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Seventeen
~—— 0
A Tale of Youth and
Summer Time and
the Baxter Family,
Etpecially William
BOOTH TARKINGTON
> . r-1 Wrtr".ry ■ •->
Copyright, 1M», 1918, by Metropolitan
Magaalne.
6— 6
SYNOPSIS
William Baxter, aged seventeen. falla at J
flrst *lght In" calf ibve With young Mis*
Pratt oa a vMti to friend* of hi*. HI*
little aUter, Jane, la a fly In the ointment.
William la sent by hla mother to help
Genesis, darky of all work, bring home
•ome waahtubi »he had purchaaad. They
are accompanied by Clematla. Oeneala'
mongrel dog. M!m Pratt, escorted by her
friends, cornea along with her dog, FloplL
A. dogfight etiauee.
The dogj are separated. William van
lahea, disguised, under a boiler. That
evening he takes his fathers dreaa ault
and calla upon Miss Pratt and her friend,
Mlsa Parcher.
Jane, a knowing youngster, explain*
certain matter* concerning William'* love
affair to her moth*r. She also knowa the
fact that William ha* abatracted hi* fa
ther's dres* suit.
William's attentions to Miss Pratt and
those of rival* get on Mr. Parcher"* nerves.
Jane tells Mr. Parcher In seoret that Wil
liam can't get his father's dress ault any
longar because If U being altered.
Mr*. Baxter tell* William she ho* sent
Mr. Baxter'* dross suit to the tailor for
alteratlona He is crestfallen and Quarrel*
with Jane.
Mr*. Baxter gives a party for Miss
Pratt William, descending the stair*,
falls and tears his best suit. He had sat
on Jane's paint box with another present
able suit.
HI* trouble* detain him till the party I*
drer, to hi* great chagrin. Later he dt»
•usses matrimony with the aged parent of
Genesis. Jane 1* present at the dlacu*
■ton.
William go** for a walk with MU* Pratt,
■ winging hi* father1*' borrowed cane,
Jane, unheeded, advises an umbrella. It
rains, and William get* wet.
The old iuah continued Ills whit
tling In a craftsmanllke manner, which
brought praise from June.
"You can see to whittle. Mr. Gene
sis," she wild. "You whittle better
■ibac anybody In the world."
♦SC «peck so, mebbe." Mr. Genesis
return^, with a little complacency.
"How oW j.o' pappy?" -
"Oh, he'g old!" Jane explained.
William delgued to correct her. "He's
not old; he's .middle aged."
"Well, sub," said My. Genesis, "I had
tbre« thulium 'to' I "uz .twenty. I bad
two when I uz eigbteem.'"
William showed sudden interest.
"Yon did!" be exclaimed. "How old
■were you when you bad the first one?"
"I 'uz Jeg' yo' age." said the old man;
"I 'uz seveuteeiu "
"By George:"' cried Williuin.
Juue seemed aiucii less impresseu i
than William, sevc itecn being a lung
way" from ten, though, of course, to
seventeen Itself burdly auy Informa
tion could be imagiiitd as more Inter
esting than that conveyed by the words
of the aged ilr. Genesis.
"Genesis he de youngte' one." said
the old man. "Genes's be 'uz bawn
when 1 'us sixty-one."
William moved closer. "What be
came of the one that was born when
you were seventeenV" he asked.
"Well, sub," said Mr. Genesis, "I nev'
did know."
At this Jane's interest equaled Wil
liam's. After a little pause of awe she
Inquired:
"Was it a boy orta jirl?"
The old man deliberated within him
self. "Seem like It mus' been a boy."
"Did It die?" Jane asked softly.
"I reckon It mus' be dead by now,"
he returned musingly. "Good many of
'em dead. .Whut I knows Is dead.
I'es'm, I reckon so."
"How old were you when you were
n/arrled?" William asked, with a man
ner of peculiar eafriestuess.
"Me? Well, sub, dat 'pen's." He
seemed to search his memory. "I rlck
alect I 'uz ma'ied ouce In Looavle," be
said.
Jane's Interest still followed the first
child. "Was tbut where it was born,
Mr. Genesis?" she asked.
He looked puzzled and paused in his
whittling to rub his deeply corrugated
forehead. "Well, sub, mus' been some
bawn In Looavle. Genesis." he called
to Ids Industrious son, "whaih 'uz you
bawn i"
"Higbt 'n 'is town," laughed Genesis.
•'You ferslt a good deal, pappy, but I
notice you don' ferglt come to meals."
The old man grunted, resuming his
whittling busily.
