The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 2

THE SUNDAY e w—" i aam rsorn a8 P # S——— T'll speak to him aboui your Garwood laughed fondly. “Well,”" he passing; white jacketed darkies hegan iy "oy foun- fed n ¥ went on, “it's good to some here and re- slip about In th morning work, and at B o ey Serersind mesiRE hild SMeRitly -in the Jax and speak my mind. I did get mad last the candidats himself came into the a4 e e reh. The matrons of to-day, though, and threaten to throw a. gajor . 56 ous e ¥ Wi would to her with the fold man out of my office window.” His . o.% - = 1 - - g a €i 5 thought would revert to that subject. VY Wirs meinders o S tulie the it t the peace 6f lengthened and their bodies yielded to t} “Who?"' she asked in alarm 53 . . 2 “Oh, that little Free Pu - e & % What has he done? er good g = “He wanted me t ve him money for A - 1 as A p g “Well, I don’t blame you. I can under. Is the aa = . stand your righteous indignation, Jer- H . 2 stant aj > - ome. pursue a whisking p e - - - ] N Garwood felt the blood tinge his cheeks. ~ r & aig . o't b 1 wish you wouldn't talk t way, N h ews oy er ? Emily.” rest w P i 10 h En eme “Why, why?" a sald e ¢ e . IS el which Bécause you know how sordid come yet " dis o t i v ¥ A politics are—or s ch 1s 1t? I'd Bef the candidate ecould re . m the stun < ® B She b ably have given airma the State a . s w - .. o : S X the rig ad taken Garwood . > a a p w .2 -5 ol ik & b t attitude efore the lidate. ents to w y “bave mood x z said, ract se it f was your real nature speak r s ecaus . much leis Q" kent-ars Well, a man must keep ted ¥ was deep ot & o < IR subjection in politics iid you not g 20 thewm w - g . " ok 1 % se don't, Jer 3 5 3 - i o e th had been de BUT TEEY DID NOT TALK POLITICS ANY MORE. u : ; P & 5 t thing a ur lives, a . & law ee. When he re- on his chin. This moisture showed ggain case. and call around to-mor- 25 of n a g er gethe s had tried 1 of his a “ in his biue eyes, from which it had almost row and J,m,,“‘,” h »‘g the one t < owr v writing and sent two or three n E 1 pehied the w a washed the color. After he had been When Puse gone. Garwood burst dly need mon -2 n * gazines 1 w etur ctwee r i ime te shut in the room with Garwood for half upon Rankit vhite with anger 1, it costs, ¥ s delica 1s, lifted his g . . a cular fa i elie e -ana-n &n hour, (he air was lades with aicohoiic What'r € matter?” asked “Why don't vou P as = riends Y i re. Tumes. ‘which, exuding from his whole fall from the Lpow he'd be glad s s g up gement with the postmaster to ret Gary al traditions were far re” .4y, muy have accouhted for his mpist anxious the b . s s look r ' t D E and It WaS wrsonauly. - Whife he tgiked he chewed s clenched fists Lnow—or of e tests are always healthful in & - . oo ot ver In Sall’ and puhed a glossy yellow cigar. us pockets, paced the can harm you, why can't yo . \ = " gt - . s A ;. This man w I'reeman H. Pusey and & angr wpeak to him? Father once did Garwood hemmed and murmured a dis . . " x Dbty E 4 X Met he was publisher, editor. reporter, all in s been here,” he said. vor—don't you remember appointed “Yes great man was = e 5 g T e - & 5 il vt ¢ one, of the Grand Prairie Evening News want fulsome artic e wrote? s sit g Into a wicker chalr, and fathe [ 8 & rat least 15 journal was a small one of four : Garwood gasped at the thought of Em- Dbeginning r the reports of the - £ W tany = H ol have Utriyed Pages. for the mostpart given ‘over (o but what for - piy's father penetrating that 2 specches he had. delfvered ¢ mol : 3 ; ; g ney and Dboller-piate matter, but it carried a col- ng still, what'd you sup- ~uNe that! he said, bringin is fis ana and fo the day before. s < 3 Was in these changing aafet m s & sy al=." a portentous editorial pose? Gowe o0 B R DT s hls Gat e whols 1 got newspapers of : - LS N < > v § k on a happy, almost gala “Does he know anything? gest such a thir > do you hear?” the news ag ad settled down to R t . tica t : flyel.d whenever it could exploit. un- Gawood pat by the window, still it Such a thi Slowed " o8 he T® ther had F s gz R wome t 4 g : ragged type in which its breathing looked. at her laughed a littls P w as the res ~ £ were sot me scandal tha ‘Well,” presently, “he claims oS ¢t e 8N » T S the mingled pain . o s Bt kK Grand Prairie. In politics to, dteaid. Jero: ' ol s o and ad their own stuff b aimed to be indep. Rankin drew himself upright with the L0 afraid, Jerome." ehe b il ont aps not all pre ¢ . 