The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-15

fOunt, and then at the handsome Duhcn on the steps, as he alternately munch- ed bite of his cooky and fed Mamie one. to the delight of the children. The expression on his face as he looked at them and her and ate and laughed is what is back of all that goes to make the American nation the greatest on earth. Amen.
 ssSalIie," I said as I reached out and took her plump white hand in mine, tour men are the most wonderful in the world, and they are ours any way we get them. They don't care how it is done, and neither do we. just so we belong in the right way"
 ."Then you don't think it would be any harm for me to tell Mfr. Haley think I could live on, S1 800 year un- til he gets sent to a larger church?" was. the bomb that, thus encouraged, Sallie exploded in my face.
 I'm awfully4 that didn't get chance to answer, for I don't want to be responsible for the future failure or Kuccess of MT. Haley's ministry. Just then Henrietta burst into the room with the kitten in her arms.
 Keep her for me, Evelina. please, ma'am,'' she said, with the dearest lit tie chuekIe, but not forgetting the po- lite please which Jane had had to 8nggest to her just once! What you've done for that wayward, unmanageabie genius of q child. Jane, dear, makes you deserve ten of your own. That is-- help!
 Cousin Augusta and Nell and Dickie1 and me is a-going out to watch the man put the dyne mite in the hole to blow the creek right up, and Glendale @<S< AL. clean water to put in the waterworks, she continued to explain. '.Nen is a-going to take Diclzie in her car, and Cousin Augusta is a-going to take me and Uncle Peter in her buggy Dilsie have got the kit, and Cousin Marty is a-watehings to see she don't do nothing wrong with her. Oh, may go, Sallie :? Jane said I must always ask you.''
 ..Yes, dearest,'' answered Sallie, i'm mensely fattered by the deference thus paid her.
 How wonderful an influence the lit tie talks MT Haley has had with Hem rietta have had on hern' she said, with such happy glow on her face as the reformed one departed that I succeed ed in suppressing the laugh that rose in me at the memory of Henrietta's ac- count of the first one of the series.
 Men need not fear that the time will ever come when they will cease to get the credit for making earth's wheels go around from the female inhabitants thereof. So I smiled to myself and buried my face in the, fragrance under the bubbly puppy girls chin and coax ed her arms to clasp around my neck.
 They are ethe holy thFob of q wom- ans life babies. Less than ten wouldn't satisfy me unless well scat tered in ages. Jane. On some ques7 lions am not modern.
 .sStill I do feel so miserable leaving Cousin James so ;llone all winter, Sal lie continued, with the most. beautiful sympathy in her voice as she looked out of theswindow toward Widegables. T wonder if I ought to make up my mtnd tosstay ay with him He loYes the. children so. and you know the plans of Cousin JasIaine and the others to go back to their farm. "
 But hell have his mother left" said quietly but very encouragingly. I seemed to see the little green tendr1l that had unelasped from the oak turn ing on it's stem and winding tight again.
 Miss Mathers ] was encouraging Cousin Martina to go to Colorado to see Elizabeth and her fanily foI. a long visit this winter. She hash seen Eliz- abeth since her mother died, and she was so much interested in the easy way of traveling these days, as Miss Nfathers described it, that she asked her to write for q time table and what a ticket cessts, just this morning. SI really ought not to desert Cousin James.
 But Ghillk how lonely MT. Haley is down in the. parsonage and of his in huence on Henrietta, I urged.
 Yes, I do feel drawn iii both ways, sighed the poor fender gourd. And then you win Be here by yourself, so you can watch over Cousin James as much as your work will allow you. can't you, Iveiina =
 Yes, I'll try to keep him from being too much alone, ; answered with the most deeeitfuI tine
 T see him coming to supper and I must go, for want to be with him all can. if I am to leave him so soon. I may not make 9p my mind to it, : with which threat Sal1ie departed and left me alone in the gloaming. a sit uatton which seems to be becoming chronic with me now
 If l had it I'd give another $1O0, LOCO to the cause to henr that interview between Sallie and the dominic. I wager he'll never know what happened and would swear it didn't. if confront ed with a witness.
 And also I felt So nervous with all this asking in marriage surging in the atmosphere that it was with difficulty 1 that I sat through supper and listened i to Jane and Polk who had come in with her, plan town 3sewera ge. To morrow night I knew the moon wouldn't rise until II o'clock, and how did know anyway that Sa1lie's emancipation might not get started on the wrong track and run into my Graz? His chivalry would never let him re- fuse woman who proposed to him. -.