The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29
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the city park. Old Uncle Japheth the trader, was one of them.
 The love making Is graceful, natural charming.
 It is the old story of boy and girl love, love that going through all the stages of friendship and comrade scarie ty recognizes itself as love till the great day comes.
 It is the same story of love that is a good mans only love and that yet per mits him to give the greater part of his energy to study of his perfermin to practice of his business, and in Tom Gardens case to swing his soul.
 Few novels recognize so sanely and naturally as The Quickening" that man has a soul and that it can give good bit of trouble and exacts much thought and strict attention.
 It is pretty love-making upon the mountain Christmas Eve when Tom meets Ardea as she comes down the slope with her arms filled with holly. Tom tells his troubles of his expulsion from college. of his mothers illness.
 Tom and Ardea find each other at l is that of the woodland walk, over | the moss-grown footlog in the lovers month of June.
 Even at home under the great tulip tree in Southern moonlight 1t Is life's l great problems that are uppermost with these very sensible and enchant- ing young lovers.
 His eyes are love-blinded. and the white-gowned figure beside him fills l all horizons
 "1 can't see past you, Ardea. New l ertheless, I'm going to believe that l feel the good old pike solid underfoot- and they say that the House Beautiful is somewhere at the mountain end of 1t. If you will hold my hand, I be- lieve, I can make out 10 walk in it.; blindfolded. I have to-and without thinking too much of the yesterdays" An, the yesterdaysr she said tender ly. They are precious, too, for out of them, out of their hindrances no less than their helpings, comes today. Kiss me twice, Tom; and then I must go in and read to Major Grandpa" The story of Toms business ventures and success is stirring reading. The good old fashioned religion of the ex- horting uncle. of the mother of tender prayers and harsh judgments. the ster- ling honesty of the father in the end keep Tom in the paths of righteous dealings even with his dishonest and scheming, even thugging partners, the Farleys.
 It Is with satisfaction that we see Tom refrain from crushing his guilty partners even when ne mas trapped them. After all we remember what the author and Tom seem to forget that it was Duxbury Farley, when yet an idol to the country boy. who taught him the meaning of the word: Suc- cess.
 Tom Jeff had dejectedly declared that he could not be an iron man-be- cause he "got to be preacher"
 That is your mothers wish, sup pose? said Duxbury Farley: and it's a worthy one; very worthy Yet. unless you have a special vocation-but there your mother doubtless knows best. am only anxious to see your father son succeed in whatever he undertakes.
 After that Thomas Jefferson surely made success his god. and was always ready to fetch and carry for the higf priest In its temple. only the opportu- mites were infrequent."
 The Nan Bryerson episode is over drawn. besides being an overworkeo and thread-bare piece of business The clean young man saddled the cir cumstances and scandal with the sins of the vicious fellow is too old tale No such sane fighting fellow as Tom would have borne with such state of affairs. even for the self-gratutatory