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October 24ilh 1907
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OFFICE -Sloane Bloc-CLINTON.
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on Rattenbury street, opposite
Presbyterian church
°MCP,- Ontario street-CLINTON
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DR. C. W. THOMPSON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to diseases
of the Eye, Ear, Nosesand Throat..,...
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HURON ST. SOUTH. CLINTON
3 doors west of the Commercial hotel.
-DR. F. A. AXON. -
(Successor to Dr. Holmes.)
Specialist - in Crown and Bridge
work.
Graduate of the Royal College. • of
Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Honor
graduate of University of Toronto
4fle•ntel,Department. Graduate of the
Chicago College of Dental Surgery,
Chicago.
Wilk be at the Commercial hotel
Bayfield, every Monday from 10 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
J. LEWIS THOMAS.
Civil Engineer, Architect, etc.
(late Dominion Departmetit Public
Walks.)
Consulting Engineer for
un-
icipal and County Work, El-
ectric Railroads, Sewerage and
Waterworks Systems, Wharves,
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Will eell either by percentage or
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Road, one mile South of Clinton.
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penis in . this district and will
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of supplies in my store oppose
• • ite- the IVIolsons Bank. -
r am also continuing tlie
flour, feed and Seed -grain bus-
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a continuance of your •patron -
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William Shesney, Seaforth; John
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Bennewies, Prodhagan ; James Evans
Beechwood James Connelly,
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Traies will arrive at and at,pixt
'from Clinton station as follows .
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°Mg East 0,02 m.
7.35' a. ei,
41 4, 3.15 p.
5.20 p. rn,
Going West 1107
t p.
it o 6.40 p.itt
ff- 11.11 p.
LONDON, HURON BAUCE DIV
Going South 50 4. M..
428 p. nt
Going. North 11.00 a. In
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—trOcio *add art aowkwr.saiti much like weeping as she did pia
dith, iyashing a chair toward M 48 azy the' night of her arrival at the peeis
with her foot, "It's as hot here as an house, But Mrs. Mason seemed to
oven, but L had eranshry ease and
gsnow exactly how to entertain her;
to
ginger snaps, and reasey knows what and by the time that first tea Walt
make this morning, and I get hes over there was hardly a happier child
lated; hut set down and make you- in the world than was Mary.
self to bottle."
"As soon as Mrs. Mazion aroee from
Mary took tbe Proffered seat, and. the table, she, too, sprang ups and
then Judith left the room for a few- taking hold oe the dishea• removed
moments, saying when she returned there to the kitchen in 4'muoh shorter
that as' Mrs. Maaon. was still Buffering space of time than waa 'usually occu-
from a headache she could not oefe pied by Judith. 'Get away now," Raid
Mary until after dinner. "And," con- that lady as she saw *IffarY making
tinued Judith. "she told me to en- preparations to waeh the ewe awl
tertain you. but I don't know what saucers. "I never want anybody put -
to Bay nor do first Harry died just tern? round • under my feet. I always
a week to a day before we was to be -wash and wipe and scour my own
married, and so I never had any lit- things, and then I know they are
tle girls to talk to. Can't you think of done."
• something to talk about? What have Accordingly she returned to Mrs.
you been need to doing?' ' Mason, who wishing to retire early,
"Washing dishes," was Marrs re- soon dismissed her to her own room,
ply, after glancing about the room, where she for some time amused hat -
and making sure that on this owe- selfwith watching the daylight as
sion there were none to wash, gradually disappeared from the hills
"Wall," answered Judith, "I guess which lay beyond the pond. Then
you won't have that to do here for when it au was gone.and the stars
one night when some of the neighbors began to come out, she turned her
were in / heard Miss Mason tell 'ern eyes toward one which had always
that she got you to read to her and seemed to her to be- her mother's soul,
wait on her. And then she said some- looking down upon her from the win -
thing about your not having an. equal dows of.. heaven. Now to -night there
chance with your sister. You habil shone beside it a smaller, feebler one,
but one, now tether's dead, have and in the fleecy cloud which floated
your • around it she fancied she could de-
• Mary replied in the negative, and fine the face of her baby sister.
