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After packing all they wished to take 
there were many old and useful articles 
left which the man said John could have 
and welcome if he would take them away 
then. Among them was an old sofa, the 
hair protruding from its ragged cover, 
but the framework good, an old easy chair 
in the same condition, several barrels and 
baskets, an old ingrain carpet, some wool 
blankets worn and thin, flat-irons, rolling 
pin, bread board. In fact there were so 
many useful articles that it was decided 
John should take two or three loads down 
to the farm before he took his mother and 
Alice. All the expense of the trips was 
for food for John and his horse, which 
he proposed to make smaller by living in 
a gypsy way, buying the food for him¬ 
self and horse, and sleeping in the covered 
Winter Sports. 
wagon in true gypsy style the one night 
on the way there and the night of his re¬ 
turn trip, the blankets and old mattress 
being sufficient bedding. 
Probably nothing in the whole scheme 
delighted John like this. He left the fur¬ 
niture, tools and different articles in the 
cottage and returned for another load, 
and after his third trip he took his mother 
and Alice, and the remainder of the house¬ 
hold articles, the rugs and the linen, which 
It nth preferred to voyage under her own 
eyes. This time they stopped at the house 
of a friendly farmer, where the two 
women slept, John insisting on sleeping 
in his covered wagon, although the young 
son of the house would have been glad of 
his company indoors. 
This young man, James Martin, was a 
year older than Alice, and a wholesome, 
intelligent, well-to-do young farmer, and 
many were the admiring glances he gave 
to the pretty young girl during the even¬ 
ing and morning. But at eight o’clock 
they resumed their journey, and about six 
in the evening they arrived at their home. 
(To be continued) 
Farm Women and Frauds. 
D O frauds ever visit your neighbor¬ 
hood? I do not mean the frauds who 
try to take in the men, but those who 
prey chiefly on the guillibility of farmers’ 
wives. Here in Eastern Illinois we have 
our share, and it is amusing sometimes 
to note how they, presumably city men 
and women, are often frustrated in their 
schemes by their failure to give us credit 
for common sense. But sometimes they 
take us in and I may as well confess here 
that I was once taken in on a subscrip¬ 
tion fraud. I subscribed for our county 
paper with the Ladies’ Home Journal 
and Munsey’s in connection. Perhaps, 
though, the small sum was well invested, 
for it taught me caution and prevented 
my sharing in some of the heavier ex¬ 
penses which some of my neighbors had 
to meet. 
One pleasing 5 -oung lady came into 
the neighbohood to collect money for the 
starving Armenians—or Indians, I forget 
which. She took subscriptions for two 
popular papers—I believe The Christian 
Herald and Youths’ Companion, and all 
but a slight commission was to go to the 
food fund. She claimed to live two miles 
from the nearest village, but being a city 
girl she could not realize that a pioneer 
farmer’s family would be acquainted 
with at least the names of all the farmers 
and tenants in the township, and unfor¬ 
tunately for her she named a place too 
near by, although it was half a dozen 
miles away. Still she took several dol¬ 
lars away from the neighborhood from 
less suspicious women who did not ques¬ 
tion her. 
Another woman came for our church 
carpet; wished to weave it into runners 
for the aisles. In boasting of her busi¬ 
ness success she told us that she had 
woven over the old carpets of the Peotone 
church—about 12 miles away. As sev¬ 
eral ladies of our Aid Society are re¬ 
lated to some of the officers of the Peo¬ 
tone society, telephones were used and 
the carpet woman, getting wind of this, 
left on the trolley before we had our re¬ 
ply ready for her. 
Another fraud, grewsome in its na¬ 
ture, which came within a few miles of 
us, was perpetrated by traveling dentists 
who got a deposit, large as they could 
you may be sure, from people whom they 
persuaded to have a new set of teeth. 
They pulled some teeth, promising to call 
in a week to make the cast for the new 
plate. Imagine the weeping and wailing, 
but under the circumstances there was 
no gnashing of teeth. 
Last Winter an amusing fraud was 
practiced here, at least it was amusing to 
the lookers-on. A woman purporting to 
be prominent in the Eastern Star came 
here to take orders for hair switches. It 
is a long story, for she was shrewd and 
tenacious, but when she left the village 
with her son, a young man, she took a 
roll of silk, two pairs of shoes, bought on 
approval and taken to her boarding place 
to examine, most of the false switches and 
combings of the O. E. S. ladies in the 
community and various other valuables, 
besides leaving a board bill for herself 
and son. This is a person whom farm¬ 
ers’ wives should watch out for, for she 
has been heard of in various parts of the 
State, and in Michigan. A woman is not 
apt to spend much with agents but if she 
does and is defrauded her chagrin is 
great, especially as the “men folks” are 
so delighted and expatiate on it when¬ 
ever possible. One cannot always recog¬ 
nize a fraud, but a rule which may be 
safely followed is: Never put your name 
to a paper without reading it and be¬ 
ware of the person who offers you some¬ 
thing for nothing—for why should he? 
Wisconsin. Inez de jarnatt witt. 
Women and Drinking Hired Men. 
A WOMAN hired a man to work on 
her place. He was somewhat addict¬ 
ed to drinking and several times the 
first year he so unfitted himself for work 
that he was obliged to “lay off” for sev¬ 
eral days at a time, and she lost accord¬ 
ingly. The second year she hesitated 
about hiring him, and he then promised 
that he would do so no more and as an 
evidence of good faith offered to forfeit 
five dollars for each day that he was 
off on account of drink. On the Fourth 
of July he offered to work in order that 
he might have a day off in August and 
she consented. That day came, but he 
did not take it. He lost six days on 
account of drink, hut claims that as he 
worked three holidays lie has made up 
three of those days. The employer ex¬ 
pected to pay him extra for the holidays 
at his ordinary wages. Has he a right to 
this claim, or is she right in thinking 
that he justly forfeited $30? In addition 
to this he went away in October and did 
not come back until in November, lie 
says it was because he was sick, but 
owns the Sickness was primarily caused 
by drink. The employer has not count¬ 
ed these days in as lost days. w. e. 
We have had some experience in this 
line. Unless there was a signed contract 
or agreement it is doubtful if this man 
can be held for the amount. He is en¬ 
titled to extra pay for the holidays—at 
the regular price, but the fact of his 
working on these days does not change 
his agreement of forfeit. If he agreed to 
forfeit $5 for each day he was drunk 
and there are six days, he forfeits $30, 
and his holiday work has nothing to do 
with it. 
Mrs. Wayup : “Will you have a long 
itinerary in Florida?” Mrs. Blase: 
“Yes; but I guess you don’t have to wear 
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