The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 22, 1890, Page 6

earerue emma ONE GIRL’S FOLLY. a bie sevice of silver and glass, the} aaa es | decorated china, the fine damask, = | filled me with delighted awe. Ser- aT sancils eS sien ibrall | vauts, too were a wonder and picas happend. Seventeen when I walk lure tome. Accustomed to do every | thing for myself, it filled me with a childish sense of importance to or- der attentions from the domestics: I felt like a queen every time i rang the beil, and to sit idly and see my room put in order was a source of the most profound gratification. To| see well served meals for the first | time after they were on the table, | thei prepara- ed home through the clover fields in the cool of an August evening and | wished I could die then and there. I seem to see myself now, as dazed | and miserable, conscience-stricken, | mortified and heart-sore, I stumbled | along until I reached my home, and erept into my own room, utterly | crushed. Then Ithought myself a martyr to circumstances, unfortu- | nite and blighted for life. Now I smile, sadly, it is true and think} aud have no care in tion was another delight. To be sure my aunt’s tyranny—it | was lit what a little fool I was. Orphaned in infancy; I was taken home by my aunt, Miss Edith Gate: my father's sister, and made her pet plaything and comfort. She had no one else upon whom to lavish the wealth of a loving heart, and she gave me its entire devotion. But experience of life was bounded by the narrowest limits. In our little village society was an interchange of tea drinkings, spending the day with a neighbor, and an occasional summer picnic. My education was entirely conducted by Aunt Edith, and while there was a basis of solid information imparted by the driest of educational text-books, my accom plishmenis consisted of a smaller knowledge of the piano, a very lim- ited amount of French, and a varied experience in fancy work. I could cook gnd keep a house in order; I could cut aad make every thing [ wore; I could cultivate a flower garde and was learned in the ways of chickens and heus. But my literary acquiremeuts were very small and my knowledge of fiction or poetry consisted of a small ac quaintance with Shakespeare, Miss Edgeworth, and Milton. To say I eared for none of them would be morhifying, but it is true. I only tell all this to show what an ignorant child I was when I was called upon to exercise 2 woman's suitors. From the time when I could first cun alone, Albert Gates. a far away cousin who lived close by us, had been my playmate and companion. To him I looked for ull my child- er, for the protection that even a boy can give one younger and weak. er than himself. His father was 2 farmer and owned a pretty place, which his mother made # second home to me. I called them uncle and aunt, but they were cousins, two or three times removed, of Aunt Edith’s. As I grew from childhood to girl- hood, Albert and I would some times talk of a far away future when I was to be his wife and we were to live at the farm. My wildest dream in those days never went beyond this, the quiet life of a farmer's wife with Albert's love and ali the serene content which his mother enjoyed. But when I was just seventeen a new and strange world opened to me. Aunt Edith after fifty years of single hfe, married the minister and six months later went with him to India, upon missionary duty. My mother's sister, who lived in New York had offered me a home long years before, and had never ceased to urge her claim. So ‘when Aunt Edith sailed I was taken to New York, and my Aunt Mary, Mrs. Juli. us Hamilton had the care of me. Oh, what a desolate little waif I was! I pity that child who was once myself, with a tender; yearning pity to this day. Aunt Mary was a woman of fashion, a wealthy child- leas widow, whose ideas of life were her claim upon me from childhood, session she found me all she most I was very pretty. It would be but mock modesty to pretend ignor- ance of that fact, but I was shy, ig norant, awkward—a raw country Girl, and yet too old to begin a sys- tem of education such as my aunt desired- Continually scolded where Thad been petted; sneered at and kept perpetually reminded of my shortcomings and ridiculed for my waut of manners, my shyn b-came more paiuf wardness more apparent. But I was dazzled by the wealih privilege and choose between two} hood’s pleasures, and as I grew old-! le less—made me long often \for the freedom of my old life, and} yet it did look like hardship to think of the that would) meet me there. | Judged to be tuo young and igno- rant to be introduced into society, I was put under competent masters for music, dancing and languages, and kept out of sight as much as possible, seeing only my auut’s most intimate friends. But amongst these I found a lov- er. He was aman of ubout, 40 a lawyer, and had both position and wealth. To this day I feel a stupid wonder at his infatuation! What a man of the world, handsome and ac- complished, courtel by weaithy and fastidious, could find in menial duties society, life with me, I cannot, even now im- But the fact remains that he loved me aud wooed me in a courtly fashion. agine. | delighte.l. his intentions. He had taken me to Oper, concert, dive and ride; had lavished flowers and music upon