News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-01

| Sloch III the oHodl river cotton mills
didn't your" asked Bishop defantl,
and yet with the manner of n MAJ
! throwing missile which he hoped
would fall lightly.
Eyes, knowed that butt The
| woman's eyes were two small fires
burning hungrily for information be
| yond their reach.
"Well, it happens that Shoal stock is
| Jest the same on the market rs ready
money, up little today an down to-
morrow, but never varyin more'n a
fraction of a cent on the dollar an SC
the Tompkins heirs say they'd lest as
lieve have it, an as I'm itchin' to re.
lieve them of Their land 1t didn't take
us long to come together"
If he had struck the woman souarely
in the face, she could not have shown
more surprise. She became white to
the lips and with a low cry turned to
her son. ooh, Alan, don't-don't let
i'm do it. It's all we have left that
we can depend on! 1t will ruin us!'
"Why, father, surely" protested
Alan as he put his arm around his
mother, surely you can't mean to let
go your mill investment which is pay
ing 10 per cent to put the mOuSAinto
lands that may never advance in value
and always be a dead weight oyyNour
hands! Think of the loss of interest
and the taxes to be kept up. .wther,
you must listen to-
"Listen to nothin'," thundered Bish-
op, half rising from his chair. No
body axed you two to put in. It's nv
business, an I'm a-goin' to attend to
it. l believe Pm dom the right thing,
an that settles it."
"The right thing" moaned the old
woman as she sank into chair and
covered her face with her hands. Mr..
Trabue," she went on fiercely "When
that factory stock leaves our hands we
won't have single thing to our names
that will bring in a cent of income.
You kin see how bad it is on a woman
who has worked as hard to do fer her
children as I have. Mr. Bishop always
said Adele, who is visitin' her uncle's
family in Atlanta, should have that
stock for a weddin gift eff she ever
married, an Alan was to have the low
er half of this farm. Now, what would
we have to give the girl-nothin' but
thousands o acres O hills mountains
an gulches full o bear, wildcats an
catamounts-land that it I'D break any
young couple to hold on to, much less
put to any use. Oh, | feel perfectly
sick over itw
There was heavy, dragging step in |
the hall, and long, lank man Of six |
ty or sixty-tive years of age paused in |
the doorway He had no beard except |
a tuft of gray hair on his chin, and his |
teeth, being few and far between gave |
to his cheeks hollow appearance He
was Abner Daniel, Mrs. Bishops bach
elor brother, who lived in the family.
Hello! he exclaimed, shifting a big |
quid Of tobacco from one cheek to the
"Plottin' agin the whites? Eff |
you are, I'll decamp, as the Teller - |,
when the bull yeerlin' butted i'm if4!a 7
small O. the back. How are you Mr..
Irabue? Have they run you out O.
town fer someso' yore legal rascality?'
Il reckon your sister thinks it's ras-
cality that's brought me out today"
laughed the lawyer. I'VE are on a lit
tie land deal"
"Oh, well, I'll move on" said Abner
Daniel. Il jest wanted to tell Adm
that Riggs hogs got into his young
corn in the bottom jest now an rooted
up about as many acres as Pole Bak-
RS plowed all day. Eff they'd a-rooted
n straight rows an not gone too nigh
he stalks, they mOught "a done the
rap more good than harm, but Their
him or intention, one or t'other, was
'ad. Folks is that away. Mighty few
# 'em root-when they root at all-fer
anybody but the'rse'ves Well, I'll git
long to my room"
Don't go, Brother Alb" pleaded bis
lister. Il want you to hep me stand
Up fer my rights. Alfred is about to
Wap our cotton mill stock fer some
lore wild mountain land"
In spite of his natural tendency to
urn everything into a jest-cyen the
erious things of life-the sallow face
the tall man heightened. He stared
lto the faces around him for mo-
leRt; then slow twinkle daWned in
is eye.
i've never been llnowed to take sides
any connubial tussle yet" he said to
rabue in dry tone. "Alf may not
now what he's about right now, but
e'S Solomon hisse'f compared to a
9ller that will undertake to settle a
Ispute betwiXt a man an his wife
ore especially the wife. Geewhilikins!
never shall forget the time old Jane
Lardeway come heer to spend a week
n Aft thar an Betsy split over buyin'
hatrack fer the hall. Betsy had seed
ne over at Masons at the campground
n determined she'd have one. Maybe
gu noticed that fancy contraption in q
lie hall as you come in. Well. Alf seed
niger unloadin' it from a wagon Mt
lie door one mornin', an when Betsy
feer an trenholm, told i'm what it
as fer he mighty nigh had a fit. He
I'D his folks never had been above
angin Their coats an hats on good ,
out nails an pegs, an as fer them !
mbrella pans to ketch the drip, he ,
lid they was fancy spitboxes, an I,
anted to know eff she expected a body