Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-31

Susy Habersham became acquainted with
Samuel l. Weekes, who owned a cattle-ranch
on the upper waters of Wolf Creek, a saloon at
Big Springs and store in Painted Rock itself
Habersham was a big, loose jonted, slop-
built Simple Simon,'' who took to erecting
windmills for irrigation, he had raked up
an agency for some new kind of wind fakement
on the strength of which he came West. He
worked for himself at first, and then became a
partner, as far windmis were concerned,
with Weekes He fitted up a number of them
in the town. One he put up for Ginger Gillett,
who had great notion for flowers and fruit, both
hard things to raise in the neighborhood of
Painted Rock. He fixed another for my friend
Gedge, the gambler from Georgia, who had
shack outside the city limits with what he
delighted to call park" 1t was four acres
of dust, sand and alka1i and prairie-dogs, and
his vines were a measly lot of creepers that
died at the first south wind if any survived
the March northers. Habersham called Florida
Gods country" When man out West does
that you may reckon him failure. The man
who doesn't fail is he who takes enough root for
the time to forget the State he came from. That
is what Ginger Gillett said and did.
&C. don't reckon to paaver none about where
l came from" said Ginger with decision, NOR
do reckon to wall any about what left behind.
There's a complete and finished set of plumb
rank failures bowling in Painted Rock about
make sick and tired. Gods kentry is
finished, and the State of Texas is still in our
hands to work up and put the polish on But
the women is the worst at it. They don't remind
me none of the women of 40 that old-timers
tells about They had grit and could stand
off Injuns These ladies cayn't stand off a
mosquito, and they weep sadly at a centipede.
Mis- Understands that kind, and caynt cut a
steak without making faces at the jint she
hacks it off of with averted face. The women
from Gods kentry amt fit to raise Texans. Til
raise too much riot over trifes.''
But she was a pretty little woman, and ev
the fastidious Ginger Gillett lowered his bull vo
in her presence and was exceedingly polite when
met her on Main-st. The cowboys said she "
"a daisy" when they staggered past her w
cropped heads, a toothbrush in their waistcc
pockets and high opinion of themselves in tn
little minds.
"There'n be trouble over Mis- Habersham We
said Keno" Gedge, who knew the world and hat
wife who had been pretty enough to bring one m
to the grave and two into a hospital before
quoted down in double harness. shes
danger to this lionel society of bachelors, my 81
and you can lay what you like on it. If was Hab
sham, I'd see she had no sort of conversation W
Sam Weekes. Weekes amt to be trusted w
women-you see that in his eye, if his recc
didn't prove it
They said his record did prove it.
docs Habersham know it?" | asked
" Habersham don't know nothin'," said Gee
bitterly He knows enough about oranges
be froze out of Florida, and enough about windm
to set up in any park that won't draw waite
" Keno Gedge, according to Habersham believ
that windmill created water in dry well.
1--WE amt good terms over that dry windmill
said Gedge, "or I'd get Mrs. Gedge to drop hin
hint that Weekes is after Mrs Habersham H
the only man in Painted Rock that don't see it -
That. was true enough, as l found out after
month or SO. There was an extraordinary
luctance among the quieter inhabitants of
town to say anything about the case. 1t was
ones business but Understands, and Habersh;