PAGE SIX THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912. A 1 A Jfati A A, .t. it. A A ! tti ,t Am A A, A if 1 A rTTTT 1 1 1 CHERRIES They Saved Her From Herself By CLARISSA MACKIE v fc "X ' t' I 't ti' 4 I tJt4 "1$ In April Miss Alberta Ely looked at tbo snowy bloom of licr bit' cherry tree nnd sighed anxiously. "It looks ns If there was going to bo a sight of fruit this year If tlio pesky birds dont eat 'ein all up," slie said to herself. Then aloud sho suddenly shrieked, "Here, you, boy; don't you dare touch them blossoms." "I was only nicking a few flowers, ma'am," he aiwloglzed. "I wanted them for my mamma." "The;; are not flowers," returned Miss Alberta severely. "TuotJo would have been cherries In July if yon bml left them nkjne. One, two, three urn nine cherries you've picked off my troe. young man." The Iwy looked from her llnod and careworn face to the fragrant snow of blooms over his head. "There's plenty more flowers, ma'am," lio said wist fully, extending the crushed nvigs bo held, "but I suppose you twtter take these. They're yours." Miss Alberta snatched the blossoms from his hand and tosood them toward a little mound of -wilted dandelion roots she had been digging out of tho turf. "Hasn't your mother taught you It's wicked to steal?" she demanded. The boy winced, but bo squared his shoulders and answered sturdily: "Of course she's told me that, ma'am. It's me mynelf tliat did it Bbo -wouldn't 'prove of me doing it." "Well, I should hope not," ejaculated Alberta, with a fleeting glance toward, the roof of tho little brown houso next door. "When did you move in, boy?" "Yesterday," he answered, "and my mamma's dreffle tired today." "What is your name?" "Duncan Pearly Bartlett. That's my papa's name too." April passed into May May Into June and then came, July, sultry and hot, with the rich odor of overripe fruits in Alberta's shrubby garden. Faster than sho could convert tlio ber ries Into cans of amber and ruby tint ed pronerves they ripened on the bushes, and pirn to robins swooped to enatch titbits for tho gaping mouths that crowded the nests. "Scat!" Alberta would cry, waving her glnghani apron nt the feathered robbers. "Oh, tweo woe weeeooe!" the robins would answer saucily as they dashed away, only to return later and repeat tho foray. "Drat 'emf and Alberta would whisk indoors to rescue tlio scorching sugar from tlie Are. "If the cherries had only waited a llttVe longer!" she groaned one hot day as she looked from tho kitchen win dow into the branches of the cherry tree, where tlio rich red fruit hung In thick clusters. "If I can only got this currant jell off my hnnda" "Do you want a boy to -pick cher ries?" nsked Duncan Bartlett from tho doorway, where ho stood hat in hand. "My mamma says I can pick on shares If you want mo to and I'm careful not to fall." Alberta looked at him suspiciously. Ileiwas soven years old and small for his age, but ho was strong and wiry and had an open, chubby countenance that made him look still younger. lie wore a clean suit of overalls, and his brown foot were bare. "I don't Hko to havo my fruit picked on shares," she said sharply, "but I'll tell you wliat you can try. You can pick 'em on quarter shares. Out of every four quarts you can havo one for yourself." "All right, ma'am," ho said, with some dlsatipolntmont In his tone. "If you'll give mo a pall and a ropo I'll bo gin now." Alberta provided a pail and a rope and a long ladder and watched the small cherry picker carefully climb tho rounds until ho disappeared among the green branches. Just before noon Duncan nppetired nt tho door staggering under a pull of luscious cherries. Perspiration stream ed down Ills sunburned nose and clier rles stained his lips. "How many you got there eight quarts? Well, you get two quarts out of that." Alberta measured a scant two quarts from the brimming pull and dumped them in a paper bag. "You coming back after dinner?" "If you wunt me to." "Come along. Somebody's got to pick em. Well, I declare, you've been eat ing some!" She pointed au accusing finger at his reddened Hps. Duncan Hushed proudly. "I only ate some the birds had pecked," ho con fessed. "DTo's gritty," sho murmured ns she emptied tho cherries Into a basket and set the pail outside the door. By C o'clock Duncan had picked fifty qutfrta of cherries, and Alberta reluc tantly panted from twelve quarts. It ww irfter supper that Ellen Rnlvo ly's fneo appeared at Alberta's kitch en door. "You all through your sup per?" alio asked na sho stepped within and pushed tho suubounet back from her sliarp face. "Sea. Sit down." Alberta pushed tkts Boston xicker forward and lwna her dish towel on tho lino, nt flw burtl door, "lim (load bent Itoen canning frutt ull day and got my cherries lo do tomor row." She sank breathlessly InW a chair. "That Bnrtlctt boy's making a good thing out of you," remarked Ellon