Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-23

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"DO the trdmpS In this part of the cOuntry
carry letters of Introduction like thCSGH"
Frau Kropff quivered with excite
ment, joy and the triumph of great
speculative coup, for which she took all
credit to herself. Her mind did not
really entertain a realizing sense of a sum
of money beyond about fifty dollars-an
amount for which sue had d standard Of
approximation in the ordinary value of
q COW. She talked of thousands as she
heard others talked, but comprehended
them no more than metaphysicians
grasp the conceptions of unbounded
space and limitless time, about which
they prate so glibly. Even the tangible
pile of forty five dollar notes dazed her
with a sense of vastness that seemed to
include ample provision for Jacobs
happy future. Farmer Kropff listened
to her in grim silence until about dusk,
when, feeling that she made him tired,
he strolled out to the gate and stood
there meditating.
Reuben Chase, bright eyed, quick
witted fifteen-year-old lad, son of neigh
bor, came trudging along the lane
whistling merrily and swinging small
string of trout.
"You vas not having good luck nit
the feeshes today, Reuben" remarked
the farmer, good naturedly accosting the
boy.
"No! Well, maybe not; but it was
the best days fishing I ever did in my
life, Mr.. Kropff," replied Reuben laugh
ingly.
"How vas that?"
"Why, got five dollars from couple
of city swells for the first string Icaught
about twice as many as I've got hereW
"Zo?"
"They were the chaps that stopped
here. 1 saw them come in for dinner
and drive away afterward."
"Chimini graciousl They give you
five dollars for them feeshes unit then
give them feeshes to me! That vas most
eggstraordinaryl 1 s'pose they think 1
laugh at them ven they don't got some
feeshes."
"They didn't seem to care much about
fishing when saw them"
"No! The tall one was tired, 1 guess.
He is sickly."
"Whati the lean one? Why, he was
doing more work than the other"
"Doing more work.! Vat do you mean?"
"Why, they were both down in the
bed of the creek, shoveling up sand into
iron pans, and then filling them with
water and shaking them around and
flirting the water out again in funny
way. watched them good while"
"Donnerwetterp
In vain the worthy old man puzzled
himself to find an explanation Of the
strange things told him by the boy. Nc
hypothesis could he discover compatible
with belief in the sanity of the New
Yorkers, and if they were crazy would
he have any moral right to retain those
two hundred dollarsp Certainly not. In
his perplexity he had the weakness tc
take his wife into consultation, a steI
that he bitterly regretted before thS
night was over.
About midnight she bored among hi;
ribs with one of her sharp elbows until
to his thorough disgust, he was full!
awakened, and then, in tone Of tri
umphant confidence, addressed him:
"Heinrich! | see it all now"
"Then, my dear, wish you would gon
template it in admiring silence, vateve
it is, unit let me shleep," he protested.
81 have been thinking, Heinrich"
81 am very sorry to hear it. Away
mischief comes ven you do that"
"Vill you be still unit listen to me2"
81 would not if gould hellup it,"
"Heinrich, l am sorry for you that 20
! been so DUNN"
!. "Surely you are not half 80 sorry fc
: me that am DUNN as / am sorry ths
you are not dumb"
:. Zach! va. You want to shleep thei
s like fat pig vile We all go by the boo
9 house, but you shall not. You must Ii
ten to me-"
q 81 am ACCUSTOMED TO that. Veil, {
q ahead. Get it off your mind, unit the
o maybe you will go to shleep again"
II know vat for them fellers vas di
U GIN the greek"
o "Zo!n
"They vas lookin' for mineral vate
like the springs in Germany"
u "Zop
"They know a kind Of sand vat th,
d look for, unit ven they find it they d
Ie down unit got the vater."
. "Zo!'
d "That they do buy the farm sho,
they have fnded that sand"
g "Zov
d cunt the first thing you Will kno
le they will build big hotel here, unit p
'' some doctors TO tell the people that I
:, waters cures everythings, unit sell Tn
IL water in bottles, unit make more mon
I" as you never saw; unit you are fool
you sell that farm for ten thousand d
= lars"
u "ZoIp
eyes, that is 20; unit you must ma
II them pay ten times 30 much"
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