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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIU31 AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1909.

News of Surrounding Towns

CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND. CambrMs City, Ind., Sept. 1. Bert Vanbuskirk, . and daughters, of Mnncie, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McDanlels. Hiss Jennie McGrew went to Indianapolis Tuesday morning, where he will make a short visit with friends before going to Champaign, 111., to resume her work, as trimmer, in one of the millinery establishments of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Ellas Hastings became grandparents and great-grandparents In the same day, by the arrival of an eleven pound son, John, into the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Paul, and a son, into the home of their grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wright. Mrs. May Boden and Miss Alice Bradbury will go to Armada, Mich., tomorrow, to visit Dr. and Mrs. Roy Pelton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hagman and daughter, Gaynelle, returned Monday evening from a two , weeks outing at Petoskey and other points north. Mrs. Claud Finney, of Indianapolis, will come this week for a visit with Mrs. Nora Wright. Claud Haisley, of Richmond, was a Cambridge City visitor Tuesday evening. , Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jay, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beard have returned to their home in Indianapolis. M. R. Krahl returned from Indianapolls Monday evening. He reports Mrs. Krahl as resting as comfortably as could be expected. Don Drischel went to Connersvllle today to visit his aunt, Mrs. Joseph Cole. The subject of the morning discourse at the M. E. church next Sunday, will be "The Flowers that Bloom Too Late," for the evening, "Little Things." Mrs. H. S. Beard and Mrs. Charles Griffin, spent today in Connersvllle, where they were the guests of Mrs. Frank Tingle and also attended the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Kendall of Anderson have gone to Connersvllle to visit friends after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Drischel and family. The Hon. E. B. Reynolds of Hagerstown visited friends in this place, Tuesday. Miss Shirley Penny of Richmond, is the guest of Miss Lucile Petro. A number of young people from this city will attend the dance to be given at Jackson Park Friday evening. Mrs. H. H. Bryan has returned from Springfield, O., where she has spent the past two weeks visiting relatives. Mrs. Sarah Werking of Milton, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. John Ohmit. Mre. Guy Litell and son, of Chicago are visiting Dr. J. R. Litell and other relatives in this place and Richmond. Dolan Daugherty, residing north of Cambridge City, near Jacksonburg, has an apple orchard of forty acres, which Is bearing well. The interurban station was moved from the Worl corner into new quarters in C. T. Wright's building, Tuesday. Messrs. Reginald and Lynn Paul, of Indianapolis are spending a few days with relatives in this place. Mrs. Homer Manlove and Mrs. Geo. Drischel will spend Thursday with relatives In Connersville and attend the fair. The Social Union will give a market In the room in the Central hotel Saturday afternoon. Ice cream will be served in connection with the market GREENSFORK, IND. Greensfork, Ind., Sept ' 1. Guy Hoover, living south of town was passing by the Armentrout and Kepler ford, where contractors are erecting a bridge and his horse became frightened and ran away. No damage done only to the vehicle. Joseph Blackman of Hartford City, Ind., is guest of Henry Bond and family, where Mrs. Blackman has been visiting for a few weeks. E. E. Nicholson of Sugar Grove has been delivering the mail on Route 21 during the two weeks vacation of the regular carrier, Harmon Davis. Clifford Crump is clerking for A. L. Klenzle for a few weeks. David Brooks, mail clerk on the G. R. & I. between Richmond and Grand Rapids is spending a lew days at home this week. Our township graded school begins the 6th of Sept The following teachers are employed: Prof. Studybaker of Marion, Ind., is the principal; Mr. Stoner the assistant; Miss Isabel Kienzle teacher of the intermediate and Mrs. D. C. Moore, the primary. The Aid society of the M. E. church held market on Pearl street Saturday afternoon end the affair was a success and netted the society a handsome profit Howard Gaylor, mail clerk between Cincinnati and Chicago is spending a : few days with his mother here. Mrs. Blizzard o has been filling Sue Gaylor's pfeTion at Easthaven hospital during Mrs. Gajior's vacation will return to her home here, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Miller moved from the Geo. Nicholson property to Webster Saturday, where they purchased property. v Henry Murry and brother John moved In the property vacated by Mr. Miller. Chas. Richardson telegraph operator is at home with his parents on a short visit. Wm. Steward of Richmond, a former resident of this place was in town on business Friday. Mrs. John Rathfon returned to her home at Red Key, Ind., Monday after a visit with her father, C. A. Baldwin for a short time. Thos. Tarkleson spent Sunday with relatives at Middletown, Ind. Wm. Teague of Hagerstown was in town Monday on business. Miss Mable Squires and her uncle Richard Brown of Cincinnati, O., axe

