Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-25

10 Yourself will be the dearest;
TYPE of what my love must be,
Cousin, what il you are she?
Chambers Journal.
THE LOG HIT OF CHAPMAN.
OF all the suburbs south of the
Thames, Chaplain has the appearance
Fftse most homogeneous prosperity.
Is wavs are broad and open, its houses
SUBSTANTIAL and well kept. An air of
tomfortable competence is to be found
n its qu;etest hooks, while the SPLEEN
Eor of city riches shines on its most con-
E%picuous s ,uares and roads and ter
races. The Common is its glory, the
rrown of its atfiuence. To live on Clap
Lam Common means an obliging
banker. efficient servants, gallant
horses, and no more personal knowl-
Flse Of bankruptcy than q Katfir has of
es,heticism.
OF all the houses on Chaplain Com
mon the most spacious is the Log Hut.
b. stands with four fair walls against
The four lights of heaven. The exterior
aspect is large and free; responsible
Without pretentiousness; comfortable
Without sordidness; liberal without
prodigality.
The interior more than confirms the
outward promise. In summer it is full
pts bdued sunlight, and open to the
wandering perfumes of the garden be-
You'd. 1t is still without being hushed.
inc silence seems always either BROOD
in over music fled or awaiting melody.
Sounds which abroad strike harsh upon
tie ear come mingled with a murmur
o leaves, and are nc more than the
stray, full-bodied notes of an incomplete
tune.
In winter huge fires blaze for well
come. The silver shines, the pictures
:eam. the drapery grows mellow, the
apets catch the warmth, the ceiling
4rows down the glow of the ruddy
Whit. Soft chairs and couches WOO the
sanger to repose, and importune him
delay.
The master of this house, Mr.. William
Syliss, had just reached that period of
HE when, fortune having favored him,
and he being untroubled by any later
growth OF ambition, he was little dis
posed for new enterprise, and made up
his mind to live what might be yet
given 10 him OF life in all the peaceful
mss Of moderate use. He was sixty
yeS:s Of age.
Nh. layliss was q man of rather more
than the middle height. His figure was
but slightly stonter than forty years
ago. He had large, kindly blue eyes,
broad. unwrinkled forehead. and,
save where a fringe of gray hair ran
round the lower part of his head, he
was quite bald. He did not wear
whiskers, beard or mustache. In youth
ne had been g~ood-looking. In age he
mad a singularly gracious, benevolent
face.
Mrs. Rayliss, five years his junior,
and married to him thirty years ago,
reflected many of the leading charac-
%teristics Of his expression. She had
been his good wife all that tine. She
believed there was no better mar than
ne in all the world.
10 this good couple one daughter had
been born. Kate was her name. And
now this day, in the middle of leafy
June, Kate was to be married. She
was to marry Edward Mayne, the
Choice of her own heart, the only sweet
leart of her girlhood, and the sutton
Who had won the love and respect Of
1er father and mother.
Nate was twenty-five, tall and 1.-the.
Aai dark eyes and a round, red cheek,
and red lips and dark brown hair, with
mere and there flaws of lighter brown
mat made rich gold Of the sunlight.
she smiled oftener than laughed, but
When she did laugh there was such a
lone of exquisite enjoyment that peo-
PIE paused to listen as we hush our
startled by the lark.
Edward Mayne was a %jovial, light
hearted fellow; tall too, t~iat-chested.
lightly built, and 1.-THE, with animal
spirits enough for a parish, good heart
enough for a county, and as much good
sense as YOU would like to see in any
Nnc, handsome, dashing young fellow
OF sevtn-and-twenty. although he had
not been up to this at all blameless, nc
was, everyone said who knew him WE'LL
OF the best kind OF raw material from
which the best kind of Englishman is
made.
hen all the %oratorloal formallt7es OF
lhe breakfast had been complied wlth'
ana yet an hour was to spare before inc
pE!ue and bridegroom set out upon Their
Honeymoon. the master OF the house
Iose and said:
There is Just time before the young
people leave us for a little story, when
mas been Il blameless secret between
ny Wife and me for many n year. some
"l You are Old friends. yet l think inc
memory OF n>ne OF you reaches BACK te
'le circumstance which caused me &c
call this house the Log Hut.
1T las been my good 1ortune-gooc
fortune for which | am ever grateful te
i'sa' en--,hat, having begun life with ;
ii'0l It education and no fortune.
NV rived toward the close OF my
.e~r',, at ston OF comfort nay