The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-05-12
By B00TH TARkINGT0N

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
him, and over the swelling chorus her
full soprano rose, lifted with all the
power in her.
| The barouche rolled into the square,
and as it passed HAIRLESS turned and
bent a sudden gaze upon the group in
the blackboard, but the western sun
was in his eyes and he only caught a
glimpse of vague, bright shape and
dazzle of gold, and he was borne
along and out Of view down the singing
street.
GLORY, glory, halleluiah!
Glory, glory, halleluiah!
Glory, glory, halleluiah!
AS we go marching on
The barouche stopped in front Of the
courthouse, and Harkless passed up a
lane they made for him to the steps.
When he turned to them to speak, they
began to cheer again, and he had to
wait for them to quiet down.
eve can't hear him from over here"
said Briscoe. Were too far off. Mr..
Meredith, suppose you take the ladies
closer in; I'll stay with the horses"
Hes great man, isn't he?" Mere
dith said to Helen as he handed her
out of the blackboard. 1--WE been try
ing to realize that he's the same old
fellow I've been treating so Familiarity
all day long,"
Eyes, he is a great man." she an
swered. ''This is only the beginning"
"That's true" said Briscoe. "Only
wait awhile, and we'll all go on to
Washington and get thrill down our
backs when we hear the speaker say,
The gentleman from Indiana and see
John HAIRLESS rise to speak. But hurry
along, young people,
Crossing the street, they met Miss
Tibbs. She was wiping her streaming
eyes with the back of her left hand and
still mechanically waving her hand
kerchief with her right. isn't it beau
tiful?" she said, not ceasing to uncon-
sciously futter the little square of cam
brio. There was such throng that
I grew faint and had to come away.
don't mind your seeing me cry. Pretty
near everybody cried when he walked
up the steps and we saw that he was
lame"
John HAIRLESS looked down upon the
attentive, earnest faces and into the
l1ir61u ovoc IF tho Hooc;ou oo,,p%~x, ,,oo
pie, and as he spoke the thought kept
recurring to him that this was the place
he had dreaded to come back to; that
these were the people he had wished to
leave, these who gave him everything
they had to give, and this made it diff
cult to keep his tones=steady and hi.
throat clear. Helen stood so far from
the steps (nor could she be induced to
penetrate farther, though they would
have made way for herr that only
fragments reached her, but these she
remembered.
II have come home. Ordinarily a
man needs to fall sick by the wayside
or to be set upon by thieves in order to
realize that nine-tenths of the world is
Samaritan-and the other tenth only
too busy or too ignorant to be. Down
here he realizes it with no necessity Of
illness or wounds to make him know it,
and if he does get hurt you send him
to congress. There will be no other in
Washington so proud of what he stands
for as shall be. To represent you is
to stand for fearlessness, honor, kind
ness. You have sent all of the Cross
readers to the penitentiary, but prob
ably each of us is acquainted with
politicians who ought to be sent there.
When the term is over I shall want
to take the first train home This
is the place for man who likes to
live where people are kind to each
other and where they have the old
fashioned way of saying 'home;' other
places they don't seem to get so much
into it as we do. And to come home as
I have today-to see the home faces-I
have come home.'
CHAPTER XIV