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HERALD ANP NEWS, JANUARY 9, 1902.
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nnilK three pirlg ent and stared at
I one another in dismay.
The milkman had just driven away
rrom the gate. Ihe rattle of his
wheels was still audible; and the eldest
of the three, the one with the aproa
and the bunch of keys, faced the oth
er with a countenance that was still
pale from the conflict.
"To think of his .impudence!" she
cried. "Did I ever imagine that a milk
man would dare to sit in his wagon
and shout at us absolutely shout
and ask if we were ever going to pay
that bill?"
"Oh, it was awful!" moaned the girl
with her elbows ,n the table and the
pen in her clasped hands.
"But still, yon know," said the curly
haired girl, with an air of conviction,
"we really do owe him the money
and maybe he doesn't like to wait. You
never can tell what milkmen think on
those subjects. What did you tell him,
Marian?"'
' told him we expectpd lo have-lhe
money in a few days," said Marian, of
the apron and keys. "And so we do,
if if anv of Madge's stories sell."
A general groan went around the
group, nnd Madge sat with a frown on
her brow, biting' the end of the pen-
Haff.
"And surely some of them must
sell: cried she or the curly locks, re
turning to her sew ing. "They can't all
miss!"
"And suppose they sell as 'The Der
elict did? said Madge, in her most
pessimistic tones. "That wis accept
ed more than a year airo, ynu remem
ber, to be paid for on publication and
it hasn't been published yet."
"I hate these old magazine that
don't pay for a story till the author is
dead from starvation." grumbled Kate,
threading her needle with a jerk.
"They'd feel nice if they had to bring
out that story some day, Mly the Late
Margaret Hertram' but then just as
likely as not they'd publih a lot of
prai.se of 'the promisingyoung author,
whose career was cut short in the very
beginning,' and so on. Hut I'd rather
have enough money to pay the milk
man than to have columns of post
mortem praise."
"Rut, oh, Madge, that last story was
so good: cried Marian, the hopeful.
"Somehow, I feel almost sure it will
be accepted."
I know It was a good story," re
plied Madge, half musing. "I felt as
though my very life were going into
that story. It seemed almost to write
Itself. ThereVas strength in it, and
courage, and inspiration. And yet I
think it will come bark."
And even while the others protested
eame the post man's w histlp, and there
were four larce envelopes for Miss
Margaret Ilertram, inclosing four re
efed manuscripts; and among them
was the story which had written It
self.
The three shrinking girls sat and
looked at one another, and seemed to
ear again the loud taunts of the
milkman, and the landlord's rude com
ments on tenants who allowed their
rent to fall into arrears. They had all
grown pale with diappointment and
with fear of the future; and the young
writer arose and tossed her rejected
stories into a drawer and shut them
up with a bitter laugh.
"I wonder whatever made me think
could write?" she said. "It was all
mistake. I have no talent. I am
mere scrinoler. 1 have open taking
myself too seriously. Don't look so
woe-begone, Marian. And go on with
your work, both of yon. I am going
to write something after my kind."
And that evening she read them a
new story; story at winch Jate
laughed in a half frightened wayj and
of which Marian said candidly
"It doesn't sound like you, Madge.
Of course it's bright and funny, and
all that but your last story was beau-
ifnl!"
"And didn't sell." said Madge.
"What is the use of wr' tr beautiful
things? I have a drawer full of them
and every one of them has traveled all
fPn) candy
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,f? '? l,T '"testing 10 cent in
!Jr it in,l , ',. 1 'lm- IrORet
I nd fhe landlord's little-matter-of-rent
wa settled so graciously that he vol'
Bntanly put a new lock on the back
door and mended the front steps.
I here was really no limit to the won
; Cers worked by that check. It
fmoothed away more asperities and re
stored good-humored smiles to more
frowning faces than any similar
amount of money was ever able to do
before. And it was made so easily, and
it would be o easy to make more!
Then for some bewildering months
Madge f ound herself going irresistibly
along with the current. She wrote in
the new style with a fatal facility, arjd
her work found a market so readily
that there was no time for thought.
