The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-03-22
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81 am lrcttcl to DEATH and y, il scc,,,s ,I,o, ,,, .
starved o d,wti too" ~
"Why it's just two o'clock, said the wife in reply Dinner
will bc ready ill a few minutes"
Other men continued the husband 90 TO their homes
and hnd their meals ready the proper time but p,r nm
fortunate man, must get them when If We are not
gong 10 nave dinner to-day although am sure it is not
Good Friday, will go to a Hotel"
The wife knew something had disturbed her husband 60
very prudcnily held her peace
And here comes tie dinner hattcrin~ myself that
.nS would DC an extraordinary dinner, but dlsappou-
I'VE have the cook in the world could have cook
ca meal like this myself in half an hour and have no
donht that she has been Il it all dav"
No she has Mr. Martini Lucy has not been over an
hour cooking the meal, and do think could have
been cooked sooner -
My wife you always try ing to excuse the
This is the beef ever stuck fork into vouI ma
lief have side Of sole leather the table Lucys mar.
ke'tng III waran So"tlcmers trust too much to their
81, speaks well for their honesty" rcpled Mrs Mr,; a
at the North where the mistress attends to the marketing
mere we leave to the servants and sIe we never lost
| I siNIcucc yet"
"Wel. we'll, do not much about that only know
Lucy picks out the mcane toughest piece of eat she can
md You had better send her market the night before
so '' Shc can nc there IN time l" t" morning, before others
nave been suPpial.' After paus" he continued!
Lord deliver me- did ever such potatoes? wouId
be afraid to feed pigs with hem would cause their DEATH
why M'ry never sat to such meal. cant stand tins
VIII cat my meals out rather than be forced to eat done
vcuas home"
My husband, Lucy help The beef being tonoh,
sometimes We have very good Icef, bur then at times we ret
I"u % o' ""s" Peee' i"'' large roatoc may be quite
done, try smaller omc!'
indigestibe stuff" ~
my dear husband something has gone wronr with Won
ABOUT your business; now tell me what it is PERHAPS al
though woman may aid you, all events two heals are
better than one, come tell Inc what it i,?"
why Mary to to-, the fact, am mc, bothered and ncr
PICKED James Is gon! TO leave mc!"
"JIme, going toieavc you? Surely not. How migrate
ful in hini 9'
NAY my wife, you do James injustice. YOU speak without
knowing any thing about the circumstances You form
verdict before YOU hear the testimony"
but MIR. Martin you know when james first camc 70 our
southern home he WAS poor young His story was
tai his father very wealthy once that he and his sser
We're children y his first wife; tha. after his mother, death
his father married young and beautiful woman but one
VINO testified her affection for his sister and himself by turn
ing them out OF DOORS that by sending them ont TO board
That she was gay lively frockng woman and was spend
ing his fathers money pretty fast that his father after time
became d'spet that his sister before lie left was provided
for for she had married poor but deserving man. tt thcv
were never allowed 60 their fathers home and he elem
y saw that his stepmothcr bringing him to ruin that
he cod not stay there and see ALL but would try his for
tune IN Southern city lie applied you Mr. Martin you
took h IN your office, and finding him youneman Of ta
ents' assisted him in his studies and made lawyer ,f him
and at last took him partner and it not ngratitude
so much T. ~ nun
"No, my wife, you kaow nothing about il"
Mr. Martin should not have said that for mex; to accusing
oy VI having gray haS TO insult her bv saving she
knows nothing of the matter in dispute. ~.
Vi think you know nothing about it. Mr. Martin don't |
know James were an honorable young man. he woud not
leave you don't know he could not be induced to leave
YOUR
stop my wife, you will regret speaking thus Who is in
stew now' Yol are than | was about the beef
Lei me tell you all about it. BY some means James has
learnt that his fathers wife has away and that he is in
want That the Of attending him has dcyoyed on
his sister, and he duty compes him 90 to his sisters
assistance Now Mary James is right but comes on
soon, and have so much business attend to- that was
rather out OF sorts when came because James was going
to leave me. must do well / can though / know
James S grateful for what have done for him. and feel
perfectly satisfied he wills back soon as he can"
The reader doubt recognizes in James the son Of Mr.
by s hrst wife He left his kind friend and beneactor and
proceeded to Phadepha, but only to condoe with his
brotheT-n law in his actousin brief period he had lost
sister aud father.
James u bad been absent from the city Of his birth for
long tmeand though anxious return to his adoptd cy TO
assist his paner the tolls Of business vet he could not
tear himself away at from place where once dwelt
those who and dear to him besides he was de-
eous OF erecting slab In tho Cemitary to the memory Of
his sstc and he was also anxious to learn some news Of his