The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-11-23
UNCLE JOBS TURKEY
"Forevermo1el' walls Mrs. Tom.

how PROVOKING CIIcs hIs' DiOh'
but then he's reported rich, " as
serts Mrs Harry, land if that is the
case it's assuredly one of those cases
that circumstances alter wonderfully J"
Il cktbelieve he's rich man, for
one, >" a6frms Mrs Tom, looking rueful-
ly at the letter in her hand. "Why,
when wrote 20 Uncle Job-ot all the
names | do detost, Job comes first
when l wrote and ever so delicately
limited that I'd swallow my preju
dices'-
"a terrible indigestibe mass you'd
find 'em, Belp'
land name Plantageuet Job if 1t
would be to the boys interest later in
life, what do you think he said?"
Don't ask me. What did he say"
His answer was terse enough and
brief enough to be easily remembered
He wrote: Dear niece, pray do not sad
die upon your son name Inever should
have chosen for myself had | had the
smallest choice in the matter. If You
must call him for some Biblical person
age, | should suggest Malhalaleel as
cognonen euphoniOus enough to har-
monize we'll with our family name, and
believe me, Niece Isabel, he will have
Just as much of my good will when |
eie, if that is your desire, as if he had
been named after your affectionate I'M
Gle, Job Altick.
"Of course he's as poor as poverty,
then, Bel. Poor people are always the
witty ones, with sharp answers ever
ready at tongues or pens points. One
of us Tor shall we take turns?) will be
sure to have old Uncle Job foisted upon
us, and if it wasn't for those heavy
mortgages Harry has to clear off in the
spring he would not mind, l know, one
extra mouth to feed. :"
land if had an extra bedroom to
sparer' says Mrs. Dick.
"And if | had an extra couple OF
servants!" whines Mrs. Tom. ITO be
sure, if. could be certain that he was q
wealthy man, it would make vast diff
ference, and for the children's sake'-
"What sordid sister-in-law l have,
to be sure I" laughs Mrs. Harry. Speak
ing of the children, Bel, how is Plant S
love affair coming on"'
''Tt isn't on at all, Ruth it's Off
and forever, 1 hope
"Bel Altick, what do you mean?'
II mean that he shall never marry
that good for nothing Nam
MARK my words, he will marry her,
and neither you nor Tom nor your pro.
posed heiress can keep him from it..
Mans worth dozen Gwendolines -
"Then Tom will disinherit him, and,
though he's my own son, l shall not
blame his father. -
"You hard hearted, mercenary wom-
an - cries Mrs. Harry, moving toward
the door. "How you can deliberately
go to work to break the heart of so good
a son as Plant Altick confess cannot
comprehend. Good morning, Belt
you think It's good-seems to me if
were you I'd be obliged to taste the bit
ter of too many selfish reflections to en-
Joy it much And the hall door closes
with bang between the sisters-in-law
Days, weeks and months pass by, and
there is no outward showing Of the pre-
sumptive wealth of Professor Altick
Save penny now and then TO the
smaller fry If the Altick family, he has
never shown to them the color Of his
money, and as he lives simply and in
dulges sparingly in life's luxuries he IL
at length accounted an eccentric indi
yidual of small means and left religious
ly alone.
Alone and uncared for-that is, if w,
except the little friendly trimmings in
of Plantagenet, his granddaughter, whC
has taken TO the gentle old man from
the first, and who is never weary o.
hearing of the professor late trip Il
the petrified tree tract of Arizona Of
looking at the rare specimens so careful
" collected, for Uncle Job is learned
geologist and has written several re
markable treatises on the subject, hi
Sermons In Stones having beer
adopted as textbook in many colleges
And from stones Plantagenet easil,
leads the conversation TO scarcely les
adamantine subjects-the hearts Of hi
unyielding parents-for, cold, calculat
ing and worldly, they have softened no
one whit under the warmth of Plan
tagepet's young love, and 1t is Uncl
Job who unconsciously encourages hin
in his grim determination TO brave tn
ire of his parents and marry his swee
Nan in the teeth of all opposition
And so they are quietly married.
Plantagenet Altick and Nanette Gray
and go to housekeeping in pretty lit
tic cottage in a pretty suburb, som
miles from the splendid city home O
his father.
Uncle Job, who has begun a ney
work on geology, shuts himself up i
his third story back room and allows tn
world without TO wag as it will.
And it soon begins to wag In yer