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Show tAttOX, THB PATaONATK, enough they left traces of that fear in their sons and grandsons. In the minds of most of these, Indeed, their thrift was next to their religion: to save, even for the sake of saving, was their earliest lesson and discipline.. No matter how prosperous they were they could not spend money either upon art, or upon mere luxury and entertainment, without a sense of sin. Against so homespun a background the magnificence of theAmbersi ns as conspicuous as a brass bard at-funeral. Major Amberson bought bvr hundred acres of land at the. end of National avenue; and through this tract he built broad streets and paved them with 'cedar block, and curbed them with stone. He get up fountains, here and there, where the stteets intersected, and at symmetrical intervals placed cast-iro- n statues. p7intcd white, with their titles dear linen the pedestals; Minerva, Moron, y. Hercules, Venus, Gladiator, Kni-- i or Augustus, Fisher Iioj, Stag hound. Mastiff,- - Greyhound, Fawn, meIope, Wounded Doe and Wounded I, on. Most of the forest trees bad be on left to flourish still, and, at some di tanee, or by moonlight, the place was in truth beautiful; hut the ardent eiitven. loving to see his city gran wanted neither distance nor moon lie had not seen Vei smiles light. but, standing before the fountain of N. ptuiie in Amberson addition, at in edit noon, and, quoting the favorite oniparison of the local newspaper-h- e declared Versailles outdone. A!' tbs Art showed a profit from tla s art, 'for the lots sold well and hoi' ..s something like a rush to hmi in the new Addition. Its main tlmr oi --'lilure, an oblique continuation o' itionul inenue, was called Amber sou l)ou!eard, and here, at the jam lure 'of tlie new boulevard and tin reserve! au'ime, Major Amberson four a cues for himself and built in m w house the Amberson mansion, o course. This house was the pride of tin tc n. Faced with stone as far ti.ic! - tin diningroom windows, it. was i la um of arches and turrets and gu dl ng stone porches- - it had 'the first perte coohere. seen iu that town There was a central "front hall with black-walna great stairway, and open lo a green glass skylight called tie dome,' three stories above the g.ound floor. A ballroom occupied n o- -l of the' third story, and at one ci (I of it was caned a walnut gallery tc r the musicians. Citizens told stranof all this black ge rs that the co- -t walnut and wood carving was sixty thousand dollars. Sixty thousand a E0TH TMHONGTON cross-stieet- 1 CCgTO;3HTD(X)H-CTcmTO- r CHAPTER I. Major Amberson had "made a fortune" In 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began thbn. Their splendor lasted all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog. In that to.wn in those days all the women who wore silk or velvet knew all the other women who wore silk or elvet, and when there was a new purchase of sealskin sick people were got to windows to see it go by. Every' body knew everybody elses family horse and carriage, could Identify such a silhouette half a mile down the street, and thereby was'sure who was going to market or to a reception or coming home from office or store to noon dinner or evening supper. During the earlier years of this period elegance of personal appearance was believed to rest more upon the texture of garments than upon their shaping. A silk dress needed no remodeling when it was a year or so old ; It remained distinguished by merely remaining silk. Old men and governors wore broadcloth ; full dress was broadcloth with doeskin trousers; and there were seen men of all ages to Whom a hat meant only that rigid, tall silk thing known to Impudence as a "stovepipe. In town and country these men would wear no other bat, they and, without went rowing In such hats. Trousers with a crense were considered plebeian; the crease proved that the garment had lain upon a shelf, and hence was ready made; these betraying trousers were called In allusion to the shelf. In the early eighties, while bangs and bustles were having their way with women, that variation of dandy known as the "dude was Invented : he wore trousers as tight as stockings, dagger-pointe- d a derby, shoes, a spoon coat called a Chester-Held-,' with short flaring skirts, a torturing cylindrical collar,, laundered to a polish' and three Inches high, while his other neckgear might be a heavy, puffed cravat or a tiny bow fit fore a dolls braids. With evening dress wore a tan overcoat so short that his black coattails hung visible, flve Inches below the overcoat; but after a season jor two he lengthened his overcoat till It touched his heels, and he passed out bf his tight trousers into trousers like great bags. Then presently he was seen no more, though the word that, had been coined for him remained in the vocabularies of the Impertinent. Surely no more Is needed to prove that so short a time ago we were living in another age ! At the beginning of the Ambersons great period most of the houses of the Idldland town were of a pleasant architecture. They lacked style, but also pretentiousness, and whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. They stood in commodious yards, well shaded by leftover forest trees, elm and walnut and beech, with here and there a line of tall sycamores where the land had been made by filling The house of v bayous from the creek. a "prominent resident, facing Military square or National avenue or Tennessee street, was built of brick upon a stone foundation, or of wood upon a brick foundation. Usually it had a "front porch and a back porch; often a side porch, too. There was a front hall ; there was a side hall," and sometimes a back hall. From the front hall opened three rooms, the parlor, the sitting room and the "library; and the library could show warrant to Its title for