There were no longer any small, irri
tating debts to vex the souls of the
young gentlewomen, and all three of
them were able to have wraps as the
cold weather eame on. IIow long they
had gone without! and had pretended
with airy laughter that they found the
weather really oppressive when they
were half frozen. Tradesmen who had
been rude became respectful such a
promoter of courtesy is the reputation
of being in easy circumstances.
And Madge had letters from this and
that magazine, asking for her picture
and a sketch of her life. Critics com
mented on the amusing character of
her work, and even found in it a won
derful depth of philosophy and a sur
prising knowledge of human nature.
8he was invited to become a member
of literary societies and press clubs.
Young editors of new-fledged maga
zines besought her to furnish articles
for the opening numbers something
bright and catchy something in the
style of "Ma' Jane's yuiltin'," or "The
Ghost Jim Saw."
"Oh, how my ambitions have all been
wrecked!" she cried, piteoiisly, one
day. "I know I am capable of bftter
work than this. I feel ashamed of all
this notoriety. 1 have degenerated in
to a mere scribbler of comic sketches
a kind of clow n, whose business it is
to grin and prance and make funny
speeches, to keep the people on the
benches amused."
"Still, we paid the milkman," said
Kate, succinctly, looking up from her
w ork.
"And after awhile you will be able to
go on with your real work," added
Marian, hopefully.
"I wonder if I ever can?" she mused,
wistfully. "I wonder if the world will
let me do it? Somehow, I am afraid
thpy w ill refuse to let me wash off the
paint and be my real self."
One evening she was tempted out
to some social function at the house
of a, friend and thereshemet acertain
great editor. For one awful moment
ON AN ABANDONED FARM.
Che Servant Question, Marketing,
Heaua of Transportation nnd
Other Practical Mutters.
William Henry Bishop tells in Cen
tury of his fortunes in a new coun
try home.
"I shall touch briefly on the prac
tical aspects of the ca.se. I had feared
at first to have to spend half my time
hurrying to the market-town to pro
vision the family, and I thought it
worth doing even then. But, quite
to the contrary, the housekeeping
has proved to be even easier than in
town. This is much due to the daily
Btage. Though a lumbering, slow
conveyance for travel or for bringing
out one's friends to tlte farm, it is a
capital resource for procuring sup.
plies. We signal it by a blue placard
swung out of the. window, and it
stops under our maple-trees by seven
in the morning. The amiable driver
takes a prepared list, and he is back
again before noon, bringing, say,
meat from the butcher's and of ex
cellent quality, too, even by town
strnil.irds fruit and confectionery,
a new broom and some cotton cloth
for the servant, embroidery-thread
for the mistress, light lumber and
cans of paint for this deponent, and
drum for the son of the house. For
such miscellaneous shopping his own
charge is about ten cents. The stage
driver is the Mercury, the special
providence, of the dwellers all along
his line. An old woman awaits to
give him huckleberries to sell, an
other hands up an old saucepan to
be soldered. The complete history
of one of his trips would make an in
structive and amusing compendium
of rural existence. Besides this re
source, other butchers, bakers, Ash
men and fruit-men, too, drive by,- on
certain days of the week, jingle their
ittle bells at our door, and await
our pleasure.
"The servant question is often al
leged as one of the drawbacks to a
country life, but here again, juilging
from our experience and observation,
we are obliged to think the dread is
exaggerated. Our own domestic has
followed our fortunes throughout.
"Norn" has plenty of merits, to which
I here gladly pay tribute, but she
cannot be greatly different from her
kind, and yet, so far from being dis
contented or "lonesome," she shows
and declares great satisfaction with
the new life and with the respite
from that of the city. She likes to
compare the way things are done here
with that of her farm-house home
covered with MF Roofing Tin 50 years ago, and
good to-day as ever, is a familiar sight on the Atlantic
6eaboard. The careful selection of perfect black plates,
repeated hand dipping, tinning; by means of clarified
Lagos palm oil, and the rejection of every imperfect
sheet, gives
TO T9"
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lead (the genuine old-tyle terne process) and are
impervious to the rust-producing atmosphere of the
seaboard the severest test that can be applied.
This Q trademark is on every sheet of the genuine
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she wondered if he had ever heard of j in Ireland (to the great advantage
over the country. .Now I IJ try to
1 1?-? public instead."
