New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-04-27

lay there doing nothing to prevent
| it. George ought to be at school
and the girls need clothes-not finery,
but good, plain winter clothes
All this was true, every word OF it,
But how we're the needed things to be
brought about? George and / talked
it over while we rode into Lexingt ton
Aunt Agatha ought to help us, =
said. She has no one but herself
to care for, for Ella is even better
off than Auntie herself. !"
Ella was Aunt Agatha s only child,
and was possessed of a fortune in her
own right.
Aunt Agatha ought to help us.
She could, if she would.
George touched his horse with his
riding-Whip. 81 would not be COM
PEELED to wade through the avalanche
of epistolary hopelessness that would
follow her assistance for all the mon
ey she possesses he declared. Evil
is wrought by want of thought as
we'll as want Of heart, and Aunt Ag-
atha's gloomy letters make us cross
and unhappy and discouraged. So
whether she intends itornot the evil
is wrought just the same. Z
Fifteen minutes later George came
out from the postoffice with short,
thick white envelope bearing the
Princeton postmark.
Let's destroy it, pelle, said
George, as we were galloping home
ward.
"No,'' / replied, s'it is not ours.
Whatever. it may contain, mother
alone has the right to dispose of it.
But there is SO much to worry her
just now that we will slip it behind
the clock with the others till things
look brighter
There were just five of these same
short, thick white envelopes "behind
the clock already! At the rate they
We're accommodating we must soon
have reading Or a clearing out of
some sort, or else the oldclock would
rebel and betray the secret.
When we reached home father was
feeling better and the letter we
brought him from an old friend over
in Tennessee-it was such a breezy,
CHEEKY letter that it was difficult to
believe that it treated only Of stocks
and bonds and business matters
gave him 81 much pleasure that I
thought l might venture to show
Aunt Agatlla's.
"Father,' I began, 'sthere was an
other letter, but"
"From Aggie!' he said, with a
frown. "Take the CON"
"Williamp' 1t was mothers voice,
gently reproachful, yet full of unex-
pressed relief.
Father became gloomy again. II
tell you, Eunice," he said, '.if people
cannot write pleasantly they ought
not to write letters at all. They
have no right to affiict other people
with their doleful anticipations. [
wish Agatha would never put your
name upon another envelope. I
heartily wish it, and sometimes am
tempted to write and tell her so.'
But she means we'll
''No doubt, but we are indebted to
her for all our present financial trou-
ble I would have sold the stock last
spring, when Rogers wanted it, but
for Agatha's harangue about leav-
ing my wife and children withouta de-
cent saddle horse Then when the
widow Gleaves offered me $4,000
for the farm over in Henry county |
ought to have taken it, and / would
have taken it but for Agatha's let
ter prophesying that would leave
my family without shelter if 1 per-
sisted in selling off my land Land
is always q safe investments | re-
member her very words. She has
been the ruin Of me by making me
doubtful and uneasy, and afraid to
act for myself
That night sat alone with mother
in the old sitting room, talking over
our tangled affairs. "Mother" Isaid,
after a long silence, "don't you think
we had better write to Aunt Agatha?
She is devotedly fond Of you: and will
willingly help u.s.
Mother shook her head. "My
DEAR she said, ''we will not make.
our troubles hea vier putting them
in writing. We can bear our own
burdens; we have no right to ;smict
other people with them"
She agreed, however, that might
write to Ella, Aunt Agatha's daugh-
ter, and ask her to visit us. She
came, bright, sunny hearted Ella
Norris, and with her coming the
house seemed to shake off it's burden
of doubt and gloom. Father forgot
his rheumatism and began to limp
about the place again through the
day. Each evening we gathered in
the sitting-room and had games,
music and no end Of pleasant con-
versation.
One night Ella and / sat alone be-
fore the sitting room fire having our
last chat, for my cousin was to leave
me the next afternoon. We must
have sat there far into the night, for
atlast mother called to us to go to
bed. ] CHANGED to glance up at the I
clock, and found that it had run
down.
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