Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-06-29

"Wherc is Chicago?"
'"Wrll, now, that is good! You
don't know where Chicago Is, and
you're clever ! know"
'Of cours,, when you've been
there"
That's true" he replied, after re-
fec ion.
"Did you really get your living
there?' she asked.
"Yes, did"
Then 60 back 0 James do--do
90 back. l can't bear to see you as
you are-dependent and looked
down on. Oh, do 60 back, and work
like a mani [ suppose it Is because
we women are so dependent, that We
prize ard honor Independence. For
me there is nothing so contemplate
as strong man who is idle and con
tented. Go back to Chicago. l
shall be sorry to lose you, because
because | like you very much, and
you have beea very kind to me; but,
don't you know, csnnotyou imagine,
how happy, fow glorious it must be
to strive aud conqucr-to stand
erect before the world, owing moth
ing but to God and your own honest
labor2'
81 can, do!' he cried, starting
up, 'It is glorious. Do you know,
can you imagine, what it is to have
people despising you as fool-an
incapable--and yet to feel here" Che
struck his massive forehead as he
spoke "tbay you were wronged, that
you had not fair play? To feel
knowledge, invention, power, glow
ing, burning in your brain; to see the
IDEAS thus born forming themselves
under your hands, and to KNOW that
they were right and sound; to make
those who came to scof, stay to
praise? For this" he added in low
cr voice, Il humbly thank Almighty
God, and good Sam ThackeE.'
Now, when Bessy Jervoice had had
her say, as above recorded, and
piqued by surprises and excitement,
and perhaps by something else, had
said more than awell-regulatedyoung
lady ought to say, she naturally sat
down and cried but, wonderstruck
By the response she had evoked-a
response which grew more as!onish-
ing, more feryid, as it proceeded
she slowly raised her eyes; and there,
before her, stood a James Wymper
she had never seen before. Not a
poor James Wymler in any sense of
the tenn,
"Forgiye me-" he said, taking her
trembling hand, "for hav ng played
a part. 1t WAS Sam Ihacker's do
ing" Said Sam, you 90 back a rich
man amongst those cusses Sam Is
a regular Yankee, and they Il jus'
crawl over you, and su.k your yitals
ou sham poor andstupid, and you'll
soon see who's who An, Bessy, how
kind you were to me at first Am
wrong in thinking, in hoping, thai
what was not SO kind lately wa'
meant for my good?
ooh! but how unfair-how'
"Scold me presently, but hear m.
story. Iran away from Manchester
because | felt dimly that ! could i'm
prove and invent things if | had
chance; but vas awkward with ny
hands. could not draw, | coulC
{ not plan | was not ready with III.
toneue. | could not explain; l go
t impatient when people did not un
derstand me, and all went badly, un
, til | fell in with Sam. Sam is tn
e bandiess fellow in the world; and a
, for talking, he could coax a possun
| out of his hole; but at first he hadn'
a one idea of his own. Well, VI
n worked together, and as we went on
e | got handy and Sam inventive; and
to make long story short, we sol,
{. two patents for fifty thousand dol
y lars each, and we have four more
. which will bring in about two thou
= sand a year in English money a
. royalties I'm going to pay m
share in this picnic out of that mon
e ey; and it is quite true that Sam sen
me the cash, because all my remit
tances come through him.
"I-I think" stammered astor
+ ished Bessy, "that we must not sto
here any longer"
Gust few minutes.
S; "They will think it so odd
o CAS- you please. VIII you hay
s the fowers?" And he took boqu'
from vase ON the table.
"Put them back directly. Ho
/ can you? Taking what does not b
long to you! 0 james,
l. Il bought the estate last week
replied poor James Wymper quietl
Is and l suppose the flowers go whit
ID "NIr. Wymper, are you mad,
am l dreaming?' gasped Bessy.
!" Il bought the place as soon as
0. heard you were coming hel
be That's why l went to London-al
t tget some clothes"
er "Please take me back to mammI
ne and Bessy began to cry again.
"Nhen you have answered me o
If, question. 1 hardly dare to ask
ke but yet
no But yeti The stupid fellow! it W
evident that he had not yet patent
,r machine for divining gil
thoughts. He hem'd, aud stamm
ed, and be-, about the bush, as
he did in his pre,Sam-Thacker da
ar and at last got it out. What was
Bessy left that room, as 81
do would say, inside an elbow" W
an accepted lovers kiss tinging
lips, and glorifying her heart.
n yer mind what had become
do the pic-nickers; never mind the
tonishment of Mr., Augustus Bal
and the rest when, invited by