4 ¢ a tar difficulty of a fat man, and leaned toward poyic well yourself.” And then tend - . - o, na ; yne campaign and Garwood. he DRSS AR 4 > s a e _candidate had -~ £ her in the nex.: indeed ‘Legislature?” he asked But how noble you are! And how Tisel spread th By e ometimes held these two extreme posi Garwood gave an impatient his Haed!: ARG haw T & Sunt Tom Tt by some nyste: - oved t g tions in tie e campaign, and found no head. He turned then; drew & ) ey sat there & long while aftec that most before ’ . g difficuity | dicating its policy the deck and sat down, facing M in the darkness. But t 2t 4 fast, men began to ve - 4 ey 1 e ) se. you, Mr. Garwoud, in re- But Rankin spoke first ; o t not talk He rece . - . gard to a littic political matt Pusey me more of that newspaper rot ! we. smile, s . e o gpBgcn < begar the Ford bill? il f w p g series of assen Wenr ald. -Gérweod, not. tod: cor 1 suppose 'so.’ sald Garwood v > think or wished them to think = - s < dialiy “I_reckon L'l never hear € he Alton's ea e doing for him. It was _ the d calls pecourse you know that the News is lust of that. S of the street > m - f the passengers in 8. - s = . the accepted organ of the people, that is *'Oh. well,” Rankin said, “to hell with ¢ 3 3 e S R ward con s th were bold en k evening fing ez (e Ereat miss. ar. the Furaiion. piape It Lot hUf heat il ol ach had ity custeing’ drawan, a private car at fI t ers e e earest ay here i and Prairie and-ah—I might “But damn it.,” Garwood went on, “it's W L h of royal mystery Though tg - men from the day ey . gay, m Polk County serious with me—just now—at any rate its e grimed fri A g es, and at farmers from f place were “So I've heard.’ said Garwood “Aw, cheer up. said Rankin.- ** that long j b the smoking ca on to ride & t e of Thus f you have noticed, we won't cut any filgure with you—it won't cinaer R r wome » formed the us have been neutral at is, 1 should 'say. lose vote." tarnished, still, a 1o sham back bs, held thesusual r : independent, as betweeh you and Judsé “No. but it may lose me something heavy dignity, it - g e - st he < t Bromley else—" Garwood spc with a sjgnificance car, for it ajestica ¢ B gy B i erefrom es be industrious ar Prairie Garwood was looking out of his win- that Rankin could not instantly appreci- of that.long 1 like some ship, to wh xh awkward attitede before (ho One of the familles certain intlmacy qow duwn into the courthouse square. ate. “Of course,” Garwood continued. clung the sentimental ir Wy , rosking bt ShRE been frugal so long t s first few awK- where (he winds piaysd with the rubbish ‘“there was nothing in it, but then—you Voyage it passed o t Ba o MR B g strength to be industrious ward calls, he showed as much contemdt that always Miters the streets of Grand know. a woman overalls 1tened 14 stammering through his man family that had come as ever for the more arl cratic environ- Pprajrje He made no reply, and Pusey The hig fellow vented a little whistle, fully and inized it wit s al at he 1 been - of Pomerania and the ment of the girl, this only flattered her cyed him out of his swimining little eyes thén kept his lips puckered up to eve, some they swung aps - - - ? the er framed a face that Emily and she noted with the feminine pride and Ye coutinued Pusey, pinching ~his his thought laborers, men and wom on their mor o o Dend t cture in its girlish prettiness asure in little conquests that as he chin, “‘we have walted to see how events VWhat can we do?”’ sald Garwood, Ing way to work, halted by the crossing- - fifty years & e fields of her natlve land and &rew accustomed to the life his constraint wouid shape themselves before—ah—" who could not then. in such & mood, en- Bates and united In a cheer, their futule sdmiving Seew T& er childhood. Her husband was a guve way to a liking for its luxury . Garwood grunted, and Pusey went on: dure the delay of silence, Ittle celebration being dissipat o B g oo R man with a dell 1s dialect speech and opted him with a young girl's “Yes—ah—I had come to the conclusion “Well,” said Ran “let me think. I clgmor of the alarm bells, as As the at the candidate had € 1ld tales of his seryice love of a protege; gave him books to read that perhaps our best course would be to can't straighten it out all —at Wwhirled by in its cloud e 5. i through the train, so it sped German army. He had worked {n and was pleased rather than displeased support you, Inasmuch