visiting an aunt at Round Lake, Minn. The Greensfork Gun club had a contest Saturday and Guy Hoover is wearing the medal. Mrs. Marby Bennett who has been nursing Mrs. Allen at Hagerstown Is at home for a short stay.

WHY IT SUCCEEDS Because It's for One Thing Only, and Richmond People Appreciate This. Nothing can be good for everything. Doing one thing well brings success. Doan's Kidney Pills do one thing only. They cure sick kidneys. They cure backache, every kidney ill. Here is Richmond evidence to prove it- f Edgar S. Mote, mail carrier, 24 S. Twentieth street, Richmond, Ind., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills brought such good results in my case several years ago that I gave a public statement endorsing them. For a long time I had suffered from backache and kidney trouble and the least cold affected my kidneys, making my condition worse. Hearing about Doan's Kidney Pills, I procured a supply at A. G. Luken & Co.'s drag store and their use so corapleately cured me that I have had hut little trouble since. I will always bold Doan's Kidney Pills in high esteem." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. CENTERVILLE. IND. Centerville, Ind., Sept. 1. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Walker entertained at supper on Sunday. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Land1 and family, Mr. Robert Land of Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dent have returned from a visit to relatives at New York City. Mr. and Mrs. William Vanneman of Anderson were recent guests of Miss Amanda Lantz. Mrs. T. B. Jones is visiting relatives at Toledo, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Langley and daughter, Esther, returned on Tuesday from a visit of three weeks to relatives and friends in Ohio. Mrs. James W. Nichols entertained on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. William H. Smith, of Muncie; Mrs. George Roby, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boyd and son, Horace, Mrs. George Babcock of Cambridge City. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Lashley and daughters, Ruth and Esther, left on Monday for their home at Columbus, Ohio, after a visit to Alfred Lashley and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Lail of Indianapolis, and Mrs. John Hamilton of Richmond were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireton. Little Edna Black, the daughter of Mrs. William Paxton, is quite ill with typhoid fever. Misses Jessie and Fannie Jackson of Richmond, spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Jackson. Mr. Charles Slusser will soon go to Rochester, Ind., where he will open a grocery store in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Norris, of that place. Benjamin J. Lantz of Indianapolis, spent Sunday with his father, John Lantz. Ray Beckler of Dayton, Ohio, visited relatives here recently. HOLLANSBURG, 0. Hollansburg, Ohio, Sept. 1. -Harry and Harvey Hamilton have returned from a fishing trip to northern Michigan. Stephen Diehl and son of Marion, Ind., are visiting relatives at this place. Dr. W. B. Roads made a business trip to Cincinnati Tuesday. Cecil Beetley has accepted a position with J. E. Irelan and has moved his family to this place. C. D. Spencer will serve as janitor of the school building this season. Robert and Wm. Williams of Lynn, Ind., are spending a few days with their grandmother, Mrs. Emma Williams. Miss Izetta Irelan has returned from a two weeks' visit with her sister and family at Chicago. Miss Nellie Bicknell is on the sick list. Miss Alta Brandon of Piqua, Ohio is visiting her many friends and relatives in this vicinity. John Wolf was awarded the con tract for making the excavation for the basement of the new business room to be erected by T. E. Flatter on the corner, which for years was ownel and occupied by the Davis family. Tho dirt is being moved rapidly this week. G. M. Tice received the contract for the cement work and Ceda Barton the carpenter work. Squire L. G. Turner has been quite seriously indisposed for several weeks and improves but very slowly. W. H. Davis has been confined to the house by sickness for several days. HAGERSTOWN. IND. Hagerstown, Ind., Sept 1. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gohring and son Russell returned to their home at Oswosso, Mich., Monday evening. Mrs. Joe Teetor was at Indianapolis Monday. Paul Fritz will leave In a few days for a visit with his sister, Mrs. Ernest Morrison at New York City. Miss Myra Leonard is visiing relatives in Henry county. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ford and children returned to their home at Chicago Tuesday morning after a short visit with Mrs. Cordelia Scott Arch Knapp spent Monday at Indianapolis.. ' Levi Strickler Is bavins a new

