The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-12-18

ehaA an idea the Judge was suffering.
His mother shrugged. my dear, the
Pocket is no man's land-the river
II years ago. and it's he natural
bed OF the creek. Those people haven't
a sign OF tltle!"
T know" the son retorted. wiley
told me-
IT wish, my boy, you didn't set 10
much Of your k N or eonnty At.
watched him ~curiously, Did you sec
his scandalous editorial on the SUI
preme courts decision in the labor in
junction case?"
Yes. That labor organizer Eariville,
McBride-got Wiley excited about It.
It would smash the union movement,
Wiley said"
The judge sighed. For the nrst time
ne had seen a Hash OF Harlan'gsOld
cheerful eagerness-and It o Wiley
Curran's insurgency to bring 1t. "This
man, Mcbride. is organizing h soft
coal miners on the upper creek-alI
those foreigners that were brought In
there. And he denounced Congress-
mar Hall last Sunday at tho Earlville
Turn, Verein meeting, I hear
They're after Hall. father-hard.
ran ought to run against him-he says
the governors crowd will get behind
any to beat HALL"
The Judge laughed. wiley Curran
In congress? Harlan, I saw him last
week down on his knees digging up
keeps house for him-they were throw
Ing cupfuls of earth at each other and
shouting like children!"
Harlan smiled. Il suppose! But,
dad, this political move is getting big.
Jake Vance says it's the young mems
4n1nVPmanf M 1.nnE Of tho 11,r nS 1flyo "a
boy, Arne, who's come back from the
agricultural school chuck-a-block with
what he calls the Wisconsin idea. And
see how Governor Delroy won on it
hes the young mems governor"
The state retorted the Judge.
dryly, is in an uproar over nothing.
When this Wisconsin senator got up to
speak at the last session the solid and
representative men simply would not
Hsten-he talked to THAR empty seats.
A demagogue, q disturber-and as for
Jake Vance, he has been the county's
original malcontent since granger days
and greenbackism."
The young man listened quietly,
Father, his son Is different. You ought
to see how earnest he is. A student
farmer come back from Wisconsin
whooping 1t up for the initiative and
recall. and direct elections. out In his
fathers locality among the old moss
backs-and showing EN- how to raise
better corn than they ever did beforeI
Pigs and politics-Arne says!"
T." smiled the judge, "am still for
the constitution-and my boy, I'm glad
you went to Harvard instead of our
western colleges. II you're going into
politics he grimaced, for politics
was ~distasteful to him, and yet Harlan
had grown up with the consciousness
His mothers ancestry of Virginia had
given 1t to him as the milk he drew. It
had been the one grievance OF her
married life that the judge had not
cared for a more militant public life,
She had an old -fashioned ideal for her
boys future-she was not sure Of It
all, but 1t was to be a career honoring
the state, reaching UP, perhaps, we'll
n could never tell how far such a
son might go, one who had the best of
east and west in him. Despite their
tradition, the Van Harris felt the mid
Lands to be h heart and soul Of the
republic, the seat Of power and inspira-
ton. Loyal to every inch Of the At
lant1c seaboard, they knew the mighty
valley would home the millions Of the
best Americans, here would be tho
breed of the soil, the determining
economism. the building and enduring
individua1ism.
The mother glanced brightly at him
AOf course, Harlan's going into poll
tics! And he'll never have the struggl
I1ld 6llly Lee Will nave. Here, amOnE
his own people" she dreamed az
instant, her Eyes going out to the en-
ctrcling htlls-Harlan, dear-there'i
no limit to what I see for you. Oh
We want you to &c on, boy-always or
to the best and ~highest!" She arose in
her eagerness n came to him, parted
the fair hair from his brow and kissed
him. Dear boy, won't you thank us q
little bit-down in your heart-foI
saving you'll"
He was stirl. But his arm stole
about her slender waist. Her smooth
cheek under the silvery hair, which had
q g1rlish trick of coming down before
her ears, was again his own. After ali
h was the best Of mothers" as hs
had told Aurelia- Always about him
this gracious care, this ennobling pres-
ence this exalting standard Of life. AL,
ways this warm. serene, home -guard-
ing-all that was best.
He kissed her in their old conrade-
ship OF mother and son between whom
nothing could come. Mother, dear
he answered slowly, II knowI Oh, it's
been a battle, but I know!" And he
looked up to see now his father pa
tient eye shining upon them. Yes
they a lived only for him-they lived
for him now.
When he went out later, they
watched him swing across the lawn
and down High street in the unbroken
spirit of youth, a noble sunniness, q
clear freedom about him. They had
given him to the land, the best that the
land cOuld offer Thew uotcbaa IT., =.