The Yukon Sun. (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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-Good night!" lie said with averted ! Pt was nlplif. But ho Jed her from
face ' her own house to his. \nd that night
"I didn't mean that, pappy—X didn't she slept in Belly's bed.
mean that you Killed him. He's noi One of Sally's duties was the nightly
dead. Pappy, Kiss me—good night! reading of the Farm Journal. And
And forgive me." just now this pa pi r, edited by a gen-
But this also made her dearer to tlcman w ho km w nothing about farm
him. And so, little by little, they ing—and by him edited v.'11—was full
drew closer and closer, until a certain i of the great meeting of the National
happiness was his and a certain con-; Farmers' League of the I'nlted States
tent hers. Occasionally they laughed, of America, which was in .-osslon at
But this was not often. They were Omaha.
A ROMANCE
OF A
PENNSYLVANIA
FARM
By
JOHN LUTHER LONG
Illustrations by Don Wilson
(Copyright, 1V06, by jiobiw Mt-rrill C'o.J
SYNOPSIS.
3
The crowning: desire in tlio life of ol l
Baumgartner Is to <>btuiii possession of a
beautiful in< ndow. The property was in-
herited by Sarah Preaael, very pretty and
athletic youn^ girl. Baumgurttu-r came to
realise tlmt his onh hope of obtaining
the property would be through the mar-
riage of iiis Hon ScplK-nljHh to Sarah
Pressol. In a mock auction "Seffy." as
Sephenijah 1'. Baumgartner. Jr.. is popu-
larly known, is i*hftl#-«I off by his father
to Sarah for $1. Sarah Pressel is quite the
opposite of SefTy. Baumgartner gives
Seffy Rome lessons in courtship. Baum-
gartner lias mused himself to be ap-
polnted guardian of Sally. She promises
Seffv that she will never kiss any man
but him. Sam Fritz, a drunken grocery
rlerk, <alls on Sally ami Interrupts the
kissing. Seffy goes to sleep and begins
snoring. Sally leaves tin- room in a huff,
va.ving: "Good night, gentlemen." Seffy
tells 1.Ir father of his humiliation: of how
Ham Fritz had pinned to his bosom while
lie slept ;i pasteboard tombstone. Seffy
and Sally meet at the Poison spring. She
urges him to do something to redeem
himself. The father advises Seffv to take
Sally home from cliureh. This would be
the crucial test, according to the custom
of the times. It was the rule in sm h a
test that the one whose arm tlie girl ac-
cepted when leaving the church would be
the favored suitor. Then Sam takes
Sally's arm. She says: "I am satisfied."
and Seffy is left in disgrace. Sam con-
tinues his drinking and Sally begins to
acquire tlie habit. Baumgartner curses son
and strikes him powerful blow with tist,
full in tiie face. Then the repentant fa-
ther gathers the youth in his arms. His
tries attract Sally and Sam Fritz. Sally
rushes up to Seffy's room and linds him
unconscious. In the morning Seffy has
disappeared. It is a sad and lonesome
winter for old Baumgartner. 11- thinks
his son is dead, somewhere from the ef-
fects of the c ruel blow. When old Baum-
gartner goes to Sally's home to sur-
render t<> her his papers as her guardian
he ilntls her haggard and worn with sor-
row. She agrees to quit drinking if he
will take the paper* back and continue as
her guardian.
XIII.
One Blew for That to Seffy.
He took the papers home asain. and
was very gentle with her afterward,
for the things which the world blamed
in her. His was the only real kindness
she knew. Her little canting world
had no pity for her. But to her drunk-
en husband, in spite of all. she was a
loyal wife, and the old man liked her
the better for it.
So it came to pass that they two,
the bent old man and the girlish wife
of the drunkard, separated more and
more from the world and came more
and more together. And often they
were seen in the fields together and
walking along the roads arm in arm.
With Sally's little fortune at com-
mand, Sam had gone rapidly to the
had. And Sally came to know what
tears were, and that dreadful kind of
waiting which falls to the lot of such
women—the waiting for the fall of a
footstep which makes one shudder
yet. rejoice.