house built on his farm east of town. Rev, and Mrs. W. T. Warbinton are at Eaton, Ohio, attending the Miami visit a few days with friends before their return home. Mrs. Eliza Neal of Muncie is visiting her sister, Mrs. Edgar Pollard. James Canada has gone to New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowman have returned from a visit with Anderson relatives. Florence Nicholson has sold his property on North Perry street to Mrs. Eliza Neal of Muncie for $1,160. The house will be occupied by Ben Parsons, who will move here from New Castle and open a meat market in the business room recently vacated by Nicholson's meat market Helen and Katherine Plummer, th3 little daughters of Arthur Plummer

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So he rambled on. and, having sampled bis goods and not seeing the face I was looking for, I was moving toward the door when I was arrested by the voice of a man who began to speak over in one corner.' "That's so. I know him!" he shouted, and the attention of the room was his. The men around him moved back, and I could see that the speaker was Will. fie was dressed In a long waterproof coat and his hat was tipped back on his bead. An untrimmed black beard covered the lower half of his face. "I ran tell you all about him." he continued In a thin, high voice. "He's the man who got a bill through congress giving himself and his partners a slice of land out of the Indian Territory. He's the man wbe kept the Texas legislature in his hire the same as a servant." Generally when I bear this kind of sawing air 1 go about my business. The discontented always growl at the other fellow's bone. Give them a chance at the meat, and see how many bites they would make. It's hopeless to try and winnow out the troth from the mass of lies they talk about the trusts, capital, the tariff, corruption and the rest of it But it hurt all the same to have Will say such things about me. "He's the man who sold scraps and offal to the government for canned beef." "That" s a Her I spoke out promptly. "Don't I know what I am saying? Didn't I try to live on the rancid, rotten stuff? My God, I've got some home now I could show you!" Will turned to see who had contradicted him and recognized me. "You ought to know better than that," I replied, directly at him. "Some of it was rotten, but not the Meat Products' goods. We lost on our contract, toe, what's more." Will was a little startled, but be steadied himself soon and said again: "That's the same thing. You were all the same crowd." "No, that wasn't so," I remonstrated, "and you ought to know it" The men in the room had stopped their talking and were craning their heads to look at as. Will and I eyed each other for a time; then I turned to the crowd and made the first and last real public speech of my life. "That's all a d d lie about the beef we sold the government I know it because I inspected it myself. And I gave my own money, too. to support men at the front, and that is more than any of you fellows ever did. And the rest of the talk these gentlemen have been giving you Is just about as wrong too. Let aae tell you one thing if you folks were honest, if you didn't send rascals to Springfield and to congress, if you weren't ready to take a dollar and club a man if be didn't band it over, there wouldn't be this bribery business. I know it because I've got the club over and over again. And one thing more, it's no more use for you and I to kick about the men who put their money into trusts than It would be to try to swallow all the water in the lake. That's the way business has got to be done nowadays, and If it weren't done you folks would starve, and your wives and children would starve" "Who are you?" some began to shout, interrupting me. 1 "I am E. V. Harrington!" I called back. Then they booted: "Hello, senator! Put him out!" I turned toward Will and called to him: "Come on! I want to have a word with you. Will!" He followed me downstairs into a saloon. Some of the loafers who bad heard our talk upstairs came in and crowded up to the bar, and I set up the drinks all around several times. Will wouldn't take uny whisky. Then the barteuder let us into a little room at the end of the bar. where we could be by ourselves. "Will," I exclaimed, "whatever has happened to you?" It wrun.t my heart to see what a wreck he was He had let his beard grow to cover up his wasted face. His eyes were sunk and bloodshot The old waterproof covered a thin i flannel coat "I'm all right" he replied gloomily. "What do you want of me?" "I want you to come out and get some dinner with me first" I said. But he shook his head, saying he must go home to May. ; ."It ain't no use. Van." be added In a high, querulous voice. "We don't belong together. May and I are of the people the people yon fatten on." "Quit that rot I am one of the people too." "Oh. you're senator, I expect by this timer be sneered. "What did it cost you. Van?" "I don't want to tali politics." ' "That's all 1 care to talk. I wast to get a chance to snow yon fellows up j one of. these days, I'm considering

