Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican, 1873-11-06

"The ways o' Providence are to si itrange 1" said Mother Plnmber, laying # ler specs down atop o' the big Bible, vi ind patting'on that awfully patient air B vhich was wearing me to skin and bone rt ?" past finding out. Now if Jess bad o' narried Sophie Mills that was, and la rou?" cl Bat I did not wait to hear any more. U I say, I just caught up baby and gi rent off to the garret. And while I sat ai >y the cobwebbed window Mrs. Barret ci ?Sophie Mills that was?went riding w >y in their new spring wagon, she and h< ler half dozen children, round and rosy fu is a barrel of apples. Sophie nodded md smiled to some one coming np the bi oad; and looking along, I saw John g< Itringer walking, thoughtful like, right tl lp to our gate, just as he used to oome v< n courting days?for John never had le my foolish ways about him. 1' saw hi lophie look back at him as she and the ol ibildren, with their fluttering ribbons m md gay ginghams, disappeared at the pi urn o' the road. Then I smoothed my tl tair aud washed my face and went gi town. The time of settlement had sc ome, I knew. oi "Mary Ann," said John, gravely, ki ' the lawyer will be here presently; ct tut I reckon we can make it all clear in inr own minds without his help. Aud 've?I've settled it, in fact, that there re certain conditions on which I'll take he land?if you agree." Then I flew into a passion. " You've ai teen long enough making up your nind," says I. "I don't throw my w and at any body's feet, and I haven't eked any favors of you, leastways, 86 ohn Stringer." ec " Softly, there, softly ! " says John, te tutting out his hand. " Don't be in a in lurrv, little woman." oi " John Stringer," says I, all in a heat, cl ' yeu're just the same man you was fa 'ears ago when you thought I was al- si rays firing up every time you got out at ?' temper yourself." c< "And weren't you, little woman?" tl aid John, quite gravely. " Don't wo- tr aen folks always like their own way di tetter than anything else ? " ol "You don't know anything about tl romen," I cried, " any more than you n< lid then. You thought I wanted silks ai md furbelows more than?than?" oi " Thau you did me," said John; tc ' and right enough you was, too, if you w ould ha' got 'em. I always said so, tv T?r-rr Ann " St

oidance or conduct uetnuicuwi w , blic and private peace and quietness, 18 by no means so high as would be de- . ,efl able. There has, however, been of ;e a marked improvement in these ,? itters. But one great difficulty still mains, and there seems to be no acticable way of removing it. The . jorers in mines have, as a general jy le, little interest in the real estate of ' r 0 neighborhood they inhabit. The r P Jul attachments and associations ^ lich are capable of constituting so . ? werful and beneficial an influence, 0*i ist necessarily, therefore, be in a A eat degree wanting. *tRI Among the most remarkable features Hie the region of which we are speaking "hi its ruilroads. The manner in which mR( me of its most rugged and moun- 18? inous parts have been penetrated by to ' ese highways is among tlie most grati- fitRI ing, as it certainly is one of the most that neflcial, results of American enaeering. We hope, by the way, that ?''P the Centennial Exhibition drawings, )en ips, and descriptions illustrating ?7' rnt has been accomplished in this re- 'he ect, and the difficulties that have been jj*n ercome, will be placed in a conspicu- hasi s and accessible position. The net>rk of railroads with which the whole strict is covered is closer, we think, an that of any area of similar size in e United States, except, perhaps, the clia linity of Boston. The style of work few which the roads have been constructed still more worthy of notice than their . tent. There is probably no set of tfir ads in the country where the tracks tire e better laid, the bridges more sub- wit) intial, and the whole structure more ^c; rmanent or better finished. Twenty years ago, the total amount vol( anthracite annually mined in the re- om on of which we are speaking was only fou iout six million tons, or considerably pja. is than one-third of what it is now. wording to the census of 1840, it was ily about eight hundred and fifty 0Qj ousand tons. The figures which 80 j * -a. _ai: ,

