_The Gastonia
DeTOtvd t© the Protootioti ot Hooit
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Vo]. XVIII. Gastonia, N. c„ September 10, 1807.
MAJOR JONES* COURTSHIP.
By flajor Joseph Jones, of Pineville, Georgia.
LETTISH VIU.
Pixkyillb, Hot. A—To Mr.
Tttompaon: IXsar Sir— Sana* I writ
you that last letter we'ye all been a*
buey u filler jackets In a oottos Moe
too, morm' over to town It «ugl
no great ways to haul things, but than
you Itdow il*a slch a plagy Job. I
never thought ther was so mnoh plun
der about our house till we oome to
more. Hut It's Jaet so every year.
Mother’s always got room old walkin'
tuba, and fat-gourds and aplnuin’
wheeli. and quiltiu frames, and sleb
fljtlns than would Oil Hoar’s ark, big
a* It was: and ahe'i got to have Vm
all moved, lock, stock and barrel, for
■ha ain’t on tho plantation This
movin’ Into town -ovary winter and
out la tbe summer la all a fool ootlon
anyway, and I’m guiln right ste* of
It, aad if It hadn’t been that the Stal
linaet was gone to tnwo when I got
book I blleve I *d coaxed tba old wo
out of It this Urn*.
“Well, now I’ye got a fair swing at
Mias Mary, for ahe’a ao clone I can
Jest call lu any time; but’twean you
and toe. I’m afraid I’m gwioe to have
noma trouble bout tbl* matter ylt.
Thar’s a lot of fellrra soootln round
her that I don’t moro’n half Ilka no
bow. One chap’s jeat eoroe from lb*
north, rigged out like a show monkey,
with a Hide tag of hair baugln down
under bla cliln Just like our old billy
got, that’s a lartla too aroarl for this
latitude, I think. lie’s got more brass
la his faoe than ther la Id mother's
preeervtn kittle, and more gab than
Mr. Montgomery and our preacher to
gether. He’s a music teacher and I
don’t kaow what all, aad makes him
■all Jest aa poplar bout town as If lin'd
lived bare all bla life. All the Iowa
galls la gwioe to take laaaons from
him on Use planer, 'eept Mias Mary,
aad old Mias htalline am aha ain’t
gwioe to the expense of buylo a planer
lbaas hard tiroes, no how. She sea
she's gwioe to laru her gall* to make
good housekeepers and good wife*. and
when they git married. If ther hus
bands like roustek, tbay can buy alcb
things for ’am If tbar're a mind to.
“Yea, madsm, but though, you
know”—sea tbe 1 nape root cuss, (he
very Brat time be wua lotardueed Into
the bouaa by cousin Pete, who Is just
a* thick with him as two fool* could
be—“you know ’oompliehmeola la tba
bast riches a young lady can hsvs—
'eompUebmeota last for ever, but rich
es don’t.'”
“Bat nobody can’t live on ’oomplUh
menU,” « old Mias 8lallloa, “cot
tbese times ib»y w’t”
“Yea, bat Miss 8tnllln«,” ees be.
“yon’s riab snoegb to give your ball
ful daughters every gratification la the
wurld. Now you hadn’t ought to be
ao stingy with atcli ohermln daughter*
as you’ve got.’’
Wall, cun your i cape recce, thought
I, for a stranger, right afore tber teem
too; and I never wanted to settle my
foot agin the seat of a fellrr’s irownra
so bad afore lu my life. Old Mlm
8 tall Ins didn't say muoh, I waa lettin
pretty near Miss Mary, and whea he
begun to run on so, 1 sot In talkln
with her, so she couldn't bear tbe
dratted fool, bat tbe fast thing I
ksowed Mr. Crotchet come sod sot
right down beMreen us.
“Don’t you think we can ’■wade tbe
old woman Into It. Mlsa Mery, If we
lay our heads together."
1 gin Mary a look as much at to nr,
I think ha’s In a mighty grate harry to
lay your heda together; bat the jeat
■mlled, and put her baoksroher up to
her faee and aed she didn’t know.
"I say, Jones.” era he. “woo’t von
be a spoke In my wheel, old feller?
I'm dyln in love wltb this butlful
young lady, aud I can’t bear to eat her
opportunities negteoted.”
