The Republican journal., 1880-12-09
Cris-Cross.

was only - when Mr., SYlyer came t
Lyndon to preach, and many a woman
has become wife and mother after thai
age but Miss Lydia wasa born old maid
Her parents died during her early child
hood, and lhe passed into the care OF
%three maiden ladies, daughters of old
ParSon Beadh, whose place MI Sylycl
atterward filled in Lyndon church; and
the three trained her in true spinstel
fashion, her inexpensive nature falling
readily into their ways.
She had a little money Of her own. and
a small house, with a garden and orchard
pertaining to it; and as all three Of her
guardians died before she came Of age
when that period arrived she gave no.
tlce to her tenants that She wanted that
house herself. And then what a reign Of
eNpurgation began within the four walls
All that soap, sand, chloride of lime. hot
water, paint and whitewash could do,
was done there, by the aid of strong arms
and stronger will The house was much
like every other house in Lyndon: white,
obIong, bedecked with green blinds, and
having I kitchen at the back: but NO
other house was ever 50 SpeCkleSS. So
sweet 0t scent, 50 tcartully clean.
'i7 nopI U,'.h' ~ ~ sule ~ sun
',,'1' tiloNo,' w 'tio l'elhI9eS' any IL q
~ ~ " n'liielll' loI plctuieS an" oFach
~ oi''' t@NeS 9|tHeleo uuSl' out IL was
,.e'n' ''ii.' Miss i'S uid ueN 2leu hef ualIl
energies to keeping it in this condition.
She had money enough to live on, but
her nature was frugal and industrious
~ '"J LOON III lIIIe sew ny ana III"dt
~. ''''o ''I!' conn 'IlLll,Il'7S ioi 'ne ~ II
III 'ii'''ilti|'' " Hti o"ilh account
o'p" '.sIoiH lio-i e"i 70 Ht"F' ana she
- ilI"'r @.I'' more respected (tS person
Y 0'L3
tic l'd'' "ul ol'e 1ldtiN & 4 nan "Ioth-
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r. lISs ili, +i,,,d i'l'"r I'',.,, +,..,1.,la
and 1.nd Ham rni 'I-N' not+od ohortsbaG 2,tsI
a1G ,naa tho ,nsN f .ior' ,,+.I, lI'
hnrs haG Mans ana tbo ti,s+ and St,.n,
tendnnc,. of han. ,o wn OH I,nn,r i. ,7,,,
munistic they want to and will share all
the property about them: their cackliug
souls knew no reason why Miss Lvdia's
garden was not for them 70 scratch up as
well as the rest OF creation attdlnaDle
face. But this "bloated property holder
objected, and after wears Of skirmishes.
routs, reiterated charges and fresh re-
pulses, screams of battle and clamors OF
victory, she defended her rights by a
seven-foot paling all about the garden
which cost twice as mach as all the hens
had destroyed since their earliest tres
pass, but ettectually discomtitted them,
and added another to the long list of the
trlumphs OF capital over labor.
Then there were bows in Lyndon. as
usual boys are an obstinate fact every
where; we thank kind Providence that
the Indians are eXterminated in these re-
gions, anG plume ourselves on the fact
that the last Of the Mohicans pointed a
moral and adorned a tale long AGO: but
do we ever re 1ect on the host and bordes