Show if RICHES SADDEN WOMAN WOMANS S J PINES TO RAISE FOOD By R. R A. A BANKSON I I I VALLEY Wash Vash Aug AuS' 5 it Il It seems seems seems' j I JOrt 0 0 strange and wasteful to be i rocks Instead of ot eatables off the land weve we've farmed so flO long saId bald Ed Edwin ln Seaman wistful hard hard- little hill bill mother whose H rIg rIc- derous j life lite has been twisted 1 Into sew new paths b by dl discovery co that the f 15 j a n veritable ble mountain of ot rich ore I The Tho Seamans pioneers erB of ot the thc roS rc- rc I S glon rion were plowing when the tho share share- turned over fragments fragment of ot atone stono which Spokane assayers promptly labeled a ak high Grade bromide of or silver sliver and Copper copper cop- cop k per sulphides Mining engineers engineer con con- firmed the existence of or a D. fortune easy alto to to mine and handle M Ma ia were we're rich Jubilated Ed Sea- Sea Dan tn and his sons Bons who with the moth moth- l ir r had tolled toiled for eleven cleven years to make lIbe be land produce enough to live on Ma in da Seaman stopped her dish dish- f ashing and emerged from tho the tumble tumbledown down Mown cabin when I came to talk to her her about the strike that's the talk of ot the region Sho Sha gazed across the ther where tho the men were digging ore cre r Yes I guess we won wont won't t hare havo to worry wom any my morp more she aho said But nut I 1 I wl h Ed ld had hall farmed the land Its It's been such a no comfort to me me even thou though dl Its It's been hard going at times S Seeing eln tho the old place change Is almost like Jlko having your OUr bo boy It leave a for the city and then come back grown up and strange I dont don't know whether to smile or weep I guess uess all changes ere are sort Rort o painful even when they're for tor the best But If It she bho Is Js torn between an al almost almost al al- most maternal love for the scrawny scra farm arm up against tho and th the prospects of oC tho the new world of riches R Ed Hd Seaman and his boys bos ho have ve no such vexations t 0 n Here Hero weve we've been Un on a no mountain for years to to make m a living when whon right underneath ath our plows was wasa wasn a n fortune said the father And the first thing thinS were we're aiming aiming- to do IB Is to give Jho Ma everything she wants She's been a goon good mother and she's shelI worked harder than any of us the us-the the best In the world Is nono none too good Maybe we can buy a good farm somewhere around here re and build a a. areal real roil nice house on It that's It that's Mrs Irs Irs Seamans Seaman's Idea Men of or the best besL In the world And b by tho the gift of ot fortune and the work of or an nn ador adoring InS InS' family Its It's oln to bo be hers I |