(Continued from last week.)
SYNOPSIS.
OH A ITER I —Tin* crowning desire In
the lif• ■ in' old Baumgartner, a Penn
sylvania (hi man is to obtain possession
of tl;o In ititlful meadow which lies just
bi iivi i n Baumgartner's property and the
railroad s.atiou. The property In question
was inherited by Sarah Pressel, very
pretty and athletic young girl, and be
longed solely to her. But old Baumgart
ner had longed for It so many years and
endeavored to purchase it from Sarah's
father so many times that the property
became known as "Baumgartner'.s
yearn." At the vicinage gatherings on
tile porch of the store old Baumgart
ner always declared that the property
would some day lie ids. At length Baum
gartner came to realize that his only
hope of obtaining the property would he
through tlie marriage of Ins son Sephen
ijah to Sarah Pressel. In a muck auction
"Seffv" as Sephenijah P. Baumgartner,
Jr., is popularly known, is rallied off by
his father to .Surah for $1.
CHAPTER 11.— "Scffy" is a meek, slow
going' youth, who :s never tirsi in the
race for anything. He is fair haired, do
cile, always led by his father, til a rather
angelic disposition is he—a gentle and
kind youth who seems to not u ierstand
anything about str.te and competition.
Thus lie appears utterly incap,u tinted to
win in any contest of love or lifg. Sarah
pressel is quite the opposite of Scffy. iler
hair is neatly red. Sin is all lifi and ani
mation and can jump fenees like a wild
colt and she is graee and color itself, iler
one fault is a \ery hi ;h temper. Baum
gartner gives Si li > some lessons ill court
ship.
CHAPTER 1H,— Seffv dons his strive
pipit* hat and prepare- to gi sit up witl.
Sarah, Baun.. a i . 11. r has mused himself
to he appointed guardian of tjally.
CHAPTER IV.—Si sly shows his first
spark of animation, lie is un ikje to n
sisl tilt* fa 'ill 'liny witcheriesV4ef Sally
and lie kisses her. ll was the first kiss
he had exer known. But Scffy was not
tile tirsi to.in in know tie ph astll es of
kissing Sally She promises hint, how
ever, that i i e will never again kiss any
man but him.
Now, I beg to ask you whether an
amende was ever more delicious—con
sidering that much of what she said
to and for Seffy was meant to and for
herself alone? Indeed, before she got
through with it, it bad affected her
Quite as if Seffy had pleaded it, and
her voice sank to its pretty mezzo,
then quivered a bit, and she under
stood that was answering herself!
“Seffy, I am awfully sorry!”
“For what, Sally?" asked Seffy.
Seffy, dull Seffy, really did not know'
for what. But there is something
which God gives the dull, as well as
the sprightly wotted, that outleaps
words to comfort sorrow. And this
Seffy had abundantly. It first ex
pressed Itself in the strong young arms
which again closed in utter silence
upon the sorrowing one.
Presently (perhai s you have not
forgotten how it is?) in the same si
lence, Seffy's lips found hers—not as
the victor pounces upon the spoil of
Jus conquest -but slowly, uncertainly,
unconfidently—as if the lips were a
saint's relies; and Sally waited, not
as she had waited before, but in the
knowledge that her hour had come
and that this kiss—-the first this youth
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had given to woman since his mother's
died in his infancy—must not he re
ceived as others had been, but as sa
credly as it came; and when it finally
fell the lips of the coquette quivered
as they received it, and then suddenly
sobbed, and did not know why—
Do you?
"1 have never kissed no one hut
mother,” said Seffy, who felt heinous,
"I don't know how! 1 don't know what
made me do it—I couldn't help it. It
won’t happen again-”
Whereat Sally laughed and clifng
about Seffy's delighted neck and cried
to his puzzled heart:
‘‘Yes, it will!”
And kissed him back!
"Sally," said Seffy with solemnity,
"do you mean it? You not mad?"
"Seffy,” said Sally, "I am not worth
it. I have been kissed by everybody
who wanted to kis$ me—and 1 have
kissed everybody 1 wanted to kiss!”
