Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
SYNOPSIS.

Agatha Redmond. opera singer. starting
az an auto drive in New York. finds q
oSrxEger sent as her chauffeur. She ID
annoyed, but he remains. Leaving the car
enc goes into the park to read the vii! OF
fn aid friend of her mother. who has lelt
Tar property. There she Is accosteu ny
ssranger, who follows her to the auto
effrnbs In and chloroforms her.
CHAPTER ll.-Continued.
So he remembered Clara van
Camps advice, wrote the whole story
10 Aieck, and cast about for the one
sUccessful business chance in the -FOUR
thousand nine hundred and ninety
nfne bad ones-as the STATISTICS
have It.
He actually found 1t in shoes. foot-
call muscle and grit went into the !oo
Of putting superior shoe on lnIerioi
foot. IL necessary-at least on some
loot He got chance to try MS pow
err in the home branch OF manu-
Occurring house, and made gooo.
When he came to fill position wnere
there was opportunity to try new
ideas. ne tried them. He inspected
eanneries and stockyards. He got COM
passte measurements of all the rect
In all the women's colleges IN the
year nfnety-seven, he drilled statesmen
and opened a night school for the
acknowledgements, he made sclentinc
study OF heels, and he invented an
arfsfocratic arch and put 1t on the
market
The family 3oked about his doings
az the harmless experiments OF i've
" boy, but presently they began 10
enjoy his income. Through 1t all tney
we're aaectionate and kind. with the
matter-of-course fondness which q
family gives to the members tnat
takes the part of useful drudge. Jonn
che pet If the parents. married, ano
had his own eyes opened. 1t Is to
be supposed. Donald, the genius, had
fuat arrived, after dozen years OF
60. at the stage where he was men
toned now and then in the literary
Journals. But Jim stuck to SHOES
end kept the family on fair tide OF
modest prosperity.
Once. In the years Of Jim's appren-
<sceship t. life, there came over him
q CT OF soul-sickness that nearly
Hrnwed his ruin.
IT can't stand this" he wrote to
AIeck Van Camp; 'it's too hard and
dry and sordid for any man that's
not a soul. It isn't the grind l mind,
enough that is bar enough; 1t Is the
Commercial Idea that eats into
mans innards. He forgets there are
<hsnEs that money can't buy, and in
tafs heart ne grows contemptuous OF
anything 20 be had without money
and without price He can't help 1t.
Fl he is thinking of trade nine-tenths
OF the time, his mind gets set that
way. I'm ready any minute to jump
che fence, like fathers old colt up
OH the farm. I'm not snob, but I
recognize now that there was some
ceason for all our old Hambleton an
cestors being so finicky about trade.
do you remember how we used to
Talk, when we were Riddles, about
tEeeping our ideals? Well believe
T'M bankrupt, Aleck, in my account
with ideals. I don't want to howl, and
these remarks don't go with anybody
cine. but car say to you, want them
tack again."
Aleck did as kiddie should d.
writing much advice on long sheets of
paper, and illustrating his points
richly, like good Scotchman, with
Vefentific instances. A month or two
iafer he contrived to have work to
q I'm Boston, 90 that he could go out
70 Lynn and look up Jimmy's case.
He even devised a cure by creating,
On his mind, an Office in the biological
world which was to be offered to
flames on the ground that science
eseeded Just HIS abilities and training
nut when Aleck arrived in Lynn he
nUnd that Jim, in some fashion OF
Sel1er, had foEnd q cure for himself
Re was deeper than ever in the bust
cess, and yet, in some spiritual sense
- had found himself. He had cap
snred his ideal again and yoked 1t te
au<y-which is a great feat.
After twelve years of ferocious la
hcr. with no vacations to speak of
yames' mind took turn for the worse
physically he was as sound as q bell
though of lath-like thinness; but al
sMervescing in his blood lured his
ezind away from the study Of lasts ant
accounts and Partisan models ani
cent 1t careering, like Satan, up ant
opwn the earth. Romance, which hat
been drugged during the transition
from youth to manhood. awoke ant
ooaxed for it's rights, and whispered
temptingly in an ear not yet dulled t,
tts voice. Freedom, open spaces
oAnghter, the fresh sweep of the wind
che high buccaneering piracy Of If
md joy-these things beglamoure'
n1s senses.
60 orc day he locked his desk witt
/ dnal click Ths business was u