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1 - POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N, C 3 . THE "Btp A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT IHVINB BCHELLERw AUTHOt Of CSN HOLDEK DTH AND I. DARREL OP THE BLESSED OLE, KEEPIN0 -U? VTTH LIZZIE, ETC, ETC CHAPTER XIV Continued. 14 So saying he handed me this letter: "Canterbury, Vt , 'June 1. "Dear Sir. I am interested in the boy Barton Baynes. Good words about him have been flying around like pigeons. When school is out I would like to hear from you, what is the rec ord? What do you think of the soul In him? 'What kind of work Is best for it? If you will let me maybe I can help the plans of God a little. That is my business and yours. Thanking you for reading this, I am, as ever, "God's humble servant, "KATE FULLERTON." "Why, this is the writing of the Si lent Woman," I said before I had read the letter , half through. "Rovin Kate?" Roving Kate ; I never knew her oth er name, but I saw her . handwriting long ago." "But look this is a neatly written, Well-worded letter an' the sheet is as white and clean as the new snow. Un canny woman ! They, say she carries the power o' God in her right hand. So do all the wronged." I wonder why Kate Is asking about me," I said. ! "Never mind the reason. She is your friend and let us thank God for it Think how she came to yer help in the old barn an' say a thousand prayers, iny lad." Having come to the first flight of the uplands, he left me with many a kind word how much they mean to a boy who is choosing his way with a growing sense of loneliness! I reached the warm welcome of our little home Just In time for dinner. Thpv were exnectiner me and It wns regular company dinner chicken pie and strawberry shortcake. . How well I remember that hour with the doors open and the sun shining brightly on the blossoming fields and the joy of man and bird and beast in the return of summer and the talk about the late visit of Alma Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln! While we were eating I told them about the letter of old Kate. ; Fullerton !" Aunt Deel exclaimed. Ave ye sure that was the name, Bart?" "Yes." j "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" : She and Uncle Peabody gave each other looks of surprised inquiry. "Do you know anybody by that name?" I asked. , "We used to," said Aunt Deel as she resumed her eating. "Can't be she's one o the Sam Fullertons, can It?" ". M0h, prob'ly not," said Uncle Pea body. Back East thiey's more Fuller tons than ye. could .shake a stick at" A week later we had our raising. Uncle Peabody did not want a public raising, but Aunt Deel had had her way. We had hewed and mortised and bpred the timbers for out new, horned The neighbors came with pikes and helped to raise and stay and cover them. A great amount of human kind ness went into the beams and rafters fY? 4Vkn K sxvv a . 3 A4 . A. I, 111 it. T knew that The Thing was still alive in the .neighborhood, but even that could not paralyze the helpful hands of those people. Indeed, what was said of ; my Uncle Peabody was nothing more or less than a kind of conversa tional firewood. I cannot think that any one really believed it. We had a cheerful day. A barrel of hard cider had been set up in the door yard, and I remember that some drnnk It too freely., The he-p-hee of the men as they lifted on the pikes and the sound of the hammer and beetle rang in the air from morning until night Mrs. Rodney Barnes anr Mrs. Dorothy came to help Aunt Deel with the cook ing and a. great dinner was served on an improvised table in the dooryard, where -the stove was set up. The shingles and sheathes and clapboard were on before the day ended. Uncle Peabody and I put In the floors and stairway and . partitions. t More than once in the days we were working together I tried to tell him what Sally had told me, but my cour age failed. The day came, shortly, when I had to speak out, and I took the straight way of my duty as the needle of the compass pointed. It was the end of a summer day and we had watched the dusk fill the valley and come creeping up the slant, sinking the bowlders and . thorn tops in its flood, one by one. As we sat; looking 'out of the open door that evening I told them what Sally had told me of the evil report which had traveled through the two towns. f "Damn -little souled, narrer con tracted" Uncle Peabody, speaking in a low, sad tone, but with deep