The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-13
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to 1t, you play her fur bein' sound and
true. Pass up the others, son."
: As the train started he swung him
self off with a sad little BE good to
yourself!"
THANK the Lord we're under way
at last!' cried P%ercival, f%ervently,
when the group at the station had
been shut from view.
isn't It just heavenly" exclaimed
his sister. '"ThinK of having all Of
New York you want-being at home
there-and not having TO look forward
to this desolation Of a place"
Mrs. Bines was neither depressed nor
elated. She was maintaining that
calm level of submission to fate which
had been her lifelong habit. The jour-
ney and the new life we're to be UNDER
taken because they formed for her the
line of least resistance along which all
energy must flow. Had her children
elected to camp for the remainder of
their days in the center Of the desert
of Cobb, she would have faced that life
with as little sense Of personal con-
| CtIH anu WIFI UO IlOlC IulOSiNlh5o'
Down out of the maze Of hills the
train wound; and then by easy grades
after two days of travel down off the
great plateau to where the plains Of
Nebraska lay away to a far horizon in
brown pillows of withered grass.
Then came the crossing of the sullen,
sluggish Missouri, that highway of an
narlior dow tp tha uraat north utncf. and
after that the better wooded and bet
ter settled lands of Iowa and Illinois.
Now we're getting where Christians
live" said Percival, with warm appre-
citation.
"Why, Percival," exclaimed his moth
err, reprovingly, "do you mean to say
there aren't any Christians in Mon
tana City? How you talk! There are
lots of good Christian people there"
And even Mrs. Bines was not with
out a sense of quiet and rest induced
by the gentler contours of the land
scape through which they now sped.
THE country here does seem a lot
c~ozier," she admitted.
The hills rolled away amiably and
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their gay coloring of autumn invited
confidence. Here were no forbidding
stretches of the gray alkali desert, nc
grim bare mountains, no solitude Of
desolation. 1t was a kind land, fat
with riches. The shorn yellow fields
the capacious red barns, the well-con'
ditioned homes, all told eloquently Of
nnnnn nnI n1nntu Co ton did tho vii
lages-those lively little clearing
houses for immense farming districts
To the adventurer from New York they
seem always new and crude. To oul
travellers from a newer, cruder regior
they were actually aesthetic in theil
suggestions of an old INT well-estab
lished civilization.
In due time they were rafting ovel
a tangled maze Of switches, dodginl
interminable professions Of freigh
cars, barely missing crowded passen
ger trains whose bells struck clear ant
/ then fatted as the trains flew by; de
fling by narrow waterways, crowded
with small shipping; winding through
streets lined with high, gloomy ware
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strangely sounding bells and whistle.
Of a thousand industries, each sendin.
up its just contribution of black smoke
to the pail that lay always spreac
!, above; ana steaming at last into
, great roomy shed where all was sys
tenn, and where the big engine trem
bled and painted as if in relief at hav
inc RIM in Cnfptv q pant1af ca hozorI
GUS.
: Anyway, I'd rather live in Montan;
, City than Chicago" ventured Mrs
= Bines.
Whatever pride you may feel IL
your discernment is amply justified,
| replied her son, performing before tn,
amazed lady a bow that Indicated tn,
= lowest depths of slavish Difference.
81 am now he continued, "goin,
, out to pace the floor of this locomotiv
boudoir for a few ex%hilarating breath
of smoke, and pretend to myself tina
I've got to live in Chicago forever. !
( little discipline like that is salutary t
keep one from forgetting the grea
t blessing which a merciful Provio enc
> has conferred upon one"
"Ill walk a bit with you," said hi
sister, DOMINIC her jacket and a cal
Lest my remarks have seemed in
determinate, madam" sternly contin
ued Percival at the door of the cal
permit me to add that If Chicago wer
Heaven I should at once enter upon
life of crime. Do not aIect to misun
derstand me, l beg Of you. I shout
leave no avenue of salvation open t
my precious soul. l should incur n
: risk of being numbered among tn
saved. l should be bad, and | shout
sit up nights to invent new ways G
evil. If l had any leisure left fror
g being as wicked as / could be, l shoul
: devote it to teaching those l loved no,
to become abandoned. l should doubr
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