have been quite ill with malaria fever. Mrs. Jacob Rummel went to Cambridge City Tuesday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Justin Mustin. Marguerite Smith of Cambridge City spent Monday with Mary Nicholson. Faye Sherry returned to Lafayette Monday after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sherry. Dr. F. C. Lamar Is visiting with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Bowman and family spent over Sunday with Sol Bowman and wife, west of town. The Vaudette theater which was closed last week has been reopened. James Bagford has purchased a half interest in it

A four-hundred-pound halibut was recently displayed in London. proposition for part control of a paper a labor weekly." So he talked for awhile about hi? scheme of getting hold of a little three cent outfit and making it into un organ of kick and criticism. He bad seen life from the inside during the war. be explained, and he wanted to give the public the benefit of bis experience. He had a snarl for every conceivable thing that was, and he was eager to express it. When I showed him that such aa attitude was dead against American feel ing he accused me of trying to suppress his enterprise because it was aimed at my friends, "the thieves and robbers." It was hopeless to argue with him, and the mere we talked the worse I felt. He was just bitter and wild, and be kept saying: "You taught me what it meant You showed me what it was to be rich." The war had ruined his health and weakened bis mind. The gentle, willing side in him had turned to fury. He was a plain crank now. "I'll buy this paper for you. or I'll start a new one for you to curse me and my friends with, if you'll just take May and the children and go down to my farm in the country. There are 2,000 acres down there. Will, and you can do as you please on the. place. When you've got back your health, then you can start in to baste me as good as you've a mind to." But be refused to compromise his "cause." So we parted at the door of the saloon, he buttoning up his old raincoat and striding out for the west side without a look back to me. And as I hailed a cab to take me to the club I . beard In my ears that charge. "You taught me what it meant to be rich, Van!" It made me mad, but it hurt just the same. Though I knew perfectly well that i was not responsible for his crankiness, yet I thought that if he could have kept on at business under me be would have been all right, earning a good liv ing for bis wife and children and not taking up with thoughts be hadn't the mind to th!-': out for Will was not one to step ..itely out of the close ranks of men, but he was always a mighty faithful worker wherever he was put. And now be was just a crank good for nothing. CHAPTER XXX. THE COST. A dinner at the Metropolitan club Old friends and enemies A conservative senator Pleasant speeches A favor for Henry I. I plan a gift for tried friend I find that I have nothing to give Slocum's confession Aims in life. The supreme bench What money can't buy Slocum pays for both, B NUMBER of men gave me a dinner that evening at the Metropolitan club. Steele. Lardner. Morrison of the New York and Chicago Railway company, Joe Strauss. Jenks, Carmlchaei and Bates were there, among others, all leaders In the community in various enterprises. Not all these gentlemen had looked with favor on my political aspirations, but when they saw that I could win this trick as I bad others they sidled up to me. After all, no matter what they might think of me personally or of my methods, they felt that I belonged to their crowd and would be a safe enough man to have in the senate. Just as we sat down Slocum. who had been called to the telephone, came up to me, a smile on bis wrinkled face, and said, raising his right hand: "Gentlemen, the legislature at Springfield has elected Mr. Harrington to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Parkinson. Gentlemen, three cheers for Senator Harrington!" As the men raised their champagne glasses to drink to me Slocum shook me warmly by the band, a smile broadening over his face. Although, as I told them, it had never been my part to talk. I said a few words, thanking them for their good will and promising them that I should do my best to serve the interests of the country we all believed was the greatest nation that had ever been. My old friend Orlando Bates, the president of the Tenth Na tional, replied to my talk, expressing the confidence my associates bad In me. In the course of his graceful speech he said. "Mr. Harrington is so closely identified with the conservative interests of the country that we can feel assured he will stand as a bul wark against the populistlc clamors so rife In the nation at the present time. And young Harvey Sturm, also a bank president who followed him with a glowing speech, made flattering refer ences to the work I had done "in up building our glorious commonwealth.' After deprecating the growth of social istic sentiments and condemning the unrestricted criticism of the press In regard to capital be closed with a special tribute: "Such men as Edward Harrington are the brains and the will of the nation. On their strong shoul ders rests the progress of America. Were itnot for their God td