feeling, cut off this highly promising opinion -beore it was half expressed, and rose and went to the water pall and drank. "As long as we're honest we don't care what they say," he remarked as he returned to his chair. "If they won't believe us, we ought to show 'em the papers ayes, said Aunt Deel ... "Thunder an Jehu! I wouldn't go 'round the town tryin' to prove that I ain't a thief," said Uncle Peabody. "It wouldn't make no differ'nee. They've got to have somethln, to play with. If they want to use my name for a bean bag let 'em as .long as they do it M-hen I ain't lookln. I wouldn't won der if they got sore hands by an' by." I never heard him speak of it again. Indeed, although I knew the topic was often in our thoughts it was never mentioned in our home but once after that, to my knowledge. We sat for a long time thinking as the night came on. That week a letter came to me from the senator, announcing the day of Mrs. Wright's arrival In Canton and asking me to meet and assist her in getting the house to rights. I did so. She was a pleasant-faced, amiable woman and a most enterprising house cleaner. I remember that my first task was mending the wheelbarrow. "I don't know what Silas would do if he were to get home and find his wheelbarrow broken," said she. "It is almost an inseparable companion of his." ' The schoolmaster and his family were fishing and camping upon the river, and so I lived at the senator's house with Mrs. Wright and her moth er until he arrived. What a wonderful house it was, in my view I I was awed by its size and splendor. Its soft car pets and shiny brass and mahogany. Yet It was very simDle. I hoed the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed the dooryard and did some painting in the house. The senator returned to Canton that evening on the Watertown stage. He greeted me with a fatherly warmth. Again I felt that strong appeal to my eye in . his broadcloth and fine linen and beaver hat and in the splendid dignity and courtesy of his manners. Tve had good reports of you, Bart, ond I'm very glad to see you," he said. "I believe your own marks have been excellent in the last year," I ven tured. "Poorer than I could wish. The teacher has been very kind to me," he laughed. "What have you been study ing?" "Latin (I always mentioned the Latin first), algebra, arithmetic, gram mar, geography and history." He asked about my aunt and uncle ond I told him of all that had befallen us, save the one thing of which I had spoken only with him and Sally. ( "I shall go up to see them soon," he said.. The people of the little village had learned that he preferred to be let alone when he had just returned over the long, wearisome way from the scene of his labors. So we had the evening to ourselves. Mrs. Wright being weary after the day's work, went to bed early and, at his request, I sat with the senator by I Remember My First Task Was Mend ing the Wheelbarrow. the fire for an hour or so. I have al ways thought it a lucky circumstance, for he asked me to tell of my plans and gave me advice and encourage ment which hav6 had. a marked effect upon my career. ' I remember telling him that I wished to be a lawyer and my reasons for it He told me that a lawyef was'either a pest or a servant of Justice and that his chief aim should be the promotion of peace and good will in his commun ity. He promised to try and arrange for my accommodation In his office in the autumn and. meanwhile to lend me some books to read while I was at home. ' ' " . ' . ;. " ; T3eforefwe go to bed let us have a settlement, said, the senator, "Will you kindly sit down at the table there ' . . and make hp a statement ; of ; an , the time you have given me?' I made out the statement very neat ly und carefully and put it in his hands. - "That Is well done said he. "I shall wish you to stay until the lay after to morrow, if you will. So youill please add another day." I amended the statement and he paid me the handsome sum of seven dollars. I remember tliat after I went to my room that night I stitched up the open ing In jny jacket pocket, which con tained my wealth, with the needle and thread which Aunt Deel had put in my bundle, ail .ot with the jacket un der my mattress. CHAPTER XV. I Use My Own Compass at a Fork In the Road. Swiftly now I move across the bor der into manhood a serious, eager, restless manhood. It was the fashion of the young those days. Mr. Wright caine-up for a day's, fish ing