Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — Page 2

OUR STORY TELLER

HOW BESS AND BRANDY ' SAVED THE FRUIT.

HT seems most as big as 11 a real river,” said Bess, who was sitting on top of the henped-up earth beside the big, new Irrigating ditch, hug glng her kuees tailor fashion. ‘‘lf the water only didn't roll so awful fast we eooid most ride a canoe in It, eh, Teddy?” Teddy was not at nil handsome. His hair was red and his nose turned up, and he was much freeking. But there was a great deal of sympathy in his greenish eyes as he looked up at his alster. "You do miss Canada and the lake and boating and everything, don’t ye, Bess?” he said. "I was such a little feller when the folks came west, au’ 1 can't remember much about It. But, gee! It must uv boon Jolly fun swimnin’ In a reel big lake. Au' pa said lie would take us all back wlieu the fruit trees bore.” . “Yea,” said Bess, staring thoughtfully at the yellow, rolling water. “But It teems au awful long time to wait, somehow. Last venr it was frost, and year before worths, and year before that the blight, and it does seem as tbo’ pa would lose most everything he had before the ranch paid. And to think one good bearing would make us rich! Itlch, Ted! Just think!” Teddy crawled up to the top of the hank of earth and looked far down the valley. lie saw' loug rows of trees,

SHE FOUND A SMALL “CAVE-IN.”

hardly twice as tall as himself, and he wa» only a 10-year-old boy. But the ■lender little branches of the trees were covered thickly with little green bunches, and these bunches meant thousands of bushels of luscious fruit. Bess could remember when she first •aw the trees. They were then only long line* of little Imre sticks In the *andy and dry-looking earth, aud she could remember how her mother broke down and cried because she wa**bome*dck for the big shady trees aud green grass and bushes at “home.” Idaho did not seem like home. They Mved there six years, and the sixth year was the "bearing year” for Western fruit ranches. But, ns Bess said, the frost and the worms and tlie blight had kept the fruit back, and three years longer they had waited. And the father had grown to look old and anxious and tlie little mother more and more wistful. And they now watched the green promise of fruit with anxious eyes. Would anything happen this year? Or would the rich promise at last not disappoint them?

“The new ditch helped mightily this year,” said Bess. “The trees never Ixire so heavily. And nil the fruit is perfect —the prunes and peaches and cherries ami everything. Oh, Teddy, 1 believe we will really see Canada next year!” She sprung to her feet nnd threw her anus around the neck of a little brontdio that had been nosing at the back of her head while she talked to Teddy. She kissed the horse’s shaggy head and hugged him lovingly. Then she put her foot in the stirrup and swung herself lightly Into the saddle. “Home, Teddy!” she cried. “Catch Soda!” Soda, another sturdy little broncho, capered gleefully around her mate, Brandy, a few moments, then |H*nnltted Teddy to mount, and soon the 11 veJy little hoofs were beating a quick rattat tat down the white alkali path toward the ranch home, far down the raJley. The sun was bright and the •ky cloudless, as It had been for all the long summer months. The clouds would sail towards the mountalu tops, - but there they would stop and dissolve ever the peaks, where the snow gleamed white almost till fall. And no rain fell In the valley. The alkali dust lay thick In the alfnlfa, the rich grass that grew so strangely greeu out of the bard, dry earth, and the dust lay thick to the trees and on the prickly cacti and gray sagebrush that grew on the loucly foothills. “Father will Irrigate to-morrow, I reckon,” said Bess, as the bronchos loped along side by side. “The ground Is awfully dry and cracking badly.” “I dunno— It’s gettln’ perty late,” replied Teddy. “I beard pa talkin' to the foreman, and they wu* sayln' that there wuz signs of frost. The fruit la ripenin’ bully, but there may come a sdppcr, an’ es they Irrigated It—well. It grould mean another year, that’s alL*

