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JANUARY 2t, 1903.
S HE SUNNY SOUTH
NINTH PAGE
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By Will N Harden
j£? Author of
'*Abner Daniel,” “The
Substitute,” “Wester*
velt,” Etc.
[OPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAP
TERS.
N OPS 13 OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.)
Georgiane" is laid in a north Qpor-
ouniry town. Si Warren, a notorious
drunkard and rowdy, has shot and
a man. He is sentenced to death,
lie claims self defense, his only
... witness having fled. Warren is
in jail by Albner Daniel, a shrewd,
ni,l farmer of the district. With
Warren he discusses the mystery in
ch© retention of Hammond, the
rpen.'ive criminal lawyer in the state,
: him, and the thousands spent to
missing witness, Warren himself bo-
and Hammond having refused
.. name of the person furalsh-
The day for Warren’s execu-
fast approaching, and the county
up int ■ bitter differences over his
a lion. From the jail. Aimer
have a conference with Henry
,, wealthy planter, who is at odds
, sen File. Abner meets Eric by
and is informed that because .of the
v I' : habits tile tv.-o are more than
ranged.
IV.
rience in seeing that child driven from
home as mine has been. It is all 1 can
do to act with Justice to his father.”
‘”1 reckon so,” replied Abner, as they
sat down in chairs on the veranda. It s
a pity—sech a pity!”
“I know Eric is to blame, too.” went
on Mrs. Vaughn. “Ill; seemed to get
under had influences at college, and lie
has been under them in one way or an
other ever since.”
"t always thought.” ventured the farm
er, "that Eric was allowed to handle
money too early in life—big money, I
mean. That will spile the best young
blood that ever run in human veins.”
"Oil, yes; but how were we to hinder it?
When he came of age Mr. Vaughn gave
him the river plantation, with all the
adjacent mountain lands, thinking ho
would manage it properly, and I’m con
vinced he would have come out all right
if at had ended there, but Eric bad stud
ied mineralogy, and began to send spec
imens of ores and stones to experts in
the north, and finally discovered the big
deposit of black marble on his property,
ami worked up a company in Now York
| that took it off his hands for a for
tune in cash. Was it any wonder that
he went wild? Wouldn’t that turn the
HE two men parted, and
the farmer wont on to the
veranda where Mrs.
Vaughn stood ready to
greet him.
“I’m certainly glad to j head of any boy of twenty-one, and here
! where money is so scarce?”
j “Yes, it was a great pity,” Dante! said,
j "Ef nil that money had ‘a’ com to ’irn
in dribs-like, as he growed older an’ more
experienced, it mought ’a’ made a power- | ™
I l'ul man of ’ini. Hut instead o’ that—”
| ‘‘Instead of that, Mr. Daniel"—the lady
| interrupted him—“instead of that he rent-
I <-d out his plantation, took the money
I and began speculating in cotton and
, grain futures, gambling, horse owning
and racing, high society and what not.
see you,” she said, in a
filaintive tone, as she gave
him her white, blue-veined
hand. “Somehow, I al
ways fee] that you are a
friend wiio can be count
ed on in an emergency,
and, Mr. Daniel, if there
time when T hungered for hu-
athy it is right now. She
black hair, which lay smooth-
[ row and her thin lips twitched j Thon be took a , notlon to buiId thdt fine
"■strained emotion. j residence on the bill. He said he could
m< Mrs. Vaughn, said Ab- ren t r to some progressive person—that
ow how you feel. I’ve been 1
"but I couldn't. lie got at the bottom
of it, an’ i seed ’im walk up to a feller
a head taller'n he was an' invite 'im
into the woods, nigh the school house.
Tiie feller was game, an’ they both went
off in a big gang a-hootin' an' a-cheerin'
I started down to stop it. but it was
over ’fore 1 got thar. Eric fit 'im like
a tiger-cat, an' laid ‘im out wiLh .a well-
aimed blow. Hut his trouble wasn't over;
bravery an’ resentment wouldn't kill the
rancor in the hearts o’ the sufferin’ South
them days. Hut I’ve thought a million
times o’ ali that Erie had to bear in
his young days, an’ I don’t agree with
Henry, Mrs. Vaughn. 1 believe ef I
couldn’t stand up fer'my country with
out ma kin’ an innocent, sensitive boy
o’ mine shoulder the brunt o’ the business
I’d let the country take care o’ itself.
Patriotism, like charity, ort to begin it
home Henry Vaughn no doubt thought
he feus right, but he ort to ’a’ paid more
attention to ills family an' th’r comfort.
It afforded him some amusement, in tils
bull-headed way, to contend with ins
surroundin'?, an’ he deserves credit, too,
fer standin’ by what he thought was
right, but il wasn’t no fun fer youuns.
who loved yore friends, an' wanted to
keep ’em. ’
Mrs. Vaughn was wiping her damp
eyes on her white apron.
