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A STORY QI'' WITS AND W.R.
BY MARY J..HOLMES,
,Author of " Lena Rivers,” �' Edna, I3irowning,"
"Tempest and Sunshine," Etc,, Etc.
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the w;dow sobbed •t,cnii. "a. thank -
;,you, 'Mies Mather, tor reading me that,"
she sal& "and I thank your brother
for writing it. Tell him so, will yea,
Tell hien Put nothing but a .cross, sour
grained, snappish old woman, but I
have a mother's heart, and I bless ]tJtu
for speaking so kindly ot my boy."
Rose's tears fell fast as she folded.
up the letter, and Annie's kept cont-
,•
n of
to There bond e was a
with them. e
x t
petty
sympathy now. between the three, cos
• they talked togetltor of the soldiers,
- i1Xre, Simms nuc. Annie devisiug var•
ices methods by which they might be
• benefited, and Rose wishing, she too,
• eculd de something for them.
-'But I can't," she said, desparingI&,
• "I never did • anybody any real good
in .all my life—only. sbotheted them,"
and Rose sighed as she thought how
useless and harmless was her present
mode of life.
"You'll learn by and by," said. the
. widow, in a tone unusually soft for her;
then, as it the sock .she held it her lap
had suggested the. idea, she continued,
"Can yon knit?"
]rose spool: her head.
"Nor your mother, neither?"
.Again hose shook her head, feeling
-smite ashamed that she should lack this.
to sortme a strong, fail -grown ratan Dee
nee And another class, too, have
gone, our laboring. Young ten. leaving
behind them poverty end little* helpless
'children, whereas I have, nothing of
that kind for en excuse;'.
"Olt, I wish I had. a dozen elZt1dren,
if that Would keep you,,"cri l Bose,
the insane idea flashing `�(`,iol er that
she would. sit once adopt a score or
more of those mho' had seen playing in
that e'oot
,the muddy hollow at nit to t .
Mr. Mather smiled and continued;
"Suppose you try and accustom. your-
self to the •idea of living a while with.
int me. I shall not die .until m3•, rap•
Minted time, and shall unaioubfedly
come back again,. Don't you see?"
"No, Rose didn't: Item heart was too
full of pain to see how goi�ug to war
was just as sure a method of prolong•,
ing one's life as staying at Maine, and
she sobbed pesstonatcly, ops moment
• accusing -her husband of not loving • her
as bo used to, ane. the •next begging et
• hien to abandon his us/h1 project.
Mr• Mather was a. wan of firm deci-
sion, and long before he broached the
subject to his were>, his mind had been
made up that his country called for
him, °not for somebody else,—but for
hien personailly;• that if the. rebellion
aceotnplishment• - were to lie crushed out, men orf wealth.
"Well," the widow- went on, "'taint .'and inijtienco must help to crush it,
much use to learn now. 'Twould take not al.dne by remaining et home 'ttncl
' a year to 'get one stocking done, but if urging' others en, though this was an
when winter comes, that heather of important part, but by aetually joining
,yours wants socks and mittens, er the n" the combnt, and by their presence
like of that, tell him Ill knit stn for ;cheering, and • inspiring others. :end
hum Mr. Mather 'was gains, too,—had, in
"Oh, you are so kind!" cried ,limbs;. . 'fact, -already made arrangements • to
thinking to herself how she'd send that effect, and neither the tears nor
weal Haat he nets eurta,teilb toss* lap these., syASS sltehe len' tlttsa a
heltllatgg•'y lie any t basil atty, lmttvipie ilia , "Whet moues, northeitoi? Whose unite
• more lucrative situ tioses t3 thous stele ,Thessee &owe ph tell maw yelp fri ht•
net did then, more. Ile slid not tell Iter s es nae, mitt ktotr sc, ti ultef" +cl I ,,ao
he had diet/Med a least of honor, ter` clang etorete to her tuoiher, wish, with
,the rake Of mire who t eemctl to U'•• nitre 1 gtd%er;ug Hp stud fulteriug velee, told
worthy of it. Ile would rather 'his lcf•r ,tow reercavt raneway Jimmie had
should reach her from some other : j„Inca ti:e Confederate army under
t•nuree, reel •ere the ilay was ores it Itcnttrcgnral, and omits probably then
did, for in a small town like Itaekdau;l marching on to W'ut'•hipf ton to meet
it did not take lone for cwvety other oue tier other soon, in t1c'adly c'c» fliet, it
to know that Williams Mather had en- rnlrlltt be; his hand .the very one, per=
listed ns at private soldier, 'wheys lie larges .to fined the fratraeldni bullet
night .rave been colonel of a regiment,- wlelch would shed at brother's lite•blreeli
lead lue rtatt given .tiers to otncrther, bc• :No wonder that her heart grew faint
cainse the other brad dcgtincl'ittg aur biro when Ave thought of ilea boy as a repel.
