The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-05-18

me DUNE Of me hUAUoiUf
Where the town of Randolph now cal
rics on its busy traffic, Egbcrt Bacon
farm was met located. Egbert Baco.
was my grandfather. His farm covere
more than seven hundred good acres, an,
.. he considered himself wealthy, as he I'm
doubtedly was. He started in life a poo
boy, and his honest accumulation wa
the result of his toll.
Grandfather was a very peculiar man
Many persons consider him penurious
but he was really liberal and from th,
fact that his charities were given Will
secrecy, people supposed that he neve.
contributed to good works. 1t was in hi
old age (and he lived to a great period.
that a company of spectators bought hi
LAND, because ofthe fine water power thai
ran through it, and as soon as they erected
the mills the place began to go forward
until Bacon's farm was a thing of the
past. | can recollect when the first mil
was built, and | well remember my boy.
ish curiosity in watching the mechanics
who worked upon it.
Nv grandmother was about the same
age as her husband. She did not long
survive his death, and / missed a good
| friend and counsellor when she left me.
Grandfather expected me to be a farmer,
but as | lever had any taste for hard
work, my thoughts and inclinations went
another way. OF course he was not at all
pleased with my st~ubbornness, but my
good grandmother alwaysstepped between
me and his wrath, and shielded me much
from his displeasure.
The old gentleman was a sturdy man
at seventy years. He invariably dressed
in brown clothes, and wore so broad a
brim to his low-crowned hat he might
easily have been taken for a Quaker at
first sight. But get him angry once land
his irritabilitv was easily aroused) and he
would let fly such sharp and vehement
sentences that it was sometimes difficult
to imagine they were not profane.
was nineteen years old and was deep
in love with Sallie Miller, the young
lady who played the organ at the Gross
Roads Church, and was the finest dancer
among all the girls in the country.
Grandfather had conceived a dislike for
Sallie because she was a musician. He
had no ear for music, and was not
"moved by discord of sweet sounds"
and nothing so quickly excited his ire as
to scrape a violin within his hearing, or
strike a chord upon the piano.
Much against my " grandfather's
inclination, he permitted me to enter the
law office of Mr.. Smart, as a student.
Had it not been for the good offices of
my grandmother | should not have had
the wish of my heart gratified. But she
smoothed the way for my grandfathcr's
consent. But he eve ceased to ridicule
me for my pretensions, and positively
to give me his consent TO marry
Sallie Miller. 1t would not have been a
wise thing in me to cross the old gentle.
whims, for ! was his heir and he
could have found another without much
difficulty, so | never urged my case but
humored him in every way l could
of.
"What are you thinking about faith
9r," she inquired. She always called
him by that name.
II was thinking" he slowly replied,
the pipe from between his lips and
dropping both hands upon his knees,
that a few years hence, and one won't
zee good old hickory logs burning upon
lndirons. Stoves and CRATES, and that
nfernal coal that makes gas enough to
uff0cate a household, will supply the
place of our old-fashioned fires"
| ought to have held my tongue, for
lie was not speaking to me but ] want.
d to show off some.of my smartness, and
o | replied:
ooh! my dear sir, there is really no
for having a stove which per-
nits the gas to escape, We have now
as consuming stoves, and one is not
roubled in the way you suppose"
pray, Mr.. Smartness, permit me TO ,
inquire how long you have been possess
of this valuable information? / have $
Town it for some years, or rather have ,
card it said, that these stoves were gas I
turner's, but it's all a lie there's net a
ord of truth in it. I've known them r
!, send out as much gas as would kill an r
i he were confined in the atmos- r
here. Now, sir, don't you feel like a T
+ol ?" :,
"Come now, father" replied nv v
-andmother, don't be so severe on the h
,y," (she called me a boy TO the day of n
n desth) che only told you what he II
lard, no doubt, and of course everv one
liable to make mistakes, especially nj
out such matters"
THAT puts me in mind" continued m
y grandfather, "of asking you how q,
u are coming on with your piano &c
friend" h,
II scarcely see her, except on Sun &C
VS."
- Humph!' returned my grandfather, m
airing his throat. / didn't like the wi
Iculation. / often heard it before, and 90
it with the SAINT apprehen. an
n that a mariner does an ugly cloud he
It rises up to the windward.
: Humph !" he continued, blowing a 10,
umn OF smoke toward the china orna.
nts on the mantelpiece, what are
good for ?" He looked squarely at he
as he asked question. Ia
ie evidently expected a reply, so | &c