The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

for his gray haired, somewhat wrinkled old
wife, should the Improvement company's
plans succeed, than any happy youth ever
devised for his bride, and he know Exactly
how they would affect the good woalGn--a
privilege which is frequently denied the new
ly made husband
And yet his mind and coua;aIiance were a.
serene and undisturbed as if he were merely
looking forward To the peaceable hundrum
of farmers winter. The appearance of
fields and forests past which the train hur-
ried han did not depress him as they did his
son; a shabby farm house merely made him
thank heaven that his own was more slightly
and. comfortable; a bit Of pine barren or
scrub oak reminded him, TO his great salts
faction, that his own woodland could be trust
ed to pay some profit, to say nothing of taxes
and interest. Even swaInpy lowlands caused
his heart to warm with pride that his strong
arm and stronger will had transformed SINH
lar boys into ground more fertile than some
to which nature had been kinder
Nor did he lose his serenity when the ma
tives came down on him like a famished
horde of locustS and demanded news of what
was going on in the city. lie cheerfully told
them nearly everything he knew and parried
NlliOul lOStliss
per- He pointed with pride to his subsoil
plow and his wife's new bread pan, and told
how the lenses in his new spectacles had been
made to equali2e the strength of his eyes, in
stead of being both alike, as in the glasses of
the village stores. He had heard all the great
preachers, had good square talk with the
commission merchant to whom most Hayn-
ton farm products went, seen everything
that the newspapers advertised as wonder
fully cheap, bought some seed oats larger
than any ever seen in Haynton, got a Sun
day hat which was neither too large nor too
small, too young nor too old, and added to
the family collection of pictures q photo
graph of the Washington monument and an
engraving of the Death of President Gar
field"
| Hayrton and its environs simply quivered
with excitement over all the news and per-
sonal property which the farmer brought
back; but 1t experienced deeper thrills when
the old man told his neighbors that he knew
of plan by which they might get rid of
their ridge land for an amount of money the
mere interest of which would bring them
more profit than the crops coaxed from that
thin soil The plan would benefit them still
more should the buyers project succeed, for
q lot of cottagers would make brisk cash
market for the vegetables which Haynton
ground produced SO easily, and which Hayn
ton farmers moaned over because they could
not at present sell the surplus at any price,
much less at the figures which their agricul-
tural newspapers told them were to be oh
tanned in large cities.
Would they take ten dollars per acre fo-
their ridge land the money TO be forfeited
unless tie remainder of two hundred per-
acre were paid within yearl Would theyi
| Wen, they consented with such alacrity that
/ the farmer soon had TO write to New York
for more currency Before Thanksgiving
day the HayEton Bay Improvement com
pany controlled Il full mile OF shore front,
and there was more money in circulation in
| the village thau could be remembered except
/ By the Oldest luilahit2nt, who was reminded
| OF the good cid times when in lSl3 Il pri
vateer, built and manned in Hayuton's htt!e
| bay, had carried a rich prize into New NorE
and come home 10 spend the proceeds.
Small mortgages were paid of, ding
houses appeared iii new suits OF paint, several
| 70. Ie.'s il Israel bought new Sunday dresses
| Two Or -. - .SrA!ers gave tleir Oh horses
;.,.d soa- icJllcy fer better ones, tie a.s-s of
1me ruurcL cirpeted and another Church
obtained the bell that for years had been
longed for, a veteran pastor had fifty dollars
added to his salary of four hundred year, and
got the money, too; several families began to
buy parlor organs on the installment plan; one
| farmer INDUCED in the previously unheard of
extravaganza of taking his family, consisting
of his wife and himself, to New York to spend
the winter, and another dedicated his newly
|
to the reprehcnsible work of drinking himself
to death
AN it's all on account of a GAL" Farmer
Hayn would remark to his wife whenever he
heard OF any new movement that could be
traced to the ease of the local money market
''If our Phil hadn't got that Tramlay gal on
the brain last summer, he wouldn't have gone
| to New York to visit; then l wouldn't have
gone to look for him, and the Improvement
company wouldn't have been got up, an
Phil wouldn't have Matched the brilliant idee
of buyin'-what did he call 'eml-oh, yes, OPP
| tions-buyin' options on the rest of the ridge,
an there would have been no refreshin'
| shower Of greenbacks fallin' like the rain
from heaven on the just an unjust alike. 1t
reminds me of the muss that folks got into
in the old country over that woman Helen,
whose last name never could find out. You
remember it--'twas in the book that young
minister we had or trial an didn't exactly
| like left ut our house. It's just another such
case, only good deal more proper, this not
| bein' heather land All on account Of a
gall"
IF it is" Mrs. Hayn replied on one occa-
! sion, as she took her hands from the dough
she was kneading, IAN it certainl y.looks as
| if it was, don't you think it might be only
| fair to allude to her more reSpectfula / don't
like 10 hear young woman that our Pills
likely to marry spoke of as just that Tram
lay gal"
"Spose. then, / mention her as your daugh-
ter-in-law. But amt it odd that all the
changes that's come to pass in the last month
or two wouldn't have happened at all if it
hadn't been for Pills bein' smitten by that
gal? AS the Scripture says, Behold how
great matter little fire kindleth.' For
fire read spark or sparkin an the text
"Reubenl" exclaimed Mrs Hayn, don't
take liberties with the Word"
1T amt no liberty" said the old man.
Like enough it'll read spark in the Revised
| Edition"
Then wait till it does, or until you're one
of the revisers,n said the wife
"All right; mebbe it would be as well, ." the
husband admitted. Meanwhile, | don't
mind turnin' it off an comparin' it with an
other text: The wind bloweth where it list
eth, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh
or whittier it goeth.' The startin up of
Haynton an Of Phil's attachment is a good
deal like"-
81 don't know that that's exactly reverent,
either" said Mrs. Hayn, 'considerin what