The Newtown bee., 1897-07-02
90 AND 81 BANK STREET
~ WATERBURY, CONN.

[ do think the boy ought to go. It's M
notion he'll never MAKE farmer, he
too set GU his books; not but what
farmer can be as smart as anybody, blu
it's not in nature to do one thing well
when your whole heart and soul ar
laundering after something else.
No! L say let Willie go to college, ant
let Mary go to school, and Themes Il
the singing school, if they want to go
It'll do you good, for there's none of on
children going to be any of the ignoran
stock, let me tell you that.
"Of course you can't do the work, no
body expects you to; but you've got thu
money that'll hire it done, and it's 1
great deal better to be few dollars out
of pocket and have the love of you
children than to leave it all to them af
tar while, and maybe have them feel
ing glad when you're gone.
l think, sometimes, perhaps if ye'G
been little more kind and gentle like tt
Elizabeth, she might "a"
mis- Heyworth! Hannah" ex
claimed the husband, with suddenly
awakened dignity, ~ hope you'll not at
tempt to blame me for what that sinful
girl may have done; me, deacon J.
And he clasped the chairs arm firmly
while his feet took an amazed jump from
the fender to the floor.
Being deacon doesn't help the mat
ter bit, and it won't help you, either
when it comes to the last, and If you've
not tried, or done anything to make any
one else happy, I'm afraid there will moi
: be much happiness for you: folks car
sin in not doing what they ought to do
as we'll as in doing what they ought not
and We'll be judged for what we have
not done as we'll as for what we have.
No Nathan! make your children hap
py, and no matter if it does take 8
little money to do it, you'd far better
leave them without cent than to have
your money mould and rot because you
denied them these favors. 1t takes
mighty little sometimes, to make anoth
er one happy, but I've notion it goes s
long ways with God!"
Deacon Heyworth could not sleep. HI
was, to say the least of it, surprised
This was not Hannah's usual way of
talking, and he could not imagine what
in the world possessed her now. If sht
had spoken .angrily, he could have re
piled, but her language had been sc
calm, SO dispassioned, 80 straightfor
ward, that he had not the least oppor.
tunity for anger.
For while he could not think of moth
ing but the stfangeness of his patient
gentle-voiced wife talking in this way
to him, then gradually her words cam'
back to him, and the more he remem
bered of them the more they troubled
him; but not that he thought she ''looket
at things in too strong light, for VIVA
need was there for Willie to go to col.
lege? He never went, never wanted to e.
even; the boy knew too much now 70
any good then as for Mary, she's oct
ter scholar this very day than [ am, ant
there's no more need o. her going t.
school than there is of Her there!" AM
the deacon very complacently eyed
great yellow and white dog lying be
hind the stove, and decided that it wa
all humbug, that he had ''set his foo
down." etc. "But then, it was kind O
mean to say they shouldn't when Har
nah had set her heart on it; faint ofte
she crosses me; she's been a powerful
good wife and mother, Hannah has,
unused the deacon with q remorsefu
twinge. "Wonder what did possess hel
though, to say what she did abou
E izabeth?'' and just then the deacon
little devil, self-conceit, stepped in an
| spurted at such rate about man
controlling his own house, and dea
cons knowing what was right and bes
for his family, of course, that he turne
over in his bed and closed his eyes firm
ly, and with telling of consciou
superiority. OF course he knew wha
was best!
But he could not sleep; over and owe
again he determined not tn think an
more about ii, but over and over agai
would the words reeur to him: 81
you've never done anything to mai
others happy. I'm afraid there'll not /
much happiness for you when it com.
to the last" He could not get rid ,
them, try as he would, until, in desper
ton, he determined to end them by sci
| NJ Sc or
DRY, first carlessly, then eagerly, the
anxiously and with great wondering
it really could be, and if his childrt
j might not possibly be glad when he W
dead; the thought was horrible, =
: turn whichever way he would, it on
q grew more intensely certain, for fro
among all the years, the days, the houl
7 gathered from the past he could on
! single out pitiful selfishness and gree
II jest wish Hannah hadn't said an,
!, thing about II, 7 he groaned, as restlel
: ly tossing over and over he found hi
q self unable to stifie his awakening CO
r science. I'll not be 1T for q lick o. wol
e tomorrow
2 The deacon was not so unlike the RI
n of US after all.
g Sleep came to him at length, not swe
/ and refreshing, but busy with dreamin
Y that startled the mans soul like AFRO,
. Of warning.
d He dreamed it was the last great da
b the millions on millions of people melt
q slowly away from before him, bringi
4 him nearer and nearer the Great Arhii
Q of souls. Countless throngs Of ang
s. lowered near, bursting forth Ia rant
1t csu ssf3inrv ~ f.na III thc h;rs,aat ii,