In-
ludith continued:. "Wall, now you've voluntarily stretching out her hands
got over the first on't, I reckon you's she cried, "Oh, mother! Alli! I am
glad the baby's dead, for she meet so happy now;" and to the child's
have been kind of a • bother, wasn't imagination the stars smiled lovingly
she?" upon her, while the evening wind, as
Instantly Mary's thoughts flew hack it gently moved the houghs of the
to. an empty cradle, and again a lit- tall elm trees, seemed like the rustle
tie golden head was /Allowed upon of angels' wings. Who shall say the
her breast, as often in times past it mother's spirit was not there to re -
had been and es it would never be joice with her daughter aver the glad
again Covering her face with her future opening so brightly before her?
hands she eobbed,,A0h, Allie, Allie 1 • • , ,
-1•Iviali she -hadn't -Lexie. * cruperget-xfvs-- -
' Judith looked on in amazement,' • ' .
danodratfedwaantrt esofh Berickethianwgoobrtienret ,f,. The Tuesdayfolkwing Mary'a
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rival at Mrs. Mason's thgre was a so -
stove, muttering to herself, "Now /
never! I might of knew I didn't know g
ial atherin at the house of Mr.
what to say. What a pity Harry died. • Knight. This gathering could hardly,
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ginger snap the • .e' called a tea party, but came more
ru give her that big
minute it's baked. See if I don't." directly under the head of. an "after-
Acoordingly when the snaps was noou's visit," for by two o'clock every
one-Judith--placed-it-int ' v •
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hands, bidding her eat it quick and rearm" was filled with ladiera whose
then go up • and gee the nice chamber
Mrs. Mason had arranged for her.
"If you please," said Mary, rapidly
shifting the shot cake from •one hand
to the other ---"if .you please, I had
rather go • up now; and eat the • cake
• when it is. cool:" :
"Come, •then," said Judith; and
leading the. way she conducted • Mary
.up the staircase, and through. a light,
airy hill to the door of a small room,
which She opened saying. "Look,
• ain't it pretty?"
But IVfarre heart was too full to
+Moak, fend for several minutes she
stood silent. With the exception of
her mother's pleasant parlor in old'
,England, she had. never before seen
anything which seemed to her so cozy
arid cheerful as did that little .room,
with its single bed, snowy .counter-
pane, muslin curtains, 'clean matting,
convenient toilet table, and what to
her was fairer than all the rests upon
the Mantelpiece there stood twosmall
vases, filled with sweet spring flowers,
whose fragrance filled the aria.rtment
With delicious perfume. All this was
an different from the bare walls,•un-
covered floors, and rickety furniture
of the poorhouse that Mazy trembled
lest it should •prove a 'dream from
Which ere long she would awake, •
"Oh, why is Mrs -Mason so kind.
to me?" wilt her mental exclanustion;
and as some of our readers rug: ask
the same question we will explain to
thein that 'Mrs. Mason was one of the
• few whr, "do to others as they would
others should do to them."
Years before our story opens., she,
too, was a lonely orphan, weeping in
sasdreary garret, as efttime,s Mary had
wept in the poorhouse, •-ri-it-was the
memory of those dark hours which so
Warmed her heart toward the little
girl she had taken under her charge.
From Jenny we have learned some-
• thing of her history. Once a happy,
loving wife; surrounded by wealth
and friends; she had thought the
world all height and beautiful. But a
• change came over the spirit of her
dream. Her noble husband died -and
the day succeeding his burial she was
told that their fortune,. too, Was genes
One by one, as risisforteme came upon
her, did her fashionable friends de-
sert her, until she was left alone, with
none to lean upon except' the God of
the widow and fatherless, and in Him
• she found a strong help for her dark
hour of need. Bravely: she withstood
the storm, and. when it Was over re-
tired with the • Small remnant of her
once large fortune the obscure
neighborhood of Rice Corner, where
with 'careful etonomy she maneged to
live comfortably, besides saving a
portion for the poor- and destitute.
She had taken a .particular fano to
Mary, and in giving her a home she
had thought more of the good she
could do the child than of any benefit
She would reeeive from her service
'as waiting -maid, She had fully intend-
ed to go. for Mary herself; but as we
already know, was prevented by a
severe headache, and it was not un-
til three o'clock in the afternoon that
the was even able to see her at all.
Then, calling Judith, she bade her
bring the little to her room, and
leave them alone.
judith obeyed, eharging Mary to
"tread on tiptoe, and keep at; still aa
MOU.Se. for Miss Mason's head
ached fit to split."