.nd gives all the advantages of a lange of seed. 7? There is probably 825,000 worth of . j rain on the place. This will be brought "1 irect from the machine at the rate of a ? ir load a day, and shipped to Milankee. It is remarkable to notice dw few weeds are to be seen on the irm and mixed with the wheat. ln The farm is not one of the largest, at one of the best in the State. It is .ie sntly rolling, and contains net more J,8.' ian an acre that cannot be con- V sniently ploughed. The soil is excelnt anil the wheat heavy, even on the , igheet points. "We noticed a number ! thrifty groves which bad been left to fu id beauty to the place. Water is Pe lentv and good in various places, and ie farm is a very fine one for either rain or stock. Mr. Wilkinson will : on offer the farm fi.r sale, and some fai ! our readers may be interested in T>e aowing the fact.?Ooodhue Republim' fei Roads and Road Making. There are but few duties performed pe y town or municipal authorities which eri re more important than making and eeping in repair the common high- tu, ays. It is a duty, we aie sorry to say, tin idly neglected in many sections of the mi mntry; and in some localities the mat- C!1 r of road making is regarded as of no nportance whatever, and the working it of highway taxes, by the residents ftVl \ the townsor districts, is simply a Pu irce and a fraud. Every good citizen 1!? lould feel an interest in good roads, they contribute immensely to the Ja >mfort of traveling, and save much in mJ ie wear and tear of carriages. It is rei tie, we must not expect in the rural Pr istricts the well-cared-for, solid roads ial f suburban towns around cities; but tere is no excuse for the rocky, thl selected paths which are often found, lof id over which it is positively dangeras to travel. If towns would attend P? one point connected with their high- m' ays, that is, carefully remove, once in 8r ro weeks, during the summer, every one which is brought to the surface ?r

lan usual, though I didn't think so a ien ; but when John bent his great J road shoulders over, as if he hadn't eard a word I said, and, in fact, had F imething better to occupy his mind, I ? ist fired up, first, and then the blaze ied down into sulkB, and when we ' arted that night John and I had had } ur first and last quarrel. v My heart did not miBgive mo that c hen I saw John's great tall figure oing out the door, it was the last time s e'd lift the latch for many a year; but c ) it was. t You see, I held my head pretty high l those days, and I wouldn't show that * was a bit cut np about it, so I paired d Of with Mrs. Plumber's Jesse, a likely, a iruce young fellow enough, bat no lore to be compared with John than a ' >ckle-shell is to a brigantine. c Oh, well, mother sighed, and tried 1 ght hard to bring us together again, ut it wasn't to be. b John was a powerful, muscular man, ad I used to see him go up the road i lany a time when I was out in the shed e lilking, and, peepingoutathimthrough t le chinks, I thought his broad shoul- t era stooped more than ever, and his * gure was growing more stalky like, j uch an awkward fellow as John was ! t came near rushing out on him once, t i my sun-bonnet and with my sleeves 4 filed up, and flinging my arms right i >nnd his neck; but John liked to see >lks tidy, and I never did it. b Jesse Plumber was the beau o' the b illage?dapper, neat, and dainty as von s lease ; and all the girls thought I had i: jme to my senses when I ousted 'em o' ess. And by-and-bv it was Jess that * lme sparking o' nights, and sat o' wiu- 4 :r evenings over the embers, and he p as so soft-spoken and pleasant that c ren mother forgot her vexation. (She tways set store by John, mother did), fell, in the spring we were married, mo onfl T lmd n. strinc of i

