The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-02
INsURM0NTABLE OBSTACLE
a story Founded on an Indian" Episode.
Written for the HERALD. /

W riiJen Tor Itl6 IL hhAiapsI
Geolorisis know when all animal
life began they can 90 back to the
time when IA kingfisher was only d
fi-h; aud they can almost trace man
back to a monkey, or as Darwin SAID
an animal W. tn two legs and arms
OF the mammal family, covered with
harp But no scientist has yet been
able to trace in the life of any girl
the first identical moment in her IN
nocent career when she began to fall
in love.
Now, many people fall in love Ike
t!tcv fall down the stair steps, or on Il
hidden banana p. el,-very suddenly
and very hard. But not so with
sweet fifteen year old frankie Pierce,
of q centOwn, Indiana. She ieil III
love gradually, but none the less ell
f.rtually; and while she didn't know
IT was loaded, she found out after
wards that it was.
WI. lam Thomas wa5 handsome
young policemen, who wore his baton,
hi- blue coat brass buttOns,an Dlanu
smile ON the beat that led by Frank
les fathers home. William was
Young on the force aid full OF his
nnportancp. How grandiy would he
use his official power in stopping TOO
rapid IocomotiOn! How gallantly he
would assist hedecked beauty across
=
crepid age the safest path across the
sIinpcry crossing! How like an
angry mastiff did he arrest by the
ear and lead to direst dungeon vile
the offending boot-black! Alas! Why
will weak women fall in love with
the man of Kingly power? Thus
Tell Dido, thus fell Mary Stuart-ahd
a woman over in Memphis.
Frankie found herself watching
the clock for the hour when William
Nyould prss the house In vain her
domestic mother did the house work
and the rhOrcs, aud called Tor heip.
How could frankie mini her when
she c.uld not mind hCr wheel,
nother,' nay, she could mot hlho
her wheel" William WAS all man
need De in splendid form ard manly
,,arriage. and iL WAS only necessary
for him TO show the fine turn ot MS
itdrIIr ctuAl cAiiIer for poor FRANK"
to ,.auiIuIAte uuCU .Jit iu.I"lly. Ana
one day William showed n Az
would sha ever forget that day when
she first heard hi- vuIc'., aud earned
how d, ep and yet how kte ca ANA
,peuet aLing was hi intellect? Sl-
WAS sitting in the window. nan hi'
nv the nornIng-glory vines ami the
long curl of her own CXqu sl;c "N
IaalIe-, when lac Inssed, and, calling
TO au acquaintance across the rnaU
osLed hIu with a line origin Il y
mat WAS refreshing, say, In IA. - h"'
r,ouuh for yOu?' Frankie ''d ~. 81
killed herself laughing" IL Was too
funny" Aud that evening Whei
the rains came aud William l0cu .arIl
remarked to the jew who ran
snus .vr mill across the way, That jhii
"wa4 fine weather r. du"k-,
Frankie couId not longer resist sLcl
.nIpr,lid mental aLlHihments u
IiIch nm uniform OF blue. The ne\
d.y size threw him flower. Sh
had CaIituIated.
Levers HAYS au intense Objection
i'm tHIs enlightened agn of marrying
according To- due form OF deruruu
aud cnurch c,l4tom. It's ala ordlnar.
ptir, indeed, that cannot el"Pi. Ah'
fhis pair WAS not long in decldlh
that they must be ih fashion; an
aT,rr a brief courtship-taken ou
,.hi.flv in occulur demonstration
tie +lOpement > Was planned, tii
might iiXed-such night as til
novels tell of, dark and gloomy TN
rain falling iu bin uing shower% an
tie wind sOughing IN the dahgIih
tree tOIs.' ,.,,l
together on the evening OF tho mem
orable night: the modest trSVellh
dress. the new shoes and pretty nos
and the things of lace and embroluer.
and her hair crimpcrs-she must nav
them. She put them carefully OH III
chair by her bed and satd her prASe'
in the old home for the last time. F'
was she rot going to her llie
Jsstinvp Did not William love IN
and did not sne love William, al
was not marriage honorable? II
true she knew nothing OF Willlan
and That she was not out ol scllo'
and that she hadn't asked htr So'
f.;h, rs c1nReut, and that she kne
uothinp uf house keeping, but all
those were minor considerations az
cruId he easily adjusted after ward
81 she went TO sleep with u tear
her eve and one ear listening Tor e
sipnal Of the pebble on the pane
RAaIer, we dislike to introduce
william into this pretty play aua
do IL with humble apologies. II
fnc!1 IL, he introduced hum sell. "
man Pierce has simply been on l
stag. and behIud the scenes all u
time He runs grocery store 40"
an the cornereand his head is level I
hoth the price of lard and the dept
of love. His being the william III II
DlnV iz the only spot on the escutc
ION of his character. This old Will
was dyed in the wool; ne believed
nlati wing right, just as he ava ever
thing rlse right and with
tyinIIe IN his left eye, when I
time for action came he slipped II
Frankie's room when all was hush
in sIumber, and gently took all
these pretty clothes into his %,
room and lucke1 them sAteIy IN
own bureau drawer. Win Wills
ou= r~mal TO his good wife lhat =
would probably be aroused Oei'
dnv hv frankie with something ii
conc, stion, a. lie noticed she ate
may cabbaxts for supper, lac quie
tIIrI,..d in aud slept his cruel Vlil'
aus -leep.
Ths wind soughed and it sGugh'
aud the patteriug rain came GOV
A aiming steed drawing a "mlol m
4 ,uang man got out and tossed
nrHnie against the closed blind.