The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-02-25
I'LL I'LL I'M

mems Home on Lords Point, a deed
~ perpetulty guaranteeing the jewellers
ehefeln against eviction. Unhappily
LOT the present generations in Cor
lntf, the heirs of the original promot-
ers, with one or two exceptions. resid-
ed IN New York, Boston or Philadel-
phla. and they, holding Corinth in some
dlsdaln, stubbornly refused to entertain
d proposition to join in the effort to set
aslde the first grant, with the provision
tnat the home be transferred to anoth-
er and less imposing section Of the
coast, some distance removed from
Lords Point.
And SO it was that the Ancients re-
NAMED almost under the nose-or
more properly speaking, under the eye,
OF Corlnth by the sea, secure in their
rights and ar from clannish in their
patronage. 1t was but a step down
the beach o a from Todville to the
water front bar rooms of Corinth.
Like migratory ants, the Ancients
sWarmed down from the Point and
strasgled back ENTHUSIASTICALLY I'M
aple to sWarm-each paying his 1.-THE
to the municipality and taking away in
turn a copious share of grog, from the
ettects Of which he recovered with a
natutinal fortitude that annoyed his
more holy but less hardy neighbors.
particular attention is drawn to Hor-
ace In view of the fact that his
"oS S1lS VI lHG pIlIllG
movers in establishing the now obnox-
lous home on Lords Point. Moreover,
horace Blagden's home, the grey house
on the hill, was so close to the line
separating the Todville reservation
from Corinth that he could have thrown
d 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 or his own aloofness to escape
without bruises to himself.
NO one could afford to throw stones
at Mr.. Blagden. He was the great
man Of Corinth.
After a 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 talking,
and voiced all of the resentment to-
ward the lowly village of Todville, seat
ed, as it 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 his
grandfather had given. They We're
quite alone in their privileges. 1t may
be said, in explanation of this rather
Sc'' ~ ~ ill"t "
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 e. Co., be-
sides being the head of such institu-
tons as the Street Railway
the Short Coast Steamship company,
the Building & Loan association the
Merchants Protective society, the Cor
NTH Brick & 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 Seanen'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. ]
] think I have established the proof in
these brief sentences that he was g
very superior sort of mortal. if, indeed
he was not a little more than that.
1 While Mr.. Blagden was very power
full and very good, and very proud OF
it, he was not wha one would cal
popular. He was not liked for the en-
: emies he had made; although, If he haC
;. IN enemy. he did not know it. Ever
the venerable sea dogs We're somewhat
: purctilious in this respect; they die
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t and were as close as clans when they
y got outside. guarding against the re
/ mote possibility that he might, by
s chance, be in the slums collecting rents
e They would net put it above him. Still
d they fell with common accord into thu
4 habit of openly respecting Mr.. Blagden
a reserving their private opinions 70,
public houses. Mr.. Blagden's banl
e casEed their pension vouchers withou
question and without charge.
e I have said there We're two small chill
n dren in the so called Giants Castle,
e and that the youngsters of the uppe
social circles enjoyed acquaintanc
with them. might have said Their
wero three. except that q strange re
$ spect for the fitness of things re
strained me, 1t is necessary, however
to announce that there were three
e brother, sister and cousin, If hat i
e not too involved. The brother and sis
b ter We're the wards of Horace Blagden
n their cousin was his son. The smal
Y folk Of upper Corinth mentioned tn
e Midthorne children in one breath, an,
Chetwynd Blagden in another. Nor
often than otherwise, he was not men
If toned at all. There was ~joyousness j.
n the breath that they rave to the Mid
thorne children. and something akin t
r luctance in that which they devote
1t to Chetwynd. If the playmates of Hol
ace, Blagden's son were slow to spea
OF MIN, i lGel ina L may pc excuse
for having neglected to mention him i
lie the same sentence with his cousins.
le Chetwynd was older than they, b
y several years. AS the only son c
al Horace Blagden. he may have bee
1t pardoned for the distinct air Of super
iority that he assumed, eve as a Yer
le small boy. His attitude toward hi
,e cousins was p%atronizing when it wa
Or not inimical. He lorded it over them |
the most high handed fashion and HI
teaching justified him in that particl
ct lar. Perhaps 1t was not altogether hi
If fault. Chetwynd might have been
lie better boy and a more generous on
had he not been the only son and he
of Horace Blagden, the great man {
4 Corinth. The perfectly obvious fae
In that other children loved his cousin
is caused him, in his envy, to set his s1na
is hand against them, as well. He we
a privileged to treat them, one and al
re with the disdain his position recon
g mended to him. v as not he the sclo
Id of a rich and highly respected family
Were not all other small creatures
le Corinth but clods in his path? AboN
ut all. were not these cousins of his depe'
Iapt mn fha hnppfv nf his father, an