'el-,-.! ' 1 "'"'her supply ami wit com- And less than three weeks after-
I lir, wards came fhe reply, notifying Miss
f i-n .',",, . J. Asiiini. Bertram that the story was accepted,
I ATe ' 'l"'-"'eUhl.. pfc in(.losinir . checU for aud inviting
further contributions.
Fiftv dollars! Oh, impossible! , It
must be five, or, at the most, firteen.
But no the three heads bent over the
check, and there it was, too plain to
be mistaken. And then the three sis
ters embraced one another and cried
and laughed, and did more absurd
1.. .. - iii.intr. thnn tneY tin (i ever aone since
.TT,:,JS the trrle for a living had begun
-!... cNSTIPATION. ... with them; and Kate ran around the
i ' "'-- .-..I. nt room waving the slip of paper as
TQ.fi!" s. m . I ivnh it were a hanner. But after
' 1 l";T'"ro the first,gush of gladness was over the
I Ttnorir r- pale young author sat down and looked
at them wistfuHy.
"It is so discouraging," she said, "to
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U.YI V"en''l- Full size 50 cents. ,nlnK ,nal " ' '
J Ll ltl'( &rt Warren St, New York. T f'"- ,h latest nd most incon
r 'ifton, Arizona. Jan. 90. liert " seouential thine T ever wrote."
"It would be much mire discouraging
if it hadn't been paid at al!,"said Kate;
e,tiirrk .j .7 . p,iau presently mr am nut ...u.",.,i,j
' M 1' nr. ,:lrVa ,n . . travlv around the room.
1; Wr,Jra "Hurrah for the reign of the frivo-
f ore Urt) t 1 hni consumption. I , will never be serious air.nn.
' VMbed 1 8CWm,lal,n n'1 in i And 'so it came to pass that when
'iv;. ft '''Ttf topped. It is the the milkman drove up to make sar-
j- rwr. ... ns1 'or catarrh. 1 ,-rV to them-ladies-as-they-
a 'tok-b 1 , w , ' - -
1-i-iA ; tease send mear0
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' ""i""'"". enn-themselv,
Eyspcpsla Cure ! "TrV '""I
fo t . ! telf dism ssed
themselves-w hat-don t-pay-t heir-
fonrd his bill l aid and him-
her if he knew that she was living
It appeared presently that he had
taken cognizance of her existence
some time before, and had followed
her career with .nterest; that he had
even, on his own confession, been
somewhat anxious to meet her.
"Can yen. call it a career?" she
asked, with a touch of bitterness in
her voice. "I have drifted into it al
most unconsciously but it is . not
what I once thought my lifework
would be."
"Since you have been so frank," said
the great man, unbending, "I will ad
mit that I have thought you capable
of a higher class of work."
Madge lifted a pale face and looked
at him. He was the editor who had
sent back the beautiful story that
wrote itself.
"What would you do," she asked.
with a thrill in her young voice, 'if
vou were poor, and could not wait;
if there were others depending on
you if anxieties were crushing your
very soul?"
"Well," he said, carefully, "there
are higher duties, perhaps, than mere
ly writingwhatone likes to write. Per
haps we are too quick to judge what it
our lifework. If we only knew, it may
be that our lifework is keepingthe pot.
boiling, and paying debts, and taking
care of those dependent on us. It
seems a pity that that we cannot all
work out our creams. You see, hav
ing once established a reputation of
this kind, one becomes its slave instead
of its master. I regret that I did not
have the opportunity to examine some
of your serious w ork be fore you start
ed out on this line. There might have
been great power in it. I judge that
you would have written with strength
and no doubt with wonderful path
os" for he had seen the glance she
turned on him.
She read ii over again that night aft
er she went home the story that he
had returned the story that wrote it
self. Her pen was going until long aft
er the morning star had risen, and the
story whien tw ent mm rnai cay,
and which he published soon after,
was pronounced by competent judges
to be far more amusing than anything
else she had written. Kate shrieked
with laughter over it the editor in
that story was so droll, and the coun
try girl w ith her inconsequent dreams
of greatness and her absurd little am
bitions was there ever anything o
amusing? But Marian read the story
in silence and looked up at Madge with
little wistful anxiety.
