Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-11-15
LOVE FINDS A WAY.
ReW D Lazy GOssiper Was CireuR.
vented by q willy Lover.

Alpheus Chubbuck was rather theo
retic than practical. His wife was very
different Che took pride in her little
vii. 3. home and It's trim yard. She
cared for the flower garden, but it was
the duty of Alpheus to hoe the veget'
ables and NOW the lawn. He did this
under protest and had to be asked
many times before the work would be
satisfactorily done. In year from the
time of his marriage he had the dis.
inction Of being known as the LATEST
man in town.
1t is said that satan finds some mis-
chief still for idle hands to do. Who
ever furnished it. mischief was Ger.
tainly done by Alpheus Chubbuck-
not by his hands, to be exact but BY
his lively imagination and his active
tongue. "
By gentle riiicule, sly insinuation
and the repeating Of things people
said he soon had the whole town I'm.
settled. OLD family feuds revived, new
ones started, while half the people
would not speak to the other half.
One day-it was April Mrs. AL.
pheus heard strange sound in the
yard. She went to tine window and
saw Gathering, rickety, dingy hen
cart drawn by a raw-boned sorrel
horse. On the seat of the cart sat her
husband and another mana shabby,
slouching. dsreputablo looking man.
Both jumped to the ground when the
cart came to stop in the middle Of
the side yard and with apparent haste
embarrassed the horse.
Then Alpheus took out his pocket
book and gave the man some money
the man swung himself on the horses
back and with his legs dangling against
thin sides, ambled out of the yard and
down the street.
swell, of all things!" said Mrs Al
pheus, and she went out to make IN
auiries.
I'm going into the hen business"
said Alpheus. Sand just think, Loizy.
I bought the cart for 49,"
"And got cheated, too" she said.
"But then it's your own money" she
added.
Eyes, I've got dollar LETT to fix 4
up with"
"A dollar!' she said contemporary.
"How far will that go? It won't set
the tires, to say nothing of painting
II and fixing the broken DOORS
"Oh, WE'LL" said Alpheus easily, II
shall have some more money next
month, and I'll do all can on 1t my.
self" !
For more than two months AlpheuA
, was missed from his old haunts, and
the relations Of the villagers became
lsu strained. One .air OF lovers at.
tor another became reconciled and u
Number OF family feuds were as II
they never had been.
All this time Alpheus was at work
; on his hen cart, and people began to
drop in and look at it.
'I've got it just about in condition
to paint" he would say proudly. ITS
taken me good while to get it ready,
but l believe that if anything is worth
doing it's worth doing well, and my
wife will tell you that it was pretty
hard looking old trap when l got 1t.
You see, it's fixed up pretty nice now.
OF course, 1t won't show how much
have done on it till after it is painted.
I had the tires set and that broken
shaft mended and new spokes and a
part of the rim in that hind wheel.
I've scraped and sandpapered 1t and
put new snaps on all the doors. Why,
they were fastened with clothespins
when l got 1t! And I've fixed little
railing around the top so can carry
things there IL ! want to, and I've got
hinges on the seat, and, you see, there
Is box under it where | can carry my
dinner, and I've put up that frame
for an awning so | won't get sum
struck"
"When are you going to start In
business?"
"Oh, don't know; time enough for
that when I get the cart finished"
In due time the cart was painted,
But now, instead Of going into the hen
business, Alpheus began to loaf about
the grocery store again and to resume
his old habits. When he got home at
noon, he would look proudly at his
hen cart, and he always smoked his
after-dinner pipe and read his evening
paper in the shade of his striped avn
Ing.
Arthur Wade was walking home from
his ladylovUs house one evening in
July. He was one of the lovers whs
had been estranged by Alpheus the
previous spring. Tonight he was
gloomy and morose. Alice had showed
q marked GOODNESS that evening, and he
remembered how their former troW
BILE began-just that way.
"Hes up 70 his old tricks again"
Arthur muttered as he came opposite
the Chubbuck cottage. He frowned
darkly at it and the hen cart that
showed plainly in the mon light.
He walked on to the next corner,
where he stopped suddenly. He turned
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