Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-12
THE POWER OFJEALOUSY

1t was Sunday, and | was walking home
from church with Rose Arthur, and we
wero engaged. / had known her only a
few months, but | think if she had said no
instead of yes | should have died of it, We
had done our duty; we had been to church,
and now | had coaXed her to go with me
into the woods, and we sat down on hol-
low log beside great patch of violets that
were in bloom there, and | told her how
loved her, over and over again, and how
could not understand what there was in a
big rough fellow like me that a pretty
creature like her coald care for, but that
would do my very best to make her happy
NIL her life; and she promised to marry me
in autumn,
You see wasn't n pretty man. | was,
TO make the stGtement short and true, as
ugly as hcctling black brows and great
fists like sledgo hammers and thick nose
and n square jaw could make young fell
low, and girls did not generally care for me-
And yet was always kind to a woman
young or old; couldn't bear to see one i'm
posed upon, and would have done anything
could for the ugliest of them. My polite
ness wasn't all for thoso ! admired but
women don't care much for anything but
looks in n man They don't care for any
one who isn't like n Christmas doll or
wax figure in a barbe1's window That's
what / used to say to myself, and now this
sweetest, best, lovelicst Of all of them loved
me Why, felt as if | must be crazy to
| believe it. asked her over and over again,
and was too happy-too happy. Yes, far
/ too happy.
We were not a fine lady and gentleman
! madc fireworks, and was considered good
/ at my trade and reliable, and was a fore
man in one of the departments. felt that
/ | could take care OF IA wife when l had one,
/ and Rose had come TO work at the pretty
| fancy work they put into the girls hands
some time before.
But she was lady, if looks and heart
/ and manners are to be counted. And she
! had good plain education, So had l. and
/ ! don't believe that any of your stylish folk
were ever happier or more hopeful; and af-
/ ter the Sunday in the woods we set to work
! with a win, looking forward to our little
home more than most folks, perhaps for
she was an orphan and so was |, and we
had neither kith nor kin on earth. And
so the time sped by and Fourth of July
came close ut hand and we were very busy
dt was Nardens factory we we're working
att came down to help. He was very hand
some and the girls all admired him, and
even Annie said to me half n dozen times:
ooh! isn't he lovely, John?'
And somehow l hated to hear her say it,
She wouldut if she had known what a
jealous fellow | was.
To add to her savings Annie was doing
so she 5ail-somc fine embroidery for Miss
Lawrence, q very rich young lady in the
village, aud had to go over TO see her
about it of evenings. In ordinary times
could have gone with her but we were toe
busy inst this time. However one day
Ind an errand TO do that took me out
about the time she started, and, wrong oil
right ] meant to take n little more time
and go $50 far with her. and waited behind
p church wall to see her come up, meaning
TO have "a little fun over t.
IL was poor fun for mo ~ il turned ont
Tor heard steps and voices In a moment
end pocuing ogt s-.v .nes 'n'n-'d h"'