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AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27, 1882.
WMfttlS IkfOVrtct. BOB and jenny.
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no take the big wagon and go to
Bald Mountain. Mother will give
T i , j us a lunch, and we can have a
Jenny clasped her hands under I .,ien ic
her head and yawned a little as I ... , onny thi „ks a Ionic is a cure
it. I thought you would feel so
badly.”
“Bob Howard,” cried Jenny, sud
denly erect and vivacious’ “you
stead. Bob said she was a regular
guy in blue, and though Bob was
her lover no longer, yet she need
not make herself a fright in Bob's
continued
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she looked at pretty Emily Ash
man.
“Indiflerent?" said slip; “well,
really, Emily, it’s sucb an old
story, you know; we’ve been
brought up on it, Bob and 1; how
can we be enthusiastic?'’
Mrp. Ashman sighed. “You are
the most impossible person,” said
she. “All, Jenny, bow time changes
everything! Five years ago you
were a child, Bob was in college,
and I was a bride; now, you are a
bride and I am a widow at twenty-
three."
“But I am not a bride yet,”
answered Jenny, aggressively.
“No, but you will be to-morrow.
Is there another girl in the world,
I wonder, who would insist upon
spending the afternoon before her
wedding day in the woods witli a
parcel of noisy children? Have
jnesnis yon no romance, no sentiment, no
imagination? Why, child, for
weeks licforc 1 was married I was
in a perfect dream. l)o you- never
fuel like that? Have you no re
grots for the life of girlish freedom
you will leave behind you?”
Jenny looked at tiie blue Octo
ber sky, as it shown between the
beeches.
“I shall not leave it behind,” she
said. “Bob and I get on so well
together, and my life will be so
little changed only to go from our
bouse across the street to Bob’s;
the homestead is bis, you know,
sinco bis mother (lied. As to get
ting married, I want it done
quietly.”
At this minute a shrill Swiss
jodcl sounded from the river, aud
a cedar boat shat into sight. There
were two young men in it. One
held the rudder cords, anil flung a
cigarette into the river as they
came up; the othpr was pulling the
boat and looking back over his
left shoulder to make a land
ing.
“Catch the painter, Jenny,” said
Bob.
“How late you arc; we are raven
ous,” replied Jenny, as she obeyed
him.
Whon tho boat was tied and Bob
had introduced bis friend, Joseph
Hardy, tlu young men built a Arc,
and Jenny made codec, and Jack
and Itudolf and Lottie were called
from their bcccbnutting, and ev
erybody was lively and witty, and
unromantically hungry and alto
gether they bad n very jolly picnic,
and wpiit home at last in a high
state of satisfaction.
There was nothing very particu
lar about Hardy; ho was a nega
tive sort of fellow, but lie was dif
ferent from any other young man
Jenny had ever scod, ana she
for every ill on earth,” declared
Bob.
“Bob is certain that 1 am dread
fully disappointed not to be mar
ried,” and the two went oif to con
sult Mrs. Browne.
“Who would ever imagine these j said
two people to be in love witli each ; -‘Well, so did you.”
other?” asked Emily Ashman in
despair.
Hardy shook the blaze from a
match and dropped it over the rail
ing.
“Nobody would think so,” Mr.
thought tlml I would feel badly, eyes just because Hardy liked blue,
did you?" ’ j She ran down stairs, ami stopped
“\Vliy. yes, I thought you loved : with a start inside the parlor door,
lor abc saw Bob standing, back to
“I. never loved you for a minute i her, staring out at tho window
in that way.” : witli bis hands in his poekets.
“Then you perjured yourself." he i “You came very quickly,” said ! sively.
Jenny; “Rudolf lias hardly licen; “Yes, Bob.”
gone two minutes.”
