Goldie never learned to creep like other children, but would roll over and over on the floor when she wished to go from one part of the room to another. When she was about nine months. old she began to climb up beside a chair, and stand, holding on with her hands, but before she was able to walk alone she had quite a bad spell of whooping-cough, which reduced her strength so much that she was over a year old when she first walked by herself.

She seemed to be entirely fearless as a little girl when in her father's company, and would stand perfectly erect and quiet on his hand when extended at the length of his arm, something none of her brothers or her sister could do.

Before she was two years old she made a trip to St. Joseph, Champaign county, Illinois, with her parents, in a covered wagon or "prairie schooner," to visit her Grandpapa Bartley and other relatives, and the next year made another journey to Floyd, Floyd county, Iowa, to see and be seen by the Seaton relations.

Goldie was not allowed to attend school until she was about seven years old, but she made good progress after she was once started. She usually ranked number one in her classes, except when she was obliged to stay at home on account of sickness. She graduated from the common school in the summer of 1895, before she was sixteen years old, her Common School Diploma being dated June 22, 1895.

At the examination of teachers after her graduation, she won a prize jointly with Miss Grace Price, a High School graduate, offered to the common-school graduate who should pass the best examination at the county Teachers' Institute. The prize was to be fifteen dollars, or the expenses of the teacher at the County Institute, and was offered by Honorable R. W. Turner, a Mankato lawyer, a former County Superintendent of Public Instruction, and ex-Minister to Spain from the United States Government. The following letter from Mr. Turner explains itself:

MANKATO, KANSAS, September 11, 1895.

Miss Goldie Seaton, Jewell City, Kansas:

MY DEAR MISS SEATON—It affords me pleasure to herewith enclose draft for $7.50 as a promised prize to the Common School Graduate of Jewell

county who should distinguish himself, or herself, above all others at the first examination for teachers' certificates taking place after the graduation of the class of 1895.

I have but one regret, and that is that my circumstances in life are such that I cannot make the prize more substantial. I can, however, enclose with it my best wishes for your success in life, and at the same time feel assured that the search after knowledge, so well begun, will not be abandoned even if it be true that,

"Ever after mortal effort, ever after mortal pains,

Something to which light is shadow, something unexpressed remains;
Ever after human question, ever after human quest,

Something farther than the farthest, something better than the best."

Faithfully, your friend,

R. W. TURNER.

Some time before this, Goldie won a gold pen and plush-lined case, offered by the editor of The Jewell County Republican, for the best essay, to contain fifty words of the editor's choosing. (Words chosen by editor given in italics.) The judges in the contest were Professor Cook, of the city schools, Mrs. Etta Harrington, and Mrs. Theodore Bartholow. The essay written by Goldie was as follows:

ALCOHOL.

Alcohol is an intoxicating drink and a poison. It is sold by wholesale, and some men make a fortune selling it. It is in demand in nearly every city. Some people who keep boarders think it is generous to use wine and cider on the table. Once on a time I heard a young woman tell one of her friends about a father that drank, who died and left a family. Their father wasted his money buying alcoholic drinks, and now they are poor. The mother tried to coax him not to drink, but it did no good. They were not happy or jolly. Sometimes the boys and girls had no good clothes. The girls seldom got a new apron, and they often went in debt for things. They were young, and wanted to work hard and earn a living. They were dear to their mother, and they loved her. These people often used pounded corn instead of flour, and considered it a treat to have coffee and potatoes. The boys did many jobs to earn a living, and were among the best in the city where they lived. Oftentimes the ground was covered with snow and they had no shoes. One of the boys used tobacco. All of the housework was done by the mother. She was strict and taught her sons not to drink. as she herself was a temperance woman, and they grew to be good and true men and they were liked and respected by all. She was blessed by them in after-years for making them temperance men. Their practicing to keep

from drinking will help others not to use it. They worked like beavers to get money enough to get a good education. They were patient and waited for good times, and now it has come. Their mother is living happily with them, and expects to spend the rest of her life in peace with her children. Jewell City, Kansas. · Age 11. Words 318. GOLDIE SEATON.

On July 26, 1895, Goldie took part in a Demorest Contest at the Methodist Church in Jewell City. The title of her declamation was, "Prohibition Warriors." The essay she read at the graduating exercises of the common school on June 22, 1895, was "How Success is Won." And the subject of her essay at the Class Day exercises was "Chronicles." Her graduating oration was called "Probabilities of the Twentieth Century."

Goldie wrote the School Notes for The Republican during her last year in the High School, and was invited to attend a concert, with all of the other correspondents of the paper, and before the concert an oyster supper was served the writers who make a local paper interesting.-the correspondents,-all at the expense of the editor, Mr. William C. Palmer; the entertainment taking place on New Year's Day, 1896.

She

Goldie graduated from the Jewell City High School in the summer of 1896. Her High School Diploma is dated May 6th of that year, and she received a Teachers' County Certificate dated August 23, 1896, in which her grades were none of them less than 90, with two 99s and two 100s. She received another certificate, dated August 21, 1897, and in the fall contracted to teach the winter term of school in the Vance district, No. 34, which she carried through successfully, as young as she was at the time. boarded at home and drove back and forth all through the winter. On March 21, 1899, she entered Baker University, at Baldwin, Kansas, taking the Normal course, with a determination to secure a State certificate that would entitle her to teach any school in the State without further examinations. During her studies in the University she was employed to teach geography during one term, and to assist one of the professors in some other work. She graduated with honors in due time, and received recommendations. from the professors under whom she studied that were calculated to satisfy anyone interested in the matter that she did faithful

work and that she was fully qualified to manage any school in a creditable manner.

In the fall of 1899 she engaged to teach the winter term in the Wyland district, and again that winter she drove to and from her home all of the time, except a few nights when she visited with some of the patrons of the school.

After her graduation from Baker she was employed in the city graded school at Ionia, Kansas, and is at the present time one of the corps of teachers at Jewell City.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

THE CHILDREN OF OREN A. AND SARAH E. SEATON (CONT NUED).

NOBLE FAY SEATON, the second child and first son, making the "King's wish" complete, a son and a daughter, was born at St. Joseph, Champaign county, Illinois, at the home of his Grandfather Bartley, on March 16, 1882.

Being the first son in the family, and of course thought to be a wonderful boy, his mother chose the name Noble for him, as expressing at once her idea of what he was and what she desired and believed he would be. His father decided on the name Fay for him, because it was short, easy to pronounce, and besides, it could not be shortened into a nickname.

In the fall, when he was about six months old, he took a ride in a prairie schooner to the Seaton homestead in Prairie township,