Show THE EVENING STORY L GOOD STOCK I Copyright right 1912 b by W. W Werner erner Jerry Lip LIpton ton washed l his face tace in the tile tin basin on the back porch splashing the tho suds over a big turkey gobbler that stood too near He laughed laus-hed at the wrathful splutter and flung another handful of ot water Then tho the laughter faded from Crom his eyes as he went vent Into the tool dining lIning room Its windows shaded b by morning glory glor vines Ho lie silently slipped Into hi his c chair at the table At t 1 one end his mother a a. little old woman with snappy black blackeyes c eyes eEl was pouring the tea At it th the thC other his father Cather whose broad shoulders challenged ed his sixty years was cutting the meat Both old faces were stern and tired Throughout tho tim meal his father spoke only once and that Wa was to ask if Ir Jerry had plowed all the cast east field Jerry Jerr answered answered answered an an- briefly that two hours In tn the thc morn mom inS Ing would finish It Th Then n he ho gulped the hot tea and went upstairs to change from his overalls 0 and gingham shirt shirl Into his Sunday suit As ho left lett tho the room he heard his mother sigh long and dolefully For six days lays now e every meal had hoU been table o er since la last t Monday morning dt when he had told What did they say I his 1116 parents parent that Jessie had 1111 promised I th the evening before to marr marry him i One of or those trifling Ellis girls his 1118 mother had cLied in horror They arc not not nt at least Jessie isn Isn't t he ho beg began n indignantly Theres plenty of at good stock to k to choose from his father said gruffly I 1 dont don't care what her family IB is Im I'm going to marry her he stated coldly Shell never nC be daughter of ot mine Mrs Lipton told him angrily and h b her r children will never neer be my grandchildren As As you ou pI please case mother he had bad replied sullenly and left lett tho the table His IUs father lather followed 1 him to the thc barn to cajole and argue Dont see seo why w-hy you cant can't tako take a a. notion to Matty Andrews She's a a. a nice good sensible girl and shell she'll o ha a half halt section of ot land Drop It J Jerry erl ordered with rudeness I J want vant Jessie Jesle If you ou knew her her her- herI I 1 know her father grimly the pennies off are a R dead m mans man's ns n's eyes I 1 heard Jerr Jerry retorted that a 3 sr great t grandfather of or mine left Jett the county treasurers treasurer's treos- treos office under a D. cloud and Just lust es escaped escaped escaped es- es the penitentiary Whereupon James Lipton whose grandfather grandfather grand grand- and father It was waR did not to his impertinent imper son the remainder of or the da day Artel the first outbreak of oC bitterness his mother kept stonily silent In the morn morn- lags ings her eyes ejes were tad sad and red rimmed as thou though h she sho had cried all ull night Jerrys Jerry's nerves got on cd edge e. e The silence was harder to than open conflict but bu every evening c he stubbornly hitched his nu c to tho ne new top bUK buggy that his father fathe had given sl him on his last birthday and drove Into town to the small shabby house houwe where the shiftless lived When they had left her home home- and were cre driving ln along the smooth country countr road Inthe in inthe intile the tile moonlight ht J JetTy Jerry ITY was silent and con can straIned sti Until then ho he had succeeded in appearing natural Jessie Ellis mils was waa as a pretty girl Irl with serious brown e eyes es that tha belled belied the tle charge of shiftiness She guessed the reason and bluntly asked him If Ir h he had told his parents yet jet et o 0 their engagement en on- Jerr Jerry was not good at dissimulation Yes he said curtly Whit What did the they ta Oh well he evaded Q you OU I- I Know Inow now what wha s a to mother with an au only onh von ion is They rhey think Im I'm a prize e Instead of n a go good d for tor nothing that's that aw full v luet lucky Is your our new dress all nil finished I No r 4 Mabel will finish it 11 Monday But Jerry I wont won't marry you until your our mother is will willing I nl I She will be as soon as she sho Sots gats acquainted ac nc- ac- ac he anser answered d Then ho he put putI