"It makes my heart bleed to think of
F”1c's school-.!;!;#*." she said with quiv
ering lips “i realize the turmoil of
them more now than I did then. Do you
remember the time my husband ran for
Congress on the Republican ticket?”
”1 reckon I do,” Abner laughed. ”l
had a lots o' fun with 'im over it. He
never expected to win: he claimed that
was jest to uphold a principle that
he went in the race. Some o' the Re
publican leaders down in Atlanta told
’im lie was the strongest member o’ the
party in this destrict, an’ that it was
a disgrace to all concerned not to be
represented in the election, so they got
him to come out as a candidate.”
”1 never shall forget that time.” said
Mrs. Vaughn. ‘‘Erie was then about
sixteen. The Democrats had gotten up
a big torch-light procession, with a bras.<-
he and PIric have been at cross-pur
poses.”
“The boy is Jest like his daddy,’ com
mented Abner. "Roth of ’em refuse to
be balked in anything.”
The latch of the gate at the end of
the graveled walk clicked. Two men
were entering. One was Henry Vaughn,
a short, thick-set man with a florid
complexion, iron gray hair and a short,
bristling mustache. His heavy, firm jaw
bespoke the indomitable will which was
his ichief characteristic and had made
him what he was. The man accompa
nying him was spare-built, middle-aged
and above medium height. He wore a
black broadcloth frockcoat, from which
the nap had been worn, and a fuzzy,
battered silk top-hat.
’That’s the nigger school man with
’im now, ain’t It?” asked Daniel.
"Yes. that's Air. Bowman,” responded
Mrs. Vaughn. ’’They are together all
the time, talking over their plans.”
Abner said nothing, for the two men
were near the steps. As they came up
old Vaughn wiped his red brow with a
big cotton handkerchief and shook hands
with Abner, who was one Democrat with
j whom he was always cordial. “Glad to
i see you In town,” he said, gruffly. He
| presented the school teacher with a curt
j wave of his fat hand a few mumbled
words, ns if ashamed of the formality.
“I think I saw Mr. Daniel coming out
j of the jail a while ago,” Bowman smiled,
i “I was in the clerk’s office with Air.
. Vaughn, looking over some land rec-
ords, and saw you through the window.
I The 'clerk said Warren had sent for
“Yes, I had a little chat with ’im.”
Abner was eving the teacher from head
to foot, a slow light of curiosity in his
mild eyes.
"I presume he has little or no chance
for his life.” Bowman remarked, in the
stilted manner of a man only partly ed- , .
ucated As he spoke he twirled his I ono > and sat down, crossing his long
short mustache which seemed to have legs. For once, he was not chewing to-
Confederacy, he had invariably swapped
his slaves for gold and converted all the
Confederate money that came his way
Into land. This family wealth had tend
ed indirectly to make Eric popular, for
not only had he. as he grew’ to man
hood, embraced the political views of his
mother's family, but he had ever shown
a disposition to cast his father’s accu
mulation to the four winds of heaven,
and that was balm to the wounds of the
element who had come out of the strug
gle sore. Impoverished and wtihout hope
of betterment. Vaughn’s fortune was a
rasping verification of Vaughn's early
prophecy, and that hurt.
Abner went to a little restaurant in
the back end of a half-empty store
room, which was kept by an old ne
gro, and ordered his dinner. It con
sisted of frieTl chicken, hot biscuits and
strong coffee, and when he had eaten it
he went to Eric Vaughn’s office, up one
flight of dingy stairs over the bank on
the street corner across from the post-
office. It was a barren-looking room,
which Eric had rented merely as a place
to meet his tenants and look over their
accounts when they came into town for
supplies.
The young planter was at his desk
when Daniel came up, his heavy shoes
clattering and creaking on the stairs and
in the empty corridor.
"O'h. it’s you. Uncle Ab!” Eric ex
claimed. “Come right in and pull up a
chair. With that smile of yours you
do a young fellow good.”
Abner closed the heavy door, with its,
old-fashioned white handle and black en
ameled lock screwed on the inside, drew
up a plain chair near to Eric's revolving
baeeo, but he had thrust a probing fore
finger into the pocket of his vest for
what was left of his generosity to War
ren in the morning.
"The last time I was in this sanctum
an’ ef you don't git away from here T’ll
call ’im.’ I tried ag'in to tell her about
the rag, but she mighty nigh had a fit.
She went to the end o' the porch an’
begun to yell out fer somebody to come,
an' you bet I got a slide on me. I
didn’t deserve .sech treatment; but while
nics and we often had parties at fn#
farm house.”
"I wasn’t livin’ on my farm tnen,
said Abner. T was down in Alabama,_
I trunk.”
