The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-11

lDItng you auulJlOnal WOFfy5 DuI II
meet him he win 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 ,irifted into
the only subject that any one could
| think about.
''Dick, you haven't said a word
about your marriage. 1t is two weeks
from to-day. We will have no home
| fOHfousie to come to-
Dick smiled for his mothers benefit
and answered brightly: ''Never mind
that. Mimi. 1t viii have to be post
poned for a 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 a snug farm
at your back, and you may have to
wait year or two before you can get
fOrehanded enough to marry. VIII
Susie be willing to wait and take the
| chances when she can have her cousin
1 VIII, who is rich?''
''Susie is as true as steel, dad. VIII
Hartshorn can not take her from me, !"
said Dick, laughing lightly. eve may
not be able TO marry for a year or two,
but we are both young and life is before
! 90 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
| have made a home for us three and it
has grown big enough for her to enter
| l say what she said She won't marry
me till I have. Our marriage is post
poned for a 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
! if he could get her as his chief clerk.
/ He wants some one who understands
| bookkeeping, shorthand and telegraphy,
and offered her twelve dollars per
weeks 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. take back all said about her
spending money. She was wiser than
| /, but l didn't think it was woman 5
work"
Even her spending four dollars for
cancelled postage stampsP" asked Dick,
mischievously.
oWen, - said his father with smile
and shake of the head, ''that was a
vanity. Twenty-Five cents for a yard
of ribbon l can understand, but TWEEN
| ty-five cents for an old one-cent post
age stamp which l bought new only a
few years ago for cent 1 can not I'M
derstand. [ think it would be more
natural for a 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 a dealer for $50 and that he
will sell it again for 500. The stamps
she paid twenty-five cents each for are
now sold for S1.25 and $3.50. She in
tends to sell them all to have a nest
egg to start with. y
81 don't want better girl than Su-
sic for a daughter. I always said
that, Dick. That there stamp business
was the only vanity l ever knew in
her; but she has a right to some vanity.
| She has the Lockwood grit and truth.
Let us ask God to bless her"
At noon the next day Mrs. Ferris
| asked Dick to give her an hours help
in the garnet, as she wished to go over
! the accumulated rubbish of a 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 are 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 a little
| queer. He was great scholar, was
Jack. He went to college and was a
professor when he courted Seliny. His
| leLUeES Feau IKE a DOCK ana CcllIlY was
very proud of them.
Dick opened the moth-eaten. cow
! Undiscovered little trunk, in its time as
much a source of pride as any genuine
alligatOr-skin one Is now to its pos
SCISSOR. There on top, as if put in last,
was a 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,
but without giving time for a reply the
speaker appeared and was clasped in
| Mrs. Ferris's arms. She seemed to
/ bring the sunshine which that instant
came pouring through the high side
window. falling full upon the little
trunk and covering it with a golden
glory.
80 Susie! Susie!'' was all Mrs. Ferris
could say, as she held her tightly. For
a moment Susie talked for both. She
had come for that feminine draught of
Lethe, known as "a good cry" Tears
and talk and laughter! Laughter and
talk and tears! Hysteria looked in at
the window.
Dick had patience. But patience has
a limit.
"Mother-Susie," said he reproach-
fully, s'where and when do I enter in
this little loving match? Have 1 no
rightsP Is not this mother mine, and
the sweetheart, too?'
Susie laid her hand on his, and lifted
a bright and laughing face frankly to
his. This is an extra" she said
gayly. II didn't expect to see you,