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YOU cant go to the bar
becue Thats the word
with the bark on It Mra
Minims said glowering at
her niece Marina That gooso plum
Jelly has got to bo mado todny Be
sides itll be no place for you
Cousin John is going Marina pro
tested Mrs Minims sniffed Men can
go anywhere Bhe said specially
when theyre In politics I wish to pa
tience John wnsnt Hes always put
ting up somebody to run for something
Vhy hell spend enough on tills very
congress election to build a church and
hide a multitude of faults
Marina smiled covertly She was used
to her aunts way of mixing Scripture
Mrs Mlmms thought herself very pi
ous Other people said she was only
very 111 tempered nnd domineering
passing on to her dependents what she
received from her son John He play
ed nt being a lawyer and spent most
of his time In the county town coming
homo to his mother about once or twice
a fortnight
I think you ought to let me go Ma
rina persisted Im 19 and have never
heard or read the Declaration of Inde
pendence
If thats your excuse you shant
have it any longer Mrs Mlmms said
unlocking a tall black desk and draw
ing from It something folded In yellow
ed paper She flung It at Marina say
ing Now read your fill My grand
father paid 30 to help print that back
in 1824 when Lafayette was here and
people turned fools same as they do
now Patience knows I wish I had the
money even without Interest
Inside the yellowed paper Marina
found a breadth of what had been
white silk The Declaration was print
ed on It under a golden caption within
a border of red white and blue The
type wns so bold the sheet had the di
mensions of u small flag Marina rend
the opening paragraph with sparkling
eyes Then she refolded the sheet
dropped It In the bottom of n clean
splint basket and ran away to the plum
trees
f They grew upon the very edge of the
orchard where It bordered the big
road Their flittery dark green leaves
stirred In the lightest airs and let bro
ken sunbeams Alter on to the long
grass beneath Ripe plums deep red
iWlth rich amethystine bloom lay plen
tifully In the grass The ripest had
burst In falling Ravaging bees and
yellow Jackets hummed and buzzed
above them
Marina was glad of the hedgerow
shelter She did not mind picking
plums The orchard was Infinitely
pleasanter than the houso Still she did
not care to have everybody see her at
work upon a holiday She had set her
heart upon going to the barbecue Half
the county would be there partly
through pntrlotlc pride In the day but
more through Interest In a critical con
dition of local politics It was Just
three weeks to the convention which
would name a candidate for congress
So far It was a perfectly even thing
between the two aspirants for that
honor If one or the other got the
Wayne county delegates he would got
likewise the nomination which was
equivalent to an election
Partisans of both had got up the
Fourth of July barbecue bo there had
been heaps of fine work In the efforts
to set one ahead of the other At last
it hud been settled that young Dancy
Mr John Mlmms man who hud a line
tenor voice should lead the glee club
In singing Hull Columbia nnd that
his opponent Leslie Pago should read
to the assembled sovereigns the Decla
rutlon of Independence
Marina knew both of them and hat
ed young Dancy for a conceited flat
terer She had not seen Leslie Page
since she came orphaned to live with
her aunt But he had been often in
her fathers houso and though he was
years her elder had always shown her
the courtesy due a little princess It
pvas the hope of seeing him again
which had made her so far brave her
aunt She felt that it would be enough
to look up at him herself unseen and
to hear again his voice deep and soft
and kindly It had pained her beyond
words to find herself forced to sit bl
lent while her cousin John heaped his
choicest coarsest satire on the head of
this sometime friend
That had been hard but not quite so
hard as to stand there In that green
covert and hear all her world whirling
gayly by on the way to Bear Spring
and the barbecue Marina loved the
place The grove was a thick green
bhadc yet open to every wind that
blew The spring Itaelf danced out
from under a wooded hillside and ran
away over the clenn browu pebbles all
the length of a green valley
When the basket would not hold un
other plum Marina turned to go but
stopped at the sound of Blow wheels on
tho roadway
As she knelt In shadow she heard a
famlllnr voice say This Is my place
I let the old one run It Were off tho
same piece you seo Thered be rows
sure If we both staid here Tho old
one has got sense though She never
crosses nie no mntter what I do
Commonly youre up to n good
many things another voice said
John Mlmms laughed Marina could
Imagine his trlumphnut leer as he an
swered
Well a few specially about this
bnrbecue The very hist of them Is tho
slickest too Sny do you know that
