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TID.

Br Xufixtf Davis Bubtok.

i 1m Ur. Kmqh, sir? It's Mr. juju. In lbs r®tJ siUts

ustin' to ioo."

fetor

tiusinoM, I'm

Ttae cactlsmsn sdJraAsad looked down with semo sstonlshmont upon the khsrp little freckled vlssje thst

^turned ss i. my boy.

t<e i

hi Upturned ss ho replied: “I sm !■; Ksne. my boy. Whsl do you wsnt

wrltu me?"

••Suro. I’ll be telUn' ye. but Ifs ml*hty glsd 1 sm to see you. Sir. StlAko. then' I'ni s nsmeesku of yours, though bertirt-you're not knowln' It. end I'm *lsd thst I MVor you. now thst I've set me two eyes on ye." "Fsvor me. indecl. sou youn* sesre-

glsd If'It wss on the out

ide, f titans

houses heresbout. sad Ifs to rlnl ilto small pi see wt the fc<ot of the bill I'd tkln'. I'll psy you ss much ss SO i s week tor It. snd worruk out the tint if you say Ifs s bsrgain." Me. Ksne »s* growing Interested.

The small boy had s brisk, business

emy

' is sin

10-yet

: Is a Utile out of the take work In retfirn '

age 10-year-old. "It la s little oi

■portion an arar-

of the usual line to

* have them betther dlithrl-

1 # : bunder' to choose frocn.” sverre 4 ! little woman, stoutly, "but fd # other lit to pattern him by but yi | that's the truth. You see. It woi

wor ms I the ould

though the things do grow small.'' he

decided, app.ovingly. whi * ' • “ polntts

thst t er the

aimless fashion, "saktng health and

It. till

* his efforts It wouU at

drifted

;ly. when pointed c

appear that the

all

and there was Mulligan got so

• me*, to bt I'd I 1 the none irsllf • Mile

sod me did be flghU; In the

over the West Ip an

bettherment.“ ss Tld expre the death of the father left

free to retui

be confided to Mr. Kane.

“Sure, a led nadaa to be looking

pol

thrlck while he

with a

I UP hi and wl

to a good man. me mother says, and I Ifs s power of facbln' I'll nade to i

name. 1 do be think- '

wor on

he cudn't lave off the ■ lived, and there was

the* a poor

*1. and a glntleman's way. whether as to the high or the low—and ifs way that comes slay to Tld. now

that be baa y* before the two eyes of him." said TM's mother, proudly,

'bile Mr. Kase groaned In spirit. lid be make these people us that their attitude toward

■wel-

come up to me

in'." _ M-tt. .mu.ra.ai Urn. Mr. K.ne J. | ^ m ,. Why rtpuld fa, ,

H.M lira Ih. ilorlh.J Idral upon | dl , h |„^„ w ith u,™. i, ... .Wei, Tld ra, buld, m. rorm.tloa I ^ l0<>Ujb thu hllJ oi hi. cawd.r .y um.hmn i hJm Td.r Imd no

h> . 0...UOI wl^i thmt he lud culO- [ ^.1 ., <!m ttJ ., ^

.«d mat. ot th. vlrtu» .hlch Tld [ a.,

him with poraraluj. Th.r. | „ , ,h„.,

m-, drewbrnh. Id h.li, held .. UlU. i „ M „ Mu iim. n -Th.r.'. thlm. to. ihm . ram b, .rra u Huom.1 I „ y od - d b.,.„ ,^1 bu tb. 1.-

“2:. s “i>p“ ii«i Tid ; dln „ Dlm tl . af b ,. n

caU look bmrab ih. .urto. rad to , ^0- j-, urarad .Tber thlm. Uto

«.1. or m. mra Withm umi. | „ „ TM „, k , b . „ „„ iij m. r«r.i»’ioo mt..t th. ! ^ .0 tbooibt

that’s bow some wud

for- their

, 'f wvu: ^ v , . .. __ | hurts, that's how some wud be lookin' ■hrodk d hi. Mmollm. ^ lb , p.,,. thkt ., „ Jo mi» and throw off his ua ailneaa. It wss | ^ UinL .. be had been j , BIOTr , that , fee i tb<(

' lt!“

me mother along w.d me. and xhe thst aiger, to L« at rest wsnsl xoin. *Tis

Use plased woman khVU I

0 well."

