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COUSIN ZOE’S VALENTINE.
I don’t see what Cousin Zoe want
ed to send a Valentine for, anyhow!
She’s awful old 1 Most nineteen,
I guess. When I get as old as that,
I’ln’certaiu I won’t care about send
ing Valentines.
Rat she did, and she asked me to
post it on my way to school. I had
a good mind.to.,refuse because she
.
wouldn’t let me see the Valentine
she got the day before.
I tbought.it was real mean of her,
when I showed her all mine. But I
got to see it. anyway, for Cousin
Zoe sent me to get a ball of blue
Germantown zephyr out of her draw
er the same day, and there was the
Valentine right beside it. I suppose
I hadn’t ought to, but I couldn’t
help taking just one peep at it, and
then I kuew why she didn t show it
to me, for it was a comic one • the
very comicalest one I ever saw.
It was a picture of a big, stout
woman, with a long, red nose.
Cuiisiu Zoe’s nose is a little long,
and she is toiUof stout, too. 1 know
she hates to be stout, for she wears
her dresses just us tight!
But I did’nt tell her I looked at
the Valentine. I knew she felt mor
tified about it. And she said if I
would post the Valentine for her,
and not tell a single soul about it,
ghe’d give me a whole bandbox full
of silk scraps for my crazy-quilt.
I was real glad to get them, for I
was afraid Susy Dawe would finish
her quilt before I did. Her sister
Cassy is a dress-makor, and so she
gets lots of scraps.
So I said I’d take it, and I tucked
it under my arm and started. But
when I got to the post office, it
■wasn’t there—the Valentine, I mean
—and I went back three blocks to
look for it, but couldn’t find it, and
I came near being late to school on
account of it.
I felt so worried about it, too,
that 1 missed my spelling lesson, and
got kept in all recess. I told Susy
Dawe about it at dinner-time. Of
course, Cousin Zoe wouldn’t mind
Susy knowing it. Only she didn’t
want grandma and U ucle Dave and
brother Robbie to know, because
they’d be sure to teaze her.
And Susy asked right away who
the Valentine was to,
“Jo Hazard,” I told her.
And then she said :
“Why don’t you buy another and
send him, Bab?” (My name is Bar
bara, but everybody cal!s me Bab.)
“He won’t know but what it’s the
same one,” she says.
Sure enough! I hadn’t thought of
that. Susy always was smarter than
me. So I asked her if she would go
to the store with me to buy one, and
she said she would.
The store was right around the
corner on Prarie Avenue, so wc had
time enough to go before school be
gan again.
“Was it a pretty one ora comic
one?” she asked, as we hurried
along.
I hadn’t seen it, of course, but I
was most certain it was a pretty one.
Jo Hazard and Cousin Zoe used
to K* ™ i *■ T i i u T „ ,
ways coming to our house, and k
ing her to singing-school or sleigh
)th ® rp laceB - BuLsoine ;
thmg happened—I r never knew what
t„*Y mi I k “ow CoDsin Zoe and
Jo had some sort of fallmg out, aud
uo stopped coming.
And Zoe felt bad about it, too. I
could see *u„ that 4 . plam i • as .1 thc nose on
lay face and that e a pretty pto
one, everybody says. But I doii t
care. I’d rather be smart than piet
tj any day.
And so I told Susy that I thought
it must have been a pretty one.
“It’s likely Cousin Zoe wants to
make up with him, by sending him
* ieal pretty Valentine," I said.
‘■OUR AMBITION IS TO make a VER A CIO US WORN, RELIABLE IN ITS STATEMENTS, CANDID IN ITS CONCLUSIONS, AND JUST IN ITS
VIEWS.”
For I always judge other people
bymyseK nnd I know tin « < =r e
way i would do if 1 wanted 3 raa e
friends with anybody.
And so Susy and i picked out the
very prettiest Valentino (that did hit
cost too much) in the whole store.
Hut there were such lots and lots
of’em, it was hard work to choose,
I found one that was bordered
with a wreath of forget-me-nots, and
in the centre was a silver dove, hold
ing out a leaf, and on the leaf was
written:
“Forgive and forget.”
