Show TWO HOUSES BUT ONE HOME of 0 course the old house had bad been small when lie he came out here from york state bob wondered bow he ever could make a house of the size lie he wanted and yet he thought and wondered about it very little for lie he was brave enough lie ile had talked it over with his wife who laughed and sang the whole day long and said she would bo be satisfied with any kind of a house he would make and while he was telling felling tile the trees and hewing the ends of them and cutting the notches botches she fixed a tidy little place not far from the wagon w which hall had brought them over the mountains and there she sat arid and sewed crying sume sometimes times furtively for the very silence of 0 it anti then singing it in tilt cheeriest chee riest of tones anil and glancing out in the timber where bob was chopping sturdily they lived in the wagon a month cooking their weal meals 3 at a tire lire on oil the gro ground und and eating they two alone in all the wide aldr forest such gems of food as her dimpled hands had prepared prep anil and finally the logs were rolled together ready for tile im raising ising and she sat there by the anre fire with v ith bob one night very happy and said little while he told her what the future would bring them next day w as the raising they owned a whole quarter section of land four times as much as the richest loan back there at geneseo corners in york state had bad ever possessed and they had invited their neighbors to come in and help at the raising tomorrow to morrow and this last night in the woods they sat there and dreamed tile the beautiful dreams of youth and love and perfect healthfulness there was a little fire and the blaze of it gnawed away on the billets of birch and the smoke went nent straight up to the blue sky there above the treetops treo tops just a little way above the treetops it seemed to then them as aa they talked about it they planned where their cornfield corn neld should be arid and whore where they would rake raise oats and potatoes and bob wanted a big field tor for wheat which bo be alsed profitably back in york S tate state and then they arranged for the garden and the rose bushes find and lilac trees and their home was ver very y near them and then they sat there a long time in silence the brook singing to the them and the foot of the fox pattering in the dry leaves leavea and the cry of tile the owl coming to tn I 1 them hem across the hush of tile thy forest which was all their own early in the morning even while the chorus of song birds throbbed in the heavy gloom of the shadowy woods tile the neighbors began to come bob heard them afar off for tile the air was still they called out hello as they came into his little clearing one bt at a time each bearing an ax and all nodding in an embarrassed way at the little woman who wanted a home early was wag it but not too early for her they had not caught bobs wife napping and they thought well of her cs as they noted the order with which her household gods were treasured even before there was a root roof for her head she made them a cup ot of coffee and they drank it for it was good and she I 1 brought it to them lien herself telf and her face was very tery fair they laid in id the big foundation logs with four huge stones at the corners they raised the s maller logs on that ind and cobs bobs wife stood awed for her come home was growing her heart was full fill and 1 irit t sho d ie almost m ost wept with the strom atres i of ali fill a thankfulness a n k bess uess sue she never bad known be before fore and tier her eyes met those thoe of her husband when the first log over the lie door was laid and she son jiing though very low all day from very Lp happiness illness there was only a dozen men but they worked with a will aud and the umbers were read y and the root roof of poles s was laid and really ready for clapboards long before the lie day was done they hill had eaten caten an excellent dinner cooked in kettles they meant to tell their women about and enten eaten from plates which bobs wife said her gl grandmother had owned they beeped lu aped bob with tile stable when the hous house ewas livas done and lit at dark they said aid good night and shouldered d their fixes axes and tramped through the woods rob bob knelt down by hn his wife that night anti and put his arm about her anti and almost prayed because in the gloom of the silent woods that unmade house looked like a home how wonderful it was in the following day when bob rived the clapboards chip boards and spread them on and weighted thern them down against the force of a storm and hewed the timbers for the floors boors and 1 chinked the cracks in the walls and gwun swung a door for her how wonderful it wa was when bobs wife brought in her things and chose the corner for her and spread her treasures as fast as the floor was made how wonderful it N was as when the house was completed arid and they sat one sabbata morn ing and knew that god had given them all they wanted in the world this was thirty years ago bob has come to be called old bob and tile house the pioneers built tor for them that faraway far away day had come to be much too small even with the additions ume time and ability had given to it arid and here was the new house ready and waiting the carpenters had gone the lathers and plasterers had taken their tools away the painters had bad vanished and bob and his wife might move up into the ahe new house whenever they wanted betty the youngest geSt girl and add the only anly one left at home declared the moving was done certainly carpets 1 were down in every room in the new house must of them carpets allou though ll 11 bobs wife had insisted she wanted rag ag carpets upstairs and in the lie bedro bedrooms onis and the homely but thil bit and miss of her hand loom had been used there cel there was new furniture fit arct li from town with swinging ing mirrors on tile the bureaus bureau arid and wire mattresses on oil the beds certainly there ahli e was an organ in one room and place for or a piano iu in another and a b alg ig high clock ill that a t chimed s stood on the marble in mantel autel hut but bob anti and his wife stood about down there by tilt old house not talking much but just looking across the creek and both thinking the wagon stood right about here her when I 1 was notching the logs