their wiif. riieir genius" for organization, our broad prairies, our great forests, our vast mines, would cease to give forth their wealth r There was more of the same sort of talk before we broke up. Afterward, as the theaters and the opera closed, men dropped in to hear the news, and many of them came up to congratulate me. Among others old Dround wandered Into the club in the course of the evening, and. some oue having told him that I had been elected senator, be came cp to the corner where I was standing with a group of men and hovered around for a time, trying to get a word with me. After awhile I stopped out and shook bands with him. "I cm very g!ad to bear this. Mr. Harrington." he said slowly, pressing my hand In hla trembluis fist "I have

always believed that our best should take an Interest in tlie government of their country." His eyes bad a wandering expression, as if he were trying in vain to remember something out of the past, end be continued to deliver b!s little speech, drawing me to one side out of hearing of the men who were standing there. "I thought once to enter public life myself." he said, "but heavy business responsibilities demanded all my attention. 1 wonder." be lowered his voice confidentially, "if you will not find it possible to further the claims of my old friend Pax ton's son. He desires to secure a diplomatic post I have urged his merits on the president and secured assurance of his good wilt but nothing has yet been dgne. I cannot understand it" Eri Paxton was a dissipated, no account sort of fellow, but I assured Henry I. Dround that I would do my best for him. That was the least that the past demanded of me! So it went on until past midnight and the club began to empty, and I was left with a few friends about me. When they went, I took Slocum up to my room for a last cigar before bed. We had some private matters to settle In connection with the election. "You pulled out all right Van." he said when we were alone. "But there wasn't much margin." "I trusted Carmlchaei. I knew John wouldn't go back on me." We sat and smoked awhile In silence. Now that I had picked the plum the feeling came over me that Slocum ought to have had It With that idea I burst out at last: "I've been thinking of one thins; all along, Slo and that is. What can I do for you when I am senator? Name what yon want man. and if itfs In my power to get It it shall be yours. Without you I'd never have been here, and that's sure." "I never cared much for politics,' he replied thoughtfully. "I guess there Isn't anything I want which Is more than most of your friends can say! "Something in the diplomatic service?" I suggested. He shook bis head. "How about a federal judgeship? Ton can afford to go out of practice?" "Yes. I can afford to go on the bench!" be replied dryly. "But It's no use to talk of it" "What do you mean?" "You ought to know. Van, that that is' one thing that can't be bought in this country not yet I could no more get an appointment on the federal bench than you could!" "You mean on account of that old story? That's outlawed years ago!" "You I jink so? The public forgets, but lawyers remember, and so do politicians. The president may make rotten appointments anywhere else, but if be should nominate me for the circuit bench there would be such a bowl go up all over that he would have to withdraw me. And he knows too much to try any such proposition." It was no use to argue the question, for the lawyer had evidently been over the whole matter and knew the facts. "It isn't that bribery matter, Yan, alone. I have been hand and glove with you fellows too long to be above suspicion. My record is against me all through. It isn't worth talking about I have had my pay. I am a rich man, richer than I ever expected to be when I put foot in Chicago. I have no right to complain." But I felt that in spite of all he said that wasn't enough. Somehow the money did not make it square for him. As the night passed be warmed up more than I bad ever known him to in all the years we had worked together. and be let me see some way inside bim. I remember he said something like this: "There were three things I promised myself I would do with my life. That was back In my senior year at Bowdoin college. I was a poor boy, had borrowed from a relative a few hun dred dollars to go through college with and felt the burden of that debt pretty bard. Well, of tbose three purposes one was for myself. First I promised myself I would pay back my uncle's loan. That was a simple matter of decency. He was not a rich man, and his children felt rather sore at his letting me have those $600 to spend on a college education. I managed to do that out of what I earned as a law clerk the first years we were together at Ma Pierson's. The next thing I had promised myself was to buy back our old brick house in the aristocratic part of Portland, the house my father had been obliged to part with after the panic of 1S76. I meant to put my mother and sisters in it The only sister I have living Is there now. with ber children. My mother died in her old home, and that bas always been a comfort to me. You may think it was my desire to do this that made me stick by yon when we had that difference about the Chicago and London bonds, but you are mistaken. I went -with you. Van. because I wanted to Just that I saw then what It meant and I am not kicking now. "Well, the third aim I set myself when I was speculating, as college boys do about such things, was the hardest of alL The others, with rea son able success, I could hope to accomplish. And I did fulfill them sooner than I had any reason to hope I should. The third was a more difficult matter and that was my ambition to sit some day on the supreme bench. There were two members of onr family who had been distinguished judges, one of the supreme court of Maine and another of the federal supreme court back in the early forties. I had always heard these two men referred to with the resnect bv our tsmDx

