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PAGE SIX THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS "J J . "-ir' B ',2, d f A a It "V r3 un weir. O I Copyright. All Rigfib Reserved BEULAH AND JIM. Synopsis. Dissatisfied brrauM of the seemingly barren outlook of his position a school teacher In Canadian town. John liarrls deter mine to leave It. take up land In Manitoba and. become a "home leader." Mary, the girl whom ha loves, declares ahe will accompany him. They are married and aet out for the unknown country. Alec McCrae, pioneer settler and ad viser of newcomers, proves an In valuable rrl"nd. Leaving- his wife with the family of a fellow settler, Fred Arthurs. Harris and UcCrae Journey over the prairie and select a homestead. Mary Insists on ac companying him when ha takes possession, and they begin their life work of making the prairie fer tile farm land. Returning from selling his first crop, Harris finds his wife despondent almost to In sanity from loteltness, and with the Immediate expectation of be coming a mother. A son Is born to them, to whom they give the name of Allan. CHAPTER IV. In the Spell of the Mirage. A qunrter of a century Is a short time as world history goes, but It Is a considerable era In the life of the Canadian west. lore things momen tous thin than can be hinted at In this narrative occurred In the 23 years following the great Inrush of 1SS2. The r boundless prairie reaches of Manitoba were now comparatively well settled and the tide of Immigration, which after a dozen years stagnation, had set In again In greater flood than ever, was now sweeping over the newer lands still farther west The vast sweep of Jhe horizon, once undeflled by any work of man, was pierced and broken with elevators. Tillages, and farm buildings, and the whiff of coal smoke was blown down the air which had so lately known only the breath of the prairies. Mar Harris hurried about her ca paclous kitchen, deep In preparation of the evening meal. The years had taken toll of the freshness of her young beauty; the shoulders. In mute testimony to much hard labor of the hand, had drooped forward over the deepening chest ; the hair was thin ner, and farther back above the fore head, and streaked with gray at the temples; the mouth lacked the rosy sensuousness of youth, and sat now In a mold, half of resolution, half sub mission. Yet her foot had lost little of Its sprightllness, and the sympathy In her fine eyes seemed to have deep ened with the years. A moist but appetizing steam rose from the vegetable pots on the range, and when she threw back the Iron door to feed more coal the hot glow from within danced In reflection along the bright row of utensils banging from the wall, and even sought out the brass plate on the cream separa tor at the fur end of the big room. Through the screen door came the mo notonously redundant cllc a clank of the windmill, and a keen ear might have caught the light splash of water as It fell In the wood en horse troughs from the Iron nozzle of the pump. Mary stuck a fork In a potato to as certain If the "bone" was all gone, meanwhile shielding her face from the steam with the pot lid, held aloft In an aproned hand. Having satisfied herself that the meal was making sat isfactory progress, she stepped to the door and sent a quick look across the fields, to where a streak of black smoke was scrawled along the sky. "Deiilah." she called, turning to ward the Interior part of the house. "Come, Beulah, set the table. They're coming from the field." In a moment a girl of twenty, plain ly attired In a neat calico dress, en tered the kitchen. She was fresh and beautiful as her mother had been that first summer In the sod house on the bench, and something In her appear ance suggested that with her mother's beauty and fine sensibility she had In herited the Indomitable spirit which had made John Harris one of the most prosperous farmers In the district She moved In an easy, unconscious grace of self-rellanco a reliance that must be Just a little Irritating to men of old-fashioned notions concerning wom an's dependence on the sterner sex drew the long wooden table, with Its covering of white oil cloth, Into the center of the kitchen, and began plac ing the dishes In position. The scraping of heavy boots on .the plow share nulled to the block at the door, end John Harris, followed by Allan and the