Show V CONDENSED CLASSICS CONISTON X do by WINSTON CHURCHILL condensation by hon samuel W mccall ex governor of if massachusetts am 3 M winston church III alli nhom we per baar b cupitt should hould call u to di him from the alvel son ron of lord lira han dolph colpi bure hlll arho wh 0 b beer e a r th the me in am e of win U aton was viau born at st mt louis hov oi 10 1871 though his hl father we of at portland me lie 11 V won troll educated at t smith aca denn st louis I 1 anil ad fro from nt the united staten stated naval academy it la 1804 the same abue year found him jill m ila an editor of the army and navy journal I 1 the next year he wn was mun Wing ea editor of the cosmopolitan nang maii aBe helel la in 1003 and 1001 1903 he was a member of the new H chire ad in lie he was nas running fur cup foie gose roar of that tote state as the candidate of the he I 1 lincoln republican ne publican club on a reform a valiant battle to do vr vp the political practices which lind had s in am mm to ft be time honored it if nothing eta alae la in chrit some 0 of the leaders of ah the democratic party fully the good he be won wa to in tola this early earl y movement but ant the he fait fact that he be was nt not a n fave of the he tate state was vrn a newcomer comer la in poll bics tics and we for idea which were novel and thoroughly distress lux to politicians politician of long loan e pir prevented him bin with the one polities however have haie not arrn b entirely the same abue in the state i jace and d n nil an adut atten for a arlt writer on Val called t subjects abject his hl experiences experience could 1 e failed laboratory laborn tory courses PISTON was a small village C 11 upon pon a shelf on a mountain side commanding one of the gorgeous views characteristic of a lit ht tie commonwealth which lins many a I 1 larger sister state but none worthier the politics of the playe pae was under I 1 the control of the church chunh party which I 1 something more than ahn e quarters of a century ago held sway over oer many of 0 the towns of new england land but the career of old hickory was elv ing a nw new impulse to di and I 1 portended little good to any ruling class whatever its virtues all lint was needed was a leader leade andl and one was found in a young man named jethro ram bass who was the son of a well to do trinner jethro inherited from ills his fa ther a snug little fortune but his edu edit cation had been almost wholly neg lecter ile he skillfully made use of the rising discontent by appeals to gimbl tion and personal interest it became clear that the rull ilig party was to be challenged it at tile eo ing town ing and so presumptuous a thing stirred society to tc its depths the spiritual tender lender of tile the church party was the clergy clergyman min ills lovely loveli daughter cynthia filled a large place in the eyes of jethro and site she was drawn to him by bv the unmistakable istak able igns of power apparent under his aw awkward kw aid exterior they used some times to meet by chance and unlike e as they were in point of cultivation they were really very much in love e w with iab each other a circumstance that had rather miller to be inferred because jeth ro n wits is little likely to exercise the initiative nud say sav an anything thing about it once when in boston lie bought fl beautiful locket and had en graNVI upon it cynthia hla from jethro hat but hi he never mustered up the courage to present it when hen the political tempest was rising cynthia who sympathized strongly with her hep fathers party decided in 10 go to jethro and plead with him to stop tile the fight before lie he 1 anew new her purpose he broke his silence bild his love loie perhaps if lie he hall had hen been given a 11 chance for foi reflection and hid bar not been so upset by ills ilia own confession lie he would have planted granted her but that did not seem pos 41 ble nt the moment Cynt liJa took his bill refusal us its a decree of separation ond rhe P left jilin him never to sf see c him dignin and hp he set out upon tile the carper career which filled in his lit the he uncrowned king of the state the town greeting ire eting fight went on and nil jethro was chosen first selectman the only office he ever bield and in ili which lie continued for sift dpn annis I 1 thin went to boton boston where phe beima bie funt te endur richer in a high 11 ill d in the li bourse of married william dutli prill tile clerk who in lind 1 sold ild J T liro ahro hie locket slip she first learnold nl out ie hip p loritt finin her busl hii l jirld mid von on to hlin him hir her lovi love f for r after i few n slit ilip I 1 11 little girl who lion bire her name etli prill moved to coniston ton till taking ing voting cy cynthia athin with him find wont went to leip ing the iho village c store in the years veins that lind ind gone one by bv jethro hid hd found folind coniston ston too an aall was engrid d in on in the govern gnei ii men of the state lie ile lud hall his llewlen in every county an and d till possessed ta 8 ell nn fin that lie he w is abl to s elect apet most of if the lie dpn who held beld the lilt important impel tant and to bontol their i s natora ards in arli f lie bo be dime came till the hoss of tile the state and poo pie wile who desired legislation or ollices found it necessary to visit him avo ace I 1 ce not lot seem scein to be the motive which controlled ont rolled him