yeller nigger Joe up nt Graces sta
ble
I do that Keenest sort of rnscnl
What about him tho other voice
questioned Again Mlmms laughed
Nothln much he said Only Joob
comln out today to show Mr Page the
way Page Is a stranger In these parts
you seo Hes got his own buggy Dev
ilish good span to It too I called on
him Inst night at tho hotel Guess what
he was doln
The other man muttered Inaudlbly
John Mlmms ran on Ho was llxln
what he called a handy copy of the
Declaration sheets ho had got some
fool to print for him in big type Said
a man couldnt carry big heavy books
when he had to travel In light mnrchln
order I told him he was right It was
a good Idea I had a good Idea too
Then you went and saw Joe tho
other man said significantly
Mlmms chuckled audibly I dont
tell all I do he said But I sorter
think theres trouble ahead for Mr
Leslie Page I dont believe hell read
the Declaration after nil
The other man echoed the chuckle
As Mlmms flicked his horses forward
Marina caught the words Wayne
county dont like to be fooled Its near
half for Dancy now If this paper
works right why heIl go through tho
convention with bells on
The procession began to form at
Etons store where the big road dipped
to the spring valley Flute and Addles
led it playing Lexington as for life
Then came folk on horseback solid
men small boys small girls and very
young women nfter them the buggies
each with Its prancing span next the
carringes and barouches and last of
all a dozen farm wagons full of tidy
colored people and good things for din
ner The grove at Bear Spring wns
alive with other colored folks laugh
ing chaffing happy in the thought of
seeing and henrlng everything and
mnklng many an houest penny by tak
ing care of horses and waiting on the
white people
The Mlmms carriage gay with bunt
ing and wreaths of summer flowers
was slightly crowded by the glee club
which sang five strong The back seat
wns given up to young Dancy and Miss
Cora Hill the soprano Her whlto
swIss muslin frock wns gay with red
white and blue ribbon Indeed she was
throughout a sort of symphony In nn
tlonnl colors hnvlng crisp red hnlr
bright blue eyes and a very white skin
She wns further light and airy and In
her own mind n coquette
Ill sing with you but Ill lectloneer
for Mr Page she said to Dancy I
rr THATS YOUR EXCUSE you shant have
IT ANY LONGER
do like him oh so much I was In his
neighborhood last winter and ho was
so nico to me I Just couldnt help fall
ing In love with him
Now Mlsa Cora Buck Darden
who sang alto protested Its a plumb
shame youre talkin that way You
know this is tho Dancy Glee club at
least Ifs goln to be as soon as hes
nominated
Dancy pretended to whisper Dont
mind me boys he said Twns
ever thus from childhoods hour If
Miss Cora Is In love with this fellow
Page Ill get out of his way at once
What do I care for nominations If I
ennt have her
I You are the beat of all Miss Hill
THE NORFOLK NEW THURSDAY JULY 5 1100
ejaculated pretending to sit fnrther
from Dancy The other tluee laughed
aloud The procession hud turned Into
the grove and hero was the grand mar
shal saying You nil stay still utitul
the crowd has settled then inarch up
to tho stand light behind the Addles
Git your pipes tuned an when you hear
the nnvll why Jest cut looso in sing
fer nil youre worth
The anvil posted high on the hill
side was crammed with powder and
In chnrge of Its owner big Bill Mur
ray As the Hag blossomed out ubovo
the stand Bill lighted the fuse and
sprang two yards away Next inlnuto
flume and smoke and a roar as of thun
der tilled the valley The echoes had
not died before the gleo club began
Miss Hill stood In front the men mak
ing n background for her whlto splen
dors If her voice wns untrained it
wns clear and true Tho tenor had n
clarion ring In his upper notes though
the lower ones wore slurred But an
audience patriotically uncritical ap
plauded wildly and Joined In the chorus
with might and main From Hull
Columbia the singers swept Into Thu
Stnr Spangled Banner which got
more cheers and the snine strong
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PLKASE ItEAn FUOM TniS TODAY
chorusing Then an old fellow sprang
upon a bench waved a slouch hat anil
shouted Give us Dixie do Its got
the Foth er July feelln ef It aint na
tional
Hurrah
came from the crowd A one armed
man set up a cry keen vital tumultu
ous lnstnntly echoed by every mascu
line throat It was tho Confederate
yell and swept tho singers out of all
self consciousness as they broke Into
Dixie Instantly the crowd was on
Its feet singing too not loudly but
with a sort of murmurous ululntlon
thnt undervolced the glee clubs chant
BJncks that makes me feel 40
years younger a stout innn snld to his
crippled neighbor who smiled and
nodded toward the stars and stripes
saying We never dreamed o such as
this back wjen we fought an bled an
died for Cousin Snlly Ann Maybe It
all happened for the best Uncle Sam
