The Adair County news. [volume], January 02, 1918, Page 5, Image 5

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ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
G out, wild bells, to the wild skj
he flying cloud, the frosty light;
'The year is dying in the night -
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring, happy bells, across the snow; fe3
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For those that here we see no more;
IRing out the feud of rich and poor,
gnrrredress for all mankind.
igpalbwly dying cause,
"AndSncient forms of party strife;
Kinin the nobler modes of life,
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4NGr-out the want, the care, the sin,
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Benjamin Franklin's
New Year's Resolutions
CO endeavor to speak the truth
in every instance, to give nobody
expectations that are not likely to be
answered, but aim at sincerity in every
word and action; the most amiable
excellence in a rational being.
0 apply myself industriously to
whatever business I take in hand,
and not divert my mind from my bus
iness by any foolish project of growing
suddenly rich; for industry and pa
tience are the surest means of plenty.
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f RESOLVE to speak ill of no man
whatever, not even in a matter
of truth; but rather by some means
excuse'the fault I hear charged upon
others, and upon proper occasions,
speak all the good I know of everybody.
EX''E3
tired of living alone and sewing on i
vests to earn her pin money, and she
had determined, on this particular oc
casion, to make a bold stroke and win
a husband.
She attired herself on New Year's
day in a green satin dress, cut low in
the neck and short in the sleeves,
pinned a bunch of holly at the left
side, and puffed her newly tinted hair
in the most elaborate style.
"I do declare," said Miss Angela to
herself, "I don't look a day over
twenty."
Deacon Perkins was the first to ar
rive, an old bald-headed man, with a
complexion of leather and the keenest
of twinkling black eyes.
"I got a letter from you, Miss Han
na," said he. "I s'pose you want to
consult me on business."
"La, deacon, what a very strange
idea," giggled Miss Hanna. "No, in-
na took up the plate of cake "I don't
never eat nothin' except at reg-lar
meals. Good mornin' !"
And thus the deacon escaped.
"Eh ! What's that noise? If it's the
cat jumping at my canary again but
it sounded more like someone laugh
ing and cats don't laugh. Who's that
comin' up the walk? Ethan Crane, I
do declare! Well, he's a likely young
fellow not as rich as Squire Perkins,
maybe, but Oh, come in, Mr. Crane.
Come in. I am so glad to see you.
Lovely day, isn't it?"
Ethan Crane sat down with his hat
in his lap.
"I received your card, Miss Ilanna."
"Oh, did you!" said Angela, with a
smile.
"To tell the truth," said honest
Ethan, "I wanted a little talk with
you."
"Indeed !" said the lady. "Won't you
come here and set by me on the sofa?
It's more sociable like."
"Oh, yes, if yon like," said Ethan,
obeying her gesture of Invitation.
"You see, my mother is getting
feebler every day, and we feel the
need of some younger person at the
farm. And I'm twenty-eight now, and
the place is in good oraer, and I've
money at interest, so that I've pretty
much made up my mind to marry."
Miss Angela let the puffed and friz
zled head fall on his shoulder.
"Dearest Ethan!" sfie exclaimed.
"Yes exactly," said Ethan Crane,
moving as far away as the arm of the
sofa would allow. "So, if you thought
that your niece, Mirandy, would have
me "
"My niece, Mirandy!" gasped the
elder lady, the immovable bloom never
altering on her face, although her
heart beat wildly and her lips
blanched. '
"Yes," said Ethan. "I hoped to meet
her here today."
"No!" said Miss Angela sharply.
"She's gone away; and if she hadn't,
she wouldn't accept you."
"Is she engaged to someone else?"
stammered poor Ethan.
"Yet," said Miss Ilanna. "To Joshua
Simpkins. But, Ethan, do not grieve;
I am ready to entertain your suit, al
though Mirandy despises you, and "
"But he doesn't, aunty!" interrupt
ed a clear, distinct oice, and Mirandy
herself entered from an adjoining
room. "On the contrary, she loves
Ethan Crane dearly, and she refused
Joshua Simpkins, as you know very
well.
"How came you here?" screamed
Miss Ilanna.
"I went to Mrs. Brown's house,"
said Mirandy, "and she had gone to
spend the holidays with her niece at
Stanford. So I came back home."
"You are a dreadful minx!" cried
Miss Hanna, nearly suffocated with
anger.
