Smyrna times., 1872-09-18
MiSceIIU 10 e o. IL S .
Horrid Mr.. Barnes"

has once known the love of woman has not
felt as ii the sun, moon and stars were made [
for his own particular benefit, and who that
has once lived 10 heaven would not return I
thither! But Mr. BaInes was neither good
looking nor rich in fact, not to mince mat
ters he was plain and poor, and instead of
falling in love with plain, kind girl, who
might take compassion on him, he fixed his
eye on one of the richest, gayest and prettiest
girls in the village, Fannie. the youngest
daughter of Squire McAllister. She was
about eighteen, just out of school, and as wild
as young colt. Imagine her astonshment
when she found Mr.. Barnes was making love to
her. THAT horrid Mr.. Barnes has been here
three times this week. she said to her sister,
''and he dared to squeeze my hand tonight
What an old foOl-old enough to be my grand !
father!'
" He is only forty l should not be surprised
| it you married him after all, Fan; so don't be
angry with him for pressing your hand. The
next time he comes he will kiss you, said her
sister, prOvokingly.
Fannie walked out of the room in speechless
Indignation. There was no doubt that Mr.;
! Barnes was in love. He came often and stayed
long. 1t seemed her fate to meet him when.
ever she lett the house. He sent her presents,
which she returned, books which she never
read, and invitations which she never accepted.
In short, as Fan said, "he made her life a
burden to her.
9 can stand this any longer, said Fan one
day. III play such trick upon him that
he ii never come again.
So she poured some molasses in his hat as it
stood on the hall-table one evening; then she
called him back when he had opened the front
G door to 20 home, and had the satisfaction OF
l. seeing the streams of mOasSes running down
7 his shoulders and over his best black coat. Her
e merry peal of laughter was all that was needed
s. to complete his discomfture, and he rushed
rs from the house casting upon her look O.
in reproach.
,r Fan thought she had got rid of him now
ei and she received her fathers rebuke with
in good deal of compOsure; but the next weel
ne brought that horrid Mr.. Barnes back again
ID What was she to dog She did everything sh
We could. She made caricatures of him and Gil
-e cuated them among her friends she treate
him to doughnuts filled with cotton; made fu
si. of him in every way that the brain Of froliC
19sa 1s some school girl could devise, and still he neve
wavcred in his allegiance.
,a- "There is no help for you, Fannie. You haJ
RS to become Mrs. Barnes No. ,. You cannot g
M rid of him in any other way" said Miss Nj
es Allister.
a! Fannie was too much subdued for anger.
me really am afraid so, said she with tears in h
me me eyes 1t would not be so bad if there W
,n;s the least thing attractive about him. And
Snt sTl is always so kind and so quietly determine
La;rr lars that am afraid he will make me like him
to spite of ALL
and whats that you say, Fannie p and ris
un suddenly, Miss McAllister took both h
oa oar sisters hands Look straight into my ey'
1sn. 1;I: Fannie, | was only joking. You must ha
and known that never supposed that anything
sn.. lI% Heaven or ON earth, or the waters under
iier earth, would induce you to marry that hOr
e. Mr.. Barnes2' A pretty match, indeed, fol
nun McAlster; nice sOn-in law for our tath'
four How graceful, how handsome, how dist
merry. guished What pleasure you would have
even introducing your husband with his yellow h
= re- and shuffllug walk how proud you would
teen OF him-hOw you would glory in him Oh
Pro- envy YOU your husbandP'
81 4 As at MARY how can you go on sop said Fam
wrenching her hand away from her sist
nd 70. grasp. " Haven't | said | hate him? Don
r,snd ard show my dislike to him in every poss
s,. way?'
"'' "Oh, yes but you allowed the possibit
nun loving him at last you know you did 2
ollars would rather see you dead than married to
aags man He shall forbid him the house this '
,oo0. :, night" and Miss McAster gave all the faI
the im preston that Fannie was halt in love
re are that horrd Mr.. Barnes and they all amt
rs six themselves by ridiculing her and abusing /
public until Fannie who secretly missed his at
rt,.s. tions) lonQed to take his part. She recs
water showed him to be charitable and good, an
nrs for he had no grace of person, he was inteli
Is re- and refined She regretted now all the
,rs pOr 70 eirsh tricks she had played upon him,
.s and remembering how invariably polite he
there always been to her, looked back upon
,T%gs rnG,ss behavior with remorse.
spPrO. THAT horrd Mr.. Barnes" troubled
'"S'"e s1uires family no more. If he ever met Il
hereby; he passed them with polite bow. Ia
ieTent thought he had gone entirely out OF her
notice tES and while, she would not own she cared
'peLs e him at all, she thought of him great des
md S"fss the Since 'that horrid Mr.. Barnes" had
scr % i1R dismiss ed Fannie had changed and the ch
si:Tials was visible to all the family. Not tha
,e e a SssI fSl moped or was blue She laughed and
'iTeD s BY and danced as much ever but all her
and the shness and kitten-like friskiness was
sSd ss and in its place came slight touch of NO
into the the illness and dignity infinitely more charming
etary Of least Mr. Barnes, watching her from dist
ns,stis Imsst thought so He had not given her up.
power on earth could make him do that
she gave herself TO some one else; ant
-. considering her personal appearance
,iRbtesg advantages, and bis own hOmeness, awk
.,,.a. :, ness and age, it Is strange that the
a. eHEffS fhSt did not despair 1t seemed as if he
1DTstsSS ,DDsteS he had the power 20 make her love
ending spite Of all, if he had the chance. 1t Cal
.:ors ca last. . .. t...
thousand Mrs McAllister and her eldest dau
Is. iolsts. sailed for Europe with q, party OF fr
H. 1 I%e, leaving Fannie to keep house. FaDni
sl tools SI delighted with housekeeping, and she an
''''4 NV father had very merry time of it for
that can days Then he was taken sick, he grew n
furnaces, worse and Fannie at first asteDished .
lars. Il ...ao.' .L:nua H. aa;J fo,od ,bot h
repairs Of queer things ne salu, lounu mat IN
oe thous- aenrlous' ,1he, uoceor calhs' eAalnlue
Ills, steel Fannie, / may as well tell you the II
-, -. your father has the smallpox. i. ,.e-
~" -, Now, Fannie was mortal, and besides
raduateS' she, was a woman, and trembled to he
lae father had that most losthsome disease
me thous- ba bad 10 ;Jsa of Lao v;no ber tatber
ollarn eore of hired nurses and asked IL
'''''"ed doctors directions with composure
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