Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-07-28

but his sense OF duty didn't go ve,y {sr.
Rev. 9fr. Blake bought q new cos, aud
Sam entered Harvard shat fall !; and
there matters stopped for awhile.
"AFreshman has great deal to lie ,tn,
as you know; but I think the CHIEF thing
Sam Learned that term was the great dii-
ference there is between Harvard and q
little village like Elmbsnk, and the greas
difficulty OF working and playing at the
same time. Here he had society meet
ings to attend, and rooms Of his -cwn,
with s chum. where q good dea:
ii smoking wac done by himself
and his friends. And then Tiers
was baseball, into which it appeared
Indispensable for the honor OF the
! class thpt he should enter actively, OIL
| account OF his strong lega, wonderful
wind, and ground batting. BE could
! not refuse TO go to the thestey occasion
ally, with his richer companions. san
took natural interest to the society Of
young ladies. too, and had given III.
some time TO Its cultivation. He also
thought moderate amourt OF practice
in the gymnasium was desirable, to pre-
vent his health from going down unde..
the confinement Of study. So, on the
whole, the actual work that he did III
the college was not very extensive.
This didn't seem to have any bad effect
till well along in the winter, when the
habit OF shirking work had grown SO
strong witl,ou. his noticing it that he
seT easily into reading novels when hs
ought to hnve been in the recitation
room. Gymnasium, theater, billiards.
smoking, and am afraid must say
little drinking, FILTERED away his time.
"One horrible, snowy, sleety porR-
ing, when he had got up too late foz
prayers, The postman brought him a
note frum the faculty-an sdmonitior.
He dropped the pipe he was just light
ing, and bolted of to the recitation
But he 'desded Immediately, and that
discouraged him. He soon began to
make light OF the warning, and did him
sell no credit in his studies. Though
he managed TO aqueese through the e1-
animation at the end of the Freshman
year, he came oat Gar down toward the
foot os his clasa BE wasn't quite COD
tented with himself, and thought he'd
try TO Go better the sszt year. But dur
ing the journey home ne recovered his
usual spirits.
"Whea he walked MP the village Co
ward the parsonage farm, he was think
ing that-since he was Sophomore nov
he would buy the Mottiest and big
gest-headed cane in Cambridge when be
should go back there. And whet DO
you suppose was the FIRST thing THAI met
him at.home2 Itvae his father ont, ip
the 6eld digging for new potatoes, h;f
coat of and his spectacled ssce perspir-
ing. The sight struck shame into che
boy. He vaulted the fenoe, and, .lul-
ming up with hardly pause for geet-
ing, cried:
$50 father, LEI me do that. I don''
ike TO see you at sroh wosk.
"Mz. Blske stopped, and looked earnr
estly ana rather sadly at him
"Wen, Sam, 7 think shet's ahou! ss
good how-ao-you-tio as you could hove
offered me. There's something gced
about you sfEer all
"Ia had not occurred to sem thai
thare was any doubt on that point be
fore. he bl,ished IS he asked:
Where's the hired nan
"'I're discharged hin I can't 81
ford one at present. my soa, vas the
answer.
"san was nsthss puzzled. ana hegsu
70 reflect.
"They went into Ehe house, and there,
whea the minister resppeared aiter max
inq his toilet, his son noticed thet b.
wore the old shebhy, shiny coat. At
this he wss more than ever astonishea
The supper, also, notwithstanding it wes
the first NIGHT Of the pzodigsl's return.
wos very neager. Not single extra
luxury wee on the tsble. and Sam ch.
served that his fa$her and mother !ook
Co sugar nor butter. Bis own appetite
began to fal at seeing this, and bis per-
cepion was sharpened accordingly. He
was now aware chat his fsther looked
very thin, as we'll IS sad. Suddenly be
!sid down bis knife, aud exclaimed to
his sister Katy:
"'Sis, what does sn this msn ?-this
going without the hired nan. and starv-
ing yourselves 2
"His sister looked st him, then
glanced at Mr.. Blake and her no.ber.
and made DO answer.
"I thought said Sam, petulanty,
that Williston's money wes going to
make it easy for you, father; and here
the pirching is going Oh five times
worse than ever.
"'I don't own my friend Williston'a
money said the minister, quietly.
"Of course not. But the aee hun
dred doh
"Ssm stopped abruptly on hn entreat-
ing gesture from his sister.
"The subject was not resumed but
before he went 70 bed Sam obtained an
interview with his sister alone. He felt
aecresly that he was responsible sor the
depression end trouble which seemea TO
ill the household. But that only made
:Iim speak. merc inpetueusly. Nov,
Sis,' he began, can I get two words Of
sense out CT your
".Nos until you ask politely, she re-
piled
"well, then. please tell me what the
mystery ia
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