Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-27
CHAPTER iI.-Continued.

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climbs in and chloroforms her.
CHAPTER il.-Continued.
So he remembered Clara van
Camps advice, wrote the whole story
to Aleck, and cast about for the one
successful business chance in the 1our
thousand nine hundred and ninety
nine bad ones-as the STATISTICS
have it,
He actually found it in shoes. FOOT
ball muscle and grit went into the !oo
of putting superior shoe on INFERIOR
foot. If necessary-at least on some
foot. He got a chance to try MS pow
ers IN the home branch of manu-
featuring house, and made gooo'
When he came to fill position Wnere
there was opportunity to try ne"
ideas. he tried them. He inspected
tanneries and stockyards. He got coiii-
rosite measurements Of all the 1eeI
in all the womens colleges In the
wear ninety-seven. he drilled statesmen
and opened a night school lor tll7
Observation-Disclosures. he made sclen1inc
study of heels, and he invented an
aristocratic arch and put 1t on the
market
The family joked about his dolngs
as the harmless experiments Of live
w boy. but presently they began to
enjoy his income. Through It all they
were affectionate and kind, with the
matter-of-course fondness which
family gives to the members that
takes the part of useful drudge. john
the pet of the parents, married, ana
had his own eyes opened, II is 10
be supposed Donald, the genius, had
lust arrived. after a dozen years or
so. at the stage where he was men
toned now and then in the literary
Journals. But Jim stuck to shoes
and kept the family on a fair tide or
modest prosperity.
Once, in the years of Jim's appren-
ticeship to life, there came over him
fit of soul-sickness that nearly
proved his ruin.
Il can't stand this" he wrote to
Aleck Van Camp; its too hard and
dry and sordid for any man that's
got soul. It isn't the grind | mind,
though that is bar enough; 1t is the
Commercial Idea that eats into
mans innards. He fOrgets there are
things that money can't buy. and in
his heart he grows contemptuous of
ANYTHING to be had without money
and without price He can't help 1t.
II he is thinking OF trade nine-tenths
of the time. his mind gets set that
way I'm ready any minute to jump
the fence, like fathers old colt up
on the farm I'm not snob, but |
recognize now that there was some
reason for all our old Hambleton an
cestors being so fpicky about trade.
{ DO you remember how we used to
saaTf when we were Riddles, about
Ykeeping our. ideals? Well | believe
Vim bankrupt. Aleck, in my account
with ideals. don't want to howl, and
SNese remarks don't go with anybody
else. but | can say to you. | want them
back again"
Aleck did as a kiddie should do,
writing much advice on long sheets of
paper, and illustrating his points
ttchlv. like a good Scotchman, with
scientifc instances. A month or two
later he contrived to have work to
do in Boston, so that he could go out
IN LYNN and look up Jimmy's case.
pe even devised cure by creating,
In his mind. an office in the biological
world which was to be offered to
lanes on the ground that science
,eeded lust his abilities and training.
orytv I
found that Jim. in some fashion or
other. had found cure for himself
He was deeper than ever in the bust
ness and yet, in some spiritual sense.
ha had found himself He had cap
,ured his ideal again and yoked 1t TO
duty-which is great feat.
After twelve years of ferocious la
bor with no vacations to speak of.
lanes mind took turn for the worse.
Physically he was as sound as a bell,
though OF lath-iike thinness; but an
efYervescing in his blood lure6 his
mind away from the study of lasts and
accounts and Partisan models and
sent 1t careering. like Satan. up and
down the earth. Romance, which had
been drugged during the transition
from youth to manhood, awoke and
coaxed for its rights. and whispered
temutingly in an ear not yet dulled to
its voice. Freedom. open spaces.
laughter. the fresh sweep OF the wind,
the high buccaneering piracy of life
and ioy-these things beglamoured
his senses.
So one day he locked his desk with
. final click. I'he business was In