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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43.
AUNT J KAN'
BT nivIiE.N* FOR]
IT, dear I it ia too pleas
ant tu stay in the house
to-day!"* said Kitty
Ford. "Aunt Jean,
'** couldn't 1 go berrying,
p2 np in the pasture lot?"
^ "Nonsense!" said
Aunt Jean. "With the
back bed-room to be
whitey.. *ied, and the churning to be
done, and the quilt to be got ready for
the frimes? I'm surprised at you,
Catherine!"
Kitty looked with longing eyes at
the creeping tides of sunshine^n^tho
bill, the great shadows that the apple
tree boughs made, swaying, on the
grass.
Thcro was a catbird singing in the
maples. Kittie wished that-just for
a while-sho could be that catbird,
and dwell in a glorified region of green
leaves, ?here churning, whitewash
pails and quil ting-bees were un
known.
She knew that even now the scarlet
poppies were nodding along the stone
walls like tiuy soldiers, the wild roses
opening in solitary nooks, the straw
berries ripening in fragrant ? wood
openings on the hill.
As these tempting thoughts passed
across ber mind, she beard Aunt Jean's
shrill voice at the back door, taking to
some one.
"A painter, oh?" said ehe. "Oh,
yes, you're wolcjmo tc- a drink qf
water. You can draw it, fresh aud
cool, for yourself. The well's out
under the big butternut tree. V
painter, did yon Fay? P'raps you can
whitewash, too?" .
"Certainly, ma'am!" said a deep,
pleasant voice.
Kitty leaned forward io get a peep
at the possessor of that; clear, r.oft
tenor.
He was a young man, with a sort of
pack strapped on his baok, and some
thing that resembled a magnified um
brella in his hand.
"Oh," said Kittie, to herself, "u
peddler! Aunt Jean is getting hard
er of hearing every day !"
"Well," said Aunt Jean, "I do
b'lieve Providence has sent yon ! I'd
engaged Perkins Polk to whitewash
the back bed-room to day, but ho
hasn't come near me. And here it is
9 o'clock ! I don't b'lieve he means
to come to-day. Perkins has took to
drink dreadful of late -poor erector !
P'raps, sir, yor whitewash the
back bed-room *
ye- your dim
dollar for the
more lberal th *
Aunt Jean v
of the T?*** w'
of h.-ut eyes e
brigks rosy,
mibe despeto??.
"You'll please excuav auum,MM.
my good man," said she. "We don't
want anything to-day. There was a
peddler along on Saturday, and we
bought all that we required.1'
The young man-Horton Leigh was
the name stamped in gilt letters on
the inside of his color-box-looked
from grim Aunt Jean to pretty Kitty,
and made up his mind at once.
"Pardon me," he said, "but I sm
not ? peddler. And if you will allow
me, I shall be very glad to undertake
the job."
"The sooner tho better," said Aunt
Jean, briskly. "I s'pose you ain't got
your overalls with you. That don't
make no diSerence, There's a pair up
stairs as belonged to Hiram Harkness,
who worked for us one spell, and a
jumper jacket as Billy Barlow wore,
who ran away and joined the gipsies,
six months ago. Kitty, run V.p stairs
and fetch 'em. And the yo^ng man
can go into the barn asi put 'om on.
Well, 1 do call this a streak o' luck!"
And in less than five minutes the
"young man" was mounted on a lad
der, brandishing a good-sized white
wash brush. Kitty Ford was churning,
and Aunt Jean was tacking the quilt
on the frames m tho best root?.
"There's not bin' like gettin' s good,
early start on Monday morning," said
Aunt Jean.
j At 12 o'olock the back bed room
was whiter and sweeter than any lily,
the butter had "come," the quilt wa?
satisfactorily arranged, and the whole
family sat down to a savory meal of
fried chioken, white broad, milk and
strawberry shortcake.
"You seem to be a very respectable
?-onng man," said Aunt Jean, oritioal
y surveying the stranger. "Jf yen'd
like to stay here and do chores for
your board, you might sleep in the
barn chamber, and I could recommend
you to do whitewashing jobs for the
neighbors. Deacon Dowd's house
needs a new coat o' paint, badly, and
I'm most sure that Widow Elnathan
Trueby would like her barn painted to
match the new house."