”No, you were not out there then—in
fact. I had few near neigbors I cared
about. Well, to go one with my story.
I was foolin’ about the baby I discov- j faa(i cons id e rable idle time on my hands,
ered that it was a boy, an’ for all I aIw j often had difficulty in amusing my
self when 1 was not fishing or hunting.
But one day I ran upon a new experi
ence.”
Eric paused, and then went on again.
“I met the daughter of a disreputable
farmer—a drunkard—whose little farm
She was beautiful. Uncle
Ab—and good- She had great, honest
brown eyes. Her mother, who was dead.
know I may ’a’ saved the life of a pres
ident of the United States. But it was
a full hour ’fore I got over bein' mad
at that woman. Even now I feel like
goin’ back an’ spankin’ the child right
before her eyes.” .
Eric laughed heartily, “I’m afraid the I
woman didn’t take in the situation at j
ail,” he remarked. “She no doubt had belonged to a good family—in fact,,
thought you were criticising the baby’s she had cut herself off from her people
clothes, and, as you say it was not well i in Virginia by marrying as she had. The
cared for, she may have been so sensi- 1 girl, Marie, was living with her father
five over that fact that she failed to and working tor him. and once a week
listen to what wou wanted to say. Maybe camo ° r\mil v'washing
... ... , ' , I from my house to do the^lamily wasnmg.
. he 11 think it over and ofter a reward: ^ bcr t jiore one morning in her sun-
for some one to put her on your track.” | bonne tand plain but becoming gingham
Eric was silent for a moment, and then. | dress . she was very timid at fir A. but
eyeing Abner closely, he went on with j week after weel? I watched her come
a laugh:
"Do you know, Uncle Ab, you piav a
part to perfection. I’ll bet you a new
hat my mother has been talking to you
about me.”
The eyes of the old farmer went down.
He had fished the piece of tobacco from
his pocket and held it in his hand.
”1 don’t know about that,” he said,
sheepishly. “Now I come to think of it,
ine and her talked about a good many
dowa the hill from her father’s cottage
to her tub and bench, and I never failed
to join lier. After a while she grew
to know me, and wc became good friends.
More than that. Uncle Ab. I felt towards
her as I had never felt towards a wo
man. and have never felt since.”
“Ah, you were in love!’’ Abner sighed.,
“You were really In love!”
“She told me all about her life,” the
young man pursued, with a nod of ac
quiescence. “She’d had few kind words
been dyed a dingy brown. “I must con
fess tiie whole situation has deeply in
terested me. I have never seen a com-
there wasn’t a modern, up-to-date house >'™d and fir- works and transparencies. \ ™ uninue-an’ interring
1 m town, and Tie wanted to own one. Have ° ne of them had an awful picture of my : , Tr rjaniel- a case
10 understand,” sighed the j you ever seon u , Mr . Dan icl?" husband at notable eating with a full - ! the sentimS
nobody but a mother of an .. Tbe out5ide of it Mrs V aughn. I thn - n •, I element are™war, as it were, with the
|\\<»uM Know the pain 1 expe- ha in't never been in it. I noticed in v-iti n n j Delt or judgment or the law-abiding-, big, rich cljuin o* yor'n, Blathwalt.” , T ,
j passin’ that he’d made big improvements 1 *‘l seed the ^ign-painter a-makin’ Yt^in I thinking citizens. That scamp doesn’t j “Oh, yes, I remember,” said Eric. "He’s j b YdYr n v P T’ S a oxvfnP” cr ; ed Ybner* “but irn
vi | attractive maiden wants nt—-walks an’ terraces an’ stables an’ vine the back room o’ Joe Rudd’s bakeshon. j deserve a moments cons d era cm. a no t here now\ He only passes through ' L boca/ip ? QhnYYff on * Erh* ”
there ever whs a cow-‘blooded murder, . r> Rr w two nr three times a vear He ove at KOCK Crest » beca se I shot off on, h-ru.
Warren committed it. and. 'besides, hla ^“ tl voV unde Ab Sa d b0Zf> ° :ibout "hat * thought was “Meeting her completely changed the
oa«t record is as black as Egyptian I took a lam y to you Uncle Ab. haul j havin’ a good time or<3er of m - v llfe ’ Eric complied. r gave
u ici-uiu you were a philosopher in jeans, and that i 1 x navln a s° oa ume. _ t
,, , , , .moonshi
th r duty is, nur h;un t. A man s duty I be was a brute. He had unjustly sus-
is what he thinks it is, not what an-1 pected his wife of being untrue to him
other man thinks about it. I never hear (and driven her from his home. She
a man talkin’ about what somebody else i left, taking the child, who was then
ort to do without noticin’ some’n’ he’s about six years of age. They lived apart
left undone. An’ you bet yore bottom about thr0e ye; V S ’ r \ he m0the r d li
j-ut; mat um*s x ixi t.**x» oanv.tuxu , ,, . ^ attended the funeral and returned
sanctorum,” said Abner, looking around | , l a 1 m op f a to criticism myself, an I home w j t h the child. Marie gresr upun.
the room, “you introduced me to that ! ? in » s ke sa e on back of a H er *hia care. You can imagine what such.