"Gently!" said Ethan Crane, inter
posing in Mirandy's defense. "No call
ing of names, please."
"And you shan't stay in my house
another day!" added the indignant
lady.
"Then she shall come to mine!"
boldly asserted Ethan. "Come, Mi
randy, darling my sleigh is at the door
and it holds exactly two. We'll go to
Parson Squire's and get married this
very hour."
So they were married, and old Mrs.
Crane, who was waiting at the farm
house door to receive her son, was de
lighted. "If it hadn't been me," said Mi
randy, mischievously, "it would have
been Aunt Angela, for she was deter
mined to marry Ethan."
"The Lord forbid 1" said Mrs. Crane,
raising her eyes.
"And after this," said Ethan, as he
led his bride in, "the first day of the
year will be a double anniversary
the happiest of Happy New Years. Eh,
Mirandy?"
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"How Came You Here?" Screamed
Miss Hanna.
deed! I only wish to promote socia
bility during the festive season.'
"Well, then, I guess I'd better be
goin'," said the deacon. I hain't no
time for no sich foolery."
"Don't be in a hurry, deacon," urged
Miss Hanna. "I do wish to consult
you."
"About what?" frowned the deacon,
looking dubiously at the purple shoul
ders and arms of the lady.
"Marriage," said Miss Hanna.
"Would you advise me, dear deacon,
to commit my future into the hands of
another?"
"Eh !" said the deacon. "Had an of
fer?" "Yes," ;aid Miss Hanna, driven by
his directness into an absolute lie.
"Then, if I was you," said the dea
con, "I'd accept it, 'cause it ain't likely
you'll have many of 'em."
"But, deacon," she stammered, "what
if I don't love the man? What if I
love another who "
"Then don't accepuliim," said the
deacon; but, suddenly becoming elec
trically aware of his danger as Mi
Hanna moved her fhair a little closer
to his, he added. "My horse is gettin'
dreadful oneasy outside. I guess I'll
bo goin'. No, thankee" as Miss Han-
Copryri'ltt
OW, I wonder what 'iwit;
means?" aid Ethan 'rRne
He had just com- 6ac&;
with the weekly ner
and one letter from his tramp t roogt
the snow to the post otlice.
Old Mrs. Crane had brought in tU
lighted candles and piled an ei..ra log"
on the fire.
Ethan ore open the envelope astl.
read he inclosed card: 'Miss Angela
Ilanna. At Home. January 1st."
"La!" said Mrs. Crane. "She wants
you to call there."
"Get out." said Ethan, with a KntWoa
access of heepiNhness. "Why kkiIcTI
I so there?"
"Well, why n-)t?" aked Mr. rrane..
"It's what the city people do, I'm teifi-.
They make a big cake and dravr &t
pitcher of cider and set down in their'
best clothes to see company. Aa3r
Ilanna is dreadful enterprising; ltr
means to lead in the fashions."
"Am I to call there?" asked Ethan
"Why. of course," said his motiri
"What else does it mean? Miss An
gela Hanna at home."
"She's at home most days, ain't:
she?" said Ethan musingly. "There
was never anything of the gad-about
in Angela Hanna that I ever heard of."
"Oh, but this here's a new kiIik,'
exclaimed Mrs. Crane. "An extra-special
day for calling don't you see?"
"I'd calculated to take the oxerr xo
Snidge Hill and grub stumps out &Z
the clearin' on New Year's day," salt!
Ethan.
"The next day will do just as wel?
for the stumps," said Mrs. Crane, en
couragingly. "You might as well be
i mt of tht world as out of the fash
ion." Deacon Perkins received one ST
Miss Hanna's cards and so did Squire
Hart. In fact, there wasn't a widower
or old bachelor or eligible swain in alT
Fairview who was omitted from Imsx
iit.
"I ain't as young as I was," SKfcE
Miss Ilanna to liorsolf. "It's hlgfe,
time I took stops tu LMuMish myselfi."
Miss Angela Hai:t.:t I.ad jut psse
her live-and-fortioth birthday ; she we
-tout and ruddy, with the vory Ite&t
-et of teeth that the Fairview dentist
ould supply, and a iwrpetcal sw&e
riveted on her lip. She was -nsy
It is time to be drawing up plans
and specificat'ons for tl- annual res-lution-makin.
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