some reason these people bought bks. Commonly the family sat more in the library than in, the silting room. while callers, when they came formally, were kept to the "parlor, a place of formidable polish and discomfort. The upholstery of the library furniture was a little shabby, but the hostile chairs and sofa of the parlor always looked new. For all the wear and tear they got they should have lasted a thousand years. Upstairs were the bedrooms ; mother and fathers room the largest'; a smaller room for one or two sons, anotber for one or two daughters; .each of these rooms containing a double bed, a "washstnnd, a "bureau, m wardrobe, a little table, a rocking chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged down-stalrbut not enough to justify either tho expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. And there was always a spare room, for visitors (where the sewing machine usually was kept), and during the seventies there developed an - appreciation of the necessiiy for a bathroom. At the rear of the house, upstairs, was a bletik little chamber, called the girls room, and In the stable there was another bedroom, adjoining the hayloft, and called the hired mans 'room. House and stable cost seven B sight thousand dollars to build, and single-breaste- d s, t psopls with ihat much money to invest in such comforts were classified as the Rich. They paid 'the inhabitant of the girls room two dollars a week, and, in the. latter part of this period, two dollars and a half, and finally three dollars a week. She was Irish ordinarily, or German, or it might be Scandinavian, but never native to the land unless she happened to be a person of color. The man or youth who lived In the stable had like wages, and sometimes, too, was lately a steerage voyager, but much oftener he was colored. After sunrise on pleasant mornings the alleys behind the stables were gay ; laughter and shouting went up 'and down their dusty lengths, with a lively accompaniment of currycombs knocking against back fences and stable walls, for the darkies loved to curry their horses in the alleys. Darkies always prefer to gossip In shouts Instead of whispers, and they feel that profanity, unless It be vociferous, is almost worthless. Horrible phrases were caught by early rising children and carried to older people for definimotion, sometimes .at ments ; while less Investigative children would often merely repeat the phrases in some subsequent flurry of agitation, and yet bring about consequences so emphatic as to be recalled with ease In middle life. - They have passed, those darky hired men of the Midland town. The stables have been transformed into other likenesses, or swept away, like the woodsheds where were kept the stovewood and kindling that the girl and the hired man always quarreled over: who should fetch it So with other vanishings. There were the little bunty street cars on the long, single track that went its troubled w'ay among the cobblestones. At the rear door of the car there was no platform, but a step where passengers clung in wet clumps when (he weather was bad and the car crowded. The patrons if not too absent-minde- d put their fares Into a slot; and no conductor paced the heaving floor, but the driver would rap remindingly with his elbow upon the glass of the door to his little open platform if the nickels and the passengers did not appear to coincide in number. A lone mule drew the car, and sometimes drew it off the track, when the passengers would get out and push it on again They really owed It courtesies like this, for the car was genially accommodating: a lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window, and the car would halt at once and wait for her while she shut" the window, put on her hat and cloak, went downstairs, found an umbrella, told the "girl what to have for dinner, .and came forth from the house. They evqrr had time to dance square dances, quadrilles and lane cers; they also danced the and schottisches and polkas, and such whims as the Portland fancy. They pushed back the sliding floors between the parlor and the tacked down crash sitting room, over the carpets, hired a few palms In green tubs, stationed three or four Italian musicians under the stairway in . the front hall and had great nights ! Keeping "open house, was a merry y custom; it has gone, like the picnic in the woods, and like that prettiest of all vanished customs, the serenade. When a lively girl visited the town she did not long go unserenaded, though a visitor as not indeed needed to excuse a serenade. Of a summer night young men would bring an orchestra under a pretty girls w indow or, it might be, her fathers, or that of an ailing maiden aunt and flute, harp, cello, cornet and bass viol would pleasantly release to the dulcet stars such melodies as sing through Youll Remember Me, "I Dreamt That I Dwelt In Marbl Silver Halls, Threads Among the Gold, Kathleen Mavourneen," or TheSoldiers Farewell. Croquet and the mildest archery ever known were the sports of people still young and active enough for so much exertion ; middle age played euchre. There was a theater, next door to the Amberson hotel, and when Edwin Booth came for a night everybody who could afford to buy a ticket was there, and all the hacks in town were hired. The Black Crook also filled the theater, xbut the audience then was almost entirely of men, who looked uneasy as they left for home when the final curtain fell upon the shocking girls dressed as fairies. But the theater did not often do so well; the people of the town were still too thrifty. They were thrifty because they were the sons or grandsons of the early settlers, who had opened the wilderness and had reached it from the East and the South with wagons and axes and guns, but with no money at all. .The pioneers were thrifty or they would have perished : they had to