as you're our fel- once. It s al'ays hard fer me gates lifted to let oaward 20 the e and sow as th akeye Bre'erie,” as he called the at the gossip their relations excited be- low townsman—and It occurred to me to mix politicsa —and business, e nfe set in agal day’s work on . s r e B keye Brewery, and for some reason fore that first winter ended and the spring that perhaps a writeup would do vou politics and religion, or politics -The fireman in the engine cab sat erect I e Glons 1 road, péoplé were ga y never properly grasped had took from them the excuse their charit- some good, that is, with the great mass of and—' He was a sentimental man who s he clanged his brass bell; the engineer, %% at = stretching e job. When she discovered the able work had given for being much in the common people, the laboring people feared to show his sentiment. and he diq Knitting his brown as he studied his ore) at the = B g g ’ family they wers patiently living on the egch other's soclety hereafter ‘they generally, vou understand « DOt spésk the tencenWaid ob. meuy WRtEE stretched bis hand to the thrgttle Cir B, (o Y g O e rte @ phenomenon already noted the yemnant of a side of pork the man had - frankly dispensed with this bond and sub- 1 ghould be obliged to you, of course,” m:eanings. But under the influence of the With a touch as delicate as a telegra- ™! the My 8 soon” be thelr » irnaments were bought with his last money stituted one of affection pure and sim- said Garwood. g twilight, perhaps because they could not Pher's. Within the train, the division su- Presiden might beld Emily had pictured hergelt meeting in ple. This propinquity naturally ended in _“H-m-m, yes answered Pusey, “I pre- see each other's face, they lalked conf: perintendent whispered fo the conductor. Fresident = = oo e stepped en Em e here e oam® ffom the course of ler charitable work some love and the club women of the town were sume So. 'But—if I—that Is, we, wers to Gentially until the Eloam. of evenins was Plainiy. it was no ordinary car N S & Mdidate Sepped aste e N was Thonad (aken interesting young doctor with 3 Van Dyie doubtless justified in their new and keen. Eive you such & writeup and run your cut, cxparding 1n the reom: - Thew Bankiy . It was bearing a candidate {or the Pres- [POR the platiorm, his st poke a few T's degree e hought that peard: but all the doctors in Grand Pral- ly relished understanding that Emily had You Would, T presume. be ready to také ook out his watch and tried i rocd jts 14ency, on his way west. Swinging aroied kB B she w hos Cajed gcquisition to s0- rie, like most of the other workers in more than the mere patron Interest twenty of thirty thousand copies for dis- gia] the ciicle as our phrase has been ever Words of Ereetl: el 2 lag! that was duly exploited in that depleted vineyard, were old men: in the career of this young man. Most of tr] butlon 43 e s “Gosh!" he exclaimed, “I must be get. Since Andrew Johnson made the first I ) ag s e © newspapers. The young she met instead, what Is universal, a them said she was demeaning herself, 'hat would it cost?” sald Garwood. {in' home—I'll try to fix it up somehow, Presidential stumping tour, R Od o en < ce began to ca young lawyer. but that only added to their joy Well—at 2 cents & Ccopy-—you can- Jerry. Don’t worry—just leave it to me. Hig Itinerary had been so arranged as LIPS0 Wi < w that she did not ¢n Jake Reinhardt. who never had money ey DOFE Yol ol 5;;:")'('1h.,\f?',,3,,§‘!“' SUP- “If you think we ought to do It, Jim," ffi,fx’.‘:;L‘:,Tr:{‘s)f‘,l:;rlnuIa'i"ff,“fia‘rh»'f.‘rfl‘(;f:} s S . alitie S Sinew of WES! soaTEL et it R AT, o S0 i o O SRR ot ke LT did not put it in that light,” said .l;(‘,’ff!“',.'lff,"‘.,,m’“',f,,'_",::{";fi,.‘l:i: ex- 2nd fo speak before the Presidential can. Conversation w - - ersation, and when congr Emily could not understand ut Polk County Central Committee, a posi- husey. spitting and trylng to assume 8 ciaimed "Rankin, smiting the’ desk with e E s The ol What Berwr's part SR e ot D, odors fst. Bhe learned afterward that Jake tion he ad he a for years, but he was dlgnity. his fist, “We'll' need al the _money “we cast, for he conld tanson indenairy. ~o didate for Congress is ps whe - of §ns of the knew a saloon keeper who had & mixture also chairman of the Congressional com- 2 can get in this campaign. esides, he s pXr his aoacop [Rdefinitely, gnd SICSS w 1 S » meogan One of kind-heartedness and