They told her to get rid of him, but
sho shook her head and thought of the
inscription in her wedding ring.
After a while it was the gentle old
man who helped to make these vigils
less intolerable—going away stealthily
by the back door when Sam's unsteady
step was heard at the front—an angel
of light if ever there was one in
plowman's jacket.
It fell grimly to his lot, too, to pro-
vide for Sam by diminishing the little
farm he had longed and hoped for,
acre by acre. There was no conten-
tion between them as to this. The
young wife's wishes were his law.
"He married me for that," said Sally,
the first time, "and I let him marry me
for that—just for spite. Only no one was
spited but me—but me—well, he shall
have it—all—all"'—her voice broke a
little—"all but the—pasture-field—that
—no one shall have but—you—or Seffy
when 1 die."
Only once he interfered. Ram
raised his hand to strike her and he
laid the drunkard at his feet with a
blow such as he had struck but once
before in his life.
"I am her guardeen!" he cried as he
struck. "13y the Lord, I'm her guar-
deen!"
For a moment he gloated over the
prostrate brute. Then he stood up
trembling before Sally.
"Forgif me." he begged. "But I
couldn't help it. It done itself. Mebby
—Ood-a'mlght.v only knows!—it was
a chance to efen up for the other one.
And ylt It was a righteous blow—yas,
It was a righteous blow!"
• Yes," she said. "You me the tlrst
that ever saw "
It was too late to stop. And before
it was done he knew, that this was not
a new experience to her. and that she
suffered It—and was almost glad of It
--for penance.
"By the Lord." cried ilie old man.
"If he efer Btrikes \ou ag in I'll kill
him!"
"No," said Sally softly.
"Va«!" he Insisted with some of
his old violence.
"No," she repeated sadly. "Because |
II is all my fault—all the shame—the
shame—because I—deserve It! And—
'Thou shalt not kill!' You know we
have tempers! And we have both
used them!"
He shuddered and thought of the
plowed lield with Seffy lying there.
well satisfied to sit before the winter
Are, she with an elbow on his knee, he
with his rugged hands in her hair.
And after a while she would ask him no
more to kiss her good night—he did
it as of right, and very beautifully,
I on her hair—so much like Seffy, that
I tlrst dear kiss—that It made her sob
—always.
"Just like Seffy!" she said the first
time and cried, pushing him out of the
door when he would have asked a
question.
But he asked his question one day.
It was whether she had loved Seffy.
"Not till Seffy comes!" she cried. "I
won't answer."
"Sally," he said solemnly, "I killed
my little boy. He is dead. I hurt him
—I made him afeared of me—he
"By far the mos: Intelligent and
interesting paper of the session, thus
far," Sally read one night, "was that
on 'The Proper Succession ol* Crops In
Maryland' by the youthful president
of the Kansas State league, Mr. "
Sally rose suddenly ami vanished to
the kitchen where there was a light.
"What was it?" asked the old man
when sho returned.
"I—I choked." said Sally quite
truthfully, "and went for a drink."
"Yas—don't read no more. We'll
find out about the succession to-mor-
row night. 'But what was Iho smart
feller's name?"
She pretended to look for it. and
when she pretended to ha*e found It:
"Mr.—S. P. Brown," she read.
"A Kansas man—about Maryland!
dragged himself away to die, like wild j
animals that air hurt by men. So you j Hut (hat nigl), aftp). S(.ffy's father
will have to tell me. waa jn v>eti, sally wrote a pitiful letter
—perhaps the first she had ever writ
: ten:
1 "Dear Seffy (it ran):
i "Please come home. Come as soon
as you get this. Your pappy wants
"No—no!" she begged. "He is not
dead. And some day he will come
back to us—you-——"
"Sally, you said 'us'?"
"Yes. Forgive me. I meant—you."
"Did you mean me?"
"Yes—oh, yes!"
"Cross your breast!"
She made this adjuration with a
smile.
But when he had gone, she groveled
on the floor and cried:
' "Us—us—us!"
you. He is old and sorry, so please
come right away.
"Sephenijah P. Baumgartner, Senior."
But the envelope was addressed to
"Mr. S. P. Baumgartner, Jr.,
"President Kas. State League.
