Connecticut western news., 1919-02-06

MT. Dunkelberg came this morning and wanted to buy me some new clothes and boots," I said.
 The senator stopped work and stood looking at me with his hands upon his hips.
 'I wouldn't let him do it if I were you," he said thoughtfully.
 Just then I saw young man come running toward us in the distant field.
 MT. Wright took out his compass.
 Look here," he said, 'you see the needle points due north"
 He took a lodestone out of his pocket, and holding it near the com- pass moved it back and forth. The needle followed 1t.
 The young man came up to us breathing deeply. Precipitation was rolling off his face. He was much ex- cited and spoke with some difficulty.
 Senator Wright" he gasped, Mrs. Wright sent me down to tell you that President Van Buren is at the house."
 I remember wildly the look of mild amusement in the senator's face and the serene calmness with which he looked at the young man and said to him:
 "Ten Mrs. Wright to make him com fortable in our easiest chair and to say to the president that I shall be up directly"
 To my utter. surprise he resumed his talk with me as the young man went away.
 "You see all ways are north when you put this lodestone near the needle" he went on. "If it Is to tell you the truth you must keep the lode stone away from the needle. It's that way, too, with the compass of your soul, partner. There the lodestone is selfshness, and with its help you can make any direction look right to you and soon-you're lost."
 He bound the last bundle and then we walked together toward the house, the senator carrying his sickle.
 T shall introduce you to the presi- dent" he said as we neared our des- tination. "Then perhaps you had bet ter leave us."
 I could not remember that I had ever been introduced" to anybody. knew that people put their wits on ex- hibition and often flung down "snag" by way of demonstrating their fitness for the honor, when they were intro duced in books. I remember asking rather timidly:
 "What shall I say when-when you introduce meY
 "Oh, say anything you want to say" he answered with a look of amuse- ment.
 i."I'm kind O scared" said.
 "You needn't be-he was once a poor boy just like you."
 "Just like me!" I repeated thought fully, for while I had. heard q good deal of that kind of thing in our home, it had not, somehow, got under my jacket, as they used to say.
 "Just like you-cowhide and all the son of a small freeholder in Kin derhook on the Hudson" he went on. But he was we'll fed in brain and body and kept his heart clean. So of course he grew and is still growing. That's a curious thing about men and women, Bart. If they are in good ground and properly cared for they never stop growing -n never and that's pretty full word-isn't 1t?
 We had come in sight of the house. Jagged behind little when I saw the great man sitting on the small piazza with Mrs. Wright. I see viv- idly, as I write, the full figure, the ruddy, kindly face, the large nose, the gray eyes, the thick halo of silvered hair extending from his collar to the bald top of his head. He rose and said in a deep voice: \
 "He sows i'll luck who flinders the reaper"
 Mir. Wright hung his sickle on a small tree in the dooryard and an swcred:
 "The plowman has overtaken the reaper, Mir. President. I bid you well come to my humble home."
 Tt is a pleasure to be here and a regret to call you back to Washing ton," said the president as they shook hands.
 T suppose that means an extra ses- sion," the senator answered.
 First let me reassure you. I shall get away as soon as possible, for I know that president is heavy bur den for one to have on his hands,"
 Don't worry. I can get along with almost any kind of a human being, es- pecially if he like pudding and milk as we'll as you do," said the senator, who then introduced me in these words:
 "Mr. President, this Is my young friend, Barton Baynes, of the neigh borhood of Lickitysplit in the town of Ballybeen-a coming man of this county"
 Come op," was the playful remark of the president as he took my hand. "I shall be looking for you"
 l had carefully chosen my words and ' remember ga vinp with como diU-