The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-06-15

lucky. he responded. Miss Caroline
eazed for an instant toward the horizon.
simpson, she said finally, laying hand
upon his arm, II m going to get i mort
gage on the farm.
Simpson frowned BE careful. Miss
Caroline, he said.
Il shall be careful, she returned.
II IN going to get mortgage on the farm
1t will be fall before we know it. | want
to sow May and Zimmerman this year, and
| want to get you to help me out, Simpson,
if you will. >
Simpson sighed. I'D do it for moth
ing" he answered ''if could But as
it is L II do it for you just what L IN max
ing now-two dollars a day"
Il i make it two dollars and a half, -
answered Miss Caroline.
And that year they sowed May and Xim-
norman, and the whole countryside laughed
them to scorn.
Blamed idiots said the farmers
Wheat can live in the winters that
we have up here. Not byssa darned sight
But it did live, somehow or other. 1t
jill easily what its ancestors Of quarter
of century before could never have done
/ And it ESCAPED the bugs. the drought. the
/ rust And at harvest time Simpson, work
/ ing A. he had never worked before, gath
cred in sixteen bushels to the acre from
| hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
acre, that constituted the Terwlliger farm.
{ Aud the farmers roundabout who hired
themselves out to Simpson TO help him
with the harvest opened wide their eyes
and marveleI
/ ats an accident. they said
4 Miss Caroline was radiant. We've
70, the wheat She exclaimed triumph
,utly ta Sinp-,n. Simpson acauiesed
t and now-whstg''
/ ..You ..oi the whea, he answered. 80
w. vt stored il. went on Miss Caro-
line
..Surc answered Simpson. and
then p
Sell IL" exclaimed Miss Caroline,
Simr-on stepped forward pace or two.
its .ood wheat" " he said good hard
wheat. I amt never seen no better
There amt nothing the matter with it
Ra, II always the way Here you got
thousand, of bushels or l-thousands and
thousands Of the finest wheat on the mar-
k., Its yoar,. You amt psid your
h,lp. your interest on YOUR mortgage l. due.
Your taxes J., overdue Aud what have
,an sa, ,s show for u7 Nothing but
sL,,,
NEr,4 Carulinc .lanes,l al him unea,ily.
What d. ,su mean y'' she asked II
mean. ansusrci Simpson slowly, "that
wheat k down to sixty. you ought 60 have
known thar.
n thoa.ht. replied Miss Caroline
,rcmalausly. that uhea, was -ellin. for
a.llar.
Stmtz..n .n.r,e,i. 1t was-lasi faa.
h.. answered. that wss because last fall
pai-sl, had ans wheat Naw. south ofus
bap.ly,,I. .T atl.-. 10 the south. everybody
had has .1oI crop thts winter There ;
,.,, maeb r-..l wheat That's why. And
III. prics has dropred 10 sixty cents. lie
.,o,e.~i aud a.r,red minute en- piecc Of
p.p.r Il, ca-t YOU seventy two cents 1
bu.hcl 10 rai-s it, he concluded. and
yap am l.a,i 40 for raising it yet. either,
aha, with yoar help and mortgage
everything
NIl~. Car,l,ue rushed into the old house
and thrcw herself upon the bel taoc down
wari
Louise, Louise, she exclaimed, try
ins hard 10 HeeP the tears back, - wish
that W. Wrrc E1s, again, in little old New
York She told her sloicr all about It.
'Iou might, sa'd Louise nn'dly--
''yon m'sh' wr''e 10 the "oyernmen' oil
the ! "iisI states, you SNOW 'nT ven
taFel. hat 'a'o'ioe OILY s"'oA "'' ,''l'
De So'e'"i"'ns CANNES H''P u sue
frp'ied, Tor Il wi. h'' guy ou' H','A'
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~ We eoaid only get eiSn'y i's H.
walled Mss caroline -,
oh can get sixty, answered. 0'"'P
sou, lie stopped his horse al the rarai
mall box aud took thereirom letter.
Here something come from LAneoIn
way, he said, handing It TO her per
hals It means good news
Miss Caroline nervously tore it open
Then she read it and let it fall from hei
fingers Ii was a notice from the holder
Of the mortgage on the iarm itself that h,
would foreelose within ten days for non
paymen, of interest Simpson picked it ur
aud read il. Somehow he felt il To b,
only the matter-of course thing to do.
Miss Caroline clameFed into the wagon anc
they went on; Simpson walking sloomIly a
the horse head
That evening Simpson waylaId Miss Caro-