Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-05-31
When It's Worth While.

when are you ever going To make
good. When are you ever going TO do
anything? When are you ever going
TO Justify your birth and breeding and
ancestry?
And the girl stamped her pretty foot
hard on the yielding turf.
The big fellow In the gray outing
fiannels settled back In the hammock
and turned his patrlclan face to the
Questioner.
by Jove! you're getting prettier
every day. co.," he said.
II don't want your compliments or
your praise. Herbert Rollins" she re-
piled with blazing eyes. Il want you
to answer my question"
(which one?" he asked. smiling In
the most provoklngly Indifferent man
ner.
ANY OF them: all of Them" replied
the girl. "They are all one"
The man drew the markings" from
his pocket and began slowly to roll a
cigaret.
Whats the use?" he asked.
1.-THE use of what?" she demanded.
"oh, OF paving around trying to do
unnecessary things for a reward. !
don't want?'
Unnecessary things" she repeated
Indignantly. "What do you mean by
that? Here you are getting along
toward thirty"
"Twenty-eight," he murmured us he
lit the cigaret.
And equipped with every kind
OF ability and connections through
which you could get start In any line
you might select" she went on. not
| needing his interruption. land yet you
never have made an effort to justify
your existence"
"You forget my football record" he
laughed.
Yes, there II is," she replied, foot
ball. rowing, debating-everything
useless, but nothing in the serious af'
fairs of life."
my pretty cousin. again ask, what
Is the use?" said the man.
"Use!" she exclaimed. What are
you living for?"
II ask that with great emphasis
every now and them he replied SOL
EMMY. "And I'm blessed II can get
further with the solution than the
proposition: To feel good and enjoy
all the good things the gods have pro-
vided so bountifully."
The girl looked at him scornfully.
Now. look here, Nell" he said,
throwing the cigaret away. Il have an
ample fortune, thanks to the wisdom
and industry of my respected grand
father. l don't spend my income
can't spend 1t. Why in the name Of
goodness should I bother my mind
with money making? Why should l
harry myself with all the work neces-
sary to a successful professional ca
reer when I do not need the emolu.
ments which would crown II In the
very doubtful event that succeeded
especially when there are so many
good fellows who were less successful
In their choice of a grandfather and
who are compelled to do these things
In order to live? In fact, think 1t
would be beastly for me to go in and
crowd with them for success that
means so much to them and absolutely
nothing to me. ! am not bad sort,
Nell am not hurting anybody any
that can see. and I'll be hanged II ]
see the necessity of all this effort you
keep talking about. There Is no In.
centive"
"Incentive." exclaimed the girl very
pale. "I'll tell you one thing, Herbert.
It has been an understood thing In the
family that am to marry you. ! want
to tell you now that never will marry
such useless butterfly as you In. the
world. I'll marry coal HEAVIER first
Rollins looked steadily at her for
minute. Then he arose and took her
unwilling hand.
perhaps It Is best so, Nell" he said
gravely. 81 don't know but we would
worry each other intolerably. 1t will
raise Cain with Uncle Charley and
your mother, but"
what is that, Bert?' interrupted
the girl, pointing to the surf.
He turned lazily and looked over
the sun-lit water.
Instantly his entire attitude changed.
He was alive with interest, with pur-
pose, with power.
Great Heavens, It Is Julia!" he ex'
claimed. "And she Is out far over her
depth and cannot swim a stroke. ]
have been teaching her to float and
she's let the current carry her out. II
she tries to touch bottom she'll get
frightened and drown"
While he was talking he had peeled
to his trousers and undershirt and
pulled of his shoes, and before Miss
Nellie fairly knew what was going on
he had plunged into the surf and was
making great strokes toward the tiny
head bobbing In the water.
AS the girl on the shore watched
him do these things with the rapidity
of thought and noted his splendid self
poise and perfect proportions a crate
full sense Of satisfaction pervaded her
"All he needs is the spur Of neces