"Kansas."
The post-mistress smiled Indulgently
as Sally handed in the letter the next
day.
"A long way off." she said.
"Yes," said Sally, fidgeting with her
bonnet. "How soon do you think it
will get there?"
The post-mistress reflected.
"About a week," she said then.
"So long?"
But, as a matter of fact, she had
ALCOHOL 3 PKR CKNT.
AVegelable Preparation Far As
stmilatiiw the Fbotlaml ifcgttla
(ing lite Stomachs andlkwlscf
I >oi y. vii iTa nTffTHIS
Promotes Dit*eslion.CIvfrfi
ness awl Rest.Contains neither
Opium.Morphine norMioal.
Not Narcotic.
Jh&e/MIkSiMUlimmX
flaupkia SttJm .
JU-Ststna e 1
JkdktteUti- I
AwtSftd + I
?
hirrrrSn/- I
Qanfkd Sugar • 1
hiti'ayrwn Fhnv. '
Aprrfrri Remedy forConsllpa
I ion, Sour Stomach.01 arrtwfa
Worms .CoHVulsionsJevcrish
ness anil Loss of Sle£P.
Tac Simile Sifjnoture gT
NEW'YORK.
Juarantreil undrr tin I"0™'"
XIV.
For Soffy's Sake.
And so three—nearly four—years
passed and Sam was dead.
"Pappy," she said afterward, "you ]
have been very good to me!"
"And you to me—it's efen—say j
nosslng more."
"You have kept ine from going j
crazy, I think. ( tjlougilt it -would take longer. Kansas
"You haf kep my ol heart from! .... _
breaking, I expect. Yas, 1 know, now,
j was a vague place in
those days, anil
a vast distance away.
"Well," said the post-mistress com- j
fortingly, "mebby not quite so long.
But better not count on its getting
there sooner. I ll Rive it a pood start. I
I'll put it in the mail bag now."
"Thank you," said Sally.
(TO BE CONTINUE!.).)
ZXID 'irs /2TT
that there is such a sing as proke
hearts," he averred.
"Pappy, I "
"What?" asked he.
"I don't know what I'm going to do
now. I got to work for my living, I
expect. There is not enough left
for "
MODERN WORK WILL NOT LAbT.
Newspapers and Books Printed To
Day Have Short^Lives.
"The men who wrote history on
tablets of stone in ages gone had a
difficult task to perform, and bad to
cultivate the habit of brevity," says
a writer in a German paper, "but
what they wrote was preserved. It will
be different with the newspapers and
books of the present time. The paper
upon which thev are printed will dis
integrate in a few years, and the j
records, historical, scientific and liter-
ary, will become dust. 1 saw two
papers last week which told the |
whole story. One contained an ac-
count of the death of Napoleon Bona- ;
parte. It was printed in 1821, was in
a state of perfect preservation, and
looked as though it might last, with j
ordinary care, a hundred years. The '
other paper was kept because its j
"You'll nefer work for you' keep j leading article described the surren-
while l'fe got a dollar," said the old 1 Qer of Sedan, which had taken place
man. "I owe you that much for— a day before. Although it had been
for " ; printed nearly «r 0 years later, the
She liked that. She was sitting on Sedan paper had to be handled care-
a low stool at his feet, her elbow on fully to prevent its tearing in the
his knee—her favorite attitude. She j creases. One of these papers was
crowded a little closer. i printed on old-fashioned paper, and
"Pappv," she said presently, "let me the other on the modern kind. With
come and keep your house." the two specimens before me 1 can-
"Do you mean that'.'" asked the old . not refrain from urging onee more
that a few numbers of all books and
man joyously.
"Yes!" she said.
"But why? That's hard work for a
gal that's not used to it."
"Oh, maybe 1 want to be where Sef-
fy was. For—some day—some day—
he'll come back and 1—want to be
there—to ask his pardon."
They were silent for a while and
then the old man said huskily:
"You shall. Y'ou shall sleep in Softy's
bed. Y'ou shall look in his little
cracked looking-glass. You shall set
in his place at the table. Y'ou shall be
my Seffy! And we'll wait for him to-
gether and we'll hose ast his pardon
—when he comes—when he comes."
