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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1899-12-01, Page 7r. =ttifiganniMESSMSOWNENS LOWE'S TRIUMPH.' A STORY OF LOVI AND WAR. .BY MARY J. HOLMES,. Author of " Lena Piers." "Edna Browning," "Tempest and Sunshine," Etc., Etc. "Tisa sure to startle her heerees with ,some remark quite unworthy of u New England daughter. She slid wish they wonitd stop having eo ninny mestiugs, She said, or, if they must ham iltern, she Wished they'd get Brother Tour to come and set them right. Be ltati liv ed in Charleston. II0 could tell them dhow kind the people were to Mary, his sick wife, and were. it not that it was beneath him to lecture, she'd surely' `t•rite for him to conte, Bose 'lather Weis growing unpopnla1 by her foolish .speeches,and When at last she was ask- ed to join with other ladies of the town 'fit snaking articles of +clothing for the volunteers, she• added the last drop to ,-the brimming bucket, by tossing bark lier chestnut tresses. and "guessing she shouldn't 'blister her hands oyer that coarse stuff. She couldn't sew emelt, any way; and as for malting bandage's and lint, the very idea was sickening, She'd give thein fifty cents, if they wanted, but she positively couldn't do more than that, for she must have a !new. pair of lavender 'kids, She had worn' the old ones three or form times, and Will preached economy every dap." With a frown 'of impatience, the ma - Iron who had been c:.- eted to ask help 'goers , hose, took the fifty cents, and with feelings anything but complinren- taty to the silly little lady, went back 'to the hall where scores of women were busily ontployed in behalf of the • company, some .of Whom would never -return to tell how much good even the homely housewife, with her pins and needles,and thread,had done them when far Sway where no mother or sistee • 'hand could reneh them, nor Set how the thought, that perhaps a dear one's fin-. .gess had torn the soft linen band, oh scraped the tender lint applied to sortie ,gaping wound, had helped to ease the Bain, and cheer the homesick heart. It was surely a work of ]mercy in which -our noble women were then engagej, .noel if from the group collected in Rock- land Hall, there Was much loud mur- enuring at Itose Mather's want of sense or heart, it arose not so much from Il- . stature as from astonishment that she could be so callous ;suer indifferent to an object of so much importance. "Wait till her husband goes, and iihe won't mince along so daintily, taking •all: that gamins to show her Baltno nl, when it isn't one bit muddy," muttered the Widow Simms, pointing out to those near the Window, the lady in questitn, tripping down the street in quest of hl.-, vender kids, perhaps, or arose likely 'bound for her . iitisband's office; where, now that everybody 'worked .all day long at the hall, she spent much of her time, it was so lonely at home,. with nobody to 'call. "I hope he'll be draft- ed, and have to go, upon my word!" continued the widow, whose heart was very sore with thinking of the three teats at her fireside, so .soon to be va- cated by her darling boys--L''1i, Topa. and Isaac, "Yes, I do hope he'll be drafted, don't you, liars. Graham?" and the turned toward Annie, who .was roll-.: ing up bandages of linen, and went- _ ung 111 with every coil a prayer 'that the poor soldier, whose lot it should be to need the band, might return again to - the loved ones at, home, or else be lit - ted for that better home, where war is unknown. Annie shook her heed, but made no answer. There was no bitterness now in her heart against Rose Mather. She had prayed that all away, and only hop- ed the anguish whirls had come to her, , making her brain giddy, and her heart faint, might never be borne by another, if that could be. George had volettlteer- ed,-•-Wats to be second lieutenant, and Annie, who shall tell of the gloom which had fallen so darkly around the cottage the had called Iters for one brief year. It was a neat, cosy dwell - Ing, and to Annie it never seemed so chcerlul as on that mwmortible night of the war -meeting, when sire had light- ed the lamp and sat down with George Upon the chintz -covered lounge he diad helped her make when first she wits n 'bride. it is true the carpet was not of velvet, like that Rose Mather trod up- cn; neither was there in all the house' vile inch of rosewood or of marble, but ' there was domestic lore, pure end deep as ally Rose ever experienced, and there Vas something better far than that, it 'patient, trusting faith in Otte Who con Shed light upon the dreariest home, and nesse the heaviest trial seean like naught. It was this trn,sting faith 'Which made .Annie Graham the sweet, gentle being she was, shedding its in- fluenee over her whole life, and soften, ing down. a disposition which otherwise +night have been haughty and resont- ful. Annie Wits naturally high-spirited mad proud, and hose's remarks conoern- ing voltntorcrs in general, end George In particular, had