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EDITORIAL I
Since the •wort of d!s&ssem.blintf
r tastily slapped- together wax
»cliiuery was begun iu November,
e country has beta disturbed by a
• of idle tali- Much of it comes
juipeople who should i-now better,
d ror a little from officials. Ail
«a harmful..
It was not possible to turn from
ir to peace with the same faclli
that we *ot onto a war basis ,
a country was going at a bigh
t3 when the order came to stop
d back up.. Stopping came easl
enough, but getting started in
j other direction takes more time
iu some people 'want to allow,
ere fore, because business is not
mediately 6et moving on a peace
sis, we get vociferous warnings
danger from unemployment of
ilions of soldiers
Suspicion ha^ sprung up that
3 cry is but a carefully-devised
jpaganda movement in favor of
rnense appropriations to continue
extend govenrment work. To
s has been added a rather silly
temeut from a New York police
umissioner. that he fears a crime
\"8 because of the presence of dis
>rred scJdiere ia great numbers,
•retary Baker declared last week
■t a job would be provided for
h man dismissed from the army.,
at Is proper, aud will easily be
omplished, if the representatives
government ■will ce^sa to agitate
a tvuuuuaiiuu Vi. ^utciuuicuw
ployment, and' "will give private
ness an opportunity to get under
idway.
iVq must not only cure ourselves
the h-ibit of careless talking, and
•be equally dangerous habit of
ming to Weshington for help on
asions when w© should help our"
res. Assertion of a little of our
merly boasted independence and
i of reliance on federal oversight
y bring resumption of normal
iness faster than it is coming.,
any rate the foolish talk will not
o..—Omaha Bee.
he new government of Germany
no«. misinterpret President Wil*
"s warning. It is his reply on be
' of the American government
th» German assembly's denunci"
>n of the terms of the armistic
the imp.lied threat no longer to
'.ply with them.. He makes it
r to President Ebert and General
Hlndenburg that he will not'
itate to order troops to take up
>3 again if occasion should arise
>x«rt force-.
'he existing armistice expires by
Kation next Monday and there is
>le time for the new government
:onsider whether it will agree to
extention on the old terms or
Saps somewhat harsher In the
at of Germany refusing, it will
cely be possible to avoid renew
hostilities. But it is incon
able that Germany- Kill persist
her defiant attitude. She still
the strength, to fight, but not
sin.
. appear? that Germany has pre
ed too much on the friendship
til® United States JCo doubt
has mistaken the firm oppositio
America and Great Britain to
demands of France at the peace
e as showing a desire to mini
! the penalty Germany must pay
her crirna. She has failed' to
pretend that the two great Eng
speaking nations want to give
the chance to redeem herself
work out her own salvation,
either the old military autocracy
the new democratic government
admitted that Germany was
uered on the field.. The re
ed soldiers have been popular
called "vanquished victors."
ident Wilson has made it clear
Germany must accept without
ast such terms as the allies im
.He has called Germany's bluff,
ctlanii' Telegram.. ' .^"*2!
THE LIGHT
INDIE CLEARING'
A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT
IRVINE BACHELLEFw
Author of
, BEN HOCMN. D-81 AND 1. DARREL Of THE BLESSED ISLE*
* t5f <W?W W V1TH Uir*. ETC, ETC
SYNOPSIS.
, CHAPTER x—Barton Baynes; orphan.
Is takeu to live with his uncle, Peabody
Bayne'a, and his Aunt Deel on a farm on
Rattlr road in a neighborhood called Llck
ItyajV.lt about the year 1821 Barton meets
Saiy/ Dunkelberg, about his own age, but
socially of a cla»» above the Bayneses,
aad 1s fasclnate-d by the pretty face
an d fine clothes;
CHAPTER II--"Barton meet* Roving
Kate, known in the neighborhood as the
"Silent Woman," Amos Orlmshaw, young
■on ol the richest man in the township,
la a visitor at the Baynes home, and
Rovtug Kate tells the fortunes of the two
boy* predicting a "bright future for Bar
ton and death on the callows for Amos.
Reproved for an act of boyish mischief
Barton runs awuy. Intending to make his
ho»ne with the Dunkelbergs. He reaches
the village of Canton and falls Into a
sleep of exhaustion on a porch. There
he Is found by Silas Wrjgfct, Jr.. promi
nent man In public affairs, who, knowing
Peabody Bayfion, takes Barton home af
ter buying him new clothes.
