The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-31


wonders always SO wonderful. When
She and Hannah were girls, the young |
men, Jones and Fem, we're fellow
workmen in machine shop when an
enterprising speculator had erected
as connecting link between the iron
mines of the neighborhood and the
new railroad. Fem wanted to marry
Hannah, but she was already the be-
trothed of Mathew Jones, and so he
married her most intimate friend.
The two young men were not more
unlike than the two girls. Jones was
an obtrusive, thoughtful youth, full OF
enthusiasm, but plodder at handi-
craft. Yet even in that he was sue
cessful. though not to his own profit.
He made experiments when he was
not working-busying himself with
his fingers while thinking OF the next
sermon he would preach in some vii
lage of his circuit His experiments
in lock making had most unexpected
results. He produced lock which
was worth all that had gone before it,
and he showed it to Fem. Fem
seized it. as electricity takes up a.
Thought and carries it off through
snbterrapean regions from one CONT
nent to another
"What are you going to do with
that?" he asked Jones.
!" don't know-something, | sup
pose. It's worth doing something
with
"Well-when?"
"Oh, I don't know-sometime-no
hurry" -,
the hurry" said Fem.
"What will you do with it, Rich
ard?'
& Make me an offer, said Matthew,
laughing -,
Fem considered a moment-"I will
try to get a patent IF I succeed, "
said he. cautiously, Il will make some
of the locks and push them into the
market. When it's in paying order,
I'll pay you handsome. You see' II
take all the risks. What do you make
out of Driscol?"
HE pays me three hundred dol
lars" r,,,
"And that's what you live onl I'll
give you as much as that a year as
soon as it begins to pay.
"Take it, said Matthew Jones
You'll push it, if anybody can. !"
4 So Fem had taken it, and pushed
it." and the lock was now yielding hin
an income of twenty thousand dollars
and he paid his friend Jones double
what he used to receive from their ole
EMPLOYER. Double and more-in short
, a thousand dollars year, and Mat
thew had the freedom of the works
Much more than he had bargained for
you see. And while he wondered a
J Fenn's success, he rejoiced over 1t.
} Mrs. Fem was a handsome flower
3, in full bloom. She had appropriate
a everything that came in her way
J, everything but content. Splendid sh
5 looked as she came, in white morn
f ing dress and crimson shawl, acros
the yard, leading Edward by the. hand
0 She was talking busily with tn
< boy. AS they approached the step
J, he dropped her hand and darte
: away. She set down and said:
e II want to tell you something, Han
= nah. while that child is off Oh, VIVA
e beautiful sunset 1t almost equal
my Clifford Has he ever been here
IS He has mt, / know. If l lived hel
IS I'd invite him. Mr.. Fem and haV
:" had a quarrel.
It That is new. On the old subjec
J I SUPPOSE m,
fact is, Hannah, | see it IS lmposslbi
We can't, living as we do, keep,
At temperance house. If he was Tx
At Matthew, I shouldn't worry abo1
r that. No, he wants, he has taken.
at into his head, that you should go wit
n us to the mountains. L SAID yt
ID wouldn't. so he made me refer 1t
= YOU. Mr.. Jones, Eddy, and all. "
OF want every one Of you. You can sh
Id up the house. .,
n When are you going?"
,e. Monday or Tuesday, dor
nd know-any day"
h, You may have Ned and Matth'
ng any day you can get them" !,
til eyes; and Mr.. Fem in the sui
yle all the way out there and bac
10. Neither of them shall 60 withoutyo
MS so settle it to suit yourself My mi
its is made up. You will have traV
MS, ing suit ali around-no bother togo
Ike III have them made Nothing to
err but shut up the house, as l SAID, a
nd give yourselves over to US for a 10
81 night. just one fortnight-hlcha
all can't afford any more time. Are J
ace afraid to do it? We arenot as bad
ere we seem"
III; Il really do not think that it can
al done, Margaret. Matthew IS so mU
absorbed in the business he has up
res, Belmot-all the people there are !
md ing into the Church. Take Ned,
you want him; but let us alone,
aid l'il thank you"
do Hannah don't Won want ever to