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ONE RAINY NIGHT. l
It was A rough night. :I‘he wind tlew ‘
furiously and eold; the rain came d.own .
in torrents; thunder roared and light
ning flashed. Without the grou.nd was
ope vast sheet of water, rfxshmg and
sling in its haste to seek its level.
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Uncle Joe thrust aside the big double
planket which he had tacked up for
safety at the window and peered out,
and at the same momeut there was a
loud clap of thunder, followed quickly
py a vivid flash of lightening; the old
fellow put the curtain back quic?ly in
its place, and with dilated eyes, hls. fin
gers in his ears, he g.ave a loud whistle
and sought security in the next room.
He threw himself down across the bed
clapped a pillow over his head, and was
peginning to doze when the front door
was opened and closed suddenly.
Jumped up the old man looked in
great astonishment at a young woman
who was standing npear the door, She
as entirely enveloped in gay patch
work quilt, from which there trickled
down to the floor little streams of water.
“If it ain't Bessie Edwards you may
hang me. Bless her soul,” exclaimed
Uncle Joe.
«] haven’t a moment to stay Uncle
Joe,” said the youg girl hurriedly. “I
only ran in to borrow your oilcloth coat
till morning. This quilt is so soaked
with rain that its weigh® interferes with
my walking, and I have yet a good dis
tance to go.”
“] am on my way for the doctor and
1 Uve seen him I must go back again
to Mrs. Bell’s, Sheis verylow and I
fear to find her dead on my return,” ‘
Uncle Joe trotted into the next room
and returned immediately with the coat. ‘
He helped her put it on after which he
pressed down over he head an old hat
of his that came well down over her ears
and partly over her face. |
Uncle Joe's companion, who had been
sitting so quietly up in the corner, new
came forward and extending his hand to
the young woman, said with a smile:
“It isn’t necessary for you to go any
further looking for a doctor, I am he,
Miss Edwards, at your service.”
“Well, well,” said Uncle Joe. ‘I was
so tooken up with this dear child I for
got Dr. Harris was within forty miles.
Beg your pardon, doctor.”
But the doctor was looking down at
the plucky girl beside him and waiting
for her to speak.
“Dr. Harris, Mrs. Bell needs your ser
vemesorely, Please lose no time, I will
follow yoa,”
“Miss Edwards,”” he asked, ‘‘how do
you expect to get back to Mrs. Bell's
to-night?” :
“Just as I came sir. I walked, ran,
jumped, climbed, waded and crawled. I
guess I tried every style and manner of
gait except that of swimming.”’
“Well, it has rained considerably since
you passed the gully, a mile from here,
and I know positively it is so swollen
now that it will take stronger arms than
yours to swim over. If you undertake
it you will be dilwned. Don’t think of
s 0 dangerous an undertaking, but jump
up behind me and we'll both get there
safely.”
Bessie, feeling there was nothing else
to do, from the top step jumped up be
hind as requested.
The storm was nearly over when the
doctor and Bessie rode off, and as the
horse stumped and splashed along, the
clouds became higher and lighter, broke
and revealed the moon which turned
her full face to one side, looked at the
pair—the maid with her hand laid light
ly on her escort’s shoulders to prevent
h“_‘ falling—nudged a star, winked her
Wise eyes and made a proph-cy, while
th? stars blinked and made a note of it.
Ihe next morning Uncle Joe paid an
early visii to the doctor's. He asked
;lzolut their little journey together, the
alth of the patient and the young lady
a."']'fi“““y asked him how he liked the
i’lfltr-:‘dfl]i 1:1, and. th? doctor frankly ds
h]:ip 1‘«»11-lb ?leratlon.and deep friend
iy ) .anch 80 d‘ehght,e(‘l the old man
ik li"“”‘f gave him a firm pressure
: land, and promised to treat to
T Ilhc next time they met in town.
I ""i]l“‘ ; 1o kin of mine, doctor, though
S “\: e o I’ve been here so long
| teverybody calls me unecle, and she
oes like the rest,
‘I - known her since she was a
i‘...',',‘,i"fl!'l”‘i‘l-‘l"-lmf:;)«‘»r child! Her life ain't
St Mu-s an blossoms. Her
E oth died before she was
. % and all they left her was their
‘ And the serap of ground its settin’
0 .l"”' st thing she did was to rent
fel ‘I‘H'HR('. exeept the two back
u'\ Which she used herself, to a fam
~'. - knew weli; then she pat up a
vonn 8 Bign, and in o me she was
el with work,
alw \. x S hen anybody Was sick she
doen @ her share of nursin’ an’ she
Tuan many who's older,
“When my poor wife was on her death '
bed Bessie never left her for a minit.
No, there she stayed, night and day, do
ing everything she could till—till there
wasn’t nothin’ more to be done.”
Uncle Joe puiied his hat over his eyes,
nodded without speaking, and went out
of the door.
The young physician met his young ‘
friend many times among the sick or
poorer class of people, and always found |
her doing good in some way, just as Un
cle Joe predicted.
And many a time did he take her home
in his home, and almost as frequently he
drove up to her gate and took her for a
drive, just for the pleasure it gave him to
be with her.