In July. My uncle and I took him up the river. While we ate our luncheon he de scribed Jackson and spoke of the fa mous cheese which he had kept on a table in the vestibule of the White House for his callers. He described his fellow senators Webster, Clay, Rives, Calhoun and Benton. I remem ber that Webster was; in his view, the least of them, although at his best the greatest orator. We had a delightful day, and when I drove back to the vil lage with him that night he told me that I could go into the office of Wright & Baldwin after harvesting. "It will do for a start" he said. "A little later I shall try to find a better place for you." My life went on with little Jn It worth recording until the letter came. I spealj of It as "the letter' because of Its effect upon my career. It was from Sally, and it said : "Dear Bart : It's all over for a long time, perhaps forever" that will de pend on you. I shall be true to you, if you really love me, even if I have to wait many, many years. Mother and father saw and read your letter. They say we are too young to be thinking about love and that we have got to stop it. How can I stop it? I guess I would have to stop living. But we shall have to depend upon our mem ories now. I hope that yours is as good as mine. Father says no more letters without his permission, and he stamped his foot so hard that I think he must have made a dent in the floor. Talk about slavery what do you think of that? Mother says that we must wait that It would make father a great deal of trouble if it were known that I allowed you to write. I guess the soul of old Grlmshaw Is still fol lowing you. Well, we must stretch out that lovely day as far as we can. On the third of June, 1844, we shall both be twenty-one and I suppose that we can do as we please then. The day is a long way off, but I will agree to meet you that day at eleven in the morning under the old pine on the river where I met you that day and you told me that you loved me. If either or both should die our souls will know where to find each other. If you will solemnly promise, write these words and only these to my mother' Amour omnia vinclt but do not sign your name. "Sally. What a serious matter it seemed to me then! I remember that. It gave Time a rather slow foot I wrote the words very neatly and plainly on a sheet of paper and mailed it to Mrs. Dunkelberg. I wondered If Sally would si and firm, and longed to know the secrets of the future. More than ever I was resolved to be the principal wit ness in some great matter, as my friend in Ashery lane had put It I was eight months with Wright & Baldwin when I was offered a clerk ship in the office of Judge Westbrook, at Cobleskill, In Schoharie county at two hundred a year and my board. I Knew not then just how the offer, had come but knew that the senator must have recommended me. I know now that he wanted a reliable witness of the rent troubles which were growing acute in Schoharie, Delaware and Co lumbia counties. It was a trial to go so far from home, as Aunt Deel put it, but both my aunt and uncle agreed that It was "for the best" How it wrung my heart, when Mr. Purvis and I got into the stage at Can ton, to see my aunt and uncle standing by tha front wheel looking up at me. How old and lonely and forlorn they looked ! ' Aunt Deel had her purse In her hand. I remember how she took a dollar out of it I suppose It was the only dollar she had and looked at It a moment and then handed it up to me. "You better take it." she said. Tm 'fraid you won't have enough." How her hand and Hps trembled ! I have always kept that dollar. I couldn't see them as we droe away. The judge received me kindly and gove Purvis a job in his garden. I was able to take his dictation In biund hand and spent most of my time in takings down contracts and correspond ence and drafting them into proper form. Which I had the knack of doing rather neatly. I was impressed by the immensity of certain towns in the neighborhood, and there were some temptations in my way. Many people, and especially the prominent men, in dulged in ardent spirits. We had near us there a little section of the old world which was trying, in a half-hearted fashion,- to maintain it self In the midst of a democracy. It was the manorial life-of the patroons a relic of ancient feudalism which had its beginning In 1629, when the West Indies company issued Its char ter of privileges and exemptions '"hat L.h f r