long-headedness, mittee. It was, therefore, with an au- o oD See. of course, Mr. Sarwood~ afn't honest enough to stay bought' SWC ISR NT Lis > oeB with ah elogmmt % CLRCS . . ' he first of which led him to trust Rein- thority no one ' cared to question that, §Man of your experience can readily see, “ryough” Rankin: had told him not to P e Any N Reqient aud seem never VIOV s 1 4 . . - ardt for the beer and tobacco, while the early in September, he engaged two rooms hat a ¥ e up Tt caluable apaea TN AT worry Garwood was depressed and trou- 0 sulter any lll eNects, sither 25 to him- 18 Fiding fn & pei sma . - o x e e (e njourse because Rein- in the Lawrence block for the County O (0 EIve up its valuable space to that pieq and longed for sympathy. In the aratot was o ran E Decxentn " - % » nitivate < herdt’s presence at his bar made one con- Committee’s headquarters, though he pre- Mhich 1s not strictly news mg g ening, when he found time to go to gn ood Was o epeak. He had lookec sarw wa ~ M ¥ tas Foiaa #dmit them to sumer more when a round of drinks was ferred to pitch his own In Garwood's law ° T ook }.'q’]d‘,f"l“rlfa_md “But to be frank ily. Pusey was upperm in his mind. (_‘“‘(m", Tondls Db frectine 10 o s ea . - e o a oI greading had ordered for the house. Then. one day, office, which was on the same floor. Then with you, Pusey." he turned and looked .. Youre tired, of course,” sald Emily, SIbatng fond oy inesting with the sreat e works of the Duchday news- suddenly. just as Emily thought she was he swung a banner across the street and Straight into tha little mans watery eyce. “and how hoarse.” was running for the highest ofice withia w g er . sed movels ot tno ¥etting the family on its feet, Reinhardt began to menace Garwood’s —opponent Sy alSht afford It. This campalgn, into _~1Us the speaking, I reckon,” said Gar- 1S Syine, (0% The highest office within 1 aking t he mos iy tis e gtothe felled a man in the saloon with a blow of with challenges for joint debates. To I cant Sometimes wish 1 hadn't gone, ¥ood. “I campalgned all week with old He had gone up to Chicage with Ranki & g to as swas kle hen ‘she soared tmeo rny 2,Cilliard cue and was thrown into Jall Grand Prairie this expressed the formal Wiuon | Sometimes wish T | practice has General 'Stager; we spoke outdoors to ine night: before. and eabg ik Rankin ime e e i She soared into the on a charge of assault with intent to kill. opening of the campalgn, but Garwood suffered, so that I need all the money at Acres of people. How those old timers car wis switched over from th ;'!,lf‘ ate 8 altitudes here she had had o B Victm was lying in e precarious already had been two weeks away from piilrocaman ror me hrodnoney 8t (fand it L Sontt know. Thay can blow Hike Vania in the Mmorsihg. — they teraavl reside tn Ora shere She had had a state; possibly he might dle; Reinhardt home, speaking twice daily in Pfatt and Pressing expansca.” gteam whistles day and night. When I with one or two members of the Siaie Eo Mr. Garwoo A - E 'pctures and out of niight vet be held to answer to a charge DeWitt counties, under the skies in the “Do_you not consider this immediats 1cft the old gentieman last “night at coutive Committee and the’ eRber o ur party ove r § In art had espoused of murder. afternoon, under the stars by night and gnq pressing then?” sald Pusey. Mount Pulaski he was as fresh as a the Mutional Committee for I1lianie. ‘¢ then prospering Emily found Mrs. Reinhardt with g face had returned for a day before going down “awlellT not exactly,” Garwood replied. 9Jaisy—sald he liked-a little taste of the Ty great man slept late, as great men 1 . was ver Fa re. & few of the more Lulsh at thig mew bonbiny Tte an. into Moultrle. 'The office had bean crowd- «would your" s gtump now and then—but that. of course, may. yielding fo the concel Shat theh . it - . few of the more a s new calamity she could ed all day an was late in the after- . W1 wasn't anything to what it used to be. ofs are heavie e et thet R e : deterr ese uths essayed comprehend. As Emily’s firat thought noon before he had & chance to write the spoba e iiq ent for & while. Wibn he !t WaER't anything to wh e wejyiox than \hies of cosr B sic, ved for them Cho. te former difficulties had been a doc- letters that needed his attention. He had There are certain passages in your lite, '*Won't you have some meetings In- (he formard compartment Sud ohie - - tag, 1t they lked O e At NOUEhL was a lawyer; just dismissed, rather ungraciously, a del- Mr. Garwood. which Just noW-" doors to each other, Rankin noted his impre b ssar rystaliize Ahm . ey could never eeemed that one had already ap- egation of negroes—for Rankin never had Garwood glared at Pusey. “Oh; after while—but we have to get sion by saying: 5 > 4 . fied with relief h 5o, the map,and peared and Mrs. Reinhardt in her broken any patience with negro delegations—and “So that's ihe game, is it?” he sald. the crowds where we can find them and The old man takes it easy, don't he?" s 1 ey A u»r.;'-,"»“? speech fx!