The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-10-20
A Story Of a True Lover.

Hdup, HOT Ollu llb ever III All nlo lllO
wr te a iove.verSe. do not know that
he thought Sarah's eyebrows any more
beautiful because they were dark and
finely -arched, then il they had been
light and crooked and thin and yet,
true lover, more chivalrous soul than
John Slocum never lived. All day in
the field, blowing or sowing or reaping,
his thought was of the happiness of the
| fair, pale woman at home, who sat in
the ingle.nook, mending the family
linen, or walked painfully about on
crutches attending to the duties allotted
to her, and patiently bearing the teh.
pers of Johns mother, in whose house
she had lived since she was q little
| child.
Sarah Stenhouse was twenty-five
years old, and ten years before, while
yet the bound servant of Mrs. Slocum,
had met the fate that had made her
lame, and so shaken the foundations of
| life that she could never know rugged
| health again. She had been whnder-
fully sunny element in the SlOcun fami-
ly, and John, who was five years older
than she, had never known, since the
first night she came, when he cracked
hickory-nuts for her by the kitchen fire,
what it was not to love her III harvest
dances, 10 one trpped SO lightly over the
old barn floor as Sarah. She rippled
over with mifth, and was never so hap
py as when making others so. Not a
girl of her age In all the county could
spin as many knots of yarn in day as
she and her d" double and-twisted"
was finer aiid evener and more in de-
mand at the stores, where such home
products were " dickered," than any
other offered.
Whoever got Sarah Stenhouse for
wife," the Old woman said, would
get prize !" and more than one young
man had asked her, before her hfteenth
birthday, II she would marry him when
she should be of age and free to leave
Mrs: SlOcum.
But Sarah always said, "There's time
enough for thinking OF that when l am
of age !" and, Notwithstanding Ma'am
Slocum's uneven temper and occasional
injustlce,she had no idea of going away
when she was free of her bondage. She
knew. well how good home she had,
take 1t all In all, and She loved the
Slochms as If they had been mother and
brother.
The summer Sarah was fifteen years
| old yielded noble harvest, and great
rejoicing was had among the farmers,
Thanks were given in the churches, and
hhalIy g harvest home was held AT
It's helght Sarah received the hurt that
MADE her lie long invalid For many
weeks she lay lowering between lie
and death, aud finally life oVercalne
death by such small odds, that, for a
long time, II seemed but poor BOON
The neighbor people said, " Now, of
course, Sarah'll have to go on the
county. Ma'am Slocum's queer, any.
how, and at best it couldn't be expected
that a widow woman like her should be
burdened with a helpless thing like
Sarah"
But when the matter was broached to
the widows he answered tartly enough,
| bht with tears in her ewes, I" Do YOU
take me for heather +? Sarah's my
daughter from this out There wasn't
such n Girl in the county as she, and I'd
look well putting her in the poor house
| UtthlNt III Hrs SttIObU gOOu W IllG lIOIu
to Iay his hand heavy on her, His
hands heavy enough on the child with.
out anv of nv helm. Folks are mighty
with that sort of assistance
So Sarah staid at the farm bouse and
learned every dav toknbw better and To
love Tia SWEET heart that Law beneath
the rouph exterior Of her adobted moth.
or and had never. failing natience with
IiLr fretiings and sco,dIn1s and manifold
onaar ySays
Wbsh soma ope srote N Sarah of n
She said :" WIN sbnnldn't I he natient
Win ba[ oueer yvays Wasn't If one m
her o,ser .ays to Iaeb mo and love md
| aud maIa ma her child uLpn I conId
hn hmt littIa hettar thsp n cloo and a
| bnrdar D.,
So tba two grow tooe,ber n greai
tendsrress Enstsrsd in Inc Uonan's
heart ond ,ratitnde in tho NIB Jnbo
yyas ai,uays a Good son M ttou ,ba
Hats of SoroL,s n,isfortnrbs ha scanned
io Soya,on nsw evc,,IIancSs n. neg.
ieotad no dr,,, .bo"t tha torm hnt st
tbe same fine he made his presence felt
f. %"ndraS ~, 80 ',' in tha Lnusa
% - ~ H. oS % H.T "s vnnan =" his
mother said land sometimes / seem