The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-12-29
IN A JAR.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

tlcies and replaced them IN their tin ease
''or else my sight isn't ghat it used to be.
Well-a-day. one can I expect to be young
always Is it thee, Leah did not
look for thee - soon.
Leah Decker came into the room Ikea
breezy young whirlwind. She had none
Of the repose Of manner which was 81
much in vogue. Born and bred Qua
keress; there was nothing Of the Qulker-
ess about her, except her quaint Scripture
name.
Yes. it's me, said Leah shortly.
Did thee 20 to friend Anastasia's2 -
gently inquired the old man, reatjusting
( the big pine logs, 20 that they shouid burn
the brighter for Leah's benefit
Oh. yes, I went there
Il hope she Is better of her rheuma-
( tism ?
Yes. she Is better. But-but-she
viii not buy the apples, father. Mean,
stingy old thing cried Leah, wrlthful-
Z " hinging her coal scuttle bonnet on the
table. ~She says she can buy all she
wants at fifty cents barrel Of old Jacob
Joyce. - she can, perhais-wretched,
gndrly, wcfry knots, not fit for the pigs
/ Ours are apples. She SAYS thee asks an
exorhitant price
Friend Decker slowly shook his head.
Friend Anasts,sja Is under misap-
prehension,r said he Eighty cents a
barrel is what they are paying at the ei-
der mill. Only one does not ike to see
such beautiful, rare colored fruit ground
up into baleful spirits TO set mems brains
on fire"
Much she would sop to think about
that said Leah. stiIl rutiied.
4 am sorry" said Friend Decker. mild
ly. need the money very much and
think she would have been better sat
isiied with my apples than with Friend
Jacob Joyce's.
And after all that, flashed out Leah,
the spirit of indignation still rife within
her, ~she had the rpudence to ask me
( for jar Of that plum sauce made.
She says Friend Mary Moore told her
how nice it WIS, ID
And quietly interposed her father,
thee said, / hope, that thee would be
glad to oblige her ?7
No, / didn't" bluntly answered Leah.
d" said that | gathered the wild plums
myself in the Crook Woods, and cooked
them after Aunt Mahala's receipt and
1 that there were four jars, and that / want
ell to keep them for thee especially
since the health bad failed and thy ap-
petite was 50 variable
Il am sorry, dear, said Friend Decker
~ Friend Anastasia Is very old, and old
( people are apt to be fanciful about trities-
( Moreover. she's our kinswoman, a degree
or - removed, perhaps, but"
Then why don't She do something for
Us" flashed out Leah, besides giving u-
good advice and tormenting us with her
fault finding. ! didn't mean to mention
it, father hut she told me out and ont
. that she had adopted Moses sawyer, and
meant to make him her heir.
( Wen, daughter, why should she not ~
+ compose,ily questioned the old man.
Because heis no relation 70 her at all, -
cried Leah and the property all came
( from cur great grandfather Lennox. thee
knows.
Thee attache too mu.h Importance
/ to mere drlss. Leah. said Friend Decker
Thee must study the text Of the lilies OF
/ the field in the Bible We shall all be
provided for. If only We can have patience
10 wait
Leah bit her full. red under lip, as she
glanced around at the sparsely furnished
room and noiel her fathers dropping
( figure and rapidly whitening heai, bat
she made no reply, as she ,ok up the
( coarse pile Of vests on which she had
/ been making button holes for neighbor-
Z ing clothing contractor.
Fathers a saint, thought she, but /
am not. and Pm afraid never shall be.
( | should like to cuff Anastasia Akerly's
ears. If every one had their rights, halt
/ of that big Lennox farm would be ours,
She gain d possession Of it by the merest
( legal quibble and if father was Ike any
/ one else he would have gone to law about
it long ago, and got back his own. And
now to see It wilied delihcrateIyto some
ore else"
And Leeh's needle few vindietively
I in and out Of the cloth, Ike miniature
javelin piercing the heart of some unseen
enemy
And the next morning, when Leah had
gone Ia carry her bundle Of vests home
ami ~; another batch Of work. Friend
J Decker pat on his hat and buttoned the
great coat which was getting 50 worn al
the elbows and shiny at the seams.
1T IS bright, clear morning, albeit !
trifle frosty said he Il think / may
walk as far as the LenRox farm without
aggravating my cough
And under his arm he carried a neat
panel.
Old Anastasia A kerry was winding yarr
before the fire when he came in. She
greeted him, not without a shadow o.
suspicion
Had he come like spy int the enc
my's quarters?
: | hope thee Is wei Friend Anastasia,
said he. = have brought thee jar o.