The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-12-16

| GROWING straight aud line Ds the
threads on loom. and through the
gray perspective OF their satin smooth
trunks you caught the white g!cam OF
a fairy cascade US It tumhled over the
moss grown stones to the brook he
low. IL was like bit from ian.
anese garden In lts delicate artificial.
ity
And harder to leave than these cher.
ished bits OF landscape had been the
old house Runnymedc that always
seemed doing In the peaceful coma
tose OF senillty. II was beyond the
worry OF debt; the succession OF mort.
gages that Slapped Its vitality and
wrote anxious lines on the faces of
Aunt Adelaide and Aunt Martha was
nothing TO the old house Had IL not
sheltered Carmichnels for over cen
turyf II had faith In the name But
Mary could never remember when the
need Of money TO pay the mortgage
had not Invaded the gentle routine OF
| their home life.
But hardest Of all to leave had been
Archie. best and most promising of
young brothers-Archie. who had come
| out ahead OF his class In the high
school, AL ready to 20 to the uulvcr.
sity--the University of Virginia IL al.
ways the university who. II
had seemed at u certain dark season.
must give up this long cherished hope
for lack OF the whercwlthal Mary,
being four years older than her brother
Colt
ternal obligation to administer his af-
fairs. If he did not go to the univer-
sity, like his father and grandfather
before him. Il would be because she
had failed in her duty. At this par
ticular phase OF the domestic problem
there had appeared In n certain church
ly periodical carefully wortled ad
VertiSement for governess, and, the
subsequent business of references, sal
airy and Information TO be impaired
and received proving emlnently salts.
factory, Mary had finally received a
fearful permission from her aunts to
depart for some place In Wyoming the
name OF which was not even to be
found on the map. She was to consld-
er herself quite one of the family, and
the compensation was to he $50 a
month. Archie would now he able TO
90 to the university.
As the day wore on the sagebrush be
came scarcer and grayer. there were
fewer Towering cacti. and the great |
white patches of alkali grew more and |
more frequent In the distance there !
was riot OF rainbow tints- violet, |
pink and pale orange. II seemed In |
conceivable that such barrenness could |
produce such wealth of color. Nothing !
could have been more beautiful, not |
even the changing colors on pigeons |
neck, than the coppery iridescence, |
shading to cobalt and blue on some of |
the buttes
Night had fallen before they made |
the first break in their journey The |
low, beetle browed cabin that faced |
them In the wilderness carried in its !
rude completeness hint of the pres. /
tidigitntor's art-a world of desola- /
ton, and behold log cabin with smoke
Issuing from the chimney and curtains .
at the windows, The interior was I'M
plastered, but this shortcoming was
surmounted by lacking cheesecloth .
neatly ever the logs, n device at once /
simple and strategic, as In the lamp.
light the effect was that of plaster.
Miss Carmichael. suddenly released
from the actual rumblng OF the stage,
felt Its confused motion the more
strongly In Imagination. ana hardly
knew whether she was eating canned
tomatoes served uncooked directly from
the tin, fried steak, black coffee and
soda biscuit, In company with the fat
lady, the stage driver and the woman
who kept the road ranch, or If Il was
all some Alice IN Wonderland deluslon.
The fat lady had brought her own
bedding-an apoplectic roll of bed
quilts-and these she insisted on max.
Ing bed of despit~ the protests OF the
ranch woman, who seemed TO detect
covert inslnuatlon against her accom-
modations In the precedent Miss Car .
michael proHted by the controversy.
The landlady, touched no doubt by the
simple faith of a traveller who trusted
TO the beds Of road ranch or because
she was young or girl, led the way In
triumph to her own bedroom, and, in
.licatlng an imposing affair with pill
ow shams, she defied Miss Carmichael
% find more comfortable bed "ln the
east"
In the unaccountable manner OF
hese desert conyeyances that creak
and groan across the arid wastes with
IN apparently numbering inconse-
Iuence, the stage that brought the tray
,lers TO the OAK ranch left at sunrise
o pursue II seemingly erratic career
llong the North Platte, while Miss Car
michael and the fat lady were TO con
inue their journey with one Lemuel
Jhugg. who drove II stage northward
oward the Red desert when he was
ober enough TO handle the ribbons.
Breakfast was largely devoted to
peculation regarding the approximate
of Mr.. Chugg he be
wholly or partially lncapacltated for
lis jobi Mrs. OAK, flirting feather
luster in the neighborhood of Miss