Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 October 1879 — Page 6

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a hundred thing to think about that maan nothing to thorn I yet Hi oppraiised with the monotony, with the inimm ami honluk tbUitmt, that 1 want a Warn to run away, or any thing to happen that will rouse us one moimmt. Annt Mercy, those lioys will begin to drinkor do any thing that Mill give a mw sensation ami bring a sense of life ami by and by there will by one or two or three more reekleas, swearing, lounging creatures like the Carsons in the other village. I have begun to Ihjlieve village like this are doomed to destruction, ami that New England will turn into New Irelahd unless something is done to make them places where some real life can 1ms found. Aunt Alercv!" " Well, child?" Bo you know, I tk up an ohl county history to-day. Forty years ago there were WO more ieoplo fore than now. Kveryman ha gone West except these old ones who are almost ready for tlw next world, and just a few who liohl on because they were born here and whose sons will get away as last as they can. Of course the mill brings a certain class, but their lives are as joyless as life in a treadmill. And yet here is this lovely country, and these farms that might to be homes and not prisons. Now, don't you suppose it possible to stir up some sense of pride, some patriotism if that is the wordsomething that, will make these boys willing to stay, and will give them soinethinc to think" about? Aunt Mercv. I

have a plan. Now listen, and see what you think." Tea first, child, and thee may talk afterward. Thee should be hungrV." I believe I am," Ruth said, as Linda, the servant who with her husband, George, was a relic of the former Dysart prosperity opened the door and showed the small round table laid for two and almost lost in tne srroat room, wnic.ii. However, witu its open its open fire and the soft light of the student-lamp held its own cheer. "Miss Ituth, she's at her old ways," Linda said as she went presently "into the kitchen. "I've been a-wondcrin' what she'd find to take up, but she's got her hands full now." u Xo good won't come of it," George answered, discontentedly, as Linda ended her summary of what she had been able to glean from tlw conversation, " Long's it's beggars and riff-raff you don't so much care ; but this is just alettin' herself down to low people that won't know but what site's always done it. I'd speak to Miss Dysart. MLs Ituth dotft see." " It's past any time for speakin'," Linda groaned, "as she rubbed off the waflie-iroti. "Its all cut and dried. Laws ! I was sure there woutdn't be no mussin' here, Imt it's legun, an' Mifjs Dysart she'll be spendin' all her money sure's you're born." George shook his head, and continued to shake it as he moved about, hut the opposition from the kitchen did not reach the parlor. Ituth devoted the evening to looking over a vast collection of photographs and stereoscopic views, and to assorting uteni in cF.reiuuy nunioereu and marxed pile while Aunt Mercy made various changes in the contents of an ohU fashioned book-case in the corner of the dining-room. The south parlor where tney always sat m winter, iiatl two deer recesses each filled with books, Ituth's special favorites lemg in her own room overhead, in tact every room they inhabited became the library temporarily, for Ruth and Aunt Mercy" had a fashion of looking up any question that interestuu town, ami onnging to near every eiv cyclopedia Br reference-hook which coukl throw the slightest light upon it, aud their library was not onh well filled with standard and general literature but had a range of authorities seldom found outside the walls of a professed student's armory. The temptation had been strong to lose herself in this society and lorget human claims, and Aunt Mercj-, who had mourned a little that this remote village must swallow up her child just when most eager and most ready for work, smiled as she saw her alisorption, and chid herself for forgetting that something always waited the ready hand. Sam Sherburne walking moodily out oi ine tavern, smelling ot very strong tobacco and tvith heavy eyes and pale cheeks, was surprised and disconcerted as, the next afternoon, Ituth met him and held out her hand. " "We are going the same way," she said. " Let us walk together, Sam." Sam colored to the roots of his hair; tlien straightened himscjf and furtively brushed off some lint sticking to his coat. lie had often in the summer rowed Miss Ruth down the river; had taught her how to manage the oars ; and had looked on with pnde in his pupil when her own light boat she had sent to Boston for took its place in the "branch" back of the old house. He had even once or twice been asked to tea, but since fall this had not happened. Ho knew she must have heard of his wildnesa, and supposed she would not care to speak to htm. Sam was one of the New England boys who had no overmastering longing for a college education, who had never taken very kindly to his liooks and who waa merely a healthy, fun-loving fellow, with some common sense, rather rudimentary as yet, and a great longing to "see the world;" meaning by this either going out to a clerkship in some narrow store, or possibly getting on one of the lake lioahj, Hut ho was the only boy left; the farm waited for him, anil was one of the best in the county, and Ileniah Sherburne could not understand why the steady round of work was not satwfying. A deacon in the Congregational Church, and with a sheaf of doctrines handed down from hks father anil des