hired man, Jim, wulked into the kitchen. The farmer's frame was heavier thun In bla younger duyi, Auifier of Tht GdV ItncherTEtc luurt ration Irwin fyti and his hair, too, was streaked with gin y, but every muscle In his great body seemed to bulge with strength. His fnce was brown with the prairie nun and wind of 23 summers, and lines of worry and care had rut their tracings about the mouth and eyes. Beside him stood Allan, his only son, strelghter and llther of figure, but al' most equally powerful. The younger man was. Indeed, a replica of the old er, and although they had their dis agreements, constant association had developed a fine comradeship, and, on the part of the son. a loyalty equal to any strain. The hired man, Jim. was lighter and finer of feature, and his white teeth gleamed against the nut brown of his face In a quiet smile that refused to be displaced In any emergency, and at times left the be holder In considerable doubt as to the real emotions working behind. The men all wore blue overalls, dark blue or gray shirts, and heavy boots. They were guiltless of coat or vest, and tossed their light straw hats on the water bench as they passed. There was a quick splashing of greasy bands at the wash basin, followed by a more effectual rubbing on a towel made from a worn-out grain ack. Th hired man paused to change the water and wash his face, but the others pro ceeded at once to the table, where no time was lost In ceremony, liarrls helped himself generously, to meat and vegetables and having done so, passed the platters to his son, and In this way they were circulated about the table. There was no talk for the first few minutes, only the sound of knife and fork plied vigorously and Interchangeably by father and son, and with some regard for convention by the other members of the family. John Harris had Inrig ago recognized the truth that the destiny of food was the mouth, and whether conveyed on knife or fork made little difference. Mary, too, had found a carelessness of little details both of monner and speech coming over her, as her occasional "ain't" betrayed, but since Jim had Joined their table she had been on her guard. Jim seldom said anything, but always that quiet smile lay like a mask over his real emotions. When the first Insistent demands of appetite had been appeased, Harris, resting both elbows on the table, with knife and fork trained on opiosite corners of the celling, straightened himself somewhat and remarked: Allan an' nie's goln to town to night ; anything you wunt from Semp ter's store, Mary?" "That lets me In for the cow." said Beuluh. "You were In town night be fore last, too, and It was 9:30 before I got through milking." Oh, well, Jim was away that night," said Allan. Jim has enough to do, without milk ing cows after hours," returned the girl. "What do you want to go to town for again tonight anyway?" Got to get more coal," said Harris. "We'll take two teams, en' It'll be late when we get back." "I think It's all nonsense, this day- an'-nlght work." persisted Beulah. "Is there never going to be any let-up on It?" Beulah, you forget yourself," said her father. "If you'd more to do you'd have less time to fret about It Your mother did more work in one summer than you have in all your life, an' she's doln' more yet." i Oh, Beulah's a good help" Inter posed Mary. "I hope she never has to work like I did." I guess the work never hurt us," said liarrls, helping himself to pre served strawberries. "Just the su0 I'm glad to see you gettln' It a bit easier. But this younger generation- It beats me what we're comln" to. Thlnkln' about nothln' but fun and gaddln to town every night or two. And clo'es Beulah there's got more does than there were In the whole I'lainvIIIe settlement the first two or three years." "I got more neighbors, too," Inter jected the girl. Then springing up, she stood behind her father's chair and put her arm around his neck. Don't be cross, Dad." she whis pered. "Your heart's In the right place but a long way In." He dlsenguged her, gently enough. As Beuluh said, his heart was all right, but o long way In. Twenty-five years of pitched battle with circumstances sometimes in victory, sometimes In de feu t, but never In despair; always with a load of expense about him, al ways with the problem of Income and outlay to be solved had made of Har ris a man very different from the young