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GOLDEN IDOLS.
A CO ThTItY STORE'.
14 swath !" Squire I+.iesllwater
'clttpi)ed lila handato Itis Wit'anits pocket
and Jumped "up So suddenly that the
little family of Plymouth Rocks gaatht-
(weel about his feet fled shrieking to
their mother who was prospecting
contentedly in Black Prince's manger.
441 clean forgot that letter ; 110w that's
the leaked truth, Dee-clare ! I didn't
mean to f'orgit the gal that way, Most
likely site's out in the spring .louse ;
it's °Mullin,' day. So I'll talk it out
ihere ; she'll want to read it right
off."
minute later he tiptoed away
from. the spring .house, silent and un-
seen. " (food Lord. !" Ile said, taking
great strides down the orchard.
" Good Lord ! I never'd a believed
Something seemed to ail• the squire
that day. His wife noticed it, Mat-
tie, too, caught him looking, hard at
her at tate dinner table: "'Well,
father,", she asked good -naturally,
" is my hair done wrong?"
" Your hair? ,No, 'taint your hair,
my girl, 'taint your hair."
Hattie startled a little at this, but
..
forgot it a moment later.
That night, after the rest had gone.
naked truth, to know that she's all
right.. I thought sura she Was it-
.warslrUpin' that butter Jigger, like
thein Israelites,"
By and by the song was hushed.
Over and over,and round and round,
'Over
worked the° yellow mass ; then
;with a skilful touch and plat it began
to .shape, and site stood, before it, rapt
and eager, changing and shaping till
the little andel was perfect and
complete,
i A month before, young Dr. Brook
had told her that ho loved her. After
the first startled heart-throbs, she had
said that she thought .every girl
ought to know how to cavil a living,
and that site had never prayed that
she could,
" But can't you trust yourself to
?lie ?" he had asked, and then went
on to tell her how he had waited till
he could get a little home, and a little
store laid by to begin on, and no*
that it was aeeoniplished, he wanted
her and wanted, .hor very soon.
The young lady and some very
decided opinions, and this was a pet
theory of hers and one that she had
nruclt advocated of late, so she shut
her red lips very tightly, and said
that she woulcln''t marry hint until
she had proved that she could be in-
dependent, if necessity demanded.
" But T'vc waited so long," he said,
his eyes' shining even ° in the
"and now you say.I must wait
. I'nl, afraid—1 believe I have
it said that women are false,
thought I had found a true
thing wrong about our Mattie ?" ,one."
It was out now, and ho wheeled Mattie nrew away from him a little
around and faced her desperately. haughtily. "Ani I less a true woman
She. looked un at him through her because of this ?" she asked with a
silver -bowed glasses with a gentle sudden flash in her eyes.
stare of amazement. " But you know how lonely I am,
" Hattie!" she said, "anything the .how comfortless my life is; and you
platter with her ! What (Io you will not cotyle to me. . You don't care
-Mean?" for me!"
" I mean this, I ---there's something , tt nh Ido 1 I do 1" she cried.the matter with her—soul. I'm And then the ilad gone back to the
afraid she's an—infidel—heathen-,,-
that's
n---•infidel—heathen--that's it." very beginning, with arguments tend
A shade of alarm _crept over leis persuasions and coaxing words. The
wife's face. , end of it was, --she wouldn't. That
is, she un-
" You see," he went o11, " I got a certain �llrlom set ofbive " Sometimeony thery per -
letter for her last slight and clean n
haps, when she had proved certain
forgot to give it to her till the middle ltgs," and with that he had to in
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of the afternoon, and then knowing content,
she'd be in the spring house, I took it • His boarding house at Elmwood
out to her, that is, I, went to the door had never seemed so dingy and com-
and—now I'm a-tellin' the naked formless as it seemed in the months
truth—our, gal wore a -standing there ' that followed, nor his room so dark
by,,tlle, table. She'd made an idq}., l al -id dreary.
mother, 11 little idol out'n the butter, ; Mattie heel gone to work in earnest.
and she were�a=stanching there before, 'Sae drew Henfiftylfrom este
it a-washupin it. It just minded Me
of the Israelites and their golden 1 city bank, and .bought another cow,
calf. But, good Lord' is it athin g not a full-blooded Jersey, because her
to laugh at, woman ? Are you turn- father thought tlhey Wan't likely to
eel heathen, too?" ! be as healthy nor clo as well as part
She choked down her laughter in 1 Jersey." The reel cow, Cherry, be -
a minute, and sat up in her chair. longed to her, also little Spot, that
" I do declare, Nate, I never heard
anything so funny in all my born
days."
