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THE WEEKLY.
AOLlME VII.
HER PICTURE.
h^rmockedman’t KurS'anSoSel picturing.
through
ft* of all life’s mystery,
wood to open sea.
Ljoft, ^ vide eyes looked of wonderment you through
trusting,
W USShed mouth, swift a b°w and new true. bent,
L sent love’s arrow
STS-* arched mouth! The Orient
pearls in all her stores
L all her storied, spice-set it hath shores spent
|W fragrance such as
picture her as one who knew
p jg truth to be untrue
low rare the awful sign
b one who knew
J death, of life, all loves, of the all divine, hates,
reet pi 4 ? of
sue ath the iron-footed fates.
her as seeking peace,
And olive-leaves and vine-set land ;
flhile strife stood by on either hand,
d wrung her tears like rosaries,
D passing rhyme
picture her in
As of, yet not a part of, these—
woman bom above her time;
, her place,
Awoman waiting in
Wth patient pity on her face.
Bet face, her earnest, baby face ;
[Her young face, so uncommon wise—
| He tender love-light in her eyes—
Vo stars of heaven out of place.
% Wo
stars that sang as stars of old
[ Ifeirs’ent eloquence of song,
Li sides of glory and of gold,
' lere God in purple passed along—
jut patient, baby-face of hers
lilt won a thousand worshipers !
fen thousand faces just the one
[still shall love when all is done,
Ini life lies by, a harp unstrung.
That face, half hid ’mid sheaves of gold;
That face that never can grow old ;
(ind yet has never been quite young.
Joaquin Miller.
Yours Truly.
BY MRS. M. L. BAYNE.
“ Amazin Grace, ” said Mrs. Pilsbury,
ias she sat with her daughter at their
[afternoon quilt?” sewing, “ be yew goin’ to piece
a
“ What fur, mother?”
"Why, ain’t Mr. Yan Yleet been to
see you twice’t runnin’ lately ? He’s
aied ye, I s’pose, to hev him ?”
“ An’ I guv him the mitten,”
i “ Sho! You wouldn’t be half so silly !
i Way, he’s wuth a dozen omiray men,
I You might go futher and fare wuss. ”
I "Jest what I’m goin’ to dew.”
I "Did yew tell him so ?”
I "No, I writ; now, mother, let me be; I
lam t a goin’ to marry no man thet thinks
rn jumpin’et the chance. I’d a heap
Ner be an old maid.”
I There was nothing said for some time;
I then the widow asked:
“When did yew write, ’Mazin?”
“A day or so past.”
"Where did yon git a pen ?”
I borrered one. Mebbe you’d like
t°blow what I said tew him.”
"You’ve guessed rite,” said the widow,
I «agerly.
nuthin’ to nobody but tut,
0t f’ 8 ’ lon g es I didn’t have him,”
the girl, curtly, and no more was
J but ______
7 , the wi <iow sighed heavily and
held her hand to her left side.
azin knew that it meant her heart,
or she had been brought np to respect
!| f at time organ as an _ intimidating power.
13 she did not relent, but
te ed why won
she could ,_______ not like that big.
S 0 u° king Van Vieet wdl ,___ enough to
as
well oS. mouse, and he was
were not mercenary. People
eia slm ple folks: perhaps be¬
lief a,. la.cked
education, and be
that was told them.
fto„ J. ^ Uere good knk as gold. The widow’s
fami]ia and UD e ainl Y , were
Zr Csesar's^ r ^ f ever C£Bsar P J sick room. They ren
0 ° 8033 ^ tIie h* 16 h^ine things 8 that---- that were
though'tb. 167 f Wed QO man an y thiQ g.
coTnri’ ey Worked early and late to ac
u lt Tlley
hodv art ^ferything, i ‘ were good to every
^ and Amazin Grace
hvmn ^ named her after the
®weet glnaiI1 g> “Amazing Grace, how
tb e 3 0Ua d”—was
^°nght l lg . ™dking, really pretty. So
Yleet, w j. ’ shame-faced Yan
with hk 1° he came a-courting her,
fcoota 0aSers tucked into cowhide
and a coon-skiu tied
cap down oyex
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., GA., MARCH 14, 1884.
