The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-19
DAISY'S FARM.
The Sterile Land That Proved a
Valuable Legacy.

Daisy was engaged, and her betrotbed
was receiving the merry congratula
tions of the family, consisting of he,
uncle, her aunt, and nearly a round
dozen of cousins.
Wharton Hill, a young lawyer, SLOWLY
winning name and fame in his profes.
sion, was being vigorously hand-shaken
and noisily welcomed by the Truemans.
when Ned cried:
Perhaps you didn't know Daisy was
an heiress, Wharton"
@Ned-don't!'' said Daisy, reproach-
fully.
"A landed proprietress, cried Tom.
Il do not refer to the paltry six hundred
year she draws from her fathers
estate, but to her own property"
sHer farm, in fact!'' said Sue.
''Yes, her farm" echoed Ned, coming
TO the front once more. '.When Won
are tired of law you can start gentleman
farming upon your country-seat."
After they were all gone, having Jest
ed long time on this subject, Wharton
was surprised to see tears in Daisv,s
soft, brown eyes.
'sWhat is it, darling?" he asked.
''They don't mean to hurt my feel
ings," Daisy said, gently, ''but they will
Jest about my farm, and-and-I don. t
like it."
"Bnt do you really own farm?"
ut is not a valuable possession, as Won
will see when tell you about it. When
Twas baby, soon after mamma died. I
was very i'll, and the doctors advised nv
father TO send me to the country for
change OF air. There was an old servant
OF fathers family, who had married a
farmer and was left a widow with a
small farm. Such farm, Wharton! The
house has only three rooms, and looks
as high wind would utterly demolish
1t; the land is so poor that it was slow
starvation to cultivate it. But it was all
5he home Margaret had. You NAV Judge
that she was very glad to receive the
hperal price father paid for me, and nv
own mother could not have given me
more loving care. Every year father
came to take me away, and every year
was persuaded to leave me, until I was
eight years old, and marvel of rugged
nealth and perfect ignorance. Then I
was put in boarding-school, but / still
spent my summer vacations with old
Margaret, and my trunk was always half
hiied with comforts for her. Having no
one In the world who claimed kindred
with her, no one else but me to love.
margaret loved me with her whole
neart. Six years ago, after father died,
and Icame here to live with Uncle Tom,
Margaret died and left me her farm. 1t |
mas been joke in the family ever since.
Ahe place is SO utterly valueless that we |
can neither sell it nor rent it, and it |
represents only the love of an old woma an |
ior her nursling."
Some time we will visit it. You have
not told me it's locality"
It is in Pennsylvania, nine miles
nom anywhere, father used to say, be-
oatise 1t IS nine miles off the railroad. |
Dut you can always hire wagon or car
siage at G-- to go over to Corn's Mill;
Aaa my farm is very near Corn's Mill. .
, AIter this explanation, Wharton bore
lae lestlng about Daisy's real estate
alsh perfect good nature, and declared
- intention of erecting a palatial
'ountry seat upon the place, when he
,ecame millionaire and Judge of the
supreme Court.
being people of modest desires, and
laVlng an income of about six hundred
'Ollars apiece, Wharton and Daisy saw
y reason to delay their wedding, and
,efe ! married with large assemblage
efue friends around them. They
'ens to housekeeping in little house,
lodestly furnished, and were fair speci-
lsns OF "love in cottage"
But Wharton Hill was ambitious.
lasing studied his profession under
seas difficulties, often going hungry to
" needful books, often losing his
lgnss rest to pore over knotty points,
7 was both fond and proud of his life
0ek, and stroVe to win a good position
lsfsln- His love for Daisy, true, honest
g.. ~ was never allowed to interfere {
l isl hls pursuit of fame in his pro- ]
'sslon, and after he was married he at /
.oAea MS studies with fresh ardor,
ssnolng his time in his office, when not l
'Sse,aily engaged in the courtroom.
Lutte Daisy, whose life was affection, |
,-na ame often hanging heavily upon t
= 3 hands, as Wharton became more
= $ more popular and the number of ]
: cnents increased. But she was al
! sys y ready with loving welcome when
4la come to his home, and she knew
- much of his ambition and ardor J
= =. Tor her sake. a
.asa a1e snird year of her married life was Q
.saay over, and her only child Tom y
s1s1an I Hill, was eighteen months q
y "aea Wharton. ever busy and full t