complacently. "I bought twelve quarts of cherries from him, nnd the llttlo rascal charged mo IB cents a quart for 'cm." "KlfUcn cents a quart!" echoed Al berta In dismay. "Thoy told rao down to the store they'd take all I could epn.ro for 8 cents. That boy must have made $1.S0 off my tree. That's man's wages." Alberta was becoming excited. "Miss Green only paid 2 cents a qtinrt to have hers picked," said Mrs. Snlvcly significantly, "and she sold 'em for IK, making l!l cents a quart. I thought it was too bad ho should be making all the money off you, and so I ran In to tell you. I got to run along and got ready for prayer meet ing now. You coming?" "By and by," groaned Alberta weari ly. "I got to think this cherry busi ness out first. I feel's If that lwy had cheated me. I've a good mind to go over there and make him give mo some of thnt money back. I didn't know that cherries was selling so high or I wouldn't have let Urn pick on shares." "Even shares?" demanded Ellen Snlvcly. "Quarter shares. And thaf s enough." "IMenty enough," agreed Ellen. "I don't know as I can get down to meeting, Ellen, but you might as well tako along my contribution to that missionary vacation fund. I promised $5," said Alberta with conscious gen erosity. Sho brought the money nnd plaoed it In a small envelope. "I ex port its hard work for them mission aries to convert tlw heathen to tho Golden- Hule," sho sighed. "Hiram says he should think the heathen would want a vacation in stead of be missionaries," giggled El len Snlvcly frivolously as she pocket ed the money. "I'm sorry Hiram alnt a professing Christian It's a great comfort" ob served Miss Ely primly as Ellen dis appeared around tho corner of the house. Half an hour later she returned from a trip to the little brown house. Sho had recovered SO cents of Duncan's money and had amended her bargain by paying blm 2 cents a quart for tho cherries ho had picked and thus re duced his earnings to ?1. Slie felt very uncomfortable over the matter also, for once Inside the modest brown cot tage sho found herself in refined sur roundings. Mrs. Bartlett was a charm ing woman and had introduced her husband, Dr. Bartlett, a whole eouled, genial man, who Inwardly chuckled at his llttlo son's business venture, but outwardly treated It with great seri ousness and consideration, much to Duncan's comfort. Alberta Ely surmised that her new neighbors were far from being in straitened circumstanocs and had mere ly sought the little cottage for a summer's recreation In tlio valley. Their simple courteey put Alberta's niggardly errand to shame, and her cheeks flushed hotly as she tossed the money down on her kitchen table. "I wish Ellen Snivoly had stayed at home," she said Impatiently. "I've got to get all that fruit down cellar, and It's dark now." Sho lighted a lamp and set It down In the cellar; then whllo the darkness closed in and the air grew more hot and sultryevery moment she toiled up and down tho stairs, carrying basket after basket of the canned fruit she had worked so hard to preserve. At last sho carried the txuskot of cherries, and halfway down the steep stairs sho etcpiRMl on her skirt, tottered and then, overbalanced by the basket of fruit, she fell down the remaining steps, twisting her ankle badly as she did so. For many dreadful moments Alberta Ely lay there on her cellar floor unable to move her foot. Pangs of exquisite pain stabbed her ankle to be succeeded by hot burnings. She felt it swelling within her shoo, and at last she extri cated herself from the mass of crushed cherries and assumed a sitting posture, but it was Impossible to move farther. Thunder roared nnd shook the house to Its foundations. The fermenting Jars of 1907 cherries yielded to the heat and exploded with astounding re ports. At last there came a hissing, sizzling flash of white light outside tho cellar windows, followed by a deafen ing crash, succeeded by another crash of splintering glass. Alberta Ely faint ed from pain nud fright. When she regained consciousness she was in her own sitting room, sur rounded by tho entire Bartlett family. Tho doctor had skillfully bound her injured auklo, nnd his wife was hold ing wet cloths to All)ertn's brow, while Duncan pressed strong smelling salts to her thin nose. "Your preservo shelves camo down last night, nnd it looks as though you'd lost all your fruit," explained Mrs. Bartlett after nwhlle. "I'm afraid that's not tho worst of It, Miss Ely. Tho lightning struck your cherry tree and split it In two halves. Wo saw It audi camo over. Wo wero afraid tho bolt might havo entered the house." Alberta Ely looked through tear filled eyes at tho three who wero so cheer fully ministering to her In spito of her meanucss regarding tho cherries Dun can had picked. Something hard loos ened from about her heart, and it must havo been tlio covering of stinginess, for It never appeared! again. She