The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-03
AIMS Only Lover
ny KEZIAH SHELTON,

Ann, the roads amt broke out and can't
be tonight; know, for I'm surveyor for
this deestrict. it's drifted dreadful, for
the wind has blowed harrycane from all
pints o. the compuss ever sense sun-up;
and jess warnt a-going to ask no men
to shovel out this weather for northing
less than a sick COW or a collicky hoss!
II s'pose anybody's wife could get along
without a doctor, till the sun breaks out
a path, eh?"
Even as the worm turns, so Mr. Grants
wife was stung into bitterness, as his
words reached his own mutterings at the
trouble of going for a doctor, and his
evident belief that he should have re-
ceived the sympathy that was sometimes
accorded 60 the suffererP
Ellis only satisfactory listeners were the
old maids of the neighborhood and the
widows.
Mr.. Grant was ever slow 10 reply, so it
was several seconds at least. before he
said. Yes generally there's somebody
that can do well enough for women folks
sicknesses, but with good COW, or hoss
ats another thing, and you can't afford
10 take no resks, il needs a man that
knows his business 10 deal with stock;
iHey cost moneys!
And wives are to be had for the ask
ing, eh?" exclaimed the wife, exasperat-
ed, as painful memories come back to her
mind.
Wives? If a man needs new wife,
|. he'll find an acreful ready and waiting;
he needn't run after them; they'll invite
him 90 tea There, do let's stop quarrel
ling; you're old enough not to be so
pesky aggravatin'! Do stop snivel.ng,
Ann; you make me ashamed of We "a
| great, grown-up girl like you, TO bawl
| sou f
"But-I-want TO go,-to that party.-so
much; I'm dying-to see new faces, and
hear new things. and have good time"
II know why Ann wants to CO." broke
in Mrs. Grant. That young dandy cousin
| of Hates, that she saw last summer az
the picnic. has upset her mind, an she
wants to see him agin. l amt in no
hurry for her 10 get stiddy beau. an
I'm glad enough that the SHOWS so deep
that she can't go to that dance"
You needn't worry, l amt likely to see
beau, nor be seen by one, as close as
you keep me here at home; so there"
You needn't begin to worry, Ann. at
your age! Eff the good Lords made any
| body for you, fences nor snowbanks
amt a-going to keep you from finding
you, and you won't find happiness, If
you get in such a hurry that you start
! out to find what warnt made for youl
'Tain't the girls that go the most, an
| have the most fellers a-hangnig round
| 'em, that marries first, nor the best
mo" chmed in her father, "'taln't
no recommendation TO a likely man, to
have It said that the girl he's all took up
| with has gone buggy-riding and sot up
| with half the gay boys in the town."
ut won't never be said about me,' said
| Ann. bitterly. "Lousann Green told Je-
| NINA Brown the other day that she didn't
know what there was agin me, but she
did know that didn't take with the fell
ers, like the Ellery girls; that there was
| a light every Sunday night in their par
| lor, and they warn't no beauties. either"
I'm glad for once, that Louisann Green
| told che truth; when you're older, the
sense will come into your head--for you're
no fool an you'll know then, why it's
| a compliment to you, that folks
can say such things about you, and prove
it, too!'
mo, Ann don't feel worried about
your being a old maid. you amt a-gong
to get left, onless It's best for you. Things
come along, about as the Lord orders"
That's so. weddings an funerals can't
| be held back when their times come. for
Providence pushes them right along,
whether We coax, or how'll said Mrs.
! Grant.
whats that, down by the bend In the
! Great Road? Looks like an ox-team; can't
be that the Lower Deestrfct is a-tryfng to
break out the road this time o'day and the
wind a-blowing like Sam HILL Somebody
must a-got storlled, and made 'em start
| to shovel him thru"
/ IT'S the Lower DeeStrict's men and
teams, sure enough! 1 can tell Benn Boss
now, by his blue woollen frock, tied round
| his waist with a red comforter as usual
They can't get no further tonight, for
that air mex banks piled up too high;
| guess I'll go an see, who's in that red
/ a1af sxh q tnA ,evo axrr 4rxr-
ing to help somebody through, sure's my
names John NJ. Grant"
"Hallo, Grant, guess youl have to
| do as the Bible says,and take this stranger
| I'M Seems to be a sort Of you've got 10
! do 1t whether or no; for here he Is, and
here's his boss and sleigh. He was mighty
sot on getting to Rakevlle tonight. but
IL can't be did. for 1 can't get through
here tonight, an the upper deestrict is
wuss nor this; this Is the biggest snow
we've had this many year"
Thus it came about that the Grants had
| a guest for the night and late into the
next day, and Ann Grant enjoyed the I'M
! expected pleasure of seeing a new face.
/ and hearing a new voice. She blushed as
she recalled her parents crude logic that
fate could not be baked by wind nor
weather. Providence had provided this
pleasure for her In double sense; the
young man had come from the city of
| that name, and the storm had providenti-
| ally kept her at home against her will!
1t chancellor was II ordered?-that his
| father had been boyhood friend Of Mr..
/ Grants, a great recommendation TO
! man of his type. who held to old notions
! and was afflicted with that idea that men
/ he knew were probably more worthy
than those who came to him as strangers!
Late the next afternoon, the "deestrict
teams" from the upper district came
down, and he prepared to follow them
back, hoping to meet with no further de-
lay. He gladly responded favorably TO Mr..
Grants hearty Come and see US again,
sometime, when you don't have to-!
He made his dinner call' a day or two
later on his return trip to Providence.
The sleighing was so unusually fine that
he would have been very strange youth
indeed, IL he had not asked Ann TO take
a snow-ride of a few miles with him in
| his cutter.
other sleigh-rides followed with gus
plcious frequency, so the neighbors
| thought Evidently Frank Jenkins fully
believed in the theory that happy is he