me; had visited my aust upon every in} aginable pretext, aud by his genile-| ness had charmed away my shy awkwardn-ss. Deter- mined to help along the w oing, my | and kindness aunt made a study of my dress, aud while she never failed to plant a sting of dependence in every favor, | i to keep me reminded of my penni- less condition, she brought ail uiy beauty by becoming attire, and was generous in gilts if mot in words. Ever before me during that win ter, was the temptation of wea'tb | and position compared to poverty | and obscurity. For while Mr. ton urged his suit by every act of devotion, Albert Gates wrote t» me two and three times a week tone of an accepted lover. waited till he was of age me wid tike me back to the dear old farm-house, where his father and mother would weicome me as dearly oved daughter. ay in the He only to claim a i fused his escort back to the mentzlly eriticised the cut of Cousin Hannah's ealic» dress and shudder- ed at her sun bonnet. Worst of all, Albert's deficiencies of dress and education became pain- fully apparent, at the same time that his genuine manly devotion was most pressing. It was a busy time with farmers, and I avoided Albert whenever I could, while now my letters came from Mr. Elton, word- ed with au friendliness, yet containing an undertone of author- ity, as if alre efelt a right to dictate my life. easy a I was not positively engaged to night of which T have written. ay had been warm but rot oppres | sive. and when the moon rose, and| the breeze sprang up soft and deli ciously cool, I was not unwilling to d toa spot beside the river bank, where under a spreading tree there was a wide bench especially pleas- ant to the young people of D—. We had been seated but a few moments when Albert for the first time made me a downright offer of his hand, and I knew in that instant that Lloved him. Iloved him and not three hours before I bad an- swered a similar proposal from Mr Elton by accepting him. luxury und po- I cannot write the words of the scene that followed I was fright- ened at Albert’s rage, his bitter re- | prosches aud scarcely knowing what | My aunt was at ouce amazed ardjIs:.d, I told him the truth—that | She kept constautly be-| my ja fore me the advantages that woul. | be mine if Mr. Elton was serious in| pmise was given but my heart iis. Was H_ flung me from him as I clung to lis arin, imploring him to forgive me, nnd strode aw Elte) the iree tu face me. just as Mr. rd from bebind He had not in- tended to play eavesdropper bui my aunt had been takeu suddenly, dan enme for gerously ill, and had seut for me. Directed by cousin Hanvah he had followed me, to hear the my confession. AChbert’s anger was not so crush cold of woids, as he told me he had ed ini most of ing as the sarcasin his g a simple tender child ouly to fiud ime a calculating coquette. There was no return train to New York until I could ineeé him at the train, so I re- early morning, and and he left me. But my life did not ead as I hop- ed it would on that miserable night. I was besida my aunt by noon the next day, and roused from my se!- fish grief by her claims upon my eare- She Jay il), very ill, for sever- al weeks, and then was ordered to Europe still au iavalid. For siz I was not wicked coquett though I see how much like one I appeared. I was a foolish child who did not in the least realize th- importance of the situation in which I was placed. But in the spring it became evi- dent that I could net well bear the excitement and strain of my new life Accustomed to be fast asleep by nine o'clock it made me ill to sit up till long past midnight at opera or concert, and sleeping till late in the morning did not act as tonic. My aunt relaxed something of her rules of seclusion when Mr. Elton became my suitor, and I was allow ed to come down stairs to all the home festivities, and visit the homes of very intimate friends. Added to this, I was kept strictly to my les- sons and piano practice, and daily exercises.; lt was no wonder that the early spring found me pale and languid, and the physician who took a bounded by the requirements of s0-| care of my aunt’s nerves advised her ciety and fashion. She had urged|to send me into the country. “A watering-place will not do,” but when I was actually in her pos-|he said decidedly; “your niece needs perfect rest for several months.” Then, with a sudden spasm of homesickness, I begged to be sent to D—, my old home. The house in which Aunt Edith lived was rent- ed to her cousin, who consented to let me have my old room. Half D— think, was related to me, for every other house, it was said, belonged toa Gates, and going to Cousin Hannah wis like going back to Aunt Edith. But I was spoied. I ess only; found my girlish appetite refused aland my awk-! tore'sh pock and beans, salt beef and cabbaze; berry pies were an a- j Lomination fo me and fastidious long years she was hopelessly sick, and I was her constant nurse and eompanion. We both learned much in those years, and when she died and left me her entire fortune, I could smile over the misery of the poor child who stunmbled through the clover fields, praying to die. Albert Gates married the pretti- est girl in D—, and Mr. Elton mai- ried a widow as old as himseif and now has a daughter as old as the girl he once sought for his wife. I? No I never married; but there is not a happier, more contented old maid living than I have been for thirty years and more. The Sharon Case Ended. