Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29

| the rest that would mean restoration
| for his eyes. He felt no sort of re-
sentiment for his affection. He got on
very well. The girls were good. they
helped him greatly. The members
were patient, full OF sympathy, be-
cause they loved him. He knew his
Bible from cover to cover. and his
every thought was centered upon bis
work so that his sermons did not
deteriorate. just a little rest, free
dom from killing worry. II only there
were more money!
If the girls felt anxiety on his &C.
count, bravely they gave no sign. "A
hundred dollars month Is not q
great deal of money on which to sup
port family and mainlaiu three
daughters In school, And Mr.. Tolliver
had never relinquished his old custom
of tithing-a tenth of his mite for the
Lord. Ii sometimes tie girls felt that
ten dollars a. month could better be
spared from the church than from the
parsonage, that the Lord in His aff1u-
ence might better be deprived than
the pastor In his poverty, they did
not complain. Ellen thought about it,
of course, for she was turbulent,
given to turbulent thoughts. It was
her birth which had cost the home
it's mother. Perhaps 1t was sorry
knowledge OF what she had cost the
family that stirred her to q great
| eagerness to do something for them,
that determined her to carry life be-
fore her with high and triumphant
hand. Perhaps 1t was only her youth,
for she was not yet seventeen. It was
for this turbulence OF hers that she
was known as Ginger Ella.
Helen, who was twenty three years
old, after two years CT training at the
normal school, had served for two
years as. teacher In neighboring
town. Her small check coming into
the parsonage every month had meant
something almost akin to richness,
until the unaccustomed expense of
medical treatments had made such
voracious demands upon them. Now
the twins also were ready to 60 into
the normal school for training in the
fall Ginger felt that 1t was real
extravaganza on the part of the fam
lily to- assume the expense OF educat-
ing Marjory To teach school. That
money might better be saved. Mar
jory was beautiful. The obvious end
of beauty is marriage to great for
tune. From her earliest childhood,
in her queer. small heart, Ginger Ella
had sacredly dedicated her beautiful
sister to that high estate. She would
enrich the family by marriage.
In her inexperienced youth, Ginger
general groups-reguIar men. romantic
figures and base pretenders. Regular
men were like her father, settled, ur-
bane, and immune to sex. Like Eddy
Jackson. Ginger called him a regular.
Eddy Jackson had been one of their
first friends when the Tollivers came
to Red Thrush. He was farmer.
Not hat Ginger called what Eddy
Jackson did farming. The neighbors
did not call It that, either. Ginger
Ella called it playing. They called
it kid-glovins. Eddy Jackson was an
agriculturist, an experimentalist He
was of the new school, one of those
who studies the land as mechanic
studies his tools. The neighbOrs
laughed at what they called his high
dinkuses-but the fact that he made,
in spot cash, every year, nearly twice
as much money as they did from the
same amount of land, gave him a
certain authority among them. They
said he was lucky, but they went to
him for advice.
There was a long low building on
his farm which Ginger called the
sacred shed. Eddy jackson called it
the lab. And there, with microscopes
and plates and curious tubes and
queer liquids and funny little boxes
and bottles and cans Of sand and soil,
Eddy Jackson did strange things.
with soil. with seeds and sprouts.
Often, during the summer, young
men, students from the state univer-
sites, came and stayed at the farm
which Eddy called Pay Dirt-and
hobnoobed about with him fraternally.
But when Eddy told them to do any
thing, they obeyed as If they were
servants. And so they were. But
not che servants of Eddy Jackson
servants of the soil, ct the state, the
great farming state Of Iowa.
So Eddy Jackson, for all his youth
and his sometimes hippant way of
dealing with serious subjects, tilted
into Ginger's classification as regular
just like her father. He never
waxed sentimental He never sue
cumbed to what she bitterly termed
paving" He went about with Helen
until Professor Langley attained the
heights of monopoly in her time as
we'll as her affection, and then he
obligingly transferred his attentions
to the twins, taking them inter-
changeably according to the occasion,
or both together, and sometimes, al
though she always protested, Ginger
| herself.
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