This caution wan unnecessary., for
Mary had been so Much accustomed
to lack person/3 that she knew intui-
tively just what to do and when to
do it, and her step was so light, her
voice tio low, and the hand which
bathed the aching head so soft and
gfltie in its touch that Mrs. Mager;
nvoluntarily drew her to her boeote.
and kissing her lips called her her
ehild, and said she should never leave
her; then, laying back in her easy
chair, elle remained perfectly still,
While Mary alternately 11Xttd her hair
end staoot.hed het forehead, until she
fell into a quiet alumbet, tram which
idle did not melte until Judith rang
the bell for supper, which was neatly
laid out in a little dining-parkir, open-
ing into the flower garden. There Wee.
something so very !wild and theca..
lug in the appearzmee of the room,
and the arrangement et the table, with
lit classy wilite olont, ‘0.4
tongues, like their hands, were. in full
play. Leathern reticules, delicate em-
: breidery, and gold thimbles were not
then in vogue in Rice Corner; but,
.on the coOtrary, some of Mrs'. Knight's
visitors brought with there large, old-
,. fashioned workbags, frpm which the
ends of the Polished knitting. needles
were discernible; while another apol-
' ogized for the magnitude of her work,
' saying that "her man had fretted
about his trousers until she herself
began to think it was time to finieh
them; and to when she.. found Mies
- Mason wasn't to be there *she had
• just brought them along."
In spite of her uniform kindrtess
Mrs. Mason. was regarded by some
of :her neighbors as a bugbear, and
this allusion to her immediately tufn-
ed the conversation in that direction.
No, de tell," said Widow Perkin's,
vigorously rapping her snuff-box and.
paseing it around. "Now, do tell if
true that Miss Mason has took
a girl from the .tow/rheuse0".
On being assured that srtch was the
fact, she continued; ."Now, I will give
up. Plagued as she. is for things, whist
could have possessed her?' '•
was not asvare that .She was very
=lei' troubled to live," said Mrs.
Knight, whose way. of thinking, and
manner of expressing herself,' were
entirely unlike Mrs. Perkins'.
"Wall, she hi," was Mrs. Perkins'
reply f and then hitching her chair
closer to the group near her, and
sinking her voice to a •whisper, she
added, "You mustn't Speak of it on
any account, for I wouldn't have it go
from I119, but my Sally Ann was over
there t'other day, and 'neither Miss
• Mason nor Judy was to home. Sally
tin as a sig ofseuriesitrelselon't
know. nothing under the sun where
she gi3ts it, for hain't a mite.Wa.II,
-as I was tellin' you, there was nody
to home, and Sally Ann she slips
down Mime and peeks into the pork
barrel„ and as true as you live, there
wasn't a piece there. Now, when coun-
try folks get out Of salt pork, they
are what I call middlin` peer."
And Mrs. .Perkina finished her
speech with the largest pincb of inac-
caboy she could possibly hold between.
her thumb and forefinger. '
',"Miss Perkins," said an old lady
who was fanious•for occasionally rub-
bing the widow down; "that's just.as
folks think. .It's ,no worse to be out
of pork than 'tilt" to eat eodfish the
vehole dudn' time," .
This was a home thrust, for Mrs.
Perkins, who always kept one or two
. boarders, and among. them the school-
teacher, was notorious for feeding
theta on codfish.
Bridling up in a twinkling, her lit-
tle gray eyes flashed fire as she re -
Plied, "I s'pose it's me you mean, Miss
Dates, but I guess I've a right to eat
what I'm a mind to. I Indy ask a
dollar and ninepenee a week for begird-
ing the schoolmarm—" '
"And makes money "et that," white
pered a rosy-eheeked, girlish -looking
woman, who the Slummy before had
been the "schoolmarm, and who
now bore the.name.of-a.thrifti Young
farmer:
Mrs. Perkins hevwever, did 'Ilet no-
tice this interruption, but proeeeded
with, "Yes, A donee and, ninepence
is all X ever ask, and if I kept them
eo dreadful slim, I geese the cam-
mitteeman wouldn't always come to
Me the first one."
