Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 February 1881 — Page 7

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

THE APPLE BEE.

"Did I ever tell you about Rastus marrying Judge Randolph's daughter?" askea grandmother, as I munched an apple and she sat knitting in her high Backed chair. "Why, no," said I, fancying I saw a fitorv in her retrospective gaze, "you 3aave told me about Thankful and your mother and your courtship, grandmother, but of Rastus', never.1' "Well, I'll tell you about it. Seeing JQU eat that apple reminded me of it, And, besides to-day is the sixteenth of November Rastus' birthday came the fflventeenth, and I remember it was the 3ay lefore, and almost exactly such a

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a* this seventy years ago, that I was ting them while Alex 'tended GenRastus was showing me his dom suit, he'd bo twenty-o"ne next day, when came down from the garret with a tray of apples, looking faxed enough." "Apples keeping well I asked. "'No, they must have got a little inched by tne froSt lefore they were gathered. There's one whole ben beginning to rot a'ready, and I haven't no time to pare 'em, Mehitable's being »ick."

Mchitable was an old maid that helped mother about the house. "Why don't you have a bee?" I asked, lor to tell the truth I wanted to see the young folks, my old mates, you know, and .show them my baby, for I thought he was the prettiest and smartest child that ever was. That was your Uncle "William, dear. Besides, Squire Doolittle's niece. Mistress Randolph was a visiting them from Virginnv wl)Ue her father ivas away in England, and I thought Xoayie sno would come. I'd heard a great deal about her, but I hadn't seen Eer, though she had Ixxm visiting at the 8qUire's then for six months or so so I Hays, 'havo a bee.' "'A beo?' spoke up mother, 'well, now, I nevor thought of that. I'm glad, Jtusha, that you spoke of it. What do you sav, Rastus? They are nothing dreadful.' "»f ,ot 'om rot,' said ho, throwing down an armful of wood with a crash. He left the room after it, when I first spoke of the boe, and now he straightened up and looked so tierce at mother that I spoke up as quick as could bo: "I should think you would bo ashamed to speak to mother." "'Mother don't mind what Rastus Hays,' said ho, going up to her and patting her on her shoulder, and he smiled at her in Htieh a tender way that I wondered, JIS I always did, why he was so changeable quick, but loving, nobody inimlcd what Rastus said, that's true but everybody liked him, mother's set more by him than all thd rest of us children, so wo thought, but she said she Ktoew no ditl'erence, only ho was her babv. 'loot's havo tho lee. I'm twenty-one to-morrow, so. if wo havo it then we can Call it a birthnight party. I'll kill a ^oose and tho white turkey that's beon Mhutupsolong and we'll havo a real frolic. Shall I invite Miss Randolph, mother?' "'Why, of cotirso. it wouldn't do to Blight tho Squire's folks.' 'That's so. She'd fool hurt, no doubt, not to havo a chancre to soil her pretty .hands paring apples,' and ho went off a vliist ling, but he didn't look so happy ns lie tried to seem. I could seo that he didn't mora than half want tljo party.

What does he mean, mother? Is Mistress Randolph very proud.' "'Whv,' says mother, in a doubtful way, 'they say so, but I took tea at the' •ypry poo 111 Mandy Smith.' "*I should bono not, mothor.' "'Nor yet like vou, Jerusha, nor fThankful orKeturali. I thinkit'saway who has.' "Almira Uoan rode up justthon on her old white horse. She hitched and came Jp to see mo and my baby, and while I Was showing him off, mothor spoke of the apple liee and she mentioned she had calculated to invite as far as Squire DooJittle's. 'The land sake, you don't moan. Wall now, I never did^'says she. 'What's there so dreadful about having atv apple paring,' said I 'they are common enough.' 'Oh, 'taint that: 'twas inviting that "Randolph girl, with her silk gounds and her white hands, and her neck just so,' and she twisted her head laek In a way that made me laugh.

