The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-06-17

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Why Mr.. DuXbury Farley spared the
/ iron master in the froezing-o out process
was an unsolved riddle to many. But
| there were reasons. For one, there was
/ the lease of the coal lands, renewable
/ year by year-thls was Calebs own
honest provision inserted in the con-
tract for the Majors protection-ond
renewable only by the Majors friend.
Further, a practical man at the pracu-
cal end of an industry Is a sheer ne
cessity; and by contriving to have
honest Caleb associated with himset
in the receivership, a fine color OF up
rightness was impaired to the promot-
er's far-re4thing plan of aggrandlze-
ment.
So, later, when the reorganization
was effected; when the troublesome
dividend hungry stockholders Of the
original company were eliminated by
due process Of law, Caleb's name ap-
peared on the Farley slate with the IT,
tie Of general manager of the new COM
pany-for the same good and sufficient
reasons.
It was during the fervid six months
Of ChiaWassee Coal and Iron develop
ment that Thomas Jefferson had
passed from the old life to the new
from childhood to boyhood.
simultaneously there were the coal
mines opening under the cliffs oil
Mount Lebanon, the long, double row
of coking- ovens building on the nat
below the furnace, and the furnace it.
self taking on undreamed-o magnI-
tUdes under the hands Of the army oI
worllmen. Thomas Jefferson did his
best to keep the pace, being driven 10y
a new and eager thirst for knowledge
mechanical, and Of a gripping desire to
be present at all the assembling of all
the complicated parts of the threefold
machine. And when he found 1t I'M
possible to be in three places at one
and the same moment it distressed
him to tears.
OF the home life during that strenu-
Gus interval there was little more than
the eating and sleeping for one whose
time for the absorbent process was ali
too limited. Also the perpleXing ques-
tions reaching down into the under
soul Of things were silent. Also, again
mark Of a change so radical thdt
none but a Thomas Jefferson may read
and understand-an awe-inspiring Ma
jor Dabney had ceased to be the first
citizen of the world, that pinnacle be-
ing now occupied by a tall, salloW,
smooth faced gentleman, persuasive Of
speech and superhuman in accomplish
ment who was the life and soul Of the
activities and whom his father and
mother always addressed respectfully
as Colonel Farley.
One day, in the very heat of the
battle, this commanding parsonage at
whose word the entire world of Para
disc was in travail, had deigned to
speak directly to him-Thomas Jetler-
son. 1t was at the mine on the noun
tain. The worBmen were boiling into
place the final trestle of the inclined
railway which was to convey the coal
in descending carloads to the bins at
the coke-ovens, and Thomas Jefferson
was absorbing the details as dry
sponge soaks water
Making sure that they do it just
right, are you, my boy?" said the great
man. patting him approvingly on the
shoulder. That's good. I like to see
a boy anxious to get to the bottom Of
things. Going to be an tron-master
like your father, are you"
"N-no," stammered the boy. Il wisht
was."
well what's to prevent? We are
going to have the comDletest plant in
the country right here, and it will be
fine chance for your fathers son; the
finest i'm the world"
"'Tamt goin' to do me any good
said Thomas Jefferson, dejectedly. u
got to be q preacher"
MIR. Duybury Farley looked down at
MIN curiously. He was a religious per-
son himself, coming to be known as
pillar i'm ST. MichaeTs Church at South
Trcdagar. liberal contributor and
prime mover in a plan to tear down the
old building and to erect new one
more in keeping with the times and
South Tredegar's prosperity. Yet he
was careful to draw the line between
religion as a means of grace and bust
ness as a means Of making money,
"rhat is your mothers wish, 1 sup
pose; and it's worthy one; very wor-
thy. Yet, unless you have a special
yocation-but there; your mother
knows best, I am only anX-
ious to see your fathers son succeed !
in whatever he undertakes.'
After that, Thomas Jefferson secret |
Nv made Success his god, and was
aIertly ready to fetch and carry for
the high priest in its temple, only the |
were infrequent
For. wide as the Paradise field seem
ed to be growing from Thomas Jerfer- |
sons point Of view, it was altogether |
too narrow for Duxbury Farley The |
principal Offices of Chiawassee Coal |
and Iron were in South Tredegar, and |
there the first vice president was |
huilding a hewn stone mansion, and |
had become a charter member of the |
city's first club; was domiciled in due |
form, and was already beginning to |
soften his final RS" and to speak of |
himself as a Southerner-by adoption. |
So sped the winter and the spring |
Thomas Jeferson's 18th |
birthday, and for the first time in his |
life he saw the opening buds of the |
ironwood and the tender fresh greens |
of the herald poplars, and smelled the |
sweet, keen fragrance of awakening !
nature, without being moved thereby |
Ardea he saw only now and then, as
old Scipio drove her back and forth |
between the manor-house and the rail- |
way station, morning and evening. He |
had heard that she was going to school |
in the city, and as yet there were no |
of adolescence in him to make |
him wish to know more.
AS for Nan Bryerson, he saw her not |
at all. For one thing, he climbed no |
more to the spring -sheltering altar
rock among the cedars; and for anoth- |
err among all the wild creatures of the |
mountain, your moonshiner is the shy |
est, being an anachronism in world |
Of progress. One bit of news, however, |