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RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1881.
A AX'I EAT LOVERS.
In a large, square, old-fashioned
house—such as our fathers used to
build when solidity was more sought
after than utility—lived Philip Manson
and his sister Esther. Philip had
reached the mature age of forty, and
Esther was close to him. Still, each
had pursued a solitary pathway through
life, seeking no compauionship save
that of the other, still there was reason
to believe that they would continue to
fallow the same coarse till in the ful
ness of time they were gathered into the
family tomb—the receptacle of many
generations of the Manson family.
“No,” said Philip, when assailed on
this subject by a match-making lady;
“marrying may be very good for some
people, but I could not bear to have my
habits broken in upon, and my whole
house turned topsy-turvy by the intro
duction ot a wife.”
As lor Miss Ether, she often declared
that she would never make a slave of
herself for any man living.
Of course, it was insinuated by those
whose opinions differed widely from
Miss Esther’s that in adopting this
opinion she was only making a virtue
of necessity, and thatjjit was best to be
contented with one’s lot, provided there
was no chance of improving it.
Early oueaftem >ou, just after Esther
Ma nson bad completed her task of clear
ing away the dinner dishes and storing
them away in the cupboard after a thor
ough washing,she was startled by a tap
at the door.
Somewhat surprised by a caller at
this unusual hour, she answered the
summons. She was a little apprehen
sive that it was a neighbor who had of
late proved very troublesome from her
habit of borrowing articles, and owing,
it is to be'presunied, to an habitual for
getfulness, neglecting to lettirn them.
“I hope,” she mused, “that if it is
Mrs. Idailey, she will be wanting to bor
row something that I have not got.”
She opened the door, but no Mrs.
Bailey presented herself to her expert
ing gaze a gentleman of forty-five,
carefully, nay, elegantly dressed, stood
before her.
“I beg your pardon for intruding
madarae,” said lie, as he noticed Es
ther's look of surprise; “but can you di
rect mo to the house of the late Mr.
Wellfleet? 1 have heard it was for sale,
and from the description I have heard
of it, judge it will suit me.”
“Ii is the next house on the left, sir,”
answered Esther, who had time while
the .gentleman was speaking to exam
ine his appearance, which did not fail
to impress her favorably.
Two days afterward Esther heard
that Weelfleet’s estate had been pur
chased by a stranger named Bigelow.
| She at once conjectured, and rightly,
that this was the name of her visitor.
A few days elapsed, and Esther Man
son received another visit from the gen
tleman.
“I have a favor to ask of you, Miss
Manson,” he began, (it seems he had
ascertained her name.) “I am aware
that our slight acquaintance will hard
ly justify it, but I trust time will re
move this objection. You must know,”
he added, “that I am a bachelor, de
pendent in many respects upon my
housekeeper, who though a good wo
man in her way, I am afraid is not re
liable in matters of taste. As my fur
niture has arrived but has not yet been
arranged, I would esteem it a real ser.
vice if you would give me your opinion
in some little matters respecting its
proper disposition. My carriage is at
the door to take you over.”
Esther’s cheek flushed with pleasure
at this compliment, and she made pre
parations to comply with her new vis
itor’s request.
It was not without a little concious
nesa of the singularity of her positon
that Esther fouud herself riding by the
side ot a gentleman with whom she had
scarcely exchanged half a dozen w - ords
in the course of her life. The distance,
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however, was but short, and she had
little time for reflection. On arriving
at her place of destination, she found
the chief part of the business accom
plished. The furniture, which by the
way, was new and handsome, had been
arranged in the rooms afteFa fashion,
but Esther was able to point out sever
al changes for the better, with all of
which Mr. Bigelow professed himself
delighted; moreover, asked her advioe
to the proper place in which to hang
several very fine pictures that he had
picked up in the course of his European
travels. This was accorded with some
hesitation.
To avoid comment, she did not even
reform Philip that she had ever met
Mr, Bigelow. He took frequet oppor
tunities to call upon her, on some slight
pretext or anothei, hut it always
chanced to be when her brother was ab
sent.
“I wonder,” said Philip, carelessly,
as he sat by the fire one evening,
“whether Mr. Bigelow will not be look
ing out for a wife before long?”
