Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

His name stood for all that is fair. honest
and manly It's the daughter I'm writing
o. not the father but 1 want to tell you
that he made a lot Of money on his farm
and went into the banking business. The
bank got into trouble OF some kind the
other fellows stood from under" but old
Hugh stayed right there at Ogauala until
The last penny was paid. He surrendered
mis- farm. gave up his cattle and bis home
and came west 90 make another start
bringing with him as fair a name. as sure
a confidence az sixty years Of square deal
ing could create. That's how square be
was. For more than dozen years be- was
hevy shipper TO the south Omaha Yards.
Tags Bros. the big commission men, have
handled many hundreds Of car lots" for
old Hugh Caruahan.. The fruiuCss years.
however. vesried him Of Nebraska and he
came to- Idaho. determined to do. as SO
many others have done. and take advan-
tage OF the cheap lands, the long terms of
payment under the Carey act. To let the
Increasing population of the last west
make another fortune for him, one which
could be had with less effort for Car
nauau vas almost 60 years of age when he
died las, year, leaving this fathorIcss girl
and widowed mother 20 finish lifes race
alone.
After taking up his forty acres. only
quarter Of what he was entitled To- take,
for you must remember that he was
broke" Carnahan set about making
home i'm town for the women some place
for them TO stay while be proved up on
his little farm. lie did not live to finish &c.
And when she told me about It her blue
eyes filled for there aren't many ceme-
taries in Idaho; they are not pretty with
green spots. white hcadstones graveled
walks. like our Acres Of God back home.
He lies out there, and it, lonely. The April
winds sweep clouds Of dust across the bar
rem mounds It's bleak Not a pleasant
place to put ones old father. Altogether
most dsheartening experience for a l9-ycar-
old girl, with a farm to prove up on. a
home to finish building and a good many
years yet to live. But the frank, candid
eyes. though filled were brave eyes
withal; very brave eyes, and she looked at
me with wonder in them when l asked her
II she lost heart
Lose heart" she asked and 1 knew
by the tone OF the question that she never
faltered NO, there was too much TO
do. You see mother is over 10 and ! had
to do the thinking for the family. There
was the forty-acre farm 10 dispose Of
some way or another; the house to finish
ways and means to be considered, and
had it all to do. Sister is married and
/ lives in Utah. Mother needed to be cared
| for and there was so much to do. l guess
l might have lost heart, become discour-
aged. II l had had time. But when YOU
are being driven by other things you care
for, especially If they happen to be those
you love, you don't have much time to
think OF yourself don't you know
Ingenious? No. l don't think so. That's
/ the kind Of a girl she is. She is only a
| girl" all right enough, but she is only
the right kind of a girl. She set about her
task seriously Her first thought was to
prove up" on the forty-acre farm, to get
title to it, so that she should not lose it.
Then carpenters were hired, brick masons,
laborers and the home in town was fin
ished Business was looked after, even
in those first hours of unaccustomed
grief, and in the end she became the head
OF the little household of two, a place she
has held without complaint, without dis
| sent, ever since.
MY first task was to get title to the
| forty that father had taken up SO
built a claim cabin, 14x20, to comply with
the law, and mother and 1 lived in 1t for
| thirty days, the required time for home
| stealing residence. While we were there
hired men to clear the place of sage
brush, plow, fence and set it out to trees.
| We put twenty acres in orchard, as that
| pays the very best of all, after the trees
! grow; ten acres in alfalfa, and then my
| money gave out, so 1 had to let the other
ten lie fallow. 1 looked after it for three
years. and more. Then got good offer
about two weeks ago and 1 sold 1t, l
cleared over $4,000 on It and got the money.
Then there was the house in town to finish.
It has six rooms. and. while was building,
! thought It might as well be modern
! throughout: you see, it is more convenient
that way, and then. II l ever wanted to sell
It, it would be worth ever so much more,
And so I set about getting that all cleared