The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-07-10
Made Ms KISSES
SAVED THE CROP
They Were Prizes for Best
HarveSterS.
KANSAS GIRL THE HEROINE
Men Worked So Hard to Win Caresses
That $6,ooo,ooo Crop Was
Saved.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 10-Although |
Saline county has been drenched with |
rain and many farmers are mourning |
their ruined wheat crops, the field be- |
longing to S. H. Huston is safely stack |
ed, all because his pretty daughter
Mabel. offered kisses and hugs to the
first three men to do the heaviest work
just before the heavy rains set in
AT no time for years have men been so
hard to get to work in the wheat fields
OF central Kansas as this year.
College boys have tried it and most
of them have stuck to the task, but
there are few of them to be had. and the
farmers have been obliged to get along
with what hands they could pick up.
The greater part of the Huston wheat
was unstacked, and the farmer saw the
loss of crop worth 100000 staring
him in the face when Government re-
ports came that continuous and heavy
rain was expected.
Girl Hunts Hands.
The loss Of his crops meant financial
ruin to Huston, and both be and his
daughter, who is eighteen years old,
took to horseback and rode far and near
gathering up men and offering double
wages for any that would go to their
farm.
But hands were scarce and others
were offering high prices and things
locked as gloomy as the Sky above
when the hands started for the heios.
Unknown to her father, Mabel, VINO Is
as pretty a Kansas girl as ever rode
mustang, told the servant she would
carry buttermilk TO the fields that morn
ing and keep on filling the men up with
lr-in L.
wheat was shocked.
So she appeared in the fields with
gallons upon YaIlons of the cool drink,
and after every man had his III the slri
called them around her
Offers Maiden's Kiss.
Boys she said, blushing to the tips
Of her pretty ears. daddy's wheat must
be saved before the rain comes. or
won't be able to go back to school TINS
fall. and you all know how badly l want
to have Just one season more of prepara-
ton for college SO I won't be behind
those bright Eastern girls
well / am -oing to offer a prize Tor
the best workers. and it's prize that
no man has won yet-kisses and hugs
for the best men here. To the man VINO
stacks the most wheat today will give
three kisses and real ol0-IaShfoneo
Kansas girls hug
$40 the man who is second 1 will give
two kisses, and the third man shall have
g real hard hug. So please save oaooS
wheat.
Never was there such harvesting in
ali Kansas ais that of the Huston wheat
Every man worked. not as II the croI
were his own, but as If 1t belonged to
Mabel and her college career depended
on il, as il really did The hands TO
man refused most calamity to stop worh
even for dinner. and for hours the con-
test seemed even that anyone OF
dozen husky fellows might have been
the winner.
Pinker and Prettier.
Toward evening it was noticed thai
three men were leading all the rest, and
when Miss Mabel brought the butter
milk again and noticed their progress
she grew pinker and pinker and pref
tier and prettier.
Finally the contest was seen to bs
almost a tie between Fred Norton. the
brawny son of a neighbor. and two
young college men who had left theil
universities earlier than usual for tbs
health-giving work in the fields.
Besides the test of Drawn, 1t began tc
be felt that there was another reason
for the determined rivalry of the two
pale Eastern students, who had over
done athletics a little. and the boy from
fathers work to join the lists for Ma
bells caresses.
The way those college youths hustled
that wheat was a caution No one
would have believed it had he not seer
one breast the tape In record-break
ing relay race and the other lift hi.
shell. out of the water on the 1onl
four miles.
Nip and Tuck.
Finally one fell back a little and i
was between the other and young Nor
ton. who plainly was working himsel
1,al
1t was nearing the quitting hour, ant
the college man was ahead, and look
ing as pale and undisturbed as whe,
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