The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-31

visiting You and some other prominent
stoclSmcn" said the assistant, ITO get
an article about your methods"
"All right; come ahead Wen kill
chicken and give you bite to eat"
The farmer went smiling downstairs,
and the editors assistant fixed her clear
eyes on her brother.
Il don't carcl' he said, sitting down
at his table and striking it with his
hand. "You can fix it up with the old
moss-baclis, flrst-rate, but this is n cor
ner of the earth cannot endure"
80 you thought you could tread on
his local pride and not get hurt in re-
turn?"
81 didn't see him when l first came
in. The mudl just look at the mud
sticking to my feet!"
He showed the black, waxy .oil. He
was sensitive-loolling delicate-faced
young fellow, fair, bluo-eyed, yet with
much reserve force apparent about
him.
"The wind rasps my very soulV'
"Did you gather any items?" in
quired the assistant calmly, having
drawn Il leaf forward and taken up her
pencil to make a local of Mr.. Bone
brakes visit.
YES, my dear, did. There's a man
just got off the north train to prospect
this place for the purpose of starting
another paper He has money l
talked with him. or he talked to me.
lie goes right to the point
"That's what made the mud and the
wind and the place so uncomfortable, I"
said India. We'll let him start it."
"And run us out in two months!
He won't run us out"
India rose and approached her
brother. Her face was lambent, as if
she were the spirit of fire.
"Pinlc Bradshaw, didn't we make up
our minds to locate here and take all
the consequences"
YES"
'Am not your Oldest sister2'
Yes"
Didn't educate myself and man
age to get you boys places and give
you something of a chance for your
selves?"
Eyes, my dear, you did
Did you ever know me to fail in
any thing undertook"
Never"
She rested one hand on his shoulder,
and tipped up his face to meet her
eyes.
II have pledged myself, my health,
my life, my brains, to tho success of
you two boys. Pink, I would lay my
right hand down to be cut off at the
wrist if that would secure success to
you. But instead of that, l can only
give the labor of that hand. Any
woman who honors her men-folks and
pushes their fortunes, honors and
glorifies herself. My darling boy, if
you and 10 don't make men that l can
be proud of, you will ruin my life and
drown it in shame
Tho young mans sensitive face
kindled from hers.
81 wasn't whining!" he exclaimed as
if spurred. But man can see i'm
possibilities where woman can't"
THANK heaven for a woman's vision,
! then. ! don't believe in impossibili-
ties. have done too many impossible
things while people stood by to tell me
couldn't, When l say pledge my
life and brains and might to the doing
of thing, that thing will be done"
u know" said Pink, with enthusi-
asm; you're the bravest girl in the
world"
Not at all. I'm great baby who
loves her brothers and is afraid of
snakes But if I MADE up 1oy mind,''
said India, stretching her listed arm
before her, "to take a rattler around
the neck and strangle it to death,
should do it if it covered me with bites
and killed me-"
81 believe you!" said Pink, with a
start as il he had been electrified.
where's my clip and pencilP I must
get to work. You're bowler, Lady
Macbeth"
You're a fine strung poet, Johnny
! Keats. Haul the barrel and table over
! this way. I want TO know everything
you put in that first page article"
They consulted together, India start
ing the theme. Pink produced decorat.
ed thoughts. She took out his ad
! jectives and reduced his sentences. Jc
called for copy. India took it to him,
| and distributed locals before the other
| printer.
Don't you want to dress up your ad
vertisements now while l set type foi
you?" she said to her younger brother
who at once washed his hands, rar
them through dark curly hair like his
sisters, and took his ruddy face away
TO pore sturdily over her desk.
When tho sun hung just above the
horizon, casting long shadows east
ward India went home, stopping a
one of the wooden groceries for pro
visions, The whole town was com
posed of yellow pine excrescences
from the 6rst gigantic hotel to the TIM
est land Office.
AS India approached her unfencet
house on path which cut across hum
mocks of wiry grass, she was looking
forward as the thrifty assistant WON
an always does, to that time when the
boys would run their firmly established
paper alone, and she could devote her
self to tho residence, lined with pic
tures, glittering with silver, full o
comforts, which would take the plac'
of this three-room nest The prairi
did not bound her ambitions.
But wherever one stands" re
marked India, opening the door, 9Th,
center of the earth is always exactly
beneath him, and the center of th
heavens exactly over his head"
"Well-nurturcd girls in various cit
les, said India 60 herself "are nov