The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-11


and leave those dear girls at home after
they had been shut up all day In school.
So two horses and . carriage and hostler
were needed. ..i . - ---....-. --.-- F.
Thus little by little expenses increased,
and his business, like all mems of the
time, was dull, but his was on q sound
basis; he was yet young and full of en-
ergy, and no one feared the result, nor
had he one thought of danger.
A party was made up for the sea-
shore. They joined it; it was their first
indulgence Of the kind, and sniff of the
salt sea is . luxury that strengthens.
One morning the bathers were very
gay. and Mr.. Brooks passed the safety
Line, and the sea never gave him back.
/ The estate paid twenty cents on the
dollar. HaTvaIl a. ii ;nIaI5 ys.l ,.-r-sl (
THE OTHER.
It was q town of hills and rocks, un-
disturbed by railroad or telegraph-wires.
There was q bit of a village in it, and
| ywhite sky-pointing spire," of course,
far il was in New England, andequally,,
OF course, and'for the very same reason
there must be economy in all things, and
the !" first hoor'' of the spire crowned
building was the Town Hall, wherein
politicians fought and wandering min
strelsamused, 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 s400 q year and the parson-
age-a clean little white cottage. lr,
In that same parsonage lad, bright
and energetic-boys are like the moth
ers, biologists tells us-was fitting for
college, under his learned and lazy
father But yrt 81 f.ss
"we are not wholly brain
tEh Magnetic mookeries."
AT least so Tennyson says. 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 his on Sunday, on week days
helped her busy mother look well to the
ways Of the household, in a white cot
age that crowned q hilltop, the sides
\ OF which hill were intermixed with sheep
and stones in such dire confusion that a
little way of one conld not tell the one
from the other. fia'
| !, One bright June morning Harriet had
skinned the milk, washed the bright
pans; and made pyramid in the sun
that sparkled like stars. And humming
good old hymn of Watts. her deft
hand was now smoothing aud 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: 80 II.
| .'Motheri when the summer work is
over, couldn't you get along without my
help?n
| "Why: Harrieti what do YOU want to
dop,,
| Harriet besitated: IL was a great thing
she lonced 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 1 for a
term or two?,,
your father and have been talkin',
that John hadn't ought to come of age till
he'd been to the Academy
30, mother, let US both GO! tits only
four miles and half, you know, from
here, and father or Jesse can come after
MS every Friday night, and Saturdays l
will cook up enough to last over the week,
except meat and potatoes. and those can
i cook there, so can board him and my
self, and we can both go as cheap as he
could go alone."
s.Fll talk with your father about il. :"
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 di
wish she could finish the full course, and
had been good scholar, and, good girl,
had worked early and late and willingly
through the summer vacations, so that it
was not easy to refuse her.
Z And. too, perchance her future happi-
ness was more or less bound up in her
books. For Edward, in this college yaca-
ton, had told his love, and the shrewd
common sense of the sturdy farmer knew
his daughter must be fitted for the edu-
Gated life she was to share, or Edward
would forget his love. if not before mar
rage and desert her, he would after mar
rage and neglect her. And another three
years were aided To her rcourse, 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 q
! great deal OF happiness, for their studies
and reading and tastes were one, and
each made the other strong TO iaoor
and to wait, and love made labor q
pleasure. But he was young and un-
known. and people not so quarreisome
as they might have been, so the money
they had saved from teaching grew less
daily,
at would hurt my reputation to have
bills in the city, and have been think
/ ing where can hire little money" he
, said one evening.
Don't hire money! would rather
! salt, any starvation diet than have q
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