tined In turn for Sam, who would never listen three minutes to their exiHmmling, the good man slunik his head sorrowfully and added one or two more clause to his dally piayers. The motln and lie sat contentedly by the little aUvo in the sitting-room. She darned and jiatchetl and turned, with the

iiie-wng itaiitt ot saving as strong now when its need was past as in me mi ly uays. jnuytooic the county paiver, and had a few Iiooks bought from persistent book-agents, but there was no sense of brightness and cheer in the narrow quarters, ami Sam shot out after tea and could never be found till ledtlmo, Even the dingv kitchens of the Cauadians were better than his own home, for there at least were jest and laughter, or a dance .suddenly improvised if Haptiste amieared with" his fiddle. This was bad enough, the father thought, but when Sam was discovered playing cards with the Hrowu bovs in the barn loundless indignation hatl its way. Sam was thrashed and ordered not to go near them, and the cards went into the kitchen lire. The natural result followed. Outwarly submissive but inwardly rebellious the Imys had their way, and now at 18 Sam seemed suddenly to have gone to the bad altogether; refused to cuter the church, and, it was reported, had been seen drunk in the streets of the county town. The Krown boys ran the sawmill at the foot of the hill, but their father did most of the work and sighed dolorously if any one asked him why he did not keep them there. Ituth looked at the lad as she walked ; a tall, sturdy fellow, with honest blue eves but a weak, uncertain mouth and chin. As she talked ho gained confidence and answered with something of his old freedom ; a full, cheery voice with very little of the nasal quality at which ltutli still winced. "I wanted to see you, Sam," she said, presently, " for I want to talk over something with you, and I think voucan help mo. Will you come to our house to-night?" Sam hesitated and colored. " I don't know about to-night, Miss Ituth. I'd promised Harvey Drown to go up to the lino with him." " Is it special business?" " No-o, not so very." "Then bring Harvey and John, too," said Ituth. " I want all three of you. Will you?" J "les, ma'am," said Sam, confounded. The " Hrown 1kvs " were the neighborhood synonym for outrageous- w ncss, ami Iiss ltuth"mustbe beside her- c sen. iiowevcr mere was no chance for remonstrance, for with his "yes, ma'am " she had turned into the Postoffice, with a " Good-by, then, till evening," and Sam walke'd on wondering what he had better do. " You've got me in a fine mess," Harvey Drown said, when Sam told them of the promise made for them, but in spite of shamefacedness curiosity was strong. Linda sniffed audibly as'she answered the ponderous knocker, which Ituth would not allow to be changed for a IhiII, and ushered the boys into the diningroom, where a great table, on each end of which a bright light burned, had been drawn near the fire. Ituth knew that a table was at once occupation and screen for "awkward feet and hands, the former finding shelter in the shadows, the latter turning over the illustrated papers towards which the boys looked at once. Miss Dysart sat there quietly knitting, with a pleasant word for each in answer to their awkward greeting, and then Ituth, with a slightly heightened color, spoke her thought. "Doys, I have liecn thinking how very stupid and dull a great many of these winter evenings are, and I am sure they can be pleasanter for every one of us. We never get any amusements from outside because wo are so far away, and I think wo grow restless and discontented when there is none. Now what I propose may not be very amusing but at least wc can try it and see. Suppose we travel a little, in spite of the deep snow, and in this fashion : Wc all have places we would specially like to see; sometimes in our own country, sometimes in others. Let us take turns in choosing a place and then finding out all about it. I have picturos, you sec a great many of them and I think you will find there is some pleasure In this way of traveling. Dut as you are not at all sure whother your will like it or not, we must see. Sam, where would you like liest to go?" i alien by surprise, ham answered aftcr a moment's confused thinking: "The Mammoth Cave." Why?" Again Sam meditated. " Decause I used to look at the picture in my old ceofrraphv." "It's curious you should have that," said Ituth, "because tho said first package of views on that table is one of views in the Cave. I was there long ago with Aunt, but never forgot it." "Tell us about it, please," said Sam, eagerly, and Ituth brought two or three light stereoscopes and laid them on the table, then talked on simply but in most vivid fashion, giving the story of the long expedition. Each view suggested many questions ; Miss Dysart joined at times with some bit of reminiscence, and when the clock struck a the boys looked up in astonishment as Linda entered with a trav on which were cups of steaming coffee and a plate of sandwiches. " It is so cold to-night vott need tho coffee to fortify you for your walk in tho wind," Miss Dysart said, talking on so pleasantly that they forgot awkwardness. "Tom Anderson's lieen Up in that cave, near Lake Dunmore, where Ethan Alien hid," said Sam. "but it isnt. much more than a big hole. He'd like

