Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

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On its breast, and sl,ivcr with eladness;
e fhe nornhg BROUGHT lovo madness
10 light, and the lover fed.
But the eyes that burned in his head
T." hhot love through each and all,
For the pansy that doomed by the wall
ShOno sweet i'll every place.
In the sky, tho earth, aud tho air, -
And that lover saw never the face
OF my dead violet there.
Hush Hush Let no sorrow be spoken!
Thong" it perish, no pity shall dout it.
Better to die heart-broken
or love than to live without it!
MISS rWITTER'S CONSPIRACY.
Years ago / had a young person in
my service called Annabel Brown. The
Brown was not, of course, surprising
in a parlor. maid, but the Annabel was;
and the more SO when the cook made
Hannibal of it, who, need not remark,
was a gentleman and a general. For
my part, would not encourage such a
name ut all in one in her position, but
called her plain ANNIE" with
which she was quite content
She was an orphan but had known
both her parents, and very honest, good
folks they were, with plenty of COM
mon sense too, so that it could not have
been they, but her ''godfather and her
godmother in her BAPTISM" as the SER
vice says, who gave her such an out
landish name-for Christian I cant call
it. She was modest girl. who if she
had q fault in dress, was given to ex-
treme simplicity indeed, some of my
visitors used to say: $50 you have
got Quakeress, I see :" which was,
of course, ridiculous for though one
does not want ones servant to be chat
terboxes, one likes ones questions to
be answered by something more than
Yes" or No." to which, ] believe,
the vocabulary of the Friends is limit
ed. Moreover, though I nm not a
great lady, not anything like it, it was
not likely should permit my parlor.
maid to "thou and "thee me, and
far less nay guests. However, what
with the meekness of her manners and
the simplicity of her attire, Annabel
Brown might have sat for Mrs. Fry,
supposing that good lady to have been
eighteen and a beauty. Annie had
brown hair, very silken and plentiful !:
large brown eyes like those of q gazelle:
and a soft, rather alarmed expression
of face, which, if it did not suggest
modesty, was the most hypocritical
movements were quick, but noiseless :;
and altogether she reminded one of a
mouse. Like mouse, however, she
was not as regards purloining, even so
much as rind of cheese. I could have
trusted her with untold gold and
when I had a new bonnet or other piece
of finery, I felt as certain that Annabel
Brown would never try them on, even
to see how she looked in my chevai
glass, as though I had kept them under
lock and key. Finally, and above all,
she had no followers; or, at all events,
they followed her at such distance
that they never came in view of nv
windows, and had pretty long sight
for such gentry.
i need not say that Annie was a con-
gtant church goer, and a. sure as Sun
day came round, always went Ito hear
the Word" chat was her phrase,
though she was by no means q canter)
twice day whether it was wet or fine.
In the evening she never went out, not
even on week days, which itself spoke
volumes in her praise. She had no
friends in town, she said, in explana-
ton OF this phenomenon. She was the
only maid ever had who never asked
to pass 81 evening with her " friends y
or ''cousins."
Well, being such pattern of pro,
priety, you may imagine, my astonish
ment on seeing her come home from
church one day accompanied by q
young man, who left her at the front
door (my area gate is always locked
on Sunday with q bow that would not
have disgraced Lord Chesterfield.
Though fine morning it had turned
out wet, and I noticed, with no little
distress of mind, that the umbrella
which he was holding over her with
much apparent solicitude, was hand
some silk one the man himself, too.
had an almighty good appearance.
made sure that Annie would explain
this unprecedented circumstance WITH
out an inquiry on my part and when
some hours passed by without her do
ing so, the matter appeared to me all
the graver.
Accordingly at night when she was
assisting 2, me in my room, I broachcd
"Annic," said /, 81 was very much
surprised to see you come home from
church this morning accompanied by a
! stranger. How did it happen ~
"Well, ma am, it was very wet, ~
returned she with simplicity that
would have quite disarmed me, even if
had entertained any INDIGNATION
against her, which did not I only
felt angry with the man) y" and as /
had no umbrella, the gentleman, who
was at church himself, kindly offered
to see me home"
ANNIE" said I, soiemnly. edo not
imagine that man-and especially gen.
tleman-only go to church as you do,
to say their prayers. I once heard a
great preacher, Mr.. Spurgeon, divide
the cllurch-goers into a number OF
classes, some of which were q very
unsatisfactory sort. Among others
there was the umbrella Christian, Of
he termed it F.; the man who goes into q
church merely to save his Int, or gel
out of the rain.''
But, please ma am, this gentleman
had an umbrella" observed Annabe]
Brown.
thought it rather pert, and very
unlike herself, that she should argue
with me on this matter but still. ]
was determined not to lose nv temDer.
I'm this particular case, that NAV
have been so "seid "but he might
have gone to church with a wrong mo.
tive for all that. To my ewes he aid
not look suitable person for youna
woman in your position to he walk;n9
with. He left you at the front door
and he may have been mistaken "a to
your condition in life. Did you inform
him of it,
mo ma'am."
Annabel Brown was certainly tor
Quakerisb any other girl could have
seer with half an eye that was really
solicitous (for her own sake) to know
What the man had said to her; vet ali
That could get out of Annie was -
No, ma'am." 1t was not treating
me, thought, with the confidence tba1
my conduct towards her had merited