“I don’t know,” said Esther, and
in her embarrassment dropping half a
dozen stitches from the stocking she
held in her hand.
“Not that I approve of marriage—at
least in my own case,” said Philip*
not noticing this demonstration, “but
it may be different with Mr. Bigelow.
He has no sister to snperindtend his es
tablishment. 1 don’t know, however,
whether there is auybody likely to suit
him in this village. Let me see—there
is Miss Preston, she might do.”
“No, I don’t think she would suit
him at all,” said Esther with a spirit
which considerably surprised her broth
er. “She knows very little about house
keeping.”
“Perhaps not,” ke rejoined, and so
the conversation elided.
Meanwhile the gentleman continued
his visits. Oftentimes he would ask
to see the bed of flowers on which Es
ther lather prided herself, and some
times he would petition for seeds, be
ing very fond of flowers, as he said, and
very anxious to introduce them, into his
own garden.
On one of these occasions Mr. Bige
low, after a little visible embarrassment,
said, hesitatingly:
“I waulu like to ask vonr advice,
Miss Esther, on rather a delicate sub
ject, and one of groat importance to
myself. There is one thing I wish to
secure to make my establishment com
plete, but I hardly know in what man
ner to ask for it.
“What is it you refer to?” asked Es
ther, unsuspiciously.
“A wife,” was the significant reply.
Instalitly a uted crimson flushed Es
ther’s cheeks. She did not trust herself
to sptak.
“Need I say that you arc the one
whom, ot all others, 1 would seek„to
place iu that position.”
He took her unresisting hand and
kissed it with all the gallantry of a
young lover.
“But what will my brother say?” in
quired Esther, when she found voice to
speak.
“What should he say? Yon are your
own mistress surely!”
“Yes, hut he is always ridiculing the
idea of marriage, and I couldn’t ven
ture to tell him.”
“No need of it. Let’s run away to
New York and get married. You
know,” he added gaily, “we are both
young and romantic, and it would be
quite in character.”
Esther at'first objected, but when
she came to consider that in this way
she would be relieved of a great portion
Ot the embarrassment which such a
step would naturally bring with it, she
consented, and that day week was ap
pointed for the departure. She required
this time to make preparations.
Meanwile, if Esther had not been
so exclusively occupied with her own
affairs she might have noticed that a
change had come over Philip. He was
often absent evening, aud when at home
was more silent and abstracted than
his wont. The former she readily at
tributed to the cause which he assigned,
namely, a pressure of business. The
latter she did not observe, her mind
being preoccupied. We, who are in
the secret, may take the liberty of fol
lowing him on one of his business calls.
It was at a neat cottage, from whose
front door dangled an ’immense knock
er, that Philip Manson knocked. The
door was opened by the same Miss
Preston, some months before, he
thought “might do” for Mr. Bigelow.
“Good evening, Maria,” was his sal
utation as lie entered. After a brief
conversation about the weather, the
crops, and other standard topics, which
however trivial they u.ay seem, could
hardly he dispensed with, he began to
show signs of embarrassment, and final
ly ejaculated:
“Maria—Miss Preston, I mean—
Maria, what are your opinions about
marriage?”
“Why,” said she, “I hardly know ;
I don’t think I have given much con
sideration to the subject.”
“Because,” continued Philip, “I find
my opinions have suffered a great
change on this point. There wai a
time when I thought it unwise—but,
now, if I could get a good wife sirch as
you, for example, I should be inclined
to try it.”
“0 Lor’, Mr. Manson,” said Miss
Preston, in some purturbation, “how
you talk!”
•Five minutes afterward
ton, had accepted the proposal of Phil
ip aud the two wore to all intents and
purposes engaged.
“The only thing I think of,” said
the gentleman, after - a brief pause, “is
that my si Esther is a decided ene
my to marriage, and 1 hardly dare to
tell her that I am about to jff
we could only go away the
ceremony performed, it would he pleas-
anter.”
“•Suppose wc go to New York,” sug
gested the bride elect.”
"A good idea. WcTl go. When
can you be ready?” -
“Next Monday morn^g.”
So next Monday morning was agreed
upon. It so hapi Yied that Esther was
to start on Moiida* afternoon for the
sacre place, with the same purpose in
view—but of this coincidence neither
party were aware.