,v, 'they say so, but tooK tea at Squire's a spell ago, and sho was rv helpful and cheery. Sho didn't 111 proud to me, but she ain't liko

Mother says she's as pretty behaved lis need be,' said I. 'and as to her hands and neck, she can't well leave them at home, but she can her silk gounds, and I hoio she will, I'm sure.'

hop. '1 last us wants her to come, don way, that I 'cording to of her

he?' she asked in her sly knew meant something accounts she don't show none pride to him, or he wouldn't go to see her so much.' 1 oes ho go to see her so much "'Lor', vou don't .mean to say you haint heart) Why, they dowsaw he's waiting on her.' "•Almira,' spoke up mother, 'won't vou jest step this wav aud see this piece ««f cloth? I took it "out of tho loom today. I calculated there's enough for two full suits.' "•Yew, he'll bo twenty-one tcv-mor-row.' Rut mother didn't toll her about his new bn^adcloth suit that was bought in Falmouth. I' "T took right hold with mother after Aliuira lelt, and wo got along amazing «prv mother was always a muster hand at cooking. I cut up the pumpkins that afternoon and stewed them, and mother het the brick oven. Stove®?, Why, there wasn't uo stoves then roasting and talking was done in the brick oven that was tirst het by making in it a •rousing tire then the tiro was taken out and the baking rmt In—furthest in. you know, go the things that must bake the long^U We had a long shovel to pull Vm out with. Yes. and"the stewingand loiling was done in pots that hung on the crane over the fireplace biscuits and johnny onkos we baked in a tin baker lxfore the bla*e on the hearth. How was it made? Lor\ child. 1 don't know as 1 can tell you so you'll understand

It was h'isted'up on logs, with a slanting roof, but open on the aide next to the fire. The ]«n was set Into it. and the tin kinder draw'd the heat. When the side nearest tho tire got taked, the pan was turned round. "Well, well, where was I If you ask me to explain so much, I shan't never to my story's end. Hoatinc the brick oven? uh, vw. Mother baked hesfns and brown \»read and ri* bread and iniiuv meat and apple pies in the even lug. Then the next day we wereui bright nul early and got on the corned beef and hn the brick own ac-t'n for the goose and turkey, the pun dn pies, ginger bread and seed cake* and lection cake. Mother had on hand pickles and pro»erv»s and jlekled tripe and onions,

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so we thought maybe we would have enough, as we calculated on passing round apples and butternuts early in the evening. "You always laugh, dear, when I tell about the cooking. Folks didn't eat no more than they do now, but you see people got in the way of cooking a great deal, and of course mother wouldn't be outdone. Father was a good provider, and never stented her in victuals. "The long kitchen was cleared out for the paring, and bv and by the dancing. The long setter and ,, cane-bottomed chairs were ranged on one side fronting the fireplace and the round chair table was turned back and set by it for Parson Stillwater when he came. It made a curious looking chair, as you can guess, but it was the seat of honor. The top of the table made the outer part of the cnair back. "And, if I do say it, no dresser in town held brighter silver than mother's, nor handsomer china. Her mother brought it from England. As for the pewter cups, what with the scouring you "couldn't tell It from silver. "The kitchen was low and ceiled with big rafters. Hooks that were drove into them held long poles where pumpkins was strung tq dry, and to-morrow there would be the appl». Wooden candlesticks, two or three in a bunch, were nailed to the wall, but the best light of all was made by the big roaring fire on the hearth. Father's and Rastus's guns were slung overhead, and under them bung the crooked necked squashes. The great stone hearth, eight feet long, stretched before it, where lay our old yellow cat and Rastus dog whenever they got a chance. It was pretty often, too, for when the fire was hottest, we had to go back to the wall. Oh, how well I remember that fire! It would do my old eyes good to see it burning again just as it used to in the old days so long ago. The old room Isn't in use now. Where we are sitting now used to be the keeping room. It wasn't near so pleasant as the long kitchen, and we seldom used it. I remember exactly how mother's samplers looked hung over the mantle tree piece. A pair of brass candlesticks stood at each end and a silver one in the middle, all with wax candles in them, but they were never lit, and there was a tray with snuffers of bronze, but they were never used either. For we thought everything must be kept just so, and it's no wonder we didn't feel comfortable there. I used, when a child, to pity Parson Stillwater because he had always to sit in tho keeping room when he went to see his people. "At early candle lighting everything was ready,"and I went out tor a moment to stand on the back porch. I remember exactly how it looked out doors. There was a little sprinkling of snow on the ground, and tho hills were quite white. The trees were all bare and frozen, and rattled together dolefully in the wind, while up from the little brook came the tho sound of tho cold, muffled waters, so I knew it was freezing over. The young cattle were huddled under the shod, and tho cossot lamb was bleating to get into the barn. I ran out and let her in. "Wonder how I remember so well? Wait till you are old, dear, and you will know how we spend our age in remembering our youth, and in remembering scenes that aro pictured on our mind. Their faces are turned to the wall, in middle age, but when we get old and are not good for much else, we grope around aud bring them to light, ana rub and polish them till we can see every line distinct. "I seom to remember that night particularly, for I was so happy and peaceful like. Baby went to sleep like a Iamb, and for once didn't have anything the mattor with him. "Alex, that was my husband, your grandfather, dear, wrote me by stage that ho would be homo from General Court to spend Thanksgiving at father's, so my mind was at ease, and I was just beginning to feel cold, and so thought I ought to go in, when Rastus came out put ray pelllsse over me. 'Cold, tiusha?" he asked. 'I know he wanted to talk about something, and I suspicioned it was about Mrs. Randolph, so I said: "'What Is it, Rastus?" Do you want to tell me anything about the squire's niece? You ought to have heard Almira Bean run on.'

