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:.t i V- ' POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C. '' ' ' '' " ' ' ' m a " """""" " ' I nnri ne tie saiu iwut o r- i rrs.xvii-.i i.tymtn 2 Light . " in the Cleaning a A Talc of the North. Country in the Time qf Silas Wright ' '' : . - By , ntVINd BACHEIXER AstKor of "Ebn Hoidn.i "ff ri Jfcnd x L" "Darrtl of th Bletted MhT ' "Mping Up With LUiie," Etc, Etc (Copyright,' by bring Bacfaeller) CHAPTER XVI I Continued. 17 ' Hykfurt beat fast when I saw the tons and my uncle and Purvis coming in from the twenty-acre lot with a lead of hay. Aunt Deel stood on the firont steps looking down the road. Xew and then hers waving handker chief went to her eyes. Uncle Pea fcody came down the standard off his asad and walked toward me. - "Say, stranger, have you seen any thing of a feller, by the name o Bart Zayses? he demanded. "Hare you? I asked. "Ko. sir, I ain't. Gosh a'mighty! Cay! what have ye done with that boy f oartiF ."What have you done to our house?" I asked again. ,55ailt on an addition. "Hat's what I re done to your boy," J answered. . . "Tlmnder an lightnin I How you've raised the roof !" he exclaimed as he crabbed mj satcheL Dressed like a statesman an' bigger'n a bullmoose. 1 cant "rastle with you no more. But, ajtm run ye .a race. I can beat ye wax carry the satcheV too." We ran pell-mell up the lane to the steps like a pair of children. Aunt Deel did not speak. She just put her arms around me and laid her eax old head upon my breast. Uncle Feabody turned away. Then what a xflenee! Off in the edge of the wood lend I heard the fairy flute of a wood "thrush, . yarrls, you drive that load on the floor an put up the .hosses," Uncle Feabody shouted in a moment. "If yoa (krat like it you can hire 'nbther soan, I won't do no more till after dinner. 1 This slave business Is played aL- AH right, Purvis answered. t Troa bet it's all right . I'm f er abV IJtion an I've stood your domlDeerin', adggcr-driver ways long enough - f er ne mornin'. If you don't like it you can look for another man." Aunt Deel and I began to laugh at ' this good-natured, make-believe scold tcjj of Uncle Peabody and the emo tional strain was .over. They led me lato the house, where a delightful sur prise awaited me, for ,thie rooms had lbea decorated vwith balsam boughs and sweet ferns. A glowing mass of 'violets, framed in moss, occupied the center of the table. . The house was filled with the odors of the forest, which, as they knew, were dear to me. J had 'written that they might expect me .some time before noon, but I oesged them not to meet me In Can ton, as I wished to walk home after as soon as they see ye comin' an that you pull the trees up by the. roots to git at em.": 'r:-:r;' -r-;;;;; "A certain amount of such aeyutry is necessary to , the comfort ,oi our. Purvis," I remarked. .."If there Is no body else to take I the responsibility for it no assumes it himself. His imag ination lias an intense craving for blood and violence; If s that type of American who, egged dn by th6 slave power,, is 4 hurrying : us into trouble with MxlcoS :.v'rw f :v Purvis' came "in presently with a look in his face whichl betrayed his knowledge of the fact that all the cob webs spun by his fancy were now to be brushed , away, t , Still he enjoyed them while they lasted and. there was a kind of tacit claim in his manner that they were subjects regarding which no honest man could be expect ed to tell the truth. As we ate our pinner they tojd me that an escaped slave had come into a neighborilng county and excited the people with stories of the auction block and of negroes driven like yoked oxen ori plantations in South Carolina, whence he had escaped on a steam boat. I b'lieve I'm goin to vote for abo lition." said Uncle Peabody. "I won der what Sile Wright will say to that." "He'll probably advise against it ;. the time isn't ripe for so great a change," was my answer. "He thinks that the whole matter should be left to the gla cial action of time's forces." Indeed , I had spoken the view of the sounder men , of the North. The subject filled them with dread alarm. But the attitude of Uncle Peabody was significant. The sentiment in fa vor of a change was growing.