The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-06
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they talked on and on In their great con-
tent and happiness.
Society swung open its doors, and
calls and invitations came upon them.
More dress was needed. taxes and in
srrance were high, interest to be paid,
and business everywhere depressed, and
for two years the debt lay unchanged.
There had been no loss as men count
loss, and yet there had been o great loss;
that debt, which at first lay so heavy on
Mr.. Brooks, andswbich he intended to
lift as soon as possible, he had grown
used to, and did not longer feel to be q
burden.
And the debt to society troubled Mrs.
Brooks, and the other parlors must be
furnished, and royalty, to match the H.
brary, and then grand reception was
given.
For these money had to be hired.
Benevolent balls and quasi-'iterary So
cieties, fashions caprice mingled with
the dancing parties, and Mrs. Brooks
was worn and weary with the manifold
duties OF her position, and must be re-
lleved Of some household duties, and
another servant was indispensable.
MIR. Brooks confinement to his busi-
ness wore upon him, and he must have
recreation, which means fine horse
and buggy. But it was 80 selfish for
him and hls wife to drive off every even
ing 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.
Thus little by little expenses increas-
ed, and his business, like all mems of
the time, was dull, but his was on u
sound basis; he was yet young and full
OF energy, and no one feared the result,
nor had he one thought Of danger.
A party was made up for the seashore.
They Joined it; 1t was their drst indul-
gence of the kind, and sniff of the salt
sea IL luxury that strengthens.
One morning the bathers were very
gay, and Mr.. Brooks passed the safe.
ty-iine, and the sea never gave him
back.
The estate paid twenty cents on the
dollar.
1t was town of hills and rocks. un-
disturbed by railroad OF telegraph
There was q bit Of village Ill 1T, and q
white sky-pointing spire," of course,
for 1t was in New England, aud equally.
OF course, and for the very came reason
there must be economy in all things,
and the ''tirst floor of the spire- crown
ed building was tho Town Hall, where
in politicians fought and wandering
minstrels amused, and stray lecturers
edited.
But between the hall and spire Law the
church, clean and bright, where the
farmers mapped, and their wives chewed
caraway seed, while warned of sin and
Judgment i'll words as eloquent as could
be hired for $s400 year and the parson-
age-a clean little white cottage.
In that same parsonage lad, bright
and energetic-boys are like the moth
ers, biologists tells ns-was fitting for
college, under his learned and law
father. But
ave are not wholly brain
Magnetic uockeries"
AT least 30 Tennyson says. And ed
ward had all eye for rosy cheeks and
bright eyes, as we'll for Greek roots.
Aud the particular pair that sparkled
back to his on Sunday, on week days
helped her busy mother look we'll to the
ways OF the household, in white COT
tage that crowned hilltop, the sides
OF which hill we're intermixed with sheep
and stones in such dire confusion that O
little way off one could not tell the one
from the other.
One bright juno morning Harriet
had SKINNED the milk. washed the
bright pans, and made pyramid in the
sun that sparkled like stars. And
humniing 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 coun-
try towns, when bodies as we'll as souls
put on their best. Harriet sung slower
and slower, as she thought faster and
faster, and she stepped carolling, to
say:
''MotherI when tie summer work is
over, couldn't you get along without my
heipf"
Why, Harriet! what do you want to
Harriet hesitated; it was q ereat
thing she longed for, but Mt last she
said:
"You know most of the girls around
here nave been to Dick Academy nnd
boarded themselves; why can't / for
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"
W hAouAolS 1et uS UOGn ROI IL Is only
four miles and half, you know, from
here, and father or Jesse can come after
us every Friday night, and Saturday'sI I
will cook up enough to last over tho
week, except meat and potatoes, and
those l can cook there, so I can board
him and myself, and we can both 20 az
cheap as he could 60 alone"
"lll talk with your father about It,"
And they went. The one term ran into
two years. Then Jesse, the bashfui
book-worm, was to go, and he wished
sister Harriet to stay with him; and she
aid wish she could finish the full course.
and had been q good scholar, and.
good girl, had worked early and late
and willingly through the summer va
cations, SO that it was not easy to refuse
her.
And. too, percharc 90 her futnre happi-
ness was more or less bound up in her
books. For Edward, in his college va
cation, had told his love, and the shrewd
common sense Of the sturdy farmer
knew his daughter must be fitted for the
educated life she was to share, or Ed
ward would forget his love, If not
before marriage and desert her, lie
would after marriage and neglect her.
And another three years were added to