The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-13
TIE MORTGAGE.

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ultd Everyone knew AQuila wilkins in
90 little village of Prescott. but not one
WI ten by that classic surname; to all
~ Tho wished coal carted OF rubbish
,no Gu lrted away, he was simply "Quilley'
n+bat 'ilkins, and that part OF the town.
nde1lip where he resided was called
IN, puilleyville" If anyone desired to
Aa5efne any part of the earth's surface
Vap Is being particularly unsavory or like
NJ lat future state to which the Calvin
90 tic creed consigns sinful humanity.
% ye' was customary to refer to Quiley
.SourGtlle Here dwelt several families of
Will eJilknses, of which Quiley was the
tefistinguished chief happy and sur.
20, risingly healthy in spite of their
i reat disregard of all sanitary prin.
teyWiples and familiarity with goats and
lo,. liigs.
m. When, one early spring morning.
OIL luilleys horse died with a proper
VIZ, eference to its own age. Quilleyvlle
Fin igas thrown into sackcloth ard ashes.
Do Though there had always been a
~ / lenty of the latter commodity lying
), N unsightly heaps in various parts of
n he province, The proprietor of the
ee ate horse buried him with honors.
hu y ok a chair from the kitchen and
col t;oing out into the spring sunshine,
da .eilted it against the side of the house
hi md began to white. There he stay.
I'd all day. never needing the call to
Subrl ainner. AS sometimes happens in
JAZZ Eases Of extreme poverty, Quilley had
Sh'Nnrom time to time during the past 20
sro years. made small deposits in the Am
an nonoosuc River savings bank Even
"4In his sorest straits he would never
on. ouch that money; II once it got into
the bank, it stayed there He was
ny H.hinling of that now 1t amounted to
dlhtdsomething near $500. His wife came
res lIout and gathered up the days whit
fe,I Filings in basket. Quilley rose and
=, e. Shook himself. We'll, ole woman"
ih'"llhe said, I've kinder concluded ter
'rebuy a farm, out yonder on Their maun-
,ohtin. Kinder guess you an Their young
PRIMAL that" ~ % nv Wv ~
bu His wife made no response; not be.
ms tecause she could not talk for she spent
M,fohours with the neighbors in animated
! IN. discourse, and knew all that went on
hls in the Trescott homes, from the low
I'll ..dest to the highest. But she looked
Di mupon her man" as did the Pagans
u, upon the responses of the oracles, as
,ibeyond the pale Of human gratitude
err or disapprobation.
Il; slel The next morning the sun peeped
- is over the summit of the mountain with
70 a rays of April brightness and promise
lnSs. and Quilleyville was up to meet its
ap(,l first glance. with it mingled sounds OF
Human and brute creation Quilley
dne lie strobe forth after breakfast, toward
brf !, the mountain. 1t was on the border
of p land of the White mountains and on
7 culinary of the lesser submits and noun
=. klc tain sides are perched to-day the DESC
ule on late remnants of former yeomanry
harder than that of to-day who had
fed and clothed themselves by crops
.'y wrested from among the granite
vii u boulders. There are few signs of hui
Isle n man life in these places now All
on ~ that remains are few tumbled-down
farm-houses. with their empty barns
|yc r. and out-buildings II Is the material
We substance of the abandoned farm"
|da1v, era.
de VI Bnf Quilley had set his heart ON
Nv one of these farms, and was going to
look over the old Wilcox place. I'M
|hetC inhabited for 20 years, and then cal
I'll on its owner. When he returned that
's1 night he was the owner of several
"a, acres of mountain side, a goodly part
:" of it being composed of lodges and
Foyl cliffs sloping toward the Connecticut
bo 1t river, and its fertile fields but stop
81 T. ping at the borderland of the really
ou ie valuable soil. When he went to the
hlt bank the next day he also visited the
|iy "a registry of deeds. He had spent $500
heYy on ms. ms farm WIN an added m n.
Pi tie fortune for the purchase of tools,
Epld, seeds and another horse. He post.
bf # poned the purchase of a COW until he
no had something to feed her on the out
look for pasturage being extremely
dubious. as all the acreage available
ar for that purpose had grown up to
Ii bushes In less than a week Quilley-
|ls .ol vile was deserted. and the passerby
BIZ would have noted that whatever was
~ left behind was offered for sale.
IN Quilley found his new life much
(rDll more easy than his former had been,
WI and he discovered much to his salts.
faction, that Mrs. wilkins was en-
b, 3, amblM to prove more literally her
proper avocation as a helpmate to
:, him He wisely put no hindrance in
III her way, and as she had been farm
Il, er's daughter, she was able to give
81 him considerable enlightment He
+ lacked that impulse to work which
had been a great spur to activity
H when he had worked for others. AS
K the warm days toward the last of July
|. q came, he began to think a good deal
L about that mortgage Certain of his
Il former friends, who knew something
i 8 about farming, had told him that the
"A old Wilcox place was better suited to
\.
"Ther wust place In Their township fer
grasshoppers," someone had said d
aggravating bluntuess "Yerl nevef'
: see the money yer've put inter that
thar place" To all of this Qullay
made no response. But it must be
admitted he thought good deal. He
marched up over the barren noun
tain side and noted carefully several
things One was that in the after
noon breeze generally swept up over
the mountain, seeking the cool ex.
f., panse of the Connecticut beyond.
Ia The hot air sought the cooler surface
of the stream. This breeze carried
+ with it certain other things which en-
4 tered largely into Quilleys calcula-
tions He also examined little more
closely the old barn.
One day an itinerant tin peddler
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