.?I am greatly obliged to you," said
the young man, toying wi th a particu
larly large berryi "but I do not exe
cute orders in that branoh. I am an
artist."
"A-which?" said Aunt Jean.
"An artist. Shall I show you some
of my sketches?"
Aunt Jean put on her spectacles at
once.
"Well, I don't object to look at
'esi," said she. "But I won't promise
to buy. We got a very pretty chromo
with the last pound o' tea we bought,
and Kitty cuts piotures out of the il
lustrated papers and pastes'em on to
store-jars."
Mr. Leigh laughed.
"Ob, 1 don't expect to make a sale !"
said he. "AU these aro merely first
ideas, jotted down in the crudest of
Jasnions. My real object iu oalling
here this morning was to ask permis
sion to sketch those picturesque ruius
down by the old road."
"Oh!" said Aunt Jean; "the old
smithy. Dear, dear 1 there ain't noth
in' but a tumble-down stun wall anda
few mullen-stalks left there. Ef yon
could wait till next spring. EUhue
Lewis means to put a first-class black
smith's shop. But you're welcome to
do all the sk et ch in' you want."
Kitty's eyes sparkled.
"1 wish 1 was au artist," said she,
as she turned over the bits of mill
board, all of which were instinct with
life and beauty
..Well," said Annt Jean, cow
s MISTAKE.
REST GRAVES.
placently, "why shouldn't yon be? A
dare say this young man can show yom
how he does it."
Kitty looked at the young man ; the
young man looked at Kitty, and then
both burst into a hearty peal of
laughter, to Aunt Jean's great mysti
fication.
..Oh, hunty," said Kitty, still chok
ing behind her pocket handkerchief,
"that isn't the way that artists are
made."
Half an hour later Kitty Fold was
out on the green, feeding her little
downy ducklings with scalded meal,
when Judge Laughington's carriage
drove up.
Kitty let the tin pail fall in her dis
may. To her, Miss Laughington, in
summer silk and diamonds, represent
ed all that Was elegant and adoiable.
Ho- sbo regretted that she still
wore her old blue gingham gown, and
that her curls were all tangled by the
?weet, soft wind 1
"Don't run away, Kitty, dear," said
M?68 Laughington, beckoning with her
ivory handled parasol. "You are tba
very girl that I want to iee. My
cousin, Mr. Leigh, is coming down
this way to-day to sketch. 1 have told
him about those pretty, cid ruins ol
the blacksmith's shop ; so, if he comou
past here-"
"Ob, Miss Laughington," cried
Kitty, turning as scarlet as the big
bunch of peonies at the corner of tho
house, "he has come already ! And
Aunt Jean set him to whitewashing,
and paid him a quarter of a dollar and
his dinner. Ob, how could we have
made such a blunder?"
Miss Laughington laughed.
"Blunder, child!" said she.
"Where's the blunder? If Horton
wants to do a thing, he'll do it. If
not, the whole world couldn't compel
him."
And after the glistening carriage
had rolled away, Kitty Ford sat down
and oried.
Judge Laughington's daughter
drove on to tho ruinod smithy, where
Mr. Leigh was composedly "putting
in" the lights and shadows of the old
chimney and the mullein-stalks.
But she went back to i,he stately
"Court" with a bent brow and an ill
pleased expression of face.
"Horton is so awfully eocentriol"
taid she. "There's no knowing what
ridiculous whim he will take up next."
For Mr. Leigh had declined to ac
cept the hospitalities of tho Court.
"You always have such loads of
ompany there, Antonia," said he,
'anti I prefer quiet No-I'll come
jp to see you when the spirit moves
me; but I'll pitch my tent in this
secluded? dale. It will be better tor
rosl^rtsad^ work.*;^eeP) Hqnid eye's
still haunted him.
"The prettiest girl I ever saw!" he
kept repeating to-himself. "Apure
spirit, dwelling in a lilly-liko templ'.e!
1 must see more of her ; I must sketch
her as'Una.'"