to see these pictures, Miss Ituth. Would you mind telling it over agMlu?" " Not a bit," said Ituth, " if you will not lie tired of hearing it twice." "There Hin't any danger of that," sajd Harvey Drown. "I feel as if I'd been there." . "Then I shall expect you Saturday night," said Ituth, " You, and the An-

i dersons." Tho Anderson Imvs came at the appointed time; the story seemed to lose none of its interest in repetition, ami from the Mammoth Cavo they passed to others. " Suppose wo look up all the wonderful caves in the world," Ruth had said, after an evening with tlmtof Elephunta, illustrated by somu photographs sent by a friend in Calcutta. "The Giant's Causeway isn't exactly a cave, but there are some beautiful views of it. We'll have that for next time." " Dut I don't know how," said Sam, who usually acted as spokesman. " I don't know any body but you that knows." "You shall find out," said Ituth; and on their next evening shu had the great atlas, the uncyclopedia, and a volume, of Dayard Taylor's travels in which a full account was given. The hoys looked askance at the books, but soon found they were not enemies but friends. Ituth had one or two of the wild legends connected with the spot, and told them with so much dramatic effect that Harvey Drown declared ho would not dare to go through thu long bridge alone. " It's mighty like a geography lesson," said Tom Anderson, who had regarded tho whole thing with grave suspicion, " but it's the jolliest geography lesson I over heard. 1 shan't object no more." Full of misgivings before each fresh attempt, success seemed to wait upon each. Ruth smiled inwardly as her audience grow, and she camo "to have all the boys from 15 to '20 that the neighborhood afforded. Tho wildest rumors were current. She played cards with them she danced with them she encouraged infidelity; it was going to bo as bad in the end as this bar-room. Gradually the effervescence subsided. It was sceif that there was less desire to roam the country at larire. The Drown boys came into ik'aeon .Sherburne's ono evening to talk over some knotty point witli Slim, and the Deacon found himself insensibly interested, as well as astonished that th-o boys showed so little of the cloven foot. When three months had proved that if any thing interesting were provided no lack of interest or aceptance could Uo complained of, Ruth opened tho long disused room in tho north wing, furnished it with a long table and comfortable arm-chairs, had light shelves put up at one end, and herself covered the volumes whieh were tho nucleus of what she hoped might be the village library. Two backgammon-boards, a set of chess-men and ono or two pleasant games were there also, and one evening before their talk began she took her tribo into the cheer quarters. " This is your own 'room, boys," she said. " Dut there are certain conditions you will all be willing to subscribe to. No noise no smoking no lounging. I havu made it as pleasant a place us I can, and it is yours till a better is found." " Having this ain't going to break up our other evenings, is it?" asked Harvey Hrown, anxiously. "Wc can't spare them no how, Miss Ruth." "No, you shall have thorn still," Ruth said, touched and gratified by the eagerness wun wnicn an had waited her answer. Already the little seed sown in weakness was showing green above thu hard soil. "Open Sundays!" the villagers cried, when the new departure camo to bo canvassed. "Dreaking the Sabbath and making a nest of ungodliness in our midst!" Ruth said nothing, and when it was found that tho cloven lads were engaged in a Dible lesson each Sunday afternoon, not conducted on ordinary plans, perhaps, but made fascinating with maps and pictures and tho most vivid description of a land that had been practically unknown, the tone of comment changed. No knowing what Quakers would not do, but certainly this was an unexpected turn, and one to be approved by deacons and ministers and people. Ruth shrunk from any discussion, hut tho time camo when discussion was necessary, and she was forced to define both her work and her wishes for its future. Deacon Sherburne, as tho representative of the most popular church, and who looked at Aunt Mercy's cap and kerchief as a symbol of mysterious heresy as full of threatening now as in old Puritan days, spent an evening in questions and returned home converted. "You may say what you please," ho said a week later to tho knot of men in the store, " about her passin' by her own sex an' goin' for the boys. Her own sex can behave themselves better, an' ain't making for the streets tho minute tea's done. Doys must have something to take up their minds, an1 they've got it; an' it's a shame wo ain't thought more anout it. Air there's more to bo done. Her hands ought to ho strengthw .u .. ai,... v in. 1,11 Selectmen can, an' it's timo for us to talk thorn over. That north wing ain't nigh big enough for them that would come. I've been turnin1 it over in my mind, an' I'm ready to give tho old shoe-shop if any body'll help pay for the movin1 to tho Fork at tho huad of tho Common, and fixin' it up some. You sec summer's comln' on, an' tho way sho figures it is, it's time all of us should have some benefit onto' what she's beginning to get together. She's got a friend that's sent some plcters, and" another that's goin' to give a hundred dollars' worth of Plifil. Timrivii tliimru it mil o-mU .In ....1

