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Show THE SALTNA SUN. S ALIN A UTAH EifjiHiiHiuimminrnnmiiiiiinHHmirf the part f the certain third person maiL but Wb. ton went on as If ta lwaya nameless who would need keep the thread of the conversation money cigars and livery hire. in 'his teeth. Wharton ut these statesmen off, and Yes, yes, Ike, I know about my ping they went i way doubting whether they hat and all that; and then do you rewould support the old man or fight member how I ran for and was Judge him. The congressmans presence In nominated for congress back In 4 as the little town was an event, and he a dark horse on the three hundredth had callers all day long who seemed ballot, and bow I wag elected and told to need help In different ways. Sol the people from the box down by the dlers desired pensions, mothers asked bonfire lu the public square that I was for positions in Washington for their going to be worthy of the honor? Ike, sons; young women called to see about the tears I shed there was honest tears, clerkships; widows, whose husbands for God knows how proud I was. All he had known, came to borrow money these tea years were before me, and He was honestly glad to see all these what a great ten years I hoped they people and, when he could, he helped would be. I thought of my plans as them ; he rarely made an enemy, even a boy you and me on the fence down though he always was frank. In the valley, Ike and I looked over It was Saturday evening, and Whar- all the names In congress then ten ton was just entering on his second years ago I mean and they seemed week at home, he und his friend, Ike great names to me. I could hardly Bussell, were sitting on the southern wait to get to Washington to see the porch of the congressman's home men and to be one of them. I was Their wives and daughters were in the such a boy, Ike ten years ago. parlor around the piano, and the two Each man puffed his cigar in a momen were at that preliminary stage ments pause. Wharton lighted of conversation in which Ideas are fresh one. Bussell thought In so many conveyed by grunts and monosyllubles. words: Its on of Toms talkative Whut did Hughey of Smith City nights. want today? asked Bussell. Wharton took up the thread where About two hundred, more or less, It had dropid. suld the congressman. Here I am, Ike, a Hugheys a thief; he'd spend about statesman. Ive been In it and throu $25, and the rest would go Into his it. Ive held as high a place In the Jeans." organization of the house as any of I suppose so," Wharton answered. the great men we used to read about. Say we lose Smith county? Ive passed a pension bill and the Well, you say, said his friend. old soldiers, for whom I worked night "Did you see Higgins, from Lee val- and day during six months, have ley? He told me last month that he passed resolutions against me. I have had five fellows who could swing Lee had my name on a silver bill for which county for $100 apiece. the fiat money fellows have abused "Ugh, grunted the congressman. me. Ive led my party through two "That makes $2,300 so 'far, If I come successful fights. And what Is theie down. in It? You know, ns well as I do, "Well, thats cheaper than you got that it Is hollow all a hollow show, off before by several hundred. Whats the use of It? Why should a Wharton yawned, and the silence man wear his life out up there In that that followed was broken only by the city Just to keep his name iu print? tinkle of the cow bells In the valley There was a man named Keifer an below the town, and the splash of wa- Ohio man, who was of the speaker ter over the dam across the river thnt house once. Who that reads the paruns around the village. Occasionally pers knows anything of him today? the sound of voices singing on the wa- Yet he worked his life out to ter or the notes of a guitar would come be a statesman. Where nearly are the secup on the gusts of wind. The piano onds In the fight? Ike, In the parlor was silent, and '.lie moon theres nothing In It but ashes. was burely visible under the eastern The politician said he did corner of the porch. The men had not know how the tulknothing; was turning. fr niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiuiis Copjnrihl. 1922, by tka Macmillan Ca. T WAS near the close of a long session a session which had lasted a winter and a spring and a summer, and threatened to push itself Into the first days of autumn, when Wharton, the western member, who had been In the bouse five terms, concluded to pack his valise and go home. The campaign was growing warm. Nearly all of the county conventions had been held, and a majority of the delegates elected were Instructed for him, which insured his renomination If the three remaining counties In the district did not go solidly against him. He bad laid hts plan mechanically for a renomlnatlon, and If he had stopped to ask himself whether or not he really wanted to come back to congress, he would probubly have said no. lie was tired, but he did not know why. He thought he needed rest, that he hud been overworked, that he was played out; yet his private secretary, who kept the run of the pension business and did his routine work, did not seem tired the private secretary even hud refused a vacation, and It was at the secretary's own request that he stayed in Washington. But Wharton, the western member, was tired dead tired, and he pictured to himself the pleasures of going back to his home In the little town of Baxter, where people on the streets who had seen him grow up from a boy and called him Tom, really were glad to see him. Just before lie had left his rooms for the departing train his