(Continued from last week.)
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER T.--Ttii‘ crowning desire in
the life ui <ilil Baumgartner, a Penn
sylvania German is to obtain possession
of the beautiful meadow which lies just
between Baumgartner's property and the
railroad .station. The property in question
was inherited by Sarah Pressel, very
pretty and athletic young girl, and be
longed solely lo her. But old Baumgart
ner had longed for it so many years and
endeavored in purehase it from Sarah's
father so many times that the property
became known as "Baumgartner's*
yearn." At the vicinage gatherings on
the porch of the stole old Baumgart
ner always declared thal the property
Would some day lie his. At length Baum
gartner came to realize that hlw only
hope of obtaining the properiy would ho
through the marriage of his son Sephen
ijah to Sarah I ■ i • .1 In a rnoek auction
“Seffy" as Sepl . nijah P. B mgarti’e-r,
Jr., is popularly known. Is rallied off by
his father to Sarah for
CHAPTER II "Seffy” Is a meek, slow
going youth, who is ivv. i fit In the
race for anything, lie Is fair haired, do
cile, always led by his father. Of a rather
angelic disposition is he a gentle arid
kind youth who sn ms to not u |.*rsland
anything about strip and competition.
Thus lie appears utt< rly incapacitated to
win in any contest of love or life. Sarah
Pressel is quite the opp . die of Seify. Her
hair is nearly red. 81a is all lit', and ani
mation and can jump fences like a w hi
colt and she Is grace and color itself. Her
one fault is a very high temper. Baum
gartner gives Scft'y some lessons In court
ship.
CHAPTER Hi. Seffy dons Ills stove
pipit- hat and prepares to go sit up with
Sarah. Hauingar-. Her has caused ldmself
to he appointed guardian of Bally.
CHAPTER 1V -Seffy shows Ids first
spark of ami., ition. He is unable to n
sisi the fas. muting witcheries of Sally
and he kisses lu-r It was the Ilrst kiss
he had ever known. But Seffy was not
the lirst man to know the pie sures of
kissing Sally bo- prom;... him, how -
ever, that sin- will never again kiss any
man inn him.
CHAPTER V.—Sam Fritz, a drunken
grocery < dork, old Baumgartner calls
him a "rnoiasses tapper calls on Sally
and interrupts the kis.>i,ig. They go into
the parlor and l>. n 'sining up” eon
test. in aceordatua with the customs of
the place and the time, the one who is
defeated in such a contest is unworthy
the hand of H girl. S*■ ft \ l ■. - to si. p
and begins sinning. Sally leaves the
room in a huff .lying. "Good night, gen
tlemen."
CHAPTER VI. Seffy tells Ids father of
his ... how Sam Fritz had
pinned to his bosom while he slept a
pasteboard tombs me bearing the in
scription: "Heplien, jail P. Baumgartner,
Jr. Went to his i s;, June la, lx, l, in the
£t)th year of ids age. Gone not, but For
got. Read bu. awards."
CHAPTER VII. Seffy and Sally meet
at the Poison spring. She urges him to
do something to r deem himself. The
father advises Seffy to take Sally home
from church.
CHAPTER VIII This would he the
crucial test, according to the custom of
the tun. . which c i.en meant di grace
or even murder and suicide. It was the
rule in such a P-si thal the one whose
arm the girl accepted when leaving the
church would he the favored suitor, and
the rejected one was disgrai ed and must
leave town or triumph over his opponent
by force. Seffy Oreads the church ordeal.
CHAPTER IX.—The church is crowded
In expectancy of the enactment of tne
roman. ami a crowd awaits without.
Seify takes up his position outside tin.
door to wait for the - -rvieos to end a no
for Pally to cone t it. Sally appears,
radiant in her expectancy. Sin- walks
down the steps alone, and on down the
walk alone. Slill S- ": h. -Kates Alone
she walks nearly to the gate while her
face burns with tie- huml, tiion. Then
Sam takes Sally's arm. s > says. "1 am
Bali:- li.-d," a id S.-ffy is i.-ft in disgrace
to he held up to the ridicule and scorn
of the vicinage.