* * * * * * *
It was winler again, and the sitting
room and fire were in demand.
It had been an unhappy week for both
of them. Dr. Harris had left town sud
denly without a word to any oi:e, nor did
he write during his absence.
Gossip of the little village wagged
their tongues as over a toothsome bit of
scandal. Bessie worked busily with her
head high, her red lips smiling, and no
one knew the sobs deep down in her
heart under her bodice.
When night came she still tried to
wor , but didn’t accomplish much. [he
sewing had been put together wrong,
the tension was too tight, then too loose,
the thread tangled and broke, the needle
snapped on a seam, the machine screech
ed and worked hard, the band became
unfastened, and the wheel needed oil
ing.
There was something the matter with
everything. Her piece of sewing was to
be delivered the next day, and now it
wouldn’t be finished.
Everything had gone wrong--the world
aud everybody in it, so it seemed tojher |
as she sat down near the hearth with
‘her face in her hands, thinking of un
pleasant litile happenings of the week.
i And in this attitude the doctor found
‘her a short while later. He saw the
trace of tears on her cheeks, and with
out asking permission,he drew her with:
in his arms, held her there a moment in
silence then looking fondly in her face,
said softly:
‘‘Bessie,” a telegram announcing my
father’s death called me home for a few
days. I couldn’t leave any sooner on ac
count of my poor, grief-stricken mother,
znd only then by promising to return.
“I'm going to give up my practice
here, and go back home to live among
the people who have known e since my
boyhood and desire that I lill my father’s
place as well as I can. |
‘‘Bessie, look up dear and listen. I
have something to ask. I want you to
come home with me. I’ve thought of this
for along time, but dared not speak;
until I could offer you a better home
than you had. 1 can do that now. Will
you?”’
The moon looked in at the window,
smiled, and nodded her head proudly,
because her prophecy had come true,
‘and the stars peeped over her shoulder,
tittered and erased the dots from their
‘ note-books.—Boston Globe,
Mr. Van Pelt,editor of the Craig, Mo.,
Meteor, went to a drugstore at Hillsdale,
lowa, and asked the physician in attend
ance to give him a dose of something for
cholera morbus and loosen:ss of the
bowels. He says: ‘I felt so much bet
ter the next morning that I concludea to
call upon the physician and get him to
fix me up a supply of the medicine. I
was surprised when he handed me a bot
tle of Chamberlain's colic, cholera and
diarrhoea remedy* He said he prescrib
ed it regularly in his practice and found
it the best he couid get or prepare. I can
testify to its efficiency in my case at all
events,”” For sale by Farrar & Farrar,
druggists.
The Dublin Post says: *‘‘A young
maa from the lower edge of this county
started to Dublin last week to get a mar
riage license, but on reaching Bruton
was informed by a merchant at that
place that the supply was exhausted, so
he invested his $1.50 in a pair of low
quartered shoes and went home satis
fied.
A Fulton county farmer made this
year sixty-four bushels of wheat per
acre on his trial patch. The same gen
tleman sold, last year, $2,000 worth of
vegetables and fruit from twenty-five
acres of land. He has been offered $5OO
! for a tomato weighing three pounds. He
is working for this and thinks he will
j succeed,
1 As a cross word begets a word that is
cross, so wiil a kind one beger its own
? likenesr. If people ouly knew the pow
or they possess in being kind, how much
} good they would achieve for themselves,
th ow much misery preventfor others. |
t True to the nature of the veast, many
'a man who in his time cast sheap’s eyys
lat a preity girl hao afterwards Lad the
! wool pulied over them. A
A "Thomasville conductor has cleare d
several -hundred dollars speculating in
melons this season. Returns a few days
ago show that one car that he had
bouglht on the track ana sold netted him
over $2OO.
Lowrey & Orr have just received a lot
of pretty floor matting. It will be to the
interest of those needing anything of the
kind to see them
A colored Georgia editor says that
‘while (in Chicago recently he entered a
‘shaving establishment and requested a
shave. The colored barber eyed him a
Lmoment, then pointing to the door,said:
“T don’t shave niggers!” |
t Cheap Goods 1
Having purchased he stock of Low
rey & Orr I propose o make t to the in- ‘
erest of all who will trade with me,
My enire line of Dry Goods will be
closed ou a a sacrifice.
J. W. F. Lowrey.
On Top Once More, ‘
““You never told me your husband wor
a sailor, Mre, Donahue.” |
“Yis; he’s just been around the wor
ruld.”
“‘Cleat round to Chinaan’ the opposite
side was ho?" ‘
“To be sure.” \
“Worra, but it must be aisy he feels to
get up here on top wasnt more,”’—Wash- ‘
ington Star. |
" Call at Arthur Crittenden &
Whitehead’s and get the May num
ber of Metropolitan fashion sheet.
Mr. McKinley recently said. ‘“the tariff
is doing its own talking.” You are
right it is, and it is talking very loudly
in favor of Democratic success in ths
November election, aad its voice was
heard all over the country from Carne
gie,s Homestead mills last week. By all
means let the tariff continue to talk.
MR, WRIGHT BRADY is in the race for
represex}tative from Sumpter county.
Go to Jordan Bros. for Blank
Bros. fine candies.
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