- It was now to be reckoned with, for the abo lition party was said to hold the bal; ance of power. In New York and New England and was behaving Itself like a bull in a china shop. ' v . After dinner I tried to put on some of my old clothes, but found that my nakedness had so expanded that they would not cover it, so I : hitched my white mare on the spring wagon and drove to the village for my trunk. Every week day after that I worked 'a the, fields until the senator arrived in Canton about the middle of August. On one of those happy days I received a letter from old Kate, dated, to my surprise, in Saratoga. It said : "Dear Barton Baynes: I thought would let you' know that my father is dead. I have come here to rest and have found some work to do. I am bet ter now. Have seen Sally. JShe is very beautiful and kind. She does not know that I am the old witch, I have changed so. The others do not know it Is better that way. I think It was the Lord that, brought me here. He has a way' of taking care of some people, my boy. Do you remember when I be gan to call you my boy you were very little. It is long, long ago since I first saw you "in your father's dooryard you said you were going to mill on a butterfly's back.- You looked Just as I thought my boy would look. You gave But we sat as still as stumps spared us and went on with the others. The baying of the hound was nearer . .. wi Ki.lr Lnow. suddenly we saw- u uig in come down to the shore or tne covy near us and on our side of the stream. He looked to right and left Then he made a long leap Into the wAteV and waded slowly until it covered him; J He raised his nose and laid ; his antlers back" over' his 'shoulders and swam quietly downstream, his nose just showing above the water.- His antlers were -like a: bit of driftwood. If we had not seen him take the water his antlers might easily have passed for a bunch of dead sticks. Soon the duck slowly lifted his head and turned his heck, and looked at both, shores. Then verv deliberately he resumed his. place under water and. went on. We watcnea- hlm'as he took the farther shore be low us and made off In the woods 4gali!,';r's;'V;Vi! ' . ul couldn't shoot at him, it was sucn a beautiful bit of pbiltics, said the senator. " '' '; ' -.x---, '. . i- Soon the hound reached the cove s edge and swam the river and ranged up, and down the 1 bank for half an hour before he found the buck's trail again. . : . rv'.'C . : ' Tve seen many, a rascal, driven to water by : the, hounds, go swimming away as slyly as that buck, with their horns In the air, looking as innocent as a bit of driftwood, They come in from both shoresthe Whig and the Democratlc-:-ahd they are always shot at from one bank or the other' I remember it surprised me a little to hear : him say that they came in from both shores. ! "Just what do you want to do V he asked presently, . 1 T should like to go down to Wash ing ton with you and help you in any way that I can." "All right partner well try it," he answered gravely. "I hope that I don't forget and work you as hard as I work myself. It wouldn't be decent. I have a great many letters to write. I'll try thinking out loud while you take them down in sound-hand. Then you can draft them neatly and I'll sign them. You have tact and good manners and can do many of my errands for me and ?nve me from those who have no good reason for taking up my time." "You will meet the best people and the worst. There's just a chance that it may come to something worth while who knows? You are young yet It will be good training and you will , wit ness the making of some history now and then." What elation I felt I Again the. voice of the hound, which had been ringing in the distant hills, was coming nearer. "We must keep watch another deer Is coming," said the senator. We had only a moment's watch be fore a fine yearling buck came down to the opposite shore and stood look ing across the river. The senator raised his rifle and fired. The buck fell In the edge of the water. "How shall we get him?" my friend at he had not seen Peabody Rftvries on that roaa uie uu money was -lost but had only heard that he was, there. I He knew now that he couldn't have been there. Gosh Tfllmiffhtv I as your uncle used 4 to say .when there . was nothing else to be said." -r I - ;;-v "lr-- ";ry It touched me to the soulthis long- delayed vindication oi my , Deioveu Uncle Peabody. The senator