The Globe-republican., 1891-10-01

For the first few weekx 10 folly wss
like a newborn puppy out in the world
with his eyes shut
.Yor must look about you. Tolly."
fSad the Head u snow. ] started
Ct with. no lone no educsti ton, no
Scking, nd Jam, all by keeping
1.-The clerlE SEithS he weak knees struck
in:
"Look at me, he said. 81 have been a
sober, honest, industrious, G~od-fesring
man for fifteen years, and not q cent to
| show for it"
10 turned his long. ruddy face and
big, innocent blue eyes from n to the
other AID said nothing. He rarely
talked, and when he did, it was with q
deliberate slowness which barely es-
capped a drawl. r+t'
But he pondered all that he heard in
his heart. apparently: for gradually
his puppydom fell from him and he be-
came a satisfactory fixture in the Office.
The Brookville glass works were a
close corporation. They had bought
up two thousand acres about the site
selected. for their works. Their laborers
dwelt in their cottages built on their
land; they bought from the company
r%ectors' making.
But there was a Naboth's vineyard in
the center of the settlement. :
The tronble wasthat old CoLJay re-
speoted his ancestors. and ralhsed to
listen to anysspf0position sxstarding
their sale; for the vineyard" was a
family burying-ground this time.
The superintendent vainly repre-
sented to him that the bones should be
carefully removed. g
They are earth to earth by this
time, sir" said Col. Jay, with ~stateli-
ness. when I sell that ground, sir, I
sell them. So we will not mention it
again,'if you please, sir"
After that. the superintendent, who
suspected a pistol in every Alabama
pocket, did not care to open the subject
again. aTsE sea oeTaa : io~rrE
Amt you ever goin' TO sell, Col.
Jay uShCu ~.
He had padded across the creek
which separated the glass works from
the old mans house, and was sitting on
Eb1s porch with him in the twilight. g
fNo. sir. Nor 1 amt ever going to
4ommodate again neither. / told
pse bikes they might bury their lit
baby there, and what did they do?
id it right on great-grandaunt Liza.
4sTent and told them they'd got to
kteke that baby off. But it warn't
EHleasant. l won't accommodate
f4gain."
"And you amt ever goin' to sell, Col.
9ay??" q
s..Look here, Jo," said the colonel,
e6stily, ''how old are you? Eighteen
4rs- Well, l guess you remember
as soon as you remember anything.
d you yer know me to change my
Ind? That ground ain't-ever-to-
R69Ndisturbed.''
10 turned his full blue eyes on the
|4oolonel. -f
E"How about when you die, Col. Jay?"
he asked in his most deliberate speech.
The colonel was staggered and
showed it. ttH
IF 1 were you," 10 went on, now
looking owe the water, I'D fix that
while 1 was able. There's a whole
acre there and there amt but n end
of it in graves. I'd sell it all under a
deed that would make the man who
bought it keep the grave end nice and
clean, and the grass cut-and perhaps
flowers"
Col. Jay rose from his chair.
Boy" he cried, you're right. Why
didn't l think of that?"
Then his face fell suddenly.
But who'd be fool enough to buy?"
81 would" answered 10, stolidly:
land if i don'tpay you a hundred dollars
for it in a years time, you can take
the ground back and all the improve
ments on it."
What the improvements meant, the
whole works soon knew.
80 Tolly's store was the talk of
the place. 1t was little more than a
shanty. but the laborers soon learned
that the shanty had goods Of better
quality and lower price on its shelves
than the company's handsome store
house had on theirs.
ut amt very pretty outside, but l
tried to have it good in" said 10,
modestly, looking at the well-stocked
walls. Il spent all my money there"
The money referred to was a small
sum which he had gotten by auction
ing off the worn-out roof which COW
cred him, and the bit of land on which
it stood. The rest of the tract had
been sold almost to the very doorstep,
long before.
There had been no one to interfere in
his reinvestment. his father having
performed the first graceful act in his
WORTHLESS life by stepping out of it at
this opportune time.
'Don't spend it all in shoestrings and
rock candy. Tolly," the superintendent
had said. Put it in bank and try to
keep adding to your bank book. That's
the Way"
Eyes. sir" said 10. submissively: but