The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-02-26

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have loved his own daughter. Her
father was unable to meet his obliSa-
lions at the bank. JethrO quietly
bought the mortgage and had it as
signed to himself. Cynthia used to
call him Uncle JethrO and loved him
as Sndid her father. .,/S|
Az o time the railroad cof'fdxs =.
lions decided to consolidate. Jetsto,
whether he feared that they would be-
come too large for the state, or for
him. did not approve of consolidation.
Thereupon they decided to overthrow
him. The fight began over his home
most office. He was known to favor an
old soldier named Eph Prescott who
had been badly wounded in the Will
| derness and whom he had helped IN
his uphiH fight as he had helped many
another person. The railroad party de-
cided to defeat Jethro's candidate in
order to weaken his prestige in the
state, and it had the support OF many
men who had formerly done his bid
ding and Of the congressman from
the district" the usual autocrat in the
distribution of offices of that class.
Jetbro went TO Washington and con-
triyed to have an apparently chance
meeting between President Grant ana |
Fnh Grant was attracted by Eph'S !
, cirnnIicitv. They talked over the bat /
tie they had fought together with
mOdesty which furnished another IN
? stance that the noisiest patriots are
: not always the greatest. Grant ap-
nointed Fph. When the news OF the
4 victory reached home, JethrO's pres
t tige was much increased.
He placed Cynthia in a finishing
: school in Boston. Being young wOm-
O an of high spirit she was not happy
n there. The fact that she came from
e a remote country place and OF an I'M
\ known family. very likely had some
I, thing TO do with the treatment she re-
e ceived in those primitive days before
l. finishing schools had been made Who'll
. " safe for democracy. One day pa
= per controlled by Isaac Worthlngtoh'
= the head of the corporation party
N made a savage attack upon !ethro as
~ LOBBYIST and a boss" The paper
Id found its way into Cynthia's hands
and gave her the greatest diStress,
She went to Jethro and asked him II
ve the story was true. He said: "They
in h,in't nut it Just as they'd ought to
no nerhaps, but that's the way l done
~ n in the MAN." His manly confes-
a sion caused her to love him even more
~ than before. She withdrew from the
az finishing school and went to teach IN
- Rrampton. the town in which Worth
90 ington lived. Jethro. shaken by the
nv effect on Cynthia, determined to win
mt draw from politics.
Nv. The state was in ferment. Wouit
nd the corporations he able TO down Jetn
NO ro9 For the first time in nearly A
,ot wears Jethro did not appear at TN
&C Coniston town meeting. The enem.
80 won by default. The news heartene'
A. the corporations everywhere. Worth
g. ington had always been an enemy o
A., Jethro's. although he had accepted nj
90. help more than once, and while IN
re- duIging in very virtuous speeches. ma
-, practiced essentially the same meth
ODDS. His son, Bob, was madly in low
with CYNTHIA, but she subordinate
=. her own love for Bob completely
her fidelity to Jethro. Bob propose
TO her and she refused. He declare
that he would leave his father an
rch earn his own living and then clai
rely her on account of what he had hir
ace self done. He wrote his father tie
was ing him his purpose. When the iatt
aoie received the letter he flew into rag
MS Learning that Cynthia was a teach
me in his own town, he called the comm
ike tee together. the majority Of whom
hon. controlled, and had them pass vo
love ANONYMOUSLY dismissing her from {
thar school. This action aroused Jeth
eth- and he straightway took up the bait
tne again against the corporation magma
II. responsible for the outrage.
IT svooped down upon the capitol Ii
aved an eagle. His genius for political q
t ne eralship flashed out with its old-tiI
pre- brightness. Messages went to the
pest lev towns and to the north count
lized The throne room" was open aga
de- and although the battle had been
with parently lost through Jethro's wi
ne drawal, it became evident that
ence corporations were destined to defe
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ction surrender and asked Jethro's ter
own Jethr0 said. Consent to the marrii
her CfCynthia and Bob" Worthington CT
'ossl- billed in some high flown letters {
his the marriage took place. Jethro W
!; and drew from the fight and from poll
again and passed his old age near Cyntl
which blessed by her love and that of
wned children. with apologies to Mr.. v
ston ChurchilD.
anu Copyright, 1919. by the Post Publisl
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