The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-26

Teufonic and sure. and BE- contribute'
onetwentieth o. his incOmc - the Ges
msn Orphan asylum aud oue~tenth .
bis parTy's campaign fund The tween
tieth saved the orphans from The cOun
". while the 1.-THE gave the county q
bis party.
He occupied a kitchen chair enjoy
ing the society OF some chickens In /
wired inclosnre behind the new Italian
villa he had erected in that part Of
Canaan where be would be most IN
comfortable and be looked wOOdenly
al the reporter when the latter Put his
question.
lief you any sxusintunce OF Mister
Feary' be inquired in return. with nc
expression decipherahle either upon
MS Gargantuan face or in bis heavily
EMBODIED eyes.
NO. sir" replied the reporter. grin.
ming. Il never ran across him"
dot ISIS a goot ting fer YOU" said
Mr. Farbach stonily. He ISIS not q
man poebles bedder try 10 run across.
Ii iss what Cory tried. Now Cory ISIS
dead
The reporter. slightly puzzled. Lii a
cigarette See here, Mr.. Farbach." be
urged, Il only want a word or two
about this thing. and you might give
me a brief expression concerning that
man Eouden besides. just hint Of
what you think OF his influence here.
you know, and of the kind Of sharp
work be practices. Something Ike
that"
Il see" said the brewer slowly
Happy Fear ! hef knowt for gOot
many years. He ISIS gOot frient of
mine
''WhatT
'-Choe Louten ISIS a bedder one" con
tinued Mr.. Farbach, turning again to
stare at his chickens. Git owit"
WHAT"
Cit owit." repeated the other with
out passion. without anger, without
any expression whatsoever. Git owit
The reporters prejudice against the
German nation dated from that mo-
ment
There were others. here and there,
who were less self contained than the
brewer A farmland struck a fellow
laborer in the harvest field for speak
Ing Ill Of Joe, and the unraveling of
strange street fight one day disclosed
as its cause a like resentment on the
part OF a blind broommaker. engen
1ered by a ike offense. The broom
makers companion. reading the Toe
sin as the two walked together, had
begun the quarrel by remarking that
Happy Fear ought TO be hanged once
or his own sake and twice more Ito
how up that shyster Louden." Warm
words followed. leading to extremely
material conflict. in which, in spite of |
IFS blindness, the broommaker had so |
much the best of it that he was re- |
moved from the triumphant attitude |
e had assumed toward the person of /
lis adversary, which was an admirable i
imitation of the dismounted st. George /
nd the dragon. and conveyed to the
all Keenest investigation failed to
eveal anything oblique in the mans
ecOrd. To the establishment of Ca
aan, there was nothing against him.
lie was blind and moderately poor. but
respectable. hardworking artisan and
pride to the church in which he was
that has been called an active work
r" 1t was discovered that his sensi-
veness to his companions attack on
oseph Louden arose from the fact that
Oe had obtained the acquittal Of an
nbecile sister of the blind man. a two
larged with bigamy.
The Tocsin made what it could OF
lis, and so dexterously that the wrath
Canaan was one farther jot increas-
against the shyster. Aye. the town
as hot. inside and out
Let us consider the forum. Was ,
ere ever before such a summer for
e National House corner! How .
ices first Numbered there. then
acked and piped, is not to be rem /.
red in all the tales of the fathers I,
ne who would make vivid the great
'ings must indeed dip his brush in !
rthquake and eclipse" Even then
could but picture the credible and
ust despair of this-the silence OF :
kew Arp. Not that Eskew held his
ngue, not that he was chary of
eech-nO! o tempora. o mores. No. !.
It that he refused the subject in
nd that he eschewed expression up :
II and resOlutely drove the argu-
INT In other directions. that he
hieved such superbly un-Arplike in
and with such rich mate
j for his sardonic humors. not at
ms length. not even so far as his
ger tips. but beneath bis very palms. Il
rejected IL This was the impossible
T.
sskew-there is no option but to de-
no longer Eskew. II is the
tn. Since the morning when Ariel
Dor came down from Joe's Office.
wing her Offering OF white roses In
I dingy. dusty, shady place, Eskew
not been himself His comrades
erved II somewhat In physical diff l