Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-01-30
THE MlsER'S HEIR.
GY sYLyANIus CoGB, JR.

81 tell you no, Agnes! won't have it
The fellow only wants my money. l know
all these Gandified jimcracks. They han!
around few bags of dollars/as crows aroun'
carrion Iwon't have any such thing. Nov
10 you know
Father you judge Walter tco harshly
He is n GOOD man-honest and industrious
and
Industrious, say you? By the big lump
I'd like to know what he's got to show for hi
industry"
lie has Il very superior education, father.
Education? Fiddlesiicks Can he live OF
his eauralion ? Can he make dollars Of it !?
"Ycs, he car live on it. He has alread.
obtained good situation as clerk"
"Aud will earn just about enough to kccl
lin in lhe linc clothes he wears. l know
taesc fellows. But there's an end on il. ]
ycu choose lin rather than your poor oil
atLcr, you can do SO. Lean live a'onc-
shan: live long; you can"
"Stop, stop, father. You have no right tt
talk 50. You know I could not leave you.
Aud Aanes Brennan threw her arms aroun'
the o'd mans neck, and kissed him. and the'
she left the room.
.'It's curious low these young fools act
the niscr mut,ered to himself, after he ha'
watched his cLii4 depart. There's bcc'
twcn,y Of the sharks after that girl-twcnt,
# 'em lowering around her, like man cater
.ftcr dead body. Don't know what the.
want? Aha, don't I, though? NSmy mon
~ But Agrees -bas never loved one OF then
nll this Adams came alomg. The jackanapes
And n1w she wants to get married righ
A"fy, r.. old man bowed 8 his head as h, spoke
and he saw drop upon the back OF his hand
| It was bright drop, ard the rays Of the SUI
were playing in i,
"Sbc cried When she kissed me, lie "hiS
,ered. wiping the tear from his hand. .
don't see wha, ma!srs her so tcndc: hearted
She never souii it from ME. Bat she lha
| have taken it fr1h: -
The cli man stopped, and a cloud cam
ver his wrakicd brow, for there was
| eapg in his heart. lie remembered the gen
lie, accomplishing being who had once bee
| his COMPANION. the mother Of bis child. ID
remembered how she became lis wife, eve
when the bloom of manhood had passed lrof
him and cared lor him, and how she laugh
her child TO love and care for him, too. Ar
lc remembered how she had never complain
ed. even while suffering, and how she la
died. with smile and blessing upon he
lips, Though the gold of her husband bronsh
her no comforts.
Noah Brennan bowed his frosted head nor
low. and in bic heart he wished be could fol
ret all but few 0aeting Joys OF his wifi
lid not forget. He could not forge
that it had been whispered how his wife mgl
rave lived longer, had she had proper cloth
irg and medical attention.
"Buf it would have cost so much (; | save
money!"
An, the reflection would not remove III
panr. Tie ether memory was uppermcst.
Moab Brennan had passed the allotted az
or men, being over three score and ten, ali
nil his life had been devoted 10 the accumul;
lion Of money. lie had denied himself ever
comfort, and his heart had been almost IS har
IS the gold lie boarded. But III his ha
| grow more white and sparse, and the va!
cam. more heavily upon him, he though
more; reflected more. Tie sweet smile {
his wife was doing its mission row; a.d th
PURE love of his gentle child was continue
remembrance 10 him that there were bette
hearts than bis own.
At length The miser arose, and passed OIL
cf the room. lie would have left the hut
bu, as he rcacl:d tie little entry way, h
heard voice from the garrett it was hi
chiIds. lie crept up the rickety stairs, an
olcd through y crack in the door. He So
Srnes upon her knees. Tears were roilin
down her cheeks, and her hands were claspe
towards Heaven and she prayed:
"Oh, God be good to nay father, an
make his heart warm and peaceful! Max
INC to lore him with. all tenderness, and cn'
blc mo to do we'll and truly the duty pledge
to nv s.intcd mother promised 1 woul
love and care for him always. Father j
Hcaven, help me! Oh help me!
The old man crept down stairs and out c
doors and for q whole hour lie walked alon
smonr the trees. He thought again of hi
chill: and then, Of his gold And this We
not the first time he had walked alone there
lie did not himself know how great the II
0uence Of his child was cxertipg over him.
amey, pure, good, beautiful Agnes, wer
long ard bilte,ly in her little garret, an
when She bad become calm, and her check
were dry, she came down and got suppe
But she was. not the smiling, happy bein
that had fitted about the scanty board heri
tofore.
nroacbed bis cot one morning, he heard voice
rom within. He pccped through a rent
tho coarse paper curtain, and saw Waite
ADAMS with his child. Her head was upo
Walters shoulder, and his arm was about he
Walter was an orphan, and had been AZ
ncs, schoomate, and her fervent lover throug
all the virtuous man, and loved the gentl
nirl because she was so good and gentle, an
So beautiful. And sho loved him, not onl
because he was, of all her suitors, the onl
one whose character and habits promised jo
md peace for the future.
can,iot leave my poor old father, va
.crn the old man heard his daughter say
It" 81 must live to love and care for him. 0
oll the earth am the only one left to loy