a bed -ridden muthlre•, It (*ritzy irife phi --aye, ,e, rebel of ten tithes deeper dye
six little hclples children. • tltatt if he luta been born of Scathes
Dow tort i3'ctlliitm Mather ro.•e in the blo'cd•, and reared xrn. Southern soil for
vettmation of those who, never billing',the roof -tree which sheltered this child -
known Mini intimately, had looked up~ hood wee :theca itcyrettt'h the shadow =
on hint ns a eelcl, haughty tutu, whose of Bunker Bill's Monument, and news' •
so
loyalty was somewhat doubtful, ul tut hoar load he sported at i#a base,
haw proud Tulse felt, ave n'11/ the mt'st g laying direetl'y above the, graves of
of Ihcr tears, as stud board ort every midi . those brave mere -slho fell that awful
,her huebtutd's praise. Even the 1\'idow day when the fierce thnndcts of warSimms teettur(a the e • MUther mane shook the tins ee Bootee. and eelmee
sion, telling het'haw glad she was, and norore. the smcrlcy seittere hf the bay,
offering to do what she gould for the Far up the lofty tower, too, as high as
volunteer, while Annie, unable to da plc could reach, his name Weis written
anything for herself, could only pray with Ms own i:oyish hand, and the
that God would bring Mr. 1Xuther bade mother lead meld it there epee receiv-
safely to the cheldwvife, who rets sit inti the ehatmeful letter which told of
bow•ca Uonv,t With gr1cf. IloW > unit' his Wegener,. •Clitubing up tate weary,
longed to see her, --end, it. Possible, im- wheeling flight of stain, tube .rein looltsrc1
Port to her mime portion of the hopeful through blinding teams upon Met names,
trust which, kept her own. soul 'from —Theme Madison Carleton, -=half hop-
faiuting beneath its burden of •nitons ing; it had .nett erased, it seemed so hide
uncertainty. •But 'the 'days passed en, a mockery to have it there on Free.
and Rose came no more to the cottage clone's Monument, and know that he
in the hollow. Love for hey hairband who bore it wns traitor to hie count: -y.
had triumphed over every ether. feel- Yet there It was, just ars he left it
,i;,g, and, rousing front. her state of i n- years ago, and with lu a blush of shame
ertnesdj, she busied herself in, doing, or the mother crossed it out, just as she
rather trying to do, a thousand little fain would have crossed out ,his sin,
things which she fancied night add to coc. hau• Bcou.
`f'illie's comfort. She called hint—Wil.tiknie k'tnewt thathave ;TUceunnel( wvasutit inld hatthe
lie now, ns if that name were dearer, Sontlrerte army, and not 'wishing to
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there' was something so pi/dative in sympathy • to her only daughter; and it "' W'"'te t''t' '•7t IltA''' Wq" t,
the tone, as if She were speaking of the was well for both she did., for it helped
dirnd.' to 'divert Rose's grief into.. a new and
It''was a most beautiful summer day dierent channel; to set her right. on `1 .. •
When, at Inst, he left her, and Roso's miter points, and gradually to obliter-
heart was well nigh bursting with. itis: et'e 011 marks of whet some had celled • '4
load of pain.. It was all in vain'that ,,,(cession: �i LIST..„ .."
