The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-11


the blows carry me right back TO East
Macedonia and the pretty smells there
used to be there in the spring of the
year. Seems as if spring hadn't fair
chance here in Potiphar City Your
father used to like a mess Of pork and
green's"
ooh, ma, | wich you wouldn't want
such dreadfully vulgar things" Addie
Luella, who was sixteen, had tears of
vexation in her pretty blue 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-and Augusta
wouldn't invite me to the Charity Club
tableauX.
The reason for tho little fine Fuckers
that had been all day between Addie
Luolla's brows had come out now.
Mrs Tlbbetts looked vaguely per-
picked aud troubled; she dimly com.
pretended that to have motbo~n''
if-'' 'r'rs-.- ~ tttver5e44,PhOl"s "suentl
ID aspirations made life full of pin
DIlChs lOI hNillt lAutllu.
In Potiphar City one was nothing il
not stylish. Fifteen years before, the
city had been strip of unreclaimed
prairie; now it was great lumber
town with most of the appliances of
civilization and all the fashions. Hiram
Tibbetts, coming from East Mace.
donia in Maine, did his share in re.
claiming the prairie and made for.
tune in lumber. "Pa" was quite d
magnate OF Potiphar City; but o
what use was that, demanded AddiC
Luella, with tears, if ma would be sC
common and old-fashioned?
81 guess you'll have to do your so
cial climbin' without your ma, sal,
good Hiram Tibbetts, gazing will
pride upon his pretty daughter. ''Pa'
did understand II little.
"It don't seem mite like Adelin,
Parkhurst to get so stuck up" sale
Mrs. Tibbetts, reflectively "WheI
we was girls in East Macedony, ther,
want nobody SO intimate as Adeline
and me and ! named you for her and
she named Augusty for me. Enoct
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 youl
father and Enoch had difficulty about
some railroad stocks and haiu't never
spoke to each other sence; and ther
their goiu' to another meetin', an(
Adellne gettin' SO kind of high hyin'
not but what she II real good woman
and gives away sight"
"She isn't likely to have much tC
give away if what I've heard is true.
This was Hiram Tibbetts, junior,
boy of seventeen, who had Just com,
in with the importance of Tossesso
of news. "It's secret; | overhead
pa and another man talking about it
Parkhurst is in an awfully tight place
they think he'll fail then his mills will
be closed; they say he s made an awfu
struggle to keep 'em open all winte
and-don't you breathe 1t to anybody
but they're afraid there'll be II run ol
the hauk that he's President of; b
hasn't done anything wrong, but h
lost his head when he began to ge
into trouble, and there are douot
about the way some OF the bank
money Is invested.
"Do you suppose there won't be an
tableaux, Hi?" asked Addie Luella
breathlessly.
"Oh, 'Gusta don't know auythin,
abont it yet, OF course, nor her mother
either. | saw them driving 1ln
this morning with that pair ot D. ..Ink
ing bays and new carriage. / SUI
pose he thinks he must keep up AZ
pearances.
"Im glad we don't have to-, sal
Mrs. Tlbbetts, drawing long breatt
~ declare, il we hive gone such di
runt ways | feei nearness TO Adelin
when she's in trouble. Kind of que.
that | was thinkin' OF her this mornin
expect it twas because seeip' the
cowslips in redller's wagon fetchc
old times right back 10 me. ru
rish, out and uouyhs all he had IA,
y. n. A Il -.