Bess looked soberly at the bakedlooking earth. It looked so thirsty, and the great ditch rolling along beside them seemed anxious to turn its rich torrent Into the little ditches that ran like veins up and down between the tree*. "Well, I suppose It would be risky,” she said. “But, my! the trees do w r ant a drink!” Supper was waiting for them, and their father called gayly to them as they galloped up to the door. “I met Jessie Wright at the store doing some trading for her mother, and she wants you to go down the valley to morrow and spend the day with her,” he said, as they sat down to supper. "Oh, may I go, mother?” cried Bess, They were great friends —“Jess and Bess,” as they were called by tbe ranch and village people—and the fruit farm wound down the valley very close to the sheep ranch' of Jessie’s father. "Why, yes, you may,” said Mrs. Hnrrl«, Bessie’s mother. "Did /essie want her to stay all night, John?” “Of course as usual,” replied Mr. Harris. "But I guess you can spare her that long, eb, mother?” “No, I need you, dearie. But you can have a loug day together and come home in the evening,” said Mrs. Harris. So next morning Bess shouted a gay good-by as Brandy danced around the mounting block, and she whirled the long thongs of her quirt merrily around his fiank, ‘which Brandy promptly resented hr bringing Tiis four little hoofs together, rising in the air and coming down on his sturdy little.legs with a jar that nearly sent Bess out of the saddle, “Oh, you’ll buck, will you?” she cried, while the rest cheered Brandy. "Walt till you want some sugar.” Brandy repented and stretched himself Into a swinging, rocking.chalr lope that carried him swiftly down the trail. The air was sharp and clear and tingled through Bessie’s veins, while the cold turned her cheeks rosy. "Frost to-night, Brandy,” she cried to the broncho, whose ears twitched back at the sound of her voice. And the frost came. The girls had a loug, merry- day, and as the moon rose In a clear purple sky Bess turned Brandy’s willing nose homeward. She turned up the collar of her heavy little cost and pulled on her buckskin gloves, for the cold was already growing sharp. And, calling cheerily to Brandy, she flew along the trail toward home. It was cold and clear and still, and she rode along a little sleepily, while Brandy's hoofs made the only sound that broke the stillness. But soon another sound startled her Into wakefulness. She had reached the water gate on the big ditch, and through the stillness came a low tinkling and gurgling that sounded like fairy music. But the fairy music sent all the color out of the girl's cheeks, and with a frightened cry to Brandy she slipped out of the saddle and rau to the ditch.

Brandy meandered along after her with lazy curiosity and found her kneeling beside the gate with her arms plunged down Into the cold water. And when she stood up her pretty bright fate had grown still whiter. For she had found a small “cave-in” near the gate, and the water was trickling through lu a steady little stream that was steadily and quickly growing larger as the earth broke Hiid crumbled and gave way around it. In a very short time that cave-in would send a volume of water rushing and leaping ak>ug all the ditches through the ranch, aud by morning—what 7 “Oh, the fruit, the fruit. Brandy!” Bess sobbed, wildly. “It will be killed, and mother's heart will break!” f She wrung her hands as she looked dowu the long road gleaming white aud lonely lu the moonlight. Too late for that. Before site could go a mile toward help the ranch would lx* flooded aud the ruin complete. Again she plunged her arm Into the water. If she could only stop up that hole! She looked ou all sides helplessly, aud Braudy moved closer with a sympathetic nnd Inquiring whinny. She looked ut him despairingly, then suddenly sprung forward. In a moment she was tenriug wildly at buckles and straps, nnd then, tu Brandy's profound surprise, she dragged the heavy pigskin saddle from his back nnd rushed with it to the ditch. There she wcut down on her knees aud plunged the saddle beneath the water. She fumbled with it a minute or so, then listened breathlessly. The water gurgled and tinkled uncertainly, then slowly, very slowly. It grew fainter. And soon there was only a faint whisper and drip from one or two tiny waterfalls that slipped and slid down the hauk. The weight of the water had sucked the saddle closely against the earth and the hole was stopped. So much. But the night was cold—-

’her arm* already ached and pained cruelly, and she did not dare leave the saddle lest It sMp. Would they search for her? Or would they think she had Btayed all night with Jees? If she could only get word home. Again she looked at Brandy. Then she called him to her, slipped the loop of her quirt from the pommel of the saddle, and, raising her arm out of the water, she turned Brandy toward home and then brought down the lashes with stinging force on his Sank. “Home, Brandy!” s|ie called. And Brandy, outraged and Indignant, kicked up his heels, bucked three times, then tore down the trail toward home, resolved to tell Soda that his young mistress had gone crazy. Fainter and fainter sounded the hoof-beats along the trail. And sqon she could hear them no longer. Hex arms ached cruelly, and sharp pains began to shoot through her body from the cold. Now and then she would take her arms out of the water and swing them and beat her hands together till they stung; bnt only for a moment, then the saddle had to be held in place. The time seemed horribly long, but at last far down the trail there sounded alow, thudding noise that quickly grew louder, and she sprung to her feet with a gasping little cheer as horses galloped madly to the ditch gate, and all In a minute four men had dragged her up from the water, torn off her wet jacket and asked twenty questions. Brandy had reached home riderless and was now galloping back with Teddy, white and frightened, clinging to his bare back. Tbe fruit was saved, thanks to Bess and Brandy. The frost did very little damage that night, and at last the yield was rich and plentiful. And the following summer, in far-off Canada, Teddy and Bess splashed In the waves to their hearts’ content, while “mother” looked on happily and Mr. Harris told old friends all about fruit ranching “out West ” “It was a close call,” he would say, "but Bess and Brandy saved the fruit. If the ditch had burst through that night and flooded the roots it would have meant ruin.” And Bess, fully recovered from the heavy cold that followed her little adventure, was surprised to find herself a heroine.—Chicago Record.

