THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Feb. 25 
i34 
JANET THORN'S TEMPER. 
MRS. F. M. HOWARD. 
Char. III. 
“ Well, Jimmy, have you decided what 
we shall do?” Janet asked by way of 
opening 1 the conversation. 
“ Well, no. Jog along in the same old 
way I suppose. I don’t see anything 
else to do. Do you ?” 
She looked at him curiously and 
thoughtfully, wondering if there was 
one spark of ambition in his soft, easy 
nature. 
“ Yes, I do ; so much in fact that I am 
bewildered with the care of it all. I do 
wish, Jimmy, that you were more like 
me.” 
He looked at her with a long, low 
whistle upon his lips, which broke into 
a smile. 
“ It would never do in the world, J’net. 
We should set the river on fire and then 
what would become of Clinton ?” 
“ But seriously, Jimmy, we could 
accomplish so much if you had more 
ambition and daring, and would work 
with me.” 
“ As to work, J’net, I’m willing to 
work. You don’t catch me shirking, I 
reckon, but I’m like father. I know 
that, and I can’t help it.” He hung his 
head a little doggedly. 
“ Yes, you are like him, while I—well, 
I’m like that scrub oak tree over there, 
fair and bright looking enough on the 
outside, but all gnarly and cross-grained 
underneath.” She spoke sadly as mem¬ 
ory suggested the past. A pause ensued, 
both looking off toward the river. 
“ Couldn’t you help it, Jimmy ? ” 
“ Help what, J’net ? How queer you 
are to-day.” 
“ Well, I long so to have things differ¬ 
ent,” her thoughts broke loose in a flood 
of earnest words. “ I can’t bear to 
think of drifting along through life al¬ 
ways wanting and never having; of jog¬ 
ging at a snail’s pace and seeing every¬ 
body else drive past us on the road to 
success, as father did. I want to buy 
this farm and turn every foot of it to the 
very best possible use. I did think at 
first of that other one we looked at, but 
I see now that this is better suited to 
the purpose I have in view, and if my 
plans succeed it will not be many years 
before we have a house on it as good as 
that one,” her cheeks were glowing, her 
eyes sparkling with hope and energy. 
“Buy the farm, J’net!” Jimmy’s slow 
wits had got no further than the first 
proposition, and his lips were puckered 
for another whistle. 
“ Certainly. It would be foolish in¬ 
deed to put the improvements I want to 
make upon another person’s land. Rent¬ 
ing puts one into a narro v groove; it’s a 
narrow-gauge road, and I want a broad 
track with plenty of room on the sidings 
for my operations, and I do need an 
engineer, Jimmy,” she looked up archly 
in his face, “ I’ll act as conductor.” 
“ I see what you’re drwing at, J’net, 
but I’m afraid it isn’t in me. I’ll be your 
fireman and I guess that’s about all I’m 
good for. I can do the plain hand work, 
but the brain work ’ll come on you.” 
“Wont you try cultivating self-reli¬ 
ance ?” she urged. “ I believe quickness 
of thought and motion can be cultivated. 
I need your help, your advice, so much,” 
she laid her hand coaxingiy upon his 
arm. “ When father was here it was 
natural that you should depend upon 
him to make the plans, but now we two 
are all alone, and we must help each 
other.” 
“ I’ll tell you what, J’net; I’ll make a 
bargain with you. If you try and buckle 
in your temper and not fly at me with 
hard words when things go wrong, I’ll 
try to be just as much of a man as Na¬ 
ture will allow. I wasn’t cut out after a 
very large pattern anyhow, but if culti¬ 
vating will let out the seams any, why 
I’m willing to try it.” 
“ It’s a bargain, Jimmy. Now Nature, 
you see, cut out my temper large enough 
or two, and I have to keep tucking it in 
and nipping it off here and there to get 
any fit at all,” Janet concluded, laugh¬ 
ing at the odd figure of speech her 
brother had used. Janet resumed : “As 
soon as it is possible, I want you to have 
a year or two at least in school.” 
“ I thought we had finished our edu¬ 
cation.” 
“ And I have just begun to realize how 
little we do know. To be a successful 
farmer, a man should understand the 
nature of the soil he works—the chem¬ 
istry of the foods he gives his stock, and 
all these things which we have never 
even thought of. Why was it that the 
man who bought our old farm is making 
a fortune from it ? Simply because he 
understood the nature of the soil which 
indicates natural gas, and father didn’t. 