private secretary had handed him the days clippings; and after he had been riding for an hour or so, while he was fumbling In his pockets for a match, they tumbled out In a tight little roll. He Idly read them. He was used to unjust abuse and sick of uncalled-fo- r praise. The first clipping was tuken from the Queen City Dally Herald ; it bore a Washington date line, and was Introduced by the words, Special to the Herald. It read : They say here that Wharton of the Fourth district, Is beglunlng to feel uneasy. He has received severul letters from his district that have convinced him that the Populist cyclone has shaken down several lengths of fence in Lee, Monde and Smith counties. Bill lleatley's strength Is said to be developing down there wonderfully The Hon. Ike Itussell, who was here last week looking for a Job as receiver of the Baxter National hank, was to close consultation with Wharton three of the four nights he was here, and the old man Is wearing a hunted look and Is talking to himself. They sny down In the Fourth district that it will take more than Our Tom Wharton' hug to explain away his silver vote. Wharton knew the corespondent and only smiled as he flipped the wadded clipping out of the car window. There was a short editorial clipping from the same paper. It read : The dispatches say that "Our Tom" Wharton is wiggling in his seat and trying to project his astral body In the Fourth district to see how his fences are, and at the same time to keep his corporeal body In Washington to look after Ike Bussells pie plate. If Our Tom" doesnt fall down lu his anxiety to keep one foot In the bloody Fourth They Wore Tall, Thin, Spare Men In Swallow-tai- l Coate and Chokere, and tad the other at the political bake Hair That Looked Fierce and States manlike." he must be a hop, either Colossus of Rhodes or a quadrille dancer." smoked In silence a few moments when resumed the congressman, Ike, Wharton dropped that on the floor Wharton said : taking a firmer hold on his clgnr, and and read another from the Smith Coun"Ike, what Is the real Issue In this tightly grasping the arms of the chair, ty Farmers Friend. It was long and campaign? Ike, whats the use? Here comes a full of double leads and break lines" "I dunno, old man; sometimes I think lot of Bills and Dicks and Toms and and Italics and exclamation points. It Its the tariff; sometimes I think Its Ilarrys, who want me to put up $2,300 was abusive In the extreme and closed silver; and then at other times I Just and promises that Ill be two years with this tirade; give It all up. Whats your Idea, working to keep, just to go back there. Now, let us reason together. Tom Tom? I go back there and work and fret and Wharton has been in congress ten The congressman did not reply at stew for this, that and for the other years ; he had been Judge six years be- once; he seemed to be pulling his Ideas thing that I dont care a cent for. I fore entering congress, and county su- together for a longer speech than usu- have no heart in It ; I feel like a sneak; perintendent four years before he was al. He twisted his gray mustache I have to swallow my pride; Ive no Judge. Twenty years has this man nervously ; he looked askance at his ideals ; there Is no rew ard ; nothing but been In ofllce; his total salary lu that friend, who was apparently listening higgling with a lot of mercenary. Imtime has beeu only $70,000. Yet he Is to the music that had just started up pecunious thieves here at home, and rated by the commercial agencies at again In the parlor. Wharton went w ith a lot of shrewder shyf million dollars. He has banks over to the garden hose which was sters of the same sort In congress at and railroad stock; he owns mort- turned upon a shrub, changed its Washington. If I go on, I must buy gages and farms. Wliere did he get course, came back, relighting his cigar, my way In; buy my own slavery, Ike, them? His time has been sold to the and said; slavery to the fellows I despise. I people; he has beeu false to every BGodfrey, I dont know, Ike, I know Ive done It three or four times, trust; he has voted with the East on dont know. Do you remember when but I kept thinking the end would the money question; he has neglected we used to cut corn at six cents a some day justify the means. But It the farmers at every turn. He Is a shock, and go to school down the val- doesnt; It never will; its a fraud, Ike, garden-seecongressman; he comes ley where those cow bells were tinkling and Im done. I am going to be honest out here and s around, and a little while ago? We used to sit on Just for once In my life. I dont have then goes back to vote with Wall the fence of nights like this and talk to go to congress ; I can bo lots street. Wall street knows Its friends, 'way into the night about what we Tier here here with friends and hap my and "Our Tom Is worth mil-llo- a were going to do? f family and now' dont laugh, old man Yes? said the politician, expectdollars, lives In a mansion filled and ai d my honor. Thats a litwith hammered brass at Baxter, while antly. tle stagey, Ike, but thats the real Isthe farmer foots the bills. Yes, and I used to hope to go to sue in this campaign and Im out of Wharton knew that the editor of the congress some day; we used to talk this fight. Lets go In and hear the Farmers Friend had been a candidate of the statesmen and read music. Ike. Thats the end of it, Ive for the post office at Smith City ; that their speeches In the school readers thought it all over and Ive decided." he himself had lent the editor money Clay and Calhoun and the great men Probably most mm at least most and held his note for $7)00. He put whose