• wnapped convict. So I try to be merciful. 1 a man would make of an innocent, re-
usban 1. No ob.ioctkms to hon-
«• poor man. Address Cook. 67
■'a so.
vine
arbors an’ sech like.”
,r Tt is perfect on the Inside,” said the
old lady. “It has every improvement I
the
ft -
AMERICAN widow, h»nd-
r:h 5.60.000. wants Rootf, hon-
Addrt ss Aetna, Onuonta Iildg.,
I He’d finished it all but the hair
head when Rudd stopped up an told
’im to m..Ke Henry’s hair kinky, an’ he
diil the best job I ever seed in th.at line,
ever saw in any city house; but it was a Booked like a million corkscrews was a-
bad investment, like everything else the j growin’ out o’ Henry’s skull. Oh. that
boy touched'. The rich lumberman that i made ’im mad! ti> pan stand up fer
agreed to take it only lived in it a year, j the negroes, but it makes him mad as
niylht.”
Abner nodded but did not encourage he liked to hear you talk.” . . ‘. I interpreted sa- ; thousllt from morning to night aside
Bowman to a further expression of his ’ “I don’t know as I’d care to hear any- ; , “ *’ ” ut 11 seems i was trampim f rom ber We met often, always by
views- and as old Vaughn was turning i body talk much ef I had that feller’s ! th r , pet notions in the mire. Sometimes stealth, for she was afraid of her father,
into the wide hall. Bowman, hat in hand, ’
bowed suavely to Daniel and bis hostess
■and followed. Abner, who bad risen to
greet the newcomers, did not resume his
chair.
“You are not favora'bly impressed ’
up going to town. I had actually no
LAD1
f’.iriB
and then he was called back north, and
it has not been regularly occupied since."'
“So it’s vacant now?’ said Daniel, ten
tatively.
j “No, Eric's living there; he said ho
| couldn’t keep it insured unless it was I sport of
idAreM | occupied, and when he and his father
h.wtom«k8»3.di, ] disagreed he simply moved in there. And
- . , , * b, ° lute| t ou-e; ..a it bas afforded the town gossips some-
the ..ork and keacu yon free, yon work •” •
piecework at their homes*. We
laterial and pay from $7 to S12
?nce unnecessary. Send
ipe to Royal Co., Desk 13, 34
Chicago.
? Jay SureS
vr the ..ork and teacli yon fr<
c will •
thing more to talk about, I assure you
rpms* j g ome sa y Eric is going to get married.
XGENl
Send
fully, rcraenihe
aork.abi.o utelj euro. Write at , . ., , ., , , , ,
nuAti to., o«x 863.land otiiers that it is a regular gamblers
— | den vi here all sorts of lawlessness is
WEALTH—liKAUTY i practiced. But I don’t believe my boy is
•tory Fro©. Pay when married. ! ns black as he’s painted. Mr. Daniel. He’s
2ssha! »&oa! CU * i simply free-hearted and good-natured. A
mother knows her own child better than
any one else, and I know Eric has a
good heart and noble impulses. Three
th”nder to he ennipared to one.”
“I thought Eric never would get over
that night," said Mrs. Vaughan. “They
marched past our house several times.
The boy was always proud-spirited, in’
it cut him awfully to see people making Mr:
sport of his father. He and I were ’
going to church the next Sunday—Mr.
Vaughn wouldn’t go. because be said the
preachers prayed and talked against him,
and he wouldn’t mix politics and religion.
Erie and I were passing through Slain
Street, when I saw two flags stretched
across th? street from two of the high-
roll,” Daniel answered, dryly. “They tell ! 1 think I’ve thought too much on new I She had a remarkable mind. S'he could
‘lines an’ not enough on old. I dunno.; read and write well, and was quick, wit-
Vaiwrhn said. In a low, guarded
tone, her eves on the receding men. “I
can see that.”
“T don’t believe in love at fust sight.
Abner replied, with a smile. “Bowmiti
bain’t no fool, I kii tell you. He hain’t
here fer his health; he’s got Henry
Vaughn right square under his thumb.
me Blathwait’s wealth jestpours in on ’im
when he’s asleep. It seems to come that
away once in a while. The Eord may
! be on the side o’ honest endeavor, but
he certainly winks at the come-easy sort.
