The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-01-11
For The Cecil Wing.
SOL.
A TALE OF "INDEANNY,"


from driving storm, when we had almost
given ourselves up for lost.
Most welcome had been the shelter for
the night, under that humble roof, far out
on the wide prairie.
had rather liked Sol, partly for his hos
pitality, and partly for his cheerfulness; the
abiding faith, which he expressed, that
everything would come out all right in the
end, was remarkable, when we consider
that he belonged to that class of chronic
grumblers called farmers, for according to
his own account, the modern farmer is the
most abused man in the community; all
| nature and the rest Of mankind are COM
bined to cheat him. In the East it is the
fly in his wheat, and the patent manure
man; in the West it is principally the tax
gatherer and the railroad companies.
He was heavily built young fellow,
with dull, expressionless face, slow and
awkward in his movements, and as not
ed these things, more from a habit that
has grown upon me from studying faces,
than from any interest felt in the subject
before me, had no idea that was study
ing the profile of one of those marrying
men that we read about. One of those
heroes who figure in the strange stories
told about the Western divorce courts.
The mistress of his unpretentious man.
sion, was tall, good-looking, woman;
past the first flush of youth, but by no
means old in manner, or appearance. Her
hair was that dark auburn tint, which a
painter might spend life time in the vain
attempt to reproduce, and the blue eyes
had mild, pensive expression. Her hus-
band called her loosely by that common
nickname, "Liz."
elbow many brothers 99'' inquired my
new landlady, who happened to be SOILS
sister, and lived on the farm adjoining
"Any married. ?"
We of course satisfied her curiosity upon
this point, but were quite taken back at
the next question::
"Any divorced"
DIVORCED" repeated in establishment,
81 should hope not. Such things are
considered disgracefnl in Maryland" I
said with pardonabe pride in the moral
opinion of my native State, upon the SUBJ
ject.
"Why them's nothin'," she replied
naively, "Sol's had two Already"
"Two what 90 / cried in utter astonish-
ment.
"Why, divorces
"You don't mean to say that " Liz :" is
his third wife9' 1 asked, letting the Grim
son cloth, was hopelessly trying to man.
ufacture into basque, fall to the floor.
She nodded her head and laughed, evil
IDENTIFY highly amused at the mingled
wrath and establishment Which this reve-
lation had caused my feature to express.
"You'd better let me help with the
basque" she ventured in her kindly, child
like way. l gave her the cloth willingly,
for must own, that in the manufacture of
wearing apparel am not an adept, and
generally go it blind, indulging the wild
hope that it will fit somehow.
"What did he get divorced for?' l
questioned after anvil lie, my head still full
of Sol and his strang e matrimonial history.
"Well you see he, wasn't but eighteen,
the first time, and sh was seventeen, 'Liz
she's his step-sster; no relation you know,
but always lived about our house. His
first wife, was town gal, used to come
out to Aunt Becky Buntyes, in the Sum-
mer, We didn't none of us want him too,
but he would have her, and she wasn't no
account. Couldn't keep house worth a
cent. He took her home to pap's, and
step-mother and " Liz had all the cookin'
to do. Sol said he, couldn't eat nothin' she
cooked, and he wa sn't goin' to stand it."
elbow long did G try herr" 1 interrupted.
sob about mo Il tn, then he went down
to Richmond and got his divorce. Then
he went down in Kansas a herdin' on some
of pap's land, and fel in with school miss
and married her, and she got to thinkin'
too much Of another eller that owned lots
GLAND out there, and Sol found from their
letters that they was goin' off as soon as
they got things fixed right, but Sol beat
'em, he come right horne and told "Liz "
all about it, and she told him to go for
another divorce right Off, and he went and
got it. "Liz went along with him, and
they jist got married there. | didn't low
as "Liz - would have him, but she did,"
"What became of the other poor crea-
ture, his first wifi 90 inquired, my eyes
filling with tears of sympathy.
"Oh she's ma FRIED agin long ago; mar
ried rich they say and passed Sol and Liz ,
on the street one and turned up her nose
at em and tiirt ed past, "Liz " said, like
all. Now if yo'l only had "Liz's" basque
pattern we coul make this fit like ALL
"It will fit we'll enough said coolly
and decidedly. feeling that had no furth-
err use for this innocent looking, but patti
ent and persevcring Liz" A.. &C.
"a While. Professor Agassiz was on
his scientific: expedition to South America,
he found ar nong other curiosities near Pat
agonia a gigantic sea weed, the largest
hhoWH, III IdtG, 1hO iohSCoe Sio"Oh maui
in the vegetable world. This alga grows
along the coast in from six to twenty faith
oms of water in vast beds, and so compact
that mariners avoid them for fear of an in
extricable ENHANCEMENT.
.D- An exchange paper says in an obit-
uary notice, that the deceased had been
for several years bank director, notwith-
standing which, he died a Christian, and
universally respected.
sY- If you would relish your food, labor
for it; if you would enjoy your clothes, pay
for tb EN- before you wear them; if you
would sleep soundly, take clear consci-
ence to bed with you.
eN- A recent calculation relative to the
principal European languages, shows that
English is spoken by ninety millions of
persons, German by fifty-tive millions,
Spanish by tifty-tive millions and French