William found the conversation of
Mr. Genesis attractive. He seated him
self upon an upturned bucket near the
wheelbarrow and reverted to a former
theme. "Well, I have heard of people
getting marriea even younger"n you
were," he said. "lou take India, for
instance. Why, they get married in
India when they're twelve and even
seven and eight years old."
"They do not!" said Jane promptly.
"Their mothers and fathers wouldn't
let 'em, an' they wouldn't want to,
anyway."
"I suppose you been to India and
know all about It!" William retorted. i
"For the matter o' that, there was a 1
young couple got married in Pennsyl-j
vanla the other day. The girl was
only fifteen, and the man was sixteen.
It was In the papers, and their par
ents consented and said It was a good
thing. Then there was a case in Pall i
Rffer.Masa.,_where a.vou$g man eight
een j-eAi-s old" married a wonian fo'rty
one years old. It was In the papers
too. And I heard of another case some
where in Iowa—a boy began shaving
when he was thirteen and shaved ev
"My goo'ness!" he exclaimed. "How
you c'leck all dem fac'e?"
ery day for four years, and now he's
got a full beard, and lie's going to get
married this year—before he's eighteen
years old.
"Joe Bullitt's got a cousin hi Iowa
that knows about this case. He knows
the girl this fellow with the beard Is
going to marry, and he says he expects
it'll turn out the best thing could have
happened. There's hundreds of cases
like that, only you don't hear of more'n
Just a few of 'em. People used to get
married at sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
—anywhere In there—and never think
anything of it at all. Right up to
about a hundred years ago there were
more people married at those ages
than there were along about twenty
four and twenty-five, the way they are
now. For Instance, you take Shake
sptwrc"—
William paused. He had mentioned
Shakespeare impulsively, in the ardor
of demonstrating his point. However,
on second thought he decided to with
draw the name.
"I mean, you take the olden times,"
he went on. "H&rdlv anybody got
married after they were nineteen or
twenty years old, unless they were
widowers, because they were all mar
ried by that time. And right here In
our own county there were eleven
couples married in the last six months
under twenty-one years of age."
Mr. Genesis uttered a loud chuckle.
"My goo'ness!" he exclaimed. "How
you c'leck all dem fac's? I.an' name!
What puzzliti' me is how you 'member
'em after you done c'leck 'em."
William's expression was pleasant to
see—in fact, it was the pleasantest ex
pression Jane had seen him wearing
for several days. Almost always late
ly he was profoundly preoccupied and
so easily annoyed that there was no
need to be careful of his feelings, be
cause, as his mother observed, ho was
"certain to break out about every so
often, no matter what happened."
CHAPTER X.
Spoaking of Early Marriage*.
"TP RKMKMBKK pretty iiiucb ev
erything," William said to the
JL aged negro, as If lu modest ex
planation of the performance
which had excited the aged man's ad
miration. "I can remember things that
happened when I was four years old."
William coughed with a certain im
portance. "Do you remember," he ask
ed, "when you were married? Hovr
did you feel about it? Were you kind
of nervous, or anything like that, be
forehand?"
Mr. Genesis again passed a waver
ing hand across his troubled brow.
"I mean," said William, observing
his perplexity, "were you sort of shaky
—f'r instance, as if you were taking
an important step in life?"
"Lemme see." The old man pondered
for a moment. "I felt mighty shaky
once, I rickalect—dat time yaila m'lat
ta man sbootln' at me f'urn behime a
sniike fence."
"Shootin' at you!" .lane cried, stirred
from her accustomed placidity. "Mr.
Genesis! What did he do that for?"
"Nutt'm," replied Mr. Genesis, with
feeling; "nufT'm in de wide worl'l He
boun' to shoot somebody an' pick on
me 'cause I 'uz de bandies'."
He closed his knife, gave the little
boat a final scrape with the broken
glass and then a soothing rub with the
palm of his hand. "Pah, honey," he
said, and simultaneously factory whis
tles began to blow, "dali yo' liT steam
boat good as I kin git her widout no
b'iler ner no smokestack. I reckon yo'
pappy'll buy 'em fer you."
Jane was grateful. "It's a beautiful
boat, Mr. Genesis. I do thank youl"
Genesis, the son, laid aside his tools
and approached. "Pappy finish whlt
tlin' spang on 'em noon whistles," he
Chuckled. "Come 'long, pappy. I bet
you walk. fas' nut! goiu' todes dln
nuh. 1 hear fry cakes ploppin' In
skillet!"
William and Jane watched the brisk
departure of the antique with sincere
esteem and liking.
"He must have been sixteen," said
William musingly.
"When?" Jane asked.
William, In deep thought, was still
looking after Mr. Genesis. He was al
most unconscious that he had spoken
aloud, and he replied automatically:
"When he was married."
