Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-02

quite unable to refrain from featuring /
to the dumfounded pupils on archR-
olegy. neglecting more and more the
ordinary courses of instruction. grow
ing year by year more forgetful and
absent, lost in his few books and his
own reflections. until at last he had
been discharged for incompetency. The
dazed old man had no money and no
way to make any. One day he dropped
in at the hotel bar. where Wilkerson.
the professional drunkard. favored him
with his society. The old man under
stood. He knew it was the beginning
of the end. He sold his books in order
to continue his credit at the Palace
bar. and once or twice, unable to pro-
coed to his own dwelling, spent the
night in a lumber yard, pnoted thither
by the harder veteran Wilkerson.
The morning after the editor took
| him home Fisbee appeared at the Her
aid office in a new hat and decent |
suit of black. He had received his sal |
airy in advance, his books had been re- |
| purchased and he had become the re-
portorial staff of the Carlow County
Herald; also he was to write various
treatises for the paper. For the first
few evenings when he started home
from the Office his chief walked with
him. chatting cheerfully. until they
had passed the Palace bar. But Fls-
bees redemption was complete.
The editor OF the Herald kept stead
lily at his work, and as time went on
the bitterness his predecessors swindle
had left In him passed away. But MS
loneliness and a sense of defeat grew
and deepened. When the vistas of the
| world had opened to his first youth he
had not thought to spend his life IN
such place as Plattville, but he found
himself doing it. and it was no great
happiness to him that the Hon. Hedge
Holloway of Amo. whom the Herald's
opposition to McCune had sent to
Washington, came to depend on his in
fiuence for denomination, nor did the
realization that the editor of the Car
low County Herald had come to be
r McCune's successor as political dicta-
p tor produce a perceptibly enlivening eff
!. feet upon the young man. The years
, drifted very slowly. and to him it SEEM
r ed that they went by while he stood far
q aside and could not even see them
- move He did not consider the life he
r led an exciting one. but the other clti-
80 zens of Carlow did when he undertook
~ war against the White Caps. denl-
h. zens of Six Crossroads. seven miles
"a west Of Plattville. Tb natives were
"a much more afraid of the White Caps
than he was. They knew more about
y, them and understood them better than
u, he did, =.
There was no thought of the people
ot of the Crossroads in his mind as he sal
ha ON the snake fence staring at the little
IT smoky shadow dance on the white road
- in the June sunshine. On the contrary
or he was occupied with the realization
on that there had been a man in his clas!
no at college whose ambition needed M
no restraint, his promise was so great-ll
,ot the strong belief of the university, be
nm lief he could not help knowing-an'
,v that seven years to day from his com
60 mencement this man was sitting on
ri. fence rail in Indiana.
Down the pike buggy came creaR
an. ing toward him, gray with dust, oil
and frayed like the fat, shaggy gra
tn. mare that drew it, her unchecked, d.
RI |
mo while her incongruous tail waved ii
cessantly, like the banner of stormin
NJ. party. The editor did not hear tt
get flop of the mares hoofs nor the SCUM
ant Of the wheels, so deep was his re-
NV erie, till the vehicle was nearly opp
site him. The red faced and perspi
+be ing driver drew rein, and the journa
~ list looked up and waved long viii
tn;a hand to him in greeting.
n q .'Howdy' do, Mr.. Harkless?" callt
!, be the man in the buggy. "Soakin' in Il
IT weather." He spoke in shouts. thout
Won neither was hard of hearing.
,,oy. Eyes, just soaking" answered Har
nv less. Its such a gypsy day. How
for Mr.. Bowlder"
lad, 'I'm givin' good satisfaction. tha
YOU, and all at home She's in town.
tory "Give Mrs. Bowlder my regards
anne said the journalist, comprehending
1ght symbolism. How is Hartley"'
Old The farmers honest face shaded o1
.rtis- for q second. Hes ben steady e7
sell sence the night you brought him hoI
sub six weeks straight. I'm kind of DO
their cred about tomorrow-he wants to co
,ned. in for show day, and seems II L had
news any call to say no. l reckon he'll ht
that to take his chance-and us too. See
egan more like we'd have to let him, long
pear we got him not to come IN last III
atur- for Hedge Halloway's lecture at
sere- courthouse. Say, how'd that lect
strike you? You give Hedge mig
new fine send-off to the audience IN your
force PRODUCTION, but | noticed you SPOKE
One him as "a thinker without sayn W
room kind. l didn't know you was as
i old tious a man as that! Of course kl
and Hedge is honest
been HAIRLESS sighed. "Oh, he's the
was we've got. BOwlder."
three Eyes, 1 presume so, BUT Mr.. b
opped der broke off suddenly as his