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OHAPTKK X.—Sum continues his
Irinking and Sully begins to acquire the
oabit. Olil Huuu.gnr m r is dlsgustid at
wiTy's miserable lull lire at ike church
csl. He curses his sun and strides h:i;i a
powerful bluiv with his list full in the
face. SelTy falls lifeless and the blood
mingles with Ills hair. Then the repent
int father gathers the youth in bin arms
and hurries with, him to the house, alt
the time calling fi r help. His cries at
tract Sally and Sum Fritz, who are just
returning from tile wedding ceremonies,
-tally rushes up to Sefly's room and finds
him still unconscious. In the morning
•SelTy has disappeared.
XI.
When Spring Came.
That was a cold and lonely winter
for the old man. The bay mare stood
In the stable and whinnied for Seffy.
The old house was full of harsh
echoes. Its spirit seemed to have
gone. Seffy's father knew now what
a rare thing is joy—and what a joy
ous creature Seffy had been.
The ground was hard to till. And
often he thought about what he had
said of Seffy's mother.
Then he would toil up the steep
stair to the garret—he had become
quite feeble—and take out of an old
Gorman chest a daguerreotype of her
with Seffy in her arms. And some
times he would cry over it until his
beard was wet.
"God bless you, my little boy,” he
would sometimes say, “that you cared
for her more than I did. You nefer
called her no names.
“1 didn’t know I could be so mean
to the dead—who don't doserfe it. and
can’t talk back. And, God-a’mighty!
if any one's to he called names, it's
me!—not her nor—you. Seffy, nor you!
For 1 expect I’m a murderer!”
And sometimes, when his loneliness
was too hard to be borne, he would go
out and sit for hours and talk to the
oi l bay mare—about Seffy. He fancied
she quite understood, and I do, too.
When the spring came he plowed
alone. And this was hardest of all.
To plow around and around his vast
fields with no one to meet in the
other furrow—no one to talk, to smile,
to laugh to—then, when noon came, to
sit under the shade of some tree redo
lent with memories of the pretty little
boy. where he and Seffy had sat. from
his childhood to his manhood, and eat
the food which choked!
Oh, if he could only have laughed—
at himself, at Seffy, at the mare, at
anybody or anything! If he could only
have laughed!
And he knew tHat every animal on
the place wondered and hungered for
little Seffy and questioned him with
pathetic eyes, while he, at first., guiltily
kept silent—then tried to confess his
shame to them.
“Yas," he told the mare, “I done it
—I struck him—here, right here! In
he fare—while hi eyes was looking
n mine—pleading and here was
blood—and here and here—and dust
in his hair—and his eyes was closed
—and when I run home wiss him his
legs dangled like he was dead. And
he crawled away somewheres to die
—I don't know why they don’t come
and hang me. I haf told 'em all that
1 killed him. But no one don’t arrest
me.”
XII.
The Kiss Like Seffy’s.
One day he went up to the vine
covered liou.se on the Hill of Delight,
with a bundle of papers in his hand.
“See yere. Sally," he said senilely,
"yere's you’ papers. I gif up the
guardeenship. You ken git another
one if you not on age > it. 1 don't keer
a durn who. I'm tired. If it wasn’t
for you—Seffy would be alife.”
Sally drooped her head.
“Yes." she said, so humbly that he
relented a little.
“I got to do it. I ain't no account
no more. I ought to haf a guardeen
myself. And people’s making such a
fuss—you ain't treated us right—no,
you ain't! 1 guess 1 had better not
be mixed in. They say that you mar
ried a drunkard, and killed—a man—
and got to be a drunkard yourself. But
1 know I*»tter 'bout one sing. 1 killed
him. Yet they say that you married
Sam cliust to spite poor Seffy—and
yet lofing Scf. Oh. Sef—Sef—why
didn't she tell you so!"
He wrent on heedlessly till he knew
that Sally was sobbing. He raised her
face and looked into it curiously and
saw for the first time that pathetic
wanness of which, also, people began
to talk.