"Mrs, Peeking here's the pint," Baia
'Mrs. Bates, dropping a stitch in. her
Zeal to explain matters; "y;.0ti SOC, the
theapee they • get the school:n:09.in
boateled, the further the inoriee goee,
and the longer school they have. Don't
you understated it?"
Mrs. Knight, fancying that affairs
were assuming altogether toe formid-
able an aspect, adroitly turned th,e
conversation upon the hereitie of Out
`stere, saying here glad 'alie was thet
Mary had at last found eo good a
11°1241; tun I," Weld Mrs, Bates; "for
we all know that Mrs. Mason will
take Susi Se good care of het at though
she Were her own; and shele had a
mighty hard thee of it knocked around
there at the poorhouse under Polly
Grundyaa tiremb."
wh"coeTheyandgeolintl
retty," Se,id Mrs. Peeking,
somewhat cook&
°"thev do ear/ at Writtit (Strout& tot
mowing a wide swath over there, an
reallyexpects to have Mr. Parker, i
his wife Wilmette to die."
In her girlhood Mrs. Perkins had
herself fancied Mr. Parker, and new
in her widowhood, she felt an SSW
ual iuterest in the failing health *
his wife. No one replied to her re,
Mark and Mrs. Bates continued: "ft
really used to make my heart ache t
see the little forlorn thing aft ther
in the gallery, fixed up so old an
fussy, and then to see her eiste
plinked ,out like a milliner's show
window, a 'melted's* and twistin', and
if she happens to catch her sister's
eye, I have actually seen her turn
up her nose at her -So-" and Mrs
Briti&C. "Afar organ -Went- up -$01010
her eyebrairsSu, imitation of the look
which Ella sometiines gave Mary. "It's
wicked in me, perhaps," said Mrs
Bates, but, pride must have a fall
and I do hope I shall live to owe the
day when Elia Campbell won't be
half as well eft as her sister."
"I think Mee. Campbell is answer-
able tor some of Elliee conduct," said
Mrs; Knight,"ler I believe she suffer-
ed her to visit the poorhouse but once
while Mary WWI there."
"I geese she'll vorne-•softener now
she's living with a city bug," rejoin-
ed Mrs. Perkins.
juet -then there was the sound of
carriage wheels, and a woman near
the door exclaised, "If you'll believe,
it, there She is now, going right
straight into Mrs. Mason's yard,"
"Well, if that don't beat Imo," said
Mra. Perkins, "Seems to me I'd have
waited a little longer for looks' sake.
Can you see what she's got on from
here?" and the lady made a rush for
the window to ascertain, if poseihle,
that important fact.
Meantime the carriage .ateps were
let down and Mrs. Campbell alighted,
As Mrs. Knight's guest& had surmis-
ed, she was far more • ready to visit
Mary now than heretofore. Ella, too,
had been duly informed by her wait-
ing -maid that she neednft mind deny-
ing that she had a sisMr to the Boston
girls who were spending a summer in
Chicopee,
"To be sure," said Sarah, "she'll
never be a fine lady like you and rive
in the city;• but then, Mrs. Mason
is a very respectable woman, and
will no doubt put her to a trade,
which is 'better than being a town
pauper; so you mustn't feel' above
her any more, for it's wicked, and
Mrs. Campbell wouldn't like it, for
you know she and I are trying to
bring you up in the fear of the Lord."
• Accordingly Ella was prepared to
greet her sister more cordially than
/the had done before in a long time,
-and 'MAW that day .took her &it "Ititt:.:
son in learn4pg that too often friends
come and go with prosperity. .But
she did not think of it then. She
only ..linew that her siater's arm was.
a difference between feeling mortifien
* and ashamed. Now you must know
that Ella would not be particularly
pleased to have a homely, stupid, raw-
boned country girl pointed out as her
i sister to a eirole of fashionable ao.
