Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

Ills nsdrb' apparently; Tor gradually
his puppydom fell from him and he be-
came 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
store, and lived under laws of their di-
rectors' making.
But there was Naboth's vineyard in
the center of the settlement.
The trouble was that old Col. JAY re-
spected his ancestors, and refused to
listen to any proposition regarding
their sale; for the vineyard" was
family burying-ground this time.
The superintendent vainly repre-
sented to him that the bones should be
carefully removed.
They are earth to earth by this
time, sir" said Col Jay, with stateli-
ness. "When l seV that ground, sir,
sell them. So we will not mention it
again, If you please, SIR"
After that, the superintendent, who
suspected pistol in every Alabama
pocket, did not care to open the subject
again.
Amt you ever goin' to sell, Col.
Jay?" asked 10.
He had padded across the creek
which separated the glass works from
the old mans house, and was sitting on
his porch with him in the twilight.
mo, sir. Nor amt ever going to
accommodate again neither. l told
those Dixes they might bury their lit
tie babby there, and what did they do?
Laid it right on great-grandaunt Liza.
went and told them they'd got to
take that babby off. But it warnt
pleasant. won't accommo date
again"
"And you amt ever goin' to sell, Col.
JayP"
Look here, Jo," said the colonel,
testify, show old are you? Eighteen
years. Well, l guess you remember
me as soon as you remember anything.
Did you ever know me to change my
mind? That ground ain't-ever-to-
be-disturbed!'
10 turned his full blue eyes on the
colonel.
"How about when you die, Col. Jay?'
he asked in his most deliberate speech
The colonel was staggered and
showed 1t.
'If were you," 10 went on, now
looking over the water, I'D fix thai
while I was able. There's a whole
acre there and there amt but one enc
of 1t in graves. I'd sell it all under 6
deed that would make the man who
bought it keep the grave end nice and
clean, and the grass cut-and perhap;
flowers"
Col. Jay rose from his chair.
"Boy," he cried, you're right! Why
didn't think of that?"
Then his face fell suddenly.
"But who'd be fool enough to buy?
81 would" answered 10, stolidly
"and If don't pay you hundred dollars
for 1t in a years time, you can talk
the ground back and all the improve
ments on it,
What the improvements meant, thu
whole works soon knew.
go Tolly's store" was the talk o
the place. 1t was little more than
shanty, but the laborers soon Learned
that the shanty had goods of bette
quality and lower price on it's shelves
than the company's handsome store
house had on theirs.
at amt very pretty outside, but
tried to have it good in" said 10
modestly, looking at the well-stockec
walls. II 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 GOV
cred him. and the bit of land on which
it stood. The rest of the tract hat
been sold almost to the very doorstep
long before.
There had been no one to interfere il
his reinvestment, his father having
performed the first graceful act in hi
worthless life by stepping out of it a
this opportune time.
Don't spend it all in shoestrings an,
rock candy, Tolly," the superintendent
had said. Put it in bank and try t.
keep adding to your bank book, That
the way"
Eyes, sir" said 10, submissively; bu
at the same time it was not his way
nor did he follow it.
At first the Tolly store was onl,
open at night, and 10 waited on tn
customers after hours, but as the bus
ness grew small boy kept store b,
day and was assistant to the proprie
tor at night.
81 shouldn't think you'd dare, 10;
shouldn't indeed" said the weal1-knee
clerk, who came to inspect his enter
prise by stealth and after nightfal
"Why, | wouldn't even like the chief t
see me come in here. And how ca
you sleep right next to those graves?
81 like them" said 10, showing tn
first sign of interest. I'm getting ret
fond OF them. l like Aunt Liza, and
feel like knew Aunt Jane.
"Dear friends, repent; no more delay,
For death will come to take no nay;
Be always ready, night and day,
l suddenly was snatched away
l feel just like she was saying it to m
every time | read it,
The head clerk-he of the "peele
eyes"-also paid 10 a visit; but he cam
in by broad daylight and examine
everything.
He laughed q good deal, and locke
at JOS placid face curiously.
you're bucking against big cor
Germ, my boy" he said. 81 tell yo
you'll have to work like an OK and kic
like steer"
10, smiling his rather stupid, slov
smile, listened to each one and sal
: nothing.
AS yet the superintendent had sal
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