Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-10-05
CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XII.
IN WHICH WE HAVE ADUEL.
: The darkest and glooniest Thoughts
now and then possessed our frlent
Dipper. He spent most Of his tim.
} when at home sitting on log in the
back yard whiting. Not that any,
thing save shav,ngs was the result o.
his whiting, but while h: whitfield he
meditateG.
/ He had noticed that al the leaders
of the Stump Fuller part whitfield in
order TO sharpen their id.as while they
thought. No man coull be a great
thinker without being a great whittier,
therefore he Whitfield ant thought, be.
cause he wanted to be thinker. He
even learned to chew fin. cut tobacco,
like P,nglory and all tn. Pinglontes,
and stood on the cornerswl,h the Col
onel while he said shap things, his
arms folded across his beast just like
Bi.terblle, Asusa anc others, and
laughed a. the witicism of the Colonel.
He vas too dull mary times to see
the point to these witlcisms, vet he
was studying to be great political
leader himss If. and DDper vas forced
to do many things with seemed fool
ish, JUS because he couid not under
stand them.
Aswe asserted at the outbreak of
this chapter. there were times when
the gloonnrst thoughts possessed poor
Dipper. These were tines when he
thought OF the love he had cast aside.
His own heart was ashes nd he had
stified the fame of his wanest affsc-
tons.
Dipp-r is not the only mn who has
sacrificed happiness, peac of mind,
and the hearts dearest,:.wanest alice
tons on the altar of fame. There are
thousands of other great me who have
mounted the gllt-edged, siler-plated.
paper.stuffed ladder and leftappiness,
home, wife and children. .scending
just high enough for the detitful old
contraption to break. and hsak their +,
necks with it. Dipper was n more .
fool than the boy Longfello, sung a :
song about, who started up Il noun
tain side one stormy night witlut even
a blanket or bottle of stimulus and
no covering save a flag with 'lcelsior' n
on it. after a maiden hal offed her q
breast for his pillow and the oman a
hearthstone warm and bright If poor =
Excelsior froze to death forts fool Il
hardness, Dipper was like i freeze 4
or want of Office, for the sic was
made up. and he left out entire. .,
1t was rumored that the SMfake &
was making up slate too, bute had a
been such an open advocate pr the ri
Crusteater that he had no time turn =,
just now. D.
Poor Clodivia, he sighed d day 81
as he opened little note viii had b.
just been handed him by a b. A 10
glance showed it was in her hand. BIZ
writing. az
The note was briefand to theoint it
Tom Pepper proposed to d last er
mite Now if you say it shall on phi
The Snowflake III say no, if youon't We
Why I'll except him sure pop. an
CLoDIvIA K. ALLsMt. Sv
The note dropped from Dfr's ~.
hand, his head swan and everlng or y,
seemed to turn green. He would I've Gu
allen had he rot been sitting on be ~
With his back braced against tree s.s
What shall do7 What shall |, , mai
lie groaned. Shall 1 sacrifice " an,
'eares, hearts idol for ambition. / Ma
vaulting ambition, which DO,
,een the curse and glory of men
lid you select me for your victim. 4
'ther Napoleon must bid farewell I
mother Josephine. la fl
He could not give up the prospathe
f one day being constable of Tanbaipan
'ownship, or perhaps the exalted po4cat'
ion Of one of the Township board. pct
but / can have revenge yes, I'teft
ave revenge on that internal Pepper on
e cried starting up, his pale blue eyefol
ASKING fire. Yes l will find him anPu
rash him within an inch of his life Nv
He started to find Pepper. re
1t is sometimes hard to ind a man $
GU really do not care to meet, blu:
upper run across Pepper somewhat j
.cidentally. He found him just 60 r
e out of a saloon his nose little red
I'd eyes full of fight. If Dipper had
ot told several Of his friends whose
lpport he expected when he became
candidate. that he was going toi !
hale the ground With Pepper, vel !