his ears. Sue was the only girl he was
“ShrdowntoT’* afraid ° f her ’
r an iTh decent ch r r itk
a a fist’ike fist a sledgehammer and a heart t
hke a child s He wanted Amazon Grace,
and he couldntnnagme any reason why
he should not have her. When he got 6
her , Buopte . , letter , ,, o . rete.1, , .
°ut will: :niiuite difficulty and s,,elk-,1 on
a new pun of phonetics, he read it over
and over, smoked his cob pipe, read the
letter again, grinned a good bit, then
folded it reverently, and put it in the
pocket nearest his heart.
“That’s all rite, my girl,” he chuckled.
A couple of months passed away,
One peculiarity of time is that it treats
all people alike. It does not fly from
some and stand still with others. It
was spring at the Van Yleet farm, which
was one mass of apple and cherry blos¬
soms, and it was spring at the Widow
Pilsbury’s little lean-to house, without
shrub or blossom. The widow looked
out of the window and sighed. She
had never heard the “Song of the
Shirt,” but she had sung it all her life.
It was her bread and butter.
“There’s Yan Vleet I” she exclaimed,
looking np from her lap-board. “Well,
I declare ! What brings him here ?”
“P’raps he’s cornin’ to ask yew to hev
him, mother,” said Amazin Grace, laugh¬
ing, while a sweet flush of pink stained
her round cheeks.
“I wish he should I” said the widow,
devoutly; “I should consider it wns
flyin’ in the face of Providence not to
marry such a man—if he asked me.”
But Mr. Van Yleet stalked in with a
brief “good-day,” threw an armful of
blossoms into the lap of Amazin Grace,
and said:
“I’m ready for a weddin’.”
“Did you get my letter ?” asked the
girl.
“Yep I It warn’t. to say, lovin’, but
I took yer meanin’. I’ve fenced in the
hull north lot, and furbushed the house
up, so yer wouldn’t know it, an’ I kaleu
late ef we kin get married next week, it
won’t interfere with my spring work—
hey?”
Amazin Grace sat back and looked the
picture of surprise. The widow thought
she heard the cat in the pantry and dis¬
creetly withdrew. As the door closed
Farmer Yan Yleet took two little red
hands in his, and bending forward gave
Amazin Grace an awful smack.
“That seals the bargain,”he said, but
the indignant girl jumped up and
ordered him out of the house. To her
astonishment he didn’t budge a step.
“Not mutch! I reckin I’ve a right to
kiss yer now,” he said boldly—then he
stepped to the door and called loudly :
‘Mother ! kum here I”
The widow must have been conven¬
iently near, for she almost fell into the
room at his first word, and he bestowed
another sounding smack on her.
“It’s all rite,” he said, “mean’Amazin
Grace is goin’ to be married, and you
kin dance at the weddin’.”
“But—but the letter,” gasped the
girl. “You ain’t understood a word of
it.”
“The fact is,” said Farmer Van Yleet,
“I ain’t had no eddication to speak of;
been too busy grubbin’ land all my life.
I didn’t ralv read the letter to sense it,
but when I see how you signed it that
was enuff for me. I knowed you
wouldn’t hev writ that way to a feller ye
weren’t goin’ to marry, I don’t know
much about gals, but I know that!
When it was all settled that they were
to be marrried next week, Sunday,
Farmer Yan Vleet rode off, and the two
women put away the lap-board and re¬
signed the universal shirt-making busi¬
ness forever.
