American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-30
.sWEET BROWN zAIDE!n
By MRS. MARY D. BRINE.


? ew8sr Brown ZAIDEI always pure and
sweet in her neat brown suit, and the
pretty brown hat and featherl And that
is why she was called "Sweet Brown
Zaide" by Harry Brown, as day after day
he SAW her pass his office. She passed
twice day, in fact-early in the morning,
and again quite late in the afternoon, and
: Ae yodHg lawyer, who was fortunately
quite. independent of his profession, had
even before he quite accidentally discov-
cred her name to be Zaide; and the pecul-
iarity of her name only Interested him the
!. more In its owner.
She WIS not. as heroines usually are de-
scIibed, fair as an pAgel,' with heavenly
blue eyes, and ethereal frame, with flowing
cprls of FURNISHED gold brushed loosely
: back nom q snowy forehead-or. excuse
me, ] meant to call it-broD. Quite the
contrary, this Zaide was totally unlike an
! angel, and inclined to the brunette style of
beauty. Her eyes were blue, to be sure,
but they had dear little habit of turning
to black or gray according to different
lights, So that her most Intimate friends
aid1t feel willing to take oath upon the
actual color of Zaide's eyes. Her hair WAS
as unlike FURNISHED gold'' as the dark-
.<Gat of brown hair can be, and instead of
? hanging loosely over her shoulders, IN the
gsud untidy- heroine style, was always as
neatly braided and coiled, or arranged
after its owners own fashion, as the style
s6tDeptesent day required!
Far from ethereal was our heroine's
figure, since sone recognized veritable
8eah and blood when Zaide appeared, and
the stately, graceful gait convinced one
/, 'thaf It would REQ uire the strongest kind OF
tornado to watt this very human young
person heavenwardr / suppose not every
body would call Zaide Buckley pretty
: hut those who loved her chose to think so,
and Harry declared privately to his fool.
ish heart that nobody was half so beau
xgAak pisissn' sd " heart OF
n "a So dsN and weeks passed and om hero
could wait no longer to discover the
young lady's name But just as he made
spR bis mind to deliberately steal the COW
eted information in some way chance fav-
ored him, and a mutual acquaintance
who happened to be with him one morn
Ing when Zside passed informed him
that; BE- George, there goes Miss zaide
SDo you know the young lady ?'' in
qu1Red Harry, quite ind differently.
Yes. wa the reply :. that is, I've
1lst her in tie ehslf Of church. She
1iDfs there, and 6e, are on boxing terms,
Chars AZ Believe she is teaching in one
oae Mazd schools up this way.n
~ 'ats s,s Z gi5al, isn't shes re-
pile OF law papers and appearing careless
WeiE-ye-e-s, rather,' came the an
swer; g but not my style-too hard to gel
acquainted with her. hate your reserved
womenl By the by, Brown. coming tc
the club to-night?"
"Oh, 1 suppose so-going? Well, good
by, old fellowr' and Harry is presently
q Name II ZAiae, ehs" hesmurmured
foxgettiDg his law papers and everything
else in fact but Zaide. T" Teaches schoo
near here; by George! that's too bad She
0ugM TO be queen-my queen, for in
stance. Hard to get acquainted with, too
White said He hates reserved women,
does he? We'll, I say, God bless reserved
women ffthey are all like this one, who i,
the sweetest. yoman i ever SAW Zaide
Zaide-Sweet brown Zaide! Yes, that.
what l shall call her, for she Away.
wears brown, and, by. George, brown il
my favorits color!'' $50 green would hav,
been if Zaide had happened to wear it,
Now, Harry, don't go to the Office 81
awfuHy early this morning! Don't yol
repenber Alice Moore is, coming TO visi
-, ard you must meet her at the depot a
Harry groaned inwardly and remem
bered who would pass his Office at pre-
cisely aquarter of nine. But since Mr.
browns death Harry was the only mascu
line OF his Immediate family, so Of cours,
TO the depot he was obliged to go, reliev
ing his feelings, however. by mildly-ex
pressed wish That :" Miss Alice be -
his sister want sure whether the las
word was " Ldnged'' or no, but she re
preached Harry for non-politeness ane
then f0rgave him.
Miss Moore was an adopted daughter
Of . rich old Indian-East Indian. yor
know-and there WAS every reason to be
ieve thatshe cared more for his propert,
than for him. He had long ago, in
mean business transaction robbed frient
of large sums which no bubble of tn,
law could recover from him. and hi
Alice was sole heiress to the mans legiti
mate as well as his ill gotten wealth
She had during a season of travel mad
the acquaintance of Miss Brown, and il
response to an invitation from the latte
was now on her way for visit of SOM
weeks. Harry met her Mt the depot, es
corted her to his home, then unceremo
niously departed office ward.
Days slipped into weeks and Harry wa