The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-06-19

uneoulcated folk, ana ken naethin
ABBOTT the matter, sac We just TAX m
word fort, that the tories are in ii
RIGHT and vote accordingly. I've bee
guild master to We, and it's shurel
better to pleasure me, than a whee
leein' scoondrels whae tramp the cour
try wi leather bags and printit trash.
| Then arose from the back the pillow
man, strong in his convictions: "Listel
to me, We men," says he: "just vote a
We think best. The masters guit
master, as he says, but he's nocht t.
dae wi your votin'. It's what they ca
inteemedation to interfere wi onybody
in this matter. So mind that, an vote
for the 'workin'man an his RIGHTS"
Then ensued a war of violent words
SIS this meetin' in my barn, or a
pcnny-waddin'
Cat what We please. Joanna let We
n:islead the men,"
"Whae talks about misleadin'? Is't
misleadin' to lead them richt?"
"The question:" said the plowman,
solemnly, sit what you ca RIGHT"
William Laverhope, if We werena a
guild plooman, we wad gang post-haste
DOT O here the morn"
Il carena what We say. I'll stand up
for the RIGHTS of thae men,"
Men," this with deep scorn. IT could
max better men than thae wi stick
DOT O the plantin'."
"Ay. We say that moo, an the morn
veil be cain ilka yin O. them mister,
a for their votes"
The farmer left in digniffed disgust,
but still dangerous; the
plowman in triumph mingled with de-
spair. For he knew that his fellow
aborers cared not whit for politics,
,ut would follow to the letter their mas
er's bidding.
The next morning rose clear and
Inc. There had been great rain for
he past few days, and the burns were
oming down broad and surely. The
lachlands water was chatting by bank
nd bridge and threatening to enter the
ay-field, and every little ditch and
heep-drain was carrying its tribute of
eaty water to the greater flood. The
armer Of Clachlands, as he looked over
lie landscape from the doorstep of his
marked the state of the
Gather and pondered over it.
He was not in pleasant state of ,
ind that morning. He had been r
ossed by plowman, his servant. He l
led the man, and so the obvious way of !,
aling with him-by making things
lcomfortable or tuning him off-was
ut against him. But he burned to get ?
e upper hand of him, and discomfit :
&c for all one who had dared to q,1es-
m his wisdom and good sense. If 9
ly he could get him to vote on the ;,
her side-but that was out of the !,
estion. If only he could keep him =
I'm voting-that was possible but un-
ely. He might forcibly detain him, :,
which case he would lay himself open A,
the penalties of the law, and be moth :.
: the gamer. For the victory which -
desired was moral one, not tri- -
lph of force. He would like to cir :,
invent him by .cleverness, to score =
llnst him fairly and honorably on his =,
n ground. But the thing was hard, :.
l, as it seemed to him at the moment.
as he looked over the morn =.
landscape, thought struck him
made him slap his legs and chuckle ~
rely. He walked quickly up and 70
vn the graveIed walk. "Losh, it's -,
d. I'll dae't. I'll dae't, if the weather ~
It hauds.'' 49,
is unseemly mirth was checked by =,
approach of some one who found "a
farmer engaged in the minute ex- -
nation of gooseberry leaves. I'm III
cerned ABBOTT thae busses," he was tir
ing; they've been ill lockit to, an fer