I’ve seed hard labor out at the scat o’ its
pants, while high livin’ was gittin’ rich
with its head packed in cracked Ice. I
sometimes tthink the niggers has it down
about right when they sing:
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months ago. when ho promised iiis father ba( ^ n t It put up there—isn’t that sn?
__ ... qn’ ef some’n hain’t done he’ll mash
ost buildings. One was a plain white rionev out of ’im, an' he’ll mash a
banner announcing the candidacy of Col- ' lots too Money’s a thing Bowman kin
one! Warnhim, (he Democratic ‘nominee, 1 use’ in his business. Lord, I’ll bet this
and the other was a United States flag j j.« the biggest game he ever, played in
Fvtc Manglm’s name beneath i‘. his life; but he’s got a purty good hand,
that it had Gained a " SGen tncl .an’ kin bluff. I was jest thinkin’ what 1 ous jj no t a suspicious expression as he
‘ ‘ ' me ' a shrewd enemy Eric has in 'im. j r pg ar ded the old man before him. It was
Mrs. V.aughn sighed; she moved a Ilt-
’ ‘De Bawd move in er mischievous way
His blunders to perform.’ ”
Eric Vaughn laughed. “That certain
ly is turning the good old hj'mn upside
down.” There was In his eyes a studi-
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"What about this Teller Bowman?” ask- “I remember,” Abner exclaimed, his
ed Daniel, wisely steering clear of whai eyos Hashing with interest; “that flag
he deemed a delicate topic. “Eric don’t "’!? cl! * down,
seem to have much
sions.”
Mrs. Vaughn shrugged her shouldera supporters,"the“Vag-tag'-And-bob-tail of
" *■’ ’ " “ the town, came with the new
“I haven’t either, Mr. Daniel; I can’t
help it. I don’t like the man’s looks, and
of course, I can’t sympathize with his
'For a quick and easy way to plan to build a school for negroes at the
o E. Behr. Box 7S3, Lacrosse, ■ cos t 0 f my hoy’s patrimony. I wish the
negroes well, but I don’t feel like giv
ing up all we have to them. Mr. Daniel,
LUJJ1B. kL UDU L ifrp. ^ , ,
faith in his preten- la Xf ry night,” said the old lady.
The next morning while we were at
. , , ,, breakfast two of Mr. Vaughn’s ardent
mod her shoulders, supporters, th? rag-tagstnd-bob-tail of
tiie town, came with the news that sonm
miscreant of the opi osition had done the
m,’n a ".V 1r ' Vaughn was so mad be
couldn t finish his breakfast. That after-
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mv husband's politics have been a great **°ys Arc March!p« ar • ’
made.
Tramp,
ng.* and speeches were
source of trouble to me. You can have ! Somebody was going to be -.rose-
idea how I have suffered on account ! t bft ea if .u; rjc !tn ' } 1 sat across the hail in
or „„ s,n„d. An tn.v P~P'e. ,;; I SUS un I
auighn sighed; sne niot ea a■ • j ?l s if he were wondering why Abner had
-r Daniel an &gan o spt. ca jj e( j EO promptly after his visit to the
home of his parents.
Abner laughed out impulsively.
”1 had a lesson in self-control this
morning,” he said. “I was madder'n a
wet hen as I come In town. I was ridin*
i know, were on the Confederate side, and ! usually quiet Then „. A T, ’ T -•*-
j they naturally feel opposed to Mr. , taineer testifying ?hc
He offends them every j cut down - - —- - a ®’ vvas
that the flag
certain younir m«in
time they come here with his gruff opin- ; cousin of the Demoi?ratic* ’
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to see me once a year. As for Eric, I
can’t blame him for opposing his fa
ther's views. When he was a little boy
at school his playmates used to make
fun of him and call him ‘Black radical,’
and he would often come home with his
face bruised from hand-to-hand fights
with boys who load hurled insults at his
father—Eric was too young to understand
into the parlor. I never saw him walk
so straight or look more calm in mv
Jife. i held my breath, for T heard his
young voice ringing out louder and
fore er t lan any t!uU > had s P°^en be-
"You need not .take out any warrant
for the arrest of Will Bofton,” he said
“He was there after the flag was cut
down, not before, i cut it down. I did
tie neare
whisper. “I wish you would gt>
Eric, Mr. Daniel. He thinks a
al of you. Perhaps you could
him the peril he is in and get
him to make concessions to his father
before it’s too late. He doesn’t realize
it now, but he will in the future.”.
“I’ll go to see him, Mirs. Vaughn,”
Aibner promised, as he started off. “May
be i kin influence im some."
"And when you go,” added Mrs.
