The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-10-15

member what Anson had told her about
he note. and the acknowledgment Of
payment and all his other papers had
strangely disappeared She had lain
awake nights trying in vain to catch up
the floating threads Of memory. and Il
was in her dazed, hopeless state that
she had signed Q release to her claim on
ths old farm. Then the anguish all
came back Of the time when she hrst
knew that her little home in Little6eld
was mOrtgaged up to its full value and
must be sold on q foreclosure sale, and
! she and her two children would be
| turned into the street. She had humbled
herself and gone on her knees 10 Joel
but he had refused 10 help her.
he had called Anson improvident and
careless about his Affairs, and said be
had no ready money TO throw after that
which his brother had already squan-
dered He had had dealings with An.
son and had not come out unscathed In
his transactions with his brother, 90 he
said, as he looked on his sister-in-lAw'S
distress with cold, unsympathetic eye
She was the kind Of Q woman be hated,
and partly, too. he feared her, for the
sharpness Of her sarcasm could always
put 70 fight bis wits and make him play
q sorry part. So be buttoned bis long
pockets and determined. a. he profanely
said, to let Providence take its course.
II his sister-in-law came to eat grass,
after the manner Of Q wicked king Of
old. would 1t not be . just punishment
for her pride and stubborn Independence
Of character, her putting away Of good
counsel and refusal to look mp to those
better and wiser than herself
But poor Hannah was not brought
down to eat the grass Of the field a. .
special warning to an obdurate and stif
necked generation. II happened in that
terribly cold week after her husbands
funeral. when she sat dumb and stricken
with her children gathered close under
her wing by the scant Gre In her kitchen
stove. that help had come, heaven sent,
As Hannah ever after believed. for she,
too. was religious, butin q different way
from Joel Anson's friend and employer,
Hiram Rand. In whose mill be had been
foreman for many years, had paid OF
the mortgage on her house and had
brought 1t to her a. q free gift In his
simple nillu Iasnion' a. u u were an
everyday occurrence ana worthy OF no
special tnAhks mt. hano was quiet
man; never known 70 ~ eLclV"i ABOUT
he was very fond and possessed q pre-
cious store.
Dut ne mao nus own unPretentious ways
Of nnulhg OUT tne neeas o. otners ana
o. oolng gooe' ana aIter Fearings SUD
cen destn ne nad inquired careiuliy into
Ine "luows clrculnStances, and tne 70
sult OF the inquiry was tnat No nAd,
wtno9t saying q word 70 any one, gone
aha paiu on tue Lnortsase On tne w'oo"s
httie nome anu PraGticaiiy mAde ner 2
present oi tS'OO" Wnen nannAn tIlod
IN VAN W eAPress ner tnAnks ana heE
conception Oh tne magnitude OF tue pres
ent sne nlsu reTe'Sa, ne oesgeo neE not
70 eAciVe netseh nj Nanu nHseu 70 %
sno SluSe " eASltelueu1 ~ AnJ TVuy IN
Letter volume He intimated that IN his
indgnent Anson had earned tba mm
over and above the saIary he had received
In his servioa and he waa onIv having 4
inst debt Then he tool nm his hat and
went ont, closing the door softly behind
him. He was a man Of few words ex.
cent on his own particular hobbies, ana
on them he would talk endlessly.
Now Hannah the moment NJ Rand
lsft the bonsa- dronned On her kDae.
on the k;tchen aoor and With ~
tears streamin0 from her ewes inferred
snch n nraver of nraise and tbanksgivin0
h C3od her chiIdren conId never foroet
n n their diving dav From that mo-
ment everything was CHANGED The
name of Hiram Rand became a sacred
nama in tbat bnmhIa TttIa boma Sha
tanybt bsr ehjldren To reverence and
ioof nm n n as h a 9niding star Her
homa secure Hannah dTank AZ onca
from deen wells N stren0th and insnira.
Hon Sbe SaIt eopaI h s,rannons isbor
10 rear ana edncate her chiIdrsn The
ombition "A nohie r,othsr. -,,r,,sd An No.
~ 10 ,ha,o ~ iostr,,ct;oD 80 hsd