eimintaneea in Beaton, where I In-
tend taking her as soon as her educe -
tion is fiesalied; and I think it well
A with the best you can do for her
there will still be a great difference
tieneonu.h for Mary to understand that
rbetween her own and her sister's *eel'
.• "Excuse me, readarn,"%again inter-
rupted .Mrs. Mason, "a stuTpld, awlo
•nellasers,t4 cotinpy gieliseriSilseintarTselialesiriPte_t Ifeet_ndS
she is far superior V) her sister, and
poese.ssee more graceful and ladylike
manners. Instead of Ella's hellig
; ashamed of her, / fancy it will he just
the reverse, unless your daughter's
foolish vanity and utter selfishness is
soon checked. Pardon me for being
thus plain, but in the short ,time
Mary has been with me I have learn-
ed to If'rve her, and my heart already
-warms toward her as toward a daugh-
ter, and I cannot calmly hear her
spoken of Bo contemptuously,"
• Daring this conversation Ella kad
remained listening:at the keynote, and
as the voices grew loader and more
earnest, Miry, too, distinguished what '
they said. She was too young ta ap-
preciate it fully, but she undensteod.
enough to wound her deeply; and as •
around. her neck, and her sister's kiss"'
upor. her cheek. With a ery of joy
she exclaimed, "Oh, Ella, I. knew •
yoted be glad to find me so happy 1"
I
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She -.wee; too thoroughly heartless to ,
care Or any one except herself. and
• her reception of her sister was more
, e result of Sarah'n lessen, and of a
I wish . expressed by Mrs. , Campbell,
that .she would "try and beha,ve SS
well as she could toward Mary." Mrs.
Campbell, too, .kissed the little girl;
and expressed her pleasure at finding
her so pleesantly situated; 'and- then
: dropping languidly upon the sofa, ask-
ed for Mu. Mason, who soon appear-
ed, and received her visitor with her.
accustomed politeness.
, "And, so you, •too, have cared for
the orphan, said. Mrs. ,Campbell. •
"Well, you will find it a task to sear
her as she should be reared, but a
consciousness of doing right makes
everythinie seem easy. My dear
(speaking to Ella), run out and .olaY
awhile with your sister, I wish to see
elgrs. Mason alone.",
_"You met go into the garden," said
'Mrs. Mae% to Mare, who arose to
oboy; but Ella hung back, saying she
"didn't went to go --the garden was •
all Most?, and she should dirty her
clothes." . •
"Bet, my child," said Mrs. Camp-
bell, "I wish to have you go and you
love to obey me, do :feu not?" . •
Still Elia hesitated, and when Mary
took hold of her hand she jerked it
away, saying, "Let me. be."
•At last she was persuaded to leave
thee room, but on reaching the hall
she stopped, and to Mary's amaze-
ment applied her ear to the keyhole.
"I guess I know how to cheat her," •
said she hi a whisper. "I've been
sent off before, but I listened and
heard her talk about me." '
"Talk- about you!" repeated Mary.
th
she Just then heard Ella sa.y there was
a carriage coming, she sprang up the
stairs, and entering her own room
threw herself upon the bed and burst
, into tears. Ere long a little che')hy
Mee Milked in at the door, and a '
voice which went to Mary's heart
exclaimed, 'Whyeze-Maty-erying the
first time come to see you!"
It wap Jenny, a.nd in it moment the
eels were in each other's -
"Rose has gone to the garden with
Ella," said jenny, "but she told me
where to find you, and I came right
up here. Oh, what a nice little room.
lo different from mime with my things
seatierc4 everywhere. But what is the
matter? Don't you like to live with
Mason?' : •
"Yes, very mech." answered Mary.
"It isn't .that," and then she told
what she had overheard.
"It's perfectly ridiculous and out of
eharaCter• for Mrs. Campbell to talk
sfs," said Jenny, looking very , wise.
"And it's all false, too. You are not
stupid, nor awkward, nor very homely
either; Billy Bender says so, and he
knows. I saw him this morning, and
he tidked .ever Bo much about. you,
Next Ian_ heti _going to Wilbraham to
study Latin; and Chinese too, T
.lieve, I don't know though. Henry
laughs and says, 'a plough -jogger
study Latin!' Out I guess Billy will
sorne y igger,man an enry,
don't you?" .
Ma was su f it and then
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Wiliest draggen ner into tree as
room, where she found it rather
difll-
eult equeezing in betvieen her mother
An13. BOBO* wheee elbow') took up much
more room than was necessary. A
timely pinch, howdver, duly admin-
. isterecl, sent the young lady anis,' 4n
inch or so, and Jenny and Mary were
at last fairly seated.