Tho old moddlerl How dare sho speak of Portia Randolph at all!" "'Whv, is she too good to he spoken of?' I aslced, laughing a little. 'She's an angel,' he said, and he looked so sad that I said to myself, 'poor Rastus,' for I seemed to see it all. A woman Is an angel to the man that loves her, and his look showed that he thought sho didn't love him. 'Tell sister Ruslia,' I said. 'There ain't much to tell, Ruslia. Sho is rich and handsome, and high born and proud, and I am no match for her.' 'I don't seo that,' I said, proudly, 'you are well born and handsome, with pride enough, I hope, and as to money, you'll have the farm sometime, and for the present you've got youth and strength. A true woman weds a man for what he is, not what he lias.' 'Thank von, Rusha,' said he and his face looked brighter. There's Philander Smith a-coming, and Mandy. I know by the way tho borso wheezes up the hill. Hero thev are. How d'ye do, Mandy, your cheeks aro as red as a pippin. I've half a mind—no—well, then I won't,' as he helped her from her seat behind Philander on the old gray horse. 'What a man can be!' said Mandy, gigllng at Rastus nonsense. "In a little while the room was full, almost. Great baskets of apples stood down in the middle, where each tilled a trav. Most every one had fetched a sharp knife, and they fell to work right awav so as to get through and go to dancing. Sometimes a spark and his girl would pare from the same tray, and thoro w»s a great deal of whispering. It made pretty aight, anyway, so many bright eyes and ribbons, and orass buU tons, and one that you don't see nowadays. "Mother and father were in the keeping room with some ®f the old people.

and Rastus was everywhere joking ant laughing with the girls. You could see he was a favorite, and I didn't wonder, for lie was handsome, tall and straight, and had away of saying just the right thing, alwavs. "Mistress Randolph hadn't come, but I hoped she would, for I wanted her to see him in his uew suit. It was blue broadcloth with brass buttons cut high in the neck and tight in the sleeves, with a starched cravat and handsome frills edged with real lace at the bosom and wrists. He had silver buckles to Ids shoes, and, indeed, as I tell you. he was as fine as need be. Philander Smith had on anew suit, too, bat it didn't hare the easy set that Rastus' had, and tm for his collar, it was so stiff and high that he eouldnl tarn his head without drawing it up or down. I pitied him before the evening was over, his ears got so red with the sawing of his dickey across them. "At last we hoard the squire driving up over the frown ground in his new lewthern convenience. It was the only one in town, so 'twas easy telling him. People mostly r-t•» the* old way on horseback, the WC.-.JTJ on a pillion behir the men. The squire was a rich

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man and, as a general rule, led the fashion, and now the young men all hustled out to help the squire untaekle his horse, so as to get a good look at the new convenience. "Rastus mentioned omr names to each other, for Mistress Randolph had came along with the squire and his wife, and we both curtseyed, and then I helped her off*with her pelisse and bonnet. •'I couldn't tell how it was, but I could see that she wasn't like the other

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and I laid it to her bringing up, ut I now that it was because she was better born. She was very pretty spoken and quiet, but she carried her head so s:,ately and her walk was different. "I remember that her hair was dressed high over a cushion, and across it in little waves were strings of something that Mandy Smith saia were glass beads, but then I knew they were pearls. Her gown was of plum-colored flowered silk, made with a tunic looped up over a satin petticoat, and she wore high-heeled shoes different from any that Ihad ever seen. "Other girls in the room had eyes that were lust as bright, and cheeks as rosy, but after all she was much handsomer, and I didn't wonder at Rastus—not a mite. "I could see that Mandv Smith looked vexodthat Mistress Randolph should be dressed so grand, for she was as fine as a fiddle herself. She wore a new worsted gown with a waist no longer than your finger, and leg of mutton sleeves tnat made her look three times as broad as she ought to, but she couldn't compare with the squire's daughter. 'How spriggish she looks!' said

Mandy to me. 'Linsey woolsey's good enough for Miss Doohttle, why ain't it

for her?

