Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-01-03

LIN A.
.CYCLONE.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
! Vlasta looked wistfully out of her
ssmall-paned window, deep-set in the
sheasY sod wall, and sighed. &
The piles of unwashea dinner dishes
over which she was at work hardly &C.
counted, for that sigh and the view
without was pleasant, rather than
otherwise.
ysdt was Sunday afternoon in the
late June, hot and unusually still for
that windy country, but the rolling
stretches of prairie grass and the
green fields. OF young wheat and corn
still held ethe Niresbness 2 Of. early
Bit the cloud emo larger than q
mans hand. ''is always present in some
6sms On etRsn "a p -.
One was at that moment rising
lazily on the western horizon, over
the TOW; green hills, just faint sum-
msr cloud, unseen by the girl, whose
eyes were fixed On q nearer and, to
shsF, much more attractive object.
SThis, assis apt to be the case when
maidens Sigh, was o yonng man, who,
on the other side Of IA barbed- wire
Sfencessome little distance away, was
sbnsily engaged in washing his buggy,
which was rolled in front of his own
( little sod house. as
ssHe Was Of middle size, dark-haired
and featured, like herself, and clad i'll
the careless costume of overalls and
jacket of blue denim, and dingy from
exposure to sun and weather, and the
battered sombrero of light felt, which
were usual in his everyday occupation
gef farming.
4 As any one familiar with that part
sofsthe coRntryseould tell alta glance.
J they..Mefe young Bohemians, mem begs.
of that great army: Of hardy settlers
swho have. made homes fpti! shemsel Ives
IN the pre- led west, 4
Btis hearts viii be hearts in every
nlase e,and Juliet may pine for her
Romeo in ancient castle no more than
IN humble sod house, as did this COM
m6npiace little heroine, with her plain
bnt kindly face.
Now, by. custom immemqrial Sunday
Is the rural holiday everywhere and it
is especially so, among our, foreign
! born citizens, who on that day sally
forth, clad inastheirS best, ready for
visiting and merry making and seeing
: no incongruity between church and
) mass in the morning and dance in
the afternoon and evening.
So, considering. this, it seemed that
the young settler, Albsecht Hollub.
should be on pleas ure bent, and the
signs indicated to that SO he was, or
soon should be. Herein lay the sting
which changed for her the sunshine
of that glorious June day to gloom.
For Albrecht-was 4goiug riding" in
his new buggy-going without her,
md, no doubt, with some other girl.
when It really was her place on tbat
seat beside him.
fAnd had she not proudly occupied
ituntil that ,pnlucky night not yet two
weeks ago, but seeming half lifetime.
as girls short lifetime goes?
Such little thing, too, rs isgener-
allythe case, to-have- caused all this
tropbe. fShe was net sure how
Abrscht felt.N-Perhaps he was glad
toget rid of her-here two great tears
dropped into the dishpan at the
thought. Just dance at a. young
friends wedding-it being their cns-
tom for bridal party to go to a justice
or country judge to have the erenony
performed, and then to return to the
brides home for grand celebration.
which usually lasted all night. HThen
q foolish quarrel, when Albrecht,
heated up by excitement and beer,
had insisted that she danced too often
withsthe brides elder brother. - She
had refused to listen to him, of course,
with tbe,result that he had walked out
Tito the darkness and had never seen
her since.
Perhaps she had sought covertly,
and, no doubt, awkwardly, to find an
opportunity of making amends, but
he had ignored or avoided her, though
they lived on adjacent claims; hence,
for Fer, ut least. bitter days and
nights. She felt vaguely, in her sim
pie fashion, the hardness Of the
woman's code which bids her "wait
and weep" in silence, rule that has
broken many besides country hearts
: like hers. And all this time the cloud
in the west was rising. 1t looked
much like puff of black smoke now,
and there were others, not so dark,
climbing up beside it.
The dishes were. finished and put
away in the kitchen ''safe," or cup
board, and the girl sat down by her
window-she was very fond of that
window in those days-and gazed ab-
sehtly ont The landscape was left
desolate to her.ifor Aibrecht had dis
appeared, probably to attire himself
for his outing.
Hsrfather. nodded in the shady
doorway over. his long, curved pipe.
Insthe ihnsreroom herr mother dis
conrseds volubly to her second daugh-
tea, i'm her native tongue, which is
never forgotten by the "old people, "
at least. The shouts OF the numerous
younger children came from without,
: where they romped anon the farm
s wagons acknowledgement the horses