I thought that would be very ap
propriate. Aud Susy thought so, too.
So I bought it, and a big envelope
to put it m ; and, before 1 sealed it
up, 1 put m one of Zoe’s cards, that
I happened to have in my pocket so
lie would be sure it was from her.
And then I got the lady we bought
it of to direct i t to Mr: Jo Hazard
because I always run the words down
hill when I’m directing an envelope.
And then we dropped it in a letter
box, and ran to school just as the
first bell was ringing.
I did’nt feel quite rightabout it
though; aud I kept out of Cousin
Zoo's way as much as I could when
I got home,
I had half a mind to tell her what
Fluid done, but ihea I was afraid
she would be angry, and not give
me the quilt-pieces. Sol made up
my mind not to say anything about
it.
Cousin Zoo was m the kite hen
helping grandma get supper, when 1
got home, and I slipped into tho
parjor and went to practicing my
music-lessontill it was ready*
I behove I would have stayed
away horn my supper if 1 had dar
ed. But T knew that wouldn’t do
Grandma would bo sure I was sick
and give me a dose of medicine And
some gruel—and I hate gruel almost
as bad as I do medicine.
So I went to supper, and ate quite
a good deal cons', daring my con
science was troubling me so. But I
couldn't help quaking every time
Cousin Zoe looked at me.
She did not .-ay anything about
the Valentine that night for 1 took
good care not to give her a chance
But the next morning, just us I
was sta ling to school, she pounced
out of the parlor, with her sweep
ing-cap and gloves on, and said;
“Albright, Bab?”
And I said;
“All right.”
I hoped, away down in my heart,
that it was all right, I thought it
was, I’m sure. Anyway, I had done
tho best I could to make it right.
But I couldn’t get rid " -of a guilty
leeiing « all ,, tiny. ,
Even at recess, when Susy and
the other girls were playing “King
William” and “Oats, peas, beans and
barley grow,” I sat at my desk- with
my head on my am,thinking bow
wicked f had been to lose Cousin
Zoe’s Valentino aud then tell a
story about it.
But that night, when supper was
over, and I was studyiny my Ins to
ry lesson, Zoe came in with a big
band-box full of the prettiest silk
scraps, J ’ and emptied 1 them out on
tljfcn j broke down and com .
fenced to cry; and told her the
w „ ul 'take one ^ of yoor picccs,- ‘
, mid n „ em . 6ilk
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And , \ Cousin Zoe! , 111 T „, never forget , .
1E1[t!lk d ,, or _ bt ll rang, and she
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J - d , _u
I didn't learn in uch of my history
lbat ^ n, 8 ht > Plough I sat up la^cr
than common studying it.
But v hen I had put away
book and gone up stairs to go to
Cousin Zoe came in and kisa-
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1C, 1889.
! ed mc and she looked so bright and
.
happy I couldn’t help asking what
bad happened.
And: her checks got as red as if
she was ashamed of something; but
she said:
“Nothing has happened, only Jo
Hazard has been here, and—and it’s
ail right Bair
And I’m so thankful you didn’t
send the one I gave you; l'or it was
that comic one I got the other,day.
1 thought lie had sent it to me, and
1 was going to send it back again.
But ho hadn’t sent it, after all, and
—and we are both thankful to you
what you did.”
“Oh Zoe, did you tell him?” I
cried.
“Why, of course! I couldn't lot
him think I sent it, when I didn’t,”
she explained. “But it’s—it’s all
right, Bab. and he told me to thank
you for him.”
I didn’t see why he should thank
me, and I couldn't imagine what
Cousin Zoe meant by looking se
happy, and saying it was ail right.
But 1 was glad it was, and my
heart felt lighter than it had fox two
days.
When I went to school the next
morning, and took out my atlas to
study my geography lesson, 1 found
the Valentine that I thought I had
lost. And then I remembered that I
had put it there after I started, so
it wouldn’t get crumpled, and had
forgotten all about it. I hadn’t used
the alias the day before, because we
only have map-questions twice a
a week.
I took the Valenitno home and
gave it to Cousin Zoe, and she burnt
it up.
