Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 25 December 1902 — Page 7
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M ffpnian who writes was not B, 1() g 0 to th" office every day. B. f|lt ntineipiilly because she liked B*’. noisy building, with its rush Barring f*<t. Hie dramatic enB'"'.’..i ~x i is of newsgatherers ami B' (1) „ hammering of the stereoThis was her lite, and it helped fOt'l-H' B lived far «!’ °" ,lie ,1( ' i 8 11,s in a Kstoueaisirtnienl house, whose en Kffasgoigeoiis in upholstery and K< and whose windows overlooked ■glistening river. The elevated B whirled her through the toneBllfpof the great city, ami she al B laid down her morning paper Bshe reached the point where the Bowsof tliedlll! brick houses almost ■bed the iron railing of the road. ■ jt happened that there earn* a B n g when the woman who writes B forward in sudden wonder. In Bf the dullest, dingiest tenements a Bow shone out like a solitary star Bowrca-t sky. It had been wn-hed RM*" s H jR i \ >hi M KbBL I ! Kt, f EWkWhwiiP ! ill ■ W6sEl> INTO THE WINDOW A BULKY, I OBLONG PACKAGE. ■ polished till it gleamed like French M, and between the prim rutiles of ■oldfashioned dimity curtain peered Rhe in whose soft, blue gray eyes ■jrfuitiess and homesickness strugRN for supremacy. ■He train bad slowed up for a curve, ■ shestudied the quaint picture hunRty till the cars swept round the Rtf. The next morning she watched ■the clean window, the dimity cur Rb snd the sweet English face and ■test morning and the next. ■Be figure in the window was not ■ys idle. Once the supple hands ■K polishing tinware, which, to the has who writes, recalled a faraway
■lilli l , 5 Jl stlhpreare many good properties, offered below actual cost ot improvement ,ir " ll, ' rth ' R n, » lleted liere for rent, sale or trade Cash transactions are an ■Jkth.v™ tlu ’’ eran ' 1 seller, and I now have a large number of cash purchasers as soon as ■ta'.nJ. a, 1 * upon the market. If you ar. inter sted In th. puvha -ale., ■•sisots.?. ne,s rilo “>s- residences, mill machinery, town or city property, write or call Hh ' Gur fecent large dtscrlptive lists. In Inquiry refer to properties by number. Ad No. 230. j. p. SNOW, Decatur, Indiana.
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farmhouse, where rows of milk nans once gleamed |„ the sunshine. Follow lug an imnulm- si nodded ehecrily. Th* b , opened wide i;i fl . i( . 11(11} . se h flush OU the fresh English face deem greet’inc v V"* <b,y thc ' mwiliD 8 erecting was exchanged regularly. rhe summer quivered and shimmer ed Into fni* ami f a u toßßed ltg colors and sparkling hours Into the ontstretebed arms of winter The winds howled ami the storms raged at the tenement window, now closed and stuffed about with bits of rags. The blue gray eyes still smiled their greeting across a row of scarlet geraniums o the woman behind the car window, c Ito, after the train had swept round the curve, would lean back halt wearily and weave romances of the life behind the white curtains and crimson blossoms. She could see the English husband coming in from his work. He would be strong and straight and young of course, very gentle and tender with the girl who had cfeme to him from across the seas. Wherefore the happy lovelight in the blue gray eyes if all these things were not so? Then a frugal supper, smoking hot, would be placed on the table. The teapot would be of brown and yellow stone, like the one at the farm. But the woman who writes never mounted the narrow stairs leading to the tenement room. She had been disillusionized so often. One morning in early spring she caught her breath as the train slowed up before the window. No face peered between the ruffled curtains. A friendly hand bad bowed the shutters to the glaring sunlight. That afternoon she hurried to a shop where all sorts of dainty baby garments are sold. When she had selected a piece of flannel richly embroidered and a robe of sheer linen, edged with filmy lace, she actually felt angry at the careless fashion iu which the clerk tossed the small garments to the wrapper. It seemed almost like a desecration. As she carried her package to the waiting hansom she said to herself: "It is perfectly absurd, considering their station in life. But how her eyes will shine!” She could not send her gift, for she knew neither name nor exact address, but she waited and watched. At last one morning the shutters were thrown back, and in a high backed rocking chair, close to the window, sat the little English wife, her blue gray eyes shining proudly above a long roll of white flannel, topped by a very small and very red face. Then the woman who writes did a re markable thing. She took deliberate, careful aim and tossed into the tenement window a bulky, oblong package. For more than a week she had carried that package back and forth every day, waiting for this very opportunity, and yet her arms felt strangely empty. All day long between the woman who writes and her work came the proud mother light in those blue gray eyes. Wherever she turned it haunted her till her pen lost its cunning and her heartstrings thrilled witli a vague longing ami unrest. When night came to her brilliantly lighted parlors, where clever men and women gathered to laugh at her witty sayings and to drink the punch she brewed with cunning hand, she was the gayest of them all. Never had she
No. 184—Eighty acres partially cleared, oil land, soil light clay and black loam, five miles northeast of Geneva, poor bniiJings. I4BUO No. 166-A 102-acre tract one and a half miles east of Decatur.no buildings. I s acres ot good timber. 1* acres of sand and grav’d, black and sand loam. $50”0. No 174-Elghty-acre tract in east Wabash ' township, about .10 acres black loam, new. 6room house, ten acres of timber, $4-Mii. No. fik* Elfhty icre tract In rust Hluecreek townabip, principally black land, building* all new, eight acres timber. *5450. No. ItiO An IM-acro tract. In earn St. Mary's townsnip, sand and light clay loam, some timber, nrlek house, frame cribs and barn. Price 1U.500. No, 13S-A 130-acre tract northwest of Berne, light clay and black loam, well fenced and good improvements. 17300. No 138-115-acre tract southwest of Herne, good Improvements, grazing farm, light, clay soil, principally. Price HBOO No IK3 A 180-acte farm five and a halt mile" southeast of Berne. NO acres black oum. *> light clay loam, new house, abundance ot good water. Timber, fruit, etc. Price KBSO No. ITS-A 130-aere tract, two miles southeast of Decatur, sand and clay loam, 20 acres young timber, some saw timber, small frame bulldlKga. SOOOO. No ITT—A 143-acre tract one rnd a half miles east of Decatur, principally sand and elav oam s<!me black land, no buildings, two young orchards. 36 acres, young timber, ITOOO. No 178 A 332-acre farm directly east of Decatur »1000 worth of timber, some saw timber ner-ialling spring of witter, two good orchards, gravel bank ot 15 acres, small buildings, soil some black land principally ■and and clay loam Price Jliwo. No til—Kor sa’e or trade for a farm -A.large ‘ five-stand flouring mill In |,t ' t ' al '