Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-04

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none of my doin'. It looks like 6
providence" Her voice rang out quit
What you talkin' about, mother p
called Nanny.
"Nothin'." ,.n ,s
Mrs. Penn hurried her baking; at /
o'clock 1t was all done. The load o
hay from the west field came slowl!
down the cart track and drew up q
the new barn. Mrs. Penn ran out
"Stop!" she screamed-"stop!"
The men stopped and looked; Sam
my upreared from the top Of the loa'
and stared at his mother.
"Stopi" she cried out again. Don
you put the hay in that barn; put
in the old one" ..!f
why, he said to put it in here, re
turned one Of the haymakers. won
deringly. He was a young man.,
neighbors SON, whom Adoniram hire,
by the year to help on the farm.
Don't you put the hay In the ney
barn; there's room enough in the sol,
one, amt there?" said Mrs. Penn. &
Room enough" returned the hiret
man, in his thick, rustic tones. "Didn'
need the new barn, nohow, far y
rooms concerned. Well, ! s'pose y
changed his mind" He took hold p
the horses brides. g.l. III -119E
Mrs. Penn went back to the house
Soon the kitchen windows were dark
ened, and fragrance like warm hon
ey came into the room. iii 4
| Nanny laid down her work.
thought father wanted them to put
the hay into the new barn?" she sale
wonderingly. >"
tits all right" replied her mother.
| Sammy slid down from the load q
hay and came in to see II dinner waf
ready.
II amt goin' to get regular dinnet
| today as long as fathers gone," saif
his mother. 1--we let the fire go out
You can have some bread an milk an
pie. thought we could get alongt
She set out some bowls Of milk, some
bread, and pie on the kitchen table
you'd better eat your dinner now
said she. you might jest as well gel
through with 1t. ! want you to help
me afterward." - . "a
Nanny and Sammy stared at each
other. There was something strange
| In their mothers manner. Mrs. Penn
did not eat anything herself. She went
into the pantry, and they heard her
emily she came out with pile Of
plates. She got the clothes basket out
of the shed and packed them in it
Nanny and Sammy watched. She
brought out cups and saucers and put
them in with the plates. 0
What you goin' to do, mother% in
quired Nanny, in q timid voice. "A
sense of something unusual made her
tremble, as II 1t were ghost. Sammy
J rolled his eyes over his pie. ,lr
You'll see what I'm goin' to do, J,
replied Mrs. Penn. 'If you're through,
Nanny, want you to go upstairs an
rack up your things: an want you
Sammy, to help me take down the bed
in the bedroom" IN 40 ..Gs.
ooh, mother, what ofor?" gasped
Nanny. r. Egl.5 gts- w.
You'll see.' sI = II
During the next few hours feat
was performed by this simple, pious
New England mother which was equal
In its way to Wolfe's storming OF the
Heights Of Abraham. 1t took no more
genius and audacity- Of bravery for
Wolfe to cheer his wondering soldiers
up those steep precipices, under the
sleeping eyes Of the enemy, than for
Sarah Penn, at the head Of her chill
dren, to move all their little household
goods into the new barn while her
husband was away.
Nanny and Sammy followed their
mothers instructions without muir
mur; indeed, they were overawed
There Is certain uncanny and SUI
per- human quality about all such
purely original undertakings as their
mothers was to them. Nanny went
back and forth with her light loads
and Sammy tugged with sober energy.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the
little house in which the Penns had
lived for forty years had emptied It
self into the new barn.
Every builder builds somewhat for
unknown purposes and Is In meas
ure a prophet. The architect Of Adoni-
ram PENIS barn, while he designed ii
for the comfort Of four footed animals
had planned better than he knew for
the comfort Of humans. Sarah Penn
saw at a glance its possibilities. Those
great box stalls. with quilts hung be-
fore them, would make better bed
rooms than the one she had occupied
for forty years, and there was tight
carriage room. The harness room.
with its chimney and shelves, would
great middle space would make par
lor, by and by, AT for palace. Upstairs
there was as much room as down.
With partitions and windows, what a
house would there be! Sarah looked at
the row Of stanchion5 before the al
loted space for cows and reflected that
she would have her front entry there.
At 6 o'clock the stove was up In the
harness room, the kettle was boiling
and the table set for tea. 1t looked al
most as homelike as the abandoned
house across the yard had ever done
The young man MIXED, and Sarah d.
rectetl him calmly to bring the milk
to the new barn. He came gaping,
dropping little blots of foam from the
brimming pals on the grass. Before
the next morning he had spread the
story Of Adoniram Penn's wife moving
into the new barn all over the little
village. Men assembled In the store
and talked 1t over, women with shawls
over their heads scuttled into each
others houses before their work was
done. Any deviation from the ordi-
nary course of life In this quiet town
was enough to stop all progress In 1t
Everybody paused to look at the staid
Independent figure on the side track
There was a difference Of opinion with
sane; some Of lawless and rebellious
spirit.
Friday the minister went to see her
1t was in the forenoon, and she was
at the barn door shelling pease for din
ner She looked up and returned his
salutation with dignity, then went
on with her work. She did not invite
him in. The sanity expression of her
face remained fixed, but there was an
angry flush over 1t.
The minister stood awkwardly be-
fore her and talked. She handled the
pease as If they were bullets. At last
she looked up, and her eyes showed
the spirit that her meek front had COW
eed 70 lifetime.
There ain't no use talkin', Mr.. Her
sey," said she I've thought it all over
an over, an I believe I'm doin' what's
right. I've made 1t the subject OF
prayer, an it's betwixt me an the
Lord an Adoniram. There amt nc
call for nobody else to worry about
It."
Well Of course, If you have brought
it to the Lord in prayer, and feel sat
isfied that you are doing right, Mrs
Penn" said the minister, help!essly
His thin gray bearded face was pa
thetic. He was a sickly man; his
youthful confidence had cooled; he
had to scourge himself up to some OF