•‘I am sorry for you, Sally," said
Seffy, not meaning at all what she
thought he meant—nor anything quite
clear to himself, except that she had
recklessly squandered something pre
cious.
"I am, too, now.”
And then—
"1 shall never kiss no one but you,
no more.”
‘‘Nor I anybody but you, Seffy.”
And, strange as it may seem, in
that moment. Seffy was the greater,
braver and stronger, and Sally but the
waiting, willing woman—as she ought
to have been. Indeed, Seffy was
courageous enough to have put that
question which might, perhaps, trans
mute the pasture-field into one of those
that lie within the borders of Elysium.
But Sam moved—with decision.
They flew apart. Though he did not
at once enter it was too late—the
rapport was broken. Nevertheless,
such things can be mended, if there is
time. It. is quite certain that if they
could have continued a little longer
in that dark parlor, with only the
small ray of the lamp from the hall
to lighten it, everything the sleepless
old man at home so ardently wished
might have been accomplished and
they might have taken down that
line-fence the next day and then have
lived happy ever after—quite in the
way of the old-fashioned story-books.
For Seffy was still brave to audacity,
and Sally was yet at his mercy—and
happy to be so.
And here, if we were not arrived at
a climax, 1 would venture to halt this
history for a moment that we might
discuss a bit those trifles in life which
the ancients called Fate; and for
which, or the lack of which, life often
goes awry!
But while Softy's courage grew
again, and Sally’s hope, the door on
the other side of the room opened and
the odious Sam came through.
V.
Seffy's Sitting-Up—and Down Again.
However, there was another door—
and Sant arrived only to hear it close
upon Seffy, whom Sally had just
| pushed through it.
“Seffy?" asked Sant casually.
"Yes!" answered Sally, quite unable
to keep the joy out of her voice, "he's
just come, and gone out to the spring
—for a—drink!" prevaricated Sally.
“He'll drink something." A
Ily which Sam meant some kind of |
an animal, with his water.
“Nothing but water!" said Sally
meaningly. Sam perceived instantly
"how the land lay,” and made his cun
ning plans. Sam was not dull. He
returned to the sitting room with Sal
ly—where Seffy presently followed, I
am sorry to say, like a conquering
hero—at which Sam gloated.
Unfortunately for Seffy. rural eti
quette. as everybody knows, gave Sam
precedence. "First come—last go,”
is the illogical rule. But you are to be
informed that the late comer is at lib
erty to "outsit" his rival, if he can—
or to dislodge him, if he can—by
strategy. But every rustic lover at
i tempts this at the greatest of risks,
i To fall is equivalent to losing caste— j
; not only with the lady in question, but '
also with the fickle world. For no j
girl of any spirit would look upon a
swain who had ignomlniously failed at
such a crisis, unless he should rehabili
tate himself—which means to accom
plish the almost impossible.
Sam took all this into consideration
as he watched Seffy—reclining in the
easy chair which Sally had injudi
ciously and invidiously placed for him
him—grow drowsy.
“Sally,” said Sam at the right mo
ment, “play something."
‘"I don't care to!” protested Sally.
But then she turned prettily to Seffy.
“Shall I, Seffy?”
“Yes,” smiled Seffy. from his Elysi
um, seeure and confident. “I don't
fcare!”
"And,” said Sam insidiously, "we'll
I all sing. You air, me tenor, Seffy
| bass.”
“1 can't sing no bass!" said Seffy
easily, “and Sam knows it. He can’t
make no fool off of me. Go on. I'll
set here and—and—enjoy myself.”
This was the direct rustic challenge,
with aplomb! Sam might choose his
weapons! It made no odds! And
Sally had to take it up for Seffy. This
she loyally did.
Unfortunately, when Sally went to
the organ Seffy was at her hack and in
the shadow—the lamp had to be
moved—and in that sleepy-hollow
chair. Hut she had all possible con
fidence in him—and, alas! he had in
himself. For a while he feasted his
eyes upon the exquisite back she had
turned to him—and then, with a thrill
of possession, inventoried the hair he
had kissed—a little disordered—the
lips—the waist he had embraced—
how glorious that w’as! It seemed al
most impossible now that he had done
it. And the hands—what? He was
lost for a moment. Then he was
plowing opposite his father. The voice
which had so sweetly—what was it ex
actly it had said—what?—he was
nearing the line stake—still plowing—
he could hear the voice quite distinct
ly—many of them—a choir—“I want
to be an angel.” Sally seemed mistily
there—but he was still plowing—now
he stopped—more and more mist—
Seffy slept.
