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Jake, the Farmer’s Boy.
Chieagp Times.
Jake went whistling along the
road on his way home from work.—
He had been plowing in the corner
field. It was a glorious evening in
September—seeding time. Such an
autumny evening as could only' be
found among the hills of Ohio. The
sun had sunk below the horizon, but
with his expiring rays had beautiful¬
ly decorated the heavens with blem
ded shades of purple and gold. Jake
sat astride of his old gray mare con¬
tented and happy. “The fieljl wrli
b# ready for the-harro* day after to¬
morrow,” he soliloquized, “the next
1 will commence drilling, and finish
it Saturday. Whoop, la!” Again
the whistling mingled merrily with
the jingling of the chains attached
to the plow harness.
Jake’s blue shirt was soiled with
perspiration and dust. A portion of
ih« crown of his hat was gone, mak¬
ing an aperture through which peep¬
ed his—I I wish I could sayiblonde
hair, but it was sandy, very sandy.
His hands and face were sun¬
burned and rough, while "his feet,
hanging at thesidesof the old mare,
were bare and dirty, hut all this did
not interfere in the least with his
peace of mind until upon turning a
fork m the road he found himself by
the side of Farmer Anderson’s daugh¬
ter, who was walking hoin’e from
Squire Ford’s, where she had been
invited to tea. -She rejoiced in tho
name of Rosa, this girl of 17, with
pink cheeks and sky -blue eyes. Very
pretty and innocent she looked in
her white dress and floating ribbons.
“Ho da-do, Jake?” she said, with
a careless toss of her head. Jake’s
greeting was inaudible because of a
choking sensation in his throat.—
Somehow of late he had very pecu¬
liar feelings whenever he was with
Miss Rosa—such a queer comming¬
ling of pain and joy. lie could not
have told for his life which predom¬
inated or which he preferred. His
pain was so exquisite, and the joy so
excruciating.
He slipped down from the mare
and started the team ahead. He had
a vague impression that his feet
would be less conspicuoas on the
ground than dangling in the air in
close proximity to Rosa’s nose, lie
wished in a confused and dazed sort
of way, for he had lost all control of
his thinking powers, that they were
not so large or so dirty. He would
have bartered his hopes of eternal
life just then for a pair of shoes —
The odor from his sweat-soaked
clothes had suddenly become very
apparent and offensive fo him. She
appeared so dainty and pure in con¬
trast. Heavens! how the blood surg¬
ed to his heait as he stumbled awk¬
wardly along by her side, trying to
think of something to say.
“Of course you’re going to the
fair, Rosa?” he finally asked, timid¬
ly, at the same time breaking off the
top of a tall weed that lie might have
to carry—his hands seemed so swol¬
len in size and so much in the way.
“Oh, yes/’ she answeied, “every¬
body is going, I guess.” She did not
manifest any interest as to whether
lie would be there. lie wished she
would.
' “Harry Ford will enter his brown
colt—the one he rides, you know.—
I hope it will take the premium, don’t
you?” Then without waiting for an
answer she launched into a lengthy
description of what a perfectly love
ly time she had been having at the
Fords’ that evening, and. wound up
with asking, “Don’t you think they
are sncli a nice family?”
An entirely new feeling crept in¬
to Jake’s heart. He and Harry Ford
had always been good friends, but
at once lie found himself believing
that an opportunty to throttle Har¬
ry would afford him supreme delight.
As they- were now at the gata that
led into his father’s barn.yard, Jake
did not feel obliged to answer Ro¬
sa’s question, but hastily bidding her
good-byo followed his horses to the
watering-trough. Rosa kept on down
the road toward her home. .‘.‘How
i- ‘ t*'"'*,5' ' -' “. , i. i,.
awful Jake Baily looked this eve.
ning,” she said to herself, “A ou
don’t catch Harry Ford in such a
plight.” Harry, knowing that they
Had company invited, came in early
from work. Slipping up the back
stairs to his room, he arrayed him¬
self in his Sunday clothes, and came
down to tea looking like gentle¬
man. “Jake thinks lots of.” She Im¬
gered tenderly over the thought for
a moment. “But, mercy! I could
never marry a man who went bare¬
footed and wore such a horrid dirty
skirt. Now Harry—”»he then went
off into a pleasant little reverie, in
which Ilarry waa the eentral figure.
Thus a little incident will sometimes
shape a whole after life. If Rosa
had not happened to sec Jake with
bare feet and dressed in his work
clothes, I would probably have a
different story to tell. But she could
not help having somewhat fastidi¬
ous tastes, and Jake as lie appeared
that evening was not an object cal¬
culated to excite admiration.
