Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-02-23
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."How is your mother?' he asked a
few minutes later.
"Not at all WELL Mr.. Redfield is to
take the doctor back with us tomor
row" The ecstasy died out Of her
face. and the flexible lips dropped with
troubled musing. II am afraid she
suffers more than she will admit"
'She needs rest and change. She
should get away from her seat at that
cash register and return to the open
air. A touch of camp life would help
her She sticks too close to her work"
~ know she does. but she won't let
me relieve her, even for an hour. 1t
isn't because she doesn't trust me;
she says it's because she doesn't want
me sitting there-so-publicly. She
doesn't oppose my housekeeping any
more
"You certainly have made the old
hotel into a place of miraculous neat
ness"
She flushed with pleasure. 81 have
done something, but not as I'd like to
do. really think If mother wishes
to sell she could do so now to much
better advantage"
'I've no doubt of it. Really, I'm
not being funny, Miss Wetherford,
when l say you've done something
heroic. It's no easy thing to go into
a place like that and make 1t hab
table. 1t shows immense courage and
self reliance on your part. It's pre-
gcisely the kind Of work this whole
country needs"
His praise, sincere and generous, re-
paid her for all she had gone through.
It was great pleasure to hear her
small self praised for courage and self
reliance by one whose daily work was
a conquest Of her heart, for the ranger
bore himself with grace and dealt with
his silver deftly. His face, seen from
the side. was older and sterner than
she had thought it. but it was very at
tractive in line.
Redfield appealed to the ranger
"Ross, you're all sorts Of reactionary.
What do you say to this? Senator
Bridges is opposed to all federal inter
ference with state forests and state
game
The forester's eyes lit up. But are
they state forests and state game?
What makes them so? They are lands
which the whole people purchased and
which the whole people defended"
"Heah. heahr' cheered Enderby.
Bridges bris.led with anger and went
off into long harangue on state rights
and the dangers of Capitalization, to
Which Enderby replied: "Bosh. The
whole trouble with your bally gov
eminent is its lack of cohesion. If l
had my way I'd wipe out the senate.
You're such blooming asses over here.
You don't know enough to keep a real
ly big man in your presidential chair.
This fussing about every four years is
plain rot. Here's Roosevelt gets in
the midst of lot of the finest kind of
reforms, you know, and directly you
go and turn him out. Then If you get
n bad man you've to wait four years
till you can fetch him whack. Why
not arrange it SO you can pitch your
president out the minute he goes
wrong? l say your old rag Of con-
stitution is ball and chain on your
national leg. England is immeasura-
bly, better off so far as that goes
Ross turned to Virginia, leaving the
political discussion to go on over his
head. II was back in the old island
couple of years ago, and you've no
idea how small it seemed to me. 1t
surely is a right little, tight little
island l couldn't help wondering
yhAth hn in, ltprT
as important as they seemed to think
they We're and whether England is not
really an empty shell of empire, a
memory of what ii once was.
couldn't settle down there some way.
/ was homesick for the mountains IN
month But what scared me most
was the pauper population of the old
place-one in every thirty-seven must
be helped l came back to the States
gladly. Il guess I'm an American,
said to my sisters"
To Lee Virginia the talk of 1.-THE
curse of democracy" and the deca.
of empire was uneXciting, but wher
Cavanagh told of the sheepmen's ad
vance across the dead line on Deer
creek and of the threats of the cat
tie owners she was better able to fol
low the discussion. Bridges was
heartily on the side Of law and order
for he wished to boom the state (beine
a heavy owner In a town sitel, but ht
objected to Redfield's ideas of dot
Ting up the resources of the state"
But we're not" retorted Redfield
''we're merely defending them against
those who would monopolize them
We believe in their fullest use, but W,
see no reason for giving away the re
sources when the country needs tn.
+ revenue s' 30
Mrs. Redfield rose as soon as the cot
fee came on. "You gentlemen seen
bent upon discussing matters Of no IN