The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-02-07

Q"EIe was no uncle of mine. but it
pleased me that he let me call him Uncle
JIM" said Mr., Park. For 10 years he
and his worn faced wife bowed them
selves beneath the yoke, first to pay for
the 100 acre farm and then to bring up
and educate their seven children. I..tr
Something noble in them gave them
ambitions for their boys and girls which
they had never had for themselves, but
when they had passed 40 years, in which
the little farm had twice been mort
gagged to put the eldest son through col
lege as a doctor. they faced the bitter
fact that the farm had passed from them
to Sidney, the second son, who had come
at last to keep a hotel in town 30
miles away.
But the great blow came when Sidney
married the designing milliner who
Haunted her wares opposite his barroom,
and somehow from the date of that mar
riage Sidney's good fortune and the ho-
tel declined.
when he and his wife first visited the
little farm after their marriage the old
mother shrank away from the young
woman's painted face, and an added sad
ness always showed in her bearing and
in her patient smile afterward.
But she took Sidney's wife through
tbe bouse shnwino her mn tbere was To
show, though chat was not mach.
ar v,e mar m,,ob of \ bnmn ne anv
one. r,n sou, With tho u,in,i's nve hut FAM
stalwart men and three fine. women had
been horn. raised and ouortered there
until with good clothes and sncaldng de-
cent Dnrlisbaand with money in their
pockets hardly GOT by the old neople. one
by one they issued forth into the world.
But the pert milHnrr saw nothing of
all this. She looked into the face which
Gods finger had anointed and mother
hood had etched with trouble and said:
u "''Tisn't much, is it? Only clap
board house and no ceilings up stairs and
rag carpets-+pshaw" y Iae ....u
j But the real crisis came when Sidney,
( having stood at the Woodhouse door and
J blown the dinner horn rs he used to do
when a bow, the. sound floating and
CRYING away across the ryefield. the old
man came. for. strange to say, that was
/ the one sound he could hear easily,
! though, as he said to himself, it seemed
as small as a pin, coming from ever so
! far away.
/ he Cdlllc ut'lNllN uD from TIE DdTH-
yard, hopping his red face and forehead
and now and again raising his hand to
I shade his eyes, concerned to see the I'M
( known visitors. whose horse and buggy
\ were in the stable yard Ht jU
4 He and Sidney greeted outside warm
: " enough. but There was some trepida-
! ton too. in Uncle .Jiln's face. He felt
I trouble brewing. and there is no trouble
like that which comes between parent
and child. Silent as he was, however, he
/ had large and cheerful heart. and. nod
| ding his head, he laughed the deep,
4 Quaint LAUGH which Sidney himself of all
B his sons had, and he was fonder of Sid
ney than any. .., .......... ..H
"Ua washed his hands in tba littla
/ basin outsida tbe woodhopsa door comb
] cd ont his White hoard rubbnd his rod
waterv evos tied a .clean .bondlorcbief
around his neck mt an = rusty but cloan
/ old conf and a p1inuto oftarv,ord WIS
I shaking hands for +ha frst tima with
/ Sidnev's wife -,
"He had 1ivod n,nob ,no,+ fror, hi,
! l,ind h,t bo Ma I'M tta+ far+ornJ
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t .losne nc """' 3-' wash eA' dA'ue4
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ti .. 'io4 4ti - w, oiu nolS; .ous nc
nay W taee .nis anu an coniins uiieiainas
as .. pDst ne n,isns' ,e,.lti-
'n hinu y. eia az y, 9ee
49, mIs4 an "'.e,npI 70 e"I ~; 'nJ Ili!s on
lsA's' ne i9'u ohcie JIM Mni!e insult
us WY .o,u ',ie uiu iiiotnei' 'ua' lne
business ol the hotei huu gone 10 POT we
old no' say VINO was tle cause Oh tilap
anu 'ney were seillhS out 10 MS partner
ana were coming TO i've ON the farm.
N tired anyway of the hotel job
said Sidney. Earnings better life.
Don't you think SO, dad" If5..
Its better for me- Sid, answered
Uncle jim; IT better Tor me.
sidney was little uneasy. But
won, It be better FOR me? he asked.
Mebbe' was the slow answer meb-
De, mebbe SO. ,u.a
And then there's mother; she's get
ting too old for the work amt she?
Shes done 1t straight along an
swered the old man. straight along, until
now; -, y,
pu! Ll3zle can aeip ner' anu wen