“It was u long time ago.” “I did not ace Rudolf,” said
“It la very well, Bob Howard,”! Bob. “I did not know you sent
said Jenny, with blazing cheeks,; for me. I came over of my own
“that we found out our mistake be- - accord.”
fore it was too late. How utterly ; "Oh,” said Jenny, and went and
absurd it would have been lor | sat down by the fire. She folded
Hardy answered, quietly,“they are | ii„. in |,nvn promised to obey her pretty, ringlcss hands and for
you." a moment contemplated the hack
limes; I was so
Bob.
Another silence, Jenny peeping
at Bob through the sticks of her
hand screen; Bob staring at the
crimson Fusiyama, on a ground of
blue nnd drab, worked on Jenny’s
fan.
“Jenny,” said Bob rather cxplo-
JiUW BiLSBi
thought it was a pity that Bob was
not like bis friend.
Tho wedding day was peerless,
and the old parsonage where Jenny
lived was noisy and cheery with the
wedding bustle. Plump Mother
Browne between smiles and tears,
was bringing out her great white
loaves ot bride cake; the parson
was in tho cellar unearthing sever
al cobwcbbed bottles of currant
wine, golden with age, whiob grand
mother Browne had long sinco set
apart and labeled, “For Jenny’s
wedding."
Suddenly Parson Browne ap
peared with cobwebs on ids hair
and holding an open telegram in his
hand.
“Your great-great-uncle is dy
ing,” lie announced. “I must go
at once; I can catch the 9:.10 ex
press."
“And what about the wedding?”
gasped Mother Browne.
“Yon wilt have to gel Brother
Gihnan.”
“I never,” said Jenny, firmly,
“will be married by anybody but
father. Well wait until you come
back; it will not make any differ-
They went to Bnld Mountain,
nnd they bad a charming time, but
that night when Jenny brushed her
hair site thought again that it was
a pity Bob was so unlike bis friend.
Father would lie hack next day,
and she would be married to Bob,
of course, lint if—”
Jenny put out her light and open
ed her blinds. Across the atrcit
on the piazza of Bob’s bouse (was
it to bo ber’s to morrow?) some
body was walking and smoking.
Hardy,’of course. Bob was prob
ably sound asleep. Bob had no
romance.
“Ah, me—if only—”
Jenny closed her blinds anil
crept to bed.
All the same it was Bob who
paced the piazza and smoked in tbe
dark.
“it is a confounded pity,” said
be, but lie did not say wlmt was a
pity.
He threw away the stump of bis
cigar and went into the house to
to bed.
But Parson Browne did not re
turn next day nor next; in fact,
tlirce weeks went by, and poor old
Kben Browne still lingered, “dy
ing daily,” and would not let bis
nephew leave bis sido lor half an
hour.
Both Mrs. Ashman and Hardy
declared it was absurd to stay, and
still they stayed from day to day,
They passed the time in riding,
driving and rowing, tennis and
mtisio, and ail manner of joyous
devices, and yet they were not
joyous. Something had gone wrong
somehow. Tbe leaves had fallen
and the mountains fur away were
capped in snow; It was November;
tbe very sunlight was a hollow
gleam; tho world was out of joint
completely. One afternoon Boll
found Jenny alone in tbe old-fash
ioned parlor before a little wood
lire. Site bad not licen crying, of
course. (Vhat should Jenny have
to cry for? And yet her lashes
were wet.
“Where’s Mrs. Emily?” inquired
Bob.
Jenny gave a little start.
“She lias gone to Salisbury Mill
with Mother and Jack to buy her
self some new widow’s caps.”
“Oil,” said Bob, “I should tblnk
she might leave off these things by
this time; he’s been dead for three
years.”
“Four years,” corrected Jenny,
“but slio says she will never leave
tbe caps oil'- 1 think they are be
coming to her.”
Bolt made no reply to lici', but
fell to studying tile mouldering lire
gloomily.
"Quite ns ridiculous,” returned
Bob with spirit, “is for me to prom
ise to worship you. Why will
your father cling to his grand
father’s clumsy old English ser
vice?”
“You see,” said Jenny. “ I never
of Bob's great tweed coat, as if
she was considering tho fit of it.