I looked at tbe teller rite In the face,
and I )eet had It on Urn eend of my
longue to tell him cum his Insurance.
But Mlsa Mary was tbar and her moth
er, and I tried to torn it oft the best
way I could, without lettin my temper
rise.
"1 MM no wagoncnaanr. i^rovcnn,
■an T, “but I've eot a nigger feller that
kin nut a apoke In your wheel mighty
quick, if tbat’a all you want."
Mien Mary crammed her handker
eher In bar month.
“Ob," sea be, “you don’t take—you
don’t taka, Jane*; I mean, can’t yna
help me to oourt Min Mary, here, and
her mother."
I begun to f«el aort ’o warm behind
(be earn, but I thought I’d Jeet give
him a aort of a hint.
"I reckon you won’t need on help,"
aea I, “yea teem to git along pretty
(eat for a at ranger.”
"I think no, too Joaopb," aed old
Mine Stalllna.
“Then you will glva your ooneent. I
fnp##_ UNM&AtB?” Ml b*.
I didn't breathe for more’a » mlutt,
and triad to look at ’am all three at
lb# MM# llflM*
“What, air," axrd the old woman,
open 1u bar ey*e aa wide aa aha could
aad drapto her ball of nlttln yarn oo
the floor at the lame Una
“You'D buy one, won’t you?"
" Wbawt" aea I, right nut loud, for I
felt an relieved.
Mian Mary laughed more’a I evtr
heard her afore In oompeuy.
"That*e what I won’t," ana old Mlm
Stall laa. Jerkin at tlio ball till the like
to oo winded It all, tryla to puD It to
her, "net throe Umea, I’ll aeahorn you,
Mr."
1 lumped op end get the ball nod
wound all the yam oo It and handed It
to her.
“Thank you, Joaeph,” we ahe,
“tkaok yen. my eon.’’
1 kind a’ oieared my Ihrate, and my
face bn rat like Are when *he raid that.
“Ok, yeal" tea he. look In round to
mo, “l eae how the wli>d Mow*. Jonaa,
bat you might aa wall give up the
•ham, for 1 don’t think yea eaa ahiue.
I’m amnion mmlf. Wlmt toy jroo.
Mlm Mary? The Major kata’t gat 10
‘^SSTboT fE," eald Mlaa Mary
''DODO Al All.M
I tried to my enmathtog. but 1
could* *t (It a wool In adgawaya, aad
•very time I looked at Mlaa Mary the
heplaughln.
“Thar ain’t no mortgage on narry nig
(•< nor foot of gronad thank Uia I/wd,
three bard Hams," aad lb* aid woman.
She drai-pln to along, and didn't know
what aba waa talktn about.
It waa Saturday night and time to
go—but I waao't gwlne till CrotcbnU
wont, and bo didn’t mam Ilka he waa
gwiaa at all.
“Wondar what time It la?" ted Mlaa
Mar*.
“Ob, taint late,” are lie. li ther
gwloa In be any praaebla here lo
cum row?"
“Vra, air,” are Mlaa Mary.
“Are you gwiaa?" egad Crete halt.
MI Mirra mother intend* to go."
"Very glad," are he, "I’ll be vary
mich obliged to attend mu."
“Mother 1* gwlne, l bllere."
"Hut won’t you go too—I'm certain
to oome of ter yoa—oome, you must
•ay-’’
“ICO moat ten," am I, but be didn’t
pay no tantlon to that.
"Shall I bare the pleasure, Mlaa-’’
"K*a tea o'clock," are I, again,
“and I’m • gwloa"—and I looked at
tbe feller and then ebook my bead at
kllse Mary.
“I’ll call for you, Mies Mary," sed
Crotcbeu, pickin’ up his hat.
Mlm Mary didn't say nothin, but
kind o' smiled. 1 thought.
"Good ereein, Mlai Mary," ma I.
“—That I won’t, uot there luted
times’’—are old Miss Stalllos, jest
wakln up.
"Good evenln, ladles,”aesCroUbett.