store away food for the winter, or goods to trade for food, and . they often feared they had not stored s; I a- VTA B 8ems to me it would go against a persons stomach, just before supper like that, and anyway lea isnt fit for much not unless youre sick or some-- 1 thing. Looks to me like some people in this cityd be willing to go crazy if they thought that would help em to as Ambersons. Old be as Aleck Minafer hes about the closest old codger we got he come in my office the other day, and he pretty near cad a stroke teliin me about his daughter Fanny. Seems Miss Isabel Ambersons got some kind of a dog they call it a St. Bernard and Fanny was bound to have one. too. AVell, old Aleck told her he didnt like dogs except rat terriers, because a rat terrier cleans up the mice, but she kept on at him, and finally he said all right -- he could have one. Then, by George clie ' says Ambersons bought their dog, and you dont get one without paying for it: they cost from fifty to i hundred dollars up! Old Aleck wanted to know if I ever heard oi anybody's buy in a dog before, be cau-- c. even a Newfoundland or a setter, you can usually get somebody to give you one. He says he saw scum sense in payin a nigger a dime, m even a quarter, to drown a dog foi you. but to'pay out fifty dollars am! maybe more well, sir, be like tc choked himself to death, right there high-tone- ! in my office! Of course Make the Old House New If you dont like the appearance of your house, let us show you how to make it modem and attractive. You will he surprised to see what a big difference a few small changes will make. everybody realizes that Major Amberson is a fine business man, but what with throw! a money around for dogs, and evoi which and what, some think all tin styles bound to break him up, if h! family dont quit !" One c'tizen, having thus discoursed to a visitor, came to a thought Tm Does see" pause, and then added, pretty much like squandering, ye when you see that dog out walking with this Miss Isabel, he seems worth Repairs an Investment Proper remodeling and repairs greatly Increase the value of your property. We can furnish you good practical ideas for repairing and modernizing all types of buildings, whether for he money. Whats she look like? Well, sir, said the citizen, shes mt more than just about eighteen r urnybe nineteen years old, and I dont know as I know just how to put it but shes kind of a delightful lookin v oung lady I" (Continued Central Lumber & Hardware Co. next week) About the greatest surprise of a Payson girls life is to see the young man she refused the evening before going to the next morning just as though nothing had happened. Tire Tape Very Useful at Times Tire tape is to the automobil-es- t what a bandage is to the Red Cross nurse and a man who drives a ear- would as soon think of leaving it out of his tool box as a Red Cross nurse would think of leaving a bankit. dage out of her first-ai- d ..The -- United States Tire Company advises all its patrons to include a roll of its tape in their equipment. Its uses are innumerable. It is more frequently used to reinforce bad spots caused by blow-out- s and punctures. It is also valuable for winding leaky electric wires or making temporary repairs to broken rods or rattling parts. OPEN FOR SETTLEMENT - Acres of 10,000 , Irri- gated Land on the Sevier River SlZ3 'fj su ThoiiH.lnce pnrtnir ! CHARLES5 ISAY 1 CpcjwnountCpidiuc ft who appears at the Gay-et- y Friday in Hay Foot, Straw Foot. All good alfalfa and angar beet soli with an unquestionable water right selling at $65.00 an acre ome year payments with 6 per eent interest. For furthur information write or H. S. BEALS Hotel. Commereial Oasis, Utah ill i'iij rae-quett- all-da- d i i; w'y )iir Sixty Thousand Dollars for ths Wood work Alone." dollars for the woodwork alone I Yes, sir, and hardwood floors all over the house ! Turkish rugs and no carpets at all, except a Brussels carpet In the fiont parlor I hear they call It the reception room. Hot and cold water upstairs and down, and stationary uashstands in every bedroom in the place! Their sideboards built right into the house and goes 'all the way across one end of the dining room. It walnut, Its solid mahogany! Not veneering solid mahogany ! Well, sir, I presume the president of the United States would be tickled to swap the White House for the 'new Amberson mansion, if the Major'd give him the chance but by the Almighty Dollar, you bet your sweet life the Major" wouldnt!" The visitor to the town was certain to receive further enlightenment, for there was one form of entertainment never omitted: he was always patri. otically taken for a little drive round our city, even if his host had to hire a hack, and the climax of the display was the Amberson mansion.' Look at that greenhouse theyve put up there in the side yard, the escort would continue. And look at that brick stable! Most folks would think that stable plenty big enough and good enough to live in; its got running water and four rooms upstairs for two hired men and one of ema family to live in' They keep one hired man loafin in the honse, and they got a married hired man out In the stable, and his wife does the washing. This town never did see so much style as Ambersons are putting on these days ; and I guess its going to be expensive, because a lot of other folksll try to keep up with em. The Majors wife and the daughters been to. Europe, and my wife tells me since they got back they make tea there every afternoon about five oclock end drink It nt ' ili'l :.i h bliKi'! "$&a56 &( Cigarettes made to meet your taste! Camels are offered you as Ta cigarette entirely out of the ordinary a flavor and smoothness ' never before attained. To best realize their qual ity compare Camels with any cigarette in the world at any price! 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