SUPERSTITIOUS WOMEN.

Tliey Place a Great Ileal of Confidence in Dreams. It doesn’t seem possible that in this enlightened age superstition could be rife among the educated, but there are nevertheless a number of young women who converse fluently, if not eloquently’, In three languages, and who read Spencer and Browning and Emerson, but who place a dreambook with their Bible ou the table lieside the bed and consult it in the morning the first thing. With a credulity worth a darky mammy, if their sleep lias been visited with unusual visions, they seize this volume as soon as their eyes are fairly opened and look for an explanation. If misfortune is foretold by it, the seeker after knowledge assumes a bravado she Is far from feeling. “I don’t care,” she says to herself, by way of bolstering up her courage, “I’m not superstitious anyway, and I don’t believe In such nrrnnt nonsense.” But she's nervous just the same, for a couple of days, until other troubles have driven this mythical one out of her mind. There’s one young woman known to the writer who never dreams of a young child without shivering and shaking for days after, in fear of some dreadful thing happening to her. She lias not consulted a dreambook on the subject, and so she doesn't know how Infants and bad luck became connected in her mind,, but, nevertheless, after slie’s liad a visitant of this sort While sleeping, she says prayers of unusual length and then makes up her mind to lie patient under afflictions sore. She's an Intelligent woman, mind you, but she doesn't attempt to explain the terror that liesets her at this particular dream. She doesn't call herself superstitious, of course no woman does, not even the one who won't walk under a ladder, but her friends do. and make light of her until she exposes some fetich of tlielre, when the subject Is carefully avoided afto rw a rd.—Ba 1 1 1 more News.

A Town Built on Ice.

Kish CMty, Mich., is tlie oddest town In the country, having no existence except In xv in ter. It Is situated on Saginaw Bay—not ou the shore* but literally on the bay-and is a collection of board aboutles built upon tbe lee. season It contained one thousand houses. They are the huts of the men who do the winter fishing for pike, pickerel, lake trout nnd white fish, and ns soon as the Ice forms on flic bay their construction is begun. The fishermen live in their huts from the time they are built until the breaking up of the lee in flic spring forces them to come n shore. There 1s a door Ln each hut, and In the floor n trap-do** some twenty Inches square. When tills Is raised a hole the same size through the Ice la discovered. At the side of this the fisherman sits all day nnd a great part of the night, watching for his game, which he captures by a dextrous use of the s|tear. From two to two nnd a half million flsli are caught from the bay each winter. J *,< The women believe a man should face every misfortune with cheerfulness, except the death of Ids wife. You can look at some men a mile away, and tell they are no account

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York—During the last week calls have been made by both the Comptroller of thi Currency and the State Auditor of Public Accounts for reports of the conditions of the banks under their respective jurisdictions. These are the last official reports of the year, and a careful study of them discloses some interesting facts bearing on the general business situation. Changes in the totals of the principal items are comparatively small, and standing by themselves perhap* would have little signifierfTiee. But an an’ a lysis of the statements shows that in the matter of deposits there has been a movement that does not appear on the surface. It will be found that in the active, or commercial accounts, there has been a material redaction, * while in the savings accounts there has been a marked increase. The condition of the savings banks is regarded by many students of economics as a pretty correct index of the general situation. The growth of savings deposits means’a larger employment of labor, which in itself is conclusive proof that general conditions are satisfactory from a business point of view. Chicago-~At the close of Friday’s session prices of the various commodities speculatively dealt in ou the Board of Trade did not differ much from those prevailing at the end of- the previous week. An apathetic feeling pervaded the entire list, and complaints of dull trade were universal, not excepting even the business in corn, although that commodity approached nearer to an appearance of normal activity than any of the others. Reasons for the dullness in speculation on the Board of Trade are various, and not the least of them is the greater but superficial attractiveness of the New York Stock Exchnnge, where fortunes are feeing made and lost daily, and while the losers are dumb and gainers talk of their success and bring forth imitators by the hundreds. In comparison with stocks what attraction can such a market as wheat, for instance, have for anyone who does not make of it his daily occupation? May wheat, in which the bulk of the trading is at present being done, had a range for the week of I|4 cents a bushel, and whereas its value at the close of the previous week was 7314 cents its price at the close of the market Friday was 73*4 cents. Narrow, however, as are the fluctuations at present in the grain markets, there would unquestionably be much more speculative business in them if the quotations had more prompt and wider dissemination. The grain trade as a field for speculation has the great advantage over the stock market of being an open book that anyone can read who chooses to devote to it the necessary study. In addition it cannot be controlled or manipulated to any material extent by cliques or coteries of insiders having, as in stocks, a monopoly of the information neeessary to au intelligent appreciation of the situation, no such exclusive intelligence of conditions affecting grain markets being possible.

