Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1913 — Page 2

THE FARM HAND AND THE MAIDEN A Romance of Buttermilk and Wild Flowers.

Ho was her father's farm hand, hired for the harvest season. She bad come out while be was driving a reap ing machine to bring him a pitcher of buttermilk. “If you wouldn't mind telling me,” he said, "I would like to know just what It was that prompted you to Oring this buttermilk to me.” “The kindness of my heart, I suppose.” “I’ve been a farm hand before, but I never knew a farmer’s daughter to take pity on me when reaping. I’m afraid you haven't given me the true reason.” “Why did you bring me those wild flowers?” This was a counter question tbnt 1 shitted him from the offensive to the defensive. "The kindness of my heart. I suppose,” he said presently. “Oh, well, if that's all. we're even j But it doesn’t seem to me that the two cases are the same. I see you hot and tired and think how refreshing a drink of buttermilk would be to you. so I bring it to you. You see some wild flowers. You don't know that I'm especially fond of flowers—iadeed. 1 only like them as other people do—but you gather them for me. you said, and give them to me. Suppose 1 had been some one else.” "I haven't been used to gathering wild flowers before for farmers' daughters where I've worked.” “I’ve often brought farm hands buttermilk when they were reaping.” He looked into her face. It was as mild ns a May morning. “Then why did you nsk”— lie paused, but she replied to the unfln ished question herseif before be could finish. “I didn’t until you had asked.” ■ He had returned to the starting point ' He began anew. "I suppose if any one else had gath 1 ered flowers for you you would have liked it just as well.” “I didn't say that.” "But you said you had often brought 1 farm hands buttermilk." ”1 did." "So there's nothing more about it” "Nothing except that you haven’t told 1 me why you gave me the flowers.” There was a longer pause this time. | He was leaning against the machine I she was standing on the fallen grain. “Well. I don’t mind telling you.” he' said, "though I don't see any use In doing so I was walking in the woods, when I came on the flowers. I was 1 thinking of you. They looked up at me innocently and seemed to say, Take us to her.’ ”

“Now you’ve told me that much I’ll tell you what the flowers said to me They said. ’Wasn’t it sweet of him tc bring us to you?’ and X said. ’Why was it sweet?’ And they said. ‘Because—because—we don’t know!’ ‘Didn’t he tell you why he sent you?’ I asked. ’No,’ they said, ‘he didn’t.’ Then 1 said. ’Why did he send you to me with osit a reason?’ and they said, ’He may have had a reason, but be didn’t tell us what it was.’ ‘Ob!’ said I. and that was the end of it.” "Ho. there. Jerry! Stop that!” "He’s only kicking the flies. You wouldn’t have him suffer their sting mi ’ _et rid of them?” “I’ll tell you what I’ll do,’’ be said without noticing her remark. ‘‘lf you’ll just forget for awhile that you’re my employer’s daughter and some day coming into this big farm and the stork mid the crops and the money in bank for many past crops I’ll tell you why I gave you the flowers.” "Tbcy didn’t say that had anything to do with it.”

"That’s because they didn't know. They spring up out of the ground naturally and remain natural. We spring from the same ground, but we are warped by being civilized.” "But the minister said only last Sunday in his sermon that until we became civilized we weren't ready to receive the New Testament How, then, can civilization kill within us our loveliest feeli\;s?’’ Again bo locked at her and wondered )..o ft eouij she by her shrewd I replies continuity force him to take the ngt«—• ’.O r.fld yet be so simple, so Innoe- ut:these <ut; too deep questions for country folk like us to handle,” he said. All I know Is that I can’t speak all I would speak to your father’s daughter.” They stood troth looking on the ground. Confused sounds camo to them—the lowing of cattle, the rattle of a distant reaper, the neigh of a horse, the bark of a dog, the hum of bees. The horses continued to kick the Mies, but there was just now nothing to be gained by reproving them for doing so. It wns the girl who broke the deadlock between them. “I don't ask." she said, "that you speak all you would speak; I only ask you one thing." "And that Is?”"Why did you send me the flowers?” She came and stood beside him, looking up Into his eyes with hers. He struggled hard with himself to avoid answering the question, but she did not help him; indeed, she had kindled a fire within him and was heaping on fuel with her eyes, her fragrant breath, her very presence. "Because I love you.** And yet they say men propose to wolien.

