THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 18 
JANET THORN'S TEMPER. 
MBS. F. M. HOWARD. 
Chap. VI. 
One of the first purchases which Janet 
had made at the beginning of the year, 
was a blank account book in which she 
entered each item of debit and credit 
with care and fidelity, determined to 
know at the close of her year of effort 
just how much she had made or lost. The 
winter, filled with much of labor and 
pleasure as it was, passed so swiftly that 
the spring was already at hand. An 
average winter in Iowa is delightful: 
clear, sparkling and bracing, with not 
snow enough to impede travel, and its 
main discomfort is the occasional swift 
storm known as the “ blizzard,” but this 
commonly starts from the far West or 
North, and has spent its force before 
reaching Iowa soil. 
The spring opened favorably, and the 
fields were already green with the grass 
and clover which Jimmy had sown. 
Janet had made arrangements with the 
city butchers for the sale of her fat cattle, 
preferring this method to the more corn- 
peculiar hardship and barrenness, the 
farmer’s wife an especial object of pity 
“ I do not believe it,” she commented 
energetically. “Successful life in any 
line is full of hard, untiring effort, and 
the farmer’s wife has her full share ; but 
I have yet to learn that Western life has 
any more hardship and deprivation than 
a corresponding life in the East. There 
are back districts in the Empire State to¬ 
day where in no point has the farmer’s 
family a shadow of superiority over the 
prairie settlers in intelligence or oppor¬ 
tunity.” 
“It’s mighty lonesome, though, J’net, 
you must admit that, a-livin’ away off on 
some o’ those bleak prairies.” 
“That is largely a matter of habit, 
mother. If one has been bred to. farm 
life, she can be happy in the midst of an 
unbroken prairie. Now I should be mis¬ 
erable hemmed in by the narrow bounds 
of a city lot, while the town-bred girl 
would be equally miserable out of sight 
of chimneys and steeples.” 
“ Well, if there is any great difference 
between farmers’ lives East and West, I 
believe the Western farmer is inclined to 
mon one of sending the stock to the • be a little more progressive and up with 
Chicago stock-yards. She had an object the times-more apt to drive out of the 
in this—that the 1 horndale beef should ruts,” remarked Jimmy, who had come 
have a reputation as well as the Thorn- in to mend a strap of the filly > s harness 
dale butter, and no pains were spared to .. W hat’s the programme for to-day. 
attain that desirable end. The winter’s .jaraot ?” 
reading had been of the greatest practi- j anet produced her order bock, 
cal benefit, amounting in fact to a care- “ That fat steer is to be delivered at 
ful study of the chemistry of soil and the Central Market this morning) theD 
food, the relations of light and heat to we had better drive out aud look over 
the proper development of animal func- Mr . Morrel’s young cattle. I hear he has 
tions. and the anatomy o f animals. some choice stock for sale . r can make 
The course of study had wrought still my town delivery and take my music 
better results. It had awakened Jimmy lesson this afternoon.” 
to a more intelligent ambition—taken The year passed swiftly, each day 
out of his efforts the merely sordid am- filled with its active, absorbing duties, 
bition to make money, and implanted the and at its close Janet brought forward 
more noble desire to attain excellence, her day book. 
to master the profession of farming as “ How much do you suppose we have 
thoroughly as the lawyer masters the cleared, mother?” she asked, her voice 
theory of law, or the physician his quite tremulous with happy excitement, 
physic and the art of administering “I’m sure I don’t have no idea, child 
it. True, he would never be as quick If we’ve come out even I shall think we’re 
and alert as one of a highly sensitive and lucky. Y’r pa didn’t use to. There was 
nervous temperament, still there was im- always a stack o’ debts to carry over 
provement, and .Janet no longer planned into the next year.” 
a l one> Mrs. Thorn’s voice grew more weakly 
quavering as time rolled on, and she felt 
The shying horse had long since been strangely alone and left behind in the 
sold, and Janet had now a pretty, trusty midst of such breezy, energetic life, and 
bay filly for her own driving, and also a ^ lou ^! effective service at 
... , , the dishpan and baking table, she 
nea wagon, with a covered back ar- brought no fresh relays of courage or 
ranged especially for delivering her farm self-reliance to mingle with her duties, 
produce and protecting it from the dust “ Just $350, mother, besides our living 
and sun. Though Mrs. Thorn hadfeebly and current expenses. Next year I hope 
protested, .Janet had arrayed herself m Mrs . Thorn shook her head doubtfully, 
a pretty checked gingham suit, arranged “You must ’a’ made a mistake some’ers, 
her glossy black hair in the most becom- J’net. It can’t be nohow.” 
ing style she knew, and with a jaunty . Hut 1 haven t, mother, there it is 
, , iii i , , . in plain figures which will not lie,” and 
hat upon her head and an extra book m bh( f laid h ° r bo0 k with its encouraging 
her hand, the very picture i f neatness balance sheet in her mother’s lap. 
and thrift, had presented herself at the 
business entrances of the fine homes on 
the principal avenues of the city and 
solicited patronage. The plan took 
amazingly. People like to buy (in the 
line of eatables particularly) of a fresh- 
faced, neat-handed maiden rather than 
of a grocer’s clerk who weighs out 
tobacco, butter and fish in the same hour, 
and all the produce Thorndale could 
supply was engaged readily at current 
retail prices. 
The hens had responded nobly to the 
sanitary arrangements made for them, 
and the Thorndale eggs were already 
known as irreproachably fresh and large, 
by consumers, while a choice lot of em¬ 
bryo broilers were already picking up 
grain and passing from down to feathers. 
With all the prosaic, hard work of the 
farm there had also been its poetry— 
the long, cheerful evenings for the study 
of books and music, and the occasional 
evening out (for the Western farmer is a 
social being and loves to mingle with his 
kind), and, if any one had intimated to 
Janet that she was an overworked 
drudge, shut away from the enjoyments 
of life, she would have repudiated the 
idea with scorn. She read an article one 
day conveying the idea that the Western 
farmer’s life in particular was one of 
In the old days Abel Thorn had never 
kept a day book. 
“ Don’t make no deff’rence anyhow,” 
he said. “Ef we hain’t got it, why ’tain't 
there, an’ if we hev’ got any left over 
we’ll be mighty sartin to find it out.” 
Four more years of busy, painstaking 
labor passed by and Janet appeared in 
Mr. Graves’s office one October morning 
prepared to make the last payment on 
the farm. 
“ You are sure now, you’re not cramp 
ing yourself, Miss Janet ?” he asked be 
fore taking the roll of bills she offered 
him, “ because I can wait easily enough 
That mortgage is good enough security ! 
for any man.” 
“ Better property for you than for me 
probably,” she answered smilingly, “but 
happily I can relieve you of it with per¬ 
fect convenience to-day.” 
(To be continued.) 
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