Well, next moruln, don't you thlok
Mies Mary went to meat In with that
imparent cum, and I had to Uka old
MtaaStallln* and Mlm Cerline, aad
Cousin l’ata lack Mlm Kaalab. Thar
be waa. shore enough, end nobody
oouldnt git to my a word to Mlaa Ma
ry, and before the galls was out of tbe
dor* be bad her arm ia bit. 1 carer
felt jest zactty so cheep afore In my
life, to aee that Journeyman Add Ur,
what nobody didn’t know nothin about
walkio with Mlaa Mery to church, and
stick In hU big carroty wit taken right
down under bar bonnet and Utkin to
bar and grinnln Uka a baked possum.
And what made ma feel worm, waa.
■he seemed to take It all r> mighty
One.
Mlaa Carilua are I musn’t mind It.
cause Mlaa Mary couldn’t help herself.
Bet I mean to Hod oat all about It.
and If rtie la big enough fool to be
rttU't .t’on'i
for ther aiot oothlu in creation I bates
wora'a a coquet. Mo more from Your
frieud. till death. Jo* Joks*.
P. 8.—I don’t want yon to think I’m
Jealous, caui l mint, not by no mean*.
I don’t uctly Ilk* the ’pearaoc* of
tbinga—but I hint Jealous of Orockatt.
Only ir Mlaa Mary tflaSlIca gore to
meet In any more with him, ibe don’t
never go tbar with Joseph Jonas—
that’s all.
LETTER IX.
Pinevili*, November 33
To Ur. 'i'homptoD: Deer Sir—If I
didn’t bav* lots* reel fait rate oewt to
tell you. I don't believe I couUl dad
time to write now. L'ra eo mooitrooi
biey. It'e e bog-killiu time now, yoa
know, end the way we la Into the bog*
nteet lo Plnevltte la 'maaln. U tee cm
to me that I balnt aead nothin but huge
and balnt beard nothin but rqoealio.
for more'ii a week, and I know 1
balnt rat nothin bat baek-bune rod
turnip*, and apare-ribe, and aaaalngare
and craokliD-bread ever lenae the
klUln ooomtnced. Rut U for tbat
part of It. I wouldn’t care if bog-killta
time laated all the year. I go for hog
inert myeelf any way It caubeflxed,
notwlihetaadln old nlok wa« turned
Into ’em onoe, and eat a whole grng of
’em rnnnln down tb* altep bill Into
the tea, whar they got drowned in the
water. CHd Mloa Stall 1m ■** it’i all a
fact, and I don’t never ear* about
giitln Into a argyment with her; but
lhar’a owe thing I’m certain of—If tb*
old feller did git into tb* bog* then, be
didn’t epfle the meat
Bat that’* not the pint. I want tn
veil JUU WUV IW«b IIIAni HIKVW1I X
writ to you ubo.lt last time. You
know I told you I Ain’t aaetly know
how the omt wu gwln* to Jump then.
Well, tber'e been u dreadful climax
amony Uio call* lu Ploerille mum my
last letter. Thing* ha* toroed out Jest
as 1 steeled only n grain deal more eo
They couldn’t went more to my Ilk to
If they’d tried. That chap Crotehett.
whet I told you about, had all the galls
la town erasy round him. In no time,
and I do believe tbey tried to see which
could get the moot ’tontlon oat of him.
The war lbe feller did thin* for about
a waak bent any thing that was ever
aeed In Pmevlll*} ha waa calllo aod
US In taa bare, and dinner tkar and
rtdln out with thla young lady and
walkln out and permloadln, a* be
called It, with that one, Jeat at If ha
wee cousin or uncle, or torn* near kin
to 'em *11. Well, Mkee Mary oome In
for her sJtare, and 1 do Idle re the
oneerd fool—It make* m* sc mad when
1 think of It—I ilo bleive be had a no
tion of marrying her; and what wa* a
dratted eight wore*, the seemed to be
bout *« will In aa he wie. He erd his
kin ww all monetrou* tick, and owned
oome mighty grate waterpower* In the
Jeraeys. He Uld old Hies duUlos
that he ]**t oome oat south to spend
the winter, for bit health, aud be
would Ilk* to 'etonleh hi# people by
takln a butlful wife to Mew York with
bin la tb* iprlng. He skowad the
eld womso two or three m*p« of tena
derlag big town* Uiat wao all »" hie
father’* la ad toe* we* named Crttobet
villa, and bad the greueat watertower*
In It la the world, be eed. 'cep* Niaga
ra Pal la, whloh be lowed waa herd lo
beet. But old Hie* Kutlln* waon't to
betook In eoenev, and ahegt* her talk
a good Ulkln to right afore me, about
the way lhay was Ulevla everything be
told 'MU,
“A track of lead.” tea she. “la
worth CBora’n a buthel basket full of
i*oh pteter paper*—and Bind what I
«W gaUa, an alat gold aa glitter,. I
heist lived ay Um for nothin, aad I
dent blleve la thaw* Jarsay water
powara. Whar upon yeath la Jersey,
anyhow T” see alte.