FACTS ABOUT THE CENSUS.

The census of population in New York State reveals in striking fashion the urban trend of the nation's growth. The State, as a whole, gained 1,270,159 in population, or 21.01 per cent, in the ten years, which is a greater gain than in most of the Western States, but not so groat as the gain in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and other States which ore more distinctively manufacturing communities. In New York State, of the total gain of 1,270,159 inhabitants, 974,039 was in the three counties of New York, Kings anil Erie, containing Manhattan nnd Brooklyn Boroughs and the City of Buffalo. These three counties are thus responsible for nearly SO per cent of the increase, although their total population is barely one-half that of the State. At the present rate of growth Tammany would soon he aide to dominate the New York Legislature were it not ■for the constitutional provision limiting the representation of Now York and Brooklyn in that body. Twenty of the counties of the State showed decreases, nnd these are entirely agricultural in their interests. The counties containing the smallest manufacturing cities showed almost as great increases as those in which the big cities are located. The conditions in Illinois are much the same, the®six counties that showed decreases at this census being almost entirely agricultural. A Kentucky woman whose husband is entered as “idler,” gave her occupation as "washing ami wishing." The puncher who came across this queer entry remarked that the phrase meant that the woman was washing to support her twelve children and lazy husband and wishing that he would go to work und assist In the maintenance of their numerous offspring. In many o£ the returns from the Southern States men of means aud leisure are entered in the occupation column as “gentlemen,” nnd lu one instance ns “rich.” An Invalid in Illinois is given occupation ns "laid up,” anil a paralytic figures in tlje same column at “has fits." It remained for a Pennsylvania enumerator to record n German,4s years of age, as “occupation, villain." Whether this was the enumerator's iiersonn! estimate of the hum, or whether the German himself gave this unique and suggestive occupation, is not known. Neither is it known whether tlie villain was enfered as “N. G.” or “O. K." In many of the returns from the rural districts of the South a large number of Children tinder 10 years of age are recorded ns farm laborers, nnd uuder the proper headings it IsTiTiltod that they nrfe so employed eight months and atteud School but two months in ouch year. Two Southern Up us*-wives appear In the occupation column as “does housework” and “minds baby." Gen. Greely, chief signal officer of the army, bus been informed that 200 miles of telegraph land lines have been coa* I striated in the vicinity of the Southern ' Yukon and tiomc, Alaska.

Lost His Bet.

The other day a Londoner sold to * countryman: *TU bet yon anything yon like you cannot spell three elmple words that I shall give you within forty seconds.” “11l take that on. Now, then, what are they?” sold- the countryman. “Well, here goes,” said the Londoner, as he pulled out his watch: “London.” ''li-o-u-d-o-n. ” “Watching.” “W-a-t-c-h-i-n-g.” ~ "Wrong,” said the Londoner. “What?” exclaimed the countryman, in surprised tones; “I’ve spelt the words you gave me correctly. I’m certain I’m not ” “Time’s up!” the Londoner said, triumphantly; “why didn’t you spell the third word—w-r-o-n-g?”—London Spore Moments. —-

FOUR DOCTORS FAILED.

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Those Girls.

Tess—Yes, Mr. Ernest gave me this ring. I. accepted him last night. Jess—l’m so glad. Tess—Are you really? He used to call on you, didn’t he?" Jess—And I was beginning to fear I'd have to accept him.— Philadelphia Press.

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The Dally Grind.

"I am pretty tired to-night," complained the organ grinder's monkey.” “I feel all played out myself,” said the organ.— American.

What Shall We Have for Dessert?

This question arises every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, delicious and healthful. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! Add water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry, Strawberry. At your grocer's. 10 cts.

Strength in Women Admired.

"Strength in woman is nilmlrcd by a strong man always,” writes Helen Wat* terson Moody, in the ladles' Home Journal. "Of course, I mean by the phrase ‘a strong man’ a man who has some experience of life. It occasionally happens that a very young man of real strength of eharnerer falls the victim Ju early life to the fascinations of a clinging, sweet. Inefficient creature, as David Copperliehl did to his Dora. But the older anil the stronger and the wiser a man is, the more he Is sure to admire the deep strength of character In woman that springs from the and easy ability to do things welL”

Coughing Lends to Consumption.

Kemp's Balsam, will stop the cough at once. Go to yonr druggist to-dsy and get a sample bottle free, sold in 25 and 50* cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. In a ton of Dead Sea water there are 187 pounds of salt; Red Sea, 03; Mediterranean, 65; Atlantic, 81; English Chnuuel, 72; Black Sea, 2tt; Baltic, 18, and Caspian £fc*a, 11.

Jell-O, the New Dessert.

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TO CORK A COLD IN ONE DAT

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U. S. Soldiers

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