all roans were being built manufacturing developed and aird lie took pride in making himself indispensable in what was going on when little cynthia appeared at coniston lio lie fit at once loved lier her as he would have loved ills his own daughter her father was unable tp to meet lits his obligations lit fit the babli jethro quietly hought bought the mortgage mort gace and had it assigned to himself Cynt liln used to call him uncle jethro and loved loed him as she did her fl father ither after a time the ralf railroad road corporations decided to consolidate jethro whet whether lier lip he feared chrit ahm tin wom aou become too large for tile the state of or tot foi him did not of consolidation thereupon they decided to 0 o avert row him the light fight began 0 ner er his big lonie home post office ITO ho will ans known to favor faor nil an old soldier named eph prescott who ft ho lind been badly wounded in the wilderness wili I 1 bertics s and whom lom he hod biad helped in ills hla uphill fight ns as he had helped many another person the rall railroad rond party decided to defeat a t Jethro Tet bros 8 eandi candidate date in order to weaken lit hi ili astige in the state and it lind had the support of makiv men inen who and formerly done his bidding an I 1 of the congressman froni from the district the usual wito autocrat crat in the distribution of offices ollices of that class jethro went to washington and con rhad to hove have an apparently cliance chance meeting between president groot grant find and aph grant was ly by kehs simplicity they talked over oer the hattle hattie they hod had fought together with a modesty which furnished fi another nother instance that the nol nois noisiest iest patriots are not always the greatest grunt grant all ali pointed eph when the news of the victory reached f home jethroe Jet hros prestige was much increased tie ile placed cynthia in a finishing se school hool in boston borton being a young woman of high spirit she was not happy there the fact that slie she came from a r remote e mote country place and it if an unknown family very ery likely t t ul 1 I rom something to do with the treatment she received in those primitive days before finishing schools bad been ninde made ly safe hire for democracy one lay day a paper controlled by isaac worthington the head of the corpor corporation atlon party made a savage attack upon jethro iiii IE a johhn lobbyist idt and a boss the paper found its way into Cynt hlas hias hands banu and pave gave her the gr greatest elitt distress she went to jethro and asked him it the story wits was true lie he said they faint put it just ns as ought to perhaps but tile the way I 1 done it in the main ills manly confes slon caused her to love loe him even more than before she withdrew birvin the finishing school and went to teach in brampton the town in which worthington lived jethro shaken by the tl e effect on cynthia determined to withdraw from politics the state was in a ferment would the corporations be able to down jethro for the first time in nearly 40 years ears jethro did not appear tit at the coniston ston town meeting the enemy won by default the news henrt enoi the corporations everywhere worthington had always been an enemy tit nt jethroe Jet hros although he had accepted his help belp more than once and while indulging in very virtuous speeches hall had practiced essentially the same ineth ills his son boh bob was madly in ION loi with cynthia but she lie her own love lor for bob completely tc her fidelity to jethro bob proposed to her and she refused refuse lie ile declared that he would leave his father and am car his big own living and then allihn her on nn account of what he lind him self done he wrote his f faglier 0 tiler tell ing him ills his purpose when the inetor received the letter he flew into a rage learning that cynthia was a in ills his own tow he called the commit tee ther the majority of whom lit lie controlled find and ila had them pass a vote ote ignominiously dismissing her from the s school hool this action aroused jethro rind and he htway took up the battle again against the corporation magnate responsible for the outrage lie ire savo swooped ped down upon the ilke e on an eagle ills genius for political generalship ernIsh eral ship lp flushed flashed out with its old time brightness Me messages sages went to the val 1 ley towns and to the north co antry the throne room was open ng ngali ain and although the battle hall had been ap patently parent ly lo lost 4 through jethron Jot Jet hros with drasal it became evident that ohp corporations 1 were destined to derent defeat finally worthington was willing to surrender and asked jethroe Jet hros term jethro said ald consent conent to the ringi of cynthia and boh bob worthington coin piled in some high flown flon letters anil and the lie marriage took place jethro drew from the he fight find and from politic ici find passed lit his old age near cynthia blessed by her love e and t that hat of I 1 her r children with apologies to mr W win I 1 n ston churchill copyright 1919 by bv the pot post r A 1 blis bing co tile Tl oton post coper ig 1 it in the united the dominions its colonies fonlk s and dependencies under un er the capy cap right act by the post ro 0 o boston B tn mir IT S A ml all it hl re e sved s ved cand inked from T b winston INA li 11 the macmillan Cn miny used hy per pei of author and publisher |