"The squire's wife was right behind her, but she didn't know it. You ought to have seen how Mandy jumped when she spoke up— '"Lindsey woolsev and silk doesn't make the difference between a lady and one that ain't. Portia wanted to wear one like mine, but we hadn't time to make one, and I told her it made no difference what she wore since she wasn't vain of her apparel.' "So Portia Randolph wanted to wear lindsey woolsey, and Rastus wanted to wear fmo broadcloth. I thought from that they might sometimes come together, leastwise I hoped so. "When Rastus came around I noticed she always blushed a little, but didn't seem to see him, and he kept out of her way mostly. When she first came he just made ner a handsome bow, and said: 'Good evening to vou, Mistress Randolph,' but after a while he fetched her mother's silver dish and gave her his new pocket-knife to pare with, but he didn't joke and laugh with her as he did with the others. "How frolicsome they were! When a paring came off whole without breaking, they would toss it over their shoulders, and when it fell it a-most always be made to stand for their sweetheart's name. It made a deal of sport. "I sat by Mistress Randolph, and I could see how sho blundered at her work. It was new to her, you see, but she tried to do well, and was just beginning to be more handy, when all at once she started and screamed a little, and I saw her put an apple in her pocket. Her hand trembled so that her knife sll

aud went into her linger, making a large cut that bled dreadful. "Rastus jumped, and thoy all did when they heard her seream out, and when they saw the cut they thought that was the reason, but I know better. I know she cut her finger afterwards, and I wondered greatly about that apple, and If it had anything to do about it. "She said It was a small hurt, and ol no consequence, "but she wouldn't pare any more for at best che was clumsy, if they would tell her something that she could do, she would try tojdo better "'It's little sho can do, I'm thinking,' said Mandy Smith, and she spoke loud enough for anyone to hear almost. "Tho squire said he had fetched the harp unbeknown, and now if Rastus would go out to tho convenience and fetch it in, may be Portia would play, if she coula with her cut finger. "She said that it wasn't a finger that she needed to use, and they all said that it would be a rare treat. So Rastus fetched in her harp and threw the blue ribbon over hot neck, and she began. "It was a ballad, all about a lady of high degree and a poor lad that loved each other, but she was forced to marry a lord or something, and how she pined away and died ana the lad came home from the wnrs all titled and grand, but he came too late for she he loyed was now dead. He went crazed in his mind from that moment. It was a sad song and so sv.^tly sung that everyone stopped wt Vk to listen.

Most of us had never hoard a harp before, and it was a rare treat, for Mistress Randolph was called a very fine singer, and I knew she had a way of touching the heart that few have, for even Mandy Smith wiped her eyes on her big sleeves and some of tho young men blubbered right out, only they pretended afterwards they wore coughing. As for the squire and father, they didn't care if any ono did see the tears they shed. ,, "She sang one or two other'Songs, and then the apples were cleared away and Hiram Doesticks brought out bis fiddle. Poor old black Jack was dead, the one that used to fiddle on training days and general muster, and now Hiram did it mostly as well at all the kitchen junkets. He sat on a bench at the farther end, and while he tuned his fiddle and rosined his bow, the sparks and their girls faced each other adown the room. They danced money-musk, four-handed reel, the Campbells are coming, attd by and by Virginny teel. Rastus danced that with Portia Randolph, and somehow when I law how grand and handsome they looked together. I was glad that he put on broadcloth instead of his wearing lindseywoolsey. I was foolish I dare say. "Well, they all went home, and the next day mother and I strung the apples they )\ad jpared. There were a number of bushels, I, seemed to forget iust how many. Rut that wan not tho best of the bee." I could see that Rastus felt lwtter in his mind, and so I wasn't a mite surprised that when it came Sabbath night that he should dress up in his freedom suit and go over to the squire's. "Rastus told me next day that he was to be married on Thanksgiving day: that Judge Randolph came unexpected the night of the apple bee, ana that Portiafhad coaxed him into letting her marry Rastus, though he was much loth, she being an only daughter, and be so found and proud of her, but that perhaps made him yielding. "'Did she say anything pie?"' I asked Rastus. 'Why, yes,* said be, 'bow did yon know? 'it was one that had my name on it. She said she was just thinking how silly tbey were trying to make out their sweetheart's names by throwing apple parings over their shoulders, when all at once she saw my name as plain as print. It seemed like witchcraft, and she was so startled that she cut her finger.