And leave me jour absence to grieve. Bo HI watch and I'll wait here still longer, f In hope of your coming this way, l When the dim, misty vail of the twilight 1 Has shut oat the brightness of day. ] By the lilies that float down the river, etc. ^ ^ HOW! ( Perhaps I am a little too hasty, a lit- j le too ready to light up at minute's no- , ice; but there are some words that eem to me to carry an especial grain of f gunpowder in them, and the above is ' >ne o' the sort. To have a person, after T ou've been through a long explanation, . tut his fingers to his mental ears and i uery you thus,or, worse still, "Haow?" J 3 too exasperating for hnman nature to ear. But that is what John Stringer i id to me, bending his head a little ' earer, and speaking in an absent, ag- 1 ravating manner that tantalized me be- ond words. 1 You see, John Stringer and I were 1 ngaged; we'd been engaged for a long e [me, and perhaps had got to be a little 8 jo matter o' course to each other. r We were sitting there over the fire, S fter the old folks had gone to bed, and t fell to telling him about Sophie Mills's i redding?her white silk dress, her ? ride-eake, and her bride-maids frosted S 11 over to match it, and I ended this c a>: a " But it don't make any difference, t ohn, to people that love each other; all 1 lat's o' no more account than last year's <3 aow-drift. They could be married in c alico and homespun, with their feet on rag carpet like this, and love each oth- ' r jnat as well." t "How?" said John, absently. He c as watching the coals flicker up and I ie out again, and picking up a stray a Hip now and then to fling on the em- t era?a fashion he had when he was linking. t Now I had had the headaohe all day, t nd I guess I was rather more tindery 1

tip the next, and cross way? on auni a railroad crash, if yon can be :k enough, put one hand on the k of the seat before yon, and the ar hand oa that of yonr own seat, swing clear of the floor, and as a as yon can. Most of the damage imb, which is not fatal, comes from jamming of seats and what is nnder n. ; is said that shortly after Hon. n Hickman's recent illness, Hon. ihington Townsend called on him, wishing to encourage him, remark" Well, Hickman, I can't see that r aopearance need trouble yon." o, Townsend," quickly replied the slid statesman, "it doesn't; it is my ippearance that troubles mo." omebody has discovered down in ine, among the Shakers at Alfred, old lady named Lucy Langdon veil, who, as alleged, was born on 4th of July, 1776. "She has never n in a railroad car, and is in perfect 1thand it is proposed to send , in a palace car, should she live, to ladelphiA on the occasion of the tennial celebration, he Pied Piper of Hamelin has been lived in Baltimore in the person of mins who offers to capture and banfrom any premises all rats. His pons of extermination are three sk-and-tans, six ferrets, a net, and a ill boy. He visits a house, sets his in a chosen locality, sets ont on a iging expedition around and through house, and when he gets back to the at of departure, he has the satisfacl of seeing the small boy gazing with ture on the ensnared victims of the rch. His price is from five to ten tars, and he warrants the place free one year. he oldest church building now iding in the United States is at igham, twelve miles from Boston, ee "godlyfamilies" from Plymouth le a settlement here in 1633, aad in 1 the town had grown strong enough mild this great church, which now ids precisely as it was built, except t two years ago, unfortunately, the n?w? wBrfi taken out and

tural wealth except that of its mines, fall regard to some parts of it, this idea nev to a certain eltent, correct. There con a great deal of poor land in the neigh- kno rhood of the oollieries, and besides j| is, mnch of the country is too monn- j8 a nous for cultivation. Bat still, the ricaltaral prodnctions of the counties wjr( have mentioned are far from being fen( jigniflcant, and are capable nf being j8y jreaaed. The aggregate annual value fro| their farm products was, according tail the estimates of the census, (15,897,- <jay 3. Their total area is about 4,500 / aare miles. There is no richer land "V any part of the Middle States than ne that is to be found in these ooun- ,a^ s, and a considerable quantity of it ? cultivated in a manner that does no ... icredit to the general high character 7**5 tich Pennsylvania farming has so long ., lintained. .. There are, as might naturally be pposed, some very marked contrasts tween the characteristics of the min- J 1 j and the agricultural population of ?ai ase counties. Bat there are two a?d Ings to be said here about the an- ?d: rorable character in respect to orderly Ton havior often attributed to the miners. '' N the first place there is a great differ- inv' ce in the mining population of dif- dial rent districts. There are some parts g the anthracite region which have vays been as orderly as the most fln aceful agricultural districts of Westi New York. In the second place, the only takes a few individuals in any mmunity to make a great deal of dis- jjea rbance. Still, with all the allowance her at can be made on these grounds, it p^i' iBt be acknowledged that the general oeUj nracter of the mining population for pd sobriety or scrupulous respect for b rights of property, and a strict

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