Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-17

The glories of the day"
"Say-by thunder, we don't
have to set in the shadows. Les
FIJI the room with the glory OF the
day." said Uncle Peabody as ha
| lighted the candles. Vt amt a good
idee to go slidin' down hill in the
time an in the dark. too
| Les have game O. cards"
l remember that we had three
merry games and went 70 bed. All
outward signs of our trouble had
vanished in the glow Of the candles
Next day l rode TO the pogtofgce
and found there a book addressed
to me in the handwriting OF old
Kate. 1t was David Hoffman's
Course of Legal Study" She had
written on its fy-leaf:
'To Barton Baynes. from a
friend"
THAT woman pears to like you
purity thorough said Uncle Pea
body.
well, let her If she wants to
poor thing!" Aunt DeeI answered.
"A woman has got to have some
body to like-ayesi-or I dunno
how she'd live-I declare I don't
ayes!"
Il like her. too" I said. She's
been good friend to me-"
"She has, sart'n," my uncle
agreed.
We began reading the book that
evening in the candle-light and
soon finished it. l was thrilled BY
the ideal of human service with
which the calling Of the lawyer was
therein lifted up and Illuminated.
After that had no doubt of my
way.
That week a letter came TO me
from the senator, announcing the
day of Mrs. Wright's arrival in
Canton and asked me to meet and
assist her in getting the house TO
rights. l did so. She was a pleas
ant-faced woman and a most enter
prising house cleaner. I remember
that my first task was mending the
Wheelbarrow.
Il don't know what Silas would
do If he were to get home and find
his wheelbarrow broken" said she,
1T is almost an inseparable com
panion of his"
The schoolmaster and his family
were fishing and camping upon the
river, and so l lived at the sena-
tors house with Mrs Wright and
her mother until he arrived. What
wonderful house it was, in my
view! l was awed by its size and
splendor, it's soft carpets and shiny
brass and mahogany. Yet 1t was
very simple.
1 hoed the garden and cleaned its
paths and moved the dooryard and
did some painting in the house. I
remember that Mrs. Ebenezer
Binks-wife Of the deacon and the
constable-came in while I was at
the latter task early one morning
to see if there were anything she
could do.
She Immediately sat down and
talked constantly until noon Of her
family and especially of the heart
lessG2ss and general misconduct u
her son and daughter-in-law be-
cause they had refused TO let her
apply the name of Divine Submis-
sion to the baby. 1t had been a
hard blow to Mrs Binks, because
bhiS " as TIC OHG anu OLlA ldfUI
which she had ever asked Of them.
She reviewed the history of the
Binkses from Ebenezer-theF First
down to that present day. There
had been three Divine Submissions
in the family and they had made
the name Of Binks known wherever
people knew anything. When Mrs.
Wright left the room Mrs. Binks
directed her conversation at me,
and when Mrs. Wright returned /
only got the spray of It. BY din
ner time we were drenched in
way of speaking and Mrs. Binks
left, assuring us that she would
return later to do anything in her
power.
'My stars!" Mrs. Wright exclafm-
ed. IF you see her coming lock
the door and go and hide IN a closet
until she goes away. Mrs. Binks
always brings her ancestors with
her and they fill the house so that
there's no room for anybody else
When the days work was ended
Mrs Wright exclaimed
Thank goodness! the Binkses
have not returned"