CHAPTER TTI-Barton and h!» uncle
and aunt visit Canton and hear Silas
Wright road a sermon.
CHAPTER IV.
In the Light of the Candles.
One tiny the stage, on Its way" to
Ballybeen. came to our house and
left a box and a letter from Mr.
Wright, addressed to my onele, which
read:
"Dear Sir—I send herewith a box
of books and magazines in the hope
that you or Miss Baynes will read
them alond to my little partner and in
doing so get some enjoyment and
profit for yourselves.
"Ycrurs respectfully,
"a WRIGHT, JR.
"P. S.—WLen the contents of the
box have duly risen into your minds
will you kindly see that it does a
like service to yonr neighbors in
School District No. 7? S. W. Jr."
"I guess Bart has made a friend o'
this greRt man—sartln ayes!" 6ald
Aunt Deel. "I wonder Who'll be the
next one?"
The work of the day ended, the
candles were grouped near the edge
of the table and my aunt's armchair
■was pfeced beside them. Then I sat
on Uncle Peabody's lap by the fire
or, as time went on, in my small chair
beside him. while Aunt Deel adjusted
her spectacles and began to read.
ft mucuun-i inmi j uic vivuuo ...
took out tiie books and tenderly felt
their covers and read their titles.
There were "Cruikshank^ Connie Alma
nac" and "Hood's Comic Annual";
tales by Washington Irving and James
K. Paulding and Nathaniel Hawthorne
and Miss Mitford and Miss Austin;
the poems of John MOton and Felicia
Hemans. Of the treasures in the box
I have now in my possession: A life
of Washington, "The Life and Writ
ings of Doctor Duckworth," "The
Stolen Child," by "John Gait, Eteq.";
"Rosine Laval," by "Mr. Smith"; Ser
mons and Essays by William Eilery
Channlng. We found In the box also,
thirty numbers of the "United States
Magazine and Democratic Review"
and sundry copies of the "New York
Mirror."
Aunt Deel began with "The Stolen
Child." She read slowly and often
paused for comment or explanation or
laughter or to touch the corner of
an eye with a corner of her handker
chief In moments when we were all
deeply moved by the misfortunes of
our favorite characters, which were
acute and numerous.
In those magazines we read of the
great West—"the poor man's para
dise"—"the stoneless land of plen
ty"; of its delightful climate, of the
ease with which the farmer prospered
on its rich soil. Uncle Peabody spoke
playfully of going West, after that,
but Aunt Deel made no answer and
concealed her opinion on that sub
ject for a long time. As for myself,
the reading had deepened my inter
est in the east and west and north
and south and la the 6kles above
them. How mysterious and inviting
they had become 1
One evening a neighbor had brought
the Republican from the post-office.
I opened it and read aloud these words
In large type at the top of the page:
| "Silas Wright Elected to the U. S.
Senate."
"Well I want to know 1" Uncle Pea
body exclaimed. "That would make
me forglt It if I was goln' to be
hung. Go on and read what it says."
j I read the choosing of our friend
j for the seat made vacant by the res
! lgnatlon of William L. Marcy, who
had been elected governor, and the
part which most Impressed us were
these words from a letter of Mr.
Wright to Azariah Flagg of Albany,
written when the former was asked
to accept the place:
"I am too young and too poor for
such an elevation. I have not had
the experience In that great theater of
politics to qualify me for a place 60
exalted and responsible. I prefer
therefore the humbler position which
I now occupy."
f * "That's liis way,"" said Cnclfe Fea
I body. "They had hard work to con
vince him that he knew enough to be
Surrogate."
"Big men have little conceit—ayes!"
said Aunt Deel with n significant
glance at nie.
The candles had burned low and I
was watching the shroud of one of
thera when there came a rap at the
<loor. It was unusual for any one to
come to our door In the evening und
■we were a bit startled. Uncle Pea
body opened it and old Kate entered
without speaking and nodded to my
aunt and uncle and sat down by the
fire. Vividly I remembered the day
Ot the fortune-telling. The same gen
tle smile lighted her face as she
looked at me. She held up her hand
with four fingers spread above it.
"Ayes." said Aunt Deel, "there are
four perils."
