The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-01-02

Tor a man TO be dragged back ali the
time by shiftless wifel"
big round drop FLASHED down into
the fryin-pan which Mrs Sadley was
Just preparing to receive sundry slices
of well-cured ham which she had been
cutting; she made ne verbal repIy,
however
you say something? Sulking, l s'pose, as
usual?'
At this, poor Mrs Sadley burst into
tears
mo, Titus" said she, II amt sulE-
ing. But feel awful bad to-day, and il
don't take much to upset me. It's all
true what you say. am 4 poor, worn
out feeble creature, and / don't blame.
You for gettin' out of patience But if
/ hadn't worked so hard all these
years"
''Oh, yes, there's always some excuse
growled the squire; and taking a stray
sample number of fashion paper, he
went out to sit in the honeysuckle
shade.
II can't stand that roasting fire" said
he.
Then" said Kitty, the e5lfart terrible,
chow do you suppose that mother likes
it?"
In an instant, however, her tickle,
childish attention was diverted
''Seer' she cried. There come Cousin
Mary and Mr.. Dallas over the hill! Oh!
father! they're engaged Did you know
it?7
''Yes,r absently answered the squire,
intent on his paper.
Il was in the parlor that night; it
Numbered and rained so hard" said
Kitty. with twinkling eye, ''and they
didn't know it. And l heard them talk
ing TO each other. And he called her
his darling love"
''Humphi" grunted the squire. "a
reg'lar case O. spooning.'
And she said he was her dearest,
dearest one," added Kitty the circum-
stantial.
Young foolse' snapped Squire Sad
ley.
Father" said Kitty leaning on his
shoulder-she was the only one in the
house who was not afraid OF the stern
despot-''don't all lovers talk so?'
They're fools for their pains, if they
do"
Didn't you love mother when she
was girl like Cousin Mary? Didn't
you say just such things TO her?;'
The squire moved uneasily in his
chair under the calm, searching light of
Kitty's eyes
II might ha' DONE" he owned at last
81 s'pose was just as great an idiot as
other folks be-"
u don't see why people ever leave it
off," said Kitty, abstractedly. WAS
mother a pretty grip
Don't talk nonsense said the
squire, almost angrily; and he got up
Z cd 70 n1 Iar,
bench beside the well curb.
Had Kitty's mother been a pretty
girl? Yes. that she had-rose-cheelzed
and limpid-eyed, with laugh sweet as
the note of a thrush, and the lightest
foot, in Virginia reel, of any girl in
the neighborhood. And now, Il am
poor, wOrn-out, feeble creature" she
had said, in the faint, weary accents.
looking at him out of the dim, faded
eyes; land l don't blame you for got
ting out Of patience" Yes; it was all
true. But what had wrought the
change? Whose fault was it?
Il don't know" SAID the squire, star
irr at Heavens blue eye reflected far
down in the heart of the deep, cool
well, but l most think I've been too
hard on her. Now l come to study on
il, I've had lots o. hired help about the
farm, and she's done all the house
work herself. And she never was very
strong! Was she pretty girl? There
wasn't none prettier in a radius o.
twenty miles around Kingsley church,
And 10 look at her RO1ot"
The squire got up and stamped IN
easily around the well.
I've been brutet' he muttered to
himself Worse than d dumb brute
for they amt supposed to know no bet
ter. don't know what I've been think
in of all these years Leave of loving
her? ! hain't never left il off. ! love
her now, bless her faithful, patient
soul. as well as ever did, only I've fell
into the way of .bein' careless and neg
lectful. But I'll turn over new leaf
this very day, see if don'tr'
He kept his word.
Engaged, Mary? Is 1t really
settled thing?" said Mrs. Sadley. ''Oh.
| hope you'll be happy! / hope, after
twelve years of marriage, dear Mary,
you'll be as happy as L am nowI"
Her eyes shone; faint color glowed
on her ordinarily pale cheeks. Nary
Sadley looked at her in surprise.
would you believe" went on the
squire's wife, he has hired a girl TO
come here and do all the rough work,
so as 70 spare me? And there is such
an easy, spring upholstered sofa in the
hall, III place of the lumpy old lounge;
and there's one of the hay-hands split
ting pile of wood TO last from now to
Michaelmas- And we are to keep our
wedding anniversary in real old-fash-
ioned style, next week; and Titus has
ordered dress trimmed with white rib
bons, Just like the one was married in.
He says / shall look as young and pret-
ty as ] did then. Such nonsense, you
so-now, isn't it?"
And Mrs. Sadley laughed through her
tears
Poor souli The sunshine had come
late in life, yet it filed her whole be-
ing with blessedness.
''Pm so glad!" said Mary. "But you
deserve il all, Cousin Euaice."
And the newly-betrothed lovers whis-
pered to each other that the miIienni-
um must surely be at hand. For what
else could so have changed the squire?
They did not stop torefiect that there
is truth in the old saw: Good in all,
and none all good. Amy Randolph, in
n. Y. Ledger.
He Got Things Mixed Up
theological student, who was accom-
panied by his professor to country
place where the former was to preach,
prevailed upon the professor to make
the opening prayer. Arising TO make