“You sent for me then,” said lie,
still looking out the window into
the orchard. "Wlintdo you want
of me."
“Why—er—nothing,” said Jen
could forget, Bob, ifl lived forn'ny. “You came of your own nc-
thousnnil years, what a perfectly: cord to see me; wlmt did you
horrid boy you used to bu." '
“And I should always be think
ing,” Bol> rejoined, “what a little
Tomboy of a girl you used to be,
forever tagging.”
“I wish I knew what to say to | came home.
“Bob Howard, I never tagged,”
she replied.
“Forever tagging,” persisted
Bob, doggedly.
“You put a toad in my desk
at the old red school bouse one
day.”
“Yes, because you told who
broke the meeting house window.”
“I should think you might have
forgotton that in the course of
years.”
“It strikes me we are getting de
cidedly childish, Jenny; can’t we
talk tbis matter over like rational
beings?”
“It is not a rational matter,
Bob.”
“At least wc can agree to dis
agree.”
“And I can give you buok your
ring.”
“Won’t you wear it simply as a
friend?’"'
“No, Bob, friends do not give
rings.”
She took ofT tbe ring nml banded
it to him.
“Throw it into the fire,” lie
commanded, without touching it.
“If wo are to act like rational
bcingR, von must put it in your
pocket. It would be tbcatricul
to throw it into the fire.”
“Very well,” lie said, “give it to
me."
She obeyed him, and they sat
for some time without speaking,
then Jenny said;
“How ridiculous it would have
been, Bob', for us to have been mar
ried.”
“Perfectly ridiculous,’' be an
swered.
“And of all things in tbe world,
Bob, I do hate to appear lidiou-
Ions.”
And that evening both Bob and
Jenny were exceedingly merry.
Jenny played eribbage with Hardy,
and Emily and Bob sar.g duets at
the other end of the room. By and
by Jenny and Hardy popped corn
over the glowing coals and Bob and
Emily went out to walk upon the
piazza.
The sun rose twice, and set twice,
and rose again, and Parson Browne
want?”
“Nothing,” echoed Boil, witli
spirit.
“Why, Bob you surely must j Bobby, fdr you to
have come over here for some-1 sure.”
thing.” i He Imd posnssion of both of her
“And you, of course, did not | hands by this timo, ami the fail was
send for me for nothing,” lie re-1 nowhere.
“Doesn’t It strike yon as rather
ridiculous, at tills late day, tor us
to tell your father that we do
not—do not love each other?” Bob
asked.
"I do not know, BqJ>,” answered
Jenny.
Bob left bis sido of the fire nnd
sat down beside Jonny on tbe tiny
sola.
“Put down tho fan. Jenny,” he
said.
But she would not; she even
turned her head away from him.
“You need not obey me, you
know, Jenny, if you do not wish
to do so.”
He then clasped her band, her
left hand, upon which the ring had.
been.
“And it would bo very silly,
worship me, I bn
m
plied
“How utterly nbsutd we are act
ing. Now, tell me your errand
first."
“ Place aux James," answered
Boh, witli alarming politeness.
“You are certainly in a very bad
temper this morning,” retorted
Jenny.
“Persons who wear colored
glasses say that all the world is
blue.”
Jenny flushed, hut she p.hut her
tectli lightly. She had not sent fur
Bob to qunrrel with hint. Bob left
the window, and commenced prom
enading slowly up nnd down the
room.
“1 liopo you enjoy your freedom,
Bob.”
‘Immensely. Hope you enjoy
yours. 1 ’
“I never was so happy in my
life,” said she energetically. “It is
sucii a relief.”
Bob stopped short in Ids prome
nade.
‘•Is it?”
“Why, yes. Of course It it,” she
replied.
He came up on the oilier side of
the fire,
“I tell you what it is, Jenny,”be
said, “it has simply como to this,
that the next step must bo worship,
for the Inst two days have taught
■no that I could not love you
anv better if should try for a life
time.”
