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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Jan. 28 
.JANET THORN'S TEMPER. 
MRS. F. M. HOWARD. 
Chap. II. 
( Continued .) 
As the house was vacant, there was 
nothing to hinder an immediate removal, 
as the boxes had been sent on in advance 
to the Mississippi, and were waiting in 
the freight office for further transfer, 
and the following days were busy ones. 
*“ Tell you what I’ll do, J’netAbel 
had said, as the girl’s disappointment 
vented itself in words more vigorous 
than respectful when in the shelter of 
their room at the hotel. “You was al¬ 
ways a borin’ me fer lace curtains back 
East, an’ I’ll give you fifty dollars now to 
fix up your parlor with just as you’ve a 
mind to. You needn’t put a cent out 
any where’s else.” 
Money is a soothing balm for minor 
woes, and Janet soon recovered her 
wonted spirits in planning for the fur¬ 
nishing of this part of the new home, 
which was fortunately very clean, and 
neatly papered and painted, the former 
occupants having looked upon it as a re¬ 
gion too sacred for use except on rare 
occasions when the minister came out to 
tea, or some equally severe pressure 
came upon the domestic routine of events. 
The sitting-room had also a bay win¬ 
dow, on the sunny side of the house, 
another amelioration of her father's 
questionable taste in the selection of a 
home, so that, taken together, things 
were not so desperately bad after all, and 
Janet, after the first disappointment had 
passed by, entered into the work with 
her usual activity, and with perhaps a 
little less than her usual sharpness of 
speech. 
She had heard a sermon before starting 
on her journey, on the beauty of gentle¬ 
ness, of long-suffering patience ; it had 
touched her, and she had made some good 
resolutions in consequence—that she 
would be kinder and less sarcastic in this 
Western home; more ready to see the 
pleasant and ignore the unpleasant in 
her lot. Although habit was so firmly 
fixed in her, the good seed had borne 
fruit after its kind, and Janet had really 
tried to be patient. 
Mrs. Thorn remained in the back¬ 
ground in these preparations. 
“Just as you ’n’ y’r pa can agree, 
J’net,” she said whenever applied to for 
advice or direction. She was mildly sur¬ 
prised and delighted with her new sur¬ 
roundings, and chatted amiably with 
those who were inclined to be sociable 
with the meek little stranger. 
“ Why I’m sure, pa, folks is just as gen¬ 
teel an’ nice out here as ever I seen in 
my life,” she said one day. “ Why I felt 
downright shabby when I went out 
walkin,’ an’ I had on my best gown an’ 
shawl, too.”' 
“ And I’m quite positive we can learn 
something here if we keep our eyes and 
ears open,” added Janet with a sly glance 
at Jimmy. 
“If we can keep up with the procession 
at all we shall do well,” replied Jimmy 
frankly. His views of East and West 
had become considerably modified and 
he added, a little ruefully : “ I'm afraid 
we are not going to dazzle any one, 
Janet.” 
“I’m quite sure we are not,” Janet 
answered dryly. 
It was a pleasant surprise to find Mr. 
Graves one of the ushers in the church to 
which they found their way on the Sab¬ 
bath. It was much larger and finer than 
they had been accustomed to, and a 
familiar face took off a little of the 
feeling of strangeness with which they 
entered. 
A beautiful voluntary was being played 
on the large pipe organ as they were 
shown to a seat, and the sweet sounds 
entered Janet’s soul sweetly and rest- 
fully after the labors and perplexities of 
the week. 
There is a difference between an East¬ 
ern and a Western audience, which a 
stranger quickly notices: the large major¬ 
ity of young people in the prime of 
active, stirring life, the few silvered 
heads, while in the East the majority 
runs the other way. There is a friend¬ 
liness, too, which strikes pleasantly upon 
a stranger ; gathered in from all States 
and countries, the right hand of fellow¬ 
ship is extended heartily, and acquaint¬ 
ance progresses rapidly. 
On Monday morning the last loads 
were taken out to the new place, and 
before another Sabbath the Thorns were 
once more at home, and Abel had com¬ 
menced his fall plowing, growing more 
delighted each day as his plowshare 
turned up the mellow, fertile soil, in 
which his old enemies, the stones, were 
an exception instead of the rule. 
“ It beats all Natur’, Jimmy. It does 
80.” 
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Chap. III. 
“ A new broom sweeps clean,” and 
Abel Thorn and Jimmy had never been 
so industrious, so thoughtful and pains¬ 
taking as in that first year in Iowa. 
The keen, bracing air agreed witL 
them all, and with it they inhaled a 
wholesome ambition perhaps, but at any 
rate they plowed, sowed and gathered 
into barns with unwonted energy and 
perseverance, almost daily drawing com¬ 
parisons between the East and West, and 
wondering how they had ever endured 
the disadvantages of Eastern farming so 
long as they had. 
Then came reaction, though slowly. 
If a man is thoroughly and constitution¬ 
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a change of climate and environments to 
rest him, and the weariness of the 
Thorns was more than a passing con¬ 
dition—it was ingrained, and murmurs 
began to arise, clouds arose in the agri¬ 
cultural sky considerably larger than a 
man’s hand. 
“ What d’ye think, mother, about 
buyin’ a new reaper this fall ? There 
was a feller along here to-day, an’ he 
offered me one dirt cheap. I could pay 
for’t too in monthly installments. It’s a 
beauty now an’ no mistake, an’ ’twould 
make your eyes pop to see the work it 
kin do—cut an’ bind an’ throw off 
faster’n a hoss can trot. Beats all natur.” 
“Just as you think best, Abel.” If 
there had been any change wrought in 
Mrs. Thorn in the year past, she was 
meeker and less positive than before, 
and if Abel had proposed to buy a flying 
machine she would have given her 
ready consent quite as cheerfully. The 
world had a way of wagging along 
somehow and Abel with it, and she had 
serene confidence that it would continue 
to do so without her interference or cal¬ 
culation. 
Janet, however, had kept her eyes well 
opened, and as she had made acquaint¬ 
ances among the neighboring farmers’ 
families, and had also informed herself 
by reading ; she had discovered that the 
question of buying expensive machinery 
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“ Couldn’t you rent a machine of Mr. 
Briggs cheaper than you can buy,” she 
asked. “You know our wheat was in 
a week later than his, and can well wait 
until his is harvested.” 
“ I don’t like to borry, child,” he an¬ 
swered peevishly. I wish’t you would¬ 
n’t try to run the farm work, J’net. Seems 
though you might find enough in the 
house to do.” 
Janet’s eyes flashed. “So I can, 
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