Then, with a start, he realized into
how great a condescension he had been
betrayed and hastily added, with pro
nounced hauteur: "Tilings you don't
understand. You run in the house."
Later Jane was in the front hall, and
she iiunne.d for Joj. .pointing,to the
open door. "Cook! Looky tnorot" me
called to her brother. Klchly orna
mented, lie v.as descending the front
stairs, his embellishments Including
freshly pressed white trousers, a new
straw hat, uuut>uai shoes and a blas
phemous ti«j. "I'm goln' to get to sail
my boat!" June shouted. "It'* goln' to
rain J"
"It Is not." said William, Irritated.
"It's not going to anything like rain.
I s'pose you think it ought to rain Just
to let you sail that chunk of wood."
"It's goln' to ruin! It's goln' to rain!'*
Jane made a little singsong chant of It
"It's goln" to rain—It gives Willie a
pain—It's goln' to rain—it gives Willie
a pain—It's goln' to"—
He Interrupted her sternly. "Look
here! You're old enough to know bet
ter. I s'pose you think there Isn't any
thing as important In the world a*
your getting tlie chance to sail that
little boat! I s'pose you think business
and everything else has got to stop and
get ruined, maybe, Just to please you!"
Ar he spoke he walked to an umbrella
stand In the hall and deliberately took
therefrom a bamboo walking stick
of his father's. Jane's eyes became
strange and unbearable. She uttered
a shriek:
"Willie's goln' to carry a cane!"
lie went down the street trying to
swing the cane In an accustomed and
unembarrassed manner.
Jane made this difficult
"Willie's got a cane!" she screamed.
"He's got papa's cane!" Then, resum
ing her little chant, she began to sing:
"It's goln' to rain—Willie's got papa's
cane—it's goln' to rain—Willie's got
papa's cane!" She put all of her voice
Into a final effort "MUt Pratt'll get icet
if you don't take an umbereller-r-r!"
The attention of several chance pe
destrians had been attracted, and the
burning William, breaking into an ag
onized half trot, disappeared round the
corner. Then Jane retired within the
bouse, feeling that she bud done her
duty. It would be his own fault If he
got wet.
Rain was coming. Rain was In the
feel of the air and in Jane's hope.
She was not disappointed. Mr. Gen
esis, so secure of fair weather In the
morning, was proved by the afternoon
to be a bud prophet. The fat cloud
was succeeded by others, fatter. A
corpulent army assailed the vault of
heaven, heavy outriders before a giant
of evil complexion and devastating
temper. The rain came with a swish,
then with a rattle and then with a
roar, while people listened at their gar
ret doorways and marveled. Window
panes turned to running water—It
poured.
Then It relented, and out came the
children. Shouting, they ran to the
flooded gutters. Here were rivers,
lakes and oceans for navigation.
Jane's timely boat was one of the
first to reach the wafer.
rier mouier ubwi *mu, b»u wqug,
with shoos and stockings left behind
her 011 the porch, was a happy sailor
as she waded knee deep along the
brlmnilnit curbstones. At the corner
below the house of the Baxters the
street was flooded clear across, and
Jane's bout, following the current, pro
ceeded gallantly onward here, sailed
down the next block and was thought
lessly entering a sewer when she
snatched it out of the water. Looking
about her, she perceived a gutter which
seemed even lovelier than the one she
had followed. It was deeper and broad
er and perhaps a little browner, where
fore she launched her ship upon fta
dimpled bosom and explored It as far
as the next sewer hole or portage.
Thus the voyage continued for several
blocks with only one accident, which
might have happened to anybody. It
was an accident in the nature of a fall,
caus«<l by the sliding of Jane's left
foot on some slippery mud. This
fcaeherous substance, covered with
water, could not have been anticipat
ed. Consequently Jane's emotions were
those of indignation rather than of cul
pability
Jane resumed her navigating. Thus
absorbed she failed at first to notice
the approach of two young people
along the sidewalk. They were the
entranced William and Miss Pratt, and
their appearance offered a suggestive
contrast in relative humidity. In
charming and tender colored fabrics,
fluffy and cool and summery, she was
specklessly dry. Not a drop had touch
ed even the little pink parasol over
shoulder, not one had fallen upon the
tiny white doglet drowsing upon her
arm.
But William was wet. He was still
more than merely damp, though they
had evidently walked some distance
since the rain had ceased to fall. His
new hat was a mucilaginous ruin, bis
dank coat sagged, his shapeless trou
sers flopped heavily, and his shoes gave
forth marshy sounds as he walked.
But he carried a walking stick proudly.
If Jane had not recognized the mod
eling of his features she might not
have known them to be William's, for
they had altered their grouping to pro
duce an expression with which she was
totally unfamiliar. To bo explicit, she
was unfamiliar with this expression in
that place—that is to say, upon Wil
liam—though she had seen something
like It upon other people once or twice
In church.