My aunt rose and went Into the
but'ry while I sat staring at the
I ragged old woman. Her hair was
j white now and partly covered by a
Uncle Peabody Opened It and Old
Kate Entered Without Speaking.
worn and faded bonnet. Forbidding
as she was 1 did not miss the sweet
ness in her smile and her blue eyes
when she looked at me. Aunt Deel
came with a plate of doughnuts and
bread and butter and head cheese
and said in a voice full of pity:
"Poor ol' Kate—ayes! Here's eome
thln" for ye—ayes I"
She turned to ray uncle and said:
"Peabody Baynes, what'll we do—
I'd like to know—ayes! She can't
rove all night."
"I'll git some blankets an' make
a bed for her, good 'nough for any
body, out in the hired man's room
over the shed," said my uncle.
lie brought the lantern—a little
tower of perforated tin—and put a
lighted candle inside of it. Then he
beckoned to the stranger, who fol
lowed him out of the front door with
the plate of food in her hands.
"Well I declare! It's a long time
since she went up this road—ayes!"
said Aunt Deel, yawning as she re
sumed her chair.
"Who is ol' Kate?" I asked.
"Oh, just a poor ol' crazy woman—
wanders all 'round—ayes!"
"What made her crazy?"
"Oh, I guess somebody misused and
deceived her when she was young
ayes! It's an awful wicked thing to
do. Coine, Bart—go right up to bed
now. It's high time—ayes!"
"I want to wait 'til Uncle Peabody
comes back," said I.
"Why?"
"I—I'm afraid she'll do somethin'
to him."
"Nonsense! 01' Kate Is just as harm
less as a kitten. You take your can
dle and go right up to bed—this min
ute—ayes!"
I went upstairs with the candle
and undressed very slowly and
thoughtfully while I listened for the
footsteps of my uncle. I did not get
Into bed until I heard him come in
and blow out his lantern and start
up the stairway. As he undressed
he told me how for many years the
strange woman had been roving in
the roads "up hill and down dale,
thousands «n' thousands o' miles,"
and never reaching the end of her
journey.
In a moment we heard a low wail
above the sounds of the breeze that
shook the leaves of the old "popple"
tree above our roof.
"What's that?" I whispered.
"I guess it's ol' Kate ravin'," said
Uncle Peabody.
It touched my heart and I lay lis
tening for a time, but heard only the
loud whisper of the popple leaves.
.CHAPTER V.
The Great Stranger
Some strangers came along the
road those days—hunters, peddlers
and the like—and their coming filled
me with a Joy which mostly went
away with them, I regret to say. None
ot these, however, appealed to my
Imagination as did old Kate. But
there was one stranger greater than
she—greater Indeed, than any other
who came into Hattleroad. He came
rarely and would not be long detained.
How curiously we looked at him,
knowing his fame and power! This
great stranger was Money.
I shall never forget the day that
toy uncle showed me a dollar bill and
a little shiny, gold coin and three
pieces of silver, nor can I forget how
carefully he watched them while
they lay in my hands and presently
put them back into his wallet. That
was long before the time of which I
am writing. I remember hearing him
say, one day of that year, when I
asked him to take us to the Caravan
of Wild Beasts which was coming to
the village:
"I'm sorry, but It's been a hundred
Sundays since I had a dollar in my
wallet for more than ten minutes."
I have his old account book for
the years of 1837 and 1838. Here are
some of the entries:
"Balanced ac umts with J. Doro
thy and gave him my note for $2.15
to be paid in salts January 1, 1858.
Sold ten bushels of wheat to E. Miner
at 00 cents, to be paid In goods.
-sold two sneep to f'lavlus Curtis
Mid took his note for $6, payable In
boots on or before March the first."
Only one entry in more than a
hundred mention money, and this was
the sum of eleven cents received in
boiance from a neighbor.
So it will be seen that a spirit of
mutual accommodation served to
fc«lp us over the rough going. Mr.
Ofirashaw, however, demanded his
pay In cash and that I find was main
ly the habit of the money-lenders.
We .vere poor but our poverty was
not like that of these days In which
I am writing. It was proud and
cleanly and well-fed. Our fathers
had seen heroic service In the wars
and we knew It.
X was twelve years oia wnen i ne
gnn to be the reader for our little
family. Aunt Deel had long com
plained that she couldn't keep up with
her knitting and read so much. We
had not seen Mr. Wright for nearly
two years, but he had sent us the
ravels of Sir Walter Scott and I had
!«<i them heart deep into the creed
battles of Old Mortality.
Then came the evil days of 1837,
when the story of our lives began to
quicken its pace and excite our Inter
est In Its coming chapters. It gave
as enough to think of, God knows.
Wild speculations In land and the
American paper-money system had
brought tis Into rough going. The
hanks of the city of New York hnd
suspended payment of their notes.