Vaughn, holding out her hand, "perhaps
it would be a good idea to persuade him
to confide more in 2iis father. You
mi@nt snow him that Mr. Vaughn Is
getting old and more fault-finding, and”
—tne old woman seemed to Hesitate—
"you might remind him tiiat he did prom
ise not to spend any more money, and
tnat tins Dig mortgage on his plantation
without any explanation from him, is
calculated to rouse distrust. Perhaps
Eric will tell Mr. Vaughn all about tnat
transaction, and remove .a raise impres
sion.”
"I’ll mention tnat pint to him,” Abner
promised. "I'm inclined to trunk tne
boy will do what is right; he has a
mighty open way about him, an’ he 11
■want to relieve yore mind, too.”
The more I occupy myself with the new' ty, and full of originality. She was a!-
the less I hold to the old, an’ ev’rytliing-! ways astonishing me with her critical
new either melts under the touch or i observations and keen insight. I gave
gits out o’ date ’fore you kin pin it i her b< ?°^ to r0ad ’ and Khe cle ;
„ , , . . . , * ,. veured them, often asking me the most
down. Burmn brimstone an melted I pro f ourw ] questions ahou/them.
end seems an awful diet for disembodied; “But our smooth sailing was not to
Tween Mr. Vaughn and myself, and he
. walked into the room. He was oniy
ffl ion Kmiare Feet 1 fifteen then. He stood up straight be-
"iftflttar 100 Square peer, , ( )re hJg father and said: ’I see how this
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“Gee whiz!" Daniel grunted as he
leaned forward rubbing his bands on
has knees, “did the boy do that?”
”It was awfully quiet in there for a
Pm -oing to quit. I rnoment -” welrt on Mrs. Vaughn. “I
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'horn in I’m going to stand by room and stood here on the veranda,
mother From now on I’m a Demo- white and quivering, bis eyes flashing.
V, ‘ _ His father came out to him and told
him ovc-r to
storming at
, what did old Henry say to mat; mm tne curious gathering filed down the
It was the first timej ever^aw^my
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time and then he got up and left the
t™ room. He went out to the orchard.
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“Bi
fellow
•Fniiv bov!” ejaculated Daniel. “Pore, him he was going to turn h
J he d jd have a time of it, didn’t tbe law, and while he was s
i What did old Henry say to ihat?” him tbe curious gathering file
•It was the first time I ever sa
husband completely set back
Vaughn said, plaintively. He sa
still over ms papers for a
walk and out at the gate. But it end
ed there. Mr. Vaughn is firm himself,
but Erie’s firmness often closed bis j
V.
Darley was a growing place. It was
gradually recovering from ihe serious
back-set given it by the war. A big cot
ton factory had been built in the sub
urbs of the town, and it gave employ
ment to several hundred boys and girls,
mostly from the mountains, and a sys
tem of waterworks supplied the place
with water from a big, clear spring which
gushed from the rocky side of a hill and
advertised to aU prospective settlers that
Darley was in favor of progress. Abner
Daniel noted certain changes in the main
business street as be went through it
that day. Progressive shop men had torn
down the old-fashioned brick fronts ol
the stores and put in modem plate-glass
windows, in which, with no little tasle,
they displayed their wares. These men
discouraged loafing about their houses by
placing planks with tacks nulled through
then), so that their sharp points protrud
ed, on all the window sills and other
nooks in which idle men were accustom
ed, under the old regime, to sat down and
whittle sticks.
There were no street cars, but half a
dozen ramshackle “hacks” were owned
and operated by negroes. The horses
were thin and underfed, but what could
sperits to subsist on through eternity, I continue. Her father caught, us together
but I’d ruther have that, an’ stay clear j one day and ordered me never to see her
of it, than the awful uncertainty as to again. He was full of evil suspicions,
what is iin store fer us wishy-washy mor-jand couid not believe a man in my posi-
tals.” I tion could honestly care for a girl in
Eric toyed with his pen for a moment, j hinted to me that he had heard
a thoughtful frown on his brow. my fa ‘ ber 3 dishonorably in
, , , ins young days. I did not know whether
My mother spoke of my promise to this was true or not and so T coll]d not
reform and settle down, didn’t she, Un- dispute it. Marie did not tell me so.
cle Ab.’ ' he suddenly asked. jbut I afterwards learned that he had
“Why, y-e-s, the farmer admitted, I whipped her that night. However, we
slowly—yes, she said you’d sorter agreed managed to keep up our meetings. Under
to—that is, not to spend quite so much j one pretext or other, I always met her
money in the future, an' one thing or l wben > ,^ knew her father had gone to
'nuuier; I uon’t exactly know what she, .
did sav ” ! I hat was not exactly right,” said Dan.