Mrs. Lincoln reddened -Mrs. Camp-
bell looked concerned Mrs. Mason
amused -Rose „angry-. .1? mortified
-while Ella, who was not quick en-
ough to understand, did not look it
all except at her etrawberries, Which
disappeared rapidly. Then, in order
_ to s a it attractc era as attention,loul yaPoeBbesibsleYraLPtieuat her
-once:I-Uri, Mason' was very obtiise,
not even taking the hint when Mrs.
own
asmpirbuiell torern,thoevepellartte nootliire pouting of her
child, biddingher"eat something be -
aides berries.'
• After a time Mil. Lincoln thought
proper.,to break the silence which she
had preserved, and taking up her fork
said, "You ..have been buying. some
new silver, haven't von?"
"They •were a present to me from
lmers.fritteasudo,n 1V/..sirsespta.rtlia Selden," was
"Possible !" fond Mrs. Campbell.
"Indeed!" aaid Md. Lincoln, and
again closely examining the fork.
she continued, "Aunt Martha is realm
getting liberal in her old age. But
then, I suppose she thinks Ida is pro,
vided for, and there'll be no parte:tie
hie need of, her money in that guar -
ter," - •
"Provided for? Row?' asked Mts.
Meson, and Mrs. Lincoln . answered,
'Why, didn't you know that Mr. Bel -
den's orphan nephew, George More -
lead, had come over from England to
live with them? He is heir to a
large fortune, and it is said that .both
Mr. Belden and Aunt Martha are
should blush at the mention of Georsa '
straining every ne . e to eventually
banridogidaabgut a match. between George
There was no reason 'why Mary
Moreland, still she did do to, wh. e
Bjeur hesri7elYmb8atrrepasPesdmeunPt°11Whaser unob-
served, for what did she, 4 pauper
girl, know or care about one whose •
future destiny, and wife, too, were
even then the subject of more than
one scheming mother's specelations.
Mrs. Mason smiled, and said she
thought it very much like child's play,
for if she. remembered rightly, Ida
couldn't be more than thirteen or four.
teen. ,
"About that," returned Mrs. Lin -
cobs; "but the young man is older -
eighteen or nineteen, I think." •': '
-"No, mother," interrupted jenny,
who was as good at keeping ages as
some old women, "he isn't hut seven-
teen." ..
"Really, rejoined .111r.s.• Campbell; ,
"I Wouldn't :wonder if our little jeimy
h
•
ry re o ; a en Jenny had some designs on herself, she .
proceeded to open her budget' of news is so anxious to make him out Young."
concerning the inrriates of the poor- "Oh, fie !" returned Jenny. "Ffe •
haulm "al Forbush " said she "is can't begin with Billy Bender r'
reeving crazy now you are gone, an se. incoln frowned, and tinning •
they had • to shut her no but yester-
day she broke away and came over
to our house.. Tasso was with her,
and growled swat Henry that he ran
• up to the garret, and then, like 4
-great hateful, threw bricks at the dog.
I told Sally I was coming to see you,
• and she Said, 'Ask her if she has
. taken the flirst step toward the pub-
lication of my novel. Tell her, too,
that the Oleg of 'areal' has departed,
and that / would .drown myself if it
Were. not for my clothes, which fear
Mrs Grundy would wear out!' "
Here •Rose called to her sister to
•eonie down, and accordingly the two
girls descended together, to the par-
lor, where they found Mrs Lincoln.
She was riding out, the said, and had
just stopped a moment to inquire af-
ter Mrs. Mason's health, and to ask
for a very. few- fiosvers-they did look
sr, tempting!' She was of course per-
fectly delighted to meet Mrs. Camp-
bell, and Mrs. CainpbelI was perfect-
ly ,defighted to meet her; and draw-
ing their chairs together they • con-
versed for a long time sheet Mrs. I30 -
and -so, who either had come, or was.
coming from Beaton . to spend -Abe
summer. "
"I am so glad," 'said Mrs. Lincoln,'
"for we, need something to keep us
alive. I don't see, Mrs. Campbell, how
you manage to live here through these
winter -no society nor anything."
Hera Mrs. Mason viotored to ask
if there were not some very pleasant
and intelligent ladies in the village.
"Oh! ye -es," said Mrs. Lincoln,
with a peculiar twist .to her mouth,
which Jenny said she always used
when she was "putting on." "They
What did she aay? • • .
returned Ma; and Mary, who had
never had the advantage of a wait- ,
ing-maid, and who consequently was
not so well posted on "slang terms," I
asked what "setting up" meant.