she maid her ostial MemMemof prayer, nev- TTomhhadbeen her pride; the brother
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~some pineapple preserves, such es site ontneattcws of his young+Wife could avail er tame( meaningless than now wtaett site honest , and feared, while Jimmies
dwith dessert ihttt day. ‘,,,•• to eh,ntige his. purpose. But he. did not her thoughts were qo wholly absorbed
ad'nearer Iter:', t, was more a companion
They grew to like each other very • tell her so that night; he would rathea' with something else.. She did,.uot play of her (ilii(fiep, d; the one who tensed
'fust otter this, and •Rose ,,staid until' come to it gradually, baling a 'different • in faith, but because it was •n habit erf and petted he"i - by turns, oue day pet-
-the little rouhd table' wits arranged for course from that which Geaa gc' Gra- lt-et• childhood, a something she measly • ting angle Wornms in her bosom just to
tea and rolled to Annie'( bedside,Thore ham had issued,' for where George omitted, toeless in too greet a. hurry hear bee seream, haul the next Speaedittg
was no plate' for Rose, `the widow have had ]oft the decision wholly to his wife, No wonder then that she O'bse • up from x11°Arts boeket-money •to buy het- the
ing deemed it prepbsterous that site Mr. Mather had taken it wholly upon her 'devotion quite as gxief-stricken_ as huhe wax doll elie saw in ,the shop with
should stay, but the table looked so
•cosy, with its they, black teapot, and its
'nicely buttered toast, that Rose invit-
ed herself, with such • a pretty patron-
', ising way, resit the widow failed to see
the condespension it implied. It did
not, . howFeeter, escape Anatie's observe-
• tion, but' she could not:feel angry with
- the little lady, touching her bene -hand-
- led thaife as if she were afraid of it,
and looking round in 'quest of a. nap -
'kin she failed • to . And, for Widow
Simms had banished napkin -s from. the
teble as supertlnous . articles, whish
answered no earthly purpose, save the
'putting an extra four events into the
. rocket -of. the washerwoman, klarry
Baker's mother.
-It was growing late, and 'the sunset
--shadows were already creeping into the
'Hollow when Rose bade Annie good-
;tye, promising to come again ere. long,
aatd wondering, as she took her holey.'
ward way, whence came the calm. quiet
peace which made Annie ,Gr'ahnnt 5o
.happy, even though her Husband itis
Sar away in the 'midst of danger t'nd
•death. Rose had heerd that Annie was
a Christian, and so were matey other's
whom she knew, but they were much
like- herself,—good, well-meaning; people,
amiable, but ;let • their husb nds: once
join the army and they 'n ould make
quite as much fuss ace she, 'rho did
himself, making it first and • telling when site first kneit,sdlowwm. God does - dost, aloe n on Washington street, and
Rose aifterwards, It was better .so, he not often. answer ,what is mere. Hp :stir- coveted so badly.. Such were •snore. cf
thought, -and having said all -to her that vice, . and Ito *0a' yet .d stranger •to Resets, reminiseenees of Timmis, and
he wished to say on that• oec+atsion, he the, prayeeolehick stirs. the heart i,nd ; wi h,lla time had softened down the hot'
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thenselveas in this story and tie form lying just'the same as he had summer when the yellow fever end I Times and Farmers Advocate,
channel: But Rose was not to, be di- terrible, and Mr. Mather more .than. felt the cold worms crawling on her
verted. It had cote •upon']ter like a, half repented when he saw how tight- neck,. it had not destroys(. the (loll, the.
thunderbolt;—the thing she se. ranch lit she :dung to his neck, begging him handsomest site had ever owned; not
dreaded,—and she wept bitterly, -seeing to take her .with film, or at least to made her cease to love the teasing bey.
in the future; which only a few-• hours send for her very soon. She could not feel just as her niithse •
Vetere, looked so bright and joyous, no- •"What shall I do when yon. are gone? • diel :,bout him; for she had not her mo -
thing but impenetrable gloom, for she Whnt can I do?" she sobbed, -and her tther's strong, patritic feeling. but bet
conld read her husband tolettably well, husband answered: tours flowed none the less, while she,
and she intuative1v felt that she had Met "Yon can work for me, datailing,� • too, half -wished hint lying bencntili the
helm,—that he -wan going from, her, work for all the soldiers. It 'will help surnmer grass, in beautiful Mt. Awtburn.