reached out nnfl caught Duucnu'a chub by baud and kissed it with trembling lips, and tho Bnrtietts understood they had made a new friend nnd smiled nt eat'h other. Kono of tliem hoard. Alberta Ely wliis pcrtng to iterae If. "No- nilsijionary ought to take a vocation so lqng tP Eflen Snivety and mo can net fio iftV Christian," sho tlioufeht bitterly. "Why, God Just had to8end a boK of -lightning to faa't cherry treo to make m&-artder-itaud sumo things." I A STRANGE MATCH With a Singular Result By JULIUS WILSON- John Dexter nnd I were schoolmates, chums In college nnd nlwnys Intimate friends. John, who inherited n fortune, went abroad for awhile after graduat ing, and 1 went into the law. As soon ns I was ready for business John turned over to me tho care of his es tate. John was in every sense a bachelor. He was devoted to bachelor life nnd showed no disposition to become a hus band. "Whnt tie myself up to a wom an!" he would say. "Do you realize what that means? Slavery absolute slavery. And, more, you are mixed up with another family that you have no interest hi whatever. The first time you meet them after your marriage they call you by your first name, and you are expected to do the same by them, a familiarity that doesn't exist between you and soino of your life long friends. How can a man endure to bo caged with one woman and no "way of getting away from her? There's nine chancos in ten against his ever having any comfort after he's been chnlned." Then he quoted some doggerel on the subject: "There's many a man when tha key has been turnsd In tho wedlock for which ho has ardently yearned Would eivo all tbo wealth In his bank and his rochet And borrow besides, for a key to unlock it" Now, this aversion to matrimony on John's part was unfortunate. I hap pened to have a client, a young lady, Margaret Storms, whose property was very much tangled up -with the estate of John Dexter, and I could see no such advantageous way of straighten ing it out except by their uniting their interests in marriage. There was a double reason why this was extremely difficult. Miss Storms was or pretend ed to be as adverse to marriage ns Dexter. But I haw never had any faith in this antagonism between the sexea except in special cases, and in this case the two had never seen each other. I resolved to beard the lion and the lioness In their respective dons and make one supreme effort to unite them and their estates. Woman, notwithstanding her bitter ness when prejudiced, may be more easHy handled In a matrimonial mat ter than man. She naturally seeks her sphere the home and childrenearlier than man. I therefore resolved to be gin my attack on Miss Storms. I went to see her and opened up tho object of my visit by telling her of tho diffi culties In the way of making her estate pay the Income it should because of the antagonistic Interests In tlio prop erty of another person. Then I went on to say that $20,000 a year income might be more desirable with a hus band than nothing a year without one. "Not In my case," was her quick re ply. "I am satisfied that I couldn't be tied up with any man for a mouth without ha ting him." This was not -encouraging, but I pur sued tho argument, whllo she, though sho said nothing, sniffed the air like a war horse hearing the boom of dis tant cannon. When I camo .to a pause she asked tho name of tho man I pro posed she should wed. I told her, and her Ire burst forth. "Oh, yes. I know all about him. no's tho man who hates women so and goes about spouting those satirical lines be has either composed though I don't bellevo he's smart enough or borrowed." And she spouted tlio rimes John hnd given mo on the subject of marriage. "You go back," sho continued, "and give him tills nnswer to his borrowed doggerel: "Thero'a many a girl when embarked on tlio wavo Of life's ocean with him who has sworn he's her slave Will find to her cost when nothing can save her That tho captain's a brute- and the vessel's a slaver." "That's unfortunato," I said. "John's very unwise to bo getting off such stuff. But lie doesnt mean It any more than you mean your rimes. Nev ertheless I exiect I liad better stick to tho law without trying to do outside work. But If your estate eventually passes Into tlio hands of this man Dex ter don't blamo me." "Oh, bring him along. I'm not afraid of him. If ho bllen mo I am stick a pin In him." I 6aid nothing to Dexter about my unfortunate opening of the subject of his mnKiago, but when I saw him again I told him thnb the probabilities wero his estate would oon be ubsorbed by that of MIbu Storms. Had it not teen for this card that I played to both of tbo parties concerned I nltgbt liavo watted till they were both hi their dotage before producing any pcrcejitl bio -effect: When. I tad jrsul it with Mkss Storms ehchda shki, "Oh, bring hip riJong." When Lused It vlth Dor Jcr lie- nsked, "What