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A Vampire
How Hia Old Father and Mother
Stood'by Their Son Even to j
Giving Up the Farm.
By F A. MITCHEL.
Copyright. 1910. by American Preaa .
Association.
They say .thai doctors and clergy-1
" m""" ~~nt tUfTTTTHl1tJ' 111 Jt It I
an any other class of men. but 1
lestlon' if the endless panorama of
cldents typifying the different phases
hum an life li Trlfnumit frf fin
iss that every day passes before
inkers. Sometimes whole stories are
meted before us spread over a terra
years. 1 am the repository of one
ich story that 1 watched from its
ginning to ltvelimux. *
One afteruol^I^n weather beaten old
rmer with silky white hair scattered
er his head cuine to my desk and.
tiling out a wallet, asked for a draft'
i Denver Tor $200 In favor of Thomas |
illiains Lie counted out the money,
id then, having uothing to do while
le draft was being prepared, began
tell me the beginning^of this story.
"I'm sendin' the money." he said,
o my boy out In Colorado. He went
it there a year ago. takln' some
oney with,him that I give him, but
? hasn't bad much luck, and It's all
>ne. Firs, be got sick: then wheu
? got well he went prospectln' and
ruck somepin that looked good, but
ime other fellers jumped his claim,
hatever that means, and took pshM
svay from him.
"Then Tom got sick ag^Und rweqt
a horseplttle and stayed there three
lonths. Now, be's/^ot out of the
irsepittle and looftm' about, for.etiimeIn.
I'm sei^dlir this mouey to kive
Itn a chajiet. Tom's his mother's pet.
id slip-lays awake, bights worrltin*
Jopt him. I'm mighty food of the
iy myself somehow. He was always
smart little chap?took lots of prize*
id things at 8chule.
"When he got old enough to work 1
(ikln/1 htm ?.~t_
uuitu uiui iu u?ri(/ ixit? un iuc iuiui
e tried It for awhile, but 1 see purty
nick he didn't take to It. \ lie was
to smart to be contented to follow a
low same 'a his father, who didn't
ever get no eddication: 80 1 says
him one day: "Tommy, reckon you'd
etter feo to the city and work that
way. This don't suit you.' He was
ilghty well pleased at that. It altost
broke ma's heart to part with
lm. but she knowed It was better for
Im and let him go.
"Tom didn't like 1t In town sq well
1 be thought he would. Least a ways
e didn't Btuy long in the, place he
ent Into. They iriust 'a' thought a
eap hira,. though, for ffiey raised
Is salary twice, so he wrote me. But
b got into a flght with otne of the
jad clerks and got bimself discharged,
le- said the head clerk, accused blm of
:ealjn' some money.
"Tom was alius an ambitious little
lap, and after .leavin' hip place he
included he'd go west and try and
o*8omepln big. for ma and me agin
e got too o:d to work. So we scraped
p $500 and give it to him. and he"?
At this moment a clerk laid the
irmer's draft on my desk, and the
rst chapter of bis story was finished',
>r InPbegan to count over his soiled
ad torn bills, now and again wetting
Is thumb on bis lip as be turned them
p. Then, leaving them to me and
irefully folding'his draft, be put it In
Is wallet, crammed" the wallet down
ito the bottom of his pocket and
1th a "Goodby. Mr. Cashier." left the
ank.
The second chapter of the story la
ery short. There is br.nllyjenough In
to make a chapter, but there Is a
Dod deal beneath the few words reulred
to 'ell It. A girl of eighteen
ime to the bank, laid down $24, nearr
all In silver coin, and asked for n
raft to .cover the nmrmnt,
"To whom will you have it made
ayable?" I asked. ? "Tom
Williams*" In a soft voice, allost
a whisper.
1 ordered the* draft made out. and
le girl stood waiting Unlike the
irmer, she didn't tell all JL would have
ked to know, ho 1 asked:
"Is Torn Will I-. us ;:?u - nrf>t:inr?~
"No." sin- re-'JeiV loo . ii or
le floor.