bald hob bob stepping it off and looking about in effort to reconstruct that forest picture and I 1 sat here on a that you had spread over a log ha aid id bobs wife finding her place in the picture e and nil all that was ilas one deep swamp said hob bob ind and back lere bere on tile the hill will wall woods and tile the road runs rung right where I 1 never thou thought lit it could run at the beginning but that was because the woods were here now nov there an acre of timber on the quarter section and NN lien hen they got the new house up I 1 hung our curtains curt alna at the win dotis said bobs wife yes said bob curtains that you had woven on your mothers loom 1001 a a ind u I 1 you llad hid rugs for or the floor and ami comforts tor for the bed and all sorts of things for the kit kitchen elien though I 1 dont donot s see ic how bow you contrived them they had gone to the door of tile the old house and were looking in at the place ahl where re the fireplace used to burn they mt let their fancy run and there was nas no modern stove with its hearth dans cradle stood right over there said bobs wife and she almost started forward to rock it for the mother in cherry tree george told me he do 10 it said bob arid and through the dalri of the reflection struck ill the sense of satisfaction for george came hack back one time and placed himself wit without lOut rez rek serve under the dominion of his fat father il er so the they stood there as the stars came mi these two old people shutting ns their eyes to the details of today to day duy and trying I 1 to lo see no more inore than 1 the gra gracious clous sweep I 1 of a golden morning they went over 1 the times when the orchard was plant eil ed ill the trees being carried across the woods ind and held by gilr while cub bull packed earth about their tender roots and blessed them with houa hopes of hit his labor they remembered cred the time when they dug the well arid and how loni long it took thom them to learn that the water w ater was better belter tham that from tile the spring they erased hlll teiei big barns from the present picture and remembered the shelter of poles still and straw and earth that mado made their stock all comfortable in those thoe distant winters they spoke of this arid and that addition to the first log house but they kept its ita outlines in their mint mind from this win aln i dow they used to hear the wolves irom frum that they saw andrew ride home from the war one firm arm in a sling through this door came the first preacher who messed lessed li the neighborhood and through that trooped tor for a score of blessed years tile sun browned feet of growing childhood they followed the course of the years in which that frost had melted away and saw the widening sweep of their tillable land and tile the growing barns and the locks and herds herd and the manifold wealth of the prosperous i farmer then they turned to the new house however loving and neighborly the hands that had helped at the raiding the they Y knew it was a service different framl that of the rough looking men who wh came in the gloom of early morning 1 N with ith axes on their shoulders anti and called a bashful hello all the neighbors had come it Is true and numbers of women had come over at noon to help hobs bobs folks alth the dinner though there was little need of that now when vigorous betty had charge of the work and her mother need really do nothing though she was busy constantly the I 1 timbers tin b C r S 11 had ad be been C n 11 hauled aul e it home from tile the modern sawmills ind and wern avem lying ready tu to ii hand a nil TI the e e earth rt liv was dig ed up for a mighty cellar foundation rocks lay all about the spaces set aside for the home all tile the neighbors neighbor r 2 n ka 1 r 7 alf A ti Z TIIE THE OLD HOUSE AND THE NEW KEW up with the th thrill rill of her youth and little lettys coffin stood right hero here said bald bob as he drew again tile the somber picture of that earlier day arid and here stood ellen when she married her man said bobs wife retreating a handbreadth may be for even in the gathering gloom she felt tile the displacing effect of that daughters aggrandizement and there by met th stump of the wild were there but a boss carpener carpenter carpe ncr I 1 had char charge we of the work and lie regarded d tilt llie presence of tile neighbors as colue thing till I 1 g of siu 11 intrusion latu 1011 ile he understood they meant well and I 1 intended n te D tied it ns as an all expression of kindliness for bull bob lini and his bib fi fa nully lully lint but nicu not breil bred to tile the car ri r 1 i Ii li enters trade less of help than t hal 1 j ahl they y 1111 might lie be anyway tilt frame ipu apu holcie e N was as raised and the neighbors had gone tilt the carpenters hid had completed it tile lie hath lathers els arid and lie plasterers ereis and the painters pa luters I 1 ciul biadgo gone lie away there had been a who whole ie spring prid 1 l full of preparation anti and there s stood t abib bob old bub and his big wife at tile threshold of tile the old house looking up lip at the be new W it was all they tile Y had drean led aud inucci mure it was wall taller tal lerand and liner fin erand ind fuller of ornament orna blent thrill ali l they had ever planned it hid had furnishings not it tile the wildest nicest allucy could provided in tile old days it had ornaments rare enough for kings king s ind and chairs too sumptuous S to sit hit upon it was aas a palace they had moved from tile the old house up lip into to tile llie new they halt taken liken everything thin along bob expected to use the log cabin ns as a tool house 1 I they hail left nothing behind and yet the they lills cd hill something its as the they y went uto into tile the newer liewer place they tried to conjure up spirit it of perfect proprietorship that sl sense is of dominion with which tile they filtered entert d tile cabin in till di dusk k of the first evening they tried to reallie tills this later and more dilli cult coll conquest lut of 0 f ill ill culty but they could not and they ihry sat at in the chairs and in slept on tile the beds ind and ate at a 11 table with an enrel i boning and uncomfortable 0 o in corble for ible ble sell of loss in the new IRANO house bob anti and ills his wife lii ere away froth roni home chicago abia 0 o chronicle chro B |