“And'she told you. also, that I had bo^”" 01 eXacUy the strai S bt thing, my
broken my promise,” Eric went on. “and; "I know that better than an-- living
that I had borrowed money on my plan-, man,” Eric responded, bitterly. “Now
past a house on the outskirts. It stood i tation without explaining what I wanted here is wiiat I’m coming to. and it* is a
sorter up on high props—like on the side | :t for. Well, all that's true. Uncle Ab. hard thing to speak of even to as good
o’ the road. I was jest goin’ tty when II As I told you, I broke my promise to' a friend as you are. Uncle Ab. Some-
noticed a little baby on the top step j my father, and if he disinherits me and t * mes r thing, though, that it would have
a-holt of a chear, barely keepin’ its hal-j turns all his money over to Bowman and 1,0011 better for me if I had confided in
ance. That thar—that thar rag babies ] his scheme, I reckon I'll deserve what f omo one before this: the secret has
_ ! npon a imrtsf t AO mnoil *v»o ”
wear—the cloth women tie on 'em—had I get. I ought not to have made that;
promise without knowing positively that! feelingly”
I could keep it. It turned out after- j Eric rested his 'head on his hand for a
wards that I could not, an’ that’s all-moment. Abner bad never seen such a
there is to It.” | grave look on is face.
“I’m awfully sorry about that, Eric,” j “One day,” Eric went on. “I found In
said Abner, "for I want to see you do! the garret of my house a trunk filled with
.been almost too much for me.’
"I - “7 0u k‘ n trust me, Eric,” Abner said.
slid down ali in a wad at the baby's an
kles, an' it looked to me that ef the
child got scared or tried to take, a single
step it ud topple down to the rocky
ground below. It wasn’t any o' my busi
ness—i didn’t even know whose brat it
was—an’ so I rid on to the corner o’ the
street. Thar I stopped an’ looked back.
Somehow I felt that I wasn’t doin’ my i
duty. It wasn’t a clean child; its clothes, ’im. I ’lowed ef thar was any way
sech as it had, was raggety an’ black: satisfyin’ yore pa about that mort-! day . fjbe had died soon after her mai
ns the pot, but it had a pair o’ big, Won-j gage—” | riage—in fact, just 'after mv moor's
derin' eyes. So, after considerable re- “There's no way under the sun, Uncle j birth, and tbe family had never disturb-
flection, I finally got off my mare an’ j Ab,” broke in the young man. “I sim-! ed her belongings. I told Marie about
hitched an’ went back, an’, by gum! ply cannot explain it to my father; he j the. things, and she couldn’t control her
I’m here to say I got thar in the nick o’ would be infuriated if he knew where I eaer *”’ Tiess I ' oe them. The poor
time, fer the babv had let loose o’ the the money went; he could not sympathize) „ a b , no '’ 00 bri<1 finery of her
and what T told her roused her
a younti woman of fashion wore in that
i thmiirht he was going to get a switch ed. of course; but from that day to this
to puniria Eric, but he never mentioned
th "The bJ bov 'must' ’a’ had a hard time |
. ft them davs.” Abner said, musingly.
•i remember 'one day at a school exhi- )
i, on when he gfot up to speak that
l lt y nigh the whole house was cheerio ;
***-•> - .• Com mtof'riix'kvruitz 1
you expect when the fare for the first
“ j mile was only ten cents and nothing was
mouth. Tt looked to me as if he doubt- charged for time in which the vehicle
ed bis own position. The flag was not was not in motion; and if the driver hap-
put up again. Mr. Vaughn was defeat- pened to bo an old family servant or a
descendant of one, he wanted to serve
hat you have to soil and win address the cffjzems o
ive cash price on same. t ] If Q ’ nigger equality 10 > cIoc v
o m Come one. come all. Eric, it
a h-wt hern housed up in school ill
mo?n!n’ an’ didn’t know about the boy
■ the bell but the audience did. an
when he cobe out on the platform a
regular storm of cheers went up. T lu.
regular b thought some’n was
t,^ S’ron* w th his clothes an’ all through
"t"„"n.0T h size, i b ,g"| e ^h h° fcept lookin’ down at cm,
tar. Hit. polio «old LAin h* s • *” „„ na ge(1 to git through all right.
cases, superbly exgraved b ut he manageu IU b . lookod n kc ,
ON DOTH sides. American j ,, mc t me during recess an iooklu use
M0 YEMENI, full j warrnntcd to keep , WfLS ROin’ t0 Cry. SomebOOV Lad I'hU
FOLLOW
THE
FLAG
chear. It was a-pnmpin’ its right leg on
the edge o’ the porch. I helt my breath
as I run up the steps an’ ketched the
child an' put it furder on the porch. I
was tryin’ to pull the rag up to whar
It belonged—some women pin things
mighty careless, or, I dunno, maybe the
child and shrunk sense its breakfast.
