The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-23
THE CHIMES
<ro+;rned from Pafe Four.)

Years had passed since he
that NM into that belfry n that
caihe New Years Eve again. iaey
It Wa rim Lillian grown to De a
show woman and, because or hef
youns beauty and her great poverty
gree wrong. They showed hlm ms
gone Neg haggard from want and
loved ~ m the verge Of starvation.
WORK nu-ad him Richard discouraged.
they Ind an outcast- They showed
druaN9mn eg and Richard had never
'na..tnd because of the wise words or
nlafLlV 80 men who interrupted his little
t nnner Of tripe long ago.
rnav showed him after a lapse or
ne bow Richard and Meg were at
unl0 carried and more Wretched than
r. 1sora and Richard dying in a little
celoa ever Mrs. Chickenstalker's, leaV-
~. Meg with a baby and then Meg
.n1npd out of doors. Ana tney snow
~ bin, Will Fem, turned, making
"a ~ annearance at a great dinner
n nh;ch was being given by that emf
W. W. Friend and Father Of the Poor,
snn 1oseph Bowley, at BoWley Hall,
:; - honor of Lady BoWley's birthday
nhinb bapDened to be on New Years
nav q coincidence which the local
newspapers considered as an especial
nointing of the finger of Providence
10 Number Onc DIS Lazy oOWAO .
destined figure in creation.
Rowley Hall was full Of visitors. The
Gentleman who longed for the good
e11' times was there; Mr.. Filler was
here with his facts and figures; Alder
man Cute was there. The Alderman
had considerably improved his &C
ouaintance with Sir Joseph, it appear
Cd ON the strength Of his most at
1entive letters asking if Sir Joseph
would have Will Fern Put Down
There was a dinner for the great peo-
ole in one hall and a dinner for the
Happy Tenantry in another hall, and
which the Happy Tenantry had done
eating-or before-they were mar
shalled into the other hall, and Sir
Joseph. in his celebrated character of
Friend and Father Of the Poor, made
a speech. Sir Joseph then gave a
toast: Friends and Children and the
Dignity Of Labor"
There was a disturbance at the
lower end of the hall m Will Fern
appeared. Trotty's ghost watched him
ably dressed. "Gentlefolks," said he,
you lave drunk The Laborer-look
at me-" Just come from jail said
Mr.. Fish, the secretary. Just come
from JAIL replied Will. land neither
for the first time, nor yet the fourth.
] was suspected-Was to be Put Down.
Your Jaws were made to trap such as
me and they did trap me. / tried to
live decently, but it was TO Jail with
him" l was "a vagabond and it was
to jail with him. I comes back and
goes a nutting in our woods and by
accident broke a branch or two. TIC
Jail with MIN. One of your keepers
sees me in broad day near my own
patch of garden with a u To jail
with him Had a material angry word
with that man when I was free again
10 Jail with him. l cuts a stick. TIC
JAIL with i'm. And so it went on I'm.
til when anybody finds me anywhere
ADDING anything-to Jail with him.
'Gentlefolks, give us in mercy better
MONIES when we are in u cradles
give US better food when we are work.
ing FOR our lives. Give us kinder laws
10 bring US back when we go wrong
rul MS rightful spirit into a man
For now his spirit is divided from
yours. Bring it back, bring it bacl
aore the day when even hi.
blDle IS changed in his altered mint
anu the words seem ito him to read
Nshlther thou goest / cannot go
Nhere thou lodgest I cannot lodge
cnS people are not my people nor tn.
GOD my Cod"
There was an agitation in the hal
NNA 1OOS Saw II no more. bu
",tef d while he caught one NOR
g,lmpse of Will Fern. He was al
u.tef outcast; a p~rofessed crimina
anu the incendiarv. fires which h
hgnted cast a lurid CLEAN upon tn,
NUS OF the countryside.
Ihey showed him at last Meg, will
( enid, upon the banks of the river
ana she about to throw herself and he
pnsprlng into the dark waters. 81 wa
der lather,' cried the old man t tn
nulh shadows flying above, "hav
mercy on her and on me. ! Where doe
III go? Turn her back" But the,
6nry pointed to her and said: 1T
resperatlon!' And still she leaned owe
In, Inc river and murmured. Lillian, Lii
nal' 70 De changed like Lillian" lob
paans forth to his daughter an
saasped her in his arms; he felt hi
s s5as OF touch returning. He strug
sied with her.
fsana just then the chimes, the oil
i om friends. began to ring tn
10Y peal for a new year SO Justify. s
smnTrror1lly' SO gayly. so happily, that h