(Continued tomorrow)
NEWKIE WITH $100,000
MUST GO TO FRONT
Chicago.—William Murphy, ,who
conducts a nejve stand on a down
town corner, and who asked exemp
tion from war service on the ground
of dependent parents, 5va$ refused
exemption when investigators for
the government reported to appeal
board No. 1 that the newsboy w»9
worth more than ? 100,000.
DEPARTMENT OP THE INTERIOR
United State* Land Office
Juneau, Alaska.
August 23, 191?
Notice la hereby given that
Joseph John Franklin Ward of
dka^way, Alaska, has filed la thU
office notice of his Intention to
make final fly© year proof to es
tablish his homestead claim undo
tho provision of lh* Act of May 14,
1898, as amended by the Act of
March 3, 1903 (32 Stat. 1028) to
the land embraced in U. S. Sur
vey 865, situate in front of David
son Glacier on Chilkat Inlet, Lat.
69° 05' N., Long. 136° 22' W., and
more particularly described as fol
lows:
"Beginning at Cor. No. 1 M. C.,
on line of ordinary high tide,
Chilkat Inlet, whence U. S. L.
M. No. 783 bears N. 4° 05' E.
43.32 chs. *nd W. C. due W.
9.50 cha., thence meandering ou
line of ordinary high, tide (1)
S. 23° 15* E. 4.80 chs. (2) S.
34° 45' W. 3.70 chs. (3) S.
2° 30' W. 10.80 chs. (4) S. 33°
30' E. 1.60 chs. (5) S. 12° 15'
W. 12.80 chs. (6) S. 46° 30'
W. 3.60 ch». (7) S. 33' 15'
W. 2.80 chs. to Cor. No. 2, M.
£., wffence W. C. bears W. 3.00
chs., thence W. 37.68 chs. to
Cor No. 3, thence N. 36.82 chs.
to Cor. No. 4, thence E. 44.50
chJB. to Cor. No. 1, M. C., the
place of beginning,, containing
aa area of 159.96 acres, Mag.
Vot. 32° E ,
Said proof will be established by
the testimony of said Joseph John
Franklin Ward before the U. S.
Commissioner, J. J, Kennedy, at
his office at Haines, Alaska, on
the 15 th day of December 1917,
at ten o'clock a. m., end by the
testimony of two of the following
witnesses, viz: C. A. Llndholm, Mar
tin Madsen, Joseoh Curry and M.
Moore, all of Haines, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First Publication Sept. 14.
Final Publication November 14.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office
Juneau, Alaska
Aug. 20, 1917.
Notice la hereby given that C.
A. Arundell, Chief of the Alaskan
Field Division of the General Land
Office, has filed la thig office as
trustee, notice of Intention to sub
mit proof In support of the entry
of the townslte of Haines, under
the provision of 8*0. 11, Act of
March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1095), for
the several usa and benefit of the
occupants thereof. Said townsite
is designated as U. S. Survey 441,
approved December 9, 1916, con
taining on area of 71.71 acres, and
is more particularly described as
follows; to-wlt:
"Beginning at Cor. No, 1 on the
line of ordinary high tide of
Portage Cove, Lynn canal,
whence U. 8. L. M. No. 673
be»r» N, 80* 60* W. .66 chains,
thence on said course 40.64 chains
to Car. No. 2, thence due N.
1.68 chs. to Cor No. 3, thence
due E. 6 chs. to Cor. No. 4,
thence due N. 14.07 chs. to Cor.
No. 6, thence E. 20.64 chs. to
Cor. No, 6, thence 8. 78# 69' E.
20.67 chs, to Cor. No. 7, M.
C. on line of ordinary high tide.
Portage Cove, whence W. C.
bears N. 78" 69' W. .65 chs,
thence meandering said line (1)
8. 22" 63' W. 4.46 chs, (2) 8.
20° 26' W, 4.80 chs. (3) 8.
16° 43* W, 4.26 chs. (4) 8.
16* 22' W. 2.94 chs. (6) 8. 8°
21' W. 2.76 chs. to Cor No. 1,
the place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 71.71 acre's.
"Magnetic variation 31" east."
Said proof wiil be submitted
through the testimony of said trus
tee before U, S. Commissioner J. J.
Kennedy, at hlj office at Haines
on November 7, 1917, at ten o'clock
a. m., and through the testimony of
two of the following witnesses,
Samuel Nixon, R. N. Odell, G. W.
Hlnchman, J. G. Morrison, ell of
Haines, Alaska.
a B. WALKER,
Register.
Oct. 1—Nov. 3.
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