Well, while I was engaged at this job
the baby's mammy came to the door an’
snatched it from me. She was by all
odds the maddest female I ever laid
the money went; he could not sympathize;
with the purpose for which I spent it—... _ ,
... . „ *. | curiosity to a ’high pitch. Every day nf-
am now spend-ng jt, in tact. But as to, j tervv- 1 r,ts she’d brln^- up the sub'#-'t and
you, Uncle Ab, I know you well enough ! ; j t W j tb Hasped hands while, to gratify
to believe you would think I am right—j her. T tried to describe the various art},
right even at tiie cost of violating a I cles.”
promise—right even if I break myself
ail to pieces and remain poor the rest of
my life.”
The old man raised liis brows.
"You say I would, Eric?”
“I’m sure of it. Uncle Ab. Didn’t you
tell
(To be continued. 1
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to explain that the rag had slid down an’
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ests had done little toward altering the
hearts and manners of the inhabitants.
Sons and daughters of aristocratic pa-
: rents, who had never known the mean
ing of toil or care, stood behind count
ers as gracefully as their forebears had
presided at state dinners or danced at
country balls. Men remained uncovered
when talking to ladies in the street, and another, bu: probably th<
, I the tnoast for tiu n
if you met an acquaintance in the Pub- iLo'eng©**: they
lie mart fifty times a day, fifty nods 1
and greetings were his and your due.
And somehow, visitors, sojourners from
the active North, felt that it was as it
should be* They liked it, and some of
them settled there, identified themselves
with the place and people, and remain
ed to feed on and feel the genial wormth
of a hospitality which, remnant although
it was of something dying out forever.
Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the
safest and most efficient disinfectant aud pur
ifier in nature, but few realize its vaiue bodv else,
when taken into the human system for tiie
same cleansing purpose.
Charcoal Is a remedy that the more you
take of it the better: it is not a drug at all.
but simply absorbs the gases and impurities
always present in the stomach and intestines
and carries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after smok
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man you loved a good girl who died?”
Abner's face changed; the glance of
his eye became more gentle and sym
pathetic. He nodded.
“Yes, I told you that, my boy. It was
a long, long time ago.”
“What you told me, Uncle Ab, made a
deep impression on me, for you said
that in all the years of your life since
then that you had continued to hold
that girl in your heart—that you had
never met any one to take her place, and
that is why you are still unmarried.”
“That’s true, Eric, that’s God's truth—
The idea of marriage after she passed
away seemed mockery. Folks tried to I c rder tor 75 cents.
make me think of it, but" I never wanted '
nobody else. I never shall want any- !
I reckon T was peculiar that
account. Some time ago the agent at
Caldwell received the following letter:
“Agent—Will you please send the ad
dress of the superintendent of the ’Frisco
depot, or where shall I write to make a
wrong right?”
The required address was given, and the
following letter came as a response; “Dear
Sir—When I was a small child I took
some of the railroad's coal, which I
wish to pay for, as I am now a child of
God, heaven and lost souls are my
only desires.”
In the letter was enclosed a postoffica
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m “ l ’Uncie Ab,’ says he. ‘ef you was me
what would you dnaboutit? can
cstond no sech insults as tnat. us ui
meant for my father **»$£?.."**
•inv nluek ort to allow it to pa^s.
-Poor boy' I remember that now
said Mrs Vaughn, her handkerchief
Pr “X S tried 1 to h pacify S '’in».” Abner went on.
where it makes direct connection with the ! was strange, new and invilin
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Henry Vaughn owed Ills present wealth
—and, if the truth must ibe told, much
of his unpopularity with his less-fortu
nate neighbors—to the fact that not be
lieving in the ultimate success of the
Charcoal effectually clears and improves the
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It absorbs the injurious gases which collect
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All druggists sell charcoal in one form or
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art’s Char-
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It Is that no possible harm can result from i estod.
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great benefit. I ing to tell you. Undo Ab. happened bo-
A Buffalo physician in speaking of the ben- i fore I sold tho marble interest and
efits of charcoal, says: “I advise Stuart's holo of that money. ! was just nu
CharcoH) Lozenges to ail patients suffering J college, and bad settled on my planta-
way, but T couldn't help it. She kept j
her word with me till she died, an’ 1 :
couldn’t ’a’ done no less, even ef T did j
live on an’ face a hard, lonelv life.” | ' .. ,, . , ...
“Uncle Ab”—Erie’s voice was tremu- ! . be Proceeding on the whole satisfae-
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an accident. It seemed more like the j maximum pension is $90 a year in New
malice of fate. It happened five years I Zealand and $104 a wear ir> Virtow*-
ago and it still holds me as firmly ;
telling you what has never passed my
lips before. I know I can trust you.
I was hardly more than a boy when it
happened—a happy, careless, romantic
boy, full of dreams of conquests, riches,
power—everything"
“You mean the time you come info all
thtL money?" said Daniel, deeply inter-
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