The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-25

III Perpetuity guaranteeing the jewellers
Ihereln against eviction. Unhappily
/ LOT the present generations in Cor
lnth, the heirs OF the original promot-
ers' with one or two exceptions, resid-
en In New York, Boston or Philadel-
Phia, and they, holding Corinth in soma
olsdaln, stubbornly refused to entertain
proposition to join In the effort to set
issue tne first grant, with the provision
mat the home be transferred to anoth-
or ana iess imposing section OF the
coast, some distance removed from
Lords Point
And so II was that the Anclents re-
NAMED almost under the nose-or
more properly speaking, under the eye.
I-oI Corinth by the sea, secure in their
rights and far from clannish in their
patronage. 1t was but step down
the beach road from Todville to the
water 'front.' bar rooms Of Corinth
Like migratory ants, the Ancients
sWarmed down from the Point and
straggled back again-physically I'M
aole TO sWarm-each paying his 1.-THE
10 the municipality and taking away In
turn copious share Of grog, from the
eIIects or which he recovered with a
matutinal fortitude that annoyed his
more holy but less hardy neighbors.
particular attention is drawn to Hor-
ace Blagden In view of the fact that his
own grandfather was one Of the prime
movers In establishing the now obnox-
ious nome on Lords Point. Moreover,
horace Biagden's home, the grey house
OH the NIL, was so close to the line
separating the Todville reservation
from Corinth that he could have thrown
stone from his stable yard we'll into
the preserve. provided, OF course. that
ne was In the habit of throwing stones
But Mr.. Blagden never threw stones,
either literally or figuratively He was
content to let other people do that,
relying on his own aloofness to escape
without bruises to himself.
NO one could afford to throw stones
at MT. Blagden. He was the great
man OF Corinth.
After single Intellectual attempt on
MS own part to get possession OF the
Point for himself, he settled back and
looked the other way. Thereafter, the
town OF Corinth did all of the taking,
and voiced all Of the resentment to-
ward the lowly village of Todvllle, seat
ca, as 1t were, almost under the gates
OF Nineveh.
The venerable sea dogs from the
Point, In their libations, spoke freely of
Horace Blagden because they owed
nothing to him since he had tried to
take away from them that which hfs
grandfather had given. They were
qulte alone IN their privileges. 1t may
De said, In explanation OF this rather
ambiguous remark. that nearly every
one else in Cornith owed something, in
one way or another, to the expansive
Mr.. Blagden.
He was the president OF the private
banking house OF Blagden & Co. be-
sides being the head OF such institu-
tons as the Street Railway company,
the Short Coast Steamship company,
the Building & Loan association the
Merchants Protective society, the Cor
NTH Brick e. Lime works, the Country
club, the town board. and, last but by
no means least, the Congregational
Sunday school. I almost forgot to in
clude the Greenvale Cemetery associa-
ton. Only the most violent politics kept
him from ascending to the presidency
OF the Seamen's Home society.
appreherd that no one who reads
these lines will undertake to dispute
my claim that Mr.. Blagden was the
most influential person In Corinth. I
think have established the proof in
these brief sentences that he was
very superior sort Of mortal, If. indeed,
he was not little more than that.
While Mr.. Hayden was very power
full and very good, and very proud of
1t, he was not what one would call
popular. He was not liked for the en-
| emies he had made; although, II he had
IN enemy, he did not know 1t. Even
the venerable sea dogs were somewhat
punctilious in this respect; they did
all Of their talking in the bar rooms,
and were as close as CLAIMS when they
got outside. guarding against the re-
mote possibility that he might, by
chance, be in the slums collecting rents.
They would not put 1t above him. Still
they fell with common accord into the
habit Of OPENLY respecting Mr.. Blagden,
reserving their private opinions for
public houses. Mr.. Blagden's bank
cashed their pension vouchers without
question and without charge.
have said there were two small chill
dren in the so called Giants Castle"
and that the youngsters of the upper
social circles enjoyed acquaintance
with them. might have said there
were three. except that a strange re-
spect for the fitness OF things re-
strained me. It Is necessary, however,
brother, sister and cousin. II that is
not too involved. The brother and sis
ter were the wards Of Horace Blagden:
their cousin was his son. The small
folk of upper Corinth mentioned the
Midthorne children In one breath, and
Chetwynd Blagden In another. More
often than otherwise, he was not men
toned at all. There was joyousness in
| tho breath that they gave to the Mid
thorne children. and something akin to
| r~luctance in that which they devoted
to Chetwynd. If the playmates Of Hor-
| ace bldSueu SUI "GIc blO" W SPEAK
Of him, feel that / may be excused
for having neglected to mention him in
the same sentence with his cousins.
| Chetwynd was older than they, by
| several years. AS the only son OF
| Horace Blagden, he may have been
pardoned for the distinct air of super
iority that he assumed, even as a very
| small boy His attitude toward his
cousins was patronizing when il was
not inimical. He lorded 1t over them in
the most high handed fashion and his
teaching justified him in that particu-
| lar. Perhaps 1t was not altogether his
| fault. Chetwynd might have been
| better boy and a more generous one
had he not been the only son and heir
Of Horace Blagden, the great man OF
| Corinth. The perfectly obvious fact
that other children loved his cousins
| caused him, in his envy, to set his small
hand against them. as we'll. He was
privileged to treat them, one and all,
with the disdain his position recon-
| mended to him. Was not he the scion
| OF a rich and highly respected family?
| Were not all other small creatures in
| Corinth but clods In his path? Above
| ALL were not these cousins of his Deepen
dent on the bounty Of his father, and
barely tolerated as such? Why, then,
| was he not better than they, and why
not infinitely above those undiscrimin-
ating infants who elected, In their ig-
norance, to love them? In more SEN
sitive soul than his, the truth would
have smarted. But he was the son OF
IL l.. L.