Idealist of '82. During pie first years of struggle for a bare existence In some way the flume of idealism still burned, but with the dawn of the "bet- now might mean Inning; sight or n ter times" there came a gradual shift- goal, and John Harris held nothing Ins of standards and a hew conception heaven or earth so great as lis ntliiti of essentials. The crops of the early ment. years were unprofitable on account of So. gently enough, he disengaged hi INFORMATION DEPARTMENT KimiMHiil Information furnished free the great distance to market; later, daughter's arm, and flnlsheil his sup of chirps, catalogues supplied and torn when the railway came to their tloora, per In silence. As soon as It wav mtvriti 'any firm Ve'iowl te wowl the crops were still unprofitable, owing ended the men starlet! for the barn, - ul. " to falling prices and diminishing yields and In a few minutes two wagons rat- ACCORDIAN PLBATINQ due to poor cultivation. Then came a tied noisily down tho trail. Knife and os pleatlngTi''1"'". decade during which those who stayed Beulah helped wllh the supper dish- mV'Wwm"! In the country stayed because they Ca, and then come out with the milk AtJKictn.Tt'iui. impi.icmkmii "" " could not gel out, and It been me a cur- nails to the corral where the rows, n anil tw.ixi hand Farm machinery end Iw rent saying that the more land a man puffing and chewing, complacently ATA MIA goods farmed the dcewr he got In debt leather Legglna, Traveling Hags, Trunks, Portland, leather Co , .IS Washington, awaited her arrival. But she hud not YliAtt flnmA t. a t.tit tf iIia tw.M.tit- I ....... ,1... I.Im.I man I rtlan1 Iather Co., ' - ' - I .......... . ...v ....... - - - - - kA IU lk,Aftlil ....... H - , . I K M lum. No one know Just what started was at her side and had slipped one Hide Holier wke. least Water Mala It prosperitywanis. some sold it was of the palls from her arm. that the farmers, disheartened with wheat growing, were applying them selves to stock, and certain It Is that In "mixed farming" the community RAZING, WELDING A CUTTING "Now, Jim. I don't think that's fair rirt.Vf nS&MilM . ,, , ... , .,., - CLEANERS, TAILORS AND DV1SI at all." she snld; ami there was a Hpe.-ial attention given to mail order tremor In her voice thnt vexed her. ItkuAL TAiiAmHjJsTjsrthjsiithjsj "Here you're slaving all day with con I "Here I've slaved end saved until I'm an eld woman." eventually found Its salvation; others lend water, and I think that's enough. attributed the change to improved ng- without milking cows at night, rlcultural Implements, to Improved ,u, Jlm ony smiled and stirred i metnotis or running, to greater unowi- cow mt0 position. edge or prairie conditions, to redue. -rH.re was a tuneful song of the tin tions in the cost of transportation and ..n. - t.e white streams rattled on i Ht.i . . . i eninrKPU mcnnics tor niarKcnng. or to thilr bottoms. increasing world tlimitthl and higher world prices for the product of the farm. But whatever the causes and no doubt all of the above contributed the fact gradually dawned upon the settlers that land their land was worth money, It was the farmers from the Unled States, scouting for cheaper lands than were available In their own communi ties, who first drove the conviction home. They came with money In their wallets; they were actually prepared to exchange renl money for land Such a thing had never before been heard of In Hulnvllle district But a few transactions took place; lands were sold at five dollars, six dot lars. eight dollars an acre. The farm ers began to realize that land repre sented wealth that It was an asset UU tie, kUAUAUCUJ SONGS THAT ARE IMMORTAL Greatest Minds of All the Ages Be stowed Their Labors on the Poems of Homer. Tho Illlnil end Odyssey were prob ably "sung by Homer about a century and a hulf ofler the destruction of the town of Troy following the ten years of war that wus waged In the route of Meiielaus, king of Lacede- ui on, whoso consort hud been carried not a llabllllv and there was a rush w 1 " 'f ' Trojuti moil for the cheap railway lands that had Brt"- T,1 ,wo I'""'" ol(l so long gone a-begging. Harris was l'uvul pwiim. tingiimiiy tno iuii would apiK-ar not to iiuve been a sin gle connected xcm. but to have at mined at u luter period Its prcscui complete state. About one hundred years after Horn er, Lycurgus, the lawgiver of Lace demon, brought these