The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-12-18
CHAPTER vn
PICS n Por.rTIcs.

PIGS AND POLITICS.
WHOM a man Ia so ana has lived well:
NMnen he has had money without InOil-
aag n honor without envy: has re-
etMGe OF the best without effort and
without price; when youth and matur-
~ have been chastened and nodded
~ that fine. rugged American tradition
which began with the founding of Har-
yard q the jamestown planters and
Followed easily the fighting line Of pio-
neers M he frontiers OF the republic
were lengthened-when one has. indeed,
had. righteously and wholesomely, all
0aro 10 to be had, there Is apt to come
m arrest of development. There comes
. GOODNESS of blood. q reserve of faiths.
3 caution OF more than age and the
mnar sag One win discover al least
pno family OF this sort in every small
hown OF the mid west, which, Is OF and
M soil enriched. ~. banker. the gro
Ner. ii lawyer and Iandholder: q fam
~ with an eastern tradition Of the
heSt-New England or Virgtnia--a pre-
eOnHaOn TO the elegance OF culture; q
group, which. while easily the leaders.
pits In q state OF correct isolation lest
Iheir honorable individualism be tram
paed BY the newer needs OF newer
k1ood
The Van Harts. migrating l~eisurely
b0hlnd the star OF empire, had beheld
efnr h dust and shouting; they had
Been formed by social forces that had
PUN their fire OF youth. that New Eng
d state OF mind OF ante-slavery days
which had once been the national on
pc4ence. W now vestigial and sta
&c. Tht Ang OF hungrier races
- ~ mSu west who had scratched
Tho bleak prairfes. finding the fat and
ytrkin lands now gone; the urg Of
PIE political revoits OF the trans Miss
k.sippt scttlers. time and again from
ho days OF populism TO the present;
me pathos and the idealism OK all this
pager building. had not touched them.
Fhetr county. one OF the Iowa reserve,
had felt family the thunder OF the
awakening; the dingy offices Of the
Rome court house had been filled by a
kroup OF the best people" so long that
H1Asa and q leadership. VIII. @t
There were younger mel who grew
40 TO feel vaguely the lapse between
what was best In the days OF their Ia
fhera n the needs Of today. Harlan
q Hart. himself, had discerned curl
buGly the rift between the fine spiritual
Rnvtron Of his fathers example and
- new. trcublous. social conscience.
0Nngings about Wiley Curran's news
btand. his friendship With Arne Vance,
bon OF old Jake, the political farmer"
he county's first tnsurgent. he had
wondered at II. The new movement
Was no hunger rebellion OF the cities,
ne mid west was enrtched-why. then.
he 0utcry7 .t
Harlan was packing Tor his depart.
Fre. He thought rather grirnly OF the
p0urney east. Elsie would be ON the
rain on her way to school, also, and
- would have to talk I o her. Elsie
IND all the town were curious with
korne story regarding him and Aurei1e
Andstrom--nothing definite. but all
mo more p~erplexing for that. Harlan
bad slowly famed since last night with
) resentment new In the genial com
Piacence OF his life. When the pack
6E was done he sat by the window
WbAra he could see the red and gold
Htigree OF b sugar naples thinly COW
bEing the rock face OF Eagle Point back
pf tho town. Today q blue haze en-
seloped the highest pinnacle. Some
where. out of this lazy freedom, a COW
heiI tinkled. II was Saturday and he
knew the boys were gathering wild
pxab apples up along Sinsinawa In the
kills n routing rabbits out Of the
eence corners. He felt immeasurably
cid some way, and out OF all this kind
" prosiness, He had an inclination to
sltmb 10 the hills and then checked IL
- - NANNCA AGLa1d1-k40 lille AIQ Hi
this autumn glory werc a part OF her
and the inextricable confusion Of
wrong and right, duty and honor, into
which he was plunged. He was angered
at his mother; he was enraged at Au-
relic. He had asked her to give UP this
silly business of her prize winning, and
Ehe had sturdily refused at the last.
his mother. his class. his tradition, ca
EOer. Harvard and the laval had to
DO with his intolerable sense Of re-
beIlion and defeat. Something was
inevitably wrong, perhaps with him
salt. Perhaps. he did not ever love
Aurelie 80 much--it was summer mad
neGs a his mother had said: but he
GNat . shame that ho would allow this.
a man. he told himself. would smash
his way through to win II he greatly
desired; but he was q Van Hart and
they; were no given to that sort OF
thing. Tho would cody consider a
great many things before they struck a.
blow. r..
He haa intended to 20 down to the
drug store corne where the fellows
usually met to smoke and chaff and
grind out airs on Playter,s ph~onograph,
while groups Of girls came In from
school or shopping TO buy sodaS. He
would meet them all in the frank COM
Fadoship Of the towns way, walk home
With one o. loiter ut the high school
kOotDAll prhcIlce. Tner0 were any num-
Dor OF ways to spend ones last after
noon in the old town where one was
pleasantly q favored son. His ia
yher was at court and his mother at
nor club. But he had q curious disin-
eifnation to Idle around the square He
took q notion to dress for dinner, Al.
though there We're 70 DO no guests. His
1ather did 30 occasionally in their home
life: It was understood by the Van
MRrtr AZ an assertion of old and real
There were but nine fami-
Hos In Rome who ever dined at night,
and these nine definitely fixed the so
etai life. People who dine at 6 do not
dine In shirt sleeves. .,. .<
Harlan was going to dress for the
home dinner. It would divert him
from his inexplicable dissatisfaction,
perhaps. He looked about his room
the trophies of his undergraduate
1ayg-bAnncrs. dance programs, IA
his tennis racquets. fraternity
parchments-hung an he had cherished
them. Now he felt an intolerance OF
sophomore display. He promised
when 40 came back next fall all
truck should 20 to the garnet. II
be q mans room. for today Se
nelt mo more the boy. He would be Inc
man; something had come TO him IN
mis- bitterness, his first bewilderment.
d told him he must be q man now
and MT thu I0vaulrk y0.4kh - khM