COLLI UUUV WUU Bliuuiu( years, bring fifty adults to the New Netherlands and establish them along. the Hudson, a liberal grant of land, to be called a manor, of which the owner or patroon should be full proprietor and chief magistrate. The settlers were to be exempt from' taxation, for ten years, but under bond to jstay in one place and develop it In the be ginning the patroon built houses and barns and furnished cattle, seed and tools. The tenants for themselves and their heirs agreed to pay him a fixed rent forever in stack and produce and, further, to grind at the owner's mill apd neither to hunt nor fish; Judge Westbrook. In whose office 1 worked, was counsel and collector for the patroons, notably for the manors of ILIvingston and Van Renssalaef two little kingdoms in the heart of the great republic Mr. Louis Latour of Jefferson coun ty, whom I had met In the company of Mr. Dunkelberg, came during my last year there to stud law In the office of the judge, a jprivllege f or which he was indebted -to the Influence of Senator Wright, I understood. He was a gay Lothario, always 'ooastlng of his love affairs, and I had little to do with him. One day In May near the end of my two years In Cobleskill Judge West brook gave me two writs to serve on settlers In the neighborhood of Bald win Heights for aonpayment of rent He told me what I knew, thatthfere A Big, Rough Dressed, Bearded Man Stood in the Middle of the Road With a Gun on His Shoulder. was bitter feeling against the patroons in that vicinity and that I might en counter opposition to the service of the writs. If so I was not to press the matter, but bring them back and' he would give them to the sheriff. "I do not Insist on your taking this task upon you," he added. "I want a man of tact to go and talk with these people and get their point of view. If you don't care to undertake it I'll send another man." "I think I would enjoy the task," I said In Ignorance of that hornet's nest back in the hills. "Take Purvis with you," he said. "He can take care of the horses and as those back-couatry folk are a little lawless It will be just as well to .have a witness with you. They tell me that Purvis Is a man of nerve and vigor." I had drafted my letters for the day and was about to close my desk and start on my journey when Louis La tour came in and announced that he had brought the writs from the judge and was going with me. "I wouldn't miss it for a thousand dollars' he remarked. "By Jovel I think we'll have ii bully time." , "I don't object ;to your going but you must rememb it that I am in com mand," I said, a little taken back, for I had no good opinion either of his prudence or his company. The judge told ine that I could go but that I should be under your or ders," he answered. Tm not going to be a fool. I'm trying to establish a reputation for eood sense myself." We got our dinners and set out soon after one o'clock. I had read the deeds .of the , men we were to visit They were brothers and lived on ad joining farms with leases which cov ered three hundred and fifty sres of land. Their great-grandfather had agreed to pay a yearly rent forever of sixty-two bushels of good, sweet, mei chantable, .winter "wjbient, eight yearling cattle and four sheep in good flesh and sixteen fat hens, all to be delivered In the city of Albany on the first day of January of each year. So, feeling thfct I was engaged in a just cause, I brave ly determined to serve the writs Sf possible. , I rode in silencethinking of Sally and of those beautiful days now reced ing into the past and of my aunt and uncle. I had written a letter to them every week and one or the other had answered It Between the lines I had detected the note erf loneliness. They had told me the imall news of the countryside. Hov narrow and mo notonous It all si emed to me then! Rodney. Barnes ' hid bought a new farm; John Axtell had bvn hurt in o runaway ; my whlv mare ad got . a 'spavin I ' 'Hello, mister!. I started out of my reveries rtth a little jump of, surprise. A big, romriv Pressed, bearded man stood In tht mid cle of the road, with a sen on l shoulder. '"' " (TO BE CONTINUED.) " Even a homely man mrr hjome mug inA t barb'" , IMPROVED UNirO WI KITERNATIOlf A sssm (By REV. P.' B. FITZWATER. . V Teacher of English Bibl In th Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) v (Copyright. 