Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-31
THE REFLECTIONS OF
JACOB BENDER
They Were Due to James Unselfish
Disposal of Her Ram Lambs
Prize Money.
Copyright, 1905. by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)

Copyright. 1905, by the Newspaper
Enterprise AssOciation.)
When it became known throughout
the village that patient, hard working
Jane Bender had sent the $500, won
on her prize ram lamb at the fair,
to the heathens in India, it created
quite a furore.
The sending Of the $500 to SISTER
Laviny in Ingy," was done by the
schoolmaster, who, having completed
the address, held it at arms length
and scrutinized it critically, then half
closed his eyes, as an artist does
wnen he studies his model to disting-
uish light and shade, and looked at
it again.
yes said the schoolmaster absent
ly, without taking his eyes from his
work, its a pretty important thing
tot send money off as far as India"
"Ingy!" exclaimed Jake, all his sur
prise echoing in his voice. who's
sendin' money to lngy"
Mrs. Bender is sending the sum
of $500 for missionary purposes" re-
turned the young man Importantly,
SAdllllllllS lut duhl dSdlht OllC CyC
being shut this time.
Her prize money!" exclaimed Jake.
"If that don't heat cucumbers!" Then
he dropped into a chair and an ex-
preston of complete mystification
possessed his c~Ountenance.
In a short time Jane entered with
that undeniable something in face and
bearing and her husband watched her
c%uriOusly as she moved about the
kitchen putting the finishing touches
to her basket. Then a strange abashed
look crept into his face; he ceased
following her with his eyes,, and only
glanced at her fuTtively from time to
time.
Wall" he said aloud to the four
whitewashed walls of the kitchen,
after she and the schoolmaster had
started off to drive to the village,
women is queer creatures and af-
ter a lengthy pause, they be.
Il did think she would buy some
folderol for herself-a black silk she
ulster talk about considerable. l
heerd her onct in her sleep. She amt
he'd many folderols in her life-since
she was married leastaways. She
ulster like EN- well, too.
"She was a purity fine lOokin' gal
tnen," he added, proudly straighten-
ing up his bent shoulders. Man, but
didn't ST Mariner try hard fur her, an
me a layin' awake nights plannin'
how to git the inside track on him.
An / got there. An ST owned his
own team and so acres clear, IN mine
he'd a lien onto en-
Jake seemed to be seeing through a
hole in the plaster now, clear into
space at the other side of the wall.
A softened look stole over his rugged
countenance, and he smiled broadly
a couple of times.
Then he grew sober again, his eyes
contracted to their wonted size and
he continued: 81 wonder if she's
ever sorry she give 81 the bounce an
TUX me? Sis done well-drives a fine
team an democrat. The wife he mar
ried some three years ago wasn't no
where beside Jane fur good looks.
She's changed wonderfully, Jane es.
Since the two young uns was put in
the graveyard she hain't been the
same woman. They'd "a been a
good-sized boy an gal now eff they'd
"a lived. The gal, they say, favored
me, but the boy was a picture of her.
1t cut her up terrible partin' with
EN-"
Then, having finished a halter he
was working on, Jake leaned far Out
of his seat, reached his long sinewy
arm toward the missionary papers on
the table, and picking n up gingerly
with his thumb and forefinger, began
to read it, as if he would find in it
some explanation of James incompre-
hensible behaviour.
IL nod MI aa 10 wanH Mo Co.
grew increasingly serious, while such
EXPLANATIONS as I'm be slivered eff l
ever heerd of anythin' to match that"
or why i'm thunder don't somebody
stop emu broke from him at inter
walls.
He was reading about the cruel
treatment Of child wives or widows
in India, and, in spite of his rough
exterior, he had in his heart a very
tender spot for children. He sat
there, and read on, in one paper after
another. 3
Then he threw the papers back on
the table, and hustled out by the back
door and began TO make a mash for
a sick COW, as he had no wish that
Jane should know how the time of
her absence had been |occupid.
"INGG'' EXCLAIMED JAKE.
The cold weather set in, and Jake
was busy housing and feeding the
stock; but he studied his wife as he
would study some curiosity, yet with
the abashed look which seemed to
have become stamped on his face, as
If he felt himself to be in some SUI
perior presence.
One morning he was threshing In
the barn and between the strokes of
the fail he heard the strains Of a