ate supper with us ana sent his-jhired man out for hls norse and buggy. When he had lint on his overcoat and was about . to go no turned to my, uncle and said: "Peabody Baynes, if I have had any success In the world It Is because -I have, ' bad the exalted honor and-con? sclousness that I represented men uko you." ,'i- -,v ' . v. He left us and we sat down by the glowing candles. Soon I told them what Ramsey had done. There was a mo ment of silence. Uncle Peabody. rose and went to the water pall for a drink. "Bart, I believe-I'll - plant i corn on that ten-arce lot next spring darned If I don't,", he said as he returned to "his chair. -'v " , ' None of us e vet spoke of the matter again, to my knowledge. CHAPTER XVIII. it me a kiss. What a wonderful gift it asked. was to me then! I began to love youl I "It will not be difficult," I answered I have no one else to think of now. I as I began to undress. Nothing was hope you won't mind my thinking so difficult those days. much of you. J I swam the river and towed the "God bless you, i (buck across with a beech withe In his "KATE FULLERTON." gambrel -joints; The hound joined me I understood now why the strong I before I was half across with my. bur- will and singular insight of this worn- den and nosed the carcass and swam an had so often exercised themselves on ahead yelping with delight. in; my Denau. i coma not rememDer we dressed the deer and then I the far day and the happy circum- had the great joy of carrrvimr him stance of which she spoke, but I wrote xj long ride. So they were ready for her a letter which must have warmed am I xemember how they Jelt the cloth am my back and how proudly they sur wyed'itr ' ? ' ' ' TCQuldn't ; buy; them - 'goods 'round her heart I am sure. on my back two miles across the coun try to the wagon. The senator wished to send a guide for the deer, but I in- Sllas Wright arrived in Canton and sisted that the carrying was my Drlvl- drove up to our home. He reached lege. , our door at eight in the morning with ! "Well, I guess your big thighs and his hound and rifle. He had aged rai broad shoulders ran stnnd if m ha -Sfcese M parts," said Uncle Peabody. idly since I had seen him last His "My uncle has always said that no 2wr nothln like 'em no, sir. . "Teels a leetle bit like the butternut troosers," sard Aunt Deel -as she felt nqr coot ' v "Ayes but them butternut trousers hair was almost white. There were man could be called n huntpr until h many new lines in his face. He can go Into the woods without a guide seemed more grave and dignified. He and kill a deer and bring it out on did not lapse into the dialect of his his back. I want to be able to tpstlfv latners wnen ne spone or tne ancient tftat I am at least partly Qualified' afia't what they used to be when they pastimes of hunting and fishing as he "Your uncle didn't say anvthine nau Deen wont to ao. t about fetching the deer across a deep "Bart he said when the greetings river without a boat, did he?" Mr. Wright asked me with a smile. .. Leaves of the beeches, maples and basswoods yellowed by frost hung like tiny lanterns, glowing with noon day light, above the dim forest aisle young and limber," Uncle Peabody remarked. "Seems so they was get 33a., kind p wrinkled an' baldheaded- ke, ,peeially where I et down." . . Ayes l nal I guess a man can't grow old without his pants growin' Id, too ayes I" said Aunt Deel. were over, "let's' you and me go and spend a day In the woods. I'll leave my man here to help your uncle while you're gone." We went by driving south a few m If yer.legs are In 'em ev'ry Sunday miles and tramping , in to the foot of which we traveled. they Ketch it or, ye," my uncle an- xrcred, "Long sermons arj hard on jants; seems to me." , Aa the longer the legs the harder the sermbttsr-ln them little seats over t the schoolhouse ayes !" Aunt , Deel added by way of justifying his com- jfttint "There wouldn't be so much vear fi a ten-mile 'walk no !" The chicken pie was baking and the strawberries were ready for the short- "Tve been wallerln 'since the dew off gittin' them berries an' vi- the Stillwater oni our river? a trail The sun was down when we cot to long laminar to me. The dog left us the clearing. soon alter we , tooK , it and began to "What a day It has been!" said Mr. range over thick wooded hills. We sat