"May I ride his mare—and plow
with her?"
"You—you—you?" he questioned in
his ecstasy. "Ken you'—say—do you
sink you ken?"
"Y'es," she said very softly. "If you
will let me, I will be all and every-
thing Seffy was to you. 1 took him
from you. Let me do my best to re-
place him. it is for that—that, only,
that I have cared. We shall rent this
house and that will help—for I know
you have been getting poor, too—and
—and—If you will take It—I—I—want
to give you—the pasture-field—for—
oh, for Seffy's sake. Will you take
It?" For he had demurred. "For Sef-
fy's sake—just as you would take It
j from him—and as he would give it to
you—if ho were all—here? I want to
be both son and daughter to you. Let
me be Seffy and myself too! It Is
much—but let me try."
But he had caught that little slip
of the tongue, and was dumb.
newspapers, enough for all first-class
libraries, be printed on good paper
for the benefit of those who will live
after us."
Invention as a Business.
Commenting on a recent article
whose writer laments that more per-
sons do not take up inventing as a
regular business, the Electric Review
(London) says: "We doubt whether
Inventing in the highest sense can be
made a business to be learned by any-
body. Inventors are born, not made.
Our own country Is not lacking in the
divine inspiration, if we are to judge
by the number of patents applied for;
a different conclusion might be ar-
rived at if we were to judge by the
quality. America appears to be the
special breeding ground of the Inven-
tor. The peculiar mixture of all races
In that fortunate land appears to have
produced a kind of superman who
alone is capable of creating such dia-
bolical inventions as the cash regis-
ter and the automatic telephone ex-
change."
Oregon Apples Sold at $1 Each.
The recent sale of a number of
boxes of winter banana apples at
Hood river at $8 a box has brought
up the question of record prices for
apples. The horticultural annals of
the state show that In ]856 one box
of Spltzenberg apples grown 111 the
Willamette valley and shipped to San
Francisco netted the shipper Jt!0. In
the same year three boxes of wlnesaps
were sold in Portland for $102, or
a box. In 1S55, 6,000 boxes of apples
Tito Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which has been
ia use for over SO years, has boruo ')he signature of
> and has been ir.a«lo under his per-
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no ono to deceive you iu this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trille with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Cantoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is l'leasatit. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishncss. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
und Flatulency. It assimilates tlio Food, regulates tlio
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's l'unacca—Tlio Mother's Friend.
CENUENE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
grown in Oregon were sold at prices
They sat silent by the fire Tor a long wh|ch netted the shipper $20 to $30 a
time then. Presently the old man rose bushel. In 1854. 500 boxes were sold
and lifting her he said, with a smile at fr0m V'.0 to 90 a box. The first lot
of apples grown on grafted trees wera
sold In Portland by the grower,
Henderson Luelllng, at $1 an apple.—
Lou Angeles Time*.
such as she had never seen on Ills
face:
"Yas—for Seffy's sake—come!
Now!"
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
Melba in Paris.
Mme. Melba has seldom received
such a remarkable ovation as that
which greeted her appearance at the
recent opera gala performance iu
Paris. It cannot, however, compare
l.n delirious enthusiasm with one she
received some years ago In St. Peters-
burg. On one memorable tight, after
the close of the opera, she was called
before (he curtain again and again
for more than an hour, until she was
so exhausted that she could scarcely
stand. Her enthusiastic admirers I
(hen followed her carriage to the ho
tel. where they serenaded her, al
though It was a bitterly cold night,
until three o'clock in the morning. On
the following day when she reached
the station to depart the platform was i
crowded with hundreds of adoring
music lovers. As the train was leav-
ing they took the pencil with which i
she had written her autograph for
all who could get near her. bit it Into
small pieces and passed them around
as souvenirs.
Woman Wins Scholastic Honor.
Miss Stella Schalter delivered the
valedictory address for the graduating
class of Hie Eclectic Medical college of ,
the city of New York at the recent j
commencement exercises. It Is the
first time in more than ten years that
such an honor has fallen to a woman.
