Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26

Otnor way than Dy breaking the laws TO
sell people that which Injuries them"
Somehow Mart felt that the usual ar
guments In favor Of moonshining would
| not have much effect on this refined,
! delicate girl, whose presence now
| beamed upon him almost like some
angelic presence from another world.
| Still they chatted on, he with a grow
ing sense of discomfort and inferiority,
and yet withal strangely fascinated. He
| was ignorant and specifically coarse,
| yet he knew that at heart he desired to
act right and be honest, only right and
honesty had suddenly assumed new
and astounding phase in the light OF
| her sweet presence and kindly remon-
| strances.
The rain at length ceased, and they
soon arrived at the Widow Green's.
Agnes, at the doorstep, offered him a sill
| him to q great deal OF trouble. Silver
dollars were tempting, but he declined
| taking it, saying:
Il reck'n [ kin erbleege people, eff I
am moonshiner."
Never mind" she said, with re-
assuring smile, 'you must take it Just
to please me. Perhaps it will help you
a little in getting better employment"
The next day little Mart returned for
his sack and kegs, rejecting, deeply.
After getting them he went to the Hang.
ing Rock, and there kindled fire with
chestnut bark, on the very spot where
Agnes had sat and talked to him. Then
he placed the sack and empty kegs
| to ashes. AS at last he turned away, he
muttered:
"Me m mother hev got to git our
| livin' some yuther way after this"
That night his mothers little cabin in
| the Red Knobs was surrounded by four
deputy marshals, and Little Mart
marched off a prisoner of the United
States, to Athens. Two months later,
after his release from jail, he came
f! home, only to learn that Mrs. Baird
and her daughter had returned to Chat
| tanooga.
Little Mart felt disappointed. Though
| he realized the nature of the social gulf
| between them toe well to hope to min
| Gle much with people like the Bairds,
| yet he wished to see Agnes once more,
| and tell how her kind words and sweet
smile had made another man Of him.
He secured work in the log camps in
! the mountains, and few weeks there
alter went down TO Chattanooga on a
| large raft of logs. Having then an idle
day on his hands, he thought he would
! venture to call on the Bairds.
He dressed himself in his best suit of
hOmespun Jeans, and soon found the
house from the directions given him by
the Widow Green. The imposing brick
front, and the aristocratic neatness of
the surroundings rather daunted him,
but he resolutely knocked on the door,
regardless of the polished bell handle,
and boldly asked the trim colored
- e h.
might see Miss Agnes, explaining also
that "She'n' her mother know;d me in
the mountains
The servant surveyed him wonder
ingly, yet after a moments hesitation
babe him follow her, and at once
ushered him into the parlor, where Ag-
mes and another young lady, with two
or three fashionabIy-dres young
men. sat talking and laughing together.
Agnes had risen as the door opened.
The contrast between her graceful,
styiishly-garbed figure and little Mart's
awkward pose, ill-ftting clothes. and
rusty brogans, as he stood clumsily
holding his broad-brimmed wool hat,
was, as one of the young men whispered
to the other young lady, ''too utterly
paralyzing."
Agnes recognized him instantly, and
colored with the reverse of pleasurable
sensations as she said carelessly:
go yes, you wish 10 see my father.
He never transacts business at the
house; you Will find him at the office.
Margaret" to the servant. "show this
gentleman to the door,
Then she coolly turned away, and be-
fore Little Mart fairly knew what be
was about he was walking down the
street with his thoughts in whirl and
dull pain at his heart. At the corner
a gentleman stopped him.
'Why. you are Mart Dodson, are you
not? This is fortunate, as you happen
to be the very man [ was wishing to
see.o
The speaker was the father of Agnes
Baird, whom Mart had seen once or
twice when Mrs. Baird and her daugh-
ter were at Hawk Cliff. Mr.. Baird was
largely interested in the new iron in
dustries then developing throughout
East Tennessee; and alter dragging our
half-reluctant hero into an Office nearly
as luxurious In It's appointments as the
parlor from which he had been SO I'M
tremendously dismissed, the former
said to him:
"Young man, you are in luck. Our
mining experts have been investigating
some of the iron deposits of the Red
Knobs, particularly near Hawk Cliff,
and they report some veins of unusual
richness The new railroad now pro-
jected from Cleveland to Tellico will
render some land there valuable. You
| and your mother have eighty acres. I
am prepared to buy you out for a lump
sum. or give you S., 900 for half-inter-
| est
Little Mart gazed at Mr.. Baird, half
stupefed with wonder. Yet amid the
| turmoil of his emotions came the
| thought that, if this were so, he would
at last have the time and means OF
making gentleman of himself, so that
people would not want to turn him out
of-doors for looking like the clod he
| felt himself to be at present.
| There was some further talk. Thel
Little Mart took his leave, promising
| to go Immediately home. see his mother,
look around little, and let Mr.. Baird
know. His native shrewdness did not
altogether forsake him. If there was 9
fortune in their poor, WORKOUT farm,
Little Mart determined that the bod
sons should have their share of it. He
could then go off, get an education, see
| and mirole with the world and If he