The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-07

GREETED, when they saw the picard = I or
Sale" removed, that they bad not made
an Investment there; especially at the low
price which Moss Cohen paid; only seven
thousand dollars; for piece of ground one
hundred by sixty, with a chance to build
I on three streets. Builders said three houses
might go up on half the lot, and a tene-
Eent-house, with stores under 1t at the
rear, when that % shanty," came down,
| But Saul Macy and his wife continued to
! occupy the "shanty, 4" even after May, until
! the old cellar front, long ago filed up with
/ rubbish, was re-excayated, and new two
story cottage, with a French roof and or
/ namental balconies, was finished. When
| June roses blossomed in his garden, Saul
/ Macy vacated the stable; which, in turn,
| came under masOns and builders; so that,
/ when August arrived, there was a stylish
/ front street; while the 'fshanty'' behind was
metamorphosed into q new out-building
/ to match.
Hollyhoeks and sun-Aowers, then had
! given place to a blooming garden, with
/ vines climbing over trellis bars, from cot
/ tage to stable, yielding fragrant smells to
/ the breezes that blew into handsomely fur
nished parlors; while, in grateful return,
! cloud Of incense from excellent cigars was
| often seen curling out of the seeond-story
/ balcony, when Saul Macy sat by his Ii
brary easement, listening to Susie's voice
/ below, at her piano, singing some old melo-
/ DIV for two old gentlemen, who were great
| cronies-Mr. Moss Cohen, merchant, and
| father-in-law Jesse Hooper, from Salem
! A happy old gentleman was the latter;
/ though not iolIier than our ancient Israelite,
! when they cracked their Old-fashiOned
! Jokes together Sixteen years had that
| good old father, struitened IN his means,
| through losses in trade, sent, season after
/ season. portion of his scanty income to
| 'sSusie," the ''poor mans wife" Many
/ time would Susie have tsunk - as she
said, and her strong-hearted husband have
! deSpaired, when work was not to be had,
and bills for food and rent to be paid, if q
I timely remittance from FEATHER" had not
made ''all right fora while Indeed, as
| Susie believed, Father" sometimes de-
MED himself a needed comfort in his age,
that he might surprise his only daugh-
/ ter with a New Years present.
Captain Hooper, witnessing his son-in-
| laws long struggle, in his search after
power that always eluded his grasp, had
come to the belief that inventive genius
was poor help in business, and that Saul
Macy would live and die poor mechanic.
! But the ''pOwer'' had been found, at last,
and its first outdoor force had moved this
kind old father to his daughters new
home, and to Z share Of comforts he deemed
gone forever.
Only one thing was yet lacking, to make
| Captain Hooper and his married children
perfectly content; and that something
came, with apple-blOOm, II the person OF a
maiden, who was spied. one forenoon, by
Saul in his balcony, walking from a street
car, and pausing, in manifest wonder, be-
fore a rose-covered gate, by the stable door,
that had replaced the feace-gG,e viii Nc
Ardle's urchins so easily scrambled over.
The young lady was evidently impressed
that she must be in q strange neighbOrho0d;
50 the gentleman in his balcony, called
''Susie there's poor child got into the
garden by our back gate! She may be
hungry Take her this - And he fang
an orange down to his wife, who was cul-
ling some flowers.
"Pshaw, husbandl she wants food, more
likely" answered Mrs. Macy.
Maybe, she's got poor mother, Susie!
Look how discOnsOlate She appears -
He pointed toward the stable-door, and
Susie followed with her eyes. In a moment
her "heart was in her MOUTH
amelia darling its our Amelial"
screamed the little woman, quickly darting
away. And when Saul saw her running
down the garden path, he walked leisurely
after her, in time to find mother and
Amelia's little Yalise, with her parasol
across it, fell on a aower-bed.
Then Saul came in for a hug on both
sides; and escaped from the press only to
see Susie franticalIy embracing his sire, the
Captain, who had come out to see what
the noise was about; followed by Moss
Cohen; who, at once, took the liberty of
saluting his betrothed Amelia with a kiss
on her cheek; which the "baby daughter
forgot to return Immediately, not being
introduced.
Moss Cohen, however, received his dues
in the house, afterwards, when Amelia
produced that small gold-ring from her
childhOOd's treasures.
And that morocco box, and the pearls in
side, came duly to light And all that day
nd evening, the poor girl was kept in
cOndIuon OF amaze inteTspersed with duets
by her and Susie on the piano, and stories
by her grandfather, and jokes by Moss
Cohen; and saucers of ice-cream, and
strawberries, and a glass of Catawba,
which ''got into her head" until the
grizzly-headed Hebrew babe goodnight to
his lady sweetheart, and Captain Hooper,
gave her ''smack'' before he went to his
chamber; and then her mother said, "come,
'Melial you, and l will go to my room,
and have chat"