The reader will please go forward a
week. By this time the respective par
tie* have reached New York, been unit
ed in the holy bonds of matrimony,
and are now legally husband and wife.
They were located at hotels situated
on the same street, and even on the
same side of the way, but were far from
being aware of the pnopiinquity. On
the JEjorniug succeeding the two mar
riages, for by a singular chance they
haw*<ned on the same day, Mr. Bige
low and Esther started out for a walk
down the street. It so happened that
Philip and his wife were at the same
moment walking up the street. The
natural consequence was that the two
piarties met.
“Good heaveus, my sister!” exclaim
ed Philip.
“Merciful goodness, my brother!”
returned Esther.
“What brings-you here, Mr. Bige
low?”
“Nay, how happens it that you are
here with Miss Preston?”
“Miss Preston is now my wife.”
“And Mr. Bigelow - is now my hus
band!”
“But I thought you were opiposed to
matrimony.”
“Aud I supposed you were equally
so.”
“My friends,” interposed Mr. Bige
low, “this is a day of surprises—but I
trust of such a nature that we shall all
be made the happier thereby. My re
gret, Mr. Manson, of robbing you of
your housekeeper is quite dissipated by
the knowledge that you have so soon
supplied her place.”
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There is some talk of building anew
theatre at Nashville.
Reports from all sections of the
country tell ol swollen streams, wreck
ed bridges and submerged lowland-*,
caused by the breaking of ice gorges in
the rivers. A terrific snow storm is
reported from Kansas.
The electoral vote was formally
counted in Congress last week, but
poor Georgia had to come in last
In the Senate, the bill appropriating
$200,000 for the purchase of ground
arid the erection thereon of a hall of de
posit for government records was con
sidered, on motion of Mr. Vest, and
passed.
A meeting has been held in Cedar
town to take steps lor the construc
tion of the Cedartown and Rome Rail
road. It was estimated that the cost
of finishing the grade, the trcstlework
and putting on ties, will he ahot $25,-
000.
Mr. Dillon, speaking in Manchester,
yesterday, said that if Englishmen
did not quickly change their temper
toward the liish, they (the Irish)
w-ould indeed be dogs aud slaves if they
did not long for the day when they
could join the United Btates. Par
nell, be said, within a month would
btand in Congress at Washington, an
honored and welcomed spokesman of
their wrongs. •
A disease called “winter cholera”
has for several weeks been creating
considerable uneasiness in Chicago.
The doctors are busy discussing it and
disagreeing about it bu’ the important
fact is couceded that it kills in a
few hours.
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In some districts in France thunder
and lightning accompanied iteavy falls
of snow, which the local prophets de
clare means a splendid fruit season
in the summer to come.
Judge Wood made his decision, in
the railroad commission case last week.
He holds that the law is constitutional.
Mr. Hayes lias pardoned Thomas
Ryr.m, Thomas. H. Buchanan aud
John O’Leary, who pleaded guilty of
violating the election law iu New York,
hut who had not been sentenced.
New Orleans has been plagued with
overflowed street lor several days.
Pass Manchac. La., was total/ swept
away by the wind last week.
The Commissioner Agriculture, of
Georgia, will have some 2.000 or 3,000
packages of melon and tobacco seeds
for disl > dilution.
The largest peach orchard in the
world is said to he in Chambers r guilty
Ala., and owned by John 11. Parnell.
The A. M <fcO. Railroad was sold at
public auction, in Richmond, Va., on
the 10th instant; Mr. Clarence H.Clark
of Philadelphia, bidding it oft’at SB,-
005,000.
A reward of one hundred dollars is
offered for the arrest of Doc Wilson,
colored, who murdered James Tinley,
in Macon, last week. Wilton is of
medium height, light mulatto color,
light gray eyes, and about 21 years old.
Members of Parliament are not all
owed to visit Davitt in prison.
Stephen A. Miller, ex-Governor of
Minnesota, is dying.
The Canadians are legislating
against American prize-fighters.
There is a rumor in London of a
plot to blow up Windsor Castle.
New Orleans, Feb. 12. — There is
no material change in the condition
of the water of Hie overflowed districts
Ten thousand persons were supplied
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j morning; a strong wind prevails.
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