Jenny considered awhile.
“I'll tell lather, Bob, if you want
mo to,” she said with amazing hu
mility, “that we have agreed to
break off—”
“Look bore,” cried Bob, "we’re
going to lot this matter drop, you
know, and by this time to-morrow
Jenny skillfully eluded bis em
brace.
“By this time to-morrow, my
dear, you will have lost your Indi
viduality, you'll be Jenny Howard’s
liur.li'inrl.”
CoiiRrPHsIonnl Convention.
Eastman, Ga., August 23.—The
Congressional Convention met hero
to-day and adopted t|ie majority
rule alter some discussion, and
nominated Judge C. F. Crisp for
Congress by a vote of twenty-three
to eleven.
After the adoption of tho major!-
“I sav, Jcnr.y, lias anybody j ly rule, General Cook’s friends see-
toll your father anything nlsml it i ing thcro was no clianco for him,
*la r '
ALL REPAIR WORK
“Why, no,” said Bob, “no differ
ence at all; Jcnny.and I are always
here. We can lie married anytime
we happen to wish to.”
. PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO I So it seemed, slier all there was
. to be no wedding that day. Tbe
J E SULLIVAN. 1 bridecake was put away, and tbe
i four young
stood on Hie
Jenny, confound i !” bo was think
Ing.
“Dear inc,” thought Jenny “how
shall I ever tell Boll in this
world.”
“Boh,” commenced Jenny, tim
idly.
“Well," said he.
“You know 1 am very lond of
you, Bobby.”
“Yes, of course,” said Bob, but
be thought, “Now, hang it, why
need she make everything so much
harder by becoming affectionate all
of a sudden. Poor little Jenny,
how badly she’ll feci when I tell
her. Yet, it is kinder to be truth
ful.”
“Yes, Bobby, 1 am very fond of
r ou; but lately, do you know, dear,
have come to feel that I can
only love you—as I would my
brother.”
yet.
“I have not.”
“Why?”
“Well, I thought it was your
place."
“Certainly not. It is a lady’s
rivilego always to announce
roken engagement.”
“It is n pleasure I will gladly
forego.”
“You cannot forego ft. Your
father must be told. You know we
cannot go on in this way any long
er, Jenny. It is perfectly ridic
ulous.”
Jenny agreed that it was ridicu
lous, so ridiculous that somehow
her lashes were wet with amuse
ment.
“I don’t know what the deuce
they will say about it,” said Bob,
Ills bands still in his pockctH. ‘-It
Mrs. Brown once more unwrap-; is certainly very awkward for us
pod her bride-cake, and unlocked
‘ her best damask, and her grand
mother's wine glasses, with twisted
stems, and onee more the parson
age was alive with clieerfnPprcpar-
ations for the wedding. For Jen
ny and Bob bad licen two coward
ly to tell anybody the change in
their relations. It was sueb au
awkward and uncomfortable thing
to do. They bad quite given them
selves up to the companionship of
Emily Ashman and Hardy. They _
did not, however, enjoy themselves j my mind this morning, Jenny
or their friends so amazingly.
Could it lie that the zest was gone
because the fruit was no longer for
bidden?
They were so linppy and so
cheerful that one night Jenny fair-
botli.”
Jenny made no reply. The fire
scorched her face, and she was
obliged to spread a Japanese fan
that lay near by to screen herself.
Her right foot peeped out from
under tier gown, apd it occurred to
Bob that Jenny certainly did pos
sess the trimmest little foot in the
world.
They were busy thinking for a
lung time.
“Do you know what came into
Judge
did not present hia name.
John McKoa, of Montgom
ccivcd eleven yotes from tho Cook
cortnties. Tk n Coffee county dele
gation declined to participate in
the proceedings of tbe convention,
on account of tho adoption of the
majority rule, which out off Cook’s
chances. There was a full attend
ance of delegates.
How It Was Done.
