Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

the eventful meeting in the school-house. He was at the breakfast table o

he boy, rousing himself f

s like a circus advertisement. Isn't it a shame to think that modern pol

rit and enthusiasm since the meeting, and was fast relapsing into his

tative for this district," observed t

looked

opkins?"

nd prospered, and when he grew up became a county-clerk or tax-collector; then an assessor, and finally

l?" asked

gly Republican. But Thompson ran against him on the

s Tho

He has a reputation for s

d his coffee

id you happen to kno

ave disliked the man ever since he treated

him. We've d

ifted uneasil

if we have

not,

eve Elmhurst to be the most important estate in the district, and you to be the largest

el

f he isn't a fit man it's our duty t

nodded somew

ent us," he observed. "It doesn't matter

man, owe it to the community to prot

n these petty politics?"

u can shirk your duties with a cle

ng man was silent.

kins a good Re

he is willing to vote for any measure that he is paid t

e singula

grafter' is all too

fell into a th

I a Democrat o

tleman laug

you kno

aven't asked

e you to be a

hy

Democrat, and we may t

rence, sir, betwee

olitics. But the two parties are the positive and negative poles that provide the current of electricit

our prefer

n, whenever I dabbled in poli

ll be a Re

y go

cs and have no convictions on the subject. Who is t

on are not to be held for two weeks, and the Repu

the district w

erm they seem to be terrified, and no one li

elect Mr. Hopkins," declar

les

s what

he Republicans and take a hand in

He walked to the window and stood there whistling for

Watson sat si

The boy needs a good shaking up and more knowledge of his fellow-men. If I c

and wandering into the garden saw Kenn

was not resumed, and then Mr.

forbidding the display of all advertising sign

oked at hi

sure?"

answer. "It is merely a

ight hire Hopkins t

ouldn't t

t do you

over, my lad, a

had advanced. Indeed, he was so much interested in the suggestion

to do a thing," he said. "So if such a law can be pass

e's only one man who could go to the legislature with enough in

o is th

of Elmhurst, and the larg

, s

re th

Represe

ot only beautify your district by having those objectionable signs prohibited, bu

e rest, Mr

sive in your habits. 'The noblest study of mankind is man.' It would broaden you to go into polit

th fr

a fight, and a hard one, for Hopkins w

brighten

"If I thought-if I believed I could fill th

asy victory. "You win the fight, Ken, and I'll guarantee you'll outclas

young man and the old threw themselves int

of the legislative district. When it became noised about that the young owner of Elmhurst, now barely twenty-one, had d

sturdy Republican was inclined to fear that the present in

ded. His nomination was a matter of course, and he went home the unanimous choice of his

when he learned who was his opponent. Having conquered an old and tried Republican warrior in the la

o make it interesting, I'm afraid,"

chances, so he began the ca

ptember, and the election w