Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-07

when you see it, but you can't de-
scribe, and said, in a quiet voice, but
full and rich, What is it?'
big Bills eyes filled with tears,
and his voice shook as he said: You
see, my little Kate is back west on
the ranch. She was too good for a
hulk like me. | loved her, and | did
my best to make her happy, but the
ranch is big, and our nearest neigh
Dor was twenty miles away, and
know she must have got lonesome
whenI was roundin' up.
Latter awhile that PARKWAY look
came into her eyes, and then the smile
that makes you know that Christmas
is coming to your own home, even if
it is in Texas, Montana or Bethle-
hem.
"'We were so happy, and | had all
kinds of dreams of what | would do
if had boy to sit on the front of my
saddle, and ride the ranch.
Zone night the angel sang on that
ranch, and | sent the best cowboy, and
the fastest horse for the nearest doc
tor, and he didn't get there none too
soon, either.
"'When he told me it was a boy,
| thought my heart would jump out
of my mouth.
Poor Kate never got strong. She
would take the little fellow she named
for me, and try to feed him, but it
was no use, and then she would cry
when she thought | wasn't looking,
and ask me to get some cows milk. |
didn't know whether it was breaking
her heart because she couldn't feed
Little Bill, or the lonely ranch, or
what, but she just faded away, and |
laid her under the sod on the little
hill, near the house, and started east
with the. b Y, to ask her folks to take
care of him for me.
"I would pay thousand dollars
for one square meal for that little fell
low. / know you wouldn't. sell it,, and
so | asked if you would do me
favor
"That queen just gave him one
look and said, Bring him to me-
"Say, it didn't take him long to get
ny kid long to know where he was.
The little sick cry was changed to
to number 1 and back, l tell you, and
it didn't take that little yellow, skin
::glum, glum," king of cozy gurgle,
and then he settled down to business.
Why, you could just see that little
chap fill up. He knew that was not
condensed or canned food. He didn't
need any pure food law to tell him,
either. His eyes opened up big, and
blue, like pansies, and his little thin
hands patted the soft, warm breast
that he had never known before, and
after a while his eyes closed, and he
went to babies dreamland, to play
with the fleecy clouds, and pick the
stars out Of the sky.
"Yo on should have seen Big Bills
face. 1t was a study. Happy, thank
full, ashamed Of himself, glad he had
asked, and wondering what to say.
ale reached for Little Ben with
tears in his eyes, and said: Kate
knows, and we all thank YOU and he
went back to number /.
There was something doing in low
er 7, too. felt like a fool, and thief,
for watching such a sacred thing, but
couldn't keep my eyes Off, and half
the time | had to blow my nose be
cause | had such an awful cold in my
head. But ! got this much out of 1t:
God gives us plenty of money, or land,
OF ledTIuIlS, DuL SOIlSIilleS we HScu
some Of the milk of human kindness,
that which makes men good members
of the Kings Union
Something new?" asked Sam.
eyes, SAM" answered the Sand Far
mer. "That was what | was talking
about to the boys up at the church last
night"
"Are you going to tell any more
stories ?" asked Tom.
eyes, next week"
"Well be there" came a chorus
from the "heavy settlers" as the Sand
Farmer went out to do his chores.