“How do you manage.” said a lady fo
her friend “to appear so happy and good
natnred all Uia timer "Ialways hare
Parker’s Olng r Tonio handy," waa the
reply, “and thna easily keep myself and
family in good health. When I am well
1 always feel good natnred.”
—All the window nnd bottle glass
booses in Pittabnrg will shortly be shat
down for the summer. Tbe men are to
be employed blowing huge glass dia
monds for seaside botol clerks.
Skill tx Wommr.— 1 To do good work
tho mechanic moat have good health.
If long hoars of confinement in close
g boars of confinement In close
have enfeebled bis bandordimmed
bis sight, let him at once, and before
somo organic troubles appears, taka
plenty of Hop liittcrs- Hia system will
bo rejuvenated, hia nerves strengthened,
hia sight bocorao clear, and tho whole -
constitution be built up to a higher work
ing oondition.
—A eeeeof hydrophobia, it is alleged,
has been developed In New York by tbe
use of tobacco. Next wo know folks
something Hint I have not thought: u *“ TlD * deUtinm «"“ens from
of lor years?” | ‘Woking buttermilk.
“Ofcoursenot, Bob. Ilotv should
I?”
“I was thinking of the lime 1
fell anil hurt myself at Barker’s
mill, anti you ran the whole way
vill
to the village to get the doctor
ly criid herself to sleep for very
joy, and Bob, across the street, „ — ..
shadv niazza lookintrat each other ‘‘^bal!" Uob > lookin g walked the piazza till nearly mid-! for me." _ . _
blankly. Mr. Ilarcfy seated him- "“.^"V'know criei , "iB'jMwofcing and thinking what j “It was just at well that I lag- j school exhibition in which the lino My
seif on the railing and roiled a ci- . 3Tknow how ? lUd von ^ tl,at time WMn 1 i*) I Imnny. bonny bride”ft^ucnOy occurred,
An Itnposlblllty.
Deserving articles arc always appreci
ated. The exceptional cleanliness of
Parker’s Hair Balsam makes it popnlar.
dray bain are impossible with its oc
casional nse.
-A liny having n pieco to declaim at a
garette.
Ho was a happy fellow, in that
he was never at a loss wliat to do
next.
“What shall we do now?” asked
Jenny.
“Wc ought snrely to do some
thing. ”
“Yes, it is flat to do nothing
when we expected to bo married,”
said Bob.
“I wilUcll you,"cried Jenny,“let
know it is wrong," cried
Jenny, “and I know bow had you
will feel, Bobby, dear, but I can
not help It. I can never marry you
In tho world. I do not love you in
that way.”
e Bob ciosscd over to Jenny,
and dropped into a chair beside
her.
“Why, Jenny,” be exclaimed,
“that is exactly wliat I have been
wanting to say to you, only I did
not know bow in the deuce to say
once more and free to choose tor 1 Bobby?’’
* niftrifif rrftrtr
himself.
Bat Parson Browne had couie,
and who wonld break the joyful
news to him? Jenny sent Itudolf
across Hie street to request Bob to
meet her in tbe parlor for a mo
ment.
She peeped into the glass, and
smoothed her pretty chestnut hair.
She untied the blue ribbon at her
throat and put on a cherry one in-
You never lagged niter me.
1 was n brute the other day,” lie
replied.
Jenny glanced at Bob over the
top of her fan, and' it occurred to
her, after all, Ids stalwart young
figure was handsomer than the
languid length of'Hardy’*.
“You always used to’ help mo in
algebra. I was nlwnys as stupid as
a goose in mathematics. I must
brought down tbe house by reeitiug it
1 every time, ‘‘My bony, bony briile.”
“Rough on Rats."
i’lears out rats, mice, roaches,
flics, ants, bed-bugs, skunks, chip
munks, gophers. 10c. Druggists.
—Ladies, when being courted, ou,;Lt
not object to the moderate use of tobsee o.
They should recollect that where there i
u '-Il-uae" I In-re must lie smoLc,
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