Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-10

proper persons soon became better known
TO Wllkesburg, and were received with
of talking about the greatness of New
York, and Cousin Jim showed how he had
expanded, but Wilkesburg folks didn't
mind that. Cousin Jim was one Of them.
and they were glad to hear of his achieve
ment In the metropolis. He was admitted
to the Saturday afternoon circle in the
store on terms of amity and equality. 1t
was soon discover ed there that he had very
little knowledge of politics, and the least
expert among them could corner him In
an argyfication." But as they knew he had
been ensrossed for mere than twenty years
In important business affairs they did not
lay this up against him. In fact they
were rather glad of 1t, for while they were
willing to confess that Mr.. Pearson had
beaten them badly in the race for wealth,
there YVES consolation in knowing that they
We're better politicians than he, for in
Wilkesburg religion alone takes precedence
OF politics, and every man is a red-hot
partisan.
After Wilkesburg had decided that the
Pearsons were not stuck up despite their
worldly prosperity and the fashionable cut
of their clothes, the people saw that the
visitors had good time in so far as the
resources of the village went. Mr.. Crock
EFT. OF course, was especially careful to adj
munster TO the wants and pleasures OF
his guests. He always remembered that
Cousin Jim was Kentucky born and would
overlook in Wilkesburg the absence of
the luxuries and splendors to which he was
accustomed in New York. When the time
came for them to return to New York he
was sincerely sorry, but he knew the busy
season Was coming on and Jim'S presence
in the great store there was necessary. So
he reluctantly assisted them in the prepa-
rattons for their departure, urging them
many times to come and see him and Will
kesburg again.
We want you to visit US in New York. -
said Cousin Jim, but don't suppose you'll
ever be travelling that far. To you it would
look like going to the end of the weird,
wouldn't it?:
Il reckon 1t would said Mr.. Crockett.
New Yorks been gettin along without me
for long time, an l guess it'll have to
keep on dom it,
Mr.. Pearson laughed. Then they shook
hands with Mr.. Crockett and his friends
and were off for New York, leaving Wilkes
burg to discuss their sayings and doings
for many months. Mr. Crockett was proud
of the impression that Mr.. Pearson and his
wife had made.
There was an unexpected ana heavy ad-
vance the following autumn in the price
of White Burley tobacco on the Louisville
market. Mr.. Crockett was expert
raiser of White Burley, and that season it
had been his luck to put in an unusually
large crop. When winter came and his
tobacco was sold he found that he had a
very pretty sum of money to his credit in
the bank. 1t was so much that he felt
rich and able to take a holiday. There
would be very little work to do until spring
about the farm, which was in trim and
tidy fix, and when he gave the matter
further thought he was unable to see any
good reason why he should not indulge his
inclination.
Although he soon decided the first point
Mr.. Crockett was in a state of perpleXity
fer some time over other points. equally
important. Where and how hould he take
his holiday? Such thing as a set holiday
had no part in the life of the five hun
dred people who constituted the population
of Wilkesburg, and the only organized
amusement ever known IN the village was
the debating society which met every Fri
day in the cold season, in the school house,
and tried very earnestly to decide whether
the Indian had suffered more wrongs than
the negro or whether war or whisky had
done the greater injury to man. He mig ut
go hunting bit there was no novelty in
that and, besides, the game was becom-
ing very scarce in the region around
WilkeSburg.
The right idea came to him one evening
two days of doubt and indecision. He
would go to New York and see the Pear
sons. Such a thing as going to New York
had never occurred to him before. New
York was so far away, and although it
must Re real he had never persuaded him
self that it was.
Yet now that he thought of it there seem
| ed to be nothing impossible in the idea. He
/ had plenty of money in the bank and no
kin to look reuroachfully at MIN If he
! should spend it. There was no reason why
| he should not take the trip.
There was much surprise in Wikesbure
| when it became known that Mr.. Crockett
was going to New York. 1t had never