Jake, back at the barn, was un¬
harnessing his team and growing
more irritable every minute. “It’s
too confounded bad it had to hap¬
pen so,” he muttered as he jerked
the astonished horses around. “If 1
could only a-known that she was on
the road.” lie dashed the oats into
the feed-troughs, giving old gray a
blow on the nose for nipping at him.
Within the last half hour he had be¬
come very much dissatisfied with
himself. Ho vowed for one thing he
would quit going barefoot, lie could
not help contrasting the name of
Harry with that of Jake. He leaned
up against the gate post sulkily, loath
to go in tho house to meet the father
and mother who had treated him so
shabbily by bestowing upon him
such an appellation.
“Jaky, come to supper,” screamed
his little sister. When he worked
in the corner field they did not have
supper until night. Jake ground his
teeth in rage at the sound of his ha¬
ted name, hut went in. lie looked
straight at his plate during the eve¬
ning meal, answering the questions
addressed to him briefly and gruffly.
When he got up from the table he
went immediately to Kis room.
“Wonder what’s the matter with
Jake?” queried his father, as lie pre¬
pared to light his pipe for his eve¬
ning’s smoke. “Oh, only tired, I reck¬
on; he’ll be all right in the morning,”
answered the mothe:, as she shook
the crumbs from the tablecloth.
“You must remember, pa, it’s pret¬
ty hard on a boy not out of his teens
to work as our Jake does. Though,
to be sure,” she added thoughtfully,
“lie’s uncommon stout.”
“Pooh!” said the father, “it’s not
that. Jake’s never tired. I’d be will¬
ing to put him agin any other hand
in the county.”
“I saw him and Rosa Anderson
coinin’ down the road together be¬
fore sapper,” chimed in the little
daughter. The father and mother
exchanged significant glances, but
were discreet enough to drop the
conversation.
And Jake did come to his break¬
fast apparently all right, llis ill hui
nior had vanished with his dreams,
The only thing unusual about him
was that he had his shoes on.
“What’s the matter?” asked his
mother, looking inquiringly at his
feet. Jake blushed a little for a mo¬
ment. He was tempted to make the
excuse that his feet was sore, but he
was an honest boy, and lie blurted
out the truth. “He did not like to
'o barefooted, and lie wasn’t going
to any more.’
The mother suspected that Rosa
Anderson was the cause of the change
in her son, and she felt that twinge
and jealousy that all mothers feel
when they first become aware of the
fact that a child’s heart has gone out
to a stranger, But she was in the
main a sensible woman, so she said
nothing more and Jake started for
the corner field.
The sun, a red ball, was just peep¬
ing over the tops of the trees, the
b-rds were twittering softly among
the branches, for boisterous singing
was impossible. This lovely, hazy
^jjtumii morning Jake’s heart swell¬
ed with an undefiliable sense of en
jeyment as he drank in the delights
of nature, and he broke into whist¬
ling as musical as the songs of the
thirds. His parents heard him from
where they stood on the house-steps.
“Oh, Jake’s all right,” said the fa¬
ther, reassuringly, as his son diaap
peared from sight, but the mother
turned into the house with a sigh.—
She could not help thinking of Rosa
Anderson, and wondering how it
would all turn out.
A little later on, when the corn
stood in shocks and the frost had
shriveled tho leaves somewhat, Jake
attended a ‘singing’ held at the dis¬
trict schooldiouse. All the young
people of 111 e neighborhood were
there. Conspicuous among them
was Rosa Anderson, captivating
with her radiant beauty and coquet
ish ways—at least she appeared so
to Jake.
There was a long recess, during
which games were played out of
doors by the light of the moon.-—
Once while these games were in proi
cess Jake held Rosa’s hand in his,
and he was afraid that she would
hear his heart thumping against his
vest. He forgot himself and crush¬
ed the little hand in his great pow
erfnl palm. She complained that he
was rough. Then- he took it ten¬
derly in both of his, but she jerked
it away and ran off.
When the singing had closed and
the young people were filing slowly
out of the house, Jake, ever impul¬
sive, and too madly in love to be dis¬
creet, pushed forward, offering his
arm to escort Rosa home, but she,
with nose tilted in the air, gave him
the. “mitten.”
Tho boys nudged each other and
cast quizzing glances at him. A few
openly jeered him. * He got of
out
the house as well as he could, and
cut across the fields towards home.
When he reached his father’s farm
lie sat down on [a log on the fdge of
.Alittle patch of timber. 1 doubt if
tiie moon ever looked down upon
greater misery.
He sat there for a long time, the
agony in his heart wringing hitter
tears from his eyes. Do not laugh,
reader; you have been in a-similar
situation and know it was not a
laughable mat'er. But he stayed
there until he had strangled his love,
and dug a grave in which to bury
it,—a grave so deep that when once
interred, it could never be resurrec¬
ted. All, if she had only known
what she had lost.
