Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-18


Greek genius originally made no APP
proacb,'' / assented. ''The hardships of
climate and the sterility OF their sOn made
the northern nations acquainted with
every element of tragedy, and
Redding interrupted me.
The mail, sir.'
'sPut it on my desk. We win continue
our talk at some other time, Liska. When
you study your history again try not only
to memOrize facts; but to find the golden
chain of relationship on which our God
I has hung all the facts of His upiyersav
As the door closed softly behind Liska
L turned to my mail, hastily glancing
over my letters and laying aside for more
deliberate reading two which knew to be
from Lois and McRhea.
The one from Lois l give in full, know
ing that no words of mine could so faith
| fully portray life at the cottage;
'DRAR FRIEND-I have had so little
time for writing that l have had to con-
! tent myself with the short notes that |
have been sending you all along; although
( L felt they would be as unsatisfactory to
! you who would read them, as they We're to
me who wrote. Two weeks ago | adopted
the diary plan of writing to you. For,
/ though l cannot find time every day for a
/ letter, no day is so crowded that / cannot
write you at least a line. In this way you
/ can follow our daily thoughts. In fact
/ you do, to some extent, live with us, for /
have told my thoughts to the others, and
! often, nowadays, some one will say:
! Lookout! your thoughts will 20 to the au-
/ tOcrat.'
'Robert is improving rapidly. DR.. |
! Heyward's fears have not been altogether
! realized. There has been no paralysis of
! the lower limbs; but the injury to the /
! spine makes it impossible to calculate !
| what will be the terrible results as regards |
/ either standing or walking. If it were /
n mr. hn Tnnp E To,rr-
! business and the rapacity of creditors, |
! should begin, already, to take much COM |
! fort in this new life. | have resOlutelV |
set my face against having Robert an
! noyed; and hence, with Bertie's assist |
| ance, am trying myself to settle Roberts !
tangled affairs, and sometimes l almost |
! lose courage.
poverty is so much harder for those /
! who have known ease than can well be |
! told. But Lesley's never-failing con |
tentment is a great help to me.
Ruth's occasional impatient discomfort is /
help too, strange to say, for it is a re-
buke to me, expressing as it does nv own /
secret feelings; and | am constantly made |
patient and humble by this beautiful |
young sister who sometimes finds life /
harder than she can bear.
Il can write no more just now. l send |
my diary to speak for me.
Il haven't time to tell you all the loving .
/ u L
must just remember that your name is /
often on our lips, and your memory al
ways in our hearts. / am atfectionately /
your friend, LOIS CONWAY"
LOIS DIARY.
"NOnddy, october 15.-While reading
George EliOt's 'RomOla' aloud to Robert /
to-day, these words greatly impressed
both Of us: 'As our thought follows
close in the slow wake of the dawn, we
are impressed with the broad sameness of
the human lot, which never alters i'm the
main headings of its histOry-hunger
and labor, seed-time and harvest, love and
DEATH
1t came very near being death for
me- Robert said
eyes, dear. But thank God it stopped
at love- l answered, laying my hand in
his.
"Oct0ber 16.-This has been a trying
day. BERTHE and 1 have worked our
weary way through a huge pile of ac-
counts. There has been in my heart
much scepticism when l remembered
other words in 'ROmOla'-'and men still
yearn for the reign of righteousness and
peace-still count that life to be the high
est which is conscious voluntary sacri-
1ce.' Do they? All, my soul, do they
not do exactly otherwise? And the lin
gle of the guinea helps the hurt which
honor teels;' isn't that the truer latter day
etheS! MOI men, put Ihe lew among
men 'yearn' for the holy kingdom, and ac-
knowledge the hottest sacrifcial life.
october III spoke to Robert to-day
for the first time about teaching. He
gave his consent readily; but / could see
that he became more nervous and low
spirited. | must, hereafter, never men
ton ways and means in his hearing
"OctOber 1S.-Lesley has looked some
what sadder for several days. Tonight
after Robert fell asleep, went to her for
a quiet talk.
What troubles you, dear@ l asked.
: 1T is very foolish, of course, but am
anxious about Ruth. She is letting her
pride keep her from great joy
So Is it Bertie?'
" Yes. She will not listen to his pro-
posal. Pm afraid Ruth is unhappy
4 made no answer, for l felt keen
selt-reprOach. l have suffered myself to
become so absorbed in my husband that
forgot my sister entirely. l now under
stand the irritableness which so surprised
me, for heretofore Ruth has had a beauti-
full, even temper.
''HOw hard it is to look on all sides of
ones life at the same time! How easy to
become absorbed in one object to the
Argus-eyed; and to forget nothing.
"OctOber ID spoke to Ruth about
BERTHE to-day.
'Yes,' she answered, candidly, Il |
might have listened to him once: but now
l should always feel that it was a charity
delicately offered.
Il could say nothing more. Her words
were unanswerable, for my own expert
ence Numbered in my ears. Any woman
who marrieS with any sentiment making
di5cOrd in the married love is more than
apt to be always unhappy; or, if happi-
ness comes, it will inevitably come as the
price of much sorrow and of selt-humilia-
ton hardly to be endured.
October 20.-TO-day l have to chrOni-
Gle my first success as mOney-maker.
Three weeks ago L sent a little sketch to
a Northern paper. To-day l received
from the editor ten dollars | went at
once to Robert flushed with JOY.
"'Don't do that again, Lola he said,
sadly. That is the hardest life a woman
ever led. You must work, of course; but,
l beg you, don't choose that field. l am
glad with you, my DEAR he added, seeing
my disappointment, l suppose. "But / {
am no prOuder of you than | have always
been. viii sou promise me you will not
try that plan again?'
Il gave him my promise reluctantly;
but now that it is given feel strange
relief
"October Give have had our first
frosts.
Il am just now fully realizing the pleas
ure of having only one stting-rOOm. | said
tonight, when we were gathered around |
the fire, to have your dining-r0Om and /
sitting-room in one draws the family closer ]
together, doesn't it?
1t certainly dOesv Ruth answered, |
emphatically, as she squeezed between
the table and our chair. AT which even
Robert laughed.
Glow strange is the human heart If
some one had told me year ago that l
could find even the most grim endurance
possible under such conditions of life as
these, 1 think l should have believed him
-demented. And yet, 1 don't believe we I
ever before knew what joys contentment
and mutual dependence held!'
McRhea's letter left me somewhat in
perpleXity.
''When this reaches yOu," he wrote, 81
shall most probably be in mid-ocean.
When l shall return to America is a
veXed question in my nHnd. Certainly
not before | can bring facts back with
me. If anything concerning Carevna ]
comes to my knowledge rest assured it
shall be treasured up and the fact hunted ,
down.
Enclosed send you letter to Mon
TAM and to Herr Mcneil. You will very
probably go to New York while she is
there.