SEASON TICKETS NOW ON SALE For The Decatur, Indiana Chautauqua BEGINNING JULY lOth. 1913 Kryland and His World-Famous Band. The Ben Greet Players ami Many Othei Big Attiactions Morning, Afternoon and Evening Program jjeyen Days ONE OF THE COMING BIG EVENTS IN THIS SEC HON Or THE STATE

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THE forthcoming Chautauqua which Is to be held here will be one of the big events of th. se.ison in this section of the state. The. above photograph illustrates a typical crowd at one of the Rcdpath Chautauqua*. There are today nearly 1.200 Chautauquas in the United S ates and Canada. In fact, the '.'batnamni I. s become one of America’s great institutions, nnd the idea has already spre dto England and .1 pan. In Vs 2 there was not a Chautauqua in the world. In 18*3 Bishop John H. Vincent and Lewis Miller inaugur.it-d at the >t m.w called Chautauqua. N. Y., the original institution. Today Chautauqua, N. Y., 1- th-- '''miner cent ■ f ' I","'"? -■ •1am! !ta land, buildings and equipment represent a cost of milUctu.

Grand Opera Shakespearean Plays Oratory Magic .id nsic Interpretation Humor Instruction Fellowship Question Box Literary Lectures AMusical Program Every Dav You Can't Assort to Miss This Event

The season tickets purchased by the local committee, and now for sale, may be had white they lasi u 2. single admission on each entertainment would exceed 55.00.

STORES CLOSE JULY FOURTH. The following stores will close all day July 4, 1913: Niblick & Co. Kuebler Ai Co. M. Fullenkarnp. Runyon Ac Engeler. Fred .Mills. Fvrett & Hite. Hower & Hower. Same Hite. Brushwiller & Raker. Wm. .1. Johns. Gass & Mcibcrs. 154(5 i - <, TO CLOSE JULY FOURTH. We, the undersigned, agree to close our respective clothing stores all day the Fourth of July: j Vance Al- Hite. Myers-Dailey Co. Holthouse, Schulte Co. Teeple, Brandyberry Ac Peterson. 153t4 1 - .. . — o * THE JUDITH BASIN, MONTANA Produces the most wonderful yields of winter wheat raised anywhere; resides big crops of alfalfa, broom grass, oats and other crops, all withcut irrigation. The climate is delightlul and the mountain spring wateri unexcelleed. Excursion Tuesday. Get! your maps and farm bargain booklet. Wm. 11. Brown Co.. 5 No. LaSalle Se, Chicago, 111. C. G. Streider, Indiana r< pr< ntative, Niy American building. Fl. Wayne; ’phone 3100. it ICE CREAM SOCIAL. J. A. Llby will give an Ice cream vial next Saturday evening, July ! at bis lawn in .Mat-ley. Everybody ie vited. A good time assured. 154tG --■■■ o———-.... NOTICE. All members of the K. of P. band, who are, expecting to play Thursday, must be at the meeting tonight at 7:30 prompt. A. M. SELLEMEYER, . Director. — - ' ■ —tr FOR SALE— Range, good for coal or wood. In excellent condition. Inquire at once of Yager Bros. & Reinkjug. Phone 105. 155t3 j _

PUBLIC SALE. In the matter of the estate of John I’. Baker, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administrator of the estate of John I’. Baker, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction at the late residence of said decedent about sever, and one-half miles east of r->d, an .j about three miles , northwest of Chattanooga. Ohio, In Jefferson township, Adams county, in the state of Indiana, on Thursday, July 10, 1913, I the personal property of said estate, . consisting of the following; Three Good Brood Marcs, with : colts; 3 milch cows, ono fresh and the others to be fresh soon: 2 spring calves, 6 brood sows, 1 male hog.

Twenty-eight Head of Shuats; about 1200 bushels of old corn, about 200 bushels of oats in the bin, 3 walking plows, 1 spike tooth harrow, 1 corn sled, one spring tooth harrow. 2 1 cultivators, 1 riding plow, 1 disc hari row, 1 hay take, I feed cooker, 1 feed cooker building, 2 double gets wor!: harness, 1 set fly nets 2 sets buggy harness and nits 3 horse collars, 1 set doubi light harness, 3 pitchforks, 1 grain drill, 1 < ross-cut saw, I hoisting jack, 1 mower, 1 corn planter, 1 carriage, 1 cab, buggy pole, 1 hay and grain rack, 1 farm wagon, 1 gravel ( belli, 1 iow wagon, I hay loader, 1 binder, 1 grindstone, 1 sbovl, 1 spade, 1 pair scales, 1 lot of grain sails, emery grinder, horse blankets, 1 bicycle, 1 heating stove, one cook stove, one cream separator, 1 dozen chai:s, I 1 range, 1 extension table, 1 kitchen . cabinet, and numerous other articles i not herein mentioned. Sale to begin al 10 o'clock n. m. Terms of Sale: All sums of five dollars ($5,00) and under cash tn hand on day of tale. All sums over ■ five dollars (|5.00) a credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser giv ignrihneto WoJ sj.iutt HHIHRII giving liis note therefor with apt roved security to the satisfaction of tbe undersigned administrator. No prop erty to be removed from tbe prent | ises before being settled lor. No dis count will be given for the payment of cash, on account of it being an ad mlnistrator’s sale no discount is allowed. WM. C. BAKER, Administrator. Jesse A. Michaud, Auc{. 14416 11 • ■’ >. ; ■;

