The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-05

exchanges to have time for this bread
and-butter work. Janet found him SO
when she came in with the program
of the county teachers institute. He
declined to print it before Thanksgip-
ing. But the News does need the
money!" he concluded. For, Janet,
the News Is going to run for congress-!
He was happy as a boy over 1t. He
had been seeing q number of people,
he assured her. Surprised EN-! II
seemed quite a novel idea! But do you
know it's much as aunty says. For
so years the News has given columns
free advertising and ticket printing to
every church fair, rattle, oyster supper
and what-not In the county--boosted
all the benefits n lodges, welcomed
the b unions over aroun Earlvtlle,
pleaded for the farmers cooperative
association, and all that-and never
asked a thing from any one. And now
when 1 go to these men-just the run
of w~orkaday men-and tell them I'm
going into the primary against Jim
Hall, they look surprised and then say:
why, of course. Wiley!' Just as If we
all ought to have thought Of it beforel"
"Of course!" she smiled gravely.
What did 1 tell your" And she did not
subdue the pride in her voice.
He was cleaning his hands of the
printers ink to go up the hill to his
supper, talking eagerly all the time
Janet must come up and, see the new
window boxes he had made for Aunt
Abby's primroses, working nights and
between times: and presently she found
herself. as of old, going with him
Blaughingly up the path back of the
shop. ......
I'm not a dead failurei" he declared.
IF only a man to have a sense
Of his place and work somehow things
appear brilliantly easy. o see, be-
fore, / never stopped to inquire any
thing. Life appears simple enough to
a man who has but two shirts-he
takes off n and puts on he other!
And that's all I've been doing here IN
Rome, Janet-till now"
And now?" Her serene glance was
on him as they reached the crest by the
fence. He suddenly caught her hand
and lifted it to point away yer the
town, the twilight country, the, yelled
immensely of night. Here, there, a
lamp shone in a house; distantly a light
twinkled, and far off on the still land
one caught yet another.
Their homes" Wiley whispered
theirs! The people whom you wish
me to go to-the rough-coated and ST.
lent farmers driving into town, toiling
away, but thinking, too. You wanted
me to go among them, tell them that !
-Curran of the News, was of them, and
"Ohtu A5AAN " Ia nv "oNhO ~
himi That what they believed in and
honored. he believed in and honored.
Janet, / stop here every night on my
way-gup from the shop and draw in
1.-THE ,air-thiS fine air OF the country,
and3watch the lights come out in those
far-off farms On the hillsides. and a
vision comes to me of them all-their
homes and lives and d~estinies. l see
lit all and understand, aud it's as if
they were calling meas il there were
work and place for mel"
Janet nodded slowly. Her fond smile
came. So well she knew hint It had
to be that way with him-an appeal to
his imagination, his heart, his unde-
featable and simple man Well. so
good. She would be practical for him:
she would find the way. He stopped
now with a sudden rueful curiosity.
What's this / hear about you being
asked to. go out and speak In the ma
tional campaign for women's suffrage
the big fight in some or h states ?"
Il was asked" Janet looked away.
1t had been an anticipation come true.
She had la her eyes on wider hori-
IONS; she had felt the supreme pleasure
OF efficiency. of power recognized. She
went On calmly: But I declined 1t,
Wiley, this year"
He was watching her face in the
dusk. II know why" he retorted
II was " 5ldy uSEo anu
he aRe @s'"
He war silent. Some consciousness
of her bigness, of. the richness OF her
life, was finding way into his vision.
II was portion of his new delight in
all this buoyant m~odernity, just as he
had awakened to- kinship withPthe Mid
landers, stern with the sense OF patient
and long-endured wrongs and needing
leadership. His esthete's indrawing, his
dabbling with art and affairs, had got
him nothing; life had rebuffed him, but
now he had come upon readiness. Janet
suddenly typfied all this; he saw her
and with her all women as the new
en~franchised companions of men, the
efficient helpers and counselors.
by George!" he broke out. you're
coming on so grandly. Janet! / always
guessed at it, but you've grown so!
'Way-way beyond mel"
Most men are in a state OF arrested
development in their view OF women"
she answered, "playthings to be pos
sessed, or parasites to be endured. But
a companion, reliant, helpful, demand
ing freedom, extending it thought,
Wiley, you would grow to see that,
too"
yes. yes" he cried, Il cant" He
was fred with her ~largeness. her faiths.
But she left him to go home with a
trace of playful cynicism.
IF you will only keep the oncoming
way, Wiley!" She shook her head.
But, tomorrow, IN find o back
again, the Ole indolent chap-Curran
Of the News"
He waved an ardent protest. When
Aunt Abby came home from the Con-
gregational sewing circle, h she
was loved for her helpfulness. n re-
proved for her tolerance % Mr.. Cur
rams beer drinking, she found him
staring out at the starnt country.
"Aunty," he murmured, why do you
suppose l never make any money!
Some men Jest a 1t In EN-,
Wiley; and some just run country
papers" She took off her black ana
lavender cap, but powdered her nose
again, for she had only waddled home
20 get his supper and then h would De
off once more to assist at q church
social. AS she cooked. her nose grew
reddAr, and when h was done with
wlley's supper, h powdered 1t again
1t was Notifying indeed to a good ro-
tund lady, who knew that when she
came to the circle to join in the re1u-
yenating of small Congregational
pants" for the home missionary box,
| there would be a sniff or two, for some
way or other the fragrance Of Mr.. Cur
rams shameless beer drinkings would
cling to her still. He had a bad way
Of hiding the bottles In her clothes