The Detroit times., 1913-07-26

CHAPTER VIII.
(Corttnueo)

teNtS 10 eNdue WOrk-WUlcn explain
ed a deal about the News circulation.
Miss Vance sat down in the swivel
chair at the editors desk which Har'
,ap had vacated. She was tailored far
beyond Rome's possibilities even II
Sarah Coyne. the dressmaker, had
since a recent trip 10 Chicago. chang
ed the legend on her shop-window TO
"Modiste" Tailored aud groomed,
thirty, aggressive, keen. reserved
the county said IL was not for moth
ing she was daughter OF Jake Vance.
the political farmer Janet was ac-
credited to be the most effective cam
pagner in the courthouse; she had
bon elected TO her second term by a
splendid majority after having car
ried her first election 10 the courts
The old-line party men had not want
ed her, but they had had 10 accept a
woman school superintendent She
looked Harlan over with critical inter
est Mrs. Van Hart and High street
had not given her much support
Arne was poking among Wiley .
exchanges, snorting militantly now
and then He was on his way back
TO the agricultural school In WiscOn-
sin, where he absorbed as much radi-
cal politics as soil culture. Out OF
his pockets now bulged a great vel
low ear OF prize corn and bundle or
congressional speeches. Jake Vance,
arguing about the Square on mar
ket days in his old, moth-eaten. bur
falo coat, expounding his heresies 70
the farmers, was proud OF his two
children
Country.bred. there was no hay
seed about them. Out at Cloverland
fam they had a telephone, piano
player. a motor that did nearly every
thing about the house and stables.
and all the newfangled devices: and
the doubling farmers always stopped
10 see what next the Vances were
up to
While we're all here put in Wi
ley. Tets talk over the Christmas
member OF our magazine SOS we can
get II ont by April. It's really due
10 our subscriber
Miss Vance looked at him. Wiley
she said decisively I'm going to sell
The Inland Empire
Mr. Curran feigned distress and
amazement Sell It? Why, you
can't-Tm president
Besides" he went on riotously,
we've got a new subscriber was
afraid orr other one would die. The
Gem--Chicago Style. Since Sallie
Frisby came back from the city she
says it's shame this town has no
place where one can go after the the
alter, so she s going 10 keep the Gem
open until ten o'clock II there's not
: soul in the place. She's going 10 give
Rome a touch OF high life. and on thar
20 ctth0nrihn TN
The Inland Empire-if we give her a
write-up. Also. We take il out in
trade. BY jove, | jumped at 1.-THE
Inland Empire does need a square
meal"
Miss Vance looked at him in some
despair Nevertheless were going
10 sell the magazine-to Des
Moines chap who wants to turn Ii
into a farm journal
Mr. Curran looked doleful II Ia
true he was president OF the corpora
ton, but most of Miss Vance's sal
airy had gone of late to get The In
land Empire out OF the Earlville pTnt-
shop Wiley had long since exhaust
ed his eloquence and his credit Mr..
Currans touch seemed as irrespons
IDLY fatal 70 this grand scheme as ii
had TO the News circulation. Janet
had had great dreams of The Empire.
She had wanted expression and
achievement beyond the routine OF
her work: she had thought To touch
the world, its letters. crafts. move
ments with her own convictions they
would build their magazine slowly 10
success, aspiring high but yet keep
ing 10 the good earth. with depart
ments for the home. the farm and
countryside. while battling for the
militant political ideals OF the west
II would mean the sweetness OF pow
er and freedom--nov she wondered
how her own practical mind could
ever have supposed it would succeed
with Mr.. Curran at its business head
Wiley" she said severely. Il shall
sell tt
You had better" he murmured
again dsmally, consult our stock
holders
Arne and Harlan shouted irrepres.
sibly. Go ahead" cried Harlan. I'll
donate mine I'm too busy this year
to furnish any more Boston Notes,
and the athletic resume anyway.
move we go down 10 the Gem. eat
out that dollar subscription and then
suspend publication at once
Harlan" retorted the superinten-
dent, Wiley is demoralizing you
I'm glad you're going back to Har
ward"
Hen brother 10 Jked with some frank
resentment on the immaculate young
man The lean-faced student-farmer
from Wisconsin had the dyspeptic
dathesis OF the reformer. The genial
ease Of breeding in the judges son
CALLED him al times, even AS did Cur
rams whimsical impracticality. Arnes
black eyes went about the old shop
with impatient envy. the old Wash
ington press. the stack OF frayed ink
rollers. the high wooden cases of type
stained and whitfield by generations
of wandering printers; the ramshack-
Is desk piled with yellowing old dus-
~ papers. gummy with paste and
inky accretions except In the one spot
where the editor was wont TO push
everything aside to find writing
space-the student.farmer, burning
with his fiery zeal, saw In it all pow
er-power unused, dissipated per
verted He was forever urging Wiley
TO further radicalism: and Wiley at
his best was irresponsible enough.
The Vances and the News had been