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"'How did it happen so? That's strange enough.' 'Yes, unless you happen to know the reason, as I did,' said Rastus. 'Alex told me how the college boys had a trick, of cutting out names and pinning them on to an apple just when it was beginning to turn red so I tried it and forgot all about, and Portia got that apple, you

"Itold you was an only child. Well, the jud couldn't tjear to be parted from her, so but

before, dear, that Portui Well, the judgfe rted from her, so

nothing would do Dut Rastus must go to Virginny. with him. Father wouldn't let him go empty handed, hut of course 'twas little he could do with the judges' wealth. They went a week after Thanksgiving, and mother cried herself sick, that her baby, as she called him, must leave her. "Well, 'twas a happy marriage. Neither regretted, I'm thinking, the wayit turned out, but Portia told"me afterward that only for that apple would she have sung that song, and only for that song would Rastus have dared to hope

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will pay the above reward for any case of oomplaint, dyspepsia, sick indigestion, constipation or costlveness, we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly compiled with. Thev are purely Vegetable, and never fall to give satisfaction. Hugar coated. Large boxes, containing 30 pills, cents. For sale by all dniggists. Beware of counterfeits and imitations. The genuine manufactured only by JOHN C. VESTA CO., the "Pill Makers, 181 and 188 W. Madison St.. Chicago. Free trial package sent by mall piepafd on aecelpt of a three cent stamp. Apl7.2nly

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TUNING.

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you nlar and reliable .— —, makes a specialty of tuning and re all kltids of instruments. AH repairs exe cu ted the same as at piano and organ manufactories.

Pianos tuned and cleaned, moths exterminated and wires prevented from rusting without extra charge. Pianos tuned by the year at redooed rates. Prices cn-atly reduced for rebuffing pianos. The best of references given when desired. Leave order* with W. H. Paige, W7 Main, street, or send your address through the postofflce to

A* PAIGE.

HAHHOOD IE8TOBED, A victim of early Imprudence, causing nervous debility, premature decay, et&, having tried in vain every known remedy, has discovered a simple means of self-cure, which he will send free to his fellow suOfererm. Addrew J. H. REEVES,« Chatham kL, N. Y.

Ciiio a week In your own town. flOO and $5 outfit free it. HALUKIT A Co.

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CURE TOUR NCI l»[

And all diseases of the Kidneys, Blndderjand Urinary Organs by wearing the

Improved Excelsior Kidney Pad

It is a marvel of healing and relief.

Simple, Sensible, Direet, Painless* Powerful.

It cures where all else fails. A Revelation and a Revolution In Medicine. Absorption or direct application, as opposed to unsatisfactory internal medicines. Send for our treatise on Kidney troubles, sent free. Sold by druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. $3.00. Address

THE ."ONLY" LUNG PAD CO., DETROIT, MICH. Thisps tlie original and genuine KIDNEY PAD. Ask for It and take no other.

DN. II A TITER'S IRON TOXTO IJ A preparation of Protoxide of Iron. Peruvian UnrV and tho PhoabhaU'S, afwoclatcMi with the Voputabfe Aroiuntlcs. Kn-locstM by Iho Medieal Prolivjslon.

:iu-n«!ed by them l«r Dyaprpiln. fien«r»l KpblHly. Wnnl «il" VIli»l- ](«, Xerrou* B»ro»trollon, €ouY»le»f«n«c from *e*er» Md tbronle Clillls and Fever, it SI-rvcs uvery purpose where a TONIC is necessary.

ManufacM'bi THE i!A. IIASTER MEDICINE GO., No. 213 North Main Street, St. Louis.

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Has been in constant

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and is the best preparation

ever invented for RESTOR­

Terms

Address

Portland, Maine.

19 a week. fl2 a day at home easily 8(6 made. Costly outfit free. Address 8lS-3nly Taca A Co. Augusta, Maine.

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The State

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It snpplies the natural food and color to tho hair £lnnds without staining the ekin. It will increase and thicken tho growth of tho Jialr, »rovent its blanching and falling off, and thus

Physicians endcrao and rccomTne id ii os a great triumph

AVERT BALDNESS.

It cures Itching, Eruptions r:td Dandruff. A» HAIR PRESSING it is very desirable, giving tho hair a ell ken ooftness which all admire. It keeps tho head clean, sweet and healthy.

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WHISKERS

will change the beard to a BROWN or BLACK at discretion. Being in one preparation it is easily applied, and produce* a permanent color that will not wash off.

PREPARED BY

R. P. HALL & CO., NASHUA, N.H.

Sold by all Dealers is Medicine.

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