The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-11-29

! right away
There's money enough from the milk OF
| hand.' said Maria.
| Il know it. but l want to keep that for the
| doctor. No. I've thought of better way than
that. We're going to have tremendous crop
| OF nay TINS summer and we shall want every
men OF barn room we've got. Pm going to sci
the old hay. There will be enough to pay the
interest on the mortgage. aud leave all we wan
tor the horses | shall 60 into town tomorrow
to see about it,
Before Saturday night the old hay had beer
transferred to the barn of Willard Brothers
the livery men in the village. and the interest
had been paid and properly endorsed on the
note.
Hetty sat looking over strawberries one
bright June evening. She had snatched an
hour or two from the kitchen that day and run
across the fields to a favorite nook, where the
earliest Strawberries ripened, to gather some.
Maria sat watching her retectvely. Suddenly
she spoke:
''Iietty.I believe | could sell some berries
for you. ii You could get time to pick them.'
Il can get the time, if you can sell the ber-
ries. responded Hetty.
The next morning Maria carried dainty
basket of ripe red fruit. nesting among dewy
green leaves. She sold them readily. and took
an order for more. This was the beginning of
little business, which the sisters claimed as
their very own. always dividing with their
mother. which, small AS it was. gave them
before. Raspberrie> followed strawberries !:
later came blachherries. Sometimes there were
few freshiy-laid eggs, or pair of plump
chickens for broiling. Again few fresh vege-
tables could be spared from the garden. or Il
basket of early apples. Everything was the
best of its kind eNquistelv fresh and clean.
daIntlIy packed in pretty baskets. Maria said
she could have sold as much again. if she had
only had it,
In the middle of the summer Mr.. Fuller
seemed better. but in August he grew worse
again fever returned. this time with typhoid
symptoms. DIR. Gerri>h out of town,
having left his patients in charge Of his nephew
young man who. like all Young people. dared
to do things which older ones would never pre-
sumo to attempt. The young doctor looked his
patien, over with grave face. prepared some
powders. and then. instead of going out at the
door and driving away. as he ought, went di
recty to the kitchen.
'rhcre's something wrong about your
drains" said he: ''here> pronounced case
Of typhoid
1hNrZa. " ho had Just entered the room from
the opposite door. confronted him. >unbonnet
in hand. The word typhoid struck terror to
her heart. but for the moment. fun predOmi-
mated.
Il don't how that can be- She said de-
murely. when we haven't Il drain on the
place
Great Scott calculated the Young man.
Nv here do You throw your dirty water:'
Come. and ! will show you.' answered
Thyrza: and in another moment the two stood
side hy e upon the back porch.
The broad green meadows lay before them,
alternating in shade and sunshine, and beyond
them were the cool. dark forests. Near at
hand. under grand old elm. stood the we'll
curb, and stones throw to the right was il
foul. muddy. Shiny hole. sending out, even in
the clear noonday air. foul. >ickenng odors.
Who that has looked out at the back-loors of
old tarn-house>. has not seen its counterpart:
'.oh. this is horrible:" said the vouny doctor
''Mi>s Fuller this will kill YOU all. Don't you
see now all that poison filters through the
ground TO the well: The water must be
thoroughly impr"@naed with it. You must
attend to this at once.
what shall tor asked Thyrza.
Now. drainage was the Young doctors hobby.
and ne plunged forthwith into plans and meas
uremtnls. lie went with Thyrza to see some
lumber. stored in an clubhouse. which he pro-
nounced Just the thing. and before he went
away The course Of the drain was marked out,
and The digging already begun.
II declare. said IIetty. two days later.
when for the first time in her life, she poured
Il pan of water into the kitchen sink, lust
think Of the hog>headS of water we have car
ricti acro>> the back kitchen and the length of
the porch. wonder our backs are not broken.
And see how easily this drain has been made.
and hcw little it has cost. Il is shame to lei
women work 50 hard.
MI. Fuller pulled up very slowly from his
second attack of fever. November had begun
before be was able to sit up. He had come
through his irriability. and was now thorough
ly de>pondent He dared not think what con-
dition the farm must he ln True. his wife
assured him it was all right. but then she was
only woman. and could not know. He
thought of the doctors bill of the interest and
the taxes. and he grohned in real distress.
How he repented buying that meadow. lie
resolved to sell il again is soon as he got about,
and to keep out OF debt in future. Anxiety
about his money matters preyed upon his
spirits and retarded hi. recovery.
Father, the doctor says YOU may come out
to dinner with Us Thanksgiving Day" said bis
wife chcerily. a few days before that festival.
so mother he groaned, ''don't waste no
money maxim nk>gvin' this year. don't
see now where the moneys to come from to
buy in that land
'Oh, We must make little Thanksgivin',
father. We are ali 50 thankful to have YOU up
again." answered his wife. secretly much sur
pri>ed AT this concession. the first be had ever
made that she had been the wisest. ''And the
moneys all right. father. Just wait till Thyrza
can tell you about it; she knows
go Lord. how can She know groaned the
Old man. ''shc'> nothing but gal"
But he felt too weak and discouraged to re-
m6n>trate further, alri THANKSGIVING prepara-
tiOns Went on apace, while he fretted and
mourned in his room. and even shed a few
tears when there was no one to see him.
Thanksgiving morning his wife dressed him
in his best suit which hung loosely on his ena-
cated figure. and leaning on Abrams strong
arm. he crept painfully across the hall to the
"kee ping-rocm." The bright morning sun
shone in at the eastern windows, lighting up
the room, which seemed strangely unfamiliar
The furniture was the same. but the lounge
and his favorite roc>ng-char had fresh chintZ
covers: a pretty new paper covered the walls,
f,4IN irtt nt, ..pI If,f
house plants stood before one of the windows
"NoW sit right down before the fire. father"
said his wife. land Thlrza will come in anu
talk to YOU.
Left alone he looked about the room won-
deringly. 1t was prettier than before. he
grudsin=ly admitted. but it must have cost a
power OF money. Women couldn't he trusted.
lie said to himself. Oh why couldn't he have
had boy: Then the door opened and Thyrza
came in. radiant i'll new blue merino, and
win pretty color on her checks, and soft
light in her dark gray eyes.
Don't yoH think it,. nice in here. father:'
she said. I'VE liked the room up in honor of
your coming out to-day
Ats nice enough he answered, ..but,
Thyrza. it must nave cost IL great deal of
money!.
If, all paid for, father"
But you ougher saved the money. There's
the doctors bill'--
ITS paid, father
And interest. and the mems wagcs'-
"All paid"
Partly paid and the rest provided for"
YOU'RE foolin' me. T1yrza"
NO, father, am telling you the truth"
Gwen, swan
Then Thyrza told him the story of the sum
mer.
1T is all down in these books. You can
oo, them over when you feel like it. We took,
in all. for milk. about six hundred dollars; but