"Madge, are you givinj up the old
dreams?" she asked.
Yes," was the pay reply or wat
tier voice altogether gay? and what
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with a celerity that gave I j,.!; asit was.
new tone was thrilling through it? "I
have discovered at last where my gen
ius lies. I have the most undoubted tal
ent for pot-boiling, and from this time
on there will be peace between us
and the tribe of milkmen, and we will
have winter w raps and cool things for
summer, and the larder will be always
full. What are beautiful stories that
write ihemse.ves, compared wua
that?"
And because Marian was looking at
her, not underntancing, sue sur.g a
snatch of si me merry little song as
she folded the manuscript and put it
into its tivlope. She had acctpted
of the latter). It is a pleasure to see
Nora cruising down the shrubbery,
popping ripe raspberries into her
mouth, or sitting in the orchard with
her lap full of apples; and if the
kitchen fire were not so hot though
the next time I am going to try one
of the patent stoves that go with oil
or gasoline she would get as much
benefit out of it all as the rest of us.
Thus far nn epidemic of good health
has prevailed among us all, and we
have hail no doctor's bills to pay.
"Our experiment has been an un
mistnkable success; the life is agree
able, it is healthy, and it is cheap,
You have noticed thnt the one con
clusion reached by nearly all persons
who have passed their summer at the
usual boarding-house, hotel, or hired
cottage, is that they never wnnt to
iro to that place atrain.- We do not
say thnt and we do not think it. Wo
keep the farm much in mind in the
winter-time, we talk it over with
pleasure, we recall how we used to
watch the birds there, and the fire
flies, and those larger fireflies, the
stars, and we are anxious to get back
to it at the earliest moment.
"Such is what one of the improved
methods of transportation has done
for us. As they become more com
mon, they must influence immensely
the filling up of the farms with sum
m r residents. Perhaps, indeed, the
next step may be a general scramble
for these farms, and the call upon
those who have not rend the signs
of the times, and seized ihe occasion
by the forelock, to pay much higher
pricey than those that have hitherto
preva ileil.
"We won our country home, so to
express it, by the bicycle, but we
rather expect to have to hold it by
the automobile, unless it be by the
trolley, for alrea.lv they talk of a
link to connect the two systems
above and below us. Why will not
some one bring out a motor-car
riage, for two persons and a third
light one at a pinch costing riot
much above $'-"0, and capable of be
ing stowed away in small quarters?
Such a conveyance is bound to come
sooner or later. Why not give it to
us sooner anil not later?"
That we have
just received the
Largest Stock of
Pianos and
Organs ever
brought into the
State in one Shipment.
THAT MEANS LOW PRICES.
We have Pianos from $150 up.
Organs 44 $ 25 44
Our terms are easy. Q,uite a number of
Little-Used Pianos and Organs at about
your own prices. Write us a postal for
prices and particulars. The Old Reliable
B A I LEY'S MUSIC ROOMS,
Y. M. C. A. BUILDING, BURLINGTON, VERMONT.
H. W. Hall, Gen'l Manager.
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GOOD HORNING!
Do You Use a
Quaker - Range ?
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Victor In Rnval I nctea.
Hundreds of writers and speakers
have asserted during the last six
months that when the late Queen Vic
toria ascended the throne, in
the crown had fallen into contempt,
owing to the extreme unpopularity
of George IV. and William IV. This
is all rubbish and nonsense. George
IV. ought, very likely, to have been
generally detested, but, as a matter
of fact, he was always received every
where with unbounded enthusiasm
and the frantic cheers of London and
Brighton were also heard at Dublin
in and at Edinburgh in 1S22.
There never was a more popular
monarch, to judge from the accla
mations of his subjects whenever he
condescended to appear in public.
Kead the account in Vanity Fair of
King Georee't state visit to the op
era, in which lhackeray deseniies
the wild ecstacies of the vast audi
ence, and of the crowds outside the
theater, with mingled derison and
disgust. William IV. was also a great
public favorite, and with consider
ably more reason. London Truth. j
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