great-uncle. Judge Lambert Cushlng. Although by the time I came to college our family had reached a pretty low ebb. It was natural that I should secretly cherish the ambition to its Sa the high water mark. "-Vn.V he concluded, -after thirty years of contact with the world I havent seen much iat is more worthy of a man's ambition in our country than a seat on our supreme bench. I have no reason to be ashamed of my three aims .in life. Two of them I made, the third I might never have come near to anyway, but I chucked away my chauce a good many years ago. However, I have done pretty well by myself as it la. So you see

there is nothing. Van. that you can' give me that I should want to take." He reached for another cigar and stretched his toug legs. It was the fimt time he had ever spoken to me from the bottom of bis heart, aud now that he had revealed the truth about himself there was nothing to be said. He was not just the ordinary corporation lawyer wbo sells his learning and his shrewdness for a fat fee, I had run up against that kind often enough. They are an indispensable article to the modern man of affairs, for the strategy of our warfare Is largely directed by them. But Jaffrey Slocum was much more than such a trained prostitute. Ue was a man of learning and a lover of the law for its own sake. I suspect that if he had ever sat on the bench he would have been a tough nut for the corporations. "There's no better proverb, my friend, than the old one about the way you make your bed." Slocnm summed up, ruling to go. "It don't trouble yon perhaps because you are made different You are made to fit the world as It is today." With that he bade me good night and went away. I sat on by myself for some time afterward, thinking, thinkUs was not fust the ordinary corpora Uon lawyer. ing of it all. Very likely If Slocnm could have bad his desire and gone on the supreme bench he would not have found it all be bad painted it as a boy. But whether It was foolish or not for him to set such store by that prize it was beyond his reach, and the man wbo had done most to put him out of the race wss L I hsd needed him, and I had taken him that was all there was to that He had sold himself to me not just for money, bat for friendship anu admiration for what men of bis kind sell themselves for in all the world there was not enough money to pay bun for selling himself. He bad as much as said so tonight Now, when I wanted to give him the gift that he had earned by years of de votion, there wss nothing In my hands that was worth bis taking. Thinking of this. I forgot for the time being that I was senator from the state of Illinois. CHAPTER XXXL rUBTHEB COST. I go to see May A cottage on the vest title May comes to the door fleadtna Stiff necked virtue A discussion of patriotism We wash dishes and dispute. Old times One woman's character Pos sibilities Hard words Rejected gift. Even to the children Who shall fudge t Another scale and a greater one. HE cab drew up before a one story frame bouse that stood back In the lot squeezed be tween two high brick build ings. This was the number on Ann street over on the west side that Will had given me when I had pressed bim for bis address. The factories bad pretty well surrounded this section of the city, leaving here and there some such rickety shanty as this one. There were several children playing in the strip of front yard, and as I opened the gate one of them called out "Hello, Uncle Van!" It was Will's second son. little Van. He said bis mother was at home, and. taking my band, be showed me around the cottage to the back door. The boy pounded on the door, and May came to see what was the matter. "Is that yon, Van?" she asked as If she expected me. "Will said be saw you the other day." She did not invite me In. bnt the little boy held open the door, and I walk ed Into the kitchen. The breakfast things were piled np In the sink unwashedA boiler of clothes was on the fire, and May bad her sleeves rolled np ready to begin the wash. Her arms were as thin as pipe stems, and behind her glasses I saw deep circles of blue flesh. She had grown older and thinner in the three years since she and Will left my bouse for good. "Will's gone to the city," May re marked. "He don't look strong. May. It made me feel bad to see him se changed. not a bit like himself." She seemed to bridle a little at this. "He hasn't been real well since he had the fever at M on tank. He was re infected at the hospital and nearly died. When he got out be tried farm ing down in Texas, but his strength didn't come back as we expected, and the climate was too hot for him. So wo came north to see If he could get work.".

