Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-27

SAFE ID lOr oaLuruhy. lie requires spot
cash. No one can get twelve hundred
dollars in SO short time and he will
buy 1t in himself. "
The young mans eyes blazed. "If
he does-if he dares to show himself
will put bullet in him!'
The mothers arms were around
him. His father laid his hand upon
his shoulder.
"Leaye him to God, Dick; don't
make our burden harder than we can
bear. Let us have our boy for the few
years yet left to u.s."
Remember SUSIE" sobbed the
mother.
The young man conquered his emo
tion, kissed his mother and shook his
fathers hand-the Anglo-SaxOn caress
between males. Women kiss; men
shake hands.
81 will do nothing rash; nothing to
bring you additional worry; but If /
meet him he will have to keep his tenn
per. Come, let us try your biscuits,
Mimi, and forget for the moment"
The form of a meal was gone
through with, but the talk drifted into
the only subject that any one could
think about.
"Dick, you haven't said word
about your marriage. 1t is two weeks
from to-day. We will have no home
for Susie to come to-"
Dick smiled for his mothers benefit
and answered brightly: "Never mind
that, Mimi. 1t will have to be post
poned for u little while. Don't worry
about that"
"But, Dick. it may make a great diff
ference to Susie" said his father.
"You will no longer have snug farm
at your back, and you may have to
wait year or two before you can get
forehanded enough to marry. Will
Susie be willing to wait and take the
chances when she can have her cousin
VIII, who is richP"
"Susie is as true as steel, dad. VIII
Hartshorn can not take her from me-"
said Dick, laughing lightly. "We may
not be able to marry for year or two,
but we are both young and life is before
us. Don't fret on our account. 1must
go over and tell her."
1t was not ten when he returned, but
it was the first time in many months
that both his parents had been found up
at that hour. Traces of tears on their
cheeks showed that the subject of con-
versation had not been changed.
Susie will wait" :" he replied to his
mothers unspoken question, "until l
have made home for us three and it
has grown big enough for her to enter.
say what she said. She won't marry
me till l have. Our marriage is post
poned for year. She will work in
the rubber factory and help me. Her
uncle has been appointed manager,
and was out to see her yesterday to see
II he could get her as his chief clerk.
lie wants some one who understands
bookkeeping, shorthand and telegraphy,
and offered her twelve dollars per
week. She refused, of course; but she
has written tonight accepting it. You
see, dad, she didn't waste her time, as
you thought, in learning those accom-
plishments last year. Her investment
of one hundred and twenty dollars will
come back many fold"
His mother laid her hand upon his
arm.
"Susie says that we can get the Will
sons house at the bridge. It's quite as
comfortable as this and we will soon
forget all about this trouble. You are
only fretting for us, and Susie says you
must not and shall not. Susie's word
is law to mother and me; and, father,
will you not do what we three want
you TOP"
"Dick," said his father with deep
feeling, II should have named you
Benjamin. Susie will make good
wife. l take back all said about her
spending money. She was wiser than
l, but l didn't think it was woman's
work"
"Even her spending four dollars for
cancelled postage stampsP" asked Dick,
mischievously.
"Well," " said his father with a smile
and shake of the head, "that was a
vanity, Twenty-Five cents for yard
Of ribbon can understand, but twen-
ty-fve cents for an old one-cent post
age stamp which l bought new only
few years ago for cent / can not un-
derstand, ! think it would be more
natural for pretty girl to spend her
money for ribbons than for little pieces
of soiled paper"
"She says that her collection, which
cost her less than $50, can be sold any
day to q dealer for S35 and that he
will sell it again for 800. The stamps
she paid twenty-five cents each for are
now sold for si.25 and S1.50, She in
tends to sell them all to have a nest
egg to start with"
II don't want better girl than Su-
sic for daughter, l always said
that, Dick. That there stamp business
was the only vanity / ever knew in
her; but she has right to some vanity.
She has the Lockwood grit and truth.
Let us ask God to bless herr
At noon the next day. Mrs. Ferris
asked Dick to give her an hours help
in the garret, as she wished to 90 over
the accumulated rubbish of century
to see what would be worth moving.
"What is in this old hair trunk,
motherP" asked Dick, as he sorted out
the relics of five generation.
THAT was you Aunt Seliny's. It's
full of letters and papers. All her
husbands love-letters arc there, for
she saved every one that was ever writ
to her. She saved all the letters that
he ever received, and he did big bus
mess till he failed. Seliny was little
queer. He was n great scholar, was
Jack. He went to college and was
professor when he courted Seliny. His
letters read like book and Seliny was
very proud of them."
Dick opened the moth-eaten, cow
hide-covered little trunk, In its time as
much q source Of pride as any genuine
alligator-skin one is now to its pos
SCISSOR. There on top, as if put in last,
was bundle of letters, tied with a
faded ribbon. Dick took out one with
some curiosity. 1t was written before
envelopes were in common use, and
the address was on the middle fold of
the letter itself, the edges of which
had been turned into one another and
sealed.
"Mother, may / come upp" called a
clear, sweet voice from the stairway,