Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-09-26

incur any, if we can possibly help it. SEE
what nice press for bed clothes this is. }
"Why, what quantity of bed and
table linen !-itis really nice, too. YOU
have more than my Maria has, | declare
"Yes-I always want an abundance Of
such things. This drawer is filled with
towels-this is for my ironing sheet and
blanket-and this closet contains my tin
and wooden ware"
81 declare, Eliza, you are strange,
thoughtful child! must tell you one
thing about Maria, that made us have q
good hearty laugh. The Monday morning
after she was married, the girl came to
ask where the tubs were, and don't you
think that child had actually forgotten to
buy tub, olothes-line or pins! She
said it never popped inte her head. But
Is! it wasn't strange--she had never
been used to do anything of the kind"
81 believe, aunt, have shown you all
now. We will go, if yorl please. Ihope
you will not let nv brown dress or VIII.
liam's brown hands frishten you away
this evening"
"Oh, no! but as I must take Che stage
for Maria's early in the morning, you
must allow me 70 retire early"
Il X Il
"What fellows these Yankees are for
combining elegance aud usefulness" said
Southern gentleman to himself, as he
stood on the piazza of the hotel in the lit
tie town of - "Sir," said he, ad-
dressing himself to venerable looking
man near, acan you tell me who resides
in thatelegant cottage, where the grounds
are laid ont with so much taste?"
ooh! that is Squire Bill Thorndike's.
You must be stranger in these parts,
not to know him."
"I am sil i; and since he seems such q
prominent member of society, | should
be happy to know something of his his
tory"
"Oh! there is nothing remarkable in
it, nothing at all, sir" His father was q
man of great learning, but he nearly run
through fortune in trying to live in style.
He died, and left three boys. Their
mother. who went from this place, was a
woman of strong sense. She sold the
property, paid off all the debts, ard had
enough left to buy th t little house to the
left 1t was but two rooms, and there is
garden spot attached to it. Here she
put out her boys to trades. One to q
mason, one to wheelwright, and this
ill to carpenter. They were mighty
smart boys, an1 settled in distant towns.
Bill staid however. He married widow
Percy's daughter. She was as sharp as
a steel trap She was right good scholar,
and she has made an excellaut wife. They
have got along wonderfully. Every body
wondered how it was. He did not make
bitter wages than other men, but some
how, the money increased. 1t was no
mystery to me, though, for watched
them pretty sharp. You never saw
great display of finery-such as laces,
aud founces and furbelows. No-they both
pulled one way, and took their pleasure
in being sober, Industrious and useful,
and now they reap their reward by being
universally respected. Why, there amt
a man that has so much money to let as
Squire Thorndike, and he is never hard
and screwing as about it as some are. He
isn't stingy, either. He has taken the
TWO children of one Lawyer Willis to
bring up, and he does as well by them
as he does by his own Lawyer Willis
wife was q kind of cousin to Squire
Thorndike's wife. She was dashy,
snowy gal. Lord! you'd have thought
the richest folks upon earth were married
when they had the knot tied. Poor fellow,
he had a. hard time, notwithstanding, to
support his wife in style. He took to
drink and died. I've heard say that she
.urned up her nose at her Cousins match,
but she little thought her boys would be
glad to go to that same cousin for q home,
while she would be glad to take up with
the little house that Squire Thorndike's
mother lived in.
"Ah! sir" continued ,heold man, this
is changing world; but to my mind, if
folks would only be prudent and indus.
trious, and give up handkering after things
beyond their means, there would be more,
real good done in the world and few
changes"