\)l\fl‘iv Mm"«s @ ministering an- had begun dictating to the typewriter His tone was slow, for he was calculat- the farmers are all at the county fairs Something of this impatience was ex . 1y sly on summer nights along the Bl It was plain that he had taken up when anotler caller came demanding a ing carefully the part he had to pla nowadays. I'll be glad when it's over. pressed by the cries of the crowd that ) . s T F Lahe s thars Nae the cause out of pity for Reinhardt's de- sonal interview 'ghe little man was revolving his straw The strain is pulling me down.” &athered in the station at Joliet, after the Y ddy pond where ihe mquatic needs o [CPj5less condition, perhape in a bellef ~ The caller was a little man, who walked hat on the head of his stick and we wore _‘‘Aren’t you well?” she asked with & train had rolled by the high stome walls of g m Tow O B e D% aduatic nesds of in his moral lano: oruch ihe blun- with stooped shoulders, swung a siender a grin about his molst mouth. Garwood Woman's constant concern the penitentiary, and Garwood. srowin : - P L Suclety Are anpeased dering police could not or would Bot stick energetically as ‘he advanced and had mastered his anger, but Pusey had Oh, ves, well enough; of course I have more accustomed to his position, allowed = b = g 1l e SeY. Sde he mit As the affair turned out, Emily’s continued to twist it nervously when he to wait some time before he spoke. Pres- @ cold all the time; a candidate has to himself to enjoy, as he saw men peering aid moonlight nights. Ang 8o the yaieh Sympathies proved to have heen as fully had come. His head was but thinly cov- ently he did s have that, and a sore throat; but you curiously in at him, the distinction a man A N en o8 Grand Erairie votes noe S0Ung justified ac the young lawyer's and what ered with lank. moist hair, as was shown © Tll tell yoo: Pusey.” he said, “you have to smile and look pleasant and shake feals in riding In a private car - ° 4 1o themselves Justified thelr Lo She then observed of the practical admin- when he pushed back the sunburned know Jim Rankin e running my cam- kands and be careful What you say. I'd But the day was fully awake now, and : fact that she made them by eanBomed menocein crimingl courts only straw hat that he wore. This molsture paign, and T have promised him not to EIVe anything to be 4 free man ones mare, the natlonal excitement that for a week Garw scme sllent epiritual coercion call her S iia oty .of the soclological here- seemed to be general In his whole aystem. {ake any steps without consulting him. Lo be able to taflc withount welghing every had found its dynamic center in that car =t Harkness instead of Em, or Emily seite ot St brouting in her mind, IL was apparent m the perspiring hand Wé've had ail sorts of callers heres white word, without having o weisn it as if began to impress itself upon its ocen. - -Let Genera ased too g P e . Y ress at to her fathere, 'O NeT oWn dis- he gave to Garwood: it affacted the shoirt and biack, eranks, mind readers, palm- 1 were drawing an indletment. 1'd give panie: ihe newspaper correspondents whe represe ur’ dist ng o ot she continued 1o attend ‘Bl ey TinerE. wustache, dved a dull, lifeless black, at {sts, faith curists and men with votes in thing to indulge one good fit of an- traveled with the candidate began {o mnetr: oAe o e mued 1o attend Emily gave M Reinhardt carte which he scratched with a black-edged their vest pockets, and I've adopted the make notés now and then after they had o ears Gac. - T8 “Gead them ¢ rs on literary topics for the io clear her hushang eoa bending money finger nall as he talked when he was not rule of turning over to him every ome °."Can't yow—just get mad at me? learned the name of the town thee yrepare on 1i ¥ foples for the to clear her husband and even offered to plucking at the few hairs that strayed who come “Yes,