Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-15
Au Original grize Stprg,
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
AN HEIRESSIN HEROWN RIGHT,
BY EMILY j. ROMEO.
CHAPTER XIV.

BY j. hOInEOs
'. .'' CHAPTER XIV.
A. SUMMING UP. WHO WAS THE "HEIREss.
Experience joined to common sense,
To mortals is rovidence."-GREEN.
"And so, without more circumstance at all,
hold it fit, that we shake hands and part"
SHAKESPEARE.
The years have rolled on from the time
when marrying and giving in marriage wa
the burden of the story, till the winter O.
1901. This interval has given all an op
portunity to show what was in them, and how
their tempers and energies have been devel
oped since entering on that new act in the
drama of life, which makes or mars the des
TIMES of all who take upon them its compli
Gated duties.
There are no tragedies, no marvellous ex
PLOTS to record of our characters. The simple
annals of every day life, such as are common
to many people, have written their story on
the pages of time and few leaves are all We
shall transcribe.
Mr.. Elliott tried planting on large scale
the third year, but bad luck attended him
and he became so involved and troubled on
account of it, he resolved to take his broth
er's and wife's advice, and not attempt SC
much again till labor was more reliable II
took so much of his estate to settle with his
creditors, he was almost in despair until he
began to realize the difference between being
free man and harassed by debts and duns
For two years he had been working with
few hands and kept from falling behind, il
he could not gain firm foothold ahead.
Mrs. Elliott was much happier than while
her husband was struggling so desperately,
only to sink the deeper. When she had the
control Of ordering supplies, they never ex'
ceeded reasonable limits but when Mr.. El-
lott went for them himself, his desires were
so much beyond his means, he bought dozens
of unnecessary articles and was needlessly ex-
travagant. He could not learn two things.
One was to wait on himself; the other, to
draw the line between his imaginary and real
wants. But for Mrs. Elliott's influence he
would have fallen into that miserable habit
of running in debt fifteen dollars here, twen-
ty-ive there, and fifty somewhere else; a
habit which has demoralizing effect on the
one who follows it-a damaging one on the
person who submits to it. Not that Mr.. Ell
liott would have intended to leave these debts
unpaid but when he could not make enough
to more than get along even without them,
they would have hung on, an eye-sore by their
accumulation, and the duns to follow and the
payday so hard to find.
Stuarthad been off to school over two years
and with the foundation Mr.. Ellison had laid,
gives promise of fine scholarship. He pro-
poses becoming teacher, and the prospect Of
his being learned professor is much greater
than would be supposed, if the assertion Rus
sell once made was not taken with little al
lowance, that "no Elliott could make a
savan."
Russell had been doing we'll ever since he
went to New Orleans; and was keeping his
heart warm by educating Stuart.
Georgia is as amiable and cheerful as ever.
She thinks her five children are no more
trouble than three we're; and should she have
ten, she would take it as q good thing for
them, because they would learn to be so kind
and obliging to each other, so thoughtful for
the others interests, they would have no
chance to be spoiled and selfish like an only
child.
Eugene's business has continued to increase,
but fortune cannot spoil him and he rejoices
more than any one else, that his brother Louis
has married and is happy in wife and child
to heir his share of their large property.
Aunt Pauline is queen now among Geor-
gia's children, and it is not easy to say if their
mother loves them better than she does.
Mr.. Wright has prospered beyond any Of
his neigbbors; but if you ask his wife why he
wears such rusty coat, she will reply some
thing like this: II don't wonder you notice
the shabby old thing! 1t vexes me every
Sunday when he puts it on. Mr.. Wright has
had the money to buy new coat for three
winters, but he always finds book store
nearer than tailoring establishment, if it is
three miles out of his way, and into it he goes
'just to look at the list of new books-he can't
buy any this time;' but when be comes out
the money for his coat is gone, and his nose is
80 deep in one Of the books he has bought he
wouldn't see his own mother if she was to
walk beside him an hour. I'm going to
Charleston myself next time, just to buy him
a decent suit, for I've come to the conclusion
back as well as brains must be clothed with
some regard to elegance"
While Mrs. Wright would be saying that
her husband, with smile, would be peering
among the books in his library, and finding
some favorite, would hold it out exultingly
and say for his defense
"There that is one of the books I bought
this fall, and you'll say when you read it, thai
it alone, is worth any new coat in the city
My coat is not so very shabby-onlya a little
rusty; and if I don't begin buying few
books now and then, I'll never have librar.
for my children"
The readings, every night, are one Of tn
unbroken habits Mr.. Wright still keeps up
and when Henry becomes great lecture
and public reader, he will give the credit o
his success to those hours when he was 81
thoroughly drilled at his fathers freside
Albert will be farmer and like his father il
his tastes. Julia has just married sturd..
mountaineer, who wonders any one can liv
in the 'nalarious low-country;;" and she cal
now have chance to wear out shoes on tn