■oral Kan

row off his ua

no choice of his -

held up a:,

the di.<i!lui.iootnent f longed. It wss -not

snd 'ds s good bargain ye'll hav

g w tl me. ted she thst I going to change his 41 xoi«. Tis j his sharp dealing, his been-i l be thst sll s apparent advantages simply

his sharp dealing, his lieen-selxure of j

bat the

mured Mr. Kane.

settled so v “But hol»

like to know

on!" atlj

someihlng about

I’fcnt security can you tall.find you responsible?"

1 out. hinds

on without noticing the In-

terrupt loc :

the tender susceptlbl 1 lea of this small j he -® U J (> 'th^nS^TiJ'g^frte

Mr. Kane. 'I vagrant; nevertheless the thought of ; “ ^ " thrampln' out^ tlnd. about my tex | Tld -a. at «h. t attorn of more th.n “ud m^r Thr gc

security can you give me l ine reform thst he made In these

•' j deys.

J Meantime Tid was cultlvsUng-a tenj dor tian among other things, and I when' ho hid the misfortune to set

says ye'll be sure to-cslgid Biddy Moran | his fool unswaree eft a toad one jay, that cook to ye wacit But I'm : ae w«s the mote hurt of the two. Tld fi.'r chorf We'll mpve in the day. j TJ no more scrunch me ersture, and m Just come up for me otdors !n It sitting by to do mo a good turn, the mo min'," sad Tid ws ked away ts tha a ycti'd tqueexe a tenant, sir." ho contentedly as If he carried a signed ; p; 0 .* ted. temorarfully. lesae In his pocket There are some tenants thst need "Biddy Moras? To be sure. S'.e ] thi thumbscrews put on them. Tld." :td for us on* sunm»r a dcsen or | -Of cours*.‘Just ss there are pertaty. •ears tgo." bald Mrs. Kane, when | bugs and cutworms sad squash beetles

for

thst I shall.find you respen "Sure. I tould yj* thst 1 after you. dldat 1? Ifs Pei Kane Mulligan I am. and nu ;

1 Bid.I'

ire yt

r husband appealed to her for fa- I tp c ffrmstloa of 'he boy's story. “Not ,'. e

{ bugs snd cu.worms sad squi

"*a- | tp clsne out. Ifs a fine thing to have Not i i'-e head to pick snl choose smoongst

oiok, very g-een and a 1!.'- ■ iue'm as I weed out the docks sod lave aber her. I'm | cabbages, to houll the helpin'

band to '. jj wake snd nsdey. snd turn

the cowld back on the uadi

mnta cf a osok. very g-een and a III- 1 iliem ss I weed out Up Queer, as f remember her. I'm j the cabbages, to afraid they'll »; * load on your hands, ■ band to iise wake i

Tldmoro."

"W^ell. the old the'd can't worse with item ip U than

S them out

as wud make the good man of hlssllf. snd nicer know that he wor more hurt by his hs-J-leysness than thlm. That's why I'm thankful to the Lord that I'd the right kind to pattern ■ him by." concluded the woman, fervenUy; and no light retort fell from

Mr. Kane's lips now.

What if this were so? What if be

tat if this i

enable.

