Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-07-24

and brilliant yellow blossoms. "Aul
the blows carry me right back to East
Macedonia and the pretty smells there
used to be there iu tue spring of the
year. Seems as if spring hajlu'ta fAir
chance here in Potiphar City. Your
father used to like q mess Of pork and
green's"
COB, ma, I wieh you wouldn't want
such dreadfully vulgar things!" Aldie
Luella, who was sixteen, had tears OF
vexatlon in her pretty bluo eyes.
".And wish you could get over East
Macedonia. The Parkhursts came
from there, too, but who would think
it? They're the very first people in
Potiphar City and-aud Augusta
wouldn't invite me to the Charity Club
tableaux.
The reason for the little fine FUCKERS
that had been oil day between Addie
Luella's brows hnl come out now.
Mrs. Tibbetts looked vaguely per-
picked and troubled; she dimly COM
pretended that to have mother OBJ
livious OF grammar and Of social
aspirations made life full Of pin
pricks for Addie Luellu.
n Potiphar City one was nothing if
lot stylish. Fifteen years before, the
city had been strip of uurecluimed
prairie; now it was great lumber
town with most of the appliances of
civilization dali the fashions. Hiram
Tibbetts, coming from East Mace
donna in Maine, dld his share in re-
claiming the prairio and made for
tune in lumber. "Pa" was quite o
lnagnate OF Potiphar City; but of
what use wns that, demanded Addie
Luella, with tears, if ma would be 30
common and old-fashioned?
~ guess you'll have to do your So
cial climbin' without your ma," said
good Hiram Tibbetts, gazing with
pride upon his pretty daughter. "?s"
did understand little.
"It don't seer mite like A'lcline
Parkhurst to get so stuck up" said
Mrs. Tibbetts, reAectively. "When
we was girls in East Macedony, there
want nobody go ultimate rs Adeline
and me; and I named you for her aud
she named Augusty for me. Eaoch
Parker and your father are second
cousins, too, and it's dretful clan
nish family; they stick to one mother
through thick and thin. But your
father and Enoch had difficulty about
some railroad stocks and hain't never
spoke to each other sence; and then
their goiu' to another meetin', and
Adeline gettin SO kind of high ilviu';
not but what she's a real good woman
and gives away sight"
''She isn't likely to have much to
give away if what I've heard is true. )"
This wns Hiram Tibbetts, junior, q
boy of seventeen, who had just come
in with tho Importance of rosscssor
of news. "It's a secret; I overhead
pa and another man talking about it.
Purkhurst is In IN awfully tight place /;
they think he'll fail then his mills will
be closed; they say he'smale au awful
struggle to keep 'em open all winter
and-don't you breathe 1t to anybody,
but they're afraid thcre'll be run on
the bank that he's President Of; he
hasn't done anything wrong, but he
lost his head when he began to get
into trouble, aud there are doubts
about the way some of the banks
money is invested"
''Do you suppose there won't be any
tableaux, Hi?" asked Addie Luella,
breathlessly.
"Oh, 'Gusta don't know anything
about it yet, ofcourse, nor her mother,
either. I saw them driving around
this morning with that pair of spank
ing bays and new carriage. l sup
pose he thinks ho must keep up ap-
pearances.
"Im glad we don't have to, said
Mrs. Tsbbetts, drawing long breath.
~ declare, if we have gone such diff
runt ways feel nearness to Adeline
when she's in trouble. Kind of queer
that was thinkin' OF her this mornin'.
I expect it twas because seeiu' them
cowslips in reddler's wagon fetched
old times right back to me. I run
right out anil bought all he had-nnd
now dou't know us l know exactly
what to do with 'em all. Your father
used to like mess of pork and
greens" "
AAdie Luclla sighed heavily; but
she helped herself to nll the blossoms,
and made of her boudoir what her
friend, Trixy Wainwright. called q
symphony in yellow with them, and
filled q great bowl with them to deeo-
rate the dinner table. "A1a" sutl she
loved to smell posies when she was
eating; but she didn't like the candles
with which A.ldio Luella persisted in
lighting the table; she sai'l candles
were old.fashioued in East MaceLony
when she was girl, aud what was the
sense of haviu' 'cm when they had
electric lights?
spa" looked askance ut the cowslip
greeus; he said he used to like 'em
when be was boy, but he guessed
with his dyspepsy ho wouldn't rcsk it.
Mrs. Tibbctts looked ut the neglected
dish of greens and had m inspiration
(she kept it private, US size did many
OF her Inspirations. lest they shoul
be frownel upon by Addie Luelln).
She put some of the greens, with n
slice of pork on the top, into dish ol
the old ctover-leat china that WAS her
,nnthpr's -thav seemed t1 brlOnr IN