I h.wl nr.*- HL-n.1 ?1 - - > "
* UIIU MW1. Iiai.vi Ills; iu IIV..I in. il.-> ui
om'a -character as iliey appeared ic
is father s account of htm. and uow
jat money was goin;: t<- btni from hij
tveetheart I began m despise liim. 1
anded the girl iln? ilrrife and bad a
ood opportunity to study her. for sb<
ever once looked up a.t ma Sh<?
rent out with If liugged up agains!
er heart, as though she loved ft be
luse she had savoo' If for Tom.
My next visitor Jn fcehalf of Tom
ras his mother. She stood by my
esk emptying on It flWn a carpetbag
lot of bills and sliver and copper
ains. Not knowing who she was, 1
sked what 1 should do with the
loney, and she said. "Send It to Tom."
iy this time I was nor likely <to forget
om and naked If she wished a drftft
>r Thomas W,llllamsT"~SEe' said She
id. I turned her fuiTds~~bver to a
lerk to count." and "he, reported that
tiey amounted to |G4Sv47. I ordered
tie drifT to.-be aaide out. placed a
balr before the- old la:ly and said,
rlth a view tx> nijr enlightenment:
"Mr: Will tuns prctiy busy?now*ays?"
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"No, pa ain't, busy. .He's sick. I
rlsh we had our boy here to help us.
[e'a out In Colorado per apectln*. He
iyi he's strujek itnulne or n-gotB' tc
trike a mine* or someptii and wants
)me money for grub staTcta* .or someIn
like that. "We're dtlidlii' hloa aU
we kin jest now. but bope to send him
6ome more blme bj\ We bad Bomr ~
money waved up for old age. but we've
liiN U ihdrnvvln' ou Ij: for Turn. Mild this,
la all there is left."
When Mhe went out witb her draft j
1 found myself boiling witb lndiguu j
tlm^it this worthless scamp, wbo want
sucking the Tlfeblood out of bis old
father aud mother?even hie sweetheart
There was a visit from the sweetheart
after this- to ask v for ti draft of
$18.50. which convlnced me that Toui
bad accepted the last uitioutii she had 1
sent blni. Then one day the old fanner
came In pale and. trembling, evidently
just out of a. sickbed, with the
check ,or a mortgage cothpitliy1 for $!.- "
000. He asked for a draft in exchange
for it payable to this vampire of a son
We bankers make It a rule to mind our
own^, business, but I had readied a
point where I could no louger refrain
from warning this poor old man.
"So you have mortgaged your farifT ~
to send money to your son?" I said.
"Yes; Tom's iu powerful need of
i money. -The mine he thought was
J goin' to turn out so fine petered out..
He says it closed up as he went down
iusteod of openin'."
"And you lost all the money you sent
bjrn for the development?"
"Yes. we lost it." replied the old mau
with n tremulous voice.
"Aren't you afraid you'll lose this
too?" >.
"I dunno. Tom's got another mine.
He says he's sure o' thifr."
"Of course it's nonbusiness ct mine,
'but ( don't like Kf see you. a wold fhan^
'mortgaging jt>ur farm to send money
to a sou who should be giving you
|m^My^tttstead of jou giving It to him.
Suppose you can't pay the Interest on
the mortgare wlien It is due. You will
lose your farm."
The old niafe stood wiping his face'
with a bandanna handkerchief, the pic
tute of misery.
"I know what yer mean/' he said,
"but ma she won't keep back anything
the boy wauts. She never dirt
I always told her sbe'd spoil bim."
"I'm afraid she has spoiled him. I
You should know that your son Is not j
wasting( your money at gambling or
something like that and telling you
that he's on the verge of -making a
fortune to a mine before risking any
more money on him.'*
"That's what I tell ma."
At this moment the draft was laid
before aie.' bat Instead of banding It
to him 1 said:
"Hadtft you better think this overt"
Be stood, his eyes tiled on vacancy,
slowly swaying or tottering, and 1
knew there was a great contest going
on In his mind. His lov? for his boy
conquered
"I'm bilged to you. Mr. Cashier.'Jind
' meblie you're right, but I alios bellev1
ed In m.v Tom. and I can't go back on
! him dow."
| 1 banded him the draft, and be scuf|
fled slowly out of the bank.