We might have starved there without 
ever thinking to bore for the fortune 
which lay underneath us.” 
“That’s true enough, J’net. It galled 
father terribly, that did, and it made me 
feel mean myself, but I say now, what’s 
to hinder us having a sort of reading cir¬ 
cle all to ourselves this winter and study¬ 
ing up on some of these things ? There’s 
plenty of books to be had, and we needn’t 
wait to go to school.” 
“Jimmy, you’re a jewel !” Janet ex¬ 
claimed warmly, delighted by this promis¬ 
ing indication of intelligent cooperation. 
“ We’ll do that very thing.” 
The following day Janet presented her¬ 
self to Mr. Graves in his office, and laid 
her plans before him. The business relat¬ 
ing to the farm had hitherto been trans¬ 
acted by Abel, and the man of leases and 
deeds could not help contrasting with 
his, Janet’s quick, incisive way of coming 
to the point, and saying what she had to 
say with clearness. 
“ Good ! ” he exclaimed when she had 
finished. “You are a girl after my own 
heart, and I hope you’ll be prospered. I 
believe you will, too, for Heaven has a 
way of helping those who help them¬ 
selves, I notice. Now about the farm : 
It came into my hands through a mort¬ 
gage I was forced to foreclose. I got it 
cheap and I can let you have it cheap. If 
I were dealing with a man now, I’d take 
all he would offer me, but I like pluck in 
a woman, and I’m willing to show it 
substantially. Women are the salt of the 
earthy, anyway, bless ’em! this world 
would be a pretty insipid place with no¬ 
body but men in it, I’m thinking.” 
He did some figuring on a piece of paper 
while Janet smilingly thanked him for 
his tribute to her sex. 
“ Well, Miss Thorn, I can sell you that 
farm for $2,000 and just save myself. 
That will bring it just a little less than 
$30 an acre, and if you do not double its 
value in less than five years, why, I’m 
mistaken in you, that’s all.” 
“ But even that sum seems a good deal 
for a girl to assume,” Janet remarked 
modestly, shrinking back a little in spirit 
from the responsibility. It was her first 
independent transaction of business, and 
twasnaturally appalling. 
“ Not so great after all,” Mr. Graves 
replied reassuringly. “ How much have 
you now to pay down?” 
“ I have $1,000 ; the remainder of the 
insurance money which is left, I shall 
need for other uses. I intend selling off 
the machinery, except what is actually 
essential, and shall invest the proceeds in 
improvements,” giving him her ideas for 
changing the character of the farm work 
at which he rubbed his hands approv¬ 
ingly. 
“Your ideas are excellent, Miss Thorn, 
excellent, and I havn’t a doubt but that 
you will make them a success. Let me 
suggest also that you plant fruit trees 
freely. In this soil and climate peaches 
can be raised. I’ve seen peach trees bear¬ 
ing in five years from the seed, and that 
south slope there just back of your house 
would be just the place for peaches and 
apples, with the wind-break to protect 
them. 
“Then there are nut-bearing trees which 
would do equally well, to say nothing of 
plums, cherries and small fruits. 
“Fruit and nuts are always salable, and 
one cannot have too many sources of rev¬ 
enue on a farm, especially when, like 
these, they take care of themselves and 
only ask for standing room. 
“Now I’ll tell you what I’ll do. These 
changes will take time, and after this 
first payment, you need not make another 
until you have had ample opportunity to 
turn yourself, and make the place pro¬ 
ductive.” 
As the money was in the bank and 
close at hand and Janet had the proper 
authority from Jimmy and her mother, 
the deed was made out, signed and sealed, 
and the payment made over before she 
went home again, and it was with a 
strange mixture of joy and doubt, that 
she ran to her mother’s side and placing 
the deed in her hand said, with a tremor 
in her voice, “It is ours, mother. Once 
more we have a home of our own.” 
Mrs. Thorn took the paper with a pa¬ 
thetic mixture of pleasure and grief, say¬ 
ing in a hushed tone, “Oh, J’net, what 
would y’r pa say ? ” 
(To be Continued.) 
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