Wright when 'we were seated in the down among small,. spirelike spruces wagon. at the river's edge with a long stretch "One of the best in my life, I an of water In sight while , the music of swered with a joy in my heart the like the hound's voice came faintly to our of which I have rarely known in these ears from the distant forest r many years that have come to me. Oh, I've been dreaming of this for We rode on in silence with the calls a long time," said the senator as he, 1 of the swamp robin and I the hermit leaned back against a tree and filled thrush ringing in our ears as the night his lungs and looked out upon the wa- fell. ; ter. creen with lily Dads alontr the "It's a eood time to thlnV nni t. Srts ayes!" said Aunt Deel, now busy edze and flecked with the last of the we take different rnnds" cm ft- i;-.?.X , On the 8ummlt: - " , My mental assets would give me ai poor y rating, I presume. In, the com merce of modern . scholarship " when' I went to Washington that autumn with Senator and Mrs. Wright. Still it was nq smattering that I had, but rather a few broad areas of knowledge which were firmly In my possession. My best asset was not mental but spiritual, if I may be allowed to say it in all mod esty, for, therein I claim no special ad vantage, saving, possibly, an unusual strength of character in my aunt and uncle. Those days the candles were lighting the best trails of knowledge all over the land. Never has the gen eral spirit of tb is republic been so high and admirabi e as then and a little later. ,It was to speak, presently, in the Immortal voices of Whlttler, Emer son, Whitman, Greeley and Lincoln. The dim glow of the candles had en tered their souls and out of them came a light that filled the land and was seen of all men; - The railroads on which we traveled from Utlca, the great "cities through which we passed, were a wonder and an Inspiration to me. I was awed by the grandeur of .Washington itself. 1 took lodgings with' the senator and his wife." u ' .. '::- "Now, Bart", said '.. he, when we had arrived, "I'm going to turn you loose here for a little while before I put har ness on you. Go about for a week ox so and get the lay of the land and the feel of It Mrs. Wright will ' be your guide until the eneral situation has worked its way Into your conscious ness' It seemed to me that there was not room enough In my consciousness foz the great public buildings and the pic tures and the statues and the vast ma chinery 'of the government. Beauts and magnitude have a wonderful ef fect when they spring fresh upon the vision of a youth out of the back coun try. I sang of the look of them in my letters and soon I began to think about them and Imperfectly to .understand them." They had their epic, lyric and dramatic stages in my consciousness. One afternoon we went to hear Sen ator Wright , speak. He was to an swer Calhoun on a detail of the bank ing laws. - The floor and galleries were filled. With what emotion I saw him rise and begin his argument as all ears bent to hear him I He aimed not at popular sentlmen ts In highly finished rhetoric, as did Webster, to be quoted In the school books and repeated on every platform. 1-ut no words of .mine -and I have usei I many in the effort -are able to con rey a notion of the masterful ease and charm of his man ner on the floor of the senate or of the singular modesty, courtesy, aptness and simplicity or' his words as they fell from his Hi s. There were the thunderous Webs ttr, the grandeur oi y hose sentences no American has equaled ; the agili minded Clay, whose voice was like a s iver clarion; the far seeing, fiery Cal)oun, of "the swift sword" most f oi jaldable In debate- but I was soon to learn that neither nor all of these n.n gifted of heaven so highly :ould -tope with 'the suave, Incisive, M convers. lional sentences ' oi Wright going straight to the heart oi the subject and ' nylng it bare J to his hearers. That wis what people were saying as we left the "senate chamber, late In the evenli i r ; that Indeed, was what they were iilways saying after they had heard hln answer an ad versary. . " A- :" (TO BE O'.WTINUED.) white blossoms. "I believe you want friend. "You will turn into the future to leave this lovely country." ''.;. , I and I Into the past" " x uui wtiiuugiior , me can io go, x ve ueen ' tninsmg