I The old man must have borrowed
all be'could on his farm, considering
the transaction as a sale, for be failed
' to pay the first Interest that fell due
on the mortgage. I knew this, because
I saw In a newspaper a legal notlfe
of foreclosure proceedings on bis
farm.
"Well." 1 sighed, laying down the
paper, "the old man has given bis
home to bis reprobate son; be has
nothing moie to give. 1 shall not suf>
fer again at seeing blm come Into the
bank to do what 1 can't prevent bis
doing."
I The same day I met the young gtrl
on the street whom 1 was sure was
, Tom's sweetheart. 1 stopped her and
' asked:
"Is Farmer Williams turned out of
house and home?"
"Not yet. sir." <
"But he will be?"
"I suppose so."
i "Has his son sent him anything to
; help him?-.'
"No.' sir. He wrote to say that he
was' awful sorry to see the farm go.
i but he coulC not help It." ->
"H'm. Do you think a son who will
treat his father and mother like that
i would treat a wife any better?"
P Tears cume Into bei eyes. 1 was
ashamed at giving her this useless
. pain.'I walked oh.
About a month after this strapping
i jwuujj icuuw wnn a tine, manly face
, came Into the bank and aald he wished
to opeh an account. I assented, and
he made a deposit of $49,500.
"Will yon please leave your slgna
i ture tu this bookW I said. He took
up a pen and wrote:
i "Thomas Williams."
i j "You Tom Williams?" I exclaimed.
* [ "Yes. What do you know about
11 me?"
I "Son, of Parmer Williams?"
II "Yes;"
I "Sold your mjne?"
. I "Yes; I've sold a mine In Colorado,
: or two-thirds of It , This money I'm
. I leaving with you Is the first cash pay1
meat; there ere two others of $50.00(1
i each",
"Has your father's farm gone to the
; mortgagee?"
"Not Cm In time for that. 1 was
afraid 1 wouldn't be. though Anyi
way. I'd have bought It back. If It
iBfcn't been for the money father sent
me 1 couldn't have carried the deal
through. I expected the farm to go
r foi I lie mips.1' ?-??
"And the young girl to whom we
gave drafts payable to your order?"
He colored and said; "It's In with
1 the rest, but she mid I'll be one anyway.
1 shall transfer' two-thirds of
this deposit to father Vtook hint
m jtufl mothar In ^1* thlM* "
J >tvrnt to see the old farmer and
his wife and found them Jubilant. "1
'told you I bod confidence In my boy,"
t the firmer said. "lie wa? always
? : straight" V
? i I attended Tom William*' wedding
mud kissed the bride. I couldn't help
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DFE'S UPS AND DOWNS.
Th? Magnificent Revenge of a Gov-""^^
ornor jt Mmouri,
While Uobvrt Stewart was governor
of Missouri a sleamboat man
was brought in from the penitentiary
as an applicant for a pardon.
He was a large, powerful fellow,
and when the governor looked at
him he seemed strangely affected.
He scrutinized the man long and
closely. Finally he signed the document
that restored the prisoner to
libeHv. Before he handed i? to
him ne said. "Vou will eommit some
other crime and he inline peniten- tiary
again, 1 fear.'"
The man solemnly promised that
he would not. The governor looked
doubtful, mused a few minutes
and said:
"?otr will go back on the river
and be a mate again. I suppose?"
The man replied that he would,
"Well, 1 want you .to promise me
one thing," resumed the governor.
"I want you to pledge your word
that when you are mate again you
will never take a-hillet of wood in
your hand and drive a sick boy out"
of a bunk to help.you load your
boat on a stormy night."
The steamboat man said he would
not and inquired what the governor
meant by asking him such a ques"Von.
The governor replied: "Because
some day that boy may become a
governor, and you may want him to
pardon you for a crime. One dark, j
stormy night, many years ago, you ]
stopped your boat-on the Mississippi^
river to take on a load of wood, j
There was n hoy on board who was I
working his passage from New Or- !
leans to St. I.ouis, but he was very j
r 1
oitR wt icci aim n ao ijiug iu a
bunk. You had plenty of men to
do the work, but you went to that
boy with a stick of wood in. your
hand and drove him with blows and
curses out fbto the wretched night
and kept him toiling like a slave until
the load was completed. I was
that boy. Here is your pardon.
