The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-12-15
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disturbed by railroad or telegraph wires
There was a bit of village in it, aud
white sky-pointing spire," of course
for ii was in New England. and equally,
Of course, and for tlrlssseezsr-szs 8 -
'stlferc must be ecanomy IN all things an \
the = first floor" of the spire crowned
building was the Town Hall, wherein
politicians fought and wandering min
strels amused, and stray lecturers edited.
But between the hall and spire lay the
church. clean and bright, where the
farmers mapped, and their wives chewed
caraway seed, while warned of sin and
judgment in words as eloquent as could
be hired for 800 a year and the parson-
age-a clean little white cottage.
In that same parsonage a lad, bright
and energetic are like the moth
ers. biologists tells us-was fitting for
college, under his learned and lazy
father. But
/" We are not wholly brain
Magnetic mockeries"
AT least so Tenuyson saws. And Ed
ward had an eye for rosy cheeks and
bright eyes, as well as for Greek roots.
And the particular pair that sparkled
back to MS on Sunday, on week days
helped her busy mother look well to the
ways of the household. in a white cot
age that crowned hilltop, the sides
of which hill We're intermixed with sheep
and stones in such dire confusion that a
little way off one conld not tell the one
from the other.
One bright June morning Harriet had
skinned the milk, washed the bright
pans, and made u pyramid in the sun
that sparkled like stars. And humming
good old hymn of Watts. her deft
hand was now smoothing and trying to
polish the family linen for the coming
Sunday, that dress-day of country towns,
when bodies as well as souls put on their
best. Harriet sung slower and slower,
as she thought faster and faster, and she
stopped carolling, to say:
"A1otheri when the summer work is
over, couldn'tyo get along without my
help?'
'.Why, Harriet what do YOU want to
do?''
Harriet hesitated; it was n great thing
she longed for, but at last she said:
You know most of the girls around
here have been to Dick Academy and
boarded themselves; why can't | for
term or two?n
Your father and have been talkin'
ffeass -l5ccn.to t;le l&ceeferny.''
20, mother, let US both gol tits only
four miles and half, you know, from
here, and father or jesse can come after
us every Friday night, and Saturdays |
will ceok up enough to last over the week,
except meat and potatoes. and those / can
cook there, so | can board him and my
self. and we can both go as cheap as he
could 90 alone"
II II talk with your father about it.
And they went. The one term ran into
two years. Then Jesse, the bashful book
worm. was to go, and he wished sister
Harriet to stay with him; and she dIG
wish she could finish the full course, and
had been a good scholar, and good girl,
had worked early and late and willingly
the summer vacations, so that 1t
was not easy to refuse her.
And. too, perchance her future happi-
ness was more or less bound up in her
books. For Edward, in this college vaca-
ton. had told his love, and the shrewd
sense of the sturdy farmer knew
his daughter must be fitted for the edu-
Gated life she was 10 share, or Edward
would forget his love. if not before mar
riage and desert her, he would after mar
rage and neglect her. And another three
years were added to her course, and she
graduated, healthy. happy and strong,
the valedictorian of her class of thirty
nine students
And in due time Edward and she mar
ried. and he put out law sign.
There was no style, no elegance in the
three rooms of their new home, but
great deal of happiness, for their studies
and reading and tastes were one. and
each made the other strong to labor
and to wait, and love made labor
pleasure. But he was young and un-
known. and people not so quarrelsome
as they might have been, so the money
they had saved from teaching grew less
daily.
1T would hurt my reputation to have
bills in the city, and have been think
ing where 1 can hire little money, he
said one evening.
Don't hire money! l would rather
live on bread and water. potatoes and
salt, any starvation diet than have
debt dragging you down / will open
select school, until people grow to ap-
preciate YOU I
"You have enough to do now.p
Al haven't half enough. shall rust
out. And you give free lecture, show
your talent, get into the papers. We
have been Micawbers long enough"
IF had your energy"
eff yOu haven't, who has? When l
gave myself to you. do you think l re-
served my energy
.'You hare reserve energy enough for
two.''
ssThen let US call up our reserve
forces and give battle to the worldl'
80, Harriet, you are jewel"
al certainly do not propose to be a
milestone"
The lecture was given, the school was
opened, cases came to the lawyer and
but slowly at first, come money.
They became leaders in church work and
literary circles, and positions of trust and
honor were laid at their feet.
And when the Brooks mansion, its
books, pictures and statuary were sold,
Edward bought and paid for all.-Lucv
E. Sanford, i,7 " Y. Observer
A Long Man and a Long Coffin.