"Why, Bnllivr. Jaraey’x to Ilia
North," std Hlaa Mary.
"Hath, child.” aao the old woman,
“your bead1, tall of nothin but Crotch
etta, and water-power*, and iha North
Md deb DoojHua. I tell you I doa’t
bnetu la ’em."
"Thar alat no uaa of gltUn nud at
tba gentleman, Botbar—1'* aura be'*
vary polite too, alt," aad Mlu Mary.
‘TblUeeem slot every thing, my
child and ’peers nosa alat every thing
aotbvr. 1 don’t btieve In these out
laodiah peopir, not till I know ’an
Rood. If they*, so nooatroaa well off,
and aieh big thloga whar they eome
from, what’, the raaaua they don’t
stay thar and not be elwaya treveUlo
•boot for the* health, and try in to
marry ovary gall wbal’a got a llttls
property. Nobody that’s say aoooaat
don’t aavar go to the north to git mar
ried, bat whenever anybody glu found
out la tom of their meanness. tbvy’re
shore to go to Texas or some whar cite
for tber health."
my MotlmenU, think* L but
I didn't lay a won).
~Wby, toolbar," aaa Min Mary,
"anybody naa tea Mr. Ootebctt’a a
gentleman or icflaocMat and educa
tion."
Ul« Koalah and Hla Cirllne leap
looklo'at ma and lban at ooaanolbrr
and amlllu’; bat Mia* Mary looked aa
•ortea* aa a judge.
Old Ml** SuUlna wa* j*at gw In* to
■peak, wbeu rap, rap, weal aooMbody
At tb« dors.
"TharlUiat pUgy Crotahett, I’ll
lay my life,’* m the.
Ml*a Mary raa to the dors aa quick
li ibe could.
"Ah, ba I Uood eranln’. Ml* Sul
line—lad to*, good araolo’, Ah. bow are
you. Joao*—bare again, efa ?"
1 felt my dander ruin’ when the im
potent cut went end tuck a seat along
aide o( Ml** Mary, and the begun to
aalle and talk with him aa gloatin' a*
could be. 1 k no wad It wouldn’t do (or
mo to euy ther, *o 1 jeet took my bat
and weat borne.
"Good evenic', Jonee," aaa be.
1 wa* in aa aea of cumin' him back.
•Oh. don't go. Majar," w< Mlm
Mery, don't go yrt, Majer.”
IJeat*eld. "Good cranin', ladle#,”
without looklu’ et aoyooe lu pertiekrl
mr. and put out.
Well, the nett taoroiu’ t went oat
to U>o plantation to tend to Ike bog
killin’, and I we* jeet mad eooagh to
ill1
all day, aud a* to Mary Stall In*. I
didn’t hardly know wbat l« think—
•omiUmee I felt eort o' mad at bar,
but Ibeo agin ( couldn't. The (act
U, it aiot *ich a caar thing to (**i mad
at a right pretty gall, aod tbe mom a
man feel* mad at 'em. lb* more l>e’a
apt to (ml eorry, too. I toll yon wbat,
I we* In aiUw. I didn’t know what
to do.