The struggle was ever; be wiped
his face and put away his handker¬
chief. Then he stood up and with
clenched lists vowed he would have
his revenge. She should see the day
she would regret what she had done
to-night.
When Juke reached his father’s
door there was a faint streak of light
in the cast, and the barnyard fowls
were beginning to stir. His mother
let him in; she had been watching
for him. He looked her square in the
face. She saw, though the candle she
held in her hand gave hut a dim
light, that her boy had suddenly
changed to a man, and her mother’s
heart understood. The two gazed in¬
to each other’s eyes for a moment.
The son saw an expression of
sympathy. The mbthcr saw one
determination and defiance.
knew something was going to
pen, and she felt that she nated
sa Anderson.
Jake helped his father through with
the fall work. Then he quietly
his parents he was going if to visit
uncle in Kansas, and he cold
an opening there for himself
would remain. 11 is mother was
pared for such an announcement,
it was a great shock to the father.
had never occurred to him that
son would do else than remain
the farm, and finally, when he
done with it, take possession, lie
everything in his power notion,” to
his son from his “fool as
father called it, but to no
The only concession .Jake
make was that parhaps he
come back in the spring. and
came and grew into summer
Terms—$1.00 annum
summer into autumn, yet the father
still mourned the loss of his boy
Then came the news that Jake had
entered as a student in a law office
in the town of S-, Kan. As the
years sped on reports much to nis
credit were circulated among his old
friends and neighbhrs. Hard work
and honest legitimate endeavor were bringing Ap¬
their fruit, rucccss.
parently he had - forgotten all about
Rosa and the revenge he had once
craved.
After Jake hud gon«, Rosa Ander¬
son, with an inconsistency not un¬
common in females, felt a new ten¬
derness springing up in her heart for
him, and a regret that her little ep¬
isode at the school house had ever
happened. As time passed both the
tenderness and the regret grew. She
cherished a sort o f ideal with Jake’s
face and form. She iorgot or forgave
everything she had condemned in
him before ho went away, and invest¬
ed him with many noble attributes
which, worthy as he was, truth com¬
pels me to say he did not possess.
She coddled the belief that he would
come back to her until it became a
certainty. She was sure she would
again feel the pressure of his hand
and see the look of adoration in his
eyes. So she waited. Her friends
wondered why she did not marry.
There were many conjectures com
corning her, but never the right one.
So little we know of the real feelings
of those with whom we may be even
intimately associated!
Tun years had passed since Jake
left time the neighborhood. changes. During this
there were many Some
of his early companions had married
and were settled down into staid
fathers and mothers. A few of both
old and young had been laid to rest
in the little country graveyard,
where in summer the briers and
weeds kept watch over their graves,
and in winter the bleak winds sang
dirges for them. But none that we
‘know were among these silent ones.
It. was September, and invitations
we^e sent out for Harry Ford’s wed¬
ding. Rosa Anderson was not to be
the bride, but Jake’s sistter, now a
woman of 20. Rosa was among the
invited. She was perfectly indiffer¬
ent as to whom Harry married. She
had long ceased to feel anything but
a friendly interest in him. Hut she
was greatly agitated when she heard
that Jake was coming homo to be
present at his sister’s marriage.
A few' days before the one on
which the wedding was to take pi ice
and item of news appeared in The
Morning Star, the principal paper of
B 5 the county seat. It read some
thing like this: “We are glad to be
able to chronicle the fact that Mr.
Jacob Baily, formerly of this county,
but for the last ten years a resident
of S-, Kas., has formed a part¬
nership with one of our prominent
lawyers, Barnabas King, Esq. Mr.
Bai'y’s past record is an enviable
one. Our little city is to he congrat¬
ulated upon the acquisition of so
handsome and distinguished a citizen
We extend a henrtly ivecomo.”
Rosa read this item and clasped
her hands in silent ecstasy. “Ojoy,”
she thought, “he has really come and
my waiting is over. Will lie call?
All, perhaps lie will he too timid be¬
cause «f that deplorable I action of
mine him ten years ago. possible must explain I
to as soon as how
have regretted that. But it will come
all right, I feel it in my bones, as
grandma used to say when she had
a presentimnent,” and Rosa, leaning
her chin on her hand, sat long in
meditation the while smiling softly
to hergelf.
Jake did ,not call. The hour of the
wedding arrived, and with it the in¬
vited guests. Rosa, not less lovely
at 27 than at 17, held out her hand
timidly to the handsome fellow Airs.
Baily proudly introduced as her son
Jacob. Mrs. Bailey’s gradually hatred for Ro
sa had died as her
climbed up fortune’s huldet,
when he came back to her a
man she felt a genuine pity for
poor, misguided Anderson girl.