never to conte back site knew. She divert • your mind"
"Ifowv did you hear from him?" the
shank/ be a widow before she was nine- - "L can't, I eatn't,"s was -Rose's nnswver• asked, when her.firet•bur'st of grief Wes
teen, and tire; host of summer Aressen "I don't knout 'how to work. Odu, Wil- over, and her mother replie +Uy taking
she mcfint to buy when -she went We lie, R'ellliei, I wish there wasn't any out a letter, en which 1 recognises
to Boston, chanced into e -widow's eons- war." • her brother's panda rekee.
bre •weeds, •ns hose saw herself array- Willie wished so, too; hitt there was "He sent rue this," .1Y1•s. tsar, sten
eel in the habiliments. of mourning. no time now for regrets, for a rumbling said, ' awl. reining open the letter, elle
What a fright she leaked to herself in ih the distance and a rising wreiuth of rend it aloud to Rose.
the.widowv's ens, with which .her yield smoke on the western plain warned him "Rich17a.„ond, S'., June, lSSite >
hair,.n,ul +she• shuddered afresh as she. day. One more burning• kiss. --one • "Dear Mother, --Pray dont ':think
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thought -how hideous she WOO in, black•• more fond pressure- of the strife he lo-- you've seen n ghost when you.recog'eize
Poor, sinnple little- Itosel And yet we ed so macho—a few sno•re whispered my writing• You thought ire dead, I
- say again Itos•e was not a fool; nor Yet words. of hope, and then •another hock- suppose, but there no such good news
an unnatural. eharacter. • There are land a-olunteer• had .gone. ' Gone with- as that. I'm bullet-proof, I reckon, or
meat;. tunny like her, some who will out clttrtug
h ld h 'e died in New Orleans last
recognize u t
more Who • will not. fay. impulsive mit it freta pini, and yet not lust the had such a squabble. I wns dreadfully
imagination disfigured her chestnut • not to tarry longer if he would go that
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pleasure -seeking `creatures, whom lash- ala e
not profess to be anything; And thea; - tenable edueation enol too indulgent pa- anguish when- he took his sums awes-, LTO g Cp\T�* LTr'.A. J
for the first time in 'her life, Rose wish- meters. have clone their utmost spell, but the trembling, quiverin„ motiati
- wt t over naw Band the form be
hadse
ed she, too, mania 1 torn tlpnue s` Uut
Who still possess many ,traits of lax ' a , e
teachor, anti so have something to sus- ocllerucc, needingonly adverse circum- mewed lay nro4:ionless and sell, ;ell tart- • {
teen her lit (else her husband should go. conscious of the dreary pain throbbing • � l� 1
t n Sssoul 1 and h•tmmer them .Intl'o
But he- wouldn't go,—and, if he did,
ell °•ties religion in the world could not
teethe her resigned; and the tears sprang by a fond mother, petted 'by an older • '
to Rose's eyes as she hurried up the brother, and teased by a younger, .flat- the car and ',raved his hat to 'those ash.
handsome .milt to the piazza,• where tered b ` friend and- toe, and latterly seaubled there to see Butt' off: MIelte
x't'e11 sat smoking Ms cigar in the hazy y who had meant at the Very last Melte
,sat des` r In the heart, and, all unmindful of the
1... -.... � ...... of true -hearted mA.,ll.tttt..
hood. Such at one Was I{ose. Reared
loud.hurrah 'which greeted iCilliani i,[a•-
thee tis hi: stepped upon the doff ten of
caxessed rand Worshipped Uy a htismueh so (heroic, so brave, so worthy thesecife
wt b ese had ome tt nr too mueh
bf ell, and thensitting upon hes .race' of h own importance a�sAI'ts. Ito a of ?soldier, had fainted. se,
of -Lu TEIL 1 /
•t iii rht.'' She told hint 'where she had t 1 t c to thi il f t h
st a q a
told ititm of Annie, wishing she could Mat] ,•ace Miss Rose Carleton; of
'be like her, and tusking if ferdid not Roste.., and leader, of the .ton.