I an nn arm around her and adroit adroitly chan changed ed the subject before Jessie could en say that since they had gone to the same sarno church for several years cn s she and Jerr Jerrys Jerry's mother were tolerably well acquainted On the next Wednesday evening tho the annual church chinch supper was WAR given Mr Mrs Lipton a as a. the foremost cook in tn the thc County WAS on hand earl early Her I husband and JerT Jerry carried carded market baskets of cake cak and fried chicken from tho spring wagon waon to th the tho lon long parlors In th the b basement base bc c- c ment o of the church Matt Matty AI Andrew Andreas was wan alre already d there So Ko was Tessie Jessie Ellis with witha a dozen others who were ere to wait alt on the table Mrs Mis Lipton stopped to speak to Matty Iott but somehow she could not see Jessie Tier Her son non noticed th tim tho slight and andus us h.- scowled Brawled WIri he lie 0 would II III have ha called calle J his hI mother back baek Jessie forbade him It took three hours to serve HerVe the SUD- SUD per per- At the end Mrs frs Lipton sat t down downto I to rest A number numb r of ot empty bol baskets had be been n piled In two tso big that conc concealed aled h her r from one side of oC the room So when Iatt Andrews ws and nc Clara HR Haynes neR strolled past pant n neither saw la the small black silk figure nor did they hear her call Mrs frs Lipton wanted Matty t to g nt l another chair and sit It down be beside h her r for a n talk She abe wanted to tell some tlc friend of or her bitterness over o this proposed d daughter law and sho she know of no one who would be more Inclined than Matty atty to R sympathize And Im I'm sure I T feel sorry for tor Jessie EliI Ellis Natty Iatt was as saving In tn her heavy tone voice ole My f Shell She'll have hao to live with Jem's Jems cranky mother because JErr Jerrys Jerry's tho the Und kind that woul wouldn't nt go o ort oft and leave his parents rents Mabo JUlie Jessie doesn't know how terribly ter tel III natured natural old oM Mrs Urs Lipton can be wild MId Clara ClaTa I dont don't suppose the two to have spoken n a dozen words together In Inthe Inthe inthe the last JaRt t ten n And of course Jerry would pretend that hia hs mother was Just juat 3 az af pleasant T r I could have ha had hod the trie chance Jessie Jessie's s I f. f c It r fIts th nU In Then they the passed assed ased on Jerrys Jerry's mo rno sat very still and for forgot ot to eat the tha s swick n wick she was as holding A flame of or flared in each wrinkled check cheek a aflame aflame aflame flame burned in her old heart At t j moment she he fully understood why ton son had always disliked Matty The hussy she murmured aug ang angrAnd And she lived at our house nearly last Jast summer running over every overy day days ask sk me mo how hO to cook this and 1 I liked her hat or dress and alwa staying staving till Jerry came came- In n from th field I guess gues Its It's a i plain case of or sou 50 o grapes k I The girl lo looked ed forlorn of ot bM bA She came cam from behind the heap hup and saw Jessie sitting alone on IT th other side of oC the tha room The girl loo rather forlorn Mrs Lipton folio followed furtive glance of or her eyes and saw Matty Andrews Wn was pinning a R. pink r of verbena erbena on Jerrys Jerry's coat coot 1 Huh nuh saId eald Jerrys Jerry's moth mother or Ill enot sho shoher enother her whether Im I'm too cranky crank for a 3 daugh ter law to U live with She crossed the room picking up u plate of cake on the way and at tho the coffee cortee urn for tor two t fresh cut cUP Then she pulled a chair b beside Jessie Jesle gilland gill EIlI El Eland and I sat Bat at down r a I dont don't suppose jou youve you've Ye had a bite t teat tent eat ent she Bhe observed sociably I gU J Jou you ou and me bett better r be getting setting acquaint If It were we're going to live Uve together She watched matched out of ot the corner of or on Matty Andrews and the thai saw and the eye Pink M verbena verbena- fell ell to the floor floor ii a HI hurried hurrlE away from Mattys Matty's side aide aerO the tho room 1000 to hr his lils mother and Jc Jessie le delightedly Mrs Lipton looked over 01 his of should and smiled with Uh open malice at Mitt laU Andrews Andrews' surprised yes eyes |