“I’d give the world to know what
writ to him,” said Amazin Grace.
world ain’t tew give, ^ cor
“The youm
rected her mother, piously. said
“I’m sartin sure I told him no,
the girl, “but I reckon he was bound to
hev me, an’ I dunno ez I'm half sorry,
either, now.” Amazin
When they were married and
Grace and her mother had gone out to
the new home in the smart new Bpring
wagon, the bride returned to the subject
of the letter. know
“I hev a bumin’ cur’osity to
what I writ,” she said, “cause (blushing
prettily) I thought I riffused you."
; <0 ho > 1 -V’ said the triumph-
1 « zz
few words . There ain’t no Macular mean
^ ^ ^ but it>s the figning f o{ them,
Dq gee that? Th( m two wordB
would , stand , , m . law , to , mean plam F , . yes;
lhere . 8 ^ them r ,
Am>2111 Graoe anJ ier molhet both
read at once .
“Mr. Yan Yleet:
“deer sir—I am sory to Inform you
that your attenshuns axe in nowise Be
cipperkated. “Yures
trewly,
“Amazin Gbaoe Pilsbuby.”
“That fetched me.” said Mr. Yan
Vleet, looking admiringly at his new
possession. “I doan’t know much, but
I reckon I kin tell what a girl means
when she writes to a feller and signs her¬
self ‘Yures trewly .”’—Detroit Free
Press.
The Romance of a Bank Note.
In the year 1740 one of the directors
of the Bank of England, a man of unim¬
peachable honor, lost a bank note for
£30,000, under peculiar circumstances.
It seems that he had bought an estate
for that sum of money, and for con¬
venience sake obtained a note for that
amount. As be was about to put it
under lock and key, after he reached
home, he was called out of the room,
whereupon, as he thought, he placed it
upon the mantle. Upon returning a few
minutes later, the note had disap¬
peared. It could not have been stolen,
for no one had entered the room, where¬
upon he concluded that it had been
blown into the fire and had been con¬
sumed. He laid the matter before the
officers of the bank, and they reissued a
note for the same amount, he giving
bonds to reimburse the bank if the note
should ever be presented for payment.
Thirty years after, when he had long been
dead and his estate distributed among
hiB heirs, the supposed non-existent note
turned up at the bank fiounter for pay¬
ment. As the bank could not afford to
dishonor the obligation, the money was
paid out, and the heirs of the dead man
were asked to make good the loss ; this
they refused to do, nor could the bank
employ any legal machinery to force
them to do so. The person who profited
by the matter was supposed to be a
builder, employed to puli down the dead
man’s house and build another
on its site, He found the missing
thirty-thousand pound note in a
crevice in the chimney, in which it
somehow got lodged after being laid on
the mantelpiece. It must have been
kept many years, and its presentation
to the bank was so arranged that the
builder became a rich man by a sudden
stroke of blind fortune.— Demoreat’a
Monthly.
Tea Yersns Grog.
So good was the reputation of tea
officially that great efforts were made
in her Majesty’s navy, about thirty
years ago, to increase the consumption
of it. The proffered extra allowance of
tea was as compensation for a reduced
allowance of grog, and little favor did it
find from Jack, however graciously it
may have been regarded by bis masters,
There was to be no forcing of its adop¬
tion, but unlimited persuasion was to be
used in order that it might be voluntar¬
ily accepted. One captain told me that
he had assembled his tsrs, and exhorted
them, as eloquently as he knew how, to
refuse the evil, and to choose the good
(as it was then the fashion to consider
it). When he had said his say, knowing
that Jack’s first feeling would be one of
indignation, he said he would not ask
for an answer then, but would receive it
three days after, by which time they
would have been able to think calmly
over the proposal, At the end of three
days the ship’s company, choosing pur¬
posely to misunderstand the offer, in¬
timated, through a deputation, their
gratitude for the choice which had been
allowed them, and their determination
to give up their present ration of tea,
and to get a trifle more grog.
To tell our own secrets is generally
folly, but that folly is without guilt; to
communicate those with which we are
intrusted is always treachery, and
treachery for the dost part combined
folly. _ —.---
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