stung her to the 'tjtuiek, but With. the indignant mood there carne another impulse, and ere the cottage had been reached, the bidet fueling had .gone, leaving nothing but sorrow that it had ever been there. Likeihose, she wished there Would tie no ever, but Wishing was of no avail, and long after George Graham: was rsleep and dreaming, it easy be, ef;'gior- tes won on battlefields, Annie lay awoke, questioning 'within herself wile, ther she ought, by word or deed, to prevent leer' husband's :going, if he felt, as he seemed to feel, that it Was as much his duty its that of others to joist it lilt; country's defence*, Annie was no great reasoner, logically; all her de` e'ti ns were rade to turn upon the sn- file question of right and wrong, and on. :this oeeesien eche found It hard, to tell, se evenly the balance seemod adjusted. live than once site stole from her pil- low,: and going out into the freesh night stats, lsmelt in the moonlight stud asked for gadelanee to drowse tits right, even Otote_ that tileht Amid balm her Irate *Vett bear. would not be so hard to give liitit up," she xnnrmitred, us sickening visions of fields strewn with the dead, civil hospl- ,, 1s shied with the dying,eamo over her, and for an instant he" brain reeled with the thought af.George dying thus, .and leaving her ti» hope* of meeting her again, for Caeorge's fa:Ilt was not like hers. Anon, however, something whispered to her that the God site loved was on the field of carnage and in the ramp, and its the hospital, and everywhere as much as there in Rockland, that pee - Ors innumerable would follow the brave volunteers, end that the evil she so *Ruch feared might be 'the means of wo king the great good she so desired. Aul thus it was that ,Annie came to a decision, Stealing back to her hus- band's side, site bent above him as he lay sleeping, and with' a heart Whiclt throbbed to its very core, though the lip uttered no ,sound, she gave him to his country, asking, if it could %be, that be might come back *gain, but if it were ordered otherwise—`+G Dere Will be done." There was' no shrinking after that sacrifice was made, though when the morning tame, the death.white face and the dnrlc :circles beneath the eyes 'AV/ ltil,Hl1tllarVf ;r li lir: (l9'6l)D ,;r11010-V:,.�,.... allele the slime: 11Tee icier IiItMPdi@r iteorges• Try .to believe I'm there, ltnekhtud', April, MIL" There were big tear -drops on the bit of linen, but Millie brushed them away ^tul wont on with her rolling, just es Widow SIMMS calk(' her attention to Ilene Mather, an meutionod several peeve back. Annie could not account for it to herself, but ever Since Rnse's arrival at Rockland, site had felt a strange inex- plicable interest in the feeltionubie belie; au interest prompted by some- thing more than lame curiosity, :tad now that there wee an opportunity of seeing her althea being herself, seam, she straigittenrcl up and smoothing• the soft braids of her pale brown hair, waited for the eutrance of the little holy. who, wtith her pink hat set jc lin- tily on her chestnut euris, turd her'rieh •fur collar buttoned gracefully over her hiuidsome cloth elonk, tripped cute the room, doing much by her sunny smile turd pleasant manner to disarm the la- dies of their recent pre3ndiee against her. She was nothing'but a child, they reflected; a spoiled, jeetted child; she wuulcl improve ns she grew older and cisme more in contact with the sharp corners of the world, so those who had the honor of her acquaintance received hee with the, familiar deference., to we may be allowed the expression, wbich had always intuited their manner to- ward 119111am 'Mother's bride. ]Tose wits too mach accustomed to society to be at all. disconcerted by the lwxidre.d pair of eyes turned scrutiniizingiy to- ward her. Indeed, elle rather enjoyed being *coked at, and she tossed the coarse garments about with a pretty playfulness, saying tthnt "since the:la- ' dies, had called Upon. her she had thought better of it, and made up her mind to martyr herself one afterneon at least, and benefit the soldiers. To be sure there wasn't much she could told of a weary vigil, .such es. tinny do; She might hold 3'orn for some• and ninny a woman kept, both North body to wind, she supposed, blit ;she and South, during the dark flours of couldn't knit, and she. didn't want to the Rebellion. But save the death- sow ou such ugly, scratchy staff els White face- and heavy eyes, there Wits those flannel shirts, hut if someber`cly no token of the inner struggle, ns ,with wonlcl. thread her needle, and fix, it all a desperate, effort at self -command, An- 'right, she'd try what she could do on vie wound her alrns• around her hus- band's neck, and whispered to . ]rim, , "Yon may go,—I give my free consent," and George, who cared far more to go than he had dared express, kissed the lips. Which tried so hard to smile, little dreaming what it cost his brave young wife to tell him What she had. To one of his temperament, there Wns no clan- ger to