Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-10-14

VI lnudy LII VI lIt hISb blhlO III hho
life he saw the opening buds of the
ironwood and the tender, fresh green's
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
oetween the manor-house and the rail-
way station, morning and evening. He
had heard that she was going to school
in the city, n as yet there were no
STRINGS of adolescence in him to make
MIN 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-
er, among all the wild creatures of the
mountain, you moonshiner Is the shy
est, being an anachronism in a world
Of progress. One bit of news, however,
ioated in on the gossip at Little Zoar.
1t related that Mans mother was dead.
and that the body had lain two days
unburied while like was drowning his
sorrow in a sea of his own "pine-top."
Vaguely 1t had been understood in
the Gordon household that Mr.. DuX-
bury Farley was a widower with two
children: a boy, some years older than
Thomas Jefferson, at school in New
England, and a girl younger, name and
place of sojourn unknown. The boy
was coming South for the long vaca-
+ ton, and the affairs of the Chiawassee
Coal and Iron-already reaching out
SIMULTANEOUSLY toward the future re-
{ ceivership-would call the first vice
!, president North for the better portion
: of July. Would Mrs. Martha take pity
on a motherless lad, whose health was
none of the best, and open her HON to
Vincent?
Mrs. Martha would and did; not I'M
: grudgingly on the vice presidents &C
q count, but with many misgivings on
Thomas Jefferson's. She was finding
the ~surcharged industrial atmosphere
of the new era inimical at every point
n to the development of the spiritual pas
e sion she had striven to arouse in her
son; to paving the way for the realiz-
ing of that ideal which had first taken
form when she had written Reverend
n Thomas Jefferson Gordon on the mar
It gin of the letter to her brother Silas.
d AS it fell out, the worst happened
y that could happen, considering the APP
st parent harmlessness of the exciting
= cause. Vincent Farley proved to be "
anemic STRIPPING, cold, reserved, witt
Of no surface indications Of moral deprav-
l. ity, n with at least a veneer of good
lie breeding. But in Thomas Jefferson's
Id heart he planted the seed of discomfort
~ with his surroundings, with the home
ly old house on the pike, unchanged as
"a yet by the rising tide of prosperity, anG
n, more than all, with the prospect of be
:, coming a chosen vessel.
~ 1t was of no use to hark back to thu
revival and the heart-quaking expert.
ences of a year agone. Thomas Jeffer'
IN son tried, but all that seemed to belont
al to another world and another life
al What he craved now was to be like thi!
a. envied and enviable son of good for
tune, who wore his Sunday suit ever.
day, carried a beautiful gold watch, an,
was coolly and complacently at ease
st even with Major Dabney and a foreign
90 born and Travelled Ardea.
ha Later in the summer the envy die,
"a down n Thomas Jefferson develope,
- a pronounced case of hero-worshiI
something to the disgust of the colder
hearted, older boy. 1t did not last yer
long, not did it leave any permanen
scars; but before Thomas J~efferso
was fully convalescent the subtle fiat
re terv of his adulation warmed the sub
III ject of 1t into something like compan
=" ionship, and there were braggin
ne stories of boarding-schoo life and {
-, the world at large to add fresh fuel I
the fire of discomfort.
Though Thomas Jefferson did ne
know it, his deliverance on that sid
u I ,m,, ,tnL To bod hnnr Inni1n1 th
'r- he was to be sent away to school, CHA
q wassee Coal and Iron promising han6
III somely to warrant the expense; an
=" the decision hung only on the choic
of courses to be pursued.
Caleb had marked the growing hur
ger for technical knowledge in the DO
Nv and had secretly gloried in 1t. Her
at least, was q strong stream of h
own craftsman's blood flowing in II
veins of his son.
~ 1T d be a thousand pities to spoil
good iron man and engineer to make
,ia' poor preacher, Martha" he objected
this for the twentieth time, and whit
the approach of autumn was forcir
the conclusion.
or II know, Caleb; bou you don't unde
stand" was the ~invariable rejoindt
for you know that side Of him, becau
the us our sue. but III my SUI ~
and-and, Caleb, the Lord has call
him!"
err Hes only a little shaver yet. L
her him try the school in the city for
The year r 80, goin' and comm on the ra
'oal roads, nights and mornin's, like t
and Majors granddaughter. After that.
was might see."
and Thomas Jefferson took his last afte
the noon for q ramble in the fields a
due woods beyond The manor-house, In tn
to part Of the valley as yet unfurrow