Ft. Wayne tn Springfield Ry. Company. TIME I ABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Itccatur at 5:50, 7:00, 8:30, 11:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30. 9:30; ar-’ , t've at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 8:10, 9:10, 12:40, 3:40, 5:10; 6’40, 10:10. Southbound. 1-eave Fort Wayne at 7:00, S:,?0, ■ Be'iv, l;uii, 4:ui.l, 5:30, 7:00. ll<ri; arriv e in Decatur at 8:10, 9:40; 11:10 2:10, 5:10, 6:10, 8.10, 12:10.' Connections are made at Fiet Wayne with the Port W:>• -in am! Northern Indi.mi Traction Co, Tee Toledo Ac Chicago Interurban Railway •Company, the Ohio El-ctrle, and 'n(liana Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash,

Nickel Plate, L. S. & M. S., c. n. & D., and O. I’. & I. railroads. FREIGHT SERVICE, Freight se. vice consists of one train each way daily: leaving Decatur at 8:00 a. m., and returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:90 m. This enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. rt.EODERJOHANN, General Manaqer, - Decatur, ind. —O— ——— UNEC.DA VACATION. Take it out In the great Judith I' tin, Montana, where they raise fort bushels of winter wheat per acre, at, blj crops: of other gt'aln nti<leib:i : without irrigation. Come and j' cur ex, ursion party Tuesday. V. guarantee that you will be delight. | with the scenery, climate, water, p. > pie ami soli. See Vi'm. 11. Brown Co ' No. LaSalle St, Chicago, 111. C. G. Striiuier, Indiana representative, No. American Bldg., Fort Wayne, In I : I’hone 3190. WASTED Middle aged lady, by a widower, for general hoiisek-epiny. Inquire of David Miller, Uniondale, in diana. I.'i2t3 WANTED —Agents to take orders for the Kwick sharp Knife and Shears sharpener. Good commission.-Win. G. Kist Co, Decatur, hid. 128tl I LOST—Waterman selMllMng pen sometime Saturday evenin;’ Finder please return to the office of Will Hammell. L55t3 WANTED .'jlccniei two di.-tri'f :■ , ).crs< iitativcb to tru .'l with I.' ■> ! paints, oils, greases. Signet Oil Co., , Cleveland, O. 14506 f - ,_ V r-

i. N. Y . from all parts of the United States, tbe if th y bad to travel far from home. Tbe recognition of this fact brut tal ut - c .u-ji:. sto the people everywhere. The movement a ' h re .'i rnd from .the liedpath headquarters in lowa. Kan- ‘ I ■ : • •nt is engaged, as high as 915.000 having been j.-id ■ • r the niimU-r of Cb iiitainpi.is . *, am.’.aere are more reque.-t. y : l-e ( huiitauqua centers rttan can possibly be gfhnted.

K 0 O 0 Money AU you want. A! lack male and Titles Guaranteed. Insurance Wriws Oflice Rooms on first floor p >isite interurban . .. tion uraham and Walters

GROCERY I iflOßEzf?.*.. -v-y S Catsup io and 15c I Mustard 5 and 10c I ■ Olives 10; 15 and 25c I I Sweet piekies io c I h Ch?rrics maraschino st yle 15 C I g Dried beef IQ-and 15c I Peanut butter 10,15,25 c I Imported sardines 10,15 c I Kippered heiring i~ c | Domestic sardines 5c I Pimentos iq c I Mushroons 25c I Shrimp, wet or dry l,‘ c I Lobsters sq c I ■■■■ Ml Johns.

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1 w ill be 52.50 Attend PM FOR COMPLETE LIST OF ATTRAi ISONS

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