poems Inti Greece, and two centuries and a ball later IMsUtrntus Is stipHwd to have given them their erfect form. Hl son Illpparcus Introduced the custom of reciting rhapsodies at the Tana thenala. or festival of tho tutelar god ties. A more complete edition of the Homeric poems, from which the mod cm ones are taken, was prepored fot Alexander the Great 'by Aristotle which the former used to keep undet his pillow In a golden case. Al Aratua, the astronomer, Arlsiarchus ot Samoa, and Aristophanes, librarian at Alcxendrln, bestowed their labor or these Immortal songs. Because of th fine moral scntlmept. Homer becanu the pattern of Tbucydldes. the favor Ite author of the greatest and noblest men, and one of the best teachers til the wlxdom of human life. Ivtroli News. mm "Don't Be (Jross, Dad," She Whispered. among the first to sense the chnnge In the times, and a beautiful section of railway land that luy next to his homestead he bought at four dollars an acre. The first crop more thun paid for the land, and Harris sudden ly found himself on the way to riches. The Joy that came with the realiza tion that fortune had knocked at his door and he hud heard was the con trolling emotion of his heart for a year or more. But gradually, like a fcg blown across a moonlit night, came a sense of chill and disappointment. If only he had bought two sections! If at least he had proved up on his pre emption, which he might have fyad for nothing I He saw neighbors about him adding quarter to quarter. None of them had done better than himself, but some hud done as well. And In some way the old sense of oneness, the old community Interest which had held the little band of pioneers to gether amid their privations and their poverty, began to weaken and dis solve, and In Its place came an Indi vidualism and a materialism that Boy and a Sermon. The way of a boy with a sermon l thus: Composes himself with a deep sigh . listens attentively for three minutes In unlmiK'achublo form. t. nutlouti reaches hymn book from ruck ; drop It; recovers It; reads hymns for fivi minutes. hxplorcg trousers pocket and examines with deep Interest oik .magnet, two nails, three pencil stub and several bits of unclassified jQnk Drops something and hunts under seal until discovered. Sighs heavily; In spects all the stained glass windows and the overhead architecture and dec orations, ruts mile of left foot agitlusi back of pew In front, at. level of knee and Is highly surprised when fool drops noisily. Repeats same exercise with right foot with the same result Sits still and gratefully sucks pepper mint offered by merciful aunt. High heavily. Experiments to Bee what will happen If he presses on his Adam't apple while head Is extended forward strange choking sound ensues, Imme dlately suppressed by domestic auttor Itles. Life. Moths Take Big Chances. Tho high-flying species of morpli which Inhabit the mountnlnous dls trlcts of western Amerlcn, are much measured progress only In dollars and easier captured than those which fre cents. Harris did not know that his fluent tno ;iain. tnougn tneir capture gods had fallen, that his ideuls had Is often attended with difficulty an been swept away; even as he sat at danger, says the American Forest r supper this summer evening, with his Magazine of Washington, tmo natural daughter's arm about his neck, he felt 1st hunting moths and butterflies li that he was still bravely, persistently. Bogota, fell over a precipice and brok pressing on toward the goul, all un- his arm, and then found that he had aware that years ago he had left that three duys' Journey to make on hor goal like a lighthouse on a rocky back before he could meet with a do shore, and was now sweeping along tor to set It Another naturalist, wh with the turbulent tide of Mammon- was collecting In Bolivia found lhi Ism. He still saw the light ahead, but morpho godurtll. Guer., a beautiful H It was now a phantom of the imaglna- cles, of a rather light blue which wh tlon. He sold, "When I am worth ten previously almost unknown to entomo thousand I will have reached it ;" oglsts, frequented an Inaccessible ledir when he was worth ten thousand he in the mountains; he wus obliged found the faithless light had moved have himself lowered by ropes over th on to twenty-five thousand. He said, precipice before lie could obtain If. 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