1819. by ffHtarn Newipa'pw Union.) LESSON FOR MAY 18. THE GfcACE OF GOD. LES1QN TEXTS Ephesians 1:4-10; GOLDEN - TEXT We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus "Christ we shall be saved, even as thr. Acts 15:11. - ADDITIONAL. MATERIAL Genesis I: T: 2 Cor. 12:9; John 17; 1 Cor. 15:10; James 4:6; 1 Peter 4:10; t Peter 8:18. Grace means unmerited favor. God'a grace means his kindness toward lis through Jesus Christ. (Eph.. 2:T.J God's mercy does not go put to men be cause they are good but because he Is good and desires to bestow that goodness upon lost and rhilned men in order to make them good. I. The Grace of God )n Salvation (Eph. 2-.4-10.) Grace brings salvation ; it does not send it. Jesus Christ, who Is the em bodiment of God's love .and grace, came bringing salvation with him. In order to apprehend what the grace of God has done, observe: 1. Man's natural state (Eph. 2:1-3. In the natural man Is found all that Is opposed to the will andj purpose of God. (1) Dead In trespasses and sins (v. 1). The supreme need of the dead man is life, therefore he must have life from without himself. The characteristic of one who Is dead Is that he Is (a) without sensation "past feeling." (4:19.) The natural man, therefore, can neither love God nor hate sin until he is made alive, (b) Without motion. Activity Is the demonstration of life. So far. as God and holiness are concerned they are motionless. They are as helpless as Lazarus was In the grave. (2) Under the control of fleshly and worldly lusts (v. 2). The carnal nature holds sway over their lives. (3) Under the domi nation of Satan (v. 2). Al unregen erate men and women are ruled by Sa tan. Since he is the god of this age (2 Cor. 4:4), the prince of this world (John 12:31), all who have not been freed by Christ are under the rufe. of Satan. (4) Under, the condemnation and wrath of God (v. 3). Over all these death, worldliness, disobedi ence, lust of the flesh hangs the wrath and condemnation of God. 2. Man's state by grace (2:4-10). (1) He Is alive In Christ (v. 5). The Holy Spirit lays hold upon men dead in sin and quickens them into life. (2) Raised up with Christ (v. 6). God's grace not only makes lost men alive but raises them up with Christ. (S) Association with Christ in glory (v. 6). Christ's incarnation has so identified himself with the race that those who are saved are raised up to be with Christ and shall ultimately share his glory. The actuating prin ciple of God which moved him to thus lay hold upon lost men Is his love (v. 4). Man's saWation Is due entirely to God's grace. Not only the salvation has been provided in grace but the faith whfch appropriates it is God's gift (v. 8). Works as grounds of sal vation are absolutely excluded. (4) The purpose of God In the salva tion of men (vv. 7, 10). -(a) Jt Is to display his grace in the coming ages. The demonstration to the inhabitants of the spheres in which sin has not entered, in the ages to come, will be the transformation of dead and lost men and their exaltation with Christ, (b) To glorify God through their good works (v. 10: cf. Matt. 5:16). While good works have absolutely no part In the salvation of men God's purpose In saving them was thfet they might do good works. II. The Grace of Cod In Right Liv ing (Titus 2:11-14). Grace is not only essential to sal vation but essential to right living. It teaches saved men 1) to deny ungod liness (v. 12). The saved man has the divine nature. The grace which has saved him teaches him the neces sity of a denial of everything that Is opposed to. God. (2) Worldly lusts (v. 12). The redeemed man , Is sur rounded with the things of the world which have a downward pull upon him. The grace of God teaches him to renounce them. (3) Sober living (v. 12). The grace of God teaches the saved man self-control ; to have the reins of his nature well In com mand and to rule with a strong hand. (4) Righteous living (v. 12). The grace of God teaches the saved man to live uprightly with reference to those about him. (5) Godly living (v. 12). It teaches him to so live In this present world as to enable him to meet God and abide in his fellow ship. (6) It teaqhes the right mo tive in living (vv. 13, 14). The blessed hope of the glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ Is the grand Incen tive to holy living in this present world. He that has It will keep him self pure. (I John 3 :3.) 