The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-17

had told his father his love story Tt
was highly necessary that he should
tell some one, and whom better?
David Blount listened with the far
away look in hts eyes that the son had
more than once marked as the great
est of the changes chargeab1e to the
aging years.
'@Think a heap Of her, do you, sonT'
he said when the ambling saddle ami
mails had covered another half mile Of
the homeward journey.
$50 much that it went near to spoil
ing me when she finally made me real
ize that I couldn't hold my own
against the career" he made an
swer. Then he added: ct want work,
father. That is what I am out here
for; the hardest kind of work and
plenty Of it; something that can put
my heart into. Can you find it for
me?'
There was the wisdom Of the cen
turtles in the gentle smile provoked by
this unashamed lovers appeal.
sI wouldn't take it too hard If I
were you, son. said the wise man.
f'AIEd as for the work, guess we can
satisfy you II your appetite isn't too
big. How would state Office do?''
O1lLlSSS QuGE10u
his horse down to the walk for which
his father had set the example. 1--WE
thought a good bit about that, though
haven't had any special training that
way. The schools OF today are turn
ing out business lawyers-men who
know the law and are trained particu-
larly in its application to the great
business undertakings. That used to
E1a ol@f& 70 I,
wiser and perhaps after awhile to
climb to the top of=the ladder and be
somebody's corporation counsel"
"But now you have changedF' s
ST don't know that I have. But
there are other fields that are also at
tractive. No man can study the poll
ties OF America today without seeing
the need for good men-men who will
administer the affairs OF the state or
the nation without fear or favor; men
who VIII hew to the line under any
and all conditions
A quaint smile was playing under
| the dropping mustache of the Hon.
Senator Sagebrush.
ST reckon we do need few men like
| that, Evan-need 'em mighty bad.
Think you could fill the bill if you had
a right good CHANGER
The potential newer of political
chips smiled
"Pm not likely to get the chance
| very soon," he returned. "Just at pres
ent I am still legal resident of the
good old commonwealth of Massachu-
| sets and a member Of its bar, eligible
to Office there and nowhere else.''
you'd be citizen OF this state by
the time you could get elected to an
Office in it, suggested the senator.
81 now-the required term of resi-
dence here Is r1d1culous1y short. But
you forget that am as unknown in
the sagebrush hills as you are well
known I couldn't get a nomination
for the Office of poundkeeper.''
David Blount was chuckling softly.
Sounds right funny to heaK you talk
that way, son. he commented. Mighty
near everybody will tell you that the
slate hangs up behind the door at War
trace, and don't know but some peo-
pie would say that old Sagehrush Dave
himself does most of the writing on it.
Anyhow, there's one place on it that
IS still needing name, and guess
yours would ft it as well as any
body's.''
The young man, who was so lately
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gasped.
''HeavensT' he CALCULATED. you're
not considering me as a possibility on
the state ticket before I've been TWEEN
ty-four hours on the ground, are you p
F'No, not, exactly as possibility, son.
Wen call it a sure thing if you want
to. IT'S this way: We're needing a
political housec1eanfng pretty bad this
year. We have good enough laws, I
guess, but they're wfnked at any day
in the week when somebody comes
along with barrel. The fight is up
between the people Of this state and
the corporations. It was up two years
ago, and the people got the laws all
right, but forgot to elect men who
would carry them out. This time
think the voters have got their knives
sharpened. We've been a little slow
catching step, but the marching orders
have gone out. We're going to clean
house this fall
''Not if the slate hangs behind your
door or any mans door, father" was
the theorists grave reminder. ere
form doesn't come in bysthat road
"*Hold on, SON; steady go easy's the
word Reform comes in by any old
trail it can find mostly and thanks its
lucky stars if it doesn't run up against
any bridges gone or any mudholes too
deep to ford We've got a good man
for goVernor-not any too broad, may
be, but good-church good; he's a min
lister of the gospel and the president
of a church university. No man has
ever said he'd take a bribe, but he
isn't heavy enough to sit on the lid
and hold 1t down. Alec Gordon, the
man who is going to succeed him next
fall, is all the things that the present
governor isn't, so that is fxed.T
Glow +fxed%'' queried the young
man, who, though he was not from
Missouri, was beginning to fear that
he would constantly have to be