about your "Well, I'm Inclined to think you are 1 uncle," he said by and by. "He is one the kind of man who; ought to go," he of the greatest men I have ever known. answered almost sadly; "You are You knew of that foolish gossip about needed, i have been waiting until we nim didn't you?" "Yes," I answered. your behavior at CobleskllL I think "Well, now, he's krone about his busi- you have the right spirit that is the ness the same as ever and showed by all-Important matter. You; will' en- his life that It couldn't be true. Not a Counter stranere comnany in the srame I word ont of html Ttnt r TnmeAV of politics. Let me tell you a story." felVsick-Slown on the flat last winter He told me .many stories of his life 1 By and by his children were rrrW for in Washington, Interrupted by a sound I bread and the poormaster was going nite mat oi approacning footsteps, we to taxe Charge . of them. . Well, who ceased talking and presently a flock should turn up there. Just in the nick ui pannages came near us, pacing or time, but Delia; and Peabody uiuug uver uie mat oi leaves in a lei- naynes. They fed those children all surely fashion. Wesat nerfecUy stilL winter and ken thpm i i,- a young COCk bird With honnfffnl 1 tha 1, 'ia - . . to' beetle brain. To hear him talk ruff standing out Mfee Thin 1. ! ira tnixe an 7u ean ow Dacr: or a frightened ' dog. strode Dave Ramsey who tw hm?T;t aC?1 tow1ard" w wltb a comic threat to his story. He got up In rchtoeTother !3L my anybody .would suppose manner. It seemd fla u UirK .r Ti"16 r yer .nemlea go to dlmbln trees! half a mind to knot ua4o r f 3T l? Aunt you lcok as young as ever,M I She slapped my arm and said with r xttock ; severity1: -Stop that 1 W'y 1 You know better yes!T Ilaw vigorously she stirred the fire should meet to congratulate you on Mfcirniaa L ; , can't return the compliment my . soal ! haw you've changed ayes 1" she nmarked. . ; 1 hope you ain't fit no more, Bart ; 3 can't bear to think o yoa flyin' at SdOcs an poundln of 'em. Don't seem it no. Jt-don;t!V; r W -Why, Aunt Deel, what In the world a you mean?" I asked. "Ifs Purvis brain that does the gxnadin', I guess," said my uncle. -Ifis kind o got the habit It's a reg- Vlctim of Popular Song. , . Lawrence, Kellli tells of an aniuslng experience he hiXt over the song, "Douglas Gordon," He! was Intro duced one evenitg to a gentleman whose name heUd not catch. "I have no desire to. meu t you, ;. Mr. Kellle," said the stranger. Kellle naturally looked a little -tistonbhed, but said nothing. "In fact" the pther went on, "I hate the very s ound of your name. For months past ny mther has been worried by the iMceipi; of telegrams aud letters of conrlence on my behalf; and the thing is e ginning to get mo notonous." "I'm so c ry," jtiald Kellle; "but what's that got tc 3o with me?" "Well, Til tell you, sj Id tho mother. v "My name's Douglas Girdbn, and everybody imagines that yoi r - confounded song reiers to me. Anil with that he turned on his heel and w i it -h i - Much Dua; v hJttle - Honey. ' : KMany a man I iths i: a tusy as Deer said uncle iUm, Xv nil hit umt Duznir anr -k nc bm: Sewing Machine Hints. i When your sewing machine belt he roines loose, do not stop, to take.lt off in order to tighten it Just drop a lit tle machine oil upon It and you will find the belt tight, after a few turns of the wheel. One sometimes has trou ble because the' needle ; cuts heavy cotton or linen goods when stitching. If the seam Ito be stitched is rubbed with hard white soap you will have no more difficulty.; v' A Tonic for Sewing Machines. After some years' usage every sew ing machine Is likely to clog up with fine dust .which k the . machine oil col lects on the bearings. As soon as the machine begins to work heavily, take out the shuttle and then give each movable part a generous bath of gas oline. Work the foot lever briskly, so that the gasoline may penetrate every part. The old oil and caked dust will loosen and fall off In quantities that will amaze you. Then open the win dows of the sewing room and let the fumes of the gasoline escape, w Of course, during this cleaning process, the machinist will take good care that there, Is no lighted gas, lamp or, fire In the room. It is a good plan then to let the machine , stand without the usual lubricating oil until ypu are ready to