seems to treat us pretty mlddlln fair
The stout man nodded emphatically
Our man gits his chanco now he
said Dancys slngln sorter took this
crowd off Its feet but Page Is a thor
oughbred Ill back him to come In on
the home stretch
With Thomns Jefferson to help
him the other snld smiling hnlf wist
fully Pago was walking to the plat
form alone nnd In dead silence John
Mlmms sat there so did the perspiring
grand marshal and old Judge Greer a
sort of Nestor In state politics He
was Pages good friend and meant to
be wholly kind in saying It Is with
pride and pleasure thnt I Introduce Mr
Leslie Pago a Tennesseean who knows
what Thomas Jefferson wrote by
heart
Page bowed thanks for tho applause
which greeted him thrust his hand In
to his breast pocket and drew out a
slim pneket As he unfolded It he al
most let it drop It was all blank pa
per At once ho understood that he
had been tricked that defeat stared
him in the face After nil he was n
thoroughbred Dropping his hands ci
ther side of him ho began not loudly
but with penetrating power to repeat
tho Declarations first paragraph
He did know by heart tho substance
of It Could he dared he undertake to
recall tho form He kept on nnd on
his tense voice reaching nnd thrilling
the outermost of the throng Suddenly
mentnl darkness enwrapped him He
faltered hesltnted but nobody wonder
ed AH were looking nt a slim girl In a
blue gingham frock and sun lint flush
ed and dusty with hnlr blown out of
curl But her eyes were tienr and rais
ed confidently to Page as she walked
up tho aisle holding townrd him what
seemed to be a banner At the foot of
the stand sho halted saying clearly
I hope I am In time Mr Page Please
read from this today My great-grandfather
who was Andrew Jacksons
friend had It printed In honor of the
great Lafayette
Pago raised the yellowed silk rever
ently and held It above his head so all
might see the tarnished gold of tho let
tering It seems to rne almost sacri
lege he said for me for any man to
read anything to a people who own
such memories nnd keep them green
It wns ten minutes before he could
eay more Even then the marshal had
to order the fiddles to strike up Tho
Eighth of January by way of quieting
the crowd Under cover of It Miss Hill
snld to Buck Darden with her airiest
toss The Foth o July must be catch
in Marina Key has declared her lndo
pendeuce of the Mlmms tribe an Mr
John looks mad enough to have a fit
Congressman Pago Is serving his sec
ond term and likely to serve others
His wife Is young and beautiful and
her name Is Marina Pf oplo who know
say that tho pair are easily the hand
somest and the happiest couple In
Washington
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Tho froo silver republican party
has fndod from view in this congres
sional district Thoro was no conven
tion of this party hold at Norfolk
nt the time tho populists and
democrats mot This is partly duo no
doubt to the fnct that Jako Maxwell Iiiih
loft tho stnto It is primarily duo how
over to tho fnct that freo silver is u lost
cause gioatly discredited by tho Inexor
able login of ovonts Silvorlto prophooios
hnvo nil utterly failed Tho very things
tho said would como to
pass have not happened nnd tho pros
perity promised if freo silver triumphed
has como in greater ntmvsu re under a
gold standard made more Hocuro by action
of a republican congress Ftisionists
will find thoro nro many In this district
who nuvor called themselves any kind
of republicans who can seo how com
pletely silverito prognostications have
been diheroditod who will como over to
tho G P which menus Good Old
Prosperity Fromont Tribune
Tliero aro to bo a uuinbor of state
elections prior to tho national election
in Novombor Tho election in North
Carolina takes placo August J in Ala
bama August i in Arkansas Soptom
bor f in Vermont Soptombor I in
Maino September 10 and in Georgia
October II What those elections will
show is not yot known but if they
point tho way to republican buccoss as
convincingly ns that of Oregon thoy
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The Mother of Consumption
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xtond In mury direction
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Consumption cannot bo curod Now luntw cannot
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now non hut catarrh cm bo curi dln II Its bUki i
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M urn I am troatlnB and ciirlnu cuses of this Mirt
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IJEOIN AT ONCE
Iot me once morn unto all catarrhal nufforers to
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now Is bettor than tho llireo months later on
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Iocke and Mary ThIkit mid nil person iutur
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or of tho petitioner should not be nritad and
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