The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888, March 14, 1884, Image 1
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. _ —.--- NUMBER 1. 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