Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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lier father used to plant corn -was filled 
with cedars and birches. The stone walls 
which once bounded the farm were now in 
the thick woods. So silently and steadily 
had Nature crowded in to claim her own 
once more that Sallie had hardly noticed 
jt__not until the old country doctor had 
listened to her cough and smiled sadly as 
lie shook his head. He told her in June. 
That night, she stood at her front door 
and looked down the road, twisting 
around the hill like a silver ribbon in the 
moonlight. And in the yard before her 
was John’s rose, climbing high upon its 
trellis—a great mass of pink bloom. 
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Late in life there came to Henry and 
Alice the crowning gift, of all—a little 
girl. It. seemed as if Nature had raked 
the lives of these two selfish people, thrown 
out all the mean, hateful qualities and 
lumped all their good into this late bloom¬ 
ing human bud. Nature plays that trick 
now and then. Sometimes she has a job 
to find the good, unless she goes back 
into previous generations; but in some 
way she puts a little angel into a home 
in which most angels would fear to unpack 
their trunks. Alice and Henry had 
no time for worship until their baby 
came, but then they worshipped her 
clumsily and with a sort) of awe to think 
that this great wonder had been sent, into 
their lives. They could not express their 
feelings, for no man or woman can ever 
get far beyond the love and sacrifice of 
their first 80 years. The baby grew up 
to be a young woman unspoiled and 
sweet as a flower. They all came back 
to visiti the old home town among the 
hills, and the girl declared that they must 
build a Summer home there. Her word 
was law, and a great architect was im¬ 
ported from New York and told to build 
the noblest house he could devise. He 
wandered about, among the hills, and 
reported that the most glorious view in 
the county was from a little rockv farm 
now going back to the wilderness, owned 
by a gray-haired woman too sick and 
feeble to fight back the cedars and the 
birches and the briars. It was Sallie 
Bell’s farm. Yon know the way these 
rich men do—they buy what they want. 
The lawyer went to her and came back 
with a curious report. 
“There is a mortgage on the place for 
more than it is worth. The woman can¬ 
not live long. She will sell only on one 
curious condition. There is a rose bush 
in the yard, and whoever buys the place 
must agree in the deed that this bush is 
not to be disturbed under any conditions! 
She says she will root up the rose herself 
and go to the poorhouse before she will 
change her offer. In all my practice I 
have never seen such a character or such 
a proposition. My advice is to buy the 
mortgage, foreclose on her and let; her do 
as she threatens.” 
“Just like Sallie Bell.” said Alice, who 
had forgotten all about John’s rose. 
“(to ahead and do it." said Henry. 
“That’s the way to settle these, stiff¬ 
necked folks.” 
And the girl listened without a word. 
The next day Sallie Boll stood in front 
of the old house, by John’s rose, lookinp 
down the dusty ribbon of road. Long 
long she had watched for the coming ol 
love and human understanding—watched 
long and vainly as the years went by. 
Now far down the hill her old eyes caught 
a flash of color—a red parasol, a white 
dress, a blue ribbon, and she finally made 
out the figui-e of a young, bright-eyed girl, 
1 dh quick, eager step climbing the steep 
hdl. And the girl came straight, to the 
faded, old woman, so that they stood to* 
gether beside the rose bush. 
* Miss Bell, I am Helen Browning. 
\\ on i you please tell me about the rose 
hush and why you love it so?” 
. A^d Bailie Bell felt within her some¬ 
thing like the breaking up of the Winter 
ot sorrow and doubt at the sight of this 
bright, eager, young face. She had hid¬ 
den her love all these years, but now it 
inirsti out like a flame. It is said that 
the crowning glory of woman is mother¬ 
hood but there was more than glory on 
the face of this stern, iron-willed old 
with her hand on John’s bush 
■ he told her story and confessed her ro¬ 
mance. And Helen gathered a great 
1 “J the roses and walked down the 
father' 1 * * sunm ^ (> >es. straight to her 
il! this new house be mine, father?’ 
vm. mo’ I i 1 - V . d , 'nr; it will be yours and 
’ !!m iav b,nld it as you like.” 
wl.,i yo V lm,st , l ,a - v Miss Bell twice 
thnt* A 0 asks ’ , an<1 1 liave promised her 
tmhed*” 10Se bUSh Wil1 • uover be dis * 
door* that is not business!” 
1 h»°w it is better than any busi- 
it so r baVe ° Ver doue ’ an(1 1 must hfive 
father nil ll id ;i Som <\thing told lier that 
she Lt “ d moth er cmUd not understand ; 
But rim , n U T told them all the story. 
ful lnw ? Se h A Sl l, 18 tber £ 011 that boau- 
im'sod ai l d c thau « h Sallie Bell lias 
romance n7vf lt °l t he , ' r rouble and baffled 
rose still comes to 
its thon.v ,f U ° f tfory and lives 
of the year uui0mantic llf( ’ for the rest 
ingHmshinb the gi }: ] will stand watch- 
n,f„ wilft “, g . n ' ooal , lt roa<1 awl a young 
Sallie Bell m w 1 i Wlt l i tlu> Im ' s . sa go which 
under 80 lo , u F to hear. And 
win V L " 8 t a ™ ol(l - old story 
tell him h f ’ j. -^ad I think the girl will 
for answer^ fn°i* y ° f Doha's r °se, and that 
one oil,)' ‘to his question she will pick 
I »k lose from the bush and hand it 
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for 
one 
to him. 
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You Can Get at the K-W. The 
only parts that ever need attention 
on a K-W Magneto are the cir¬ 
cuit breaker (B) and distributor (A). 
Both are on the outside where you 
can get at them, take them oft, 
clean them or adjust them right In 
the field. 
Q 
One Big Fact 
About Tractors 
THERE are many features to consider in buying a 
tractor, but here is the one big fact, that is too 
often overlooked. 
Even- gas tractor—no matter what the design 
—gets its power by the rapid burning or ex¬ 
ploding of gas in a cylinder. 
Once that power is produced it may be har¬ 
nessed and applied through any one of a dozen 
different designs. But unless the gas is ex¬ 
ploded quickly and completely—unless it puts 
its full punch behind the piston at exactly the 
proper instant all the designing in the world 
cannot make the tractor efficient. 
The magneto turns fuel into power—the trac¬ 
tor is the means of applying this power to 
farm uses. GET THAT FACT. 
Tractor engineers who have had years of ex¬ 
perience always appreciate this fact. This is 
why most standard makes of tractors are 
K-W equipped. 
Buy a Tractor with a K-W Magneto. 
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