So he went back that night, just as
the dew was falling and the whippoor
wills beginning to sing, and asked
Aunt Jean if he could occupy tho li tule
room over the kitchen, where the
brick chimney perked itsek! out, and
the one little window looked directly
into the bows of the old pear tree.
"Oh, I don't care," said good Aunt
Jean. "It's Kitty that does the house
work. She must decide. "
"We are plain people," said Kitty,
blushing.
"Then I may come," said Horton
Leigh.
People were very muoh surprised
when Horton Leigh brought a bluo
eyed country maiden to preside over
his city, mansion the next fall.
But Kitty Ford, secure in innocent
happiness, never knew how many
tears Antonia Laughington had shod
over her cousin's wodding card. And
Aunt Jean makes her boast that Kitty
bas "store carpets" in every one of
her rooms and a carriage of her own.
"He's a painter," said Anni; Jean to
her friends. "Not a house painter,
bat a picture painter. And ho knows
how to whitewash a ceiling equal to
Perkins Polk. I guess thero ain't no
fear but that he'll make his way in the
world. Anyhow, Kitty likes him, and
that's enough."-Saturday. Night.
Good Watch for a Dollar.
A watch that will record the passing
hours with fair accuracy-can be bought;
nowadays at retail for the price of a
table d'hote dinner. A watchmaker
and jeweler on upper Broadway dis
plays a tray full of niokle oase watches
for one dollar each. They ure not
toys, but real watches that "go," and
wb;lo they are not to be depended up
on to catch railroad traine, they serve
all the purposes of a dilatory ?man in
keeping appointments.
"That dollar watoh," said the dealer,
"sold for ten dollars ten years ago,
but the improvement in tho machinory
for making the parts has been such
within the last two years that a iactoxy
equipped for mannfaoturing the cheap
article can turn them out almost as
last as clothes pins are made. No,
they are not furnished with jewel
bearings, although some people expeot
the pins and shafts to be set in dia
mond sockets, and even then think a
dollar gives me too muoh prollt,"
Mail and Express.
Arrow Poison.
The natives of the New Hebrides
render themselves a terror to their
enemies by using poisoned arrows, the
tips of which they smear with earth
from certain marshes. M. Dante c has
made a bacteriological study of these
poisoned arrows, and finds that their
fatal properties are due to the pres
ence, in the earth with which they are
smeared, of two deadly germs-a ceptio
vibrion and the microbe of tetanus.
The firtt of these produce death from
malignant edema in twelve to fifteen
h ours. In oases where septic vibrion
has lost its virnlence, the tetanus bacil
lus which is present prove* equally,
although less speedily, fatal. This
observation of M. Danteo proves tho
incorrectness of tho former theory
that the tetanus bacillus is derived
from a horse, since this animal is un
known in the Hebrides Islands, -Mod
era Medicino,
THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Tho Poet's Utilitarianism-An Apt
Pupil-Charitable-An Architect
ural Expert-Neglected Edu
cation-His Revenge, Etc.
The poet's lot would happier be
If he could sometimes turn 'ls
Attention from the thoughts that burn
To firing up the furnace.
AN APT PUPIL.
She-"Why, yen foolish boy, if I
married you, you wouldn't b9 able to
even dress me."
He-"Well-er-couldn't I learn?"
-Brooklyn Life.
AN ARCHITECTURAL EXPERT.
"Yes, indeed, it is a very fino build
ing. BcloDgs to the Ionic Order,"
"Nary a bit, sor. Have Oi not been
tellin' yo it bolongs to the Ancient Or
dor of Hibernians."
IN ANOTHER CTJASS.
"You friend is an artist, I think you
said."
"No, sir ; I did not. I said he drow
pictures for tho Sunday papera."
Philadelphia North American.
A HAD CASE.
Flynagon - "Oi ECO th' docther
goin't'yer house, Mrs. Murphy."
Mrs. Murphy-"Yis; Murphy is
bnd off. Th' docther sez he has th'
daylariums wid trimmin's."- Judgo.
CHARITABLE.