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 15. — Judge Shafter in the superior court to-rendered a decision in the Sharon case which virtually ends that fa- mous litigation. The principal point in the present controversy wasa demurrer to the answer made by the Sharon heirs.. In this they incorpo rated the degree of the United States circuit court by which the al- leged marriage contract between Se- rah Althea Hill and William Sharon was decided a forgery and ordered eanceled. Judge Shafter held this decree of the United States court was superior to all other courts and that the contracts had no legal exis- tence. He ordered the Sharen case postponed indefinitely. Senator Brice Now Columbus, O.. Jan. 14.—Calvin S. Brice was to-day at noon elected to the United States senate, receiving a majority of the votes in eash branch of the legislature. stroll with Albert down the road} All the! glamour fell from before me when} | Albert spoke, and I knew thet I hud | sold myself for exse, me to make him want to share his | sition. believ-} house } L eioanaaue: ‘For days the mere ta- | nose curled up at gingerbread. I| BRAZILIAN TROOPS REVOLT. | Quite a Bloody Conflict in the Repub- he’s Capitai i | New York, Jan. 14.—One of the | correspondents of C. R. Fiint wrote | from Rio de Janeiro under date of | | December 23, 1889, as follows: “The | outlook here is not reassuring. Last evening parts of two regiments of 1 | nied. They tore up the republican flag and raised the old imperial flag, ed the y to subdue them. They cavalry, infantry and artiliery muti- jand it requ jand arti {fought at the Sareatoras till a quar- regiments at night and one The To-day twenty-one of the ring leaders were shot. None of the officers were in the mutiny, bat all the uon-commis- ed rebels were wounded. remainder — surrendered. i sioned were. The cause of the mu- \tiny was dissatisfaction with the j me n’s pay. The police are paid three jmilreil a day and the soldiers claim | they were promised the same, but it was raised to not quite that amount. It is said that a number of old con- servatives avd liberals have been jtampering with the soldiers and were atthe bottom of last night's row. This morning early Silveira Martins, Barao De Lageo, Dr. Lima Gurate, Dr. Ferrira Vianna, late ‘minister of justice in the last con- servative ministry, “and Commenda- | dor Braga, one of the leading mer- lchants of Rio, were arrested.” AG. A. R. Story. “Towards the close of the war,” said a member of the G. A. R. whose mind is well stocked with reminis- | cences ata recent meeting of his pest, “I was visiting a southern hos- pital, and while passing through one of the wards my attention was at tracted by a young fellow who lay jon his bed with eyes closed and his | face so white and stili that I thought he must be dead. While I stood looking at him a door near at baud j opened and a young gir!, beautiful |as southern girls sometimes are, en \tered. The wounded man opened his eyes, and suffering a spasm of j pain as he turned his head io look jat her exclaimed: “Ob, Lord!” | sWhy do you speak my father’s name?” asked the girl, advancing to jhis side. “Tama daughter of the Lord. Is there anything you would like to have ask of Him jor you?” “Yes, came the answer slow, suffering tones, while he devoured her with his eyes. “Yes; ask him if he'll take me for a sonen.-!aw.” ln Suppcessed tor Cause. New York, Jav. 15—At the annu- al meeting of the American society of civil engineers, begun here to-day, the committee appointed to look in- to the bursting of the dam at Johns- town, Pa., stated that the repvrt had heen decided upon. Some dis- cussion was had when it was agreed that just at present it w.uld be un- wise to make the report public b-- cause of the many suits pending for damages. Finally it was decided to seal the report and keep it secret. According to the philosophy of the pessimists there is always some thing to dread. Some oue sayé: “Man has anything but a soft snap on the earth. When he is well he is in constant fear of being ill, and when he is ill it is always time for him to take his medicine.” So trou- ble is always in sight for the jaun- dice-eyed. Sneezing people do not care much for toys. Many hundreds of thou sands of francs were lost by the great Louvre establishment because of influenza. During the holidays no one would visit the place to buy the mountains of Christmas and New Year's toys, which remain unsold and will probably be carried over till next year. The pope is keeping up with the eurrent history of the world. He reads the newspapers of all nations from 6 to 10 every evening. He knows how to remain young and wise. A manin Massachusetts who ac- cepts a free pass takes his own risk. The supreme court of the state has ruled that a man who is i jured while riding on such a pass eannot recoyer damages. McFARLAND BRof =) —A'P BUTLER KEEP THE LARGEST AT THE BEST PRICES IN a 4 HARNESS and SADDLRE SPOONER PATENT COL -PREVENTS CHAFING—— CANNOT CHOKE A HORSEE Adjusts itself to any Horse’s neck, has two rows of stitching, will hold hames in place better than any other collar. 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