Miss Schaffi r was also the winner of
the electro-therapeutic prize.
Has to Be Cited.
"Possibly there is something on
Earth that is a surer and quicker cure
for cuts, burns, aches, pains and
bruises than Hunt's Lightning Oil. If
so, 1 would like to be cited. For
twenty years I have been unable to
find anything better myself."
H. H. WARD,
Hayvllle, La.
No Running About.
Mrs. Gadder (reading an ad.)—
Shopping by mail! How ridiculous!"
Mrs. Ascum—Why so?
Mrs. Gadder—Why, how can one
shop by mall? Y'ou can only buy things
by mail.
IliaiMMll Viti r« (l liv IT r\ mi- p uir i I.- "
Send f -r I KKK t' Ui ln*l huUleaixi trentlM-. I r.
It. li. Kline, lid., tt.l Arch Street. Philadelphia. I a.
The girl who can't cook should look
before leaping into the matrimonial
fying pan.
Syrup vffigs
^Eiixir'-^Sonna
acts gently yet prompt-
ly outlio bouels, cleanses
the system pjjectually,
assists ono in overcoming
habitual constipation
permanently. To $pt its
oenejicia! ejects buy
the Genuine.
^jlanujacturcd bytlto
CALIFORNIA
Fig Syrup Co.
SOLD BYLEADINO DRUCGISTS-50f p-BOTTII
BILLIARD TABLES
POOL TABLES
lowest prices easy payments.
You cannot aflord lo experiment with
untried goods sold by commission
agents. Catalogues free.
The Brunswick- Balke• Collender Company
637-639 D«la tre St..(*i I K ANt* 8 CITY, MO.
THE REASON WHY.
First Passenger—I wonder why the
train is making; such a long stop al
this station.
Second Passenger (experienced Irav
eler)—I suppose it is because no one
happens to be trying to catch the
train
It Knocks Malaria Out.
The old reliable Cheatham's Chill
Tonic cures quicker and more perma-
nently than any other remedy. One
bottle is guaranteed to cure any ono
case. You can't lose. Try it.
A two-faced woman is more danger-
ous than a bare-faced lie.
Mrs. \l nilow (i footlilnf Syrup.
For rhtidn-n tpHhlng, eoftent- ; h'iujh, t In-
r *u.it.hi iuii, a.my■ cure* wind colic, ^cahottle.
The right Kind of a doctor leaves
well enough alone.
SIOIC HEADACHE
Positively cured by
tbeso Llltle Pill
Tliry also relieve Div
r>yB])ept*la,ln
ligcht IoiiudUT
Eat in p. A perft
edy lor Dizziness. Nau-
Taste Inthe Mouth, Coal
! <t Ton#no
Hide. TORriD LIVER,
l'urtiy Vegetable.
They regulate the lio
SMALL PiLL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE,
Genuine Must Bear
Fac-Simi!e Signature
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
CARTERS
ITTLE
I vER
PILLS.
DAISY FLY HILLFR
t ti
muni .''heap,
ttll
A Iwol
Ml ill «>r tin «>v«r,
will not noli or ti>-
hillll.
I HT. r
I'd 'ff
DIWPSY
OUT 11. 11. OilKKNH rtuNN.'jtVM lV,' A'I'V.A'NT'A!'^
m\mt STARCH r iB ' *
linest 1 incus.
W. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 31, 1908.
STARCHS
Dainty, Crisp, Dressy
Summer
Skirts
nrc a delight to the refined woman every-
where. in order to get this result see
that the material is good, that it is cut ia
the latest fashion and use
Defiance
Starch
in the laundry. All three tlifng* are im-
portant, but the last is al>solutely neces
sary. No matter how line the materia!
or how daintily made, bad starch and
poor laundry work will Fpoil the eflect
and ruin* the clothes. DEFIANCE
STARCH is pure, will not rot the clothes
nor cau;;c them to crack. It sells at ioc
a sixteen ounce package everywhere.
Other starches, much inferior, sell at xoc
for twelve ounce package. Insist on
getting DEFIANCE STAKCH and be
sure of results.
Defiance Starch
. #5
Cmah8, Nebraska.
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