The Cairo bulletin., 1909-04-25

| II suburban
electric lines, Re mased. "A lew
/ years ago. who would have thought o.
riding eighty miles across country on
a street car?"
over the open prairie the car
dashed gaily on and entered narrow
cut to emerge in the heart of fur
est where tie s2ow freshly fallen. lay
IN crisp purity on tree Sld bush
Here spring surgIed out from the
side Of a Hill and broke through In,
blanket OF araeEt with It's merry song
OF babbing bliss
The man sat dreaming. His
thoughts had Travelled far ahead of the
car to a tiny station where he would
secure a team and Dive to the home
OF Grandma Lcllmcr.
Strange | hadn't thought of this
before, he chided. she was so ao3d
to me-and once she wrote to tel me
how proud she was of my success. /
l know answered that letter, but
oh, this is a hurried. rough.and-tum.
bic world. anyhow hope she viii be
glad TO see me. | wonder if she viii
be sitting in that old a.m chair before
the great fireplace smoking her clay
pipe as was her custom when mother
let me go TO visit her in the DAYS
agone?
And how she could make pumpkin
pie and oustayd and sponge cake-anl
hello, here's Arbor ana the next is
Haileyyille,"
The man got down his coat. gath
cred his numerous parcels and was
ready to leave the car long before IL /
drew into the station. As he stepped
onto the platform. the smiling face Of
the sun beamed down upon him. warm
and inviting.
I'll not ride out TO Grandma Lori |
mer's this day, he resolved; I'll
walk"
Acting upon the inspiration. he So,
out along the read he knew so well I
How everything has changed" he !
cried resentfully. Farmer HALEY has /
buiit a new house and great barn. I
/ guess he must have prospered. ana /
well, | declare, If there isn't a new
bridge across Flood creek
A farmer rounded the corner ahead.
driving a spirited team.
Good day" challenged the stalwart
man.
The farmer looked at him curiously.
but did not forget to respond heart
fly, as is the rus custom.
.Io-or-
Looks just as it always did. except
there's lean-to on the west"
Buoyantly he walked up the front
path, knocked confidently at the door
and waited He heard a step within :,
and out back a dog barked
IN bet that's Old Shep | used to
take hunting with me-" his heart said
as hand turned the door-knob
The door swung back-and a young
woman stood on the threshold
Fri came TO see Grandma Lori
ner,' stammered the stalwart one.
Won't you come in?" said the WON
an. 4 am sorry though, 10 tell you
hat the Lorimers do not live here
low. We bought the place year
lgo."
"But-and where is Grandma Lon.
ner" eagerly
She is dead, sir," said the woman.
,oftiy, seeing the look Of eagcruuss
4 his face Wont you step in?"
The man stood still upon the stone
step. Finally he said:
No | thank you madam-thank
-ou very kindly"
Was she a relative OF yours"
No only dear old fricnd-a dear
I'D fIiend who was good to me when
was younger-and wont you take
hese flowers. please? tlink wln
20 back now. Somehow / would fath-
II remember the place with her sit
ing in there by the fireplace. Good
lay
What a strange man" said the I
woman as she watched him truiging
Town the read, the b1cyancy of his
itep less ma, ked. his head down as
hough In grief.
What a cIul old world 1t Is"
iobbed the man. as he plodded wcafiiy
oward the station.