use it again. A piece v of chamois should always be kept on hand to wipe off the superfluous -oil before beginning to stitch. Economy in Machine Needles. Keep a piece of white soap In the machine drawer, and when stitching 6""uo. uu uie seams and von will fln . lu - ju can ease and with no danger Always keep on hand In thP drawer a smnli . clSM,ne, and w needle bMnmps rtnii u. Ult! oiiarDen it whetstone. Ynn .on 11 Hi as new. M An Excellent Spool Rack. To keep machine - "vis in htnt 1 order saw a thin hnnrn .r1 . - , ui tt( vi. ic uionec, marK It With nafner o ornnnl .ml -..i. " anu yui a peg 0. In the center of each rinr v spool Is In Its own nlace . ...S the thread does not become mS With a short hatpin one can 1 1 and place the work. Keep the kJ In the sewing machine drawer. , Tea for Tinting. Tea is better than coffee for iw Ing the various shades of cream I because there Is less chance of st! Ing. Use a strong solution of tea, and add this to the rinsing ti ter,. .dipping it once or twice. gives a better color than using j strong enough to ghtj it the right jl the first time it is dipped. After m has been washed and tinted it shot be brought back to Its original sk? by pinning on a clean ironing bot-i or 'several folds of a towel. Kecji mind the shape of the lace as yon jq and pin it so that all the scallops a the same size. These pins should h put in very close and the work J quires a great deal of patience. VACATION FROCKS Life holds enticing, prospects for the younger generation , Just i now. The long vacation is almost here, with days to be filled with play and quite likely a Journey and a visit to add to its al lurements. 5 And there Is always the certainty of new clothes when one is to. go visiting. A frock to travel In, others for. play, and one or two for grand occasions when everyone dresses up, all help in making life one .contin uous round of pleasure" in vacation tlme.,v '. -V' ''':- -'; j Since the designing of children's clothes has been given Into the hands of specialists who devote' all their time and thought to It' all the-needs of lit tle folks are well taken care of, and mothers need only concern themselves with making selections from the styles submitted, to them. At the, left of the two frocks shown above there is a model which, is suited to .cotton mate rials, for everday wear, and will look well developed -In dark-colored taffeta, for traveling and street wear. It is made with knickerbockers and is alto gether practical. ; ' : ' v ' As shown in the picture the dress is plain chambray. A single box plait at each side of the front and a front piece gathered to a band at the neck give it good llnes. 4 The three-quaker length sleeves v and .the f pockets ndd a band finish, like that of the neck, all that ene could wish, ' but two large, pearl buttons are' allowed for adorn ment at the ends of : the band at 1 the neck. V The 'wide collar "of ; white ba tiste or Organdie is a separate affair, and its-hem is finished with a -narrow feather-stitching of colored silk , t , s ' Plain . cnaabray ' and plaid glnghnrn ' i " - ' f . ' :...tz - - :k I I ' W- .'.." i ' r , 'J ' ' . f . - . ,-)" make a little dress that will prove . . . . t-ha dlV. iui almost any nour vl j this, romh nation of materials -- always with us. In the dress at ill left of the group it is shown inaV . , i V,nr HI III - t Having a waist or cnaun.' - .j nf Hnhatn wth thp addition oi M organdie In a little vestee and Bands and tabs witn pean , hnttnn hnlPS mnke thiS'frOCk UK ino. Tho stirt has inverted PlalBj the front back and on the side, i the' pockets, like so man j cut on the bias of the goods w ished with pointed bands. l: Wornlno Frocks for Summer. J5imnllcltv shouid guide yo J dering your morning frocfes on ham. .Remember smart I marks these tub dresses. lZbam n . ' . it. rrln? ing example or u .- -: wmcn win De popumi - .p made -of, blue and white cnec : ham with trimmings of butcn A square yoke of butcher i worked in blue eyelets. thr0"j;e a blue sUk lacer runs, ine ment is used on cuffs with tj 4?.qutouts.w A border of hems the skirt. " ; elets' suede is punched with blue fastens with a blue enamel .. Crinkly crepe is one oi nhrii novelties oi r frocks are made of it dow -Usht colors. T -if of ' SI t t -J" ,7 jC " s
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