wish- so, too.Therm was:.a wide difference between There were loving yFords being
ese
Will made no •direct reply. HIS Rose end Annie Graham, for While the breathed ,into Rose's ear ehhien she cant's
thoughts were evidently elsewhere, end lnttte', in her sweet unselfishness. Lack to consciousness, fend there was
After it few minutes lie saki, luesitatt- thought only of her lausbtutcl's welfare, something nscioiar in/the touch of lite
ingly: , both here and hereafter, Rose's first hand bathing her •below stud. smoothing
"Would it break my 'darling a heart impulse was n dread shrinkingfrom
if I should join Tom sa
Tot 1Vnshington?'r being alone, and heir secon(1 'tkraror hvcul-er tangled icktt,tb�Y notice but Rose
e hoWas
it Was
rso tenderly, until she
saying to, her:
•
Them was a cry of horror, and Rose
Het the years of her youth, new caring for her
Mid her tare in her husbands boson.. spread out 80 ins -tingly be1!ere peri ..camel the volecf
"Oh, Will, 'Will, you shan't, on ea"ahpulil• be passed in secluded widow- "Is my daughter better''r
you mustn't and won't! I didn't know hood, With nothing front the gay ,world And then site tire;herself with a
your ever thought if such a cruel thong. without wherewith to recti her vanity wild eereaan (11! joy into the arms which
Don't yoat love me any more? I'Il try and love for admiration, Still, beneath
to do better, I certainly will!" and Rose's light exterior these was hidden loos c>.adled her babyhood; sobbing' pite-
• i{ose nestled (.miser to Trim, holding his •a Mine of tenderness tend love, a heart. "Oh, mother, matltcr, `Villee has gone
iinnc1 just as Annie Graham had once width, when roused to action, woe ('n- to the ivnr! Willie luta gotee to he
held her husband's. Irtble of venter, mote heroic deeds wail" .
"You could not be -much better:, nei- than would at Met seem possible. Ansi It was very strange, Rose thought,
'titer could. I love you bettei: than 1 do that heart was rousing, ,too,—was grid- that her mother's tears should flow .so
:now, hose, darling," Mr. Mather re- unity seeking into life; but not all at fast, and her free wear so sad au ex=
plied, kissing her •chliclish brow. "Iiut o•fce, mid the tears . wvhieh Rose shed pression just because of Will, who wits
Mose, be rensoitnble once, and listen . tite whole night through were wrung nothilog but her sou -in-law. Then it
• while I tell you how, ever since the out more from selfishness, .perlutps, occurred to her that Tont might be
fall of Sumter, I have thought the than front any higher feeling. It would the oceasioe ot lier sndaess, bet when
thne would come when I 'should be be to stupid living there alone in Rank- she spoke of him, ° asking why her mo-
% eded, resolving, toe, that when it land. If she could only go to Wash- ther hard not .prevailed oit him to stay
tame, it should sot find me a second iutgton with Will,. it would not be so at liene,Mrs,Cnrloton answered prompt-
Sardnnapnlusr' bad, but she could not, for she waked' ly: •
The sudden lifting of R,ose's hend,nnd Will up from 'a sound sleep to ask him "1 never lowed 'him one -halt so well
her look' of perplexed inquiry, allowed it she might, end he had answered as on that night when he told me he
that, notwithstanding; the, fanciful or- reek theem eg may main .to sleep, stud herd volunteered. II -Ie would 'be unww ot"
element styled a diploma lying hi her •lousing hese to wakefulness mrd tears, thy of the Carleton blood he bears were
writing -desk, Sardanapslus had not the uhreingled with any prayer thnt the he to hesitatte a inn nertt " and the eye
,honor of being numbered among her dead gathering so fast around her of the brave New Lnglnncl rttatr•on kite
>eequaintauces. But her heart \vas too might sometime- break in blessings tun died no she added: "If I had twenty
hits- .
t her rather ori
:toll to ask an expinnntton, and e - her Rend• sons, I wvottd(1 all should die
band continued:- • • • It Wasscarcely light next morning the .h"`ederal battle -field tlhenn lined one
"Besides that, there Was -a mutual When Itese, determined to prevail, re- turn traitor to his cottntryt. 011, 77int-
wunderstanding between TOM and my. doubled . her entreaties for her mire Tiniiule, my poor misguided boy:"
'self that it one Went the *thee would, husband to abandon the decd- It wits a piteous try width carne front
end he has gone, --nobly laying usher . slen ha now candidly memory- the &laths of that mother's aching
x11 the party prejudice which for n :