be feared for himself. The bul- ° let which might strike down a brother at his, side would be turned (iWay from him: • Others would, of course, be kill- ed, but he should escape unharmed, In the language of one speaker, whose. eloquent appeal had ddrie.mu0h to fire his •youthful enthnsiasee, "He was not going . to be shot, but, to shoot souse- body.' This was his idea, and ere the cling- ing arms hard uuelasped themselves from his neel:,his imagination had leap- ed forwtird tothe future, and in fancy George Graham wore, if not colonel's, et least a captain's uniform, and the cottage 011 the hill, which Annie e0 much adanired, and for the •purchase of which . a few ' hundreds ' were already saved, was hie—bought with the money Ire wguld earn. The deed 'should be drawn in her name, too, he said, and he pictured her coming clown the walk to tweet him, with the rose -blush on her cheek, just as 'she looked the first time he ever saw her. Something- of this he told. her;—and Annie tided t0 smile, and think it all plight be. But -her heart that morning. was far too heavy to be lightened by a picture of whet • seemed' so improbable. • Still, George's hopeful eonfidenee did much to yells= sure her,' and when, It few days after, she started for the• hall, she ptirposely took a longer walk for the se.ke of pass- ing the cottage on the hill, thinking, as she leaned over the low iron fence, how she would arrange the flower -beds More tastefully- than they were now ar- .renged, and teach the drooping vines to twine - more' gracefully around the slender Columns supporting the piazza in front. She would ititve seats, tea, —willow -twisted - chairs beneath the trees, where 'she and George could it et twilight, and watch the shadows creeping across_ the hollow where the ' old cottage .was, and up the ojypastte hill, where the cupola of Rose Ma- ther's home was plainly visible, blaz- ing in the April sunshine. It was a very pleasant castle which Annie built, and for a time the load of pain witicli, since George vohmteered, had loin e -o heavy at her heart,- was gone; but it returned again when, as she pissed a tetra in the toad, her eye wende:•ed downs to the hollow, and that -other cottage standing there So brown, and small, 1211(1 looking already so- desolate. hemline she knew that ere many days Were over,. she would wait in vain for the loved footstep corning down the road, sboitld miss• the pleasant, cheeky laugh, the teasing joke and ,words of leve which made the world all sun- shine. The cottage on the hill beeanle. a worthless thing r,s poor Annie forced hack • *ler teatis, anal with gttitheued eters hurried- on to join the group of Indies busy at the hall. Taking her seat by the window, eras commenced the `light 'work imposed en tier, that of toning and winding bentl- • td. t agree for those who might be wounded. - "Maybe there'll ]rover be no fight. Hilt it's Well ettottgh to be prepared." erne the soothing rentable of the kinld- hearted old woman who gave the : w'ork to Anttie, noting, as she did so, holy the lip quivered end the cheek paled eit< the very Idea. "What if George should need thein?" rapt sttggesting itself to her as she - worked industriously on, hopieg that, - If he did, some one of the rolls she was t0 hits er better 'winding inlght cent • ' enpos, and did so much feytvnrd lyuttbr' yet, if he. could, only here the bit of soft linen site hod brought Herself,-„ Lincoln its that ehnir? Why don't they a piece of iter own clothing. and bear- help to keep Trim settin' there, and not ing on it her tnnidelt name, Annie How - their saris with their hands tucked Inarc]. lie would be sure to know it, their trousee' pockets? Both my boys,. slte? sttirl, It wit l written rCo plainly. with Bit and Jahlt, voted -Miller. and 1 butl Wasn wen •-one. tt(i0lible inlet nncl it would 'make halt !tette, would, to t t o ty eel so glad. lint there night be outer 'They'vo all Rued, nucl I won't say I'm. nn . 1lowards, it was not On 1111001n. sorry, for if there's Anything I hate tet ,,, 0x100, lusts suggested next to her, it a snenlc! It hakes me so rand!" e tome tee bon to strips, and oral the shettrs again clicked sav- N . x, pwu a t n ., dew Simms reeroned her ring Altus deliverer]. her lelaek Iteptlbileans, be- o'rtt wofal.t, glee* isle tla-eirt it tine tier: Obt ass as Itoso TAIr on may estate, she ram thee* was sews bouoi*ly trutly, in what the widow had said, but this did not lwprwsa her so much ss the feet that 'sho had evidently given of- fence, and 11110 was about trying to ex- tricate lterselt from the dilenutnu, when George Graham appeared, ostensibly to Ming some trimer meresngo to the Kee - tient of the society, but veiny' to see if his wife wore there, and *Weak fo her souse kind word of encouragement. Base recognised flim its the +onng mctn •she luta 80011 tit the war -meeting, .incl titan lnoruer3t he left the hall she broke Ant impetuously: "Isu't he hand ome?