-" Funny!"- he began, with sudden
sternness in his tone. '
"But 'twant an idol," she inter-
posed ; " that's what's funny. It's
your mistake. You see, Nate, when
Mattie was down to Ellnwood to the
high school., she took a great fancy to
wood carving and sculpture and such
things, and. so once in a while she
tries her hand at it while she works
over the butter." •
• Tho squire put forth both ,feet
squarely on the floor and laid giis
hands carefully on his knees, inspect -
up to bed, he went over and shut the
stair door carefully. with
"I say, Ai:arthy," lie began, run_ dark,
ning his brown fingers through his again
hurricane of white hair, " did you heard
oder think --did you ever notice any- but I
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she had begged from her father,when
in its calflloocl it had gone lame and,
been condemned to death. Careful
nursing had brought the little crea-
turo through, and now 'she was as
" pert a creeturc as there was on the
place."
THE WINGAIANI IMEti, APRIL 20, u
'Utile family of lions.
Snmluor event by. The Chicic ns
lost their first flirty prettiness, and
got themselves Bunning little gay
wings. A, thriving hawk captured
two or three, but the rest grew up
happy and cheerful, playing "luicle
and seek" and hunt the grasshopper
all day in the long, lush *grass, and
tltnigllt creeping under their mother's
wings with sleepy little "elle-e p, ebe-
e-p," which the mother answers with
it soft, deep -voiced crooning note like
a lullaby, •
The little' new cow proved a regal -
lar daisy, and Hattie christened her
She made, some chicken - coops for
her big Plymouth Rocks to go to
housekeeping in, and gave a dozen'
note of them nests full of big brown
eggs to brood over.
One Saturday she had harnessed
Black Prince to the buggy and gone
to the city on a secret errand, with a
mysterious looking bot oil the seat
beside her. In tlhe box was a roll of
Mg them attentively to see that each,
the new little Jersey's butter, hard
was properly placed, and square in incl yellow,wra,pped in a snowy cloth
the middle.' Squire Freshwater ab and lying in a nest of fresh green
]lancet anything • crooked or out of grass,and on the roll was the prettiest
of apple blossom sprays, caned that
p10111]). ++ moiling in the spring house.Y They,
11Iarthy,. the said, presently, I m were delighted with it at the�'1• omen s
a big fool. Let us go to bed." Exchange, and,promised to take all
nut 111 the fragrance and COO111C55 she COtlld bring; so, when sixo turned
' of the spring house, Mattie sang anti homeward, there was a little triumph -
worked in the fresh spring iltornfngs• ant sparlcle.in her eyes.
The spring bubbled up crystal clear Ill .clue time, the little dwellings in
in its Clark slate -stone basin in the the orchard were idled with peeping,
corner, and then slipped away folder downy families, and she was busy as
the wall,, and with a happy gurgle at a bee, too busy to see Dr. Brook when
being free again, it ran off singmg he rode by and bowed to her.
and sparkling through bird -haunted Hosts of new ideas came flocking
orchard and meadow. Outside the down to her in the spring -house, and
door, elle apple blossoms swung in all one day she carried out a new one ;
their pink and white loveliness, abet and when the last Iftrtle tottll was
among thein Robin laid 1lhnsclf, and I done there were twelve little golden
sent out drifts of song through the , Bons ole individual butter plates. It
fragrant air. I WAS never warm in the spring -Molise.,
. Round and rOUfcl went the handle ,-8,3 the, -3r kept firm and hard.
