Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
Where the Man
With the Hoe Won.

lie lie WM LuG 1O6 WOu. 81 .
NJ IL doesn't often happen, and no one
III ave d favored few, knew why it hap
81 ,ened this time. There is little sun
Ill burn IN this story but no varnish, and
ell let nose who like a lacquered tale
he turn The page. She was a bud last
he winter and this winter she was mar
ks ried Most of the buds stay on the
he gtenl b little longer than that, but con-
sIdaring how many there were who
,e- waited her the quick pluckering and
on 9aarAng away Is not to be wondered at
d. ID amvthing save in the personality of
nd he hover lover who did the picking.
lly Frances Marvin's father had no
nd money, but he held place in society
ay force of intellect and family There
re not as many of those cases as
-bs here used to be. The girl was a
nd leauty. If a novel writer were tell
Md ng about her he would say she was
wv egal. James Parker, LaSalle street
II, took broker, was not a novel writer,
~. but he thought Frances was regal
Ievertheless. He had a thought of
his Kind from the moment he saw
0n Ter. Parker followed Miss Marvin's
-Ha movements as closely as he did the
'ou ape In the stock ticker He was a
CT member of every club in sight, and he
IrovH and rode, and did all the other
W hings that a man of wealth in society
10 Inns when he knows how,
- ZINES Parker was a catch. Every
"' BODY Said so, and the fact was pretty
strongly impressed upon the Marvin
LII amiIy, bar Marvin pere, who didn't
YET are whether Parker was catch or
leu lot, for Frances was to be allowed to
70 make her own choice. Parker became
an he girls shadow. He paid court,
to However, unobstrusively and with per-
tly .ect tact Frances was dattered bit
~ the attentions Of this man, for
not whom all the other girls had made a
ter .ast. to use a piscatorial smile, and
DOL lad failed to get strike.
Nov, there was as we'll as James
ID. Parker one John MeadowCroft. Mead
Of ywcroft had a big truck farm out be-
IN.
il. ,ut Meadowcroft worked his farm
himself. He was a big fellow, some
bling more than a trifle awkward, but
with nne head and good face. He
=, had an education and no capital eX-
!" cept that which was represented by
some acres of onion, carrot and potato
beds and some hundreds of square
feet of glass, under which the roses
| and carnations reached perfection
4 when the winter blasts howl and the
optimistic snow bunting whistles in
the helds. John Meadowcroft was a
] graduate of the Amherst Agricultural
College. Just what had turned him
| to farming people did not generally
understand. A gooI guess would have
I made Il that Meadowcroft loved the
y country better than the town and took
A 10 gardening so that he could live at
= all times where he could smell the
soil and see some clouds besides those
| 0f smoke go drifting by.
| One simmer day number of young
] people drove out beyond Bowmanville
4 to see the massed color and beauty of
newspapers had made pictures of and
written about. 1t was 1.-The thing" to
y go out to that spot of loneliness dur
ID ing the monh of blossoms. 1t was
q there that Frances Marvin first saw
r. John MeadowcrOft, farmer. He had
pretty place for a home. 1t was
, naturally pretty, and John Meadow
croft knew how to enhance its attrac
tfveness. James Parker was there that
day, and being a man of acumen and
worldly wisdom he saw that Meadow
croft. the farmer, thought that Fran
ces Marvin was more to be admired
than any flower of his field; love them
all though he did, from the tiniest
blossom to the big Haunting peony.
Mand0wcroft had friends in the city
Thev we're of some of the good OLD
New England stock, who In their ear
lier days had known his father and
mother Meadowcroft had way Of
overcoming obstacles. His friends say
that some day he will be growing
green chrysanthemums, and will do il
without feeding the earth with dyes
! At any rate he met Miss Marvin AGAR
aud asafn. She was rather amused
than 0therwise at the attentions o.
this farmer man" as her mother call
ed him There is something in sin
rerakv that wins a way in all kind!
0f things, and finally Frances Marvin
Rrnxv fN like John Meadowcroft