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

9d BY HOYT & GO.
great desfderatum seemed to be the righ
Kind of a "buttery;;', one would suppos'
butter was to be the staff of life with US
We at last found a "buttery" on th,
northwest corner, opening into bott
kitchen and dining-room, having tht
requisite number of cupboards, having
shelves that admitted Of being taken ou
in house;cleaning time, painted be-
.yitching cream-color; and we engaged
that buttery, regardless of cost or ths
character of our neighbors.
The next momentous step was to gel
my aunt's t'things" moved. Were wri
ting scientific essay on psychological
distinctions of sex, I should make one
Strong point the tenacious attachment o.
the feminine mind to "things." Ten
thousand dollars in stocks and bonds at
stake in an: unsettled estate have been
known to excite less interest and create
less jealousy than the disposition of an
odd table.cloth. -. No..
My aunt was for some days in a har'
rowing state of. indecision as to whether
she had better have her things inyoiced
as freight or to hire car. By virtue Of
The handsome figures / learned to make
at Commercial college, / proved to her
it would be cheapest to hire Car. had
.tugo to her former place of abode to see
about getting the things en- route. and I
had to "meet them with carriage" at
our depot. / felt like collector of an
tiqnities just getting an assortment over
from Egypt. I shall ever feel grateful
to the small boys of our village for their
self.restraint on this tempting occasion.
I don't recollect a single opprobrious
-epithet. They treated my loads with a
respect to which nothing but hoary hairs
could entitle them.H
There was cheese-press, and 1 don't
know but: a cider mill /; there was some
thing, with four tremendously heavy legs,
i always believed to be something in dis
guise of bedstead. There were seven
-bandboxes flour large and three small, }
FIVE feather beds, II; comfortables, and 8
great deal of crockery which evidently
came over. in the Mayfower, but had
much better have put back to land in the
Speedwell. -.
need not say that our residence when
furnished, was neat but not gaudy. I
slept under .'rising-sun" bedquilt, and
had round, braided mat to put my feet
on when I got out in the, morning. I
sighed for my former cozy quarters, but
I remembered my aunt's 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 were domesticated, I
found that my aunt was subject to mys-
terious attacks, which attacks invariably
seized hertin the, nighttime, and made it
imperative that / should 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 I was ex-
pected to see my aunt to prayer.meetings
and attend her home, though Evelina
went of. in an opposite direction with
another fellow. I didn't know but JUS
tice beth to myself and Evelina demand
ed, that should have conversation with
my aunt, and set before her, in language
which even a child might understand,
nv views of the duties and privileges of
an engaged man; but felt extremely
doubtful of her 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
but herself, she shouldn't keep a girl.
Our CUISINE was managed with strictest
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 a
healthy person can subsist on persist
emily Boiled marrow-bone?
For two or three years I had been in
the.habit of smoking a single cigar at the
close of the, days labors. One evening,
Iwas sitting on the piazza indulging in
this luxury, when. .out came my aunt.
"Sam'well |" cried she, "are you smok-
,ing?"
"Yes'm," very meekly.
1"i"Well;'' said she calmly but firmly,
t'none of my money shall ever go up in
cigar smoke" Then again, "How much
do you pay for cigars7"
i,"Ten cents"
rli"Now, sam'well, I want you to take
your pencil and calculate how much ten
cents a day will amount to in year, then
how much in fifty years, thenlI want you
to put this sum at compound interest,
and see how much it will amount to by
the time you are rs years Of age.D
It struck. me that / had somehow,
during my lifetime, met with, similar
problems; but I{conscientiously made the
calculation.
"Aunt," cried I, l'I'm perfectly ap-
palled, Never did I dream of this. OF
Mat ma Gextravagance have I been gull.
ty!" and wildly 1 hurled my cigar into
the camomile bed.
: 1t became generally known throughout
our village that my aunt was wealthy
and I was heir-expectant, and soon per-
ceived that, whether or not ever OBJ
tanned the gold, I was going to have the
glory. At town meeting, legally called,
and with the moderator in the chair, I
was elected one of nine prudential COM
mittee-m duty-"to see about getting
the wood" Our rSabbath-school appoint.
ed me delegate to a conference at Cum
mingford /: priyileges-lose my time, pay
my own fare, change cars twice, stage il
FIVE miles over a.: country road and
through a November landscape; pros
,pectsSaddress by Dea Thomas Jones
music, that rare and intricate. compost.
tion, s'Shall we gather at the river7"
secured the position of watchman at
our store every other Sunday night
Aunt asked me if I expected extra pay
for this service, and I said I did. Eyeli'
ma had talked Of green reps for our par.
lor, but I found that calculations had
now, ascended to some kind Of rose-celor,
ed something, value about treble that ol
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