The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-15

.curiously. Love. that was It. He had
and all about him had
awakened, discovering good in him.
CHAPTER X.
ROLLING STONES GATHER MOSS.
The following week Rome had an
other sensation, The McFetridge twins
came back. Now the McFetridge twins
belonged to anaolder and not easily rel
ished ANIMAL. They were the nephews
of Old Mowry, the undertaken. and had
been the village cutups before they in
herfted the Carmichael liyery-stables.
But W a liv~ery-stable did not re-
form them. and promptly, on attaining
their majority. they sold the stable and
went off, to the relief of all Rome.
What deviltry Hen McFetridge did
not think Of in. his teens, Ben did.
by night and a cloud Of bad cigar
smoke by day on the drugstore cor
ner, since they spent their patrimony
trying to develop racers in the period
when all Iowa went mad over trotting
and built a mile track In every county
and paid fabulous prices for mares and
drivers-the days Of Allerton and Ak
tell and Bud Dobie. But the fleet
limbed Morgans have long since given
place to Percherons and C~lydesdales,
and the mile tracks r innocuous
county fairs, or raising corn today;
and with the passing Of he trotting
craze passed Hen and Ben McFetridge,
bankrupt at II. ,-..
Occasional m and "reminiscences
of the McFetridge boys came out Of
the west as other sons returned, but
and 40, same red neckties, same bad
cigars, were discovered In front Of
Carmichaers relating a tale Of Allad-
din to Rube Van Hart the broken
down league player. They had regis
tered at the Parsons House, slapped
Miss Amelia on the shoulder, dropped
their real alligator skin and
walked around h square into every
store and office: upstairs to Vawter,
the artist; blithely into the back room
OF Cal Rice. president OF the First Ma
tional; and to Uncle Mowry's, Dick
inson's grocery and all through the
court house, bringing a presence Of
freckles, good living, diamond pins
and dizziness. They saw everybody,
'jollied" everybody-within two hours
every one in town knew the McFet-
ridge boys had struck 1t rich.
Same old town, Ben" said en-.
Same, Hen" answered Ben. Lets
owe to Wiley's and get something
in the News about US" ~, g.
But Wiley was off trying to collect
bills. He did not see the McFetridge
boys until he went to the Maccabees'
supper at Odd Fellows Hall that even
ing. There, with Old Mowry, Ia his
long black coat and white tie, at the
door. were Hen and Ben, a self-con-
stituted reception committee for the
Wiley was always invited to
lodge functions and affairs of the sort
because, for his share OF chocolate
cake and coffee and ice-cream he
would have something about II In next
News Notes OF q Busy Day"
He had heard that the twins hadn't
changed a bit, except to get fat, and
Hens diamond was n a horseshoe pin.
while Ben's was set in a real and i'm
me1se nugget. 4.
Hen and Ben slapped him On the
back simultaneously and spilled coffee
his best trousers. '... "
Hello, Wiley-you old gazabei"
Still running the old sheet, Wiley,
that he old man used to chase us out
Yes. Hello Hen-Hello. BenI Yes
I'm making out about the samel"
Poor shedding, Ell? Hear Cal Rice.
and Old Thad bumped o when they
arranged to have the Earlville papers
get over here for early delivery. Say,
heard about US in ouT"
Yes H. & ... .",
big. Tulare fields, California, Hem
and me was beating 1t from one water
to another day--fippered,
both OF us. Cleaned out In the dray
business in Fresno. Well, Hen and me
coming down a canon along the track
about dark, saw some COY tracks.
Now. we saw the stars shining up out
Of those cow tracks. Wiley, IL tt had
been you that's all you would have
seen. just stars shining back from them
cow tracks. But Hen and nae saw oil"
Ben and me ~prospected, and Lit for
town and entered that whole blamed
cow pasture. Then We e to Los
Angeles, where all the easy marks in
the United States come out. and We
got more engraved certificates Of stock
than you can shake a stick at slutng
round California this very minute"
Did they bitter put In Rem
Couldn't keep 'em of with a clubI"
Crazy about u.s." said Hen-"us and
the cow tracks. We organized, and sold
more stock for development. and blew
it in: and whenever we wanted more
money we assessed the stock and got
1t. Finally the whole company blew up
was president, and they said
they didn't want a president who spent
al his presidential time at the girl
shows in Los"
Hen looked at Ben-"Was 1t good.
Benz"
Ben looked at Hen-"Was it, Hen?
We made those reorganizers buy US out
at ave hundred thou. Good what.
HEMP" ~ r. N
Cow tracks for mine" sighed Hen.
First thing Hen says was: Let's
beat 1t to the old town back in Iowa
and show 'em we got the money We
climbed into q Pullman at Los and
Hen gives the niger ten dollars to buy
a paper. Keep the change, niger,
says Hen, were going back to see the
old town." .'.'a.
Wiley smiled. I'm glad you did so
we'll" He sighed. sitting q resentment
against fortune. He, too, had swung the
circle Of the west n was back to the
old town. And oh, what the McFet-
ridge half million would have done If
he had found I'll But they were right.
Wiley would have seen only stars in
the cow tracks-he never saw anything
but stars, some a Oh other. But he
smiled cordially; It's great, boys.
Come round to the News tomorrow and
see me-"
sure. We want some stuff in the pa
pers about us. Who's doing the Earl
Vile Mercury-Journal correspond
|ence2" H 85
Miss Amelia Parsons"
ooh, lord!" cried Hen-"we're on -
big as a house. Wen have a two-col-
umn cut made OF us and shove 1t in
Maybe you can use n In the News
too