U waa after dark whan f gat buaaa,
and whoa t gat thar, all PloerlUe waa
lo a bat—everybody waa talkin’ about
Crotcbatt. Moms said be waa a biga
my, aod some aald be was a thief sod
I don’t know wbet all. C >me to tod
oat about It, what do you tblak f
HU name wasn’t Crotcbatt, but Jaak
son. alias Brawn, aad be waa aa more
a nwale-tcaoher than 1 waa, bat a dan
dy barber, what bad atoU aoaoabody'i
pocketbook with a heap of cacaay, la
New York, and tben ran away, aod
left bu wife aod two ebUdren, to keep
from being sent to the ding ttuag Pea
etentlory. He Wit gone, and nobody
couldn’t tell wkar, and tbo aaoa what
come after Ulm. steak ap mom aotlaaa
at vhe tavern ai d lbe poet oOor, of
ferin’ “100 reward I” far anybody to
ketcb bin.
Cousin ret# lowed be kaowed be
wasn't ao grata abakoe all thetlma,
aad was taskin' wore oolse then any
body else a boot swine after him to
ketoh him; aod all the fetters that waa
try In’ to git tato Hr. OrutobsU’s good
grsoea, waa tell to’ bow they »pa«Ud
some thing, aod bow tkoy bod (her eyaa
oo him—they waa lookin' oat for blot,
and all that.
But Creteh«U wee no*, aad tbat’e
whet tuek my eye. I didn’t cere a
tinker * OHM wbo ba wee. BN Vb«0
he wee gone la—ha oooWU’t ahine
’bout Ml* Mery ao mom. with kla Mg
wblaken and bta water pewera la the
Jinejrt, aad that’* all I oared Her. I
don't know when 1 felt eo good—not
•mat I want after grepae. and i bad to
go and "ikln lbe eat” Ilka a fool, aad
tkloQcd ay mom to oadaelaaely. 1
Jeet took oaeof the admctlwaiute
end writ eo It, “Iblo te a BMP of Mr.
Crate belt** weler-piweee at the norUi,
for Mia Mary Bulllne,” aad amt It to
her by one or the little nlggere. When
the rmd It (bo laughed right out, nod
mi alia Jut dooeaoto try ao. Bley
bo aha did-bot lt*e ay tern to try bar
now, end I'm 'termined to de It. Ill
let Mia Mary Sulllee know that I’m
get a little ipuak, too, and I’M lea hot
aea that I own be ea Independent ee aha
ou. Boa’t you think It wonM be a
good plan, ir I don't carry the Jake too
far k III tell you bow K work* In my
next. Xo mom from
Your friend, till doetb.
Jut Joan.
P. 8.—I’m Jut liawTd that U>o tell*
a got It all omr town iktt Mlaa Mary
waa gw to* to marry Cratahatt, aad the
way aba la mod about it la Marmla.'
“Lord koowe,’’ alia are, “ehe didn't
newer think of *l«h e thing.” Aad old
Mlaa SulUa* uema Ilka aHio’d ham the
bldrafoby or meaapotu about tt. 8ho
are ehe’a twine to keap a tighter rafa
on her pill* after thit—and if glrla'
'oompllehmeau la gwlne to aeeke ’am
take up with amry dandy barber what
no met ’beat towa, the* wont got ao
aura wjiWge lernla’—that they wool
I tell you what, the klghdiom theft
been try to’ la ho ariatookreay boo
bawled la tber* home aooaldermble
■wet OrotoheUeet out. If the fader *•
«•(• don’t burn, then Utor ain’t bo
truth In old fayin'!.
LETTER X.
_ „ I’lnevtUe, DmoUr I.
To Mr. Thompson: Daar Sir—I do
I reliever last wash waa tha longest one
aver waa. It seemed to me that the
exist re* of the world wanted (remain'
or to me thing or other wai oat of Ox,
for It didn’t team to tarn raaad half so
fast ag It used to. Tha dan waa aa
long aa Ilia weeks ought to be. and tba
otghta hadn’t no rod to 'am. Somehow
or othor, I couldn’t alaep o* nights,
nor eat nothin,’ and I doa’t know
what upon raaUi waa tl*e matter with
ma, Vbout it waa tha dlapopay, which,
yon know, makra people nave mighty
low apeiits.
