Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-20

thinks. but that Jacob may have had another of
those dreadful fits, and fallen into the fire. or
the boiling water. Mother" she saws. ait is
nor raining much now l think will take Car
10, and run over the hill and see if can tell
whether Jacob is in the sugar camp if see
him from the hill top will come straight back -
8 Very well, my Child replied Mrs. Goforth,
but L don't think anything has happened to
him.
Elsy was not long in tossing shawl over her
head, nor long in reaching the hill top; she did
not once think of the darkness nor of the rain /;
one moment she paused, and stood ON tiptoe,
looking earnestly into the great red LIGHT that
shone against the trees, and fiickcred along the
ground OF the sugar camp. She did not sec ia
cob, and therefore sped on, faster than the wind
Before the stone furnace where the sugar-wa-
ter was boiling, rude hut had been constructed.
which afforded protection from the storm and
here, seated on u low bench, watching the Jets
OF flame as they broke from the main body of
hre, quiyered moment, and went out, sat Jacob
Holcom, when Elsy, her hair dripping with rain
and her face pale with fright, presented herself
before HIM.
What can have happened :" he asked in sur
prise, taking her hand and drawing her to the
seat before the fire.
Elsy's check grew red when she found that
she had come of a foolish GRAND, and she STAN
mercd the truth-her fears for hm-as the best
excuse she could make. 1t was Jacobs turn to
be confused now, and taking up handful of
the straw that carpetcd his rude hut, he pulled
it to pieces, his eyes hent on the ground, and
stepping aside till he was quite out of the shell
ter
40 don't stay in the rain" said Elsy, "sit
here by me, there is room enough"
Jacob sat down, but kept his face averted
from the gentle confiding eyes of his companion
am sure you have not told me true" said FL
ssy, and that You are not well. O, you should
have another of those dreadful fits ~
Well she might have thought, poor simple
hearted child, from the strange behavior of the
young man, that n fit was about TO seize him. for
as she looked tenderly up in his face, he covered
1t with his hands, and she presently the tears
coming ont between his fingers.
All at once she OWNED the truth, she thought
she had wounded him by speaking of the fit, for
people said it was drunken fit, and Jacob might
fancy she believed it.
How to begin she did not know, but to sit in
silence and see Jacob weeping like child, was
not to be thought of so she stammered in s~'ne
way that she did not know as my oody haa s'hd
anything against him. and il tiey ana she ana hot
believe IT, She did not care what il was. And
the She said she did not care what wco sald
against him, that she believed he was all thal
was good and true. the more discomtorted me
youn@ man @cemed If she had joined her de-
nunciations to the rest, he could have denied
their justice, perhaps but to be thought so much
better than he was, made him more sadly hum
BILE, more truly good, than he had ever been in
his life.
He assured Elsy, in broken voice, that he
was quite well, but that he was not worthy of
the interest taken in him, though he thanked
her for it.
Poor Jacob thought she, g am sure his
mind is wandering; he not worthy, indeed then
l don't know who isl And she went her
self out into the rain to mend the fire, and after
ward arranged her shawl against the crevices of
the wall by which Jacob sat- so that wind and
rain should not blow too roughly against him.
"Sit here yourself" said the sugar-maker ri.
sing from the seat, and drawing Elsy toward it
do, pray, for | cannot; would rather stand
out in the rain"
40 Jacob, what do Won mean :" asked the
girl in alright; :" sit down beside me the bench
is long enough and tell me what it is that troub-
les you And there, the rain heating around
them, and the fire Frightening, and fading, and
Frightening again, it fell, Jacob told all the
story of his life, sparing himself no whit.
But IT he has done wrong sometimes, thought
Elsy, what of that! / suppose every one has
some faults, and if everybody has turned against
him, am sure, there is the more need should
not. In fact, she believed he made his vices
greatly larger than they were; but even if he
did not, it was so magnanimous to confess them,
and to come back to virtue. Verify, she admir-
ed and loved Jacob more than ever before. When
all the woods about his home brighter than the
May sunshine could do, till their loving beams
changed into sharp arrows, and pierced him
through, Elsy's little foot tapped smartly on the
ground, and her own eyes looked as indignant
as it was in their power to do, for in her heart
she felt that the woman who could scorn Jacob,
no matter what the provocation, did not deserve
to have lover 1t is to be supposed that ia
cob saw all this plainly enough, for such thoughts
shine right in ones face as plainly as written
words; nevertheless, to make assurance doubly
sure, no doubt, he said, d" And YOU, Elsy, would
have spurned me just as she did, if had been
Il lover of yours 7"
':How can you ask me, Jacob l'' she replied
81 should have felt you needed me most when
that you were not strong enough to resist temp
tation.'
dear angel" said Jacob, and the bench which
a little while before was not big enough for
two, might possibly have accommodated three
very well as he spoke. But there is no need to
repeat what more they said; suffice it, they for.
got to make torch to light them home, each
confidently believing the full moon was shining
in all her spcud0r, they saw the way well.
! When Jacob raped nex at the parsonage il
was not to entreat nights lodging, and the door
opened so wide, and the parson smiled so bland
", he could hardly believe it was the same house
or the same man he had seen before; and whcr
( he sat next in the pew, at church, with Mrs. Go
forth and ElSy, not ElSy GOforth any more, there
was nobody in all the house that did not see them
and smile, and shake hands.
Jacob never had another fit and the manly
/ dignity and proprety of his conduct soon wor
| for him, not only the esteem and admiration o
all the neirhborhood. but led the people to believe
they had wronged him in their first accusation
and they kindly bestowed upon Mrs. Goforth tht
reputation of having gift for curing fits, an'
many the applications for advice she re
ceived in consequence. When she assured then
that she practiccd no art, and that simply doinj
as she would be done by, was all her wisdom
there was invariably disappointment and sorrow
so hard is it TO understand the potency of thin
so easy; ia truth, the hardest Of human possibil
tiles and the most woodworking Five year
after the mysterious cure, Jacob liolcom owne
one of the prettiest little farms near Clovernool
and III all that time Eisy and he had never ha
any disagreement, except when he affirmed thu
she was an angel, which she always stoutly dc
nied but she was good and true wife, and tina
is but little lower than an angel.
SHORT LECTURES TO YcUNG LADIES'
Have good piano or none. Be sure t
have dreadful cold when requested to ''ta
vor the company" Cry at wedding
Scream at spider. Never leave your pa
pers in the drawing-room. Drop you
handkerchief when you are going to faint
Mind you are engaged ifyou don'tlIkeyou