of the yellow churn, "the-elurg, clic-' Next day she 'drove to the city s'in
clurg," and by and by, after a few I the early morning. There hlippr fled
satisfied peeps and (lashes of cold Ito b0 It young woittan tit the/ Ex -
outthe golden lumps were hftccl change looking for seined thii4 very
out into a big wooden bowl. butter, the "I"i'eshwatel' butte ' htty-
Down in the south patch, hor ling' ttlreacly made for itself a ) ante at
father caught now a11(1 then,asnittehes the Exchange and when . he saw
of her singing, and leaned on his hoe l attic's box, she spoke' qui kly and
said 5110 ,was veru stile her; mist, cls
"Deo-elare 1" he said with A sails Svottld buy the little lions,/ because
fled senile. "It makes me feel , a site was going to have 'her 'rlends to
powerful sight .better, noir that's the tea. Thus Mattie dispose q of her
to listen.
•
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polled to choose the fourth chapter of
Hosea. Slowly big brawn finger
crept down the page and his deep
voice followed it. Dr. Brook listened
idly, with his •eyes on the shadowy;
face.
"Ephraim is joined to his idols,"
read the Squire, "let hint alone."
Dr. Brook saw g sudden light sweep
over the downcast faeo, and her eyes
met his, full of tears. Then she
slipped noiselessly from her seat and
vanished through the open kitchen
door. Some way, after prayers he
found his way out to her, where she
stood faintly outlined against the
"Daisy," Daisy was the pet of the pitchy blackness of the window.
And then and there, in the soft gloom
sweet and humble, she gave her
hand into his, and the golden , idols
were dethroned,
When morning broke, clear and
shining, with blue skies, and jubilant
song of birds, Mattie peeped into the
pantry where her mother was at
work.
"I can't keep chickens and cows in
Elmwood, mother, what alp I going
to do about it?
Her mother looked up with a
quick, pleased glance.
So you aro going to marry Dr.
Brook !
farm,
When the country fair time came,
Mattie was fuller of mysteries than
ever, only she took her father into
her confidence, and he brought home
mysterious something's. in his wagon,
wrapped in old carpets. and packed
in boxes,. and on Tuesday era drove
off to the fair with a great wooden
box in the wagon, The rest were
all curiosity but Hattie only. shook
her head.
Ono of the prettiest exhibits of the
Farm Products department was the
display of butter. It was in a small
glass show case, that had been paved
with crystal blocks of ice, and on this
crystal foundation was a castle built
of solid golden butter, tower and
turret and battleniented wall, all
coluplete,..with two tiny sleeping lions
on, either side of the entrance. The
card had on it Hattie Freshwater's
name, and late that afternoon a gay
reel card was tied on the corhor.
The chickens flourished, the cattle
throve and the little golden lions
grow in great demand. .('our months
later, when she cast up her accounts,
she found. that she had an even two
Hundred dollars, besides the cows
and the thirty hcns,and she announc-
ed. the fact with ji gleam of triumph
in her eyes.
Dr. Brook fared.' badly the next
time he saw her. She hacl grown
so very independent that she .had
ahnost'decidecl not to marry any
roan. Women who don't marry
were better off nowadays anyhow.
But when a few minutes later she
stood at the sitting -room window,ancl
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With the coming of winter days,
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and the butter had -to be macre in the
-wide, shining, farmhouse kitchen.
When next churning day came, there
was no singing, no lingering over
the task, no toying with the golden
mass, but n sober subsistence till it
Was done and put out of sight. Gold-
en idols hacl lost their charm.
The March to night . was shutting
down, cold and gloomy. There wa.i
n0 sunset, but a swift,down-swooping
darkness that blotted, put the world
with a sudden night. The Squire
'had been having a "tech of fever,"
and Dr. Brook had stopped to see
him. Before he was ready to go, the
evil promise of the clay had been ful-
filled, and they forbade him ventur-
ing forth. So he sat down again to
wait till the fury of the 11'incl and
storm had scent itself.
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the steady rush and roar of waters
did not• cease. Great thunderous
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