Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-09-14
PUMPKINS Us.
SQUASHES
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
BY M. QUAD

man OF twenty-three. He was q good
and industrious young man and had
acquired quite little property thus
early in his career. He had lust pur.
chased cozy house, and the next
thing needed was wife.
Sarah Jane Scott, twenty years old,
was very nice girl-very nice. She
was good at needlework, Homework
and other kinds of work which would
have made her treasure of wife.
She and EbeneZer met one day, and
they looked good to each other. From
thence sprang courtship, and there
was no one who interfered or objected.
Ebenezer could support 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.
clsed, and that was developed to each
other just at the wrong time. Ebene.
zer had come counting, and his mind
was about made up to ask Sarah Jane
for her hand when the conversation
happened to touch on 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. THE earth moves around the
sun, and 1t moves from east to west
because nature arranged 1t to, just as
1t did for tree to stand on its roots"
Did you ever watch the sun mover"
asked Ebenezer, with a very sober
face.
Never, Eben. but | have watched
the earth move. The sun stands as
still as great rock, while our earth
moves along. Why, Eben, don't you
remember the proof given in geogra-
ply of the earth's moving round the
sum-
well well, Sarah, you are a queer
girl. The sun certainly moves, and If
you have never seen 1t move there is
something very wrong with your eyes.
1t moves from east to west, but don't
see why it can't just as well move
from north to south"
Sarah Jane looked at Ebenezer for
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 moves along like man walk
/ ing? You cannot believe this agains
! the known facts 1t has been hun
n dreds of years since 1t was known
that the earth moved around the SUM-"
people may think SO, but tina
1 doesn't make 1t So" answered Eben
eZer as the light of defiance shone IL
: his eyes. II say the sun moves.
= have seen 1t move | saw 1t moving
along not five hours ago My eyes arr
. good eyes. What my eyes see | an
I not going back on. Are you going t,
believe that the sun stands still JUS
because lot of nearsighted men CLAIM
1t does SOP
!. "Oh, well, we won't discuss the mat
D alizing that it might lead to unfortu
nate results.
But we will!' exclaimed EbenezeI
: as he set his jaw. You believe one
way and another. Let us decide who
, is right"
But how are we going to decideT
. she protested In tones which betrayed
I vexation.
1 "Why, you are going to believe as
| believe"
r But | can't. You won't find one in
7 million people who believe with you
You can keep ON believing SO If you
will, but | can never agree with you
However, it Is 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 wer
Sarah Jane Scott" said Ebenezei
as he laid his hand on the knob of the
door to go out "when you have come
to believe as | believe just send me
little note to that effect. will your"
And EbeneZer. the very good young
, man, but the very obstinate young
man, walked out into the darkness. He
! never received the note referred to,
and the reader will not wonder why.
He expected 1t for month and when
1t never appeared he was more than
ever determined In his belief that the
! sun moved right along and left every
thing behind 1t. As for Sarah Jane
Scott, she was astonished, angered
and Inundated. and you can't expect
that the girl with such feelings Is go
ing to give up her point of view.
1t wasn't necessary that either one
should leave the town. Eben lived at
one end of 1t and Sarah Jane the other
and they seldom met. When they did
there was cold nod exchanged. Sew
eral years passed away, and one day
Sarah was married to a man named