Cousin Pots thought ha wat tnon
atruua smart, and went *11 around
town and told everybody that my
eymptom* wu rrry bad, and aad lie
was gwloe to put a strengthenin' plas
ter, made out of Rummy pilch, ou
®7 braaat, to keep- my heart from
breakln.’ I know wbat b* thought,
but If be • posed I waa gwine to make a
fool of myself 'boot Mary Stalling, lie's
eat as muoli mistakes as ha waa when
J# took tha showman fnrTom Peters,
from Ciacker’* Seek. I did feel son
of vrx*d about the way she Vuok up
with that 'bomloable soaundrel Crot
ehau, that’* a fact; hat than the eras
eo disappointed wkan be turned out to
be a ruuaway barker that I couldn’t
help fee Ho sorry for her. too. It’s
a monstrous curious foelia wbea any
body tries to hate somebody that they
can't help I Ik In. Tha more on* tries
to spite Von the worse he feels himself.
But i was termloed to hold out, and If
abe hadn't coma to, I-I-Well, the
fact is I don’t know what t ehould
a’done, for it waa inonitrouj tryln.
you may depeod.
Rot It'* all over sow, and everything
U jest *a straight as a Oahhook. Old
mlaa Stall ins was over to our house to
take taa long of mother, one even lo
lest week, nhe and mother talked It
all over about CrotcheUaud Mis* Mary
to themselves, aod wbea I waul In see
her home, eh* didn’t Ulk of nothin
alee all the way.
"BomluaLtou taka the rvloh,” ms
the old woman, “to run away from hi*
wife and eblldreu, the Odlln wags bone,
aod coma out here trying to ruluat*
some pore Inuoceirt gall by merryln
her, when be’e got a wife to home !
Us ought to be sent to the penitentiary
for life, ao he ought |»
“Zaetly ao. Mfm Btaliln,” see t; ’but
he waa mighty poplar ’moug’ tba gall*.
Some of Via wh* almost era** after
him.”
“I kaow they was. Joseph, I kuow
was; and now they weat to tain it all
•• *7 pore daughter, Mary, when,
I'tw* knywL the okild couldn't bear
***** x ra, toal.fl’Vkr PMlltaoeas.”
churob with Mm, you know, aod he
Was to your house every night wheti I
•res tbar, talkln to bar.”
“That waa only for perUtaoeia,
Joseph. That'a what eh* larat dowo
to the Female College." pee she. “If
a gentleman coma* to tea a lady, ike
mast b* perlite to him, whoever he
Cm* atoll perllteoea at Uiat, think*
“And It uiat no matter If the do
tplaoa him off tko faeo of Urn Tenth,
•be mutt talk aed tall* U him Jeat
Ilka aha liked hi a ever to mueh."
“Bet Mlaa Mary looked Ilka aha
tbo««fat a beep of CreteheU," tue I.
“It wue ell dtoato aed perllten***.”
tee the. “Thatfe the way with the
fell* now-a-diyt, Joeaph, eed yon
muato't mind ’em. H didn’t one to be
eo when I end your mother wee galte.
I’ll warrant eo Oroehettt didn’t oome
boot ee If we dMat like lUar company,
aed w* bad to know eU about ’em for*
we kap ceotpeay wltk anybody."
‘•It eia’t eo now, though, Mb* tftel
lleu,” eee I—end I bUeve 1 eert o’
drawed e look breath—“It »* very
different eow. If a ebapoaly oome*
from the North, or tome pUoo away
oat of onmebaa. and It gut e ereo of
heir eed wbtakerl that would make e
teddlt ptd. eed rngote eoat dlffereel
from everybody ala, and e theedvrkn
grata big gold chain reend hla oeok,
no matter If bo tUle 'em, be'* the
popteraet erne moeg the led ye, aed oM
eogeeioteoeea, whew been railed right
along aide of ’em, don’t etaod no eort
ehaoee.’’
“Hat all tba galla alai to, Joaapit
b; galla haan’t no slab fool doUuoi la
Uwr hada, III aaabara yao
By this i law wa waa rlgl* ap to tba
“Caaoa la, Jaaaph." aaa aba.
“Mo, Uwok you, Mlaa UtalllM, • aaa
I. "I oUaro I'll go hpma."
“Oh, eoaaa la, ablM, and aat a wblta
with tba (Mis-dhay’i pallin’ laaaaa
aaody In Uw parlor."
t waa klaiof baMlaUa.' whoa 1
board Mira Mary* vMaaaay:
“Jfarar mlod, mothar. I apoaa ba*B
mud at mo.”