books; an' thu long an' short of it Is here's a chance for a town library to start, an' we to hold our heads up high as other folks, 1 guos wo can show we ain't quite run out yet," So long a speech had never Ihscii heard from the Deacon in all his life before, and a hot discussion followed. Tho shoe-shop was too old ; it wasn't worth moving. Who was. going to paint and put it generally in order? To every objection the Deacon hatl his answer. It was evident that Ruth's enthusiasm hud been deep and strong enough to thororoughly penetrate, and his Yankee thrift would never allow the proposed benefactions to go begging. Ruth smiled as, ono morning in Juno, thu strenuous calls to oxen and tho creaking and groaning of rollers wore heard. Tho old shoe-shop was on its way to a now foundation and entire rejuvenation. Defore duly, painted and nuwly plastered, with long tables and Ruth's arm-chairs, with a sot. of engravings and ono or two good chromos, tho room looked not only habitable but inviting. A recess at the back was devoted to curiosities an old portrait or two of former village worthies, some Ituvolujionary relics, and anything Ituth or her boys had boon able to find in the township in which a common interest could bo felt. Tho Fourth of duly saw the village owners of " Tho Lowgato Library 1 lull ;" and as Deacon Sherburne looked at his once useless property a sense of accomplishment filled him with something more like patriotism than any thing ho had known from his boyhood. Standing under tho great elm which shadowed it, Dr. Drett,tho minister, made tho first Fourth of July address tho village had had in years, and then led the way to the generous supply of ice-cream and cake from tho groat house. Only tho beginning of a better day for the village, and Ruth's eager wish traveled fast anil far; but sho could wait, sure that hero lay work enough for all, and that if one experiment had succeeded another might. "God giveth the increase." Aunt Mercy said, "but never till it has first, been written, Paul must plant and Apollos water.'" Jldcn CUmjAcU, in ike VhriMian Union.

Tho Art of Acting. Mrs. John Drew of tho Philadelphia Arch Street Theater, speaking of the simulated emotion of actors, lately said : " Undoubtedly an actor could grasp a situation more readily and represent it more effectively if he had once been in tho same position in real life. Dut how seldom is this the case. Some of tho most inhuman villains I ever knew on tho stage arc pleasant, mild-mannered men in private." A listener reminded Mrs. Drew of Manager Dcniard Macauley's criticism of Mary Anderson, that she "owed her success to her remarkable beauty and power of portraying characters and passions which she really had no idea of," and might become a groat actress after she had been once in love. Mrs. Drew responded: "Miss Anderson's greatest fault is thought by some members of her profession to bo want of concentration. They sav that she is capable of turning round In tho middle of an impassioned scene to make some frivolous remark to a brother actor. Mr. Macauley's argument is good, but a good many examples might Ihi cited to prove the contrary. Every ono nas heard oi aiiss U'iScil. Forty years ago, when sho was at tho pinnacle of fame and success, she was not only unmarried, but her habits and temperament wore antagonistic to those natural to a mother. Yet one of her strong points was in portraying a mother's tender love and devotion. Mrs. Dateman has achieved great success in roles requiring a nice appreciation of sentiments foreign to her nature. Many people who have suffered all tho pangs of poverty Would bo mere sticks if put on tho stage to act tho part of a hero or heroine who was supposed to he suffering from just, such straits, An actor, to carry his audience with him, must bo capable of imagining vividly any character he impersonates ; actual experience is of no use to him, but imagination and sclf-forgctfulness are indispensable." A deed Jmlge of Xevcls. "You are fond of novcl-rcsdlng," said Aurclian Scholl the other day, as ho saw tho coachman ho had just engaged stow away a formidable volume of romances beneath the scat, " Yes, sir; I have read a great many novels, and I am disgusted to observe tho uniform ignorance of their authors as to tho commonest affairs of every-day life. For instance, here is ono story in which I read : 'The Prince appeared agitated on hearing these words, and hafllng a carriage flung himself into it, casting his purse to tho driver and cried, "Drive mo to the Faubourg St. Honoro!" 1 Then a fow lines further on I see this : Valentine resolved once for all to solve tho mystery, rtnd hurrying to tho stand sprang into the first vehicle that presented itself, aud Hinging her pocketbook to tho coachman said, "Follow you carriage." ' Now, sir, I have been driving a hack in Paris for 10 years, anil I've driven thousands of people all sorts of people under every imaginable condition, eloping lovers, Jealous wives, levanting cashiers, and so on and, so help me St. Fiacro! never in tho course of my professional career has a faro thrown mo his or her purse or pocketbook. No, sir; they have just given mo ,15 sous sometimes it was tho round 2 francs, but very randy." lloaton Courier. Tbirtv aci'tvs of crHiilii'i-iliw vtold one South Jersey man $10,000 a year.