The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-09

/ ty the least Objectionable. | refer, my
dear, to the men, of course I do not
know anything that could make the
women tolerable."
In less than week Miss Mary had for
gotten this episode that her af
ternoon walks took, thereafter, almost
unconsciously, another direction. She
noticed however, that every morning &
fresh cluster Of azalea blossoms appeared
among the flowers on her desk. This
was not strange, as her little flock were
aware Of her tenderness for flowers, and
inevitably kept her desk bright with an
emones, syringas, and jupines; but, on
questioning them, they one and all pro.
fessed ignorance of the azaleas. A few
days later, Master Johnny Stidger-whost
desk was nearest to the windoW-was
suddenly taken with spasms Of apparent
" gratuitous laughter, that threatened
the discipline of the school. All that
Miss Mary could get from him was that
some one had been "lookin' in the win
der" Irate and indignant, she sailed
from her hive to battle with the intruder.
AS she turned the corner Of the school
house she came plump upon The quondam
drunkard-now perfectly sober, and in
expressibly sheepish and guilty-looking
These facts Miss Mary was not slow to
take a feminine advantage of, in her pres
ent humor, but was somewhat confused to
observe, also, that the beast-despite some
faint signs of past dissipatiou-was ami
able looklng-in fact, kind Of blond
Samson, whose corn colored, silken beard
had never know the touch OF
BARRIERS razor, o" Delilah's shears So
that the cutting speech which quivered
on her ready tongue died upon her lips
and she contented herself with receiving
his stammering apology with supercili.
Gus eyelids and The gathered skirts of UNI
contamination. When she re entered the
school~room, her eyes fell upon the aga
leas wltha new sense Of revelation. And
then she laughed, and the little people
all laughed, and they were all 'uncon
sciousiy happy. ~.
1t was on q hot day-and not long after
this-that two short legged boys came tc
grief on the threshold Of the school with
"a pal. of water, which they had labori-
.ously brought from the spring, and that
Miss Mary compassionaUey seized the
pail and started for the spring herself
At the foot OF the hill shadow crossed
her path, and blue shirted arm dexter
ously but gently relieved her of her bur
den. Miss Mary was. both embarassed
and angry. "If you carried more Of that
for yourself" she said, spiteflly, to the
blue arm, without deigning to raise her
ashes to its owner, you'd do better
In the submissive silence that followed
she regretted the speech, and thanked
him so sweety at the door that he STUN.
bled, which caused the children to laugh
agail--a laugh in which Miss Mary join
eel, until the color came into her pale
cheek. The next DAY barrel was mys,
tericusiy placed beside the door, and as
mysteriously filled with fresh spring
water every morning,
Nor was this superior young person
without other quiet attentions. g Pro
fame Bill" driver of the Slumgullion
Stage widely known in the newspapers
for his gallanry" in invariably offering
the box-seat to the fair sex--had except,
ed Miss Mary from this attention, on the
ground that he had habit of "cussin y
on up grades, and gave her half the coach
to herself. Jack Hamlin, gambler
having once silently ridden with her in
the same coach, afterward threw a ocean
ter at the head of confederate for men
tloning her, name in a bar-room. The
loyerdressed mother of a pupil whose
paternity was doubtful, had often linger,
ed near this, astute Vestal's temple, never
daring to enter its sacred precincts, but
content to worship the priestess from
afar \. 1890 s.as
With such unconscious intervals, the
monotonous procession of blue skies,
| glittering sunshine, brief twilight, and
starlit nights passed over Red Gulch
Miss Mary grew fond of walking in the
sedate and proper woods. Perhaps she
believed, with Mrs. Stidger, that the bal
samic odors of the frs Ibid her chest
good, for certainly her slight cough was
less frequent and her step was firmer
perhaps she had learned the amending
lesson which the patient pious are never
weary of repeating to heedful relisslese
ears Andlso one day, she planned pic.
mic on Buckeye Hill, and took the chill
ldren with her. Away from tho dusty
road, the Struggling shanties, the yellow
bitches, the clamor of restless engines
the cheap fneryof, shop windows, the
deeper glitter of paint and colored glass,
and the thin veneering which bHrbarism
takes upon itself in such loc.lities-what
infinite relief was rheirsl The last heap
OF ragged rock and clay passed--the last
unsightly chasm crossed how the wait
ing woods opened their long files to re-
ceive' them! How the children-pe
haps because they had not yet grown
quite away from the bounteous Mother
throw themselves face downward on
her brown bosom with uncouth caresses,
filling the air with their laughter, and
how Miss Mary herselt--felinely fastidi-