1 onuldo’t ataad that, no mora’a a
Co Mump ooatd ataad a a lap of than
. 1 bod o’! board that rotaa for
moro'a a waok. and U did aawnd aa
aotloin.* It awda ma ffal aort at
tram My all arar. My Horn fall rad aa
a pappar-pod. aad mj Mia karat Ilka
tbay waa frootMt. Whoa I wtal Into
Uw roam, Mha Mary tanwd nwod
wltb aaa of tka wlablaaat amOaa, with
bar balr all IWBa’ arar bar raayahaaki.
lookin' iwaatac tbaa tka laaaaa Wady
wbat aba had M bar baad, aad raid:
“Art yon arad at m. Major V'
1 oaoar wan at took a* abaah—my
Ik rata fall Ilka I’d awmltarad a baadla
of foddar, aad I aoaMa t aprak to aara
ma. I don’t kaow wbat waaM took
olaen If It hadn’t baan for old Mlaa
"Ob .bo, Juaapb ain’t mad wttb yaa.
akUd. Thar aorar waa a paml ’twaaa
Uw Ktalllaoaa and Joanna, konay. and
wa’ra Hand iwlfhhora tkaaa twanly
ya»r» I”
“Wbat mada yaa think I waa mad
wHhyaa. Mlaa Maryr'aaa I. Tboo
I kind a' atappad a UUIa aad alaarad
■ay tbrota. "Tan know 1 narar aaa Id
ba mad with yon."
“I thaagbt yaa waa." mo aka. “aaaaa
yon didn’t aama to aao aaaay mow
aaaaa that night that maaa aU Crat
> ehatt waa ban.”
Why* aha aaMUut, I do thJnhahe
□okad tmaitmmtr th*a am aba did la
Jw» Ilia, aad 1 aoelda’t Imva tba hanrt
"T^jOf Haiti bar fatl had.
lhH that all waa right agin aad eud*
"I* «r » tod ta Inal her Jaat Mka
aothlo* aaplaaaant had am happaord,
wa raoaffaritio’by tha parlor In.
aad tha gall* waa pallia' lama eaady.
MUa Carlloa «*” m. UI .2
pan waa. 1 fait aa aoaav I didn’t
thick about nothin’ bat Min Mary,
*ft?. T“ J**10’ • «wte Mg pteoa.
right aloaa to tar.
“Tikaaomr, Malar.” an aha "aad
gUH tew. awl m aria ™uta
whta If* dona.” aad aba Mad a’ loohrd
•Idewayi at am
“Wall, 1 know HU ha might*
iwaat,” aaa I. Jaat aa I waa gwtna to
taka ep aocaaontof tfcadMh.
"Taka oara, Majcr," aaa dka, "H'i
dradfulbot. Whar'atbaapoon, UtoaF"
•w aha, aa aha waa pollin' away aa
bard aa aba coo'd at a giata big bright
ropoof lmmaa.
O. new mind the apron," aaa I.
*“*1“ P?!? .“V fln**r' right Into tha
almoat blttn' hot laaan—
“Ugh'' wa I. aad I p«Had ’em oat
qnlekor'n IlgbUla."
"My hud I" an Mbm Moriah, “If tha
Major ha bi't bo rut bla Hagan draad
That laaan ia right ant of tha
£•*11 *™w- nalot too gat no battar
aaoae, Uloa F’’
• DHiuni uery warn a mils, and
griadla lot teeth, and alingla my to
gara; but I dial aa* aolhia loud.
••Wall. Mice Carlin* totem* bring
some more from da kllcheu,” aaa th*
CUMftf D Iff far
“Ob, dear I*’ an Mist Mary, "I'm ao
J®rtf• gw y<y fU maoh ob yoar
Anger*, llajer V
The Lears was ruanlag out of my
eye* but I didn't want to let on, for
fear It would make her feel bad.
“Oh, no, not much. It alnt very
bed." ae* I; and the fust thing I
k no wad my trousers was ptestared all
the cusasd stuff wbar I
nibbed It off on tem.lt bo rot so at
on'd bad.
They mads old Clue git a basic of
waur to wash tka lames off, sad old
Mim Sullies got soma soft soap to
draw Ui# Ore out. and after awhile 1
sot down with the galls to rat candy
and talk abort Crotch ett.