They could no longer meet their en
gagements. As usual, the burden fell
heaviest on the poor. It was hard to
get money even for black salts.
Uncle Peabody had been silent and
depressed for a month or more. He
had signed a note for Rodney Barnes,
a cousin, long before and was afraid
that he would have to pay It. I didn't
know what a note was and I remem
ber that one night, when I lay think
ing about It, I decided that It must
be something In the nature of horse
colic. My uncle told me that a note
was a trouble which attacked the
brain Instef.d of the stomach.
One autumn day in Canton Uncle
Peabody traded three sheep and twen
ty bushels of wheat for a cook stove
and brought It home In the big wagon.
Rodney Barnes came with him to help
set up the stove. He was a big giant
of a man with the longest nose In the
township. I have often wondered how
any one would solve the problem of
kissing Mr. Barnes in the immediate
region of his nose, the same being In
the nature of a defense.
JL [lilt evening i waa vuivujr iuici
ested la the stove. What a Joy it
was to me with Its damper and grid
dles nnd high oven and the shiny edge
on Its hearth I It rivaled, in its nov
elty and charm, any tin peddler's cart
that ever came to our door. John
Ax tell and his wife, who had seen It
pass their house, hurried over for a j
look at it Every hand was on the
stove as we tenderly carried It into
the house, piece by piece, nnd set it
up. Then they cut a hole in the up
per floor and the stone chimney and
fitted the pipe. How keenly we
watched the building of the Are. How
quickly it roared and began to heat
the room!
When the Axtells bad gone away
Aunt Deel sal3:
"It's grand! It is sartln—but J'm
'frald we can't afford it—ayes I be!"
"We can't afford to freeze any
longer. I made up my mind that we
couldn't go through another winter
as we have," was ray uncle's answer.
"How much did it cost?" she asked.
"Not much differ'nt from thirty
four dollars in sheep and grain," he
answered.
Rodney Barnes stayed to supper
and spent a part of the evening with
us.
Like other settlers there, Mr.
Barnes was a cheerful optimist. Every
thing looked good to him until it
turned out badly.
He told how he had heard that it
was a growing country near the great
water highway of the St. Lawrence.
Prosperous towns were building up
in it. There were going to be great
cities in Northern New York. There
were rich stores of lead and iron
In the rocks. Mr. Barnes had bought
i
two nnnffrea acnes at"ten dollars an
acre. He had to pay a fee of five
per cent, to Grlmshaw's law.v* r for
the survey and the papers. This left
him owing fourteen hundred Jollars
on his farm—much more than it was
worth.
Our cousin twisted the pokor in
his great hands until It squeaked as
he stood before my uncle and said:
"My wife and I have chopped and
burnt and pried and hauled rocks an'
shoveled dung an' milked an' churned
until we are worn out. For almost
twenty years we've been workln' xlays
an' nights an' Sundays. My mortgage
was over-due, I owed six hundred dol
lars on it I thought It all over one
day an' went up to Grlmshaw's an'
took him by the back of the neck
and shook him. He said he would
drive me out o* th® country. He
gave me six months to pay up. I had
to pay or lose the land. I got the
money on the note that you signed
over In Potsdam. Nobody In Can
ton would 'a' dared to lend It to
me."
"Why?" my uncle asked.
" 'Frald o' Grlmshaw. He didn't
want me to be able to pay It. The
place is worth more than six hundred
dollars now—that's the reason. I In
tended to cut eome timber an' haul
It to the village this winter so I could
pay a part o* the note an' git more
time aa I told ye, but the roads have
been so bad I couldn't do any haul
InV
My uncle went and took a drink at
the water pall. I eaw by his face
that he was unusually wrought up.
"My heavens an' earth!" he ex
claimed as he sat down again.
"It's the brain colic," I said to
myself as I looked at him.
Mr. Barnes seemed to have it also.
"Too much note," I whispered.
"I'm awful sorry, but I've done
everything I could," said Mr. Barnes.
"Ain't there somebody that'll take
another mortgage?—it ought to be
safe now," my uncle suggested.
"Money is so tight it can't be done.
The bank has got all the money an'
Grlmshaw owns the bank. I've tried
and tried, but I'll make you safe. I'll
give you a mortgage until I can turn
'round."
So I saw how Rodney Barnes, like
other settlers In Llckltysplit, had gone
into Jb.QDdage to the .landlord.
(Lontinued on Thursday)
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