"Sally,” be said then, "you not
well?"
"Quite well,” said Sally.
"Then you got trouble—trouble, too,
Sally?”
"Oh, pappy," she pleaded breathless
ly, “don’t you turn away from me, too.
I have no one but you! No. I have
; not treated you right. Hut, oh, life is
j so hard to me!”
"No,” he said, smoothing her hair
with his gnarled old hand, “l’fe had
| my eyes turned within. Hut I didn’t
know you had trouble. I heerd that
Sam had took to hard drinkin' and I
sought you didn’t keer. You was so
reckless—”
"Yes,” she sighed, “I am reckless!
And—yes—I drink sometimes. But
it is that way I can forget.”
”1 don’t turn ag’in’ no one in trouble,
efen if they don’t treat me right—and
drink—”
"Forgive me! Oh, forgive me, pappy!
The suffering is mine!"
"Yas,” he said, "yas—don’t cry. But
the suffering ain’t all your’n.”
"No,” she said. “Not all—not all!”
"But, Sally, if I take the papers
back, you won’t drink no more? It
ain’t nice—efen if you air the wife of
a drunkard.”
"No. If you will be my friend, I will
try to be what I would have been as
Seffy’s wife!”
“It’s a bargain—and I’m ; any I
spoke bo harsh, Sally. Mebby, mebby
—God knows!—we ken comfort one
another. I—Sally—I need some one,
too! ”
“Yes! Will you let me? I will have
nc> friend but jouV’
“Yas! A id I won’t 1 ave no frU
but you, Sally.”
“Will you let me kiss yr.u?”
“Do you want to?” he cried tremu
lously.
“Yes,” whispered the girl.
“Me? Sally, lem me kiss you!”
She put up her lips almost solemnly
—and with that their compact was
sealed.
(To be continued.)
PET DOG AS FARM WAND.
Goes for Cows and Finds Pigs—Is on
Kansas Man’s Pay Roll.
Ottawa, Kan.—Farmer Theodore
Smith has a setter dog, originally
named Joe, but who was soon after
ward elevated to the dignity of .Toe
Smith because of his intelligence,
which it was decided entitled him to
higher rank in the family.
“Joe,” for short, carries a tin cup
each morning from the hcmse to the
barn to be filled with fresh milk for
breakfast. He has also learned to
carry berry boxes.
If any mcmb- r of the family says:
Joe, do >ou see any hawks to-day?”
he will make a large circle around the
house and chicken yard, scanning the !
ky, and perhaps go tearing down the
field under a blackbird or a songbird
• hat happens to be passing. He does
not like cows, but will go alone to the
. ml of tin cm mi ■, three-quarters of a
mile from the house, and bring the
■ ows home, walking quietly behind the
herd.
Mr. Smith was working at the far
, nd of his farm when his machine oil
gave out. He happened to have a small
paddle in his pocket, on which he
wrote, “Send me some oil by Joe.” He ■,
ave the paddle to Joe and started him
home. In a short time Joe came hack,
an oil can tied around his neck.
Hut the dog's best work is with the
pigs. As Mr. Smith goes to the trough,
with a pail in each hand and Joe at
his heels, yon might hear this talk:
"Joe, there's those [hgs in that trough
again.” With no further words Joe
clears the fence with a hound and be
gins scattering pigs right and left. He
lines the pigs up in a circle about the
trough, where he keeps them until Mr.
Smith sweeps and cleans the trough.
The family have all petted and
babied the dog ever since he was a lit
tle wabbly pup. They have always
talked to him and never whipped him. j
They never fail to pay him in some
way for work well done. He was never
trained, lie just, learned.
Lad’s Reason Restored by Father.
New Philadelphia, O.—Alessandro
Colavechio, aged 21, is on the way to
his home in sunny Italy, longing for
which dethroned his reason within
ten months after his arrival in Amer
ica in 1905, and since which time he
has been confined in the Massillon
state hospital. A special act of the
Ohio legislature was necessary to ad
mit the alt n hoy to the state institu
uar •^aaraa» n ■w.iwi n mnrm
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life.
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