The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-02
COUNTY, COUSINS.


Just as mad as she could live.
Under ordinary circumstances. Miss
Edith Everleigh, so far as outward APP
pearances went, was very charming
specimen of young maidenhoOd. But
present circumstances, in the Light of
her nineteen years experience, she re-
garded as altogether extraordinary,
and therefore, if taken to task for her
puckered brow and pouting lips would
have averred that they were quite justi-
fable.
AZ do think it's too mean for any
thing" she went on, "when all of my
set are going to such nice places, that
I've got to poke off to that stupid old
farm, forty miles from nowhere. hate
the country, and farmers are set of
Doors and papa is an old tyrant to make
me go out there among them
Edith! Edith exclaimed her
neither in reproSing voice, '.why will
you be so unreasonableP You know
DR.. Halsey said emphaticslly that you
must have rest and quiet this summer,
neither of which is to be obtained at
the fashionable resorts where you wish
to 90. Your father esteems very high
ly these cousins of his; they come of an
excellent family, and are, doubt not
most estimable people. Your prejudice
against them is extremely childish; wait
until you have seen them before you de-
nounce them as Doors
Miss Edith's only response was dis
dainful shrug of her shoulders.
Meanwhile, far away from this tenn
pestuous scene, with background of
looming hills and towering trees and
canopy of shaded gold and blue, amidst
the hush and stiffness of midsummer
rural evening time, was occurring anoth-
er scene which also bears upon the
further development of our story.
Seated on the low, broad doorstone,
June Thornton was bending her shapely
little head over big sheet of paper that
had stamped in its upper left-hand cor
.ner, +" Benjamin Everleigh's Dry and
Fancy Goods Emporium" with a GER
tain street and number of the great me-
tropolis affixed, and was traced in bust
ness mans heavy scraWL rfH.
Reading slowly in the waning light
she tloundered though some reminis
cences of olden times appreciated only
by the writer and recipient of this mis-
~
graph, continued:
''And we ought to renew 'auld ac-
quaintance,' Cousin John. Iwant our
children to become as fast friends as
we ourselves were in those far-off days.
Pursuantto which | purpose, if agreea-
BILE toyou, to send my eldest daughter
out to your place for a long visit. She is
rather worn with the festivities of the
winter, and l think a few weeks of
country air and living will benefit her,
as wen as give her an opportunity to
know those whom her father holds in
affectionqte remembrance.
20 So that is fathers cousin, Ben Ev-
erleigh. the famous crony of his boy
hood, is it?' reflectively spoke Hal
Thornton, June's auditor, lounging on
the step above her. 4" And they've
been each so busy with his own life for
'thelast Internationally years that they
haven't once met in all that time. Well,
to such end comes youthful friendship
in this world of ours ~ .5.-... n
% But the proposed guest, HAL" in
terrupted June, nudging his knee with
her elbow. s-- d t--t
"You don't want her to come, little
sister, he said, gently taking in his
hands the upturned face usually as
sweet and bonny as the month whose
name its owner bore, but now showing
through the gathering shadows an un-
mistakable troubled look. i
Z five heard of Miss Edith Everleigh,"
eevasively replied June. ID" She was a
school-mate of Clara Burton's no longer
ago than last year and Clara said she
never saw a person so arrogantly pref
udiced against the country and coun-
Try people as she was" Il
And nv precious little sister thinks
herself Just as good and quite as culti-
waited and almost as stylish as if she had
been born and bred in New York;
June laughed merrily.
And she don't want to be taken for
a goose and snubbed and put down by
Miss Flora McFlimsy, of Madison
Square,, went on Hal.
June laughed again; then followed
an interval of silence in which the for
mer detected expression crept back to
her cquntenance and wherein Hal with
uplifted eyes absently surveyed the
heavens. .Ak f'aFF t4'N ttk
THE thing, exactlym he at last ex-
claimed, and STOPPING over June till his
dark mustache brushed her pink shell |
of an ear, he eagerly whispered out his |
bright idea.
3 June elasped her white palms one |
against the other, and gave voice to a !
prolonged ''O-o-oi Hal Thornton, SChut !
a lark! But''-suddenly conscience
stricken wouldn't it be too mean?n
Little tender-heartr' in pseudo
pathos; then resuming his usual tone,
s'No, not if | have received correct /
impression of my adorable third cousin !
the naughty Miss Edith. Personally, /
j owe the type bit of a grudge, and 4
I'll get even with it through the person
of one of its EXTREMIST representatives
Beside, for her own sake, she ought to
have the conceit knocked out of her.
even fshe as a woman young and hand
some.n
:. But father and mother never will
allow such doings, Hail. decisively adj
ded June.
20. we can manage that; get them
off on their intended trip to Harley be-
fore she arrives, aIt.won' t. take moreA
than week to cure her. So put your
doubts and fears in your gockeEN
keep mumsaald get-feadyfer aetiehP, 4
And kindly John Thornton, ignorant
and unsuspecting of this base plotting
In ms own household, his honest old
heaf'stirped and warmed by the tardy
but welcome word from the long-silent
friend of his early years, dispatched
next morning a letter TO Cousin Ben.
assuring him of continued interest and !