The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05

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| kind OF o "buttery !" one would suppose
butter was to be the ataff Of life with us
We at Lost found s'blttery" on the
northwest corner, opening into both
kitchen and dinipg-room, having Tho
requisite number OF cupbOards, HAVING
shelves that admitted ofbeing taken oni
ip hopse-cleaning, time, painted be.
Yiiehing cream color; and we engaged
that bntteiy, regardless of cost or The
character Of our neighbors.
/ The next momentous step was to gel
my annt's things" moved. Were wri.
ting scientific essay on psycholoeical
I,dlatinctions of sex, should make one
ssionS point tho tenacious attachment oi
the feminine mind to "things." Ten
thousand dollars in stocks and bonds at
stake in an Unsettled estate have been
! known 10 excite legs interes. and create
less jealousy than the disposition Of an
odd table-cloth.
--- My aunt was for some days in o har.
rowing state of; indeciaion as to whether
she had better have her things invoiced
the handsome figures 1 learned to make
at Con,mereist college, I proved to her
1t would be cheapest to hire car. had
it0 go to her former place Of abode to see
about getting the things en- route, and /
had to meet them with carriage" at
| our depot. felt like collector Of an
equities just getting en- assortment over
from Egypt. 1 shall ever feel grateful
TO the small boys Of our village for their
seii-restraint on this tempting occasion.
don't recollect single opprobrious
epishet. 'Fhey treated my loads with q
respect to which nothing but hoary hairs
could entitle thenl.H
There was a cheese-press, and / don't
know but cider mill !; there was some.
thing, with four tremendously heavy legs,
always believed to be something in dis.
guise Of bedstead. There were seven
bandboxes flour largo and three small J
five feather beds, IL, comfoytables, and e
great deaS OF crockeYy which evidently
came over in he MayAower, but had
much better have put back to land in the
SpeedwelI.
neef not say that our residence when
furnished, was neat but not gaudy.
alept under a ''rising-sun" bedquilt, and
had round, braided mat to put my feet
on when l. ,got~ out in the morning. /
sighed for MY former cozy quarters, but
| remembered my aunts valuation; and
reasoned that, if she was my only living
female relative on the fathers side, i
must Of necessity be her only living male
relative on the mothers side.
Soon after we we're domesticated. I
| found that my aunt was subject to mys-
terious attacks, which attacks invariably
seized her In the nighttime, and made It
imperative that I shoutd run for the
doctor. Liability to these attacks pre-.
cluded the possibility Of my being away
from home evenings, excepting Sunday
and Thursday evening, when / was ex-
pected to see my aunt to prayer.meetings
and attend her home, though Evelina
went OF in en- opposite direction with
another fellow. / didn't know but jus.
tice Dotn 70 myself and Evelina demand
ed that should have q conversation with
my aunt, and set before her, in language
which ever child might understand,
my views of the duties and privileges Of
au' engaged man; but I felt extremely
aoss.btzal &C heeFl sympathy, and seventy
FIVE thousand was good deal to risk.
We kept one servant whose wages my
aunt thought it right I should pay, be-
cause, as she said, if there was no one
hut herself, ahe shouldn't keep q girl.
fOur cugine was managed with strictcst
regard to economy. We lived largely
upon soup, which consisted principally
of broth My aunt highly esteemed mar
row bones. I wonder if it is generally
known among psychologists how long q
healthy person can suhsist on q persist
emily boiled marrow-bone2
For two or three years had been in
the'habit of smoking single cigar at the
close of the days lebors. One evening,
fI,Was sitting on the piazza indulging in
4 this luxury. when out came my aunt.
"Sam'well |" cried she, care you smok-
Eing?" e
"Yes'm," very meekly.
m"Well," said she calmly but firmly,
'",none Of my money shall ever 90 up in
cigar smoke" Then again, "How much
do yen pay for cigars ?" i
'i'''Ten cents" s ft
l''!"Now, Sam'well, want you to take
your pencil and calculate how much ten
cents day will amount to in O year, then
how much Ia fsty years, then,I want you
to put this sum at compound interest,
and see how much it will amount to by
iIhe TINS you are % years OF age.H q
| It struck me thats4 had somehow,
during my lifetime, met with, similar
prohlsn1S bnt Ic.oa ascientioualy Eade the
calculation.
"Aunt," cried I, i"I'm perfectly ap-
palledy Never did dream Of this. ,>Of
l@Rhg GhH 6e&tra4akanee have I been gail.
ty" and wildly I hurled my cigar into
the camomile bed.
],T itbecamsi generally known throughout
our village thst my aunt was wealthy
and ! was heir-e3pectaht, and soon per-
\ ceived that. whether or not evAf oh.
tained the gold, was going to have the
l.glory1l / 1t atown meeting, legally called,
and with the moderator in the chair,
was. elected one Of nine prudential com.
miitse. men !; ;duty44Es..tto see about getting
Che wood" Oursabbath- school appoint,
ed me delegate 70 q conference at Gum
mingford privileges1lose my time, pay
my own. fare, change cars twice, stage Il
Eve miles over g.. country road fand
through November landscape; pros
LpectsT address by. Dsa Thomas Jones
music, that rare. and intricate compnsi-
ton, ".Shall ne gather atlthe riyer7o
secured the position of watchmau as
our store every. other Sunday night
Aunt asked me If I expected extra. pay
for this service, and said did. Eveli-
L.1 A.ll:e.a l GO &c.. .e;.= e; Sc &C. a.
lor, but I found that calculations had
now ascended 10 some kind of rose-color-
ed something, value about treble that OF
the repp,c .'Ic5BI4ain u h.a
Aunt was at length seized with an
a!attack", Of moro than ordinary violence.
II called three ,physicians, for ! shrunG
! from exposing myself TO the irresponsible
|yillage gossip whtch might accuse me of
not employing every effort forithe prn-