Mamma (to Willie, who is sliding
down the cellar door)-"Willie, what
aro yon doing?"
Willie-"Makin' a pair o' pants fur
a poor orphan boy."-Pittsburg Bul
letin.
NEGLECTED EDUCATION.
Smith-"I wish I had studied boxing
when I was a boy. You see, I need it
so much in my profession."
Jonos (surprised) - "What! as a
lawyer."
Smith-"No, OB a father."
HI3 REVENGE.
"Well, Pm even with Backey at
last."
"How's that?"
"Induced him to join a football
team, and he's a lightweight, you
know."-Detroit Free Press.
DEEPLY ABSORBED.
Father-"It wa9 strangely quiet in
thc parlor while that young fellow was
calling last evening, Edith."
Daughter-"Ye*, he's one of thc U.
of M. tacklers and seems to think of
nothing else."-Detroit Free Press.
A SPRINTER.
Bilter has been learning to rido a
bioyclo he bought on tho instalment
plan.
"How is he getting on?"
"First rate. Tho company hasn't
been able to catch him."-Spare Mo
ments.
DOESN'T FOLLOW.
Blynkins-"A girl who can sing just
as soon as sho gets up in tho morning
must have a sweet disposition."
Wynkins-".Not necessarily. She
.may have a grudge against somebody
in the neighborhood."-Baltimore
News.
. \_;_'__---_^_
THE SCORCHER'S COSTPLAINT.
. "What's the matter, Sweaty?"
"Matter! Just had a row with a
bloke on the crossing beoause I run
him* down with my wheel. Somo of
these follows that walk seem to think
they own the earth." -Detroit Free
Press.
LIKE STOVES.
???"The higher nltitudo attained," said
tho Professor, "the colder the temper
ature becomes."
"I should think it would bo warm
er," replied one of tho students."
"What would make it warmer?"
"The mountain rang?e."-Harlem
Lifo.
NOT A BARGAIN.
"You want as much for thia ther
mometer," said the woman who had
arrived boforo the store opened so as
to bo the first at tho bargain counter,
"as you did for those you ehowed mo
last August."
"Of course," tho salesman answered.
"It's the same thermometer."
"No, it isn't. There ought to bo a
reduction in tho price. Those others
had nearly twico as much mercury in
them as these have."-Washington
Star.
TIRED OF CURL3.
There was a little boy whose mother
had mado a little Lord Fauntleroy of
him, training his hair in long curls
and dressing him in nlaok velvet
knickerbockers and jacket, ornament
ed with white lace. One day a largo
girl thought to frighten the pic
turesque little ohap by rushing toward
him brandishing a large pair of scis
sors, and exclaiming, "I'll out off your
curial"; .
The little Lord Fauntleroy was not
frightened. He merely replied in a
shrill little voice, "Wish you would I"
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
A Dread nni Butter Diet.
The newest diet suggested as pro
ductive of longevity is bread and but
ter. There is in Hythe, Eugland, a
lady who lives entirely on bread and
butter, and has done eo all her life.
She has never tasted meat, game, fish,
vegetables, jam and only a few kinds
of biscuits and sweets. She has never
had a day's illness in all her life and
never had recourse to medicino of any
description. Her friends have tried
in vain to induce her to eat something
besides broad and butter, but she con
fines herself entirely to the diet on
whioh she has existed for at least
thirty years. She is stiong and
healthy in every respect, healthier, in
fact, than a great many people who
have lived upon exactly the food that
is supposed to make us feel as if ill
ness were a total strangor and always
would be. _
A Curious Test ol Coins.
In America an alloy of one-tenth
copper ia used in coins to harden
them and make them less susceptible
to abraaion. In England the amount
of alloy is lesa-only one-twelfth.
Recently a controversy arose among
the mint officials of London as to
which ooins, English or American,
would last tho longest. In order to
pat the matter to a tost two small steel
cylinders were fixed on a revolving
rod and one filled with United States
and the other with British coins. It
is needlesa to say that all of tho letters,
milling, reading, etc., were worn from
tho Eugliah coina twelve hours before
they were finally totally effaoted from
tho American coin?.
THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43.
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