The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-22
PUMPKINS u.
SQUASt4ES
By N. DUAL
Copyright. lsls. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.

AcQu1feu Qulte a little property mus
early in his are He had just pur.
chased a coy house, and the next
thing needed was a wife.
Sarah Jane Scott. twenty years old,
was a very nice %girl-very nice. She
was good at needlework. homework
and other kinds of work which would
have made her a treasure Of a wife.
She and E5enezer met one day, and
they looked good to each other. From
thence sprang a courtship, and there
was no n who interfered or objected.
Ebenezer could support a wife, and
Sarah Jane could be of great help to a
husband.
There was only one trait in the char
acter in either one that could be criti-
cised. and that was developed to each
other just at the wrong time. Ebene-
Fer had come counting. and his mine
was about made up to ask Sarah Jane
for her hand when the conversation
happened to touch OH astronomy.
Isn't it singular how the sun moves
around the earth from east to west?"
queried Ebenezer just as he was ready
to go home.
But the sun does not move around
the EARTH" mildly protested Sarah
Jane. 1.-THE earth moves around the
sun, and it moves from east to west
because nature arranged it to, just as
it did for a tree to stand on its roots"
did you ever watch the sun moye?"
asked Ebenezer. with a very sober
face.
Never, Eben, but l have watched
the earth move. The sun stands as
still as a great rock, while our earth
move along. Why, Eben, don't you
remember the proof given in geogra-
ply of the earth's, moving round the
sum-" "o
"Well. we'll, Sarah. you are a queer
girl. The sun certainly moves, and If
you have never seen it To- there is
something very wrong with your eyes.
1t move from east to west. but l don't
see why it can't just as well move
from north to SOUTH
Sarah Jane looked at Ebenezer for
a long minute to see if he was joking.
She found him very earnest in this
belief, and it gave her an unpleasant
shock. She had never found him an
ignorant man in any particular, and
this was ignorance, of the grossest
kind.
"Eben," she quietly said. you are
not wanting me to understand that
the sun owe along like a man walk
ing? You cannot believe this against
the known facts. Ii has been hun
dreds-o years since it was known
that the earth moved, around the sun"
people may think so. but that
doesn't make it So" answered Eben-
ezer as the light Of defiance shone in
his eyes. II say the sun moves. l
have seen it move. l saw it moving
along not five hours ago. My eyes are
good eyes. What my eyes see l am
not going back on. Are you going to
believe that the sun, stands still just
because a lot Of nearsighted men claim
it does so"
"Oh, well, we won't discuss the mat.
ter any further" said Sarah Jane, re-
alizing that it might lead to unfortu-
nate results.
But we will" exclaimed Ebenezer
as he set his jaw. you believe one
way and I another. Let us decide who
is right"
But how are we going to decided"
she protested In tones which betrayed
vexat1on.
"Why, you are going to believe as 1
believe"
But I can't. You won't find one in
a million people who believe with you.
You can keep on believing so If you
will, but l can never agree with you.
However. it is a matter that We need
not get angry about. We have always
got plenty of sunshine whether the
sun stands still or moves along, and
we probably always shall. We are
having pleasant weather. aren't WEI"
Sarah Jane Scott" said Ebenezel
as he laid his hand IN the knob of the
door to go out. "when you have come
to believe as l believe Just send me-
a little note to that effect. will you?"
And Ebenezer, the very good young
D"A' UuI lAc FeIy OUSLludtc yOuut
man, walked out into the darkness. II,
never received the note referred to
and the reader will not wonder why
He expected it for a month, and whel
1t never appeared he was more thar
ever determined in his belief that tn
sun moved right along and left every
I thing behind it. AS for Sarah Jan
Scott, she was astonished. angere,
and Inundated, and you can't expec
that the girl with such feelings is 60
) Ing to give up her point Of y5ew.
, 1t wasn't necessary thAtss4ikker on
, should leave the town. EllEns7f1iYed4a
one end Of 1t and Sarah Jai1f11faa1S6eaaothe
and they seldom met. When they di
there was a cold nod exchanged. Sey
eral years passed away, and one da
!, Sarah was married to a. man name
Peters. Before consentings to be hi
: wife she questioned him about the SUI
: He readily answered that the cart
: moved around the sun, and the wee
Later they were married.
: When the news Of her marriag
reached the ears Of Ebenezer he &C
4 q huRflA m him and fhroo m0nfha 1Aff