child and
think you could make amends by giving
me another in Its place.”
That Is the way we feel about gixfing
up The Runny South and the Household.
I for one know by actual experience that
Unde Remus knows how to charm and
interest and please the -people, for haxe
I not used his works as supplementary
reading in my school, and And the chil
dren spellbound with Interest? His tales
about Br'cr Rabbit are grand, and grown
people like them as well as the children.
I know Uncle Remus's Magazine will ho
fine. but that cannot totally make up for
tor's trees and might have -been put to
death but he pretends lie is an enemy to
Vivian and seems to give in readily to
help them kill Vivian. He paints himself
like a negro and exchanges the poison
drink before the doctor hands it to Henry
Vivian. Ford is poisoned and the old
doctor kills himself. Henry ;ui,l Dan be
came friends and arrange to return to
England. Dan is 'to rem.'iin disguised as
a negro in order to locate tiie real mur- I
dcror.
In th** -mean-time one Itix Parkinson. |
who is dying, asks to see Minnie, trims. ;
who is still trying to marry her. ticcous- |
panics her to tin* dying man, who makes
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o. - rl ,. _ ... , the sitf-temeTit that Dan is innocent. That I
having to give up The Sunny .South with!
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whom 1 had never seen before and never I soomlng negro valet is lie,- husband aud Atlanta, Ga.