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"Bow are .? cir.ldrtfuV I asked. "We lost toe baby boy while Will was at Montauk, Another little girl has come since then. Wo call her Sarah." . She waited a moment and then asked hesitatingly: -How's your Sarah? She dldnt look well wben I saw ber last" "No. she's been delicate some tune since our boy died last summer. She's gone to Europe with the girls tor a change." Then we were silent There was not much more we could say without touching the quick. But at last I burst out: "Msy. why wouldn't yon take that money I sent yon while Will was away at the war?" "We could manage without It It was kind of you. tbongh. Yon have always been kind. Van!" "You might have known It would make us happy to have you take It It was only what I owed to the country, too, seeing that I was so placed t couldn't go to Cuba. I wanted then to leave everything end enlist Bnt tt wouldn't have been fair to others. I sent some men In my place, though." Perhaps it sounded a little like apologizing. May listeued. with a smile om her Hps that heated me. "You are just like tbat preacher!" I exclaimed. "You can see no good la folks unless It's your kind of good.

Don't you believe 1 have got some real patriotism lu me?" "It's hard to think of Van Harrington, the new senator, as a patriot" she laughed back. "Those men yon sent to the front must have come In handy for the election!" I turned red at ber little fling about the senatorsbip. My managers had worked tbat company I equipped for all it was worth. "I guess there are a good many worse citizens thsn I am. 1 wanted to fight for tbose fellows down in Cobs. And yon wouldn't let me do the little I could, help Will to take my place." "After all that happened. Van, we couldn't take It" "And I suppose yon don't want to touch anything from me now. 8ee here. May. I came over this morn tug to do something for yon and WI1L Did he tell you about my wanting him to go down to my place In the country on til he got well and strong?" "He's much Interested In this paper and thinks ho can't get away." she said evasively. "Darn his paper! Yon dont believe Will was cut out to be a thinker? Anyhow, be ought to get bis health back first and give yon an easier time too." "I am all right W1U la very much In earnest about his ideas. Yon can't get blm to think about himself." "Well. I don't mind his trying to reform the earth. If later on ho wants a paper to whack the rich with I'll buy bim one. Come, that's fan-, isn't ltT" May laughed at my offer, hot made no reply. . "If yon folks are so obstinate. If I can't get you to go down to my place. I'll have to turn it Into a school or something. A fellow I was talking with on the train the other day gave me an idea of making It Into a sort of reform school for boys. What would you think of that? Sarah Is taken with the Idea. . She never liked the place and won't want to go back now that the baby died there." "That's a good plan turning philanthropist. Van? That's the right way to get popular approval, senator." She mocked me. hot her laugh rang out good naturedly. "Popular approval never worried me much. But May, I want your good will, and I mean to get It too." For the more obstinste she wss the more she made me eager to win my point to bring ber and Will back to me. She understood this, and a flash of ber old will and malice came Into ber thin face. She got up to stir the clothes on the Are, and wben the water began to run over I stripped off my coat and put my band to the job. Then 1 stepped over to the sink. "Do you -remember bow I used to wash while yon wiped wben wo wanted to get out boggy riding. May?" "Yes, and you were aa awfnl shiftless worker, senator." May retorted, fetching a dish towel from the rack and beginning to wash while 1 wiped. "And yon had the same smooth way with you, though In those days yon hadn't 10 cents to your name.. And now, how much Is It?" "Oh, say a quarter!" "Then It must have cost yon a Sight of money to become senator." "It did some, but I kept back a lit. tie." (Continued.) EUPHHIti. Tou can't fall with Gold Medal Moas. Msissaafi la nvt3sixas QUAKER D i Few aalc ay all DR. L S. CHENOWETH Dentist. Now on vacation; will be In New e Offices In Murray Theater Bldg, Oct 15. Cor. 10th r Main Sts. PURE e CIDER VINEGAR WHITE VINEGAR WHOLE SPICES HAOLEY BROS. Decry U. Decier FANCY GQOCEQ it, van