Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-01-03

but five years old, and since tint
tlile she had been the light and ioy
OF the Tine old farmhouse.
And I've taken such comfort in
thlnkin that your gran'pa an me
would live 80 nicely provided for and
VA a home OF your own when we were
gone. Dear me! dear me!'
IL don't matter about me, grand. |
ma" Dorothy said. II am sorry |
only on your account. can teach
or sew, or work in a store, or do |
something else, and we can be very
coy and comfortable in our two
snug little rooms, There will be
some money left for YOU after the
note and mortgage are paid"
IL was decided that there should be
a public sale, or yendue, Of the et-
iects not needed for the new home TO
which they were To 90. A "Yandoo"
was usually attended by everybody
IN the neighborhood. and the occa-
sion was semi.holiday So there
was general interest when the posters
appeared announcing that Mahala
j. Pickett, eXecutFix oil the estate of
Ira w. Pickett, would Oct. 10 offer
for sale such and such carefully de.
scribed articles
Mrs. Pickett had sorrowiul duty
IN indicating the things she consent
ed TO sell.
"They shan't have my mahog'ny
ehist Of drawers, nor my halr.eloth
soiy, nor my lowered carpet, nor
my two big roekin cheers that my
father and mother begun housekeep.
ing with and they shan't have oh,
dear. dear, there's nothing do want
'em 10 hnYe!"
Poor old LADY, She found that
even the simplest aud most ordinary
OF her bel ongings were dear TO her.
? There's that green cupboard with
} the glass door Dotty," she said. II
s'pose it'll have 20 80. We've got
the red one. and ! spose We shan't
want two. And there's that old oak
chist up in the attic, il might as well
T 60, and | reckon Rachel Day will
/, buy il ia. She wanted TO buy IL oil
I me once thirty years ago. can't
: bear 20 think Of her hayin' any oil
! my things, aud III warrant she'll
/ come aud bid in the very ones hate
a 20 part with most.
/. perhaps she won't come 10 I'll,
sale az all, grandma. said Dorothy
= "Yes, she will, " replied Mrs. Pickett
II positively. n know Rachel Day
O She'll be here 10 glory over my
:, trouble. ltll be twenty years Thu
fall since she aud spoke and sh'
never came 10 your grnndpn's funer
al. and know from that that vi
h shall never speak ag'in. Id on ide'
/. she'd como then. Such good friends
as We used 10 bel Girls together
and so intimate that We had oul
- dresses and bonnets Just alike. And
70 for twenty years we han't spoke
n though we've met hundreds OF times
!. Dear me- deer me!
Sweet Of face and gentle OF manne
"a Mrs. Pickett was. she was won
nm Of strong prejudices and grea
r. firmneEs. She never sought quar-
- nj. and never continued one long
10 forced into Il; she simply and for n
=. time dismissed her enemies from he
u. friendship and affections.
y. "Whcn am done with anybody,
"a nbo pnsd. Pm done with EN-"
u. Acting on this unkindly and III
=. rhristlau.lke principle, she ha
10 "dropped" a friend OF her girlhoo
il and early womanhood twenty year
before the death of her husband. !.
i. Her son had qnarreled with u
liz only son of her dearest friend, MT
n. Rachel Day. Tho mothers had III
IL wisely taken up the matter, and nc
Il. oven the common sorrow that can
IN upon them in the death OF their sol
lis m after years had served to brin
them together. Each had waited iC
4, tho other to speak, aud both hn
ne kept silence.
Iel Mrs. Day came to the yendue' q
IN Mrs. Pickett had predicted.
nc Mrs. Pickett sat in the bigroekinl
IN chair on tho little porch and watche
no AFRO proyress OF the sale through
RS mist OF tears -,
on Other friends came ana spou'
st words az cheer and sympathy, on
10 Rachel Day, prosperous and hapI
Ior tcnt nloft. Occasionally she glance
nu toward her Olu Hlchu - ="
no tho porch. u pathetic figure IN 2
On widows weeds, her gray head pow I,
at ma her handkerchief often mt y
oyoa lint ifMrs. Day felt sorry i
1T Mrs pickett she did not say so;
leo ..Going. going. going, geHtlem
and ladiesl -Four and n hall mas DC
on offered Tor this solid oak chest,
r.. Cood as Il was the day il was ma, mac
Tour and halt I'm offered: VINO
In. make il Ave- Five, five, hye-w ",
lar snvsitP Are YOU all done, ladies q,
nv Gentlemen? Third and lastcall' ana
nd soid Tor four and half to the la'
. Il with the brown silk dress ana ola
ON lace shawl' -, IN, An,
or The indy with the brown SILK !, are n
,re and HACK lace shawlwas Rachel "a
Mrs Mrs Pickett fancied she saw q gle :,
Mr.. If triumph in the eyes oil tho II
vi. owner of the chest. r ,
lnl. ' Mrs nay bought several OF