The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-06-19

real feeble, and Emmy wouldn't leave
him to git married. I will say Mrs
Barter was real devoted to him
though Emmy done all the night work
and spared her all she could, give ur
her school, and spent every cent OF
the money she'd laid by school-teach
ing and working art embroidery TO,
her clothes, when she'd be married.
spent every cent on her pa. Got him
a wheel chair, and If ever a man Sc,
the world by his daughter the captain
done 1t. He liked Albert, too. / guess
If captain had lived, sick's he was
he'd have found a way SOS Emmy and
Albert could git married. But he died
Then you'd a s'posed they could mar
'ry. for his life was we'll insured, and
they got enough for the wilder to be
comfortable and keep a girl. But the
mfnnit he died poor MRS. Darter got
nervous prostration, and she was q
pervous PROSTATE for a year, and they
had to spend money travelling, and OF
course Emmy couldn't git married
Mrs. Darter went to Hot Springs, Ar.
kansas, and she went to a sanitarium,
and last she come home saying she
was cured. But on the cars she made
the acquaintance Of q woman-well,
I don't want to jedge-jedge not, and
you won't git lodged, you know-and
know it's hard for a woman to make
q living, but l guess that woman was
q crank. and desig ming one at that
But she went to Mrs. Darter's to
board, and she never paid no
board, but she preached to Mrs. OAR
ter bout how all the diseases that we
Gave come from eating wrong things;
End she said we'd got to live 'cording
% nature more; and eating meat made
olks fierce like the carnivorous beasts,
ind things seasoned with salt was bad
Tor you, and jest plain farnishous
foods without salt-like We was chick
ens!-was best for us. 1 don't see
how Mrs. Darter, who used to cook
zeal well and liked to have the sewing
society to tea, could stand sech sick
stuff, but she did; and what's wuss,
even after the fool critter ran away
they do say, has another wife, even to
this day Abiel Barter believes i'll her
and goes by what she says. And she
amt ct any fit food for so long that if
she ever does git coaxed to take a
wholesome bite of beef or pie her
stummick is so weak of course she
cayn't stand it. Strong folks can
eat strong vituals, and weak folks
cayn't. Mrs. Glenn coaxed her in to
a boiled dinner one day, and poor Mrs.
Barter nearly died of it. Now you
cayn't git her to bulge from her grass
and potato diet, as Conner calls it.
And as for poor Emmy, when she can
git married Lord only knows!"
Miss Keith had not interrupted the
story by as much as hum of assent.
She looked up with a queer smile.
'Has Mrs. Darter ever tried Chris
tan Science?"
"No, she amt" snorted Mrs. Con-
ner; we've been spared that. The
Bigelow girls-they're two single la
dies, real nice girls, too, who live in
that big brown house with a cupola
and a hip-roof there. bout two doors
tried to get her into that
way of thinking; they're at every
body. And they used to go over and
set with her and give her silent
treatment they called it, and try to
think the dyspepsia out of her; but
one of 'em got fish-bone in her throat
and they had to come to me to pull
it out with a pair of tweezers. That
sorter dampened 'em for a while and
Mrs. Barter says, Why didn't you
think it out?' And then Ann-she's
the oldest-says they wasn't far
enough advanced yet. Mrs. Darter told
'em then they wasn't far enough ad-
vanced to doctor her. And l guess
they amt been there sense"
call the same" insisted Miss Keith,
smiling, Il think Mrs Darter needs
mental healing or Christian Science, l
don't care which"
Emmy put her mother to bed. She
gave her the soothing drops which the
but still reverenced healer
had left-drops which she was almost
certain owed their potency to some
alias of opium. In the morning Mrs.
Darter came out Of her drugged sleep
with deadly nausea that swathed her
and laid her rigid in its limp,
devil-fish clutch The roof of her
mouth was like leather; her head
seemed to be pounded with hammers;
she was burning with fever, and ma
lign twitchings and itchings torment
ed her to rub her nose necessarily,
when the least motion was fearsome
to her. She had much more cause
than ordinary to moan, and moan she
did at every breath. jimmy had rush
ed away to q small chum the moment
the dishes for her own breakfast had
been washed; but Emmy couldn't run.
She drank a cup Of coffee; she had
no heart to eat. jimmy, however, had
eaten the dainty little meal that EN-
my had prepared-a forlorn hope to
tempt the invalid.
"Oh, my nose! my nose!" walled
Mrs. Darter. Emmy, you've got to
leave OF staring out Of that window at
the Glenns', and come and scratch
my nose! Ah-uh! Ah-u-h!"
Emmy silently sat down by the bed
side. II Albert passed the yard on his
wheel, as he did every morning at