"Why," returned Ella, "she tells
them how handsome and smart.' am,
and repeats some cunning thing I've
said or done; and sometimes she tells
it right before me, and that's why I '
didn't want• to come. out."
• This time, however, MTh. • Carol>.
bell s conversation related more par-
ticularly to: Maly.
• "My dearMrs. Mason," she began, •
"you do not know, how great a load
you have removed frommy mind by
taking Mary from the poorhouse."
"I ean. readily Understand," said
Mrs. Mason. "why you should feel
more than it passing interest in the
sister of your adopted daughter, and
I assure you I shall endeavor to treat .
her just. as I would wish a child of
mine treated were it thrown upon the
wide world," • • '
"Of course you will," returned Mit.
Campbell, f.'and 7 only wish you had
it in your power to do more for her,
and. in this perhaps I am selfish. I
felt badly about her -being in•the poor-
house, but truth eompeis me to say
that it was more on ELla's account
than her own. I shall give Ella every
advantage which money can purchase,
and I arii excusable. I think, for say-
ing that she is admirably fitted to
adorn any station in life; therefore
it cannot but be exceedingly mortify-
ing to her to know that one sister
died a pauper and the other was one f
for a length of time. This, however,
cannot be helped, and now, ae I said
before, I only wish it were in your
power -to do more for Mary. I, of '
course, know that you are poor, but I
do not think less of you for that,---"
Mrs. Maori's body became slight-
ly more ereet, but she made no reply,
and Mrs. Canipbell continued: a
"Still, 7 hope you'll make every et-
Ortiori in your power to educate and
polish Mary as much as possible, so
that if by eleinee Ella JO after years
&mild come in contact with her, she
would not feel -hem -would not -
would not be--"
"Ashamed to own her Bidet. .1 sup-
pose you would Ray," interrupted Mrs.
Mason. "Ashamed to tieknowiedge
that the same blood flowed in her
veins, that the same roof once 'shel-
tered them, and that the same mother
bent lovingly over thatr,pillows,
cafl-
ing them her ehildren.' -
"Why riot' exactly that " said Mrt.
are well -enough, but they are not the
e Would rec ize at
home. At 'least they • on • e ong to
'our set,' speaking to _Mrs. Camp-,
bell, who replied: - • :
"Oh! certainly not." It 'was plain
even to a assual observer that Mrs.
Lincoln was the ruling spirit to which
Mrs. Campbell readily yielded, think-
ing that so perfect a model of gentil-
ity could not err. Mr. Knight possibly
Might have enlightened her little
with regard' to her friettd's pedigree,
but he was not present, and for half
an hour more the two ladies talked
together of their city acquaintances,
without once seeming to. temernber
that Mrs. Mason, too, had formerly
known them all .intimately. At last
Mrs. Lincoln arose, saying she lutist
go, as she had already stopped Much
longer than she intended.
"But when get with you," said
she, turning to Mrs, Campbell, "I
never know when to leave."
Mrs. Mason invited her to remain
to tea, saying it was nearly ready.
Mrs. Campbell, who had also arisen,
waited for Mrs. Lincoln to decide,
which she soon am be reseatiog her-
self and saying laughingly, "I don't
know but I'Il stay for a taste Of those
delicious -looking strawberries X sale
your sertant carry ° past the window." '
Bre long the little tee bell -rang,
and Mrs, Lis:ice/1ln, Who had not before
aPaken to Ma*, now turned haught-
ily toward her, requeSting her to
watch while thes, were at supper and
see if the coachman did not drive off
with, the borne as he sometimes •did.
Mary' could not trust herself to reply,
or she had agreed to bit next Jenny
at table, and bad in het own mind
decided to give her little friend her
share of berries. She glanced once
itt MM. Who apparently did
not notice her, and -then gulping
down her tears, took her .'station by
the window where she could see the
coachman, WM, instead of meditating •
drive around the neighborhood, was
fast asleep non the box. Jenny did
not 11118$ her Cbillpalliollt until she was
eittiag down to tattle, and then nate.
hag an empty plate between here&
And her mother, who managed take
up es mizeh room at; possible, she rath-
er called out, "Here, moth-
er, sit along and MAO TOORA or Mary;
That's her piece. Why where Is the?