Never again be guilty of such brutality."
The man, cowering and hiding
his face, went out without a word.
?Exchange.
Origin of "Whig."
Several reasons have been assigned
to account for the word "Whig." 1,
By some the word is supposid to he
a contraction of a longer one. ;
"whiggamorc," which in some parts
of England and Scotland, especially
Scotland, signifies a drover or
herder. It was in 1(179 that the
word first became common in the |
British isles, when the struggle was
in progress between the peasantry
and the-aristocracy to have or not >
to have the bill passed by" parliament
to exclude the Duke of York
from the line of succession. All
who were opposed to placing the
duke iff" the line of succession were
' derisively called "whiggamores," or
""drovers." i
But Scotch tradition gives a dif-1
ferent reason for the existence of |
the word. -It. is this: During the !
early religious wars in Scotland the
weakest of* the factions used the
w^rds "We Hope In God" as a mot-1
to. The initials of these words)
were placed on their banners, thus,]
"W. H. I. G.," and smraHdl'the fol-1
lowers of that clan were given the j
title of "Whig," which was after- j
ward attached as a party nickname.
Perfectly Frank.
. "I've listened to many divorce
cases," said a I,ouisrille judge, 'Tmt |
never have T heard such an all cmbracing
appeal for separation as that
Virginia darky gave before the
country justice in Virginia.
"Why, Sally," said the justice,
"what are you doing here?"
"Well, jedge. I wants a divorce."
"You want divorce, Sally! Why,
I thought Bill was a good nigger.
Ain't he good to you ?" ,
"Oh, ya-as, jedge; Bill ifin't never
Ijit me a lick in his life."
"Well, doesn't he support you?" j
"Ya-as, sir; he give mo GO cents)
last Saddy night!"
"Well, what in the world is the I
matter with you, then?"
"Jedge," said Sally in confidential'
tones, "to tell you de truf, I jes'
los' my taste for Bill."?Louisville )
Times.
Optimism.
When the optimist was disposoaoond
m r\A f ^vnttfn olnnir tTllll Hlfl
household impedimenta, into the ]
cold street he chuckled furiously. ;
"Why do you laugh, my friend?",
inquired a passerby.
"Because I have just now been I
emancipated from toil," replied the '
optimist. "For years my life has |
been one long struggle to keep the
wolf from the door. But now thatI
have been deprived of. the door I ]
no longer am compelled to toil.
Sweet indeed are the uses of adver, .
sity!"
Then the optimist' walked off,
whistling gayly, into the sunshine.
?New York Sun.
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Are.Y ou |
Honest? |
1 With ^our land when for the K
sake of sa^dng a few doltars B
you use a fertilizer whose K
only recorimeiydation is its U
analysis. ,lt reduires no spe- * H
cial knowledge to mix mate- U
-. rials to analyses. The value R
of a fertilizer lies in the ma- 'U
terials useo( so as not to ^ H .
over feed Jthe plant at one
time and starve at another. y
I* This is wntr Royster brands ' D ? 4
are so tpopular. Every ingredient
has .its particular U
work to do. Twenty-fiveyears
experience in making y
goods/for Southern crops has
- enabled us to know what is .
required. R
uibi iraae huitk lsun every Mf gs
J TRADEMARK U
3 HfiSfcr x 8
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F. S. Royster Guano Co. n
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We with t? inform our customer* and friends that we have moved our
large stocky of
FURNITURE AND UNDER'
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to the building on Nasjl street formerly occupied by the dispensary,
where we will ba'glad to have y^u call to see ua when iw town.
Hill &. Sledge
GROCERIES!
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We have a nice fresh stock of Groceries that we would 'be glad te
have you examine before making yojir purchases. We dan save yoa
money on anything in our line.
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.L/Cl us onow zou ana iauK wud xoa
We also carr,y a nice line of
General Merchandise and Fruits
When in town give us a call, we willl do our utaeafrfi* make your
/visit pleasant
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