Evening star., 1921-05-15

faltered the Rev Jasper. MY voice
was the first one raised in advocacy
of granting you the honor you now
enjoy"
Il want to know" shouted the cap
tain delightedly. well! Well! The
pulpit does bless the world. every
now and then. doesn't it? Now, par
son, seeing that you're right in with
me. hand and glove, 1 want you to
about my policy. They'll probably
believe you better than they did Ros-
coe Burr. He's all right in driving
hosses, but he can't seem to drive
home any special conviction. This
town needs tuning up like the whole
world needs it-and I've been out and
around during the past two years
where tuning has been going on. This
town has needed things for a good
many years I'm after money enough
in taxes to buy those things. There's
plenty of money here. and l know
just where it Is; and the critters that
have been holding out on US all these
years and haven't even felt special
thrill as American citizens the past
two years or so are going to feel
something from this time on. It'll be
in the nature of a brad and II l get
too much lip I'll heat the brad: You
! can preach sermon about 1T II you
want to-"
But do you refuse to listen to any
suggestion of compromise on any
points,"
"If that means taking advice from
anybody in this town. I'll have to say
I won't listen"
II may have to preach a sermon on
the danger of having too much self
willed zeal" declared Twillger. show
ing as much temper as he dared to
display.
a sermon would hit me somewheres
or else it would be a cussed poor ser
mon.'
In late April there was bareback
of nature that gave the country
around Toddport almost two feet OF
snow, and old Dan Wyman came
down from the Scrubhill district into
the village without bells and stored
the pung, under the impression that
| winter was ended. In his zeal. Be-
lectman Cole was enforcing all laws
one Of his daily stunts being to dls
through the statutes, searching ior
laws to enforce. Therefore. it being
iiIeeal to drive on snow without bells
| the selectman had old Dan be1ore
Trial Justice Waldron in tiny after
Dan had appeared in the village. he
received a fine.
+ + + +
TWO days later the snow had been
1 licked away by the sun. Mr.. Wy
| man came rioting downhill into the
village in a beach wagon. and on har-
! ness and wagon were more than two
hundred bells that ranged In size
from a dinner bell to doorjingler
The ungodly clamor started four
! runaways. one of them the jigger-
wagon of Assessor Cole-and when
tho rejns broke, Pilot Burr fell over
! h,ckward upon the head and shoul-
ders of his employer. seated at the
desk. -s ~ M
| wvman after the jigger had been
trieged to a halt between TWO elm
! trees. tho ha,,.
| ,x r. suit yec" queried Mr.. Wyman
in a soueal that could be heard fo1
"perfectiy, Dan! Perfectly" stated
Capt. Cole. rearranging his ooggieo
| books and papers. 49,. ,o
! "Done Jest what you and the Ia"
1t doesn't say that bells shall bt
| m beach-wagons, Dan. On the othel
hand, it doesn't say that they snan
be there. So you're all right!
Law doesn't say that I've got &c
Il III,
| on, and l shall drive in here three
times a week, and, seeing that you are
| Lord High Gull, you'd better give ou'
| your warning to all concerned.
.All right" agreed Capt Cole sweet.
| ly. I'll order storm signals dlspiayec
from the Scrub Hill to Basoms store
and advise that all hosses ride tc
kedge with heavier cable Drive spr.
when you leave the village. Dan. Then
| bells is quite pretty music "heT
/ they're tangled up in good shape"
i But Mr.. Wyman walked his horses
he seemed to have but little interest,"
| in his equipment.
| II have been waiting and hoping
| said Cap. Briggs. who had viewed the
| scene and had heard the dialogue
that there was something, some
| body or somehow by which we coulc
| rig derrick here in this town tt
get Cole mad. SO that we could have
| the advantage of him. But it's no use
/ Dan Wyman, just by himself. will
| that squeal, without any bells. J.:
| enough to make an ordinary man mad
] And he comes and sets Capt. Cole on
| in a runaway. and then sasses him be
fore the public. and all he gets is
smirk and a smile. We amt going tt
get anywhere with Cole till we car
get him mad. You can't go to worl
and tackle Roth Cole with hatchet
! or ambush him and shoot him. There
men that's got to be handled. They're
making more of a study of it nov
than ever. I've got in touch with {
nephew Of mine that's a professor o.
physicoloey, and he says So"
| doctor nothing! Physicolog,
means studying the mind so as t.
take advantage of it. l have hires
him to tell me how Roth Cole has go
to be handled. Its done so slick tina
he doesn't know what is doing it. IT.
going to take little money. l
amt up to me to stand all the cost
Are Won willing to he aSSeSSed2