West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-05-09
A CONQUERED ENEMY.

~ NONHlEhED ENEm1s
"You are to have the Coopers for
neighbors, hear said Mrs. Bailey.
as she stopped on her way down
town TO chat for moment over the
fence with her cousin, Mrs. Sunderland.
Look out for sGualls!'
Mrs. Sunderland paused i'm her work
of shipping the withered blossoms from
running rose to turn an inquirinp
glance toward the speaker.
What IS wrong about the Coopers?
they are honest, sober, industrious
folks, are they notP"
Z" All of that, with many other virtues
beside" Mrs. Bailey replied, laughing
Nevertheless, I'd rather have them
1--we next door to you than to me. "
Don't be so mysterious Mrs
Sunderland said, her good humored
face beginning to wear shade of anxi-
ETY.. EITHER tell me all there is to tell.
or tell me nothing"
There is nothing very dreadful TO
reveal, and what there is is no secret
You would have known Mrs. Cooper :
reputation rs well as everybody else in
Greenvllle does if YOU were not a new
conner. She is said to be the worst
tempered woman in town. and has new
er lived neighbor q month TO any fami-
ly without getting up quarrel with
them; therefore, | say, beware of
squalls
Mrs. Sunderland did not think that
the dangers her cousin had warned her
to prepare for were of very serious
character, but being n woman ''wise in
her generation, she deemed it prudent
to pour oil upon the waves before any
signs of storm became visible. A day
or two after her new neighbors arrived
seeing Mrs. Cooper making some en-
deayor TO improve the condition of a
very neglected garden-patch, Mrs.
Sunderland stepped to the dividing
fence and begged her neighbours ac,
ceptance of basket full of vegetables
she had just gathered from her own
thriving garden.
ut Is so late in the season that I'm
afraid you won be able to raise much
in your garden this year." she said.
pleasantly; and as | have more gar
den-truck than l can make use OF. |
shall be glad to have you help me dis
pose of it. -
Mrs. Cooper turned upon her a face
that certainly was not very progresses
ing, for it was dark sallow and scowl-
ing. and when she spoke it was with
such a misplacing of her aspirates as at
once betrayed her to have been at no
very distant date q subject of Queen
Victoria
HIM much obliged to you. ma'am.
and as you've hoffered the garden-sass.
} ii accept it; but as a general thing me
and my man pays our hown way, and
don care to be behOlden to nobody
The lad Charlie she found IL much
easier TO make friends with; he was a
freckle-faced, black-eyed younpster of
twelve or thirteen with a head thicklv
covered with closely-coiled rings of a,i-
burn hair. Noticing him one morning
wheeling away lot OF weeds and rub
Dish from his mothers garden. Mrs
Sunderland asked him if he would like
TO perform the same service for her. of
conIsc for a remuneration The offer
was eagerly accepted, and after that
charley Cooper earned many q dime
ny little services performed for the
widow lady
Frank Sunderland and he became
quito well acquainted ion the course Of
these labors, and, a. a general thine
The two boys got along together re-
markedly well but one day some ac.i
dent happened to Charlie wbcelbar-
row. and he chose 90 think Frank WA.
ibo cause OF the disaster. Tho OWL
temper which had hitherto lain dor
Want sprang suddenly tOIifc. and Char
If gave uiierance 90 such % torrent of
profanity as utterly appalled, not only
FRANK, but Franks mother who viii
messed the scene from her Kitchen ,yip.
do" Sine called Frank away at once
and after few words If rebuke TO
charlie. spoken far more in sorrow
man ln anger, she sent him home
aging ina. -he could not allow any
pp' VINO wore or used bad language TO
.' lhc companion of her son
Charlie departed I'M tear with hf.
'r'ken wheelbarrOw and probabr,
gave an account of the trouble from hi.
own point Of view fO bis mother for
i'w moments later Mrs SUNDERLAND
was startled tO scc COMING over hon
'a'h fence, FIRST % cabbage. fben "A mock
OF 20 NJ potatoes. and Gua.Ir tho bs-Laf
which She had that morriug semi n,
"'e. cooper the vegetables tUu. urror.
.mon'yu-IF returned Au erpIar.t.,.,
g iHIs Irpr. .ug shower followed .r
Hr- Cooper voice
'iI u thank you after th. fo kc.,
yourself and hcvcrythiry bc'guyir., ~,
you tD yourself Hif M boy 6a.rT +,
society lor your boz. $50 dn1.I ,,ro 80
%. want Dofhiuk tp do wifi. Won F,
~ c'ur-" 10 such "a speech as fhi. no
ciYli reply was possible, .o Nrs Sum
deriaDd quietly withdrew from fhe
scene oi action leaving her aelghbgf iu