The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-02-23
INDUCEMENTS TO LAND BUYERS,
BY FRENETTA E. HAWLEY,

"Now, be sure that you distribute
every one of these at the fair, Bertha, F."
said MIR. Belmayne, the land agent,
coming into the room where his wife
and daughter sat at work, and deposit
ing on the table towering pile of blue
covered pamphlets, entitled, "Induce-
ments to land buyers"
''Trust me for that, father" respond
ed Roberta, little brunette beauty, all
life and sparkle and energy, from the
topmost ring Of her curly hair to the tip
of her little, scarlet-sllppered feet.
"I'll do my best to bring two or three
capitalists out here, she added, after a
moments busy stitching, "but the
golden eloquence of my pumpkins and
corn will plead 60 West, young man.
more forcibly than / can do"
II doubt that, BERTHE, for you have a
persuasive little tongue of your own 1t
was all through your influence that Mr..
Wheeler located here. / had talked up
Kansas to him until midnight, but for
all that l could see that he had decided
to invest III California orange groves;
then you talked to him for ten minutes
at dinner the next day, and Kansas came
down with rush, and California kicked
the beam. And the beauty of it is that
you believe everything you say SO eu-
tlrely. All, if your name was only
Robert instead of Roberta what land
agent you would MAKER
And Mr.. Belmayne sighed as he re-
tiected that the light of every quality
needful to produce phenomenal land
agent was hidden under feminine
bushel.
"Be sure that you don't forget Lucia
st. Johns pansies," admonished Mrs.
Belmayne, shipping her thread after
sewing the last button on Roberta S
travelling ulster,
THAT reminds me that | had better
go to Lucia's right away, so that she'll
have time to transplant the pansies be
fore supper" said Roberta, rising and
shaking the threads from her apron.
4 want some of your pansies, lucia
the best and biggest, and all you can
spare" was Roberta's modest announce
ment a few minutes later, as she changed
the gate leading into daintily- kept
flower garden, where young lady was
busily at work, stalking up tube roses.
Miss st. John smiled, and went,
scissors III hand, to an octagonal bed,
filled to overlooking with pansies whose
royalty colored velvet blossoms stirred
in the buoyant breeze, like a troop OF
gold and purple butterflies, a-1utter for
flight.
''Does the Coffee Club meet to night q
she inquired; ''you are welcome to all OF
these beauties that you want, BERTHE,
dear. But wouldn't those red blossoms
suit your dark curls better?" indicating
some verbenas, whose vivid scarlet fired
the grass, and Ibid the rash gazer wipe
his eye."
"Os," said Roberta, l don't want
them for my hair! You don't under.
stand. But why should you when ]
haven't told you'll Well, yon know that
| am to exhibit collection of Kansas
products at the county fair when 90 to
New York to visit Uncle John, in order
TO futher emigration?'
II should think knew it." laughed
Lucia. "Why. haven't you and youl
father and l interviewed farmers and
searched the county for Brobdignagiar
apples, mammoth potatoes and gigantic
farm products in general? And don't
know the height of the tallest cornstocE
to an inch, ard the weight Of the bigges
pumpkin to an ounce?"
"Mother suggested to day that
should take few pots of your panslel
IN order to make my display more at
traetive, if you please, ma'am!" sale
Roberta, laughing, as she recalled The
peremptory manner In which she haG
introduced her request, and bobbing al
exaggerated courtesy.
How fond you are of pansiesp' she
remarked, noting Lucia's tender touch
as she transplanted the flowers.
"9es, answered Lucia, mist O
hopeless yearning filling her eyes; "ant
they are doubly dear to me be
cause | had friend who loved them.
a. Her dark dilating eyes expressed
The boundless prairies of the West
Her speech dropped prairie flowers; the gold
OF harvest wheat about her rolled
Immediately quoted George Derwent, al
he turned the pages of blue covered
pamphlet, entitled Inducements t,
Land Buyers" and glanced, with al
amused smile, at the cuts which adorned
Its pages and illustrated its text.
These cuts represented a pros porous
farmer IN variety of delightful situa
rens-eyelng with calm pride his fa
cattle; rapturously contemplating his
- "hSea, SltiIuB Oh LIS WIG
wreathed porch and viewing an indefi
nltely extended prospect of maizs
through the smoke of his evening cigar
and SO on through the whole gamut o.
agricultural bliss.
The place was the exposition hall of 6
country fair; the speaker a handsome,
blonde young fellow, whose face, voice,
augh and hand-grasp won your liking
once and held it forever.
"Whose speech drops prairie flowers:
Or are you merely reviewing your Whit
her?" inquired chestnut haired, ath
letlc man, coming up TO Derwent with a
prize baby balanced on his shout
der. "No," he added, as George ex-
tended the pamphlet, that's the same
thing that all the farmers are glueing
their eyes to-
You have answered your last ques-
ton yourself, and my answer to your
trst is, Miss Roberta Belmayne.' She
is niece of Colonel Belmayne, and is
exhibiting some Kansas products here.
I'm sadly afraid that that silver-tongued
siren will induce all our farmers to en-
igrate, Derwent continued laughinely.