Mrs. Mason, -May call het?"
WS. Mason, who had eeett and
heard more than Mary fancied, and
who in seating her guests had eontiiv. ;
ed to bring MAWS Plate next to Mivs.
Lincoln% nodded, and Jenny* aprings•
big up, ran to the parlor, where tifery
stood &nutting fti ,eii looking up itt the
oeiline.. Setting both her handalenre,
L
to her daughter said, "I hove repeat-
edly requested, and now I conimand
you not to bring up Billy Bender in -
comparison with 'everything and
everybody." ` •
"And pray, who is Billy Bender?"
asked Mrs.. Mason,' and Mrs. Lincoln • '
replied: • ,
"Why, he's- a great: rough, over- •
grown country boy, who used to work
for Mr. Lincoln, and now he's on 'the
town farm, I.believe." .
"But he's svoiidng there," said
Jelin "and he'y
enough to go to school next fall at '
Wilbraham, and I heard father say
he deserirded S great deal of credit for
it, and that men that made them-
selves, or else men that didn'te'l for- •
get which, were always the smart-
est." .
Here the older poztaaneof the com-
pany laughed, and litiskAincoln, bid-
ding her daughter nottlep'-try to tell
anything unless she_ could get it
straight, again resumer] the Eulnect, of
the silver forks, saying to Mrs. Mason,
"I should think you'd be glad. For
my part, I'm . perfectly wedded to a e
silver fork, and positively I could not
eat without one."
"But, mother," interrupted Jenny.
"Grandma Howland hasn't any, and '
I- don't believe she ever had, foronce
when we were ttrare and you carried
yours to eat with, don't you remem-
ber she showed you a little two tined
one, and asked if the victuals didn't
taste just as good 'when eou lived at
home and worked in the -that great
big noisy building -I forgot the name
of it." • •
It was fortunate for Jenny's after -
happiness. that Mrs.- .Campbell was
just then listening intently for some-. •
• tliffirielueli-Eltr was
her ear, consequently she did not hear
the remark, which possibly might .
have enlightened her a little with re-
gard to her friend's early days. Tea'
being over, the ladies announced their
,intention of leaving, and Mrs. Mason,
recollecting Mrs. Lincoln's request for
flowers, invited them into the garden,
where she bade them help themselves. •
It required, however, almost a mar-
tyr's patience for her to stand quietly
by, while herchoicest flowers were
torn from their stalks, and it was
with a sigh of relief that she- finally •
listened to the roll of the wheels
which bore her guests away. •
Could She haVe listened to their
remarks, a.s on a piece of wide road
their carriages kept side by side for
a mile or more, she would probably
have felt amply repaid. for her flow -
era and trouble, too.
"Dear me," said Mrs. dampbell,
never could live in such a lonely out, -
of -the -way place."
"Nor I either," returned Mrs. Lin-
coln; "but I think Mrs. Mason ap-
pears more st -home here than in the
city. 1 suppose you know she 1$138 a
poor girl when Mr. Mason marrie.d
her, and such people almost alvniya
showtheir breeding. 'Still, 13he •is a
good sort' of a woman, and it is well
a/lough to have some nice place to
visit and get fruit. 'Weren't these
delicious berries, and ain't these splen-
did rosebuds?" .
"I guess, though." said Satiny,
glancing at her mother's 'huge bou-
quet, "Mrs. Mason didn't expect you
to gather quite so meny. And Bose,
too, trampled down a beautiful lily
without ever apologizing."
"And What if I did?" retorted Rose.
"She and that girl have nothing to
do butfix it up."
This allusion to Mary reminded Mrs.
Campbell of her conversation with
Mrs. Mason, and laughingly she re.
posted it. never knew before, said
she,"that Itfrie Meson had so much
spirit. Why, she really seemed quite
angry, and tried hard to make Mary
out beatitiful, „ and graceful, and alt
that,"
"And," chimed in Ella, who was
angry at Mrs. Maseli for defendinii
her sister, and angry at her idsbst for
being defended, "don't you think, she
se•idthnt Mary ought to be aishemed of
inc."
"re it possible she was so baron -
dent?" said Mrs. Lincoln, "I wish I
had been pmeent; 7 would IntVe Vag.
ein My Mind, freely, but so much one
tete for inittonizing, arieh creel -erne'
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