The Portland daily press., 1869-11-06

s'~'~AS
er, ir, We'd be good friends, won't we? And
MI come and see Chatty, and she'll visit
ss,-. you; and if she should make any discoveries
she IL tell you" -
Yes" be replied, signing; " and if you find
out re lily that Granny " heller has drop Of
h.man flood in her veins, let me be advised
!, oft" -i4i ,i = '-t..s..t
- Eorewarned, fofearmed. Do YOU think
= esi b reader, there a cloud no bigger than a
doves wing even in my beautiful summer
sky? thought one little minute seriously
NY hands outspread midway in the air be.
xt5 tween my heap oil toamy laces and my fore
.,- head; and neutrality-suspicious. the good an
So gel who has never yet deserted me for an
honr-somethlng made me say with a brave
smile whose twinkle l found in my eyes, sit
will be just as make it-just as will tip
- Then those grand old words came surging
up to me, full OF hope and strength, an an
-=-- them of exultation: l----7------
Unto thy elf be true, -esv
Ann IT mus follow the night the day, 2 @aA
..--.. thou canSt not hen be false any man."
The wedding was quiet affair; we were
married by the gray-haired old pastor who
bad landed inc on his knee in babyhood
and whose raven locks [ had pulled to nv
hearts content-int) whose pockets had OF
ten searched to find something good for little
girls. of all The ministers 1 had known, he
acme was the one to ofliclate on this ilnpor-
tantoccasion.
We moved into the same house with Johns
parents, and tried to take the place of
dauehter Of course did 1Ot find every
81 oWance TOR the manner in which we had
been brought up. Mother treated me kindly
enough, but as though had no Judgment,
ana couId hardly be trusted alohe with any
thing that required care or thought 1t SEEM
ed tnat she regarded me as a child, to be look
ed af'er and made comfortable. Sometimes
\ ielt ready to cry out, would say, "For
his dear sake" Ind dry up my tears and make
myself happy. Little trials, that hut like
the little thorns OF the thistle, met me every
.. s.s DAY, but had shod my feet in anticipation
OF them. rs s,g
a3s l tried not to draw any comparisons be-
tween my two homes, but they would come
.- He up to me- az h
g.One of the adornments with which Mother
wheeler beautited the walls of her rooms
was a cat and kittens cut out of black cloth
pinned on a white background grew
very tiled OF The round-headtd cats, and eau.
~ tlously suggested their removal, but her" Oh,
& u no; ike TO see them!' silenced me. did
- want the snow White winuow curtains to be
made SO long that they would just touch the
noor, but she wanted them made long enough
to reach only to the window stills, and starch
g ed SO stiifiy that they ratified like paper
over the mirror IN sfttino-ruon were
long sprays OF asparagus dropped, that in the
twilight looked like faint mist while the finest
gilt and bronze tail feathers OF slaughtered
chickens intei mingled with the delicate green
ssrr Her side-saddle, with the crimson plush seat
an Drignt, brassy hXnss, always hung in the
. BEST bed room, and in the night lis dim out
-'As nne would look like the horned bead of buf
Chatty. to say that its time honored place
shou d be vacated, and that it could hang in a
coset or in the attic, out of sight. = IS
Great punches OF dried herbs hung from
= the ceiling in the kitchen, while the very
Gu lcest and most aromatic depended from the
Walls OF the siitng-room. Piles OF bed-clothes
reared them yes up like tn ngs OF lie In diff
terent aud conspicuous corners OF the rooms
All this, that shocked my ideas OF good
taste, pleased and eratihed poor mother who
PAD been accustomed 10 these regulations all
her life John wanted to bre ak in upon her
ruIes, but could not endure the thought of
the innovation = of setting aside her good
Old way, and taking, as it were, her work
from her hands, just as though she had out
ryf lived her usefulness 1t would have been
cruel and thougltless, and would have given
her fatal wound. She had seen great deal
OF trouble had brought up large family, who
were married and living in homes of their
own.
