Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-01-19


| ronwood 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
between the manor-house and the rail-
way station, morning and evening. He
nad heard that she was going to school
IN the city, and as yet there were no
stirrlngs of adolescence in him to make
MIN wish to know more
AS Tor 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-
En- among all the wild creatures of the
mountain, your moonshiner is the shy
est pelng an anachronism in a world
Oh progress. One bit of news however.
ioated In on the gossip at Little Zoar
II reiated that Mans mother was dead.
ana mat the body had lain two days
| uhpurled While Tike was drowning his
sorrow In sea of his own ''pine-to top"
vaguely 1t had been understood in
.he Gordon household that Mr.. Dux-
pury farley was a widower with two
cnlloren: boy, some years older than
Ihonas Jefferson, at school in New
England, and girl younger, name and
pace OF soJourn unknown The boy
was coming South for the long yaca-
tioi, ana the affairs of the Chiawassee
Goal ana lron-already reaching out
supterraneously toward the future re-
ceiVersnlp-would call the first vice
PRESIDENT North for the better portion
ol july Would Mrs. Martha take pity
Oh motherless lad. whose health was
none OF the best, and open her home TO
Vincent?
MIS-. Martha would and did; not un-
srudgingly on the vice presidents ac-
count out with many misgivings on
thoInas Jeffersons She was finding
'ne surcharged Industrial atmosphere
ol the new era inimical at every point
" the development of the spiritual pas
SION she had striven to arouse in her
SON. TO paving the way for the realjz-
ing OF that ideal which had first taken
lorin When she had written Reverend
Ihoinas JEFFERSON Gordon" on the mar
uin Oh the letter to her brother Silas.
AS IL fell out, the worst happened
'hat could happen. considering the an
parent harmlessness of the exciting
cause. vincent Farley proved to be IN
anemic stripping, cold. reserved. with
no surface Indications of moral deprav
ity' ana with at least a veneer of good
oreeolng. But in Thomas Jefferson's
heart ne planted the seed of discomfort
Win MS surroundings, with the home-
~ ola mousse on the pike, unchanged as |
yet by the rising tide of prosperity. and |
more than all, with the prospect of he |
coming chosen vessel.
IL was of no use to bark back to tho |
revival and the heart -quaking exnerf-
ences OF year agone Thomas LETTER.
son tried, but all that seemed to belong
10 another world and another lifc
what he craved now was to be like tbis
enVled and enviable son of good for
tune, who wore his Sunday suit every
day. carried beautiful gold watch ami
was coolly and complacently at easa
even with Major Dabney and a foreign
born and Travelled Ardea.
Later in the summer the envy diad
down and Thomas Jefferson develoned
a pronounced case of hero-worsbin
something to the disgust of the colder
hearted, older boy. 1t did not last very
long, not did it leave any permanent
scars; but before Thomas Jefferson
was fully convalescent the subtle fiat
terry or his adulation warmed the sub-
lect or 1t into something like comnan-
and there were Dragging
stories of boarding school life and Of
the world at large to add fresh fuel to
the fire of discomfort.
Though Thomas Jefferson did NOT
know it, his deliverance on that side
was nigh. 1t had been decided that
ne was to be sent away to school. CHA
wassee Coal and Iron promising hand
somely to warrant the expense. ana
the decision hung only on the choice
Of courses to be pursued.
Caleb had marked the growing HIM
ger for technical knowledge in the bow.
and had secretly gloried in it. Hero.
AZ least, was a strong stream of his
own craftsman's blood flowing in the
veins of his son.
1T d be thousand pities to spoil n
good iron man and engineer to make a
poor preacher, Martha" he objected.
his for the twentieth time, and when
he approach of autumn was forcing
he conclusion.
know. Caleb; bou you don't under
'tand' was the invariable rejoinder
4 GU know that side of him, because
Us your side. But he is my son. too.
ind-and. Caleb, the Lord has called
lim"
He's only a little shaver yet. Let
linn try the school in the city for a
'ear r SO, goin' and comm on the rail-
'oads, nights and mornin's, like the
MAJORS gran daughter. After that. we
night see."
Thomas Jefferson took his last after
loon Tor ramble in the fields and
woods beyond the manor house In that