■ strugglln

him when he turned

e loss were his ’bat If these peo-

ple were sent to awaken his conscience and show him where he was drifting? It was a new thought to him thst io claim of humaalty might work

I be much

a standing

t If they

both ways. From this point of view, be.might owe'somethlng to the Mulligans instead of their owing everything

•pose he turned them oat.

lied

to him. Buppds. foreclosed the 1

t:m ip U

empty, snd I'll warn th

prove a nuisance. 'Thp'hoy will get along If ha favors on llle iosli#.’ as he says." and Mr. Kane lauehed In recoliecUcn of the sharp. HtUi

sharp, little,

ited with

own weli-fsvored p Sure eh oust, U greeted Mr. Kane

was Tld. keenly -xaminlug his gardi beds, shaking his bead ju.neaMwu

couth figure as contrast

a well-favored pei

, tb*

cowld back on the uudesarvln." j foreclosed the Taft mortgage. - f, ‘*red IH be long lesrnln' all that . the Hope farm., fostered the spirit of from you. sir." | greed snd selfishnes-i sad thrust aside ;'Oh. you aspire to a, share In the i responsibility, as his Impulse had manage pi .nt of the tecsnU. too?" In- , been; how would his gain weigh In

the balance against—what?

lahing

yppies and lilies, and getl down on hla knees to sniff at the to-mato-vines. wf.h a curious 'lacertslalr. ; to my oonUrapt. that sent the srdon's owner burr ing down to preU any possible ca'.sstropbe. 'It’s a fin* lot of wee Is ye've saved for me, sir," Tld greeted him. >ut I'm f.-sred they've run lasts Inth-ely. Or >lt ts a do bt having hers?

igepi.jt of

Quln-i Mr Kane, with that accent uhleh was quite thrown away

upon Tld.

"I'm studying hard to be lit to go In

• the olee tome

be nadlng me in the garling.” sdmltUd Tid. modss.'y. ^I'U be worth me tu«:e outside cf me schoolin', I

not t garde

brightly, "bul over the plai wild garden

Me tool her tells me that you grow

tnJ ye da It toy. Belike

>as to h luk out of roi^ih^t way for * big hearts ye'v e got." with a resctful deference lhat(,disarmed hla

a peril

euaployer's wrath , "Why. you young Jickanape*. wh\p have you seen anything finer, that you should be taming up your nose at my garden, pray?" "Falx. I think It wor In CaUfomay," hazarded Tld, as If be were drawing his recollections from some deep well

, sea tioutfe,

and there wore men up on ntopgadders pickin’ them, snd the Hites and the rl'leti and the popples all run wild la the fields, they did. and the roses were Ute to smother the bouse, and the coocumbers were as leng as I am. and a

oxotlmes. That's the

r. If It's gsrdealn' ye'rVtSfter." “I wonder you left It." remarked Mr.

Kane, sarcastically.

"Fd wonder thst mesllf. if »here wor ary show for dscint Americans out there." admitted Tid. "The plgUfls d the greasers have it all their o-s*

dal© longer a

war. It’s qcare how there's something fominst wan most 1 very wheres in th# Wait. In Nehrasky It 1

pern, as

to Washington It either rained all the time or tb* -Chinook blasted things, and down in Tegs* there wor the cattle every which way. It do be good to get horn? to the states." and Tld drew a long breath of sailjfaction. "But this Isn't worruk at all. sad if yell, .' put m* to It,. 1*11 be dlggln' ln.“ Mr. Kane found learn and tireless please, and although he made some r the end jot the week he bod wpn the favor of the household, and was allowefi to make himself useful about the place In very much bis own way. This sometimes resulted In queer tarns of fancy, according to tb# Bast cm view of things, aa when be eras found In the early morning sweeping np grasshoppers from the lawn to feed-the fowls, sad carefully treasi-r-

••Sure. It wor the lashl pen we bad out on ibe p elver a stone to the site of a

to r>

ie fall, when you'll i In the gar ling." a4

li'y. ‘TU be wo

k «p lh.»:e ottslds cf c will that, ye'll see."

"Hum um-m!" That Tld was acting dike a prickly bur on bts conscience, the real estate man knew, and the far. reaching consequence* of this proposed move rather alarmed Jilm. Haia't he closed up the typhoid wbll and drained Ague Alley and given a contract for rebuilding Ramshackle Row—all good-paying investments, to be sure, snd much-needed reforms— simply and solely through the quickened moral responsibility that the boy

bad roused In him?