kml of a kooklug thins la she 7" "Very pretty' I replied, "and re markably brrgbtr" "n'm! Heaven eavo mo from a smart woman!" Bv dint of hammering It Into each of thom that tho other would eventually got both estates I Anally got them to consider n union. John wns willing to meet Margaret and look her over. Mar garet, when I took her up on her invi tation to "bring blm along," backed out, saying that sho didn't propose to bo trotted out like a horse for sale. But she failed to suggest any other method, nnd I began to think tho mat ter was entirely off when she made the following remarkable proposition: "Since you think 1 must either loso my fortune or marry this womnn hater I will marry him. But I won't live with him. Will thnt serve tho pur pose?" "It would help mnttcrs, and you might learn to love him." "Love him? Nonsense!" "Well, I'll send him to call on you." "I don't wish to meet him." "Then how will you mnrry him by proxy?" "On the day appointed for the wed ding bring him hero n few minutes bo fore tlie ceremony. I will come down stairs, and the service must begin ns soon as I enter tho room. When It Is concluded let him go nt once. I don't wish to hnve n word with him." "Phew! Talk about woman haters! Man haters are a hundredfold worse. However, a marriage, even like this, will straighten out some legal points of great Importance In these ostates. nnd when you have met Dexter, who, I have often told you, is a bang up good fellow, you may relent One thing I fear If you treat your husband as your propose ho will never consent to meet you after tlio marriage." "H'm! I haven't said I would con sent to meet him, havo I?' Having accomplished in a measure what I had set out to do, I felt very much like backing out and telling both tho parties that after all such a union as the lady proposed would be of no great advantage to their Inter ests and woukl only chain together two persons who would consider their bonds a burden. But, with a distaste for marriage on tho part of both, what difference could such a wedlock make since neither wished to marry any one at all? They would be married under the law, which would mean nothing except In their property affairs. On the whole, I decided to lot the matter go on and take tho consequences, whatever they might be. The marriage ceremony occurred nt 12 o'clock noon. I reached the house with Dexter, who leaned on me for moral support In what ho called the most dreadful moment of bis life, at Ave minutes of 12. Ho wore an ordi nary business suit, but if ho had been dressed in a carter's suit the gentle man to tho manner born would have been none the less apparent When tho clocks began to strike 12 a door opened, ond Margaret, be comingly dressed, but not In bridal costume, entered. I saw tlie two glance nt each other, a little pale, but after tho first sight a natural color came into the checks of both. During tho sen-lee they made the responses in a reasonably clear and firm tone. When they were required to join hands I saw a slight flush como over John's face. I wondered If It came from tho human current coursing tlirough their arms or if Margaret had by tho slight est possible pressure conveyed some thing to blm. There wero no congratulations, the bride leaving tho room as soon na the ceremony had been finished. The bride's mother advanced to John and engaged him In conversation. I had promised him that as soon as the cere mony was over I would go with him to his club and join hhn in something to steady his nerves. But Mrs. Storms seemed to be making it difficult for hhn to get away, so I passed out, say ing to him as I did so: Too will find mo at tho club." I went to the club and waited for him an hour, no did not put In an appearance. Having at my office matters-needing my attention, I went there and began an afternoon's work, expect ing the while to see John come in. He didn't come. At 5 o'clock I rotumed to tho club, asked If ho had been there and learned that ho had not I had promised to dine with him, he assuring mo that If I failed him in his extremity it would be a cause of war between us. Nevertheless tho dinner hour camo nud passed and no John. Nor did be appear during the evening. John did not turn up for a month, at the end of which timo ho telephoned rao to dino with him and his wife the same evening at her home. I gasped for breath. Did I hear aright? nad I gone daft? "W-h-a-tr I asked. "Seven o'clock." "Where?" "At Mrs. Storms'. Wo haven't got any other place to live yet You know, none was provided." "Oh!" Apparently John didn't wish to go Into explanation, for I heard a click and know that tlio receiver had been hung up. At tho appointed hour I appeared at Mrs. Storms' and found my chum and his wlfo living togetlier Hko two Uirtlo doves. "By Jove, Billy," said John, "It's fine! Go get married right off." 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