Death had taken from her two lovely b,bes
who were just beginning to pratte; and one
son, young man, had met an awful death by
be ng dragged more than mile over new
roau with his foot fast in the stirrup Her
husband had been security for neighbor in
the hrst year of her welded life and had the
deot to pay. Halt OF the sum she paid little
by little, with butter and cheese and dried
1rllt, and berries that she gathered with her
nursing baby lying in the shade near her. -
-- Oiten, while telling thus, the dishonest ras-
CAL whose debts she was sacrificing herself to
pa, would dash past her, clean and softhand-
carriage. $500 N"e
Oh. could l, an interloper, come into her
nome and marx out new lines and new duties.
anu crowd against the wall this crowned old
heroine! God helping me, said in NV heart j
VIII truly be daughter unto YOU. ~,
could see that my music was something
new Inat she did no. ike-that her lip would
cur c lItlle when She would touch my maya
lnes anu DOCKS OF poetry; so most heartilv
did sing sweet old church music and 10y
placed the books on the table, would low
Fusrllhs Progress or volume of sermons
good, ola weil-read books on miae as thongl
ihunatng preference 1t was a little tbing
put mother understood it and her eyes ro,,sSIi
iohow lnefn questioning look az 'm,cb oS
20 say, Il wonder if you love me- Charity 81
QUO que a 1,sy called me Charity, sounding the
Yer. distinctly. WIZ
She woae oldfashioned laced c,nS rit,,
ru. ., poroer or Ir1 all around the lace All tbe
pa Ia, she mad seemed to centre in her fault
ahnnd neat ouS Old caps. Her hair was
va Always covered ond out of sight,
wo IVY friends, when they would visit me
..-- great s..., II were you I'd soon have those
thew are y-looking, boozv caps in the stove,
NJ, 81 aoominabIy old fashioned y
snee1 a ,nouShts would fly with electrical
old mother '% Sn To the time when that moor
bravery hearino ~ young and vigorous and
had fallen 10 htr lot wbe anu soiiows that
wruDg with anguish over w.. "S S neaTt was
her beloved children, and he uf IAN beds OF
49," o'ei IhiC veal uedu faces, taken s,.5I"
~ away rom her bosom, and oh! She u saoes
SO dear to me. and l would be so resds mouid
willing to defend her that her very fa,yI,ts "na
iii most seemed virtues. ~r He - "
So liked to show mother off to the best adj
VANTAGE, and sometimes, when my visitors
would oe dressing and re-dIessing their scant
adornment OF hair, and reso ting to deceptive
IN ans IN making much hair out of little. [
Woriu say, Now sit down and lest. mother
ana let me comb and br..~r Won y Then I
bsi- .nu loosen her Wealth OF Drown
-. all down her back aud shoulders, and its
waves and ripples and glossiness would bring
forth the most envious and enthusiastic eX-
Carnations delight and wonder from the
admitting visitors. '" +s, .f
One morning early neigbbor came in very
angr' saying that our horses had been in his
eoh-neid all night and il the like ever hap
RIneu again he d shoot every one of them.
- g "nset was contagious, and mother retort-
GU, Elk your ODD fences, then!n
81 oi' man said something in tho same |
spi h e anu sue replied in like manner and the
~ * nIe Vi anger was blazing I'm info aanaa
sa fad moi caught the infection ~ On i"ne ;
coming into the kitchen at th,t az ALI al, ana |
said, Hegho. good neighbour, this Will I
Co. Poor mother is not well this n ~, neVef
and she flashes up like powder You h aGs., |
reason to lie provoked at our horses. bns
know you will never have cause again: ind
now don't let little thing like this make YOU
an ry with US; you're too good neighbor to
lose so easlly-worth more than all the horses
in town. Don't mind poor mothers basty
wor S; you know If you were sick, Or your