Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-23
GOLD IN NEW JERSEY.
By ]. h. tONNELLY.


By chimini! We got to eat out of troughs
ven she don't got married pooty kvick."
But he wronged Lieschen that time.
1t was her mother who dropped the plate.
When Messrs. Cute and Sharp were
seated at the table, with Lieschen wait
ing upon them, and dinner enough for a |
dozen men set out before them, Herr |
Kropff settled himself to resume his in
terrupted siesta, and was already drowsy
when his reluctant attention was COM
PEELED by suppressed but still sharp
voice calling, "Henrich! Heinrich!"
Away out in the orchard stood Mrs.
Kropf, making vigorous signs with her
arms. summoning him. Unwillingly
and slowly he arose from his chair.
"Au afferage of dozen garter snakes
every summer for twenty-five years." he
grumbled, "unt yet she will not by her.
self either kill one or let it alone. She
must gall me to smash its head. The
three hundred unit first has no doubt ap-
peared to her."
But when he reached her h, found
that harmless but offending garter
snake was not the vital question.
"Um gottes willen!' she fairly painted
in her combined eagerness and anxiety
to repress her voice. "Vy you did not
yoomp on a proposition like lot? Ten
thousand dollars!"
81 vas not thinking that 1 would sell
my farm"
mo! You would sit there like an old
fool ven man offer you more as two
times so much as the place been WORTH"
"How you know vat it is vorth?"
at cannot be so much worth. Helm
rich, it vas no astonishment by me ven
you die NIT the boorhouse, you got for
business so lettle head. Don't you ever
think vat will BECOME of our boor poy,
Jacob, ven We are gone?'
"Yes; think he will go in jail"
each, himmel! How you, his waiter,
gan abuse dot boor poy. You got no
lofe vor dot poy-you yoost look on him
like he vas your sohn by anodther waiter
unit mutter."
"Herr Gott! Woman, how you make
that outf"
"Vell, like he vas adoptioned."
81 did not think you, any more than
me, would like that We should go way
from this old place. Anna, vevere young
yet ven We came here together. Lieschen
unit Jacob have been born here. Unit
the leedle one that has slept SO many
years under the elm tree-all she knew
of earth vas here. Habit makes the old
place dear to me, unit love unit death
make it sacred. I feel as if my gate to
another world vas right here"
"Narrigkeitl Ven We got to die We die
yoost SO veil one place as some other
places. You talk sentimentalisch like
you vas yet in Deutschland. You forget
here in America everybody he got to
speculate unit be sharp if he want that he
shall get along"
"Then you will that I shall sell the
farmf"
81 gif you no peace of your life ven
you don't"
"You viii not anyway"
ave can buy another place yoost so
goot for five thousand, unit put five thou.
sand in the bank for Jacob"
Jacob! Zol Unit Lieschen? Eh?"
"Ven she marry George Stirling she
got enough for her."
sis dot 20? Veil now, look a-here
/ You gan make your old jaw greak zo
much ais you like, but I got something
to say about that myselluf."
"Vell, will you sell the farm, you old
fool2"
II will see. Maybe Lieschen got more
chance that way ven been gone."
Turning his back upon her, needless oi
her continued clack, he slowly returned
Z to the porch. He heard her cry aftel
him that she had more to say. Of cours,
, she had, she always had. But he hat
heard enough. Too we'll he understood
: that the Angel of Peace had her gripsacl
, packed, metaphoricarly speaking, ant
q was only waiting to hear his final refusa
I to sell the farm as her signal for instan
o fight. Itwas quite true, as he admitted
. to himself, that his opposition was purel.
sentimental, that the sum offered wa
more than the value of the farm; still
the thought of selling made his hear
! sore.
!. When the visitors came out from din
u ner Mr.. Sharp stood for several minute
in silence gazing upon the pleasing pros
y pect of orchard, meadow, fields and fol
n est outspread before him. Then b
J. sighed and murmured abstractedly:
J. Eyes, l like the place. think l coul
. get well here. l would willingly Civ
q ten thousand dollars"
IS Before any phrase Of acceptance coul
I be forced up to Farmer Kropff's reluC
i tant lips Mr.. Sharp stepped from tn
porch and strolled into the orchard
o where he drew down an apple tire
J. bough and buried his nose in its clui
l. tered wealth Of fragrant blossoms.
v "See hereI' exclaimed Mr.. Cute hu
i riedly, as il taking advantage Of the m
mentary opportunity afforded, "Tve g
just the idea to satisfy both you and hir
He is, like all chronic invalids, whimi
~ cal, changeful, doesn't know his ov
AZ mind week ahead, or perhaps da
10 Just now he thinks he wants to buy I'll
place. Tomorrow he is not likely
GO want it at any price. You don't want
N sell, as understood you to say, but y
o. q can make something by humoring
lv whim and still keep your farm. Let hi
20 % have an option on the place for thir
~ ~ days, and by the end of that time he W
~ have changed his mind; you will be
" much ahead, and no harm will have be
done to any one."
II do not comprehend. Vat is tn
=, option? How shall be aheadr'