The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

the honest simplicity of the young
people, who had had world of their
own for time, was likely to be marred.
And can we wonder at the surprise
that took possession of the older and
wiser members of that wilderness So
clety as they saw these mOdernizers
come among them
If they had brought their writes,
maybe kinder hospitality would
have been extended, but then YOU
know, good friend, that vice, after ali,
| is often times better received than the
purity and nObleness which the truest
lives can bring, The honester the peo-
pie the sooner are they deluded the
kinder the heart the easier the decep~
ton.
In those mountain cabins, just as in
! the richer mansions in the valleys,
young men and maidens had whisper
ed to each other their heart offerings
and in the huge log fires that burned
in the great chimney-places, they had
sketched their air-castles. The houses
were separated by long distances
| does not distance make affection
stronger but this did not deter fire.
| quent visits from one to the other
| We can imagine them-young men, |
mean, after the labors of the day,
trudging through the forests and over
snow fields the way guided by the
light that was set in some cozy win
| dow just for them or maybe we can
better see them, the lover and the
loved, as they stroll on summer even
ings underneath those giant trees, and
look into the beyond | wonder if
true, honest love isn't woOed and won
as we'll at one time as another? 1t
must be, for God is Interchangeable, and
love is God,
Love, the sun, soul and centre of the mol-
al universe
Love, which links angel to angel, and God
to man
Love, which binds in one two loving hearts;
how beautiful is love -
Well, there were two in that wilder
ness-Joh ohm Morris and Sarah Bede-
not poetical names you will see (hero-
ism lives Oftener in prose than poetry
of whom | wish to speak, and [ will
tell the story to you just as it was
given me-
From childhood they had together
grown into manhood and wOmanhoOd,
and it seemed as though they were
made for each others future. Beau
tifully-formed and rosy checked was
she; strongly -muscled and manly-faced
was he. But this future, although
bright to them, was to be just such as
their parents had known. To love
and to he married to live and to die
that was all And yet the canvas
could hold no brighter picture, the
pencil could sketch no lovelier land
scape, so they thought, than this.
No romance here, you say; but does
not romance, after all, bring only au-
tumn leaves Their lives, however,
appeared for a time to be taken out
of their monOtony by the improve
ments that were being made near their
homes. OF course the new town, with
its city life and manners and customs,
was often the theme of conversation.
/ Standing in the doorway of her
house one evening, Sarah asked her
lover whether he thought they would
be happy when all the houses were up?
Happy / rather reckon So" said
the uncOuth John. Them air houses
will double the waller Of this land, and
but won't we be rich 2"
"And will you love me then, John?n
"Sally, do you see that air stone
wall ?'' meaning one Of the founda-
tions
YES" 4
oval, that's only been a CROWN
for dozen days, and it's gon' up
mighty fast for that But mans only
a buildin' of it, the storm might knock
it to thunder-that amt my love.
But YOU see that air oak over thair,"
pointing to one on the edgc of the |
forest; that's been a GROWN md a |
CROWN for years. God planted the
acorn, and it stands against all the
storms that come-that's my love"
All, John, why did you not ask in
reply the question Sarah gave yOuy
The new towns advance guard had |
among It's number some young nell
fascinating, gay, handsome. One of
thcse-we will call him Augustus
was moustached, cravatted, watch
chained, and dressed in a way that
befitted the inner man. During the |
prospecting and arranging for the
building of houses, those having the
work in charge resided for the time
being in the houses already there, Mr..
Augustus stopping with Mr.. Bede.
The ''old folks" were at once capti-
vated. for with the young mans hand
some makeup and agreeable manners,
they thought a new world had been
opened to them Seeing his advan-
tages, he at once began moulding the
heart to suit his wishes.
Never before had such a creature cross
ed her path She was charmed, and
drew nearer and nearer the flame. Yet
she did not love her heart, so she
imagined was still her country lovers.
John, although not as often as for
mally. still came and went, and lived
on in the future Sarah and he dis
cussed, at their every meeting, the !.
"ins and outs Of the new boarder