5 , Greatest of All Herpes. The greatest of all heroes Is One whom we do not nafte here! Let 'sa cred silence meditate that sacred mat ter; you will find it the ultimate per fection of a principle extant through out man's whole history on earth. Carlyle. 1 Christian Life. The problem of the Christian life finally is simplifled to this man hat bt to preserve the right attitude: Tv abide in Christ, to be In position, ,tlut Is all. Henry Drummond, ' BOP SCHOOLS AS SCOUT QUAJ In connection with tha make the school builds nlty center with a wide Hays, director of coiumunltv7 Graj Clares that "th h. , wllCgo, He. flro Hrle (IiaiiIH v .' ov;uuis meeting at the schools." -ft This Is a direct point of , with boys that the school should not overlook. More c - iu uit; DOV thnt the superintendent or the princh!, fr ills teachers have n his welfare outside of school h it would not fall to be reflected in? ter school work.- l' It is fairly certain from experien with boy scouts who have- been al lowed the use of puhlic halls m church rooms and similar places fot their meeting' rooms and in which to conduct their scout tests and a through the various features of their program as far as it is possible h doors that sciiool buildings win not suffer by such use. On the contrary scouts will be found valuable aids in keeping the premises in good order and in good repair as a result of their partial occupancy. CHINESE SCOUTS STOP FLOOD. In Peking, China, with the founda tion of the scout troops at TsingHua college, ' in 1915, began a growth of scouting' that has led to its recognl- tlon In TMorth China. In the summer of 1918 the boy scouts directed the dike building which saved countless lives in the flooded districts of the province of Chili. Ib addition to this a great variety of good turns stands out in the Chi nese scout history. Scouts have sol American . Red Cross stamps, made a census of the people of the Tsing Haa community, distributed leaflets against the evil custom of early marriage, and raised funds for the Tientsin flood re lief. During the war scouts did much to make the Chinese troops happy. Checker-boards and joke books were sent to the soldiers in Siberia. SIAMESE SCOUTS GAIN 6,904. A total of 9,453 scouts, an increase of 6,904 over the previous year, is Reported by the boy scout organization In the Kingdom of Siam. The scout movement is honored by having for its president His Majesty King Rama VI. Work with boys start ed here with an organization known as "Wild Tigers," but in 1911 the king authorized the formation of boy scout corps and established a central com mittee to push the work. On several occasions Siamese scouts have been reviewed hv the king. At his coronation over 2,000 took part In the ceremony. Examinations in the various scout tests have been conduct ed ' with surnrisinsr success. Of those who took the tests. 66 per cent second- class scouts nassed. while of 1,025 examined, 360 first-class scouts quali fied. SCOUTS TO BUILD TRENCHES. New York Is to have a chance to s an exact reproduction of a part of tit fighting front in France if the W scouts carry out the suggestion mad by Maj. Lorillard Spencer of the re turned Three Hundred and Sixty-ninth infantry. ' Major Spencer, who is scout corn missioner of the Manhattan council, said that part of the scouts' camp rtlv of tw sertnr In which his reriment fought France and he planned to duplicate fVr i.onsViMa onH dntrnntS eXaCtlJ He asked for 150 scouts to receijj Instructions in trench and dupo hrillrMncr tSH trt Mm' Ollt tlliS rep" ennn qq of the first lines over there. SCOUTS AS HEALTH AGENTS. L. . ... o nnrt of tW to mane tne ooy scuum i -- - Js planned by Dr. B. F. Simon, chier . health officer. u Doctor Simon thinks the boys ?t j u i 1 1 . wl in the sen'- ue giaa to ue eiuui'ru - and have the duty of reporting nennrrmenr. any viuiau- health regulations. 0 When a boy scout finds, thnt his neighbors is maintaining a nu. ' the that is menacing the health or neighborhood, he will be PtC report this to the health oflice. . an investigation will be niiU.e . regular Inspector. BOY SCOUT DOINGS. Tn TWrnit a CTOUD ol , ,nf of iOV cared for a farmer's herd of cat . a week so as to enable mm the bedside of a near relative- Due in a large measure to of boy scouts, Hawaii sf'aeJ'c over the top In the War Savin- pylgn. "The boy scouts w mendous factor In accompli' s ; record," writes Robert W. v ritorial director. Scouting bay In this territory, not only on throughout the islands. 1 , 'J t t .- r .. -V
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