Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-11-26

beautiful garden, gone over her fathers
thriving fields, and yeered into his green
meadows and .xrass lots alive with such
horses, cattle, I'D sheep, as you rarely see
10 this country il you don i come back sat-
istied that the MAJ and that young LADY
are walking connpendinns Of useful knowi
edge in rural Affairs, ilIcharge you moth
| log for the days amusement
About two miles from Mr.. Smiths lives
my friend George Brown. He is q noble
Heterogeneous. brave, and have often
heard the girls say. very hnnds0ms. Ills.
parents died eeserui years since, leaving
him tho possessor Of good farm. But
George unfortunately inherited his fathers
anti-proaressiye ideas, and disregarded.ali
the teachings of science in the cultivation
Of his land. He was wanting neither 10
Industry or economy; be sqnandered no.
time IN idleness or dissipation. as Fpung
america OF to-day is toe prime to do he
+ iAncied that be did everything necessary
to become a successful farmer. And vet
his fences, lance, and out houses generally.
were always out Of repair, and until the
| last twelve months ! never saw him we'll
mounted-that is, his horse always seemed
to have been bridled before he had finished
his hay, or felt the touch of eurry-comb.
HIS land began to show evidences here and
| there, Of too much culture and too little
manure his fences were by no means the
| best in the neighborhood his cattle were
| generally lean, and his sheep possessed the
faculty OF accumulating burs and the like,
that would have quite astonished the snowy
| tiocks of his DeighbOr Smith. In short talk,
| he was first rate fellow" but most mis-
| cradle farmer. / once offered to send him
some valuable books and papers devoted to
his calling and although labored hard to
convince him that the investment would
realize TO his exchocquer larger interest
than thousand dollars iu bank at ten per
cent. he declined the compliment on the
ground that he was not particularly enam.
| cred of the study of that kind OF lisera-
| ture.
1t was very natural that George should
love some young lady. 1t certainly would
have been very unnatural had he failed to
love Ella Smith. He did love her and as
Dow jr., forcibly observes, with double
| distilled devotedness. have the best au-
| thority for saying so; and for saying fur
tber, that he told her all about it al the
g. COuty Fair in the Fall of 1859, on
the second day of the Fair, between the
hours of three and four in the afternoon.-
Ella blushingly promised to "think about
it" and have every reasop to believe she
kept her promise most religiously.
A week after the Fair, George rode over
to Mr.. Smiths one evening in pursuit of
knowledge as to what Ella Thought about
it." Much to his disappointment he did
not find her at home. A second visit
week later was attended with result
equally as unsatisfactory, To say that his
,r1 ,rbk !
and not more fruitful of agreeable results
would be to declare almost that the Gods
were not with him in his wooing but the
truth compels me to say it, nevertheIess-
As general thing the most foolish way in
the world is to make a declaration to love,
OF to seek to know the result of declara-
ton already made, to do so through the
medium of pen, ink and paper. The girl
who will fall tremblingly into your arms
and murmur, thine, forever thinew when
you have ask oSaSss yrrvDvtts. pss-Ss.s1,zss=
marry you, will ten chances to one discard
you outright if your request is preferred
by letter. The pen is nigh tier than the
sword in field of conflict adapted to dis
play its power but the tongue is mightier
than the pen in conquering dominion in a
woman's heart. George may or may not
have been aware Of this well established
fact; at any rate, having despaired, it would
seem of his finding an opportunity of re-
newing his-we'll say, "war talk" with
Ella, he determined to try the virtue Of
6illH dOur; which he according did. 1t
was as the newspapers sometimes say Of
the Presidents Messages, straightforward,
manly, matter-of-iact state paper,"-very
brief, and very much to the point. George
knew very we'll what sort of letter would
appeal most strongly to the true, ingenious
| heart Of Ella Smith-a heart too pure and
refined In its sentiments to be foolishly rU-
mantle.
When Ella had read Georges letter, like
a dutilul daughter, size handed it to her
parents, and sat down demurely to await its
perusal and hear what they might have to
say. They had q good deal to say, of
| course but it must not he repeated here
1t all ended in Elias being permitted to
accept or reject Georges offer, according
to the dictates of Der own heat. Her re-
| ply 10 Georges communication will show
what she did in the premises. Here it is,
! and I'll venture to say that Just such an
other billet was never written under simis
liar circumstances. 1t accidently fell irto
my hands, temporarily, a short time since,
and was rude enough to retain copy:
October, 10, 1859.
Mr.. GEORGE BRowN-Dear sir:-Your
note of yesterday is full of kindness and
candor and if my reply should seem less
kind, YOU will find it, trust, quite as can
did. You request me, indirectly. to write
you pointed answers request with
which | will very cheerful comply.
You tell me you love me, and ask me to
marry you. / don't, I cannot doubt your
affection but for reasons which l shall
give, and which may seem to you frivolous
and absurd, l cannot marry you-not now
at any rate.
Many girl would think your home a
very comfortable one. and with your love
to bless her, would be happy there. But if
you will contrast your home and its sur
roundings with mine, and you will under.
stand, knowing my nature and tastes as
| you do, why could not be conteuted as
TIE mistress Of "Mnunt LIill:" as it now is
| NY father is good farmer. ] am at least
an admirer Of good farming. You, l sho'd
say; If you will pardon me for saying it,
are neither the one nor the other. Your
garden is wilderness Of weeds, and your
yard is the common rendezvous Of every
species of domestic animal you possess
This is not 10 keeping with good taste, to
say the least of it. l could never be con-
tented in the midst Of broken fences, hinge
less gates, neglected shrubbery, and cattle
accustomed to the liberty of walks that
should be sacred to the tread of human
feet.
Is this sufficiently pointed? I fear you
will shink it too much so bat have too
much confidence in your good sense to fear
that you will be seriously offended.
In conclusion, if somebody will engage
in somebody else's favorite study, read
carefully and be guided by the good advice
contained in approved works on rural pur-
suits, until he has taken three or four pre-
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