Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1847-1861, 1857-05-13
OUR. STORY TELLER.
z From the Sumter Watchman.
OUR OLD TowNsl6AM.
A, VILLAGE TRADITION.
BIZ ). wITHERspooN ERWIN.

BIZ ). wITHERsPooN ERWIN.
CHAPTER L
II has been many long years ago--thougb
&c seems as if il were only yesterday-siuce
4 sat in my accustomed seat in the village
church, whore so many happy hours Of my
Iyonng life were spent.
fears--many years-years of weariness
and ofpaip have flown over my head since
that time, The ely shs bssasifpb and The
loved have gone down 70 ths toinb 1hs
aged has been gathered ID e IKE 1 shock
|of corn comsth In his seasons" the atfoug
man has ceased from his labors and the
busdered sleep ewhsre the wezry are al
|rest.n The beautiful too have faded away
ike the flowers which year after ysar spring
up on the sane spot, and bloom apd wiiher
and die.
Inlooking around upon the copgrsgs.
ton gathered 10 the village church, new
and strange faces inset me in plaza ol
those ! knew 50 well in bysgone yeari:
Now and theit ! can tfacs on the features
[ofsome bloomsng Young maiden. a shadowy
resemblance, TO the beauties that lived :
generation or two ago; but eli that Iloysd,
all that / knew -save perhaps one OF tro
of nv own generation who ara now almost
straSosrs = &, nae--. have oassad| aw.v Iiks
.atnmn,s : ts,vss. s. 49, 8 :
The old chaleh itsslf. the grey tomb
stones Oh uhlcb. b boyhCod, ! loyed . eit
on sIill Sabbath tnofpings md The gnarled
old oaks that interloc ~ their timbs above
my head Ia whatever dirscliQA ! gage, are
The onl5 familiar objects that meet my eye.
a glance afonna snoiy aomoulsnes Z, me tnss
!. ueeu DO. sses sns 's's''us sas eo. Psn
,e!s s, q 2, cn.,eneou ~ nos.ss =. sns ls
ilys' sso sssi. 's = s. Sc. e - :
sse ee.sae .'s''yI .. ..ss I sa,a,s.s - 80
- sss ~, tssst e ~ 80 8. ,,;ts n bnmsr
,;fs -, tfs 80, So,h;ra Z s.s - hmm ~ si7sc.
|,;os.' ; T / bsss hssr5 + osso 4 s. sloanenf sar.
;,sn; f.s,, : n,,,;,,s, 'soy,iv cn5bi6oed mint
M tba saoorsncs 4 81 Tia aiIenk marble
s j,4,a t,s nsT,ss ~ on, cbildhood, Z friends
81. e .;,ss., bso.,s $ tbss sloaasnes a nan
;rbs ,Issd srs sss:;,,o and "a Il - tbs last
man who wandess Ike q stranger npon ibs
earth. The names oil acquaintances and
friends meet me at every tarn. appealing
to ny Heart as glad faces and bright eyes
,sise up 10 memories around me.
~ as4rJlIR wIN.rERn
"a 80 -
HOW familiar ina. mans % my sa's
ye. aunoIeus nave ,.e, aeau y. snu pss'sI "a
W'.p = ca'e'ess ,1u'ne'e".o a, "s I 49,, -,
as'on'snes me: me, nous'.io'' y
wo'o-aSe = y somesn'"g more.
] remember her as she stood before me
forty years ago. and little did l then think
that at sixty ! should return as stranger
to my own home. and read that familiar
name chlseled out upon the cold marble!
u am no sentimentalist, vet / can scarce.
" forbear word Of reproof to the careless
stranper who treads heedlesslv upon her
or IVA ~ ~
Fo,,v se.y. aoo, ,be ,v.s tha n,;da ~ The
village and She aowa, of ,bs ooad n..to,,.
flock She was 8 the hight ns,t;eplar sta >,
If conprogation wbe,s hssutv w.. sba
bsr;taua of many The old looLsd unon
her with nr;da and admi,.t;on tbs yoino
~ he, own ssr with oood w;ll and lind.
nss. und;mio;sbsas bv bar no,.or.i .nrar;.
- - ,bam.aiv.. ,,L;I. nj g., .r;,n,.
tbroueed about her to en;oy the sunshine
Of her favor and smiles. =
III that tha beapt;ful .mu.t ua,;.b and
that Tho Iovelv n,nst fsdo wit home
wonvd tb;s ssytb of onrs hs ;f The I fs;,v % he.