The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-07-18

"Hef you any Acquaintance of Mister
FearT' he inquired in return. with nc
expression decipherable either upon
his Gargantuan face or in his heavily
EMBODIED eyes.
mo, sir" replied the reporter, grin
ming. II never ran across him."
dot ISIS a goot ting fer you." said
Mr.. Farbach stonily. "He iss not u
man poebles bedder try to run across.
It iss what Cory tried. Now Cory iss
dead"
The reporter, slightly puzzled, lit
cigarette. "See here, Mr.. Farbach," he
urged, II only want word or two
about this thing, and you might give
me a brief expression concerning that
man Louden besides, just hint Of
what you think Of his influence here
you know, and Of the kind Of sharp
work he practices. Something like
that"
Il see," said the brewer slowly.
Happy Fear hef knowt for goot
many years. He ISIS goot frient OF
mine"
"Whatf"
"Choe Louten ISIS bedder one," con-
tinued Mr.. Farbach, turning again to
stare at his chickens. "Git owit"
"Whatw
"Git 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 fellow
laborer in the harvest field for speak
ing i'll Of Joe, and the unraveling of
strange street fight one day disclosed
as it's cause like resentment on the
part Of a blind broommaker, engen-
dered by a like 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
for his own sake and twice more ''to
show up that shyster Louden." Warm
words followed, leading to extremely
material conflict, in which, in spite Of
his blindness, the broommaker had so
much the best Of it that he was re-
moved from the triumphant attitude
he had assumed toward the person Of
his adversary, which was an admirable
imitation Of the dismounted st. George
and the dragon. and conveyed to the
jail. Keensst investigation failed to
reveal anything oblique in the mans
record. To the establishment of Ca
naan, there was nothing against him.
He was blind and moderately poor, but
a respectable, hardworking artisan and
a pride to the church in which he was
what has been called an "active work
er." 1t was discovered that his sensi-
Joseph Louden arose from the fact that
Joe had obtained the acquittal of an
tmbecile sister Of the blind man, two
thirds witted woman who had been
charged with bigamy.
The Tocsin made what it could of
this, and SO dexterously that the wrath
Of Canaan was one farther jOt increas-
ed against the shyster. Aye, the town
was hot, inside and out
\ Let us consider the forum. Was
there ever before such a summer for
the National House corner? How
voices first Numbered there, then
cracked and piped, Is not to be rem
dered in all the tales of the fathers.
One who would make vivid the great
doings must indeed dip his brush in
earthquake and eclipse" Even then
he could but picture the credible and
must despair of this-the silence of
Eskew Arp. Not that Eskew held his
tongue, not that he was chary of
speech-no! o tempora, o mores! No!
But that he refused the subject in
hand, that he eschewed expression up
on 1t and resolutely drove the argu-
ment in other directions, that he
achieved such superbly un-Arplike in
consistency, and with such rich mate
rial for his sardonic humors, not at
arms length not even so far as his
finger tips, but beneath his very palms.
he rejected it. This was the impossible
fact.
Elsewhere is no option but to de-
clare-was no longer Eskew. It is the
truth. Since the morning when Ariel
Tabor came down from Joe's office,
leaving her offering of white roses in
that dingy, dusty, shady place, Eskew
had not been himself. His comrades
observed it somewhat in physical diff
ference, one of those alterations which
may come upon men of his years sud-
denly, like sea change" His face
was whittier, his walk slower, his voice
dled thinner. He creaked louder when
ne rose or. sat. Old always from his
boyhood, he had in the turn of a hand
become aged. But such things come
and such things 60. After eighty there
are ups and downs. People fading
away one week bloom out pleasantly
the next, and resiliency is not at all a
patent belonging to youth alone. The
material change in Mr.. Arp might have
been thought little worth remarking.
What caused Peter Bradbury, Squire
Buckalew and the colonel to shake
their heads secretly to one another and
wonder If their good old friends mind
had not begun to go" was something
very different To come straight down
to 1t. he not only abstained from all
argument upon the "Cory murder" and
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