Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-16

being a kind, sympathetic man, sue
ceeded from the first in making him
self a popular physician. To-day he is
one of the most successful physicians in
the west, and has succeeded in laying
by enough of this worlds wealth to
place his wife and two children, bog
and girl, above any danger of want.
Dr. Bascom does little practice now,
but he still takes great interest in
Paul's work and often spends the even
ings with Paul's family. and he and
BaScom Markham, Paul's boy, are great
friends. Paul and Louise are always
glad to have the old doctor come, and
no matter how often he calls he is sure
of a smile of welcome from both of
them.
Scraggs, true to his resolve, soon
found purchaser for Green's land. and
with the proceeds, which was a neat
Magic City. John was anxious to
leave the farm, for though the seasons
became more regular and crop failures
almost unknown, he felt that he was
not designed for farm work, and
his past experience with it gave
him Il thorough distaste for it.
In his new occupation he sue
ceeded fairly we'll, and was in
time quite we'll to do. He regained his
old time life and energy, and Mary
became as bright as cheerful as girl.
Gradually the membranes Of those
old bitter days, when they commended
against drouths, pests and mortgages,
faded out, and they could look back on
the past without shudder.
1t was long time before they knew
of the great sacrifice Louise proposed
making for their sakes in those old,
dark days, and when finally the know
ledge came to them they could only
pPize her little more highly as pre-
cious jewel, the brightest and best pos
session of their lives.
Scraggs continued in his old occupation
of selling real estate and booming his
town, and much credit was due him for
the wonderful growth of Magic City in
the years that followed. The'person who
goes to Magic City now may sec a little
old man, wiry and nervous, sitting at
his desk in his Office surrounded by a
fine display of agricultural products,
busily at work on some scheme for adj
vancing his towns interests That
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and his work is always for his town.
To Scraggs, and men like him, the west
owes much Of its prosperity. 1t is such
as he who make booms and cause
towns and cities to spring up like
magic. They turn waste places into
gardens, and deserts into prosperous
communities.
1t transpired after Blatchfords death
that he was indeed broken up. All his
western securities were carried away
by Pearson, and into these he had, upon
Pearson's recommendations, turned
nearly all his wealth. His property in
the east was heavily mortgaged fol
money to send west, and when the
news of his death and his western
losses became known, his eastern cred
itors closed in, and everything, includ
ing his residence, was sold at trustees
sale.
Mrs. Blatchford was thus left penni
less, and suddenly she awoke to the re.
alization of the fact, and came up face
to face with the most abject poverty
Sarah is sadly disappointed woman
and full often she signs for her faller
grandeur. She often recalls the day.
when she was mistress of Blatchford's
house and when she with all her rcla
tives lived in great plenty and comfor
on Blatchford's bounty. She is, indeed
receiving the just rewards of he
actions, and is tasting the bitter draugh
she poured out to others. Rev. Wheed
Ter has long since forgotten Mrs
Blatchford. In fact he lost interest il
her when she lost her position in SO
ciety and became unable to contribut
to his salary. Mrs. Blatchford ha
never forgotten nor forgiven Aun
Mitchell, and it is probable that sh
never will. But that matters little t
Aunt Mitchell, and she goes her wa.
quite as we'll satisfied as though Mrs
Blatchford was her best friend.
And now, having disposed Of all tn
other characters, nothing remains bu
to account for Harry Pearson. Il
went to the mountains beyond Denver
and though Scraggs made every effo1
to apprehend him, he was nc
heard of for some months ate
his escapade. The report tina
came then was to the effect that he ha
drifted into the mining regions, an
after gambling away all his none
undertook to raise stake by robbing
mine. He was caught in the act an
after hearing before an ez
temporary pioneer court, was take
out and promptly hung to the neare'
tree.
And now our story is done. -Yeal
have elapsed since the events recorded
and the great state of Kansas has on
grown it's early disadvantages. TT
fertile soil of it's great plains produces
wonderful crops, and it's people al
among the first to respond with the
rich products to the calls Of other suffe
ing lands 1t has become one Of Il
first states of the union, and but for OF
thing it's people would be the mo
prosperous on earth. 1t has escape
the curse of pests and drouths; bu
alas, the farm mortgage still has
deadly fangs buried deep in its so
4. When this curse is abolished and Il
homes of the west become free Of Il
!. greedy Shylocks' grasp, then will t
land blossom as the rose and the strugt