"If ^hls thing k'jea on." he said to hlxsslf. "III be renewing the Taft

fc -aie and lettl

slip tnrougb my fingers, beedity on my part. Who wants aa ■venlently active conscience In throw off thg yoke be-

lli «

Id send _ ) _

But to look Into Tld's trustful eyes and make this derision known wax more than Mr. Kane cared tc do at that moment. It might be better to talk the matter out with Tld's mother, be concluded. A little bribe, now. to persuade her to move on. any. without, betraying hla part In the transaction, would make everything smooth and

-—r ^

Mr. Kane had not seen Mrs. Mulli-

J caught hla fancy, but be

for e it fastens tighter. I'll discharge Tld and aend the Mulligans packing"

ity I

spot by tha vine* they had trained over It. and the woman displayed some of Tld'# own confidence, in receiving

Mm-

''Burs. I felt yes cornin', air." ah* «xplalned. "Be sated, ptare. I’d pass tha chair If I could step a foot under but It was the Lord's mercy that

me. but It waa tha Lord's I kept on me legs till w e

1 we r"ached ye, some use of me

that K waa. and I've some use of hands still, apAtnl I do a dale wld them, end I'tan hitch me chair about

while I do convenient.

me chorea quite note and Tis honored I am to have

ya come saltin' me—regardin' ltd la It. then? He's a credit to m. that be la, air- He couldn't take afther you othrooger (f be war your own blood-

understanding 1 easier for U* bslpUaa woman, with her useless feet and crippled hands, all gnarled and twisted with rheumatism, and her wistful face beaming with tremulous pride, was scarcely * better euhjr t for hi# retaliation thaa Tld hlmacif would hare been. Nettled and dlaooneartad. but unwiUIng to retreat, he demanded, sharply: "How did you com* by that ridlwlona

Surely, the opening vista held n ■on he had considered thus far. was not only that he would aha their faith In man's goodness by si ttrlng the Idol they had made of h

altor, a

mph.

t of the visitor, and turned to hla

her In

than

’ that

man's goodness by shat-

tering the idol they had made of him. There was the hardening of hla own heart, the turning from bu chance to become an uplifting force to the people about him. He was no better and no worse than the majority of cureless, thoughtless men; but dW he not have It in him \o be either better or worse?

And which should be chpoee?

He waa still wrestling with that problem when a. small shadow fall across the threshold.- and Tld stood In tb* doorway'. He brightened at

tight of the visit mother In trlumj

"Didn’t I be telling you he -would come wan day? She wor cravln sight of ye, sir, that she wor. but

wouldn't be askin' a b yerallf to come out of

that."

‘■It’# for the good of ye that he's come now, Tld. He’s said as much." "Sure, be'a been doin' ui the good turn since the day we r'ached him.” said Tld. contentedly. "Thrust hla honor for that.' Ur. Kane stood up and shook hla shoulders aa If he were throwing off a load. To crash out trust like this, to refuse the blessedness of such simple faith and gratitude, surely that waa not work for Tidmore Kane. Let the name mean as much for him aa for

Tld.

••Blarney!" he said, lightly. "I don't want the roof her# coming to on your head# and giving you an excare to sue me for damages. I'll just look around and see what repairs are needed. And. Tld."—more slowly—'if yon feel ready

late shanty Into rather a picturesque to come into tha

■ wor cravin' a

busy man like yer way for

that i am ready to have '-you morn/' \ “Hooray!" shouted TUL—Youth’s'

Compaatoo

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What a pretty dl your tall* It—I tails It #w Ypi

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6 —Maritime Tendencies Bad Cattle Own-

7 —Anaent Loams sad Taxes.

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r*.—John Hatton, the Tory, ti.—Preparations for War. 14.—The Revolution Begin*

l5—The Ending aad Independence,

ir —The County to rtoo. iBv*-The War ol ifiia ■ to.—Progress After the W*i.

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St.—Tb* Decade Before the RcheUtos-

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