1 XI you what, I bad tho game all
my own way this Hits 1 Muted te
Miss Mary that I was sort of afraid
Crotchett woe gwlua to eat me out,
and that I was a leatle Jealous at 8rst;
aud she hinted to me that 1 ought to
kuow’d bettor than .that, and that I
oughtn’t to axpoot her to shew Imr
feel lot for me no plainer than she had
done before, and that th* only took *
little notlee of Crotchet, Jest to try mo.
to me If really I did think anything of
’■ 'Jay you won t, uagiu u) um uiy iw
Ins. I never felt so full of talk batons
the galls Id my life, and, I think In one
or two more beau (I don’t mean Iba
hot lasses). 1*11 be aids to come up to
the pint. I know I’m Jest as good for
old Miss Stallin'* oooaent as a Ibrlp te
for a ginger cake; aud If Miss Man
alnt foolln (yon know three galls te
mighty uncertain) I think I wool ha vs
no difficulty In brlngla all things round
sa I want 'am. No mors from yoar
friend, till death. Jot. Jowas.
F. B—I wish you could oome down
to ttoavllle to Urlsmas. I don’t think
I will git married ao soon as that, but
we're gwioe to have grand flower doles
down here than. I tea got soma go biers
ao fat that Urn feathers won’t hardly
allot In tern of a warm day. Wo Vs
gwlos to have one of ’em tor dinner,
and lbs Stallioaas te all gwlae to take
dinner with aa. My Anger* i* bettor,
but they ts bomlnab)* tor* yet—eo you
mast excuse bad spelllu and bad anrltla
this lima
(To be Oootiaued Next Thursday).
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or Gastonia, it. a
State and County Depository,
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Ao otvOisiag Mmm of llw aahael
will Usua be hteegbt Into eioee jexte
paaitloo with tbefaro ley allul the
daooe Italia, wbicfi levariahly Mk*
the etrike of cold the world over. The
raouR riioold lie of greet good hod ooe
f?hM—.to the peeeo eod wetfere of the
Klondike atitropolli.
Mre. R. U. Howland of Non lru<
daeo, for teerlr lftae H. K. a lea a of ,
Rootoo. la title MtetprWag TTinee
dhe eeded for JMaeke on Ibo MU ia
•toot, and wtO opaa n eebooj at 11aat
Kin eltT.
Mr*. Howland |* a graduate of Um
Harvard Aanex I Bede! Iff.), ate to
»t»n • w«»
haabood, wtw baa not aoaM yaara la
tlm work. Mr*. Howtaad la a war*
that at pretest Ultra ara vary taw ahil
flrvo, if may, at Jfewaoa City, ate bar
first claasea will prnba*4y ba bearded
tars, who will mlM tba opportunity to
got a little "book lamia' ” daring Ilia
long winter months, whan art Mag la
IntDonlblff.
Ir the bold of tha ataawar apoa
wbloh the ptedky aeboolmanm sailed
wise tba malarial for a achooihousn in
Motions, all ready to art ap, wife a
ptoper aapply of bosks, alette, wap*
and stationery.
Tba aohoat baud lag la ana air* of ad
♦specially for lie aaVIiwamtot. Tiara
la a flat, aloplag roof, ao that tba (now
can bo eaany tenW off. Tho win
dowa art hhih abova tha ground. That
to to provnot tho now from drifting
ovar ibaa. Everything baa haaa m
aVdarad that wUI ba eoodoctva to oon>
fort.
big wood^siovo wlH bo plnetejn
will°to oa^ty on? door!*atentLfe will
open Into a small maw, tbrongh wbloh
a door wlM open lata tho nhoslroam.
Tbl* part of tba bonding win ba aa
arranged that on* door maat bo nlanad
torora tba other aoa ba opanad. TMa
wHl avoid aUdraaghto.
Tha sobool will aom (0 pn
pUa. Mr. Howtaad tor
gold while Mia. Hnwtate tho
yonng idea to Aaot
Wlm Mr*. Ilowtate left
am
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font at tha Ann
written __
nod rmnit of bnr i
tba llttla rad i
win bn awnltrd with
an kg on export moot in ndnonUow.
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