Could it intellectual-looking be possible that
graceful, Baily? Rosa pressed
was Jake
hand to her heart to still tie.
there. Jake stooped had to dropped pick up
handkerchief she in
confusion, and after some polite
marks treated passed his on. old friends
lie
and courteously. They all called
Mr. Baily, with an added tone of
spect quite different from the
time salutions.
After the marriage ceremony
over and refreshments had been
ed the company strolled about
yard, amusing themselves in
ways.
Rosa found herself alone
Jake a few minutes. tcyjld She deftly
ed the conversation said looking tunes,
Mr. Baily,” she “I have
ly into his face,
very much a little incident that
pelled at our schoolihouse many
years ago. You may have forgotten
it.” He was regarding her so calmly
and coldly she became painfully em¬
barrassed. “I often came near writ
ing to you how silly I thought I had
acted—that is, you know,” she gasp¬
ed. “I wanted to be friends.” Poor
Rosa could get no further. She heart'
ily wished she had not undertaken
to say anything to him about the
matter. He drew himself up. “Miss
Rosa,’ he answered, ‘that little inci
dcut proved tho turning point in my
life. But for you I would probably
be still working on my father’s farm,
raggsd and barefooted.' There was
a gleam of mischief in his eyes. “Sa
I thank you from the bottom of my
heart that you acted just as you did
that night at the old school house.
And,’ he added with a frank, cheery
laugh, ‘let ns hope that when I a*
wooing go’ again 1 shall have better
luck. At. present my only love is am¬
bition.’ Looking at his watch, he
said he had an appointment at B—
and was oblidged to leave. He lifted
his hat politely and was gone. lie
had his revenge after he had long
since ceased to care for it. But she?
Ah! well, her waiting for Jake was
over.
This happened some fifteen years
bacK. Now, as lion. Jacob Bailey
rides through the streets of B— with
his wife and children—he married
the daughter of a wealthy merchant
—his fellow-townsmen point to him
with pride as a‘smart fellow.’ He
has been in the state' legislature and
hope llosa soon to bo sent to congress.
Anderson still lires with her
mother on the old homestead, her
father having died years ago. Her
hair is silvering; and the-bluc eyes
have faded to a light gray. There is
in them a Iook of pain and disapi
pointmont, while the once rounded
chet-Ks are sadly suiuven. Theneighi
hors astonish strangers by ' telling
them that ‘lloRa was once the pret¬
tiest girl in the whole country, and
there was a time she could have
married lion. Jacob Bailey, of B—,
had she been so minded.
■-----♦ —
Stonewall Jackson’s Courtesy.
Prom the Portland Oregonian.
When Harper’s Ferry surrendered
to “Stonewall” Jackson in Septem¬
ber, 1802, General Jackson halted
his horse in front of the Ninth Ver
niouiit, and, taking of his hat, solemn¬
ly said: “Boys, don’t feel bad; you
could not help it; is was just as God
willed it.” One of Jackson’s staff
asked Colonel Stannard, of the Ninth
Vermont, if he had anything to
drink.” Stannard courteously hand
ed him his flask, and the arrogant
young confederate captain poured
out a horn and mockingly said: ‘Col.
one], here is to the health of tho
southern confederacy.’ Stannard am
sweredi ‘To ask and accept a courte¬
sy of a prisoner and then insult him
is an act that an honorable solder
would scorn.’ Jackson turned'on his
staff officer and gave him a severe
scolding, saying the repetition of
such an insult to a prisoner would
cost him his place. Then turning to
Colonel Stannard General Jaclcson
apologized for the conduct of his of
fficcr, saying that it was an excep¬
tional act of insolence on the part of
a young and reckless man; and "bow¬
ing gravely the famous confcperato
captain rode away. The fatalism of
Jackson seemed eccentric, but it was
part of his religion to treat a cap¬
tive soldier with liig-minded courtei
«y
The llawkiusville Dispatch sounds
the following note of warning: Evgx
rv prudent family will use every
means to prevent the sickness'that
is likely to follow- this season. ''Tho
whole country has been covered witlj
water. The ponds, lakes and fiolcs
are full of water, and if the'rains
should cease, the watei receptacles
will send out their deadly poison,
filling the atmosphere with malaria,
and prostrating the people with chills
and bilious fevers during August,
September and October. Stagnant
pools of water and decaying vegeta¬
tion will overwhelm the country
with the diseases named. He prudent
in diet and careful in person, keep
the premises detail, and much sick¬
ness and many deaths may be pre¬
vented- Kven now millions of inosy
quitees qre singing nightly in Haw
kmsville, and these littie hlood-snekr
ers are surely the forerunners of-ma¬
larial fevers.