Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-03-05
lRKsvILLE, TENN, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1870.

OF q bunk-clerk, at q salary pitifully
small, was all the dread winter left TO
him.
And when they brought him home
one night to the shabby genteel little
house of which they rented half with
his arm fractured In two places, from
q fall on the icy pavement, Mamie
felt that her cup of trial and bitter
ness was indeed full.
] don't mind the pain for myself"
Frank had said TO the. genial and
kind-hearted surgeon who net the
bones, "but TO lie still for nobody
knows how long, and my wife and
the little ones with not a cent ahead
In the world. The rent must be paid,
and the grocer's bill, and coal Is ten
dollars q ton, and the children must
wear clothes-God help us! I don't
know what the end Of all this Is to
be.v
But Mamie knew-and towards
twilight, when Frank had fallen into
q troubled slumber, and little Anna
sat watching beside his pillow, with
careful Injunction to Harry and Rose
and the three-year-old baby to be
quiet she put on her bonnet and stole
unseen to an Employment Depot a
few blocks distant.
When she returned, Il was with a
bundle under her arm sewing that
she had obtained.
"Oh, Mamie, have we come ia
this 2" Mr.. Vavasor asked, sadly, al
she sat down by his bedside to COM
mence her task.
1--WE cannot starve, dear-and
there is just a dollar and q halfin your
purse" @sHi ~ 4H
II know it--but--n w rn3t
He stopped abruptly, and turned
his face 10 the wall with q groan
whose bitterness was deeper than any
s0bi ta 8 se
Little Rose came to her mother
with pleading eyes, at this moment
!" Mamma, can Harry and I have
Uncle yared's big brown Bible to look
ct the funny pictures?" Hat
| Nannierose, reached DOWN the dusty
tome from its obscure resting place
on the top Of a dingy secretary, and
placed 1t ON a chair where the child
rem could turn over the leaves at thei
leisure.
Be careful not to tear IL dear, ;
she said, thinking sadly how all lii,
other wedding gifts had vanished
one BY one before the simeon breatl
q Of poverty, and how this alone re
1malned relic Of the days of prosper
peity. Uncle Jared was dead ant
buried long ago, and his money hat
Igone to found q hospital. Alice Du
lpre was companion" to q rich olt
vixen In Philadelphia, and Mar,
Bolton was q country minister's wifi
in Wisconsin. llt
She was thinking of all the s0rrow
full changes ten years had wrought
as she stitched away at the "plail
shirts" that had been entrusted to he
to make, at forty cents apiece. Nan
ME had always been quick at he
, needle, and now she was thankful 70
. the truly femenine accomplishment
"Mamma," cried little Rose, from
the chair, "here are two leaves stucl
together tightly"
I Mamie leaned over to see. TIL
child was right. Two leaves In tn
tBook Of Psalms were pasted t0getl,
er by their edges on ali their Sides
She took up the scissors to separat
them, with vague, Indifferent sell
sation of curiosity, and remOrseftl
conscience that she had not strictl
obeyed Uncle Jared's injunction {
study Its pages WELL" else she woul
have discovered this popularity Ion
ago.
TO her establishment, two thin slip
OF paper dropped out. -,
inquisitive Rose, STOPPING to pic
them up. .a.s,
: And Mamie, scrutinixing ther
more closely, saw that they wer
bank notes for five hundred dollar
. each. t...t
She sat a moment in sort of bt
wilderment--and then, like q sudde
: inspiration, came back to her tn
stories she had always heard of Uncl
Jared's strange eccentricities and cd
D ways. This was one of them -th
bridal gift he had Intended to bestO,
!, upon her had been hidden In thi
strange casket. And now like q spec
e cial benefcience Of Providence,
: came to supply her utmost needs.
Y She leaned over and placed he
hand upon her sleeping husband
oiOW u WOhC WIN q btuits
e " I have been asleep, Mamie" h
e said, looking coufusedly at her wit
5 that strange commingling OF realit
a and fancy which somtimes follows l
: out of deep slumber-"I have bee
dreaming that we were rich"
I, we are rich, dear Frank sal
: she, In voice that trembled wit
scarcely suppressed emotion. An
she told him her tale.
"a thousand dollars! We are ric
. indeed" he exclaimed. at will SUI
port us until my arm gets well F"
: at will do that, and leave littl
to begin the werld with, please God,
: said Mamie, with tears In her eyes,
= Poor. dear Uncle Jsred--if b
: could only see how happy it has MAD
r usn
3 When Mr.. Vavasor's tedious r.
8 cOvery was complete, there were fol-
| hundred dollars left Of Nannie's car,
y fully boarded funds--and that fol
e hundred dollars, fortunately investet
4 was the germ from which sprun,
Z first modest little competence, the
e u fortune.
e Frank Vavasor Is rich man nov
but he dates his presently back
u Uncle Jared's bridal present.
To MANAGE A REARING HORSE