names we knew as boys. They moralizing men would have called the the dipping In his poeketbook with were tall, spare men in swallow-taile- d old man" weak had they seen him the a sigh, and looked through the other coats and chokers, and hair that looked following Monday making out a check scraps of paper. There were perhaps fierce and statesmanlike. Do repayable to Isaac Bussell for $2,3u0. a dozen a few of them luudatory to member the congressman from you dis- B.ut most men do not know what It la this an offensive degree, some dearly bids trict forty jears ago; how dignified to worship on Idol for a lifetime, and for money, and the rest a fair discus- he was, what a really great man he they lannot understand how a man sion of his candidacy. must have been? He lived greatness cun love his idol even when he knows Whartons first week In the district every hour of his life. The men who to his bitter sorrow that it is only clay. was spent at Baxter, lie did practi- went to the territorial legislature cally nothing to secure his renomlnahow superior they seemed, with their A Spellbinder. g tlon, although men from tall hats and coats! Tour wife a splendid makes each of the three doubtful counties Ike, do you remember when I went to speech." came every day to Baxter and went the legislature in the winter of 70, Yes, replied Mr. Meekton; "and directly from the train to Whartous and came hack discouraged and I noticed she disapimpressed an entire audihouse. They all wanted (money or pointed with the sham of It all the ence the same way she does me. Shs of assistance" ; and each of row and the rings and the schemes? promises says what she likes and no one evea them told how some precinct could be Russell would have Interjected some thinks of talking back. Washington ."wung into line by a little work on reminiscent Joke on the young states- - 15 tar. Fairy Tale GRAHAM 5yAARY tCTiiiis it vtwttN mw ttim- I g one-hal- d haw-haw- one-hal- old-tim- e wlse-looklu- close-buttone- g an i BUTTERFLYS FAREWELL CALL Now Mr. Monarch Butterfly haij been talking and singing to Mr. Sun, and he had madi all his plans tor going away for the winter months. It was his cu torn to go South, and he traveled by wing, as ths birds travel by wing. lie was going to make one call before he left that was on his friend Sir Clouded Sulphur Butterfly. "Ah yes," said Mr. Monarch Butterfly once more, "it is fine that I can In travel South the winter. It is Interesting to travel than to d Rlalue-Conklln- BONNER, ir more sleep. Of course those who sleep in the winter wouldnt agree with me. But then it would be a dull world if everyone agreed with everyone else, a very dull world Indeed. And It would be a dull world If everyone did the same thing as everyone else. ell, I must be off for my call, and then for my Journey. How lucky I am that I do not have to carry my luggage. I dont have to bother about express companies and railway trains and tickets and such nonsense. I dont need any ticket the way I travel, no Indeed, and I dont need a trunk, and I dont need a suitcase. All I need to do Is fly by day and rest on the bushes at night. Sometimes Ill have companions and sometimes not The Monarch flew over to his friend, Sir Clouded Sulphur Butterfly. Sir Clouded Sulphur was at home in his Clover library. Ive come to say good-bfoy the said Mr. Monarch Butlerfly. winter, Im going down South, as is the family custom." I'm sorry to see you go, said Sir Clouded Sulphur, but soon Ill be asleep, and I wouldnt be very sociable that way. Isnt It rather a long trip to take by ourself? lie added. I should think oild be afraid. Ob, it's always hard to leave, I suppose, Mr. Monarch Butterfly said. I cant bear to say good-by- , but I dont care to sleep for the whole winter, as so many of you do, and so I mui:t go to a warm climate. Sometimes I do feel a little afraid. But, Sir Clouded, we'll never get anywhere at all If we're always afraid, will we? And I wouldnt deserve my name of .Monarch Butterfly If I were a coward and afraid to go adventuring. Besides, Ive had narrow escapes here. I've been sitting in the warm sunshine sipping sweet drinks, and Ive almost been caught! Ive passed through dangers, and Im not afraid. I want to have adventures. I want to see the great, wide world. I want to go where the birds go, where therell be singing all through the winter! I love music. And the flowers will bloom, too! And Mr. Sun has promised that he will not full to see that I keep warm. So Im going. It Is exciting to think thnt I shall fly off this very day! And Ill go beyond these hills and these valleys for a journey and adventures. It Is all right for you, said Sir Clouded Sulphur, but I never, never, never want to leave my home." You make me feel a little homesick already, said Mr. Monarch Butterfly. Good-by- , good-by- , pleasant sleep! Sir Clouded Sulphur waved a good-b- y In his cheery fashion. And then Mr. Monarch started off. Then he turned back after he had gone Just a little way. Good-by- , milkweed home," he whispered, as he bent down over the milkweed plant which had been his beloved food and resting place and Few o! us chew our food enough. Hasty meals are harmful, but Wrlgleys stimulates the flow ot saliva that helps the stomach take care ot its load. Eat less, chew it more and use Wrlgleys alter every meaL . It keeps teeth white, breath sweet and combats add mouth. Wrlfley peppermint chewing iweet, bringing the Wrlgley delight end benefit te 70a in new farm. y The Flavor Lasts c SEB EVIakes Old You might cull a man a rolling stone, but don't Insinuate that he isnt the level. 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