—so tall,. fin broad -shouldered, and such a splendid ntnrk for a bullet, --I 'most know he will he shot.' "Iinsh-rthl" Dame warningly from: SPY. ern] individuals, but came ton late. The mischief was done. Ere Itose could collect her thoughts a group of fright eued women heel gathered around poor Amele, who had fainted. "1'l's . nr? do tellP' cried Bosei,,tatstaniingthe on•attetip-tpe and elntehing at the dress of Widow Simms, who angrily retorted: "I should . s'pose you'd ask. It's enough to make the poor critter faint clean away to hear a body talk; About her husband's being It fust tate marts sur n bullet!" With all her thoughtlessness, Rose had the kindest he?rt intim world; and toning her wity through the crowd, she knelt, by the white-faeed Annie, and taking the drooping head in her lap, pushed back the thick braids of hair, noticing, with her .quick eye for tite beautiful, how soft and luxuriant . they were, how pure was the con1plex- lon, how perfect were the featurts,how small and delicate the finger's, and how graceful was the slender need:. [To BE CONTINUED.] a pair of drawers." POT it time no 'one seemed fneliiied to volunteer her services, and Widow Simms's sheers clicked spitefully loud as they, cut through the cotton flannel. At lust, however, hirs. Baker, who had more than once officiated as wash- erwoman at the MlMather mansion, came femme!. and arranged some work for Rose, who, untying the strings of her pints. hat, and ndensting her tiny gold thimble, labored on -until she had sne- ceeded • in sewing up and joining to- gether a long leg with one some inches shorter, which had happened to lee ly- ing nems., Lend was. the shout which a discovery of this mistake (idled • forth, nor was it at all abated when Rose de- murely asked if it would not answer for •sone soldier who should chance to have a limb shot off just below the knee. , "The little simpleton!" puttered the widow, while i\Irs. Baker pointed mit to the diseomfitcal lady titn.t one divie lien of the clrawei:e was right side out end the other wrong! There was no alternative sive to rip the entice thing, and - with glowing cheeks Resp began the teslc of undoing what site had done. incidentally letting out, as she R orked, that Will might have icnown .better 'than to ,send her there,—she shouldn't have come at all if he had not. insisted; telling.her people would call her a secessionist unless she. did something to benefit the soldiers. She didn't care what they called her; site knew she was a Democrat, or used to he before she was married; but now that Will'was a Repnhlicain she hardly knew what she eves; ally nay, she was not n secessionist, and 'she wasn't . pnr- ticnlarly interested in the war either; why should stie Ire?—Will wire not go- ing, nor Brother 'Toni, nor any of her friends. , "But s'bmebody's' friends are going, -- somebody's Will, soni.ebody's Tom; as iittitr to them as youth are -to yon," came in a ' rebuking tone . from it straightforward, outspoken woman,w110 t new from. sad experience that'"some- body's Tom was going." "Yes, 11:110w," slid hose, a shadow for mi lustant er wing her bright face, "and it is dreadful, too, 'Rall says everything will be so much higher, and it will be so dull at Saratoga and New- port next summer, evitholtt the South- ern people. O}re night es well stay at home. The war might have been avoid- ed, too, by a •little mutual forbeariin- e ` from both parties, nuttl matters eostld be amicably adjusted, for Brother Tom said 'so In his letter last .night,. and it heap mote which I wit remember," Here- Itose Dittoed quite exhausted, with the •effort she had macre to re- peat the opinion. of Brother Toric- She had read all ails letter, fully indorsing as much of it as she. understood, and after a little she went on: "\Va ui't it' horrid, though, their fir.' frig into the, Alueostehusetts .boy's?—and they were front right round Boston, too. • 'Tom saw 'them when they start- ed. They were fine-looking linen, he says, and. Will thinks lr ought to be proud that I'm a i)ay State girl, but it, tun's ns if my friends had gone. '.Cont is it Deinomett, I know, bttt it's 'quite rt other kin$ that john the army." 1Vidow Simms eottld keep silent_ no lea ver, and brandishing her ,polished shears by ivay of adding emphasis to what she said, she begat.: "And s'posin' 'tis folks es poor as pov- erty struck, lusin't they feelin's I'd likeI to know? 1aint they got bodies raid souls, and , Whets, and wives, 'and Astral? And s'poKsitt' 'tis I)emoci'ate, more shame for t'otlter gide that helped get tip the 1111188- Where be they now, them ehnj s that wore the big Wok a Hagyard's Yellow 011 is good for ratan or beast; can be applied externally or taken internally; oures bruises,burns,. frost bites, outs, croup, quinsy, stiff joints, sore muscles, pairs pi the chest, etc., will not stain the skin or soil the clothes. Price 135e, He: "Women are seldom capable of reasoning." She: "Don't you believe it." He: "Why nal" She: "Well, because:" "He playa well that wins." 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