Sam stopped his tenor that Sally
might hear him sleep.
"He said he couldn’t sing bass!”
grinned Sam.
Sally’s hand flew to her heart. She
had been trilling, if not with the art,
yet with the feeling, of a lark. It was
simply the joy with which Seffy had
tilled her—only joy, vast and free. The
red flamed in her cheeks at wh t
she saw. I shall not describe it. No
lover was ever more abject—no lady
was ever more furious! We see the
comedy of it only. We would not have
been hurt, eh? But we did not live
then or there nor under Sally’s curious
small conditions—nor with Sally's tem
per. Curiously enough, this Scripture
came to Sally's mind:
“Could ye not wratch with me one
hour?”
You know what strange and inop
portune things come into the dis
tressed, unguarded mind.
Sally rose with a dignity which
even Sam had not suspected, and said:
“Gentlemen, good night.”
(To be continued.)
PRICE-CUTTING.
In the End the Consumers Are Not
Ones Who Gain Benefit.
The average merchant is informed
as to the evils of price cutting. He
knows just where to draw the line,
just how far he dares go in lowering
quotations for the sake of drawing
trade. He realizes that even if the
principle of using “leaders” to attract
customers is permissible, it is limited
iii its ii "fulness and exceedingly dan
gerous tv hen overdone. Not only is ft
apt to degenerate into indiscriminate
cutting of 11:■ >i i -. to lead to dissatisfac
tion among customers, and has a ten
dency toward giving a store a cheap
reput?'ion, but it is inclined to arouse
suspicion among other merchants and
the people as well.
w mie me morenant is so rnorougn
Jy grounded >n the matter of price-cut
ting, the public has not b‘ en so gen
erally educated. There are those who
exult when store managers are at war
believing that they may profit by the
losses of the competitors. It is just
the oid fable of Aesop over again—
the lion and the bear fight over the j
prey until both are too much exhaust j
ed to move, and then the si" fox oome- |
along arid picks up the dainty arid i
bears it away to cat at his leisure.
The public rejoices over the price- j
cutting campaigns. It profits by them. |
and on account of the fact that it '
has been taught to consider prices
only, it feels justified in taking every
advantage offer, d it.
The store which starts a campaign
of price reduction and bellows and
roars and screams for the sake of
drawing custom, will either go under,
because it has been foolish or be
cause it has made up its mind to de
fraud its creditors, or else It sells
goods which are far lower in merit
and true value than it pretends.
T he public loses, but. it does not
realize it. If a store fails to pay its
creditors, the wholesalers and manu
facturers must make their losses good
in some wa> If the store seeks to
foist inferior goods upon the public
at a lower price, the public gets what
it pays for, no doubt, but. believes
that it has been cheated and robbed,
and conies to have a low opinion of
merchants as a whole. The whole
I trouble lies in tlm fact that the pub
lic. instead of being a prey to the
j merchant, is really playing into the
i hands of sharpers while seeking, too
i often, to g t the best of the mer
! chants.
spent at home reacts in its benefits
with unceasing general profit.
Sent out of town it’s life is ended.
Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuous
benefit. Business men should awake to the importance of keeping
this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious advertising.
LIKED FIRES.
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V.—'
Cohen—My mudder-fn-law talks Just
like a house afire.
Nathan—Dot ith vy you don't put
her out, eh?
Preaching and Practice.
"Didn't 1 tell you to take the ax an’
rut wood enough to keep the house
warm?”
"Yes; but hain't you been preacliin’
this long tin e bout tl.e preservation
of the forests ,,r
And thereupon tue old man wore
out two for.re rails on him, ar.d told
him he van too voang to understand
tha politics dim. i meau all it said.
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