She has got two now silk droescs
lately, and she gave me the scraps
from both of them, aud Jo Hazard
gave me a pretty workbox with a
silver thimble, ”to pay for his VuD
entice,” lie said, and to use in mak
ing my crazy-quilt.
Last night, when I came from
school, 1 found grandma and-Cousin
Zoe had tacked down a now carpet
m the parlor, and were put trig up
some new curtains to tlio windows.
1 asked grandma what they were
fixing up so nice for, but she,only
said school-girls mustn’t a-k ques
tions, But I think I can gness what
it’s for.
Jo Hazard comes here often or
than he ever did, and Zoo wears a
brand new gold ring j'ou her finger.
And besides, 1 saw her reading a
lecipe for wedding cake, the other
day.
TuR PR1DK op TII p] SOUTH,
U lho ( l ucstl ° n Was a * kod evor K
conscientious citizen of tho South
wh , ,° .. , . ... bCCllon
a !‘ ll * l,e ™°P u * ont - ‘What pc
r,odlCal ell0l * ld bouthern ,nen leel a
g«»ter pride m than all others?”
G.e mvanable and enthusiastic an
“ wer w ^ ld J b ° “ lhc «° u ^rn Col
‘ <va \ or * lho t re P'y w « uld bo J list
fo * the folIowm 1I S 1 ‘ easons - U h the
^ , ' ieultl)r;U i oa ™ ttI in thc
b °, uth • ,l hus ncver lost lts individ '
uul,t f or it3 distinotivo character;
11 umtos the vi « or und brightness of
the present with tne wisdom aud ex
perieuce of tho past, blending to
gether in a harmonious whole, now
theories, new motives and new scion
title developments with that which
U|S > lc ' it » f time Las proven to be
meritorious i the erperieuce of the
many are brought out for the benc
fit of the many. J
The February number keep, The
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of which Hon. W. J Northern,
i President of the Georgia State Ag
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his tune and talent, affords one a
splendid insight into tbe workings
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being very full and worthy o! the
special attention of the members of
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LEG A L AD VER TIS E MEN I'D
Ouliu.’.ry’s Office, Jones t-'o., Ga,
January 29ih 1SS9.
Vlbereas, W, P. Glover the admin
istrator on Estate of John J. Cover
d( e-l. applies to me tor Dismission
• .-.ah' .*dmi-.fisl ,-atio.i. These are
ihe ePofe to cite ' and ndinonish all
persons concerned to show cause at
this office if any they have to tliccon
trary on or by tho first Monday in
May next. Witness my hand offiei
ally. R. T. ROSS, Ordinary,
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co., Ga.
January 29th 1880.
Whereas, W. P. Glover applies to
me for administration with the will
annexed on Estate of Nathaniel S.
Glover dec’d. of said county. These
are to cite and admonish all persons
concerned to show cause at this of
fice if any they have to the contrary
on or by the first Monday in March
next. Witness my hand officially.
11. T. ROSS, Ordinary.
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co., Ga.
January 29th 1889.
Whereas, John F. Anderson Adm’r
on Estate of Marlin R. Malone dec’d,
applies to me for Dismission from
said Estate. These are to'cite and
admonish all persons concerned to
show cause at this office if any they
have to the contrary on or by tbe
first Monday in May next.
Witness my band officially,
Fv. T. ROSS, Ordinary.
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co., Ga.
January 29th 1889.
Whereas, G. W. F. McKay ap
plies to me for administration on
Estate of Hugh D. McKay, Jr. de
ceased late of Jones county. These
are to cite and admonish all persons
concerned to show cause at this of
fice if any they have to the contrary
on or by the first Monday in March
next. Witness my hand officially.
It. T. ROSS, Ordinary.
Ordinary’s Office, Jones CogGa.
Nov. 17th 1888.
Whereas, Pleasant li. Bird, Exe
cutor of Estate John W. Bird de
ceased, applies to me for Dismis
sion. These arc to cite all persons
concerned to show cause if any
they have to tho contrary at this
office on or by the first Monday
in March next.
Witness my band officially.
It. T. K088, Ordinary,
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