Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-04

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- q Nv "That's b a d.
y S&aA~ A~N said his wife, with
. SfS@f ,%S a despairing sigh.
@sl::: sl:::SEAl5| "Nlight as well lack
..GW3l it all"
@|s;ae@NE "Why?"
@N&$$ Because. Idon't
ss~ ~ know where you
can get that dollar. The express COM
pany won't trust you, and they will
send Che package back to New York"
''But perhaps L can borrow it.
''Where? Elder Tripp has come to
his limit-he told you so. The other
church elders and deacops are poorer
than our old rattlebones of hoss,
and 81 Manley, the only one with
property in the whole congregation,
might give it to you if you were starv-
ing to death; but to help buy me a
new dress-neyer. He would die
first"
"Well, what's to be one? My
salary isn't due for three II nths yet,
and in the meantime back it goes!'
"Joshuay!" cried the disappointed
woman, ''that mustn't happen. It's
the first dress I've had in four years,
and I have sot my heart on it day and
night. have saved those pennies by
piecemeal, and have earned every one
of them over and over dozen times.
Now, to have the prize come all the
way from New York, come to our very
doorstep, and start on its long way
back again just because the Methodist
minister of Beverly hasn't q dollar
and can't get it: that's what I call too
bad"
The dominic heaved deep breath,
drew his slouch hat down over his
eyes, and went out of the house full Of
mental calculations. He circled about
the woodpile once or twice, went NUT
tering through the parsonage garden,
and the people who observed him
thought the good man was composing
another columbiad to hurl into the
That dollar ru;rp' ',hrIsef,.sau,erati
all-necessary dollar! He had seen
the time when its round and shiny
mightiness was no bigger than a
mustard seed; now it appeared to him
about the size Of the planet Jupiter,
and quite rs inaccessible. The good
mans heroic slave of wife had never
asked -nrsth,ns- 4LaA Ai.47A-I.4.-, -
the flock of Beverly hadn't given her
grudgingly all these years, and now &c
be compelled to turn back the hrs
sweet little messenger of Joy that ha(
visited her humdrum life was like
DENYING an angel Of heaven admlttanct
because there is nothing but hog ant
hominy to feed her on.
Suddenly there was heard tine ciat
ter OF hoofs along the deserted roa'
leading bv the dominie's bleak doml
cile, and then rider drew up along
side the garden aud peered about Wit
hesitation. Suddenly he espied tn
old man and seemed encouraged.
"Do you know where Parson M!
dow lives, sir?' he asked i'll the hlG
falsetto of an overgrown boy.
"Right here" said the worthy mar
catching at straw as it were. II
came forward and adjusted his glasses
seeing a shiftless youth, barefootet
with trousers all patches and shirt q
holes held together with the wreck
q single suspender, face grimy al
dirty. "Another funeral away up
the eulch. I suppose, he mused.
"Be you the dominica" followt
the boy.
s'I am.
s'Then come right away. You
wanted up at Dan Sykes's to splice
pair.
The good man smiled, but it was
smile that does not warm. That d'
lar was ever before him.
"Hurry up, or it will be too late
enjoined the youth.
'Too late for what?'
"For to do the ceremony. TheJ
60 off and git some one else, and yo1
be out your fee. "
For the first time in all his life
Rev. Joshua Kildow grew mercena
With a wave OF the hand he bade
youth wait few moments, then w
into the house to get his regulat
black coat. s'We're saved, Bashe
dear" he said calmly, as If impart
good news were of hourly occurren
sThere's wedding on.
"Where?" This was spoken
sceptically, as if she knew everyth
in that little world, that was or wa
be, and doubted his accuracy:
"Away up in the mountains,
miles from here" he said briskly.
The face of the woman fell, and
went on with her task with hope das'
She knew the mountain folks-k
that among them dollars were as Sc
as pearls in an ash dump. They
more like wild beasts in her est
tion; and she ran over the list OF
husbands probable reward-a b
of ducks, haunch of venlson,
of wild honey, or a bushel OF hlc
nuts-but money, never.
Soon the reverend reappeared
ambush, wearing the same official
ment that had expostulated IRON
pulpit, spread its broad arms owe {,
dead, and held many babe AT cl
ening, and which seemed SO nat
ted to these tasks now that 1t :,
scarcely have surprised the goo"
of Beverly, if the old coat wen5 !
on marrying and christening and
ing people long after the good do
had passed away "Bashy, dea'
said diplomatically, do you 1nln
would be justified in refusing t